Dear Colleagues,
With great optimism, the Scientific Organizing Committee would like to
announce the new dates of 20-24 September, 2021 for the IUFRO conference,
"Biological Invasions in Forests: Trade, Ecology and Management" to be held
in Prague, Czech Republic. This is a joint meeting of IUFRO units:
7.03.12 - Alien Invasive Species and International Trade
7.03.07 - Population Dynamics of Forest Insects
8.02.04 - Ecology of Alien Invasives
The conference is hosted by the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Beginning in February we will accept submissions of abstracts for oral and
poster presentations on topics including:
- Invasions of non-native insects, tree pathogens, plants and other
organisms in forest ecosystems
- The role of trade and travel as pathways for invasions
- Ecology and impact of non-native species in forests
- Management of invasions / biosecurity
Registration will also open in February.
For more information, please visit the conference website:
https://iufro.czu.cz or email:
Andrew Liebhold
USDA Forest Service
aliebhold(a)gmail.com
Rene Eschen
CABI
R.Eschen(a)cabi.org
Petra Jiroudková
Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
jiroudkova(a)fld.czu.cz
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
I would like to request that the message below be sent out to the forent and forpath lists. Please let me know if you require additional information. Best wishes,
Jeremy, WP 7.03.16
We are contacting you to let you know about an upcoming webinar series. This series is co-hosted by the working parties 7.03.05 (Ecology and Management of Bark and Woodboring Insects) and 7.03.16 (Behavioural and Chemical Ecology of Forest Insects) and will focus on the Behavioural and Chemical Ecology of Bark and Woodboring Insects.
The format of the talks will include a short introductory talk by the webinar coordinator (5-10 min) followed by 2-3 short research talks (45-50 minutes total) and concluding with an open discussion period with the speakers (ca. 25 min) so that the total length of each webinar will be ca. 90 minutes. The series starts on January 21 with a webinar on "Plant defense and biotic and abiotic stressors" coordinated by Dr. Nadir Erbilgin (see the full list of webinars with dates below):
January 21 - Plant Defense and Biotic and Abiotic Stressors
Nadir Erbilgin, University of Alberta
February 04 - Visual Ecology of Forest Beetles
Johannes Spaethe, University of Wurzburg
February 18 - Finding a point source of odor in a turbulent world: mechanisms and constraints
Ring Carde, University of California-Riverside
March 04 - Climate Change Effects on Bark Beetle Range Expansion, Community Associates and Outbreak Dynamics
Barbara Bentz, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
March 18 - Behavioural and Invasion Ecology of Hylurgus ligniperda
Ecki Brockerhoff, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
April 01 -Chemical Ecology of Ips typographus - Norway spruce Interactions
Sigrid Netherer, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
To track participation and protect against unwelcome visitors we ask that you register for the webinar series (you will receive a confirmation email after you register and then the week of each seminar an email with the zoom link for the webinar). If you registered for the last webinar series we ask that you please register again as we have reset the database. To register for the webinar series please use this link:
https://www.fabinet.up.ac.za/index.php/event/IUFRO_WP_7.03.16/
The webinars are co-hosted by the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, the Institute for Forest Entomology, Forest Pathology and Forest Protection, BOKU, the Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay and the Canadian Forest Service. If you are unable to attend a webinar live but would like to view it, we will be posting recordings of the webinars at a YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE1bhBiFrYSbUSh09LipkZw.
Best wishes,
Jeremy, Juan, Sigrid, Jess, Andres and Dimitrios
WP 7.03.05 and WP 7.03.16
Dear friends and colleagues,
The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL and the Swiss Ornithological Institute Sempach are seeking from 1 March 2021 or as soon as possible for a period of 13 months a
Post-Doc ‘Insect and bird population dynamics’ (80-100%)
The project entails analyses of long-term datasets on bark beetle and woodpecker population sizes and modelling how woodpecker populations respond to changes in bark beetle abundance and the availability of potential nest structures. The position is based mainly in Birmensdorf near Zurich, Switzerland.
For more information see https://apply.refline.ch/273855/1115/pub/4/index.html
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me (eckehard.brockerhoff(a)wsl.ch) or Gilberto Pasinelli (gilberto.pasinelli(a)vogelwarte.ch)
Please pass this on to others who may be interested.
Cheers
Ecki
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Eckehard Brockerhoff, PhD
Head of Research Unit 'Forest Health and Biotic Interactions'
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
www.wsl.ch/en/about-wsl/research-units/forest-health-and-biotic-interaction…
Zürcherstrasse 111, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Tel +41 79 819 0882
eckehard.brockerhoff(a)wsl.ch
Von: Brett Hurley [mailto:brett.hurley@up.ac.za] Im Auftrag von Brett Hurley
Gesendet: Freitag, 11. Dezember 2020 17:09
Betreff: PhD position - remote sensing of invasive forest insect
Dear colleagues
Attached an advert for a PhD position at FABI, University of Pretoria, to
investigate the use of satellite data and drone images to monitor and
quantify infestations of the Eucalyptus snout beetle, Gonipterus sp. 2.
Please distribute widely to those who may be interested in this position.
Regards
Brett
This message and attachments are subject to a disclaimer.
Please refer to
http://upnet.up.ac.za/services/it/documentation/docs/004167.pdf for full
details.
Dear colleagues
please find attached the announcement of two postdoc positions. Their job will be to analyze existing long-term data of the past 40 years from Switzerland with up-to-date statistical and modelling tools.
Please feel free to disseminate this to your contacts.
Thank you and best wishes
Beat
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Dr. Beat Wermelinger
Entomologist, Senior Scientist
Swiss Federal Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
CH-8903 Birmensdorf
Switzerland
Tel: +41 44 739 22 58
beat.wermelinger(a)wsl.ch
Personal homepage <https://www.wsl.ch/en/employees/wermelin.html>
Dear colleagues,
Please find attached a job announcement for the Head of the newly
founded Institute of Biodiversity and Nature Conservation at the Federal
Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape
(BFW) in Vienna (Austria). The announcement is written in German, and I
assume that knowledge of German is a big advantage for potential
candidates.
The application deadline is tight and ends already on 16 December
2020.
Please make potential candidates aware of this opportunity and spread
the information in your professional networks.
With kind regards,
Thomas Kirisits
Institute of Forest Entomology, Forest Pathology and Forest Protection
(IFFF)
Department for Forest and Soil Sciences
BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences,
Vienna (BOKU)
Peter-Jordan-Straße 82 (Schwackhöferhaus)
A-1190 Vienna
Austria
Tel.: +43 1 47-654-91611
E-mail: thomas.kirisits(a)boku.ac.at
Dear FORENT and FORPATH colleagues,
Songlin Fei and I are filling a postdoc position focused on quantitative
analysis of forest insect and disease invasions. I attach the announcement
here. The postdoc will be located in Dr. Fei's laboratory at Purdue
University in the US though there are no citizenship requirements.
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
Dear all:
We have formed a new coordination team for the IUFRO Working Party 4.02.01 on Resource Data in the Tropics. The focus of the Working Party will be on legacy tropical forest data sets: finding them, getting them and their metadata archived in an up-to-date digital format, and getting these data available for use, with appropriate protocols and credit to the sources of the data.
We invite you to join our email list at <https://lists.iufro.org/mailman/listinfo/wp40201/> https://lists.iufro.org/mailman/listinfo/wp40201/ , where we discuss issues related to these datasets.
Regards,
Sheila Ward
Coordinator IUFRO 4.02.01
Invitation to join the email list for IUFRO 4.02.01 Resource Data in the Tropics
Dear all:
We have formed a new coordination team for the IUFRO Working Party 4.02.01 on Resource Data in the Tropics. The focus of the Working Party will be on legacy tropical forest data sets: finding them, getting them and their metadata archived in an up-to-date digital format, and getting these data available for use, with appropriate protocols and credit to the sources of the data. We invite you to join our email list at <https://lists.iufro.org/mailman/listinfo/wp40201/> https://lists.iufro.org/mailman/listinfo/wp40201/ , where we discuss issues related to these datasets.
Please contact tropfordata(a)gmail.com with any questions or comments.
Regards,
Sheila Ward
Coordinator IUFRO 4.02.01
Please find below the details for a webinar series hosted by the new Working Party 7.03.16, "Behaviour and chemical ecology of forest insects". Each seminar includes an introductory talk by an invited seminar leader followed by two research talks and a final open discussion. The seminars occur every 2 weeks starting September 17 until November 12 and run from 13:30 until 15:00 UTC (this is 9:30 AM EST, 6:30 AM PST and 15:30 CEST). The seminar series is hosted through the FABI, University of Pretoria academic zoom account and will also stream to a YouTube channel we have created for the WP (this will allow us to post the webinars there and make them available for the community to view if they are unable to attend the webinar). The webinars are open to all but to join the webinar individuals must register online at the site provided in the flyer, registration triggers an auto response email that provides you with the link to access the seminars and allows us to track participation and limit the risk of unwelcome visitors.
Best wishes,
Jeremy, Andres and Sigrid
WP 7.03.16
IUFRO Working Party 7.03.16: Behavioral and Chemical Ecology of Forest Insects / SEMINAR SERIES
First seminar: September 17
Insect olfaction in the forest
Bill Hansson, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany
13:30 - 13:40: Introduction by seminar leader
13:40 - 14:05: Functional characterization of two bark beetle (Ips typographus) pheromone receptors and prediction of their ligand binding sites. Martin N.Andersson, Lund University, Sweden.
14:05 - 14:30: Olfactory genomics as a tool to expedite pheromone identification in longhorned beetles. Robert Mitchell, University of Wisconsin, USA.
14:30 - 15:00: Open discussion
General Program:
September 17 - Insect olfaction in the forest. Organizer and introductory talk: Bill Hansson, Speakers: Martin N. Andersson / Robert Mitchell
October 1 - Ecology of bark and ambrosia beetle fungus symbioses. Organizer: Peter H.W. Biedermann, Speakers: Peter H.W. Biedermann / Maximilian Lehenberger / Sifat Munim Tanin
October 15 - Predator-prey and host-parasitoid interactions. Organizer and introductory talk: Manuela Branco, Speakers: Jean-Claude Grégoire / Sofia Branco
October 29 - Chemically mediated plant-herbivore-microbe interactions in forests. Organizer and introductory talk: Almuth Hammerbacher, Speakers: Dineshkumar Kandasamy / Franziska Eberl
November 12 - Behavioral and chemical ecology of Sirex noctilio. Organizer and introductory talk: Bernard Slippers, Speakers: Juan C. Corley / Quentin Guignard and Josephine Quefflelec
For registration and further information please visit: https://www.fabinet.up.ac.za/index.php/event/IUFRO_WP_7.03.16
Dear colleagues,
You are all invited to participate in a survey assessing attitudes towards women in forest entomology and pathology coordinated by Drs. Jess Hartshorn (Clemson University, USA), Maartje Klapwijk (SLU, Sweden), Mariella Marzano (Forest Research, UK), and Eckehard Brockerhoff (WSL, Switzerland).
The purpose of this survey is to assess current attitudes towards women in forest entomology and pathology and to identify gaps in support available to women in these fields. The entire survey should take around 15 minutes and you may stop at any time.
To access the survey, follow this link:
https://clemson.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eanxr0fRAOFVMBT
Results from this survey are expected to help institutions and scientific societies identify areas of improvement to support women in these fields. If you have any questions or concerns about this survey please contact Dr. Jess Hartshorn at jhartsh(a)clemson.edu.
Thank you,
JESS HARTSHORN, PhD CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
Assistant Professor of Forest Health, she/her
Forestry and Environmental Conservation
Clemson University
Lehotsky 272F
Clemson, SC 29634
Skype: jessica.hartshorn
cuforesthealth.weebly.com
**2021 North American Forest Insect Work Conference**
