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From: "Kerr, Gary"
<gary.kerr@forestry.gsi.gov.uk>
To: rg10500@lists.iufro.org
Date: Thu,
12 May 2011 16:42:17 +0100
Subject: Future Activities of IUFRO Research
Group 1.05.00 Uneven-aged Silviculture
Dear IUFRO
colleagues,
I am honoured to be sending this e-mail to you as the new
co-ordinator
of this well established and dynamic IUFRO Research Group.
I am writing
to bring you all up-to-date with our present activities
and make sure
that you have as much notice as possible about future
meetings.
However, my first task must be to thank Professor Kevin O'Hara
for
leading the group with great distinction for ten years up to
2010.
Kevin welcomed me into the group when I attended my first meeting
in
Zurich in 2001 and I know that he is respected and liked by the whole
of
the Research Group. Fortunately, Kevin has agreed to maintain
his
interest in the Group and I will be working closely with him in
the
future.
I would also like to introduce the two new deputy
co-ordinators of the
Research Group. Firstly, many of you will know
Professor Hiromi
Mizunga, who works at the Institute of Silviculture,
Shizouka
University, Japan. Hiromi did an excellent job organizing the
6th
Workshop at Shizouka in 2008. The other deputy is Professor Eric
Zenner
who is a silviculturist and works at PennState University,
Pennsylvania,
USA and (I think) has been to all the meetings of the Group
that I have
attended and maybe more!
Our last meeting was in September
2010 and was hosted by Professor Jurij
Diaci in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Jurij is currently working hard on the
Proceedings of the meeting,
which will be published in 'Forestry: An
International Journal of Forest
Research'
(
http://forestry.oxfordjournals.org/) in late 2011 or
early 2012. The
response to the call for papers was excellent and 23
people submitted
extended abstracts for consideration.
Looking ahead,
I am pleased to be able to tell you that planning is now
under way for our
next meeting in November 2012. This will be hosted by
Lincoln
University, Christchurch, New Zealand. I am really grateful to
Dr.
Glenn Stewart who will be co-ordinating the meeting and giving the
Group its
first opportunity to consider uneven-aged silviculture in the
southern
hemisphere. The provisional title of the conference is
"Uneven-aged
silviculture: optimizing timber production, ecosystem
services and resilience
to climate change". Further details, including
dates, will be available
shortly.
We have also been scoping future meetings with the intention
of
maintaining a good geographical spread and holding one meeting every
two
years. One area where Hiromi, Eric, Kevin and I are aiming to
make
progress is in linking with people working in tropical forests. If
you
are able to help or have any contacts on this please let one of us
know.
My last point is to ask if any members of the Research Group would
be
interested working on projects between our main meetings. It occurs
to
me that as a group of international scientists working on a subject
we
all really believe in, we should be trying to make more impact on
the
debate about the methods used to manage forests globally. If you
would
be interested in pursuing this further please contact me
directly
(
gary.kerr@forestry.gsi.gov.uk)
before the end of June 2011.
I would also advise you to keep up-to-date
with activities within IUFRO.
A new strategy has been published for the
period 2010-2014 and a new
Executive Director has been appointed. More
details about this and the
activities of other Groups within IUFRO can be
found on the website.
I am looking forward to working with you and
hopefully meeting at future
events.
Best wishes,
Gary
Dr
Gary Kerr
Silviculturist
Forestry Commission Research Agency
Alice Holt
Lodge
Farnham
Surrey
GU10 4LH
United Kingdom
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