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
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Please refer to
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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**
Dear Colleagues,
Henrik Hartmann and others are seeking input and information about tree mortality data sources globally. Below you will find more information about the International Tree Mortality Network, the IUFRO Task Force, and links to surveys where you can provide a description (meta-data) of remotely sensed or ground data that could be added to the network. The surveys will remain open through this month.
Best,
Barbara Bentz
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Dear colleague,
You receive this mail because you have been involved in former activities of the International Tree Mortality Network or are involved in forest monitoring approaches. We are seeking your help to assemble information on existing field data sources across the world that allow deriving tree mortality rates.
Who are we and what is our mission? The International Tree Mortality Network (https://www.tree-mortality.net/<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tree-…>) has been established as an initiative of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) Task Force on monitoring tree mortality trends and patterns (https://www.iufro.org/science/task-forces/tree-mortality-patterns/<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.iufro…>). Our mission is to facilitate collaboration between scientists to combine expertise, knowledge and data, thereby allowing a global assessment of tree mortality and providing crucial information for scientists, forest managers and policy making.
Quantitative information on tree mortality at the global scale is limited and different protocols of field data collection make inter-comparison challenging. The International Tree Mortality Network seeks to assemble meta-information on existing field assessments to develop methods for quantification of tree mortality rates. This information will be made freely available to the community. The ultimate goal of this activity is to develop standardised post-collection processing methods that can be used to calculate consistent and comparable mortality metrics from different network protocols and measurement platforms across the globe, and to make these methods and metrics available to the scientific community. This is envisaged as a community activity linking existing networks and research groups, it does not seek to collect raw data.
The links below will take you to two surveys, specifically designed to be as brief as possible. The surveys seek to assemble metadata on existing field assessments (i) to develop methods for quantification of tree mortality rates consistently across different protocols, and (ii) to link ground and satellite-based information to understand how tree mortality changes over time. Please follow the appropriate link according to whether you collect terrestrial (e.g. plot) or remote-sensing data.
Terrestrial data:
https://forms.gle/NnVfhLv66j1Hnbro6<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.gle…>
Remote sensing data:
https://forms.gle/h9eXvob7E6ZXRjxVA<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.gle…>
We would be delighted if you would also like to become actively involved in the activities of the IUFRO task force and the tree mortality network. In this case please contact us via our websites above.
Best wishes,
The ITMN core team
Henrik, Adriane, Tom, Nadine, Bernhard, Rupert, Cornelius
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