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FW: some adjustment to the IUFRO Division 7 leadership

by Liebhold, Andrew -FS

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 -- Andrew Liebhold http://sandyliebhold.com Northern Research Station 304-285-1512 USDA Forest Service 304-285-1505 FAX 180 Canfield St. 724-317-8668 mobile Morgantown, WV 26505 USA This electronic message contains information generated by the USDA solely for the intended recipients. Any unauthorized interception of this message or the use or disclosure of the information it contains may violate the law and subject the violator to civil or criminal penalties. If you believe you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete the email immediately.

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Special Issue Forests & Bark Beetles

by Beat Wermelinger

Dear colleagues I would like to draw your attention to a special issue of the journal 'Forests' devoted to the interactions between bark beetles and forests. More information you may find at http://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests/special_issues/Bark_Beetles. It would be great if some of you could contribute to this issue. The deadline is 1 November. Best regards Beat Wermelinger Guest Editor 'Forests' --------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Beat Wermelinger Entomologe Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL Forschungseinheit Walddynamik Postfach CH-8903 Birmensdorf Schweiz Tel: +41-44-739 22 58 Fax: +41-44-739 22 15 E-mail: beat.wermelinger(a)wsl.ch http://www.wsl.ch/personal_homepages/wermelin

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ClimTree Conference 2013

by Alain Roques

Dear colleagues, Andrea Battisti (Univ. Padova) and myself are organizing a session entitled "*Tree vulnerability to pests in relation to climate change*" during the next *ClimTree Conference* to be held in Zürich, CH, 1-5 September 2013. The session will address the relationships between climate change and the populations of insects and pathogens of forest trees at three levels, i. how tree susceptibility can be modified by climate change, ii. how insects and pathogens respond to changes through range and performance shifts, iii. how natural enemies may react to changes in the lower trophic levels and to the climate change as well. The session welcomes contributions on talks specifically addressing one of the identified levels or considering all of them in specific temperate forest ecosystems. Impacts of climate change on communities of organisms, and their interactions, will be also considered. Talks on the effects of climate variables other than an increase in temperature, eg. change in rainfall regime or in frequency of climate anomalies, are encouraged. The session is open to both synthesis papers and presentation of experimental results, provided that they are related to important tree species of temperate ecosystems. *There are still some rooms available for talks and posters. So, we invite you to register if you are interested. The deadline for registration has been extended to 29 April, 2013. T*he last congress circular is attached. Best regards Alain -- Dr. Alain ROQUES Directeur de Recherches INRA- Zoologie Forestiere Centre de recherche d'Orléans 2163 Avenue de la Pomme de Pin CS 40001 ARDON 45075 ORLEANS Cedex 2 FRANCE Tel: (33)0238417858 Fax : (33)0238417879 Mail : alain.roques(a)orleans.inra.fr

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Possible IUFRO 2014 session

by Sheila Ward

Dear IUFRO RG 7.03 FORENT researchers: Do you have studies showing how biodiversity helps to manage high-value species (such as the Meliaceae) or how high value timbers help to conserve biodiversity? Below is an idea for a technical session for the IUFRO 2014 World Congress relating high value tropical timbers and biodiversity. Any suggestions would be most welcome, including reorientation of this potential session. Collaboration with a unit of Divison 7 on this session would be great. If you would like to participate in the session, could you please send me a draft title for your contribution? Please also send this on to anyone else who might be interested. Please send any ideas by April 20, since session proposals are due April 30. ********************************** *How does biodiversity help to manage high-value timber species, and vice-versa?* *Valuable tropical timbers, such as many Meliaceae, remain in high demand, casting a shadow over prospects for these species and their forests. However, management of high-value tropical timber species may help conserve the biodiversity of the forests they inhabit. Conversely, biodiversity may contribute to the health of individual trees and populations of these species. This session seeks to explore positive, reciprocal relationships between biodiversity and high-value timber species (including in plantations).* ************************************ Thanks! Sheila Ward Deputy Coordinator 1.02.04 – Sustainable management and genetic resources in Meliaceae [image: Print]<http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-1/10000/10200/10204/>

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2014 IUFRO Congress session proposals

by Andrew Liebhold

Hello friends and colleagues, The final deadline of 30 April for submission of session proposals for the 2014 IUFRO World Congress is rapidly approaching. The Congress will be held 5-11 October, 2014 in Salt Lake City, USA. We are lucky that one of the Congress themes has been designated as "Forest Health in a Changing World". The Congress organizers are encouraging proposals that focus on topics that are both interdisciplinary and international in scope and have an international representation of speakers. Proposals should include a tentative list of speakers and can be submitted by following directions at http://iufro2014.com/scientific-program/session-proposals . If you have an idea for organizing a session that intersects entomological topics, I encourage you to contact me before submitting a final proposal so that I can give you advice and avoid topics for which proposals have already been submitted. Organizing a session at the IUFRO Congress is a unique opportunity for generating discussion and novel insight into scientific topics that are interesting to you and others. -- Andrew Liebhold http://sandyliebhold.com Coordinator, IUFRO Research Group 7.03 "Forest Entomology" Northern Research Station 304-285-1512 USDA Forest Service 304-285-1505 FAX 180 Canfield St. 724-317-8668 mobile Morgantown, WV 26505 USA

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TCD Graduate Assistantship

by Mayfield, Albert E -FS

Graduate Research Assistantship - Thousand Cankers Disease Contingent on available funding, a Master's-level Graduate Research Assistantship at the University of Tennessee will be available in 2013. The project is focused on aspects of the control of thousand cankers disease (TCD) of walnut. TCD is caused by a fungus (Geosmithia morbida) that is vectored by the walnut twig beetle (Pityophthorus juglandis). TCD is recently established in the eastern US and has prompted quarantines on the movement of black walnut wood products. For more information: http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/foresthealth/forestpests/tcd/index.shtml. The project involves collaboration with the USDA Forest Service and APHIS. Research topics include: * Phytosanitary standards development * Beetle and fungus host preference * Infestation potential and persistence of the insect and fungal pathogen in trees, logs and wood products * Prevalence of G. morbida in forest environments The appointment will be in the Department of Forestry, Wildlife & Fisheries (FWF) at the Knoxville campus of the University of Tennessee. Two years of support includes an annual stipend of approximately $17,500 plus tuition and benefits. Information on graduate studies in FWF is available at http://fwf.ag.utk.edu/Academics/msprogram.htm. For additional information, please contact: Adam Taylor Associate Professor Department of Forestry, Wildlife & Fisheries University of Tennessee AdamTaylor(a)utk.edu<mailto:AdamTaylor@utk.edu> 865-946-1125 This electronic message contains information generated by the USDA solely for the intended recipients. Any unauthorized interception of this message or the use or disclosure of the information it contains may violate the law and subject the violator to civil or criminal penalties. If you believe you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete the email immediately.

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IUFRO Pine Wilt Disease unit 7.02.10 symposium 2013; first call

by Schröder, Thomas

Dear colleague, herewith I like to inform you about the upcoming IUFRO Pine Wilt Disease unit symposium which will be held in Braunschweig/Germany from 15th to 18th October 2013. The symposium PWD 2013 is a joint action of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) unit 7.02.10 Pine Wilt Disease (PWD) and the group of the EU-research project REPHRAME "Development of improved methods for detection, control and eradication of pine wood nematode" in cooperation with The German Scientific Society for Plant Protection and Plant Health and the Julius Kühn-Institut, Federal Research centre for cultivated plants. Since the last IUFRO Symposium in Nanjing/China in 2009, several expert groups in the whole world - among other things - worked intensively on the following topics: · Impact on the international trade as well as economic consequences in the infested areas including corresponding modeling of outbreak scenarios and pathways, · Pathway analysis and modeling/predicting of pine wilt expression across eco-climatic zones taking account of latency , · Biology of Bursaphelenchus xylophilus and other Bursaphelenchus species including their interaction with bacteria and fungi and their impact on host trees, · Diagnostic methods aimed to a fast and reliable determination of PWN in pure culture and in plant tissue as well as in laboratory and under field conditions, · Examinations on the tree physiology and resistance characteristics of host trees, · PWN and vector association, vector dispersal capacity and strategies for vector control, · Behavior and population dynamics in infested trees, · Non-vector transmission and treatment options for wood and wood products, · Management strategies for PWD. The aim of the symposium is to bundle the actual research progress and the management of the pine wood nematode and its vector beetles and to enhance the scientific exchange and thus to present the research results to a broad interested group of scientists, disease managers and decision makers. You are invited to submit papers for oral presentations as well as for posters covering all aspects around Pine Wood Nematode and Pine Wilt Disease. All information including registration is available at: http://dpg.phytomedizin.org/de/pwdc2013/. The deadline for abstract submission is 30. June 2013. Early bird fee payment is until 31 July 2013. The organization committee would be grateful if you could share this email with people you think could be interested to participate. Thank you! I hope to see you in Braunschweig! With best regards for the local organizing board Thomas Schroeder Dr. Thomas Schroeder Julius Kühn-Institut, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants Institute for National and International Plant Health Messeweg 11-12 D-38104 Braunschweig Germany Tel.: +49 531 299 3381 Fax: +49 531 299 3007 Email: thomas.schroeder(a)jki.bund.de<mailto:thomas.schroeder@jki.bund.de> URL: http://pflanzengesundheit.jki.bund.de http://www.jki.bund.de

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Insects and Diseases Particuliers

by NAP Editions

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