Dear Forpathers,
For the first time, forest entomologists have used the freely
downloadable Google Street View (GSV) database to map the geographical
distribution of an increasingly common invasive pest insect, the pine
processionary moth. The scientists estimated that this on-line database
would provide a good representation of the presence of this species.
Their findings, published in PLOS ONE on 9 October 2013, open the way to
the simplified and inexpensive acquisition of data that are essential
when studying invasive or expanding species.
A nice idea, that may be tested for some tree diseases, at least for
those with easily recognizable and unambiguous symptoms.
Press release:
http://presse.inra.fr/en/Resources/Press-releases/Using-Google-Street-View-…
The article:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0074918
Best regards,
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Dr Pascal FREY
INRA, University of Lorraine
Department of Tree - Microbe Interactions
Ecology of Forest Pathogenic Fungi team
UMR1136 IAM
F-54280 Champenoux
FRANCE
Phone: 33 383 394 056
Fax: 33 383 394 069
E-mail: frey(a)nancy.inra.fr
http://mycor.nancy.inra.fr/IAM/?page_id=731
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Sujet: JUNE 2014 IUFRO Conference (a): Genetics and Conservation of
White Pine Species (5 needle pines) and RUSTS of Forest Trees Groups
2.02.15 & 7.02.05
Date : Fri, 8 Nov 2013 01:52:56 +0000
De : Sniezko, Richard -FS <rsniezko(a)fs.fed.us>
Pour : Sniezko, Richard -FS <rsniezko(a)fs.fed.us>
Greetings,
2^nd Announcement
*Genetics of Five-Needle Pines and Rusts in Mountain Landscapes:*
*Conservation, Utilization and Evolution in a Changing Climate** *
Joint Meeting
Breeding and Genetic Resources of Five-Needle Pines (IUFRO 2.02.15)
Rusts of Forest Trees (IUFRO 7.02.05)
Strobusphere
The joint meeting will be held *June 15-20, 2014 in Ft. Collins,
Colorado*, U.S.A. bringing together scientists working with Genetics and
Conservation of White Pine Species (5 needle pines) as well as those
working with Rusts of Forest Trees.
There has been an excellent response to the survey accompanying the
first announcement and we look forward to meeting all of you in Colorado
in June 2014 and seeing the latest in science developments in these
areas. There has been tremendous activity in areas such as to gene
conservation, rust resistance and genomics since these groups last met,
and this forum will provide an excellent chance to exchange information
and form further collaborations. The planned fieldtrips in the Rocky
Mountains will be an opportune time to see forest tree species and
pathogens firsthand and a chance to continue discussions with colleagues
in spectacular mountain-top landscapes.
Additional information will be forthcoming in the next announcement and
on website updates, but key information for now:
*Abstracts* submission for oral or poster presentations will be open
from 1 Dec 2013 to 15 Feb 2014. Format will be provided on the website
and in the attached document.
*Hotel Reservations*: The Hilton in Ft. Collins has put aside a block
of rooms at a very favorable rate (U.S. $91/night). *The number of rooms
at this rate will be limited and we encourage you to make your
reservations early*.
http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/F/FNLCOHF-GIU-20140613/inde….
Reference block name “IUFRO” when making your hotel reservation.
*Registration*: Registration fee will cover meeting attendance, most
lunches, two dinners, social events, and fieldtrips; an optional Friday
fieldtrip to walk through a treeline /Pinus aristata/ ecosystem will be
an additional charge. We anticipate registration to open starting in
January 2014. Registration will be approximately U.S. $400.
*Website*: http://www.westernforestry.org/Events/conference/
If you did not reply to the survey in the first announcement and you
think you will likely attend the conference, please send an email to
rsniezko(a)fs.fed.us <mailto:rsniezko@fs.fed.us>. This will help ensure
you are on the mailing list for the future announcement, and help us
facilitate further planning of the conference.
If you have any questions, please contact the conference co-chairs of
the organizing committee (Anna Schoettle, aschoettle(a)fs.fd.us
<mailto:aschoettle@fs.fd.us>; or Richard Sniezko, rsniezko(a)fs.fed.us
<mailto:rsniezko@fs.fed.us>) .
For more information on the groups involved in this meeting see the
websites below and the contact persons listed.
*2.02.15 – Breeding and genetic resources of five-needle pines*
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-2/20000/20200/20215/
7.02.05 – Rusts of forest trees
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-7/70000/70200/70205/
*Strobusphere*
http://dendrome.ucdavis.edu/strobusphere/
See the attachment (pdf) for more information about the conference and
venue.
We look forward to seeing you in Ft. Collins in June 2014!
Anna Schoettle and Richard Sniezko
RICHARD A. SNIEZKO
Center Geneticist
USDA Forest Service - Dorena Genetic Resource Center
34963 Shoreview Road, Cottage Grove, Oregon, U.S.A. 97424
Phone: (541) 767-5716 Fax: (541) 767-5709
Cell: (541) 954-6793
email: rsniezko(a)fs.fed.us <mailto:rsniezko@fs.fed.us>
website: www.fs.usda.gov/goto/r6/dorena
<http://www.fs.usda.gov/goto/r6/dorena-grc>
IUFRO 2.02.15 – Breeding and Genetic Resources of Five-Needle Pines webpage:
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-2/20000/20200/20215/
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Scientists and Colleagues:
Submit your abstract today! Less than one week remains to submit your abstract for the 2014 IUFRO World Congress! http://iufro2014.com/scientific-program/abstract-submissions/
Do not miss 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)
Dear All,
Below you will find the link to the latest Division 7.02.00 Pathology Newsletter. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the newsletter, and if you would like to contribute an article for the next edition, please contact Jolanda and I.
The newsletter is posted on http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-7/70000/70200/newsletters/, the direct link is http://www.iufro.org/download/file/9992/2759/nl70200-130926_pdf/.
The newsletter contains:
A message from Jolanda
Information about abstract submission for the upcoming world congress
Information about Puccinia psidii in South Africa
Summaries of meetings of Units 7.02.02, 7.02.04 and the Third IUFRO Latin America Congress
Information about upcoming meetings
Enjoy, and note that the FIRM deadline for abstract submission for the IUFRO World Congress in Salt Lake City is Oct. 15, 2013.
All the best, Tod and Jolanda
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)
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
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Dear Forpathers,
A new Facebook game that could help save the Ash tree!
Players help analyze real genetic data from the fungus which causes
Chalara ash dieback and from common the ash, Fraxinus excelsior.
By matching and rearranging patterns, each player will contribute a
small but useful analysis to the bid to save the Ash tree.
See http://www.tsl.ac.uk/fraxinus.html
Enjoy the Fraxinus game!
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Dr Pascal FREY
INRA, University of Lorraine
Department of Tree - Microbe Interactions
Ecology of Forest Pathogenic Fungi team
UMR1136 IAM
F-54280 Champenoux
FRANCE
Phone: 33 383 394 056
Fax: 33 383 394 069
E-mail: frey(a)nancy.inra.fr
http://mycor.nancy.inra.fr/IAM/?page_id=731
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Save the Date!
The next Southwide Forest Disease Workshop is scheduled to be held in the Conecuh National Forest in southern Alabama January 14-16, 2014 near Andalusia, Alabama. Plans are to have research abstracts, station reports, a field trip, and graduate student competition. The meeting will be held at the Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center, a 5000 acre demonstration forest used by a number of University's, State and Federal Agencies interested in natural resources. If you have any questions feel free to contact Scott Enebak (334.844.1028) or Lori Eckhardt (334.844.2720)
Deadline for registration is December 1, 2013. Registration fees cover three nights room (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday), breakfasts (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday), dinners (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday), lunch (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday), and breaks beginning on Monday evening through Thursday lunch.
Fees: Professional = $280 while Student = $210
Copied below is the Southwide Forest Disease Workshop webpage with more information.
https://fp.auburn.edu/sfws/enebak/swfdw/swfdw.html
Feel free to spread this announcement to others in your organization that may be interested and other regional state forest health specialists.
Thanks.
Scott Enebak
ForPath Users:
Copied below and attached is a position announcement.
Please pass onto anyone that you believe would be interested.
I apologize for any duplicates due to cross posting on the ForEnt Listserve.
Have a good day.
Scott Enebak
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POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT
Assistant/Associate Professor - Forest Health
Auburn University's School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences invites nominations and applications for the position of Assistant/Associate Professor in the area of Forest Health and the interactions of introduced and native fungi and insect vectors in forest ecosystems located in the southern US. This is a 12-month, tenure-track position, with 80% research and 20% teaching responsibilities. Additional information about the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences and its programs can be found at our website: https://sites.auburn.edu/academic/sfws/Pages/default.aspx
Women and Minorities are Encouraged to Apply
Responsibilities: The incumbent is expected to develop a significant research program through active pursuit of extramural funding, recruitment of graduate students, and publications in high-quality refereed journals. The incumbent also is expected to teach a core undergraduate course in the forestry curriculum and develop one graduate course in their area of expertise.
Qualifications: PhD in Entomology, Pathology, Forestry, Biology or a closely related field is required. We seek candidates with research/teaching interests focused on contemporary research and how forest management practices influence stand/ecosystem health. Those with a strong forest pathology and entomology background and having worked in an applied decision-making context on habitat restoration, risk mapping systems and habitat restoration are preferred. Experience in working with southern pine ecosystems is desirable. Evidence of collaboration at the international level on forest declines would be desirable for Associate level. The incumbent must present evidence of the potential for teaching excellence and a solid record of research productivity including ability to obtain extramural grants and publish findings in high-quality refereed journals. The selected candidate must be able to meet eligibility requirements for work in the United States at the time of appointment and continue working legally for the proposed term of employment. Excellent communication skills required.
Review of applications will begin April 1, 2012 and will continue until a successful candidate has been identified.
Application: To apply, submit a letter of application, curriculum vita, official transcripts, and names, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers of three references to Mrs. Pam Beasley (beaslpa(a)auburn.edu) School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, 3301 Forestry and Wildlife Sciences Building, 602 Duncan Drive, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849-5418.
For additional information contact: Dr. Art Chappelka, Chair, Search Committee, phone 334-844-1069, fax 334-844-1084, or e-mail: chappah(a)auburn.edu
Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer
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Scott Enebak
Professor & Director
Southern Forest Nursery Management Cooperative
Forest Health Dynamics Laboratory
602 Duncan Drive
Auburn University, AL 36849
334.844.1028 Office
334.844.1084 Fax
