Hello Colleagues, The Dec. 31 deadline for submission of abstracts for presentations at the Congress is approaching. If you would like to present (either oral or poster) at the Congress, you should submit an abstract by visiting http://www.iufro2010.com then click on ?online abstract submission on the right?. You will be prompted to establish a login ID and password prior to submitting an abstract. If you would like to submit an abstract for one of the sessions in our Congress Theme ?Frontiers in forest and tree health? listed below, we suggest that you contact the listed session coordinator to make sure that there is still room in the session, before submitting an abstract with that session designated. It is also possible to submit an abstract without designating any of the existing sessions. To do this, you should still select ?Frontiers in Forest Health? as the Congress theme but select ?other? as the session. The Congress Organizing Committee will organize these ?other? presentations into sessions with similar content. Finally, plans are being made for a special 2-day post-conference forest health tour. As part of the tour, we would visit various forest stands for first-hand view of some of the important insect and disease problems in Korea. For more information, see http://www.iufro2010.com/?code=iu06&subp=0201 -Sandy Theme: ?Frontiers in Forest and Tree Health? (full descriptions can be found at http://www.iufro2010.com/upload/Congress_Themes_And_Sessions.pdf) G-01 Forest health in a changing environment coordinators: Elena Paoletti (e.paoletti(a)ipp.cnr.it) & Mike Wingfield G-02 New insights into roles of ophiostomatoid fungi in bark beetle-fungus symbioses coordinators: Diana Six (diana.six(a)cfc.umt.edu) & Mike Wingfield G-03 Effect of multiple ecosystem stressors on tree and forest ecosystem health coordinator: Nancy Grulke (ngrulke(a)fs.fed.us) G-04 The growing threat of Australian insect pests to world eucalyptus plantation forestry coordinator: Simon Lawson (simon.lawson(a)dpi.qld.gov.au) G-05 Synergy in forest threats: symbiotic interactions and invasives coordinator: Kier Klepzig (Kklepzig(a)fs.fed.us) G-06 Alien invasive pathogens: threats to forest ecosystem integrity and services coordinators: Steve Woodward & Ned Klopfenstein (nklopfenstein(a)fs.fed.us ) G-07 Impacts of interacting disturbances on forest health in the boreal zone coordinator: Douglas McRae (DMcRae(a)NRCan.gc.ca ) G-08 Invasive alien species: economic and environmental impacts on forest ecosystems coordinator: David Langor (David.Langor(a)NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca ) G-09 Semiochemical based monitoring of forest health coordinator: Zhang Zhen (zhangzhen(a)caf.ac.cn) G-10 Trends in wood and bark borer invasions and effects of policy coordinators: Eckehard Brockerhoff (Eckehard.Brockerhoff(a)scionresearch.com) & Robert Haack G-11 Molecular ecological and evolutionary perspectives on changing populations of forest insects and their symbionts Session coordinator: Bernard Slippers (bernard.slippers(a)fabi.up.ac.za) G-12 Oak decline in the world Session coordinator: Naoto Kamata (kamatan(a)uf.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp) & Kazuyoshi Futai G-13 Advances in exotic forest pest surveillance and monitoring Session coordinator: Jon Sweeney (jsweeney(a)nrcan.gc.ca) G-14 Ecology and management of pine wood nematode in the face of climate change Session coordinators: Yeong-jin (yjchung(a)foa.go.kr) Chung & Han Hyerim G-15 Cork Oak forest degradation causes and sustainable development in western Mediterranean countries Session coordinators: Mohammed Nejib Rejeb (Rejeb.nejib(a)iresa.agrinet.tn) Abdelhamid Khaldi & Woo Su-Young G-16 Climate factors and tree susceptibility/resistance to insects and pathogens Session coordinators: François Lieutier (francois.lieutier(a)univ-orleans.fr) & Dan Herms G-17 Managing cone and seed insects to preserve the regeneration of future forests Session coordinator: Jean-Noël Candau (Jean-Noel.Candau(a)NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca ) G-18 Diseases and insects in pines threatening global forest health in the 21st century Session coordinators: Lee Kyung Joon (fraxinus(a)snu.ac.kr ) & Kang Ho Duck G-19 Forest dieback caused by novel ambrosia beetle/Raffaelea pest complexes Session coordinators: Kazuyoshi Futai (futai(a)kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp ) & Naoto Kamata ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Liebhold 304-285-1512 Northern Research Station 304-285-1505 FAX USDA Forest Service 724-317-8668 mobile 180 Canfield St. aliebhold(a)fs.fed.us Morgantown, WV26505 USA http://sandyliebhold.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------