2014 IUFRO World Congress Call for Abstracts is Open – Deadline for Abstract Submissions is 15 October 2013 – submit your abstract at: <http://iufro2014.com/scientific-program/abstract-submissions/> http://iufro2014.com/scientific-program/abstract-submissions/.
The title of the Congress is "Sustaining Forests, Sustaining People: The Role of Research" and the seven scientific themes of the program are: Forests and People, Forests and Climate Change, Forest and Water Interactions, Forest Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Forest Biomass and Bioenergy, Forest Products for a Greener Future, and Forest Health in a Changing World. Sessions will address these themes and more!
Keynote speakers include: Dr. Jack Dangermond (founder and President of ESRI GIS systems – Knowledge Discovery, Synthesis and Application: the Science-Management Interface) & Dr. David Haskell (Professor of Biology, University of the South - Knowledge Discovery, Synthesis and Application: the Science-Management Interface); Dr. Andy Buchanan (Professor of Timber Design at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand - Modern Timber Buildings from Sustainable Forests); Dr. Cecil Konijnendijk van den Bosch (Head of the Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, University of Copenhagen - City Forests, Forest Cities – exploring the complex liaison between the sylvan and the urban); Dr. David Newbery (Professor for Vegetation Ecology, the Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland - On maintaining cycles and feedbacks in tropical forest ecosystems: some thoughts from basic research) and, Connie Hedegaard, to be confirmed (European Commissioner for Climate Action). Plus many more exciting and knowledgeable sub-plenary and technical session speakers.
Submit your abstract today to be part of this unique and exciting event!
The IUFRO 2014 Congress Scientific Committee
John Parrotta (Chair); Jens Peter Skovsgaard (Division 1); Yousry El-Kassaby (Division 2); Hans Heinimann (Division 3); Ron McRoberts (Division 4); Andrew Wong (Division 5); Tuija Sievänen (Division 6); Tod Ramsfield (Division 7); Alain Franc (Division 8); Jim Johnson (Division 9); Mike Wingfield (Vice-President, Divisions); Su See Lee (Vice-President, Task Forces, Special Programmes, Projects and IUFRO-led Initiatives); Lisa Hansen (International Forestry Students Association); Richard Guldin (ex-officio; COC Chair)
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Betreff: [IUFRO Div 7] IUFRO 2014 tech session 219: How does biodiversity help to manage high-value timbers and vice versa?
Dear Colleagues:
Please consider submitting an abstract for an oral or poster presentation for the IUFRO 2014 World Congress Session #219 – How does biodiversity help to manage high-value timbers and vice versa?
Organizers: Sheila Ward (Mahogany for the Future, Inc, Puerto Rico), Emmanuel Opuni-Frimpong (Forest Research Institute of Ghana), & Nicholas Brokaw (University of Puerto Rico)
mahoganyforthefuture(a)gmail.com; eofrimpon(a)csir-forig.org.gh; nvbrokaw(a)ites.upr.edu
This session will explore diverse means by which a biodiverse environment positively impacts management of high-value timber species, and, conversely, how management for high-value species helps conserve biodiversity.
Conservation of biodiversity and management for high-value timber species can seem a contradiction. Nevertheless, the demand for these timbers will remain high, as well as an increasing need and demand for management to conserve biodiversity. Needed are ways forward to integrate these management objectives. Management of high-value timber species may help conserve both the target species and the biodiversity of the forests they inhabit. Conversely, biodiversity may contribute to the health of individual trees and populations of high-value species.
We aim for a global scope, including tropical and temperate high-value timbers. Presentations might address: biodiversity and protection of high-value species from pests and pathogens, the role of plantations in biodiversity conservation, biodiversity for plantation health, enrichment planting with high value species to maintain biodiversity via intact forest instead of land use change, high-value species and the maintenance of intact forests, use of high value species for habitat rehabilitation and restoration of biodiversity, or high-value plantations as a means to reestablish biodiversity, among other topics. How might more land area devoted to high-value timber in natural forest as well as plantations may help maintain biodiversity and associated ecosystem services? Conversely, how might more intact ecosystems, as indicated by biodiversity, may help in the sustainable production of high-value species?
If this is of interest, can you let me know by October 3? Guidelines and the page for abstract submission can be found at http://iufro2014.com/scientific-program/abstract-submissions/.
Thanks,
Sheila Ward
Dear IUFRO member,
A short note to let you know that the next meeting of IUFRO Research
Group 1.05.00 on uneven-aged silviculture will be based at the Swiss
Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) in
Birmesndorf near Zurich in Switzerland.
The title of the conference will be: 'Future concepts in uneven-aged
silviculture for a changing world'
The conference will be held on Tuesday 17 June 2014 to Thursday 19 June
(3 days) and the post conference field trip will be between Friday 20
June and Tuesday 24 June (5 days).
We are in the process of designing a website with more information and
registration details. The website will go live in September.
For more information please contact Andreas Zingg (andreas.zingg(a)wsl.ch)
or Gary Kerr (gary.kerr(a)forestry.gsi.gov.uk)
We look forward to seeing you in Switzerland next summer.
Regards
Andreas Zingg and Gary Kerr
Research Group 1.05.00 - Uneven-aged silviculture
International Union of Forest Research Organizations
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Colleagues in IUFRO,
If you are planning to attend this meeting please note:
1. The early registration offer will end on 1 September 2012.
2. The dealine for submitting abstracts is also 1 September 2012.
The title of the conference is 'Uneven-aged silviculture: Optimizing
timber production, ecosystem services and resilience to climate change'
and promises to be an excellent event and the first visit of RG 1.05.00
into the southern hemisphere.
To register and find out more detailed information follow the link:
http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/iufro
To register click on the green 'here' under Registration details.
I look forward to meeting you later in 2012.
Gary
Dr Gary Kerr
Co-ordinator IUFRO RG 1.05.00
&
Silviculturist
Forest Research
Alice Holt Lodge
Farnham
Surrey
GU10 4LH
United Kingdom
www.forestry.gov.uk/forestresearch
Telephone: 01420 526224
Fax : 01420 520558
International Telephone: ++ 44 1420 526224
International FAX : ++ 44 1420 520558
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Colleagues in IUFRO Division 1 and 1.05.00,
The title of our next conference is 'Uneven-aged silviculture:
Optimizing timber production, ecosystem services and resilience to
climate change' and will be based at Lincoln University, New Zealand on
12-16 November 2012. Glenn Stewart has done a fantastic job putting
together this conference, which is the first venture into the southern
hemishpere for the Research Group. There is also a post conference tour
between 17-23 November 2012. However, the maximum number of people that
can be accommodated on the post conference tour is 30 and there are now
only a few places left.
Please note the deadline for the early registration offer is Wednesday 1
August and the deadline for submission of the abstracts is Saturday 1
September 2012.
To register and find out more detailed information follow the link:
http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/iufro
To register click on the green 'here' under Registration details.
I look forward to meeting you later in 2012.
Gary
Dr Gary Kerr
Co-ordinator IUFRO RG 1.05.00
&
Silviculturist
Forest Research
Alice Holt Lodge
Farnham
Surrey
GU10 4LH
United Kingdom
www.forestry.gov.uk/forestresearch
Telephone: 01420 526224
Fax : 01420 520558
International Telephone: ++ 44 1420 526224
International FAX : ++ 44 1420 520558
Gary
Dr Gary Kerr
Silviculturist
Forest Research
Alice Holt Lodge
Farnham
Surrey
GU10 4LH
United Kingdom
www.forestry.gov.uk/forestresearch
Telephone: 01420 526224
Fax : 01420 520558
International Telephone: ++ 44 1420 526224
International FAX : ++ 44 1420 520558
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To All,
Please note that registration is now open for the above meeting and
abstracts of scientific papers and ideas for symposia can now be
submitted. The conference title is 'Uneven-aged silviculture:
Optimizing timber production, ecosystem services and resilience to
climate change'.
To register and find out more detailed information follow the link:
http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/iufro
To register click on the green 'here' under Registration details.
I look forward to meeting you later in 2012.
Gary
Dr Gary Kerr
Co-ordinator IUFRO RG 1.05.00
&
Silviculturist
Forest Research
Alice Holt Lodge
Farnham
Surrey
GU10 4LH
United Kingdom
www.forestry.gov.uk/forestresearch
Telephone: 01420 526224
Fax : 01420 520558
International Telephone: ++ 44 1420 526224
International FAX : ++ 44 1420 520558
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To All,
Please note that registration is now open for the above meeting.
To register follow the link:
http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/iufro
Then click on the green 'here' under Registration details.
I look forward to meeting you later in 2012.
Gary
Dr Gary Kerr
Co-ordinator IUFRO RG 1.05.00
&
Silviculturist
Forest Research
Alice Holt Lodge
Farnham
Surrey
GU10 4LH
United Kingdom
www.forestry.gov.uk/forestresearch
Telephone: 01420 526224
Fax : 01420 520558
International Telephone: ++ 44 1420 526224
International FAX : ++ 44 1420 520558
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Dear IUFRO members,
The Final Conference of PARAmount a project funded by the Alpine Space
Programme of the European Union will be held on 23rd April 2012 at
Grenoble in parallel with the 12th Congress of INTERPRAEVENT (Grenoble, 23
26 April 2012).
The Final Conference is designed to bring together experts, researchers,
policy and decision makers, practitioners from various disciplines as well
as concerned stakeholders for an interdisciplinary, transnational exchange
of views on the further development of strategies and technologies for the
management of natural hazards threatening transport infrastructure and to
present the results of the project concerning the
Assessment of the vulnerability of transport infrastructure to natural
hazards
Improvement of the efficiency of measures necessary to protect transport
infrastructure against natural hazards and to increase its reliability and
security
Advancement of Decision analysis and support systems for an effective
management of transport infrastructure threatened by natural risks
Development of new concepts and approaches for assessing and monitoring
natural risks.
The objective of the concluding round table discussion will be to elaborate
recommendations for overcoming the identified barriers that might impede the
adoption of the developed approaches and concepts as well as to ensure a
successful knowledge transfer.
At the conference website
http://www.paramount-project.eu/index.php?option=com_content
<http://www.paramount-project.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&i
d=40&Itemid=45&6c31091fa105024792e742d3d29e1931=b46a42ace97b791bf5be92eabeab
4fbe>
&view=article&id=40&Itemid=45&6c31091fa105024792e742d3d29e1931=b46a42ace97b7
91bf5be92eabeab4fbe, you will find the Second Announcement for the Final
Conference of the PARAmount project including the detailed program. The
conference languages will be English, French and German. Interpretation will
be provided. It would facilitate the task of the organizers, if those who
wish to attend the Final Conference would register as soon as possible by
sending an email to the following address: final.conference@paramount-
<mailto:final.conference@paramount-project.eu> project.eu.
If you have any questions regarding the final conference, please do not
hesitate to contact any of the responsible persons listed below.
Kind regards
Marc Adams
--
Contact person project communication manager:
Günter Siegel
BMLFUW - Abteilung Forstliche Raumplanung, Waldschutz und
Landschaftsentwicklung
Tel: + 43 (0)1 711 00 7125 <tel:%2B%2043%20%280%291%20711%2000%207125>
E-Mail: guenter.siegel@ <mailto:guenter.siegel@lebensministerium.at>
lebensministerium.at
Contact person project management:
Gudrun Schrömmer
PRISMA solutions
Telefon: +43(0)2236 47975 36 <tel:%2B43%280%292236%2047975%2036>
E-Mail: gudrun.schroemmer@prisma-
<mailto:gudrun.schroemmer@prisma-solutions.at> solutions.at
Contact person BFW:
Marc Adams
Department of Natural Hazards, BFW
Tel.: <tel:%2B43%20%280%29512%20573933%205177> +43 (0)512 573933 5177
E-Mail: <mailto:marc.adams@uibk.ac.at> marc.adams(a)uibk.ac.at
To All,
Please note that the conference website has been updated with details
and costs for the post conference tour (17-23 November 2012). Follow
the link to:
http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/Services-facilities-and-support/Conference-faci
lities-and-event-management/Conference-and-Event-Management/IUFRO-Intern
ational-Conference-2012/
Details on registration and accommodation will be added shortly.
If you have any queries please contact me or Glenn Stewart.
Best wishes,
Gary
Dr Gary Kerr
Silviculturist
Forest Research
Alice Holt Lodge
Farnham
Surrey
GU10 4LH
United Kingdom
www.forestry.gov.uk/forestresearch
Telephone: 01420 526224
Fax : 01420 520558
International Telephone: ++ 44 1420 526224
International FAX : ++ 44 1420 520558
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To members of IUFRO RG 1.05.00
I am delighted to be able to inform you that the website for this
meeting is now live and can be found by following the link below:
http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/Services-facilities-and-support/Conference-faci
lities-and-event-management/Conference-and-Event-Management/IUFRO-Intern
ational-Conference-2012/
The conference theme is 'Optimising timber production, ecosystem
services and resilience to climate change'. The conference lasts for 5
days between 12 and 16 November, including a one day in-conference tour.
In addition, there will also be a post conference tour 17-23 November
that will focus on uneven-aged silviculture in temperate
conifer-broadleaved hardwood and Nothofagus forests.
The conference organiser is Dr Glenn Stewart and his comment is 'this
will be a great meeting!'.
Please note that the website gives an indication of times, costs, what
is being offered, etc. The registration page and other details will be
added shortly.
I look forward to meeting you in New Zealand later this year.
Best wishes,
Gary
Dr Gary Kerr
Co-ordinator, IUFRO RG 1.05.00 - Uneven-aged silviculture
&
Silviculturist
Forest Research
Alice Holt Lodge
Farnham
Surrey
GU10 4LH
United Kingdom
www.forestry.gov.uk/forestresearch
Telephone: 01420 526224
Fax : 01420 520558
International Telephone: ++ 44 1420 526224
International FAX : ++ 44 1420 520558
+++++ The Forestry Commission's computer systems may be monitored and communications carried out on them recorded, to secure the effective operation of the system and for other lawful purposes. +++++
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