Uneven-aged Silviculture update
by Kevin L. O'Hara
Dear IUFRO 1.05 Uneven-aged Silviculture Research Group Members:
Here is a new update with information for our Uneven-aged Silviculture
Research Group. As before, my goal is to send out a similar update several
times each year. Please forward this email to interested persons who might
not be on this mailing list and encourage them to join the list server as
indicated below.
Future Meetings:
Our next 1.05 meeting will be in September 2010 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The conference title is "21st Century forestry: Integrating ecologically
based, uneven-aged silviculture with increased demand for forests." The
conference will run from 23-26 September with a post-conference tour
scheduled from 27-30 September. The conference includes an in-conference
tour and a number of conference themes. Many thanks to Jurij Diaci from
the University of Ljubljana who is leading this effort. A conference
website will be up in early December: http://web.bf.uni-lj.si/go/uafm2010
IUFRO CONGRESS
22-28 August 2010, XXIII IUFRO World Congress, Seoul, Republic of Korea,
"Forests for the Future: Sustaining Society and the Environment" . The
call for papers and posters is now open for the Seoul Congress
(http://www.iufro2010.com/) Our Uneven-aged Silviculture research group
was involved in developing two technical sessions:
"Uneven-aged silviculture in temperate and tropical forests: Towards
paradigm expansion." This session is co-organized with IUFRO 1.02.04 and
will attempt to foster sharing of information on management of uneven-aged
forests in temperate, boreal and tropical forests. We anticipate six
papers divided between temperate, boreal and tropical forests. Abstracts
should be submitted through the IUFRO website or you can contact Kevin
O'Hara or Armin Seydack (leader of IUFRO1.02.04; armins(a)sanparks.org)
"Silviculture and global change: Managing forests for ecosystem resiliency
and carbon storage." This session will address strategies to improve
resiliency/adaptability of forests and carbon storage through
silvicultural design of forest structures. Although this session has a
weaker tie to the objectives of our Research Group, uneven-aged
silviculture nonetheless will play an important role in mitigating global
change scenarios. Again, submit abstracts through the IUFRO website, or
contact me at the address below or session co-organizer Juergen Bauhus
(juergen.bauhus(a)waldbau.uni-freiburg.de)
There are, of course, many other technical sessions on a variety of
themes. The IUFRO2010 website has more details. If you are interested
submitting an abstract for one of these two sessions, or any IUFRO
Congress sessions, you must submit an abstract through the IUFRO website
by 31 December 2009.
Publications:
A group of papers from the 2008 meeting in Shizuoka, Japan have been
posted in the "online first" category for the "Journal of Forest Research"
http://www.springerlink.com/content/109671/
Those should be published soon as a special issue. Congratulations to
Hiromi Mizunaga for coordinating the editorial process for this issue.
Research Group Email Newsletter: If you have colleagues who wish to be
placed on the IUFRO 1.05 email listserve (or any IUFRO listserve)
encourage them to register via the IUFRO website: www.IUFRO.org or
specifically to IUFRO 1.05 at the link below:
http://www.iufro.org/science/iufro-mailing-lists/list-management/rg-10500/
Your Research Group Officers are:
Kevin O'Hara, Coordinator
University of California - Berkeley
137 Mulford Hall, #3114
Berkeley, CA 94720-3114 USA
email: kohara(a)berkeley.edu
phone: 510.642.2127
fax: 510.643.5438
Hubert Hasenauer, Deputy Coordinator
Institute of Forest Growth Research
University of Agricultural Sciences
Peter Jordan Str. 82
1190 Wien
Austria
Tel: ++43-1-47654-4205
Fax: ++43-1-47654-4242
e-mail: hubert.hasenauer(a)boku.ac.at
Dr. Shi Zuomin, Deputy Coordinator
P.O. Box 14
Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection
Chinese Academy of Forestry
Beijing 100091, P. R. China
Tel: 0086-10-62888308
Fax: 0086-10-62884972
Email: shizm(a)forestry.ac.cn
Dr. Susan Stevens Hummel
USDA PNW Research Station
P.O. Box 3890
Portland, OR 97208 USA
Tel. 503 808-2084
Fax: 503 808-2020
shummel(a)fs.fed.us
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