Dear FORENT, FORPATH and FORCLIMAIR subscribers,
First, let me apologize for cluttering the inboxes of those of you not interested in IUFRO matters. I know these lists are well-used for other useful stuff, so if you are not interested in IUFRO you might want to delete this message right now...
To my IUFRO colleagues, I want to share some information about a shift in leadership that we anticipate here in Division 7, "Forest Health". I was honored to be selected to serve as coordinator of Division 7 and in August, 2010 I started my term in that position. However 9 months later I was notified by my employer, the USDA Forest Service that I must resign because USDA "ethics" officers revoked their approval and decided that my service in this role was "unethical" stating it would amount to an implicit endorsement of IUFRO by the USDA Forest Service. Personally, I disagreed with their assessment but I did not receive support for my service in IUFRO from US Forest Service headquarters and they insisted that I resign. We anticipated that this rule would be relaxed, but after over 1 year of waiting, that has not happened so among IUFRO leaders, we decided that the Division 7 coordinator position should not remain empty any longer.
It turns out that there is a very happy solution to this story, namely Dr. Ecki Brockerhoff from Scion (Forest Research Institute), New Zealand has agreed to take on the Division 7 coordinator position. Ecki is currently coordinator of IUFRO Research Group 7.03 "Entomology" and if Ecki's nomination is approved later this month by the IUFRO Board (I anticipate this will be the case), then he will become the new Division 7 coordinator, and I will switch back into Ecki's position as coordinator of Research Group 7.03. I'm sure many of you know Ecki and agree that he will make an excellent Division coordinator. Personally, I'm thrilled that he can do this.
I apologize for any confusion that this episode may have created. It is a source of personal embarrassment and it certainly does not make me proud of the USDA Forest Service. I want to thank all of the great people I've had a chance to work with during my very brief stint as Division Coordinator and I'm looking forward with great excitement to returning to serve as Entomology Research Group leader. Thanks!
-Sandy
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Andrew Liebhold http://sandyliebhold.com
Northern Research Station 304-285-1512
USDA Forest Service 304-285-1505 FAX
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On behalf of the organizers, Imperial College London, Forest Research UK, the Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA) and other partners, we invite you to electronic conference:
"Pathways Into Policy: International knowledge exchange on biosecurity governance and implications for tree pest introductions and spread"
which will run until 13th March 2013.
The e-conference focuses on the knowledge gaps and research priorities and will be organized around three themes:
Theme 1: Defining key pathways and assessing their significance
Theme 2: Comparing approaches to pathway management and tree pest and disease prevention
Theme 3: Exploring underlying justifications for pathway management and tree pest and disease outbreak prevention
We invite you to submit a contribution (no more than 300 - 500 words (approximately one page)). All major contributors will appear as co-authors on the report to Living with Environmental Change program (LWEC). Informal comments are also welcome.
To subscribe to the e-conference, please go to http://pathwaysintopolicy.forumotion.co.uk.
In case of any difficulties subscribing, please contact Emily Porth, emilyfp(a)gmail.com.
This project is funded by Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) Tree Health and Biosecurity Initiative, please go to http://www.lwec.org.uk/ for further details.
We do hope you can join us.
Sincerely,
Mariella Marzano, Norman Dandy and Emily Porth - Forest Research, UK
Clive Potter and Helen Bayliss -Imperial College London
Emily Porth, Project Researcher, Social and Economic Research Group, Forest Research
Susan Frankel, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station
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Postdoc/Researcher at Skog og landskap (Norway) to study spruce bark beetle transcriptomics/genomics
The Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute (located in Ås just south of Oslo) has an open position for a post-doctoral fellow/researcher (bioinformatics/transcriptomics). This is part of a Norwegian Research Council FRIMEDBIO project. There are three organisms of interest in this project; Norway spruce, the spruce bark beetle (which attack spruce) and its mutualistic blue stain fungus Ceratocystis polonica. The project aims to elucidate the tripartite nature of the tree colonization process of the beetle-fungus complex, particularly when conifer defences are induced or primed by prior treatments. Next Generation Sequencing of the beetle, the fungus and the host tree transcriptome will be used to generate a molecular ecological portrait of the mutualistic tree colonization process by the tree-killing bark beetle-fungus complex, and to explore how this process can defeat plant defences.
The position is open from summer 2013 (1 August or earlier). The application deadline is 17 March, 2013.
Below are the official links to the advert
http://www.skogoglandskap.no/stillinger/postdoctoral_fellow_genome_and_tran…
Here is the direct link to the WebCruiter
https://www.webcruiter.no/wcmain/advertviewpublic.aspx?oppdragsnr=169514117…
Paal Krokene
Professor & Senior Researcher
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Norsk institutt for skog og landskap
Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute
Pb 115, NO-1431 Ås
M (+47) 9951 6013
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Hi All-
We are looking for a PhD student to work on a fully funded project
looking at the effects of even and uneven aged forest management.
This project will take place in Northern Sweden at SLU.
Details of the post can be found at:
http://www.slu.se/en/education/postgraduate-studies/new-phd-student/read-mo…
If you would be so kind as to pass it on to all interested candidates,
we would be grateful-
Tim Work (Université de Québec à Montréal)
Joakim Hjalten (SLU)
