Dear IUFRO 1.05 Uneven-aged Silviculture Research Group Members:

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Newsletter
This is another update with information for our 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 register if they would like to be included.

Future Meetings:
We will co-sponsor one meeting in February 2008, and host our next meeting of our Research Group in October 2008:

Co-sponsored Meetings
 
17-21 February 2008 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Conference title: Old Forests, New Management: Conservation and Use of Old-Growth Forests in the 21st Century.  More information at: http://www.cdesign.com.au/oldforests2008/


Uneven-Aged Silviculture Meeting
The next meeting for our Research Group will be October 24-27, 2008 in Shizuoka, Japan.  Note that these dates have changes slightly since my last email. Conference theme: Feasibility of Silvliculture for Complex Stand Structures: Designing Stand Structures for Sustainability and Multiple Objectives.
The meeting will focus on the feasibility of managing for complex forest structures. Dr. Hiromi Mizunaga is leading the effort to host this meeting (contact email: mizunaga@agr.shizuoka.ac.jp). Both preconference and postconference tours are tentatively planned as well as an in-conference tour day.  The timing of the meeting is intended to coincide with some of the best weather around Mt. Fuji. This will be our Research Group's first meeting outside Europe or North America. Abstract submission will begin this spring and close by 31 May 2008. Registration begins in February.  For more information see: http://www.ffpri.affrc.go.jp/symposium/uneven-aged2008/index.html (note that the dates above are correct and supercede those on the website).

 
Other Meetings of Interest:

25-28 August 2008, in Umea, Sweden, Conference title: IUFRO Interdivisional Conference on "Adaptation of Forests and Forest Management to Changing Climate with Emphasis on Forest Health: A Review of Science, Policies, and Practices"

Watch the IUFRO website for more details: http://www.iufro.org/events/calendar/

You can also register to receive emails regarding this meeting: http://www.iufro.org/science/iufro-mailing-lists/list-management/adaptation-conf-08-list

22-28 August 2010, XXIII IUFRO World Congress, Seoul, Republic of Korea, "Forests for the Future: Sustaining Society and the Environment"

Note that a call for congress themes has been issued:

The IUFRO Congress Scientific Committee (CSC) invites all IUFRO members and officeholders to submit suggestions for the themes for the 2010 Congress.

In keeping with the forward-looking spirit of the Congress title, "Forests for the Future: Sustaining Society and the Environment", we hope that with your involvement we can develop a set of approximately 10 themes that will focus the contributions that forest science is making to adapt to our changing world and address the significant environmental, social and economic challenges facing society.

Suggested themes should be concise, informative, attractive, and hopefully exciting to a broad audience within and outside of IUFRO, preferably interdisciplinary and spanning the social and biophysical sciences.

Our Congress themes will be used as the basis for the development of the scientific program – plenary, sub-plenary, and technical sessions – so we welcome your input into this process to ensure that the 2010 Congress will serve the broad interests of the IUFRO community – its member organizations, scientists and students – and enhance our position as the global leader for forest science.

The CSC will consider all suggestions for the Congress themes received by February 29th, 2008. These should be sent directly to John Parrotta (CSC Chair) at: jparrotta(at)fs.fed.us

Future Uneven-aged Silviculture meetings: We continue to look for opportunities to add to the geographical diversity in our Research Group and to involve researchers working on tropical forests. We would also like to receive suggestions on, or offers to host, future meetings.  It isn't too early to be planning a meeting for 2009 or 2010.
 
Publications:
The Forum Feature of papers from our 2006 meeting in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec have been published in the September 2007 issue of the Canadian Journal of Forest Research (volume 37, issue 9).  Maya thanks to Brian Harvey and Simon Landhäusser for their editorial work for this issue.

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Your Research Group Officers are:
Kevin O'Hara, Coordinator
University of California - Berkeley
137 Mulford Hall, #3114
Berkeley, CA 94720-3114 USA
email: ohara@nature.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@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@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@fs.fed.us