Dear colleagues,

I am requesting your help on an IUFRO task force and a proposal this week. The concept note was approved, but the full proposal is due Nov 30. Henrik Hartmann previously led a task force on monitoring global tree mortality patterns and trends, and we would like to extend and integrate this with pest monitoring. The idea is to identify gaps in need of improvement internationally and coordinate efforts to integrate efforts internationally. I am currently leading the effort but transitioning to a new position that will likely make it difficult to coordinate the activities of the task force without help from other deputies. This task force would need help and to network with many of you and others internationally in any case. If you can help please reply ASAP.

For background, here is a link that describes what a task force is. There is no $ involved, just plans to network and form a team to coordinate activities internationally toward a common goal: IUFRO: Task Forces / Science in IUFRO

We are seeking help from you on this proposal by the end of the week.

Specifically, I would like to know

• If you can serve as deputies helping to coordinate task force activities
• If you can serve as a member of the task force
• If you would like to help with the proposal, reply and I will send you a link to the proposal; currently, we want to have workshops/seminars to talk about integrating surveys, monitoring, remote sensing, and inventory efforts internationally, a list of sentinel tree monitoring programs and research internationally, and a database and/or standards to house information from them, as well as workshops, seminars, and publications integrating parallel or ongoing efforts.
• If you can help coordinate team building activities or workshops through your institution(s)/agency(ies) over the next years – we can seek outside or inside funds for these as well - for example
• Directory of sentinel monitoring efforts
• Workshop on establishing standards and repositories for data from international sentinel monitoring programs
• International workshop(s) on inventories and how to integrate them?
• International workshop(s) on remote sensing programs and how to integrate them?
• International workshop(s) on pest surveys and how to integrate them?
• International workshop(s) on integrating inventories, remote sensing, and surveys internationally?
• If you can help network with colleagues in China or the global south to be part of the proposed task force
• Additional potential members of the task force