Dear friends and colleagues,
I hope this finds you well despite the challenging times and lack of face-to-face meetings. Fortunately, with vaccinations gathering pace, there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel.
Attached is the annual newsletter and report for 2020 of IUFRO Division 7 (Forest Health) which includes the Pathology and Entomology research groups and working parties. There are news about conference plans, changes of coordinators and deputies, gender balance and geographic balance, etc.
We now have more concrete information on the long planned All-Division 7 conference which will take place from 6 to 9 September 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal. This will run back to back with the next ‘International Workshop on the Genetics of Tree-Parasite Interactions in Forestry’ (12-17 September 2022) in Pontevedra, Spain, with a shared pre-/post-conference tour over the weekend between the two meetings.
We trust you find the newsletter interesting. Please share it with colleagues who have not subscribed to our email mailing lists (our main way of distributing it).
Best wishes
Ecki Brockerhoff
Coordinator, IUFRO Division 7 (Forest Health)
Head of Research Unit 'Forest Health and Biotic Interactions'
Zürcherstrasse 111, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Tel +41 79 819 0882
eckehard.brockerhoff(a)wsl.ch
Hello Forpathers and Forenters,
This may be of interest to some of you. See below and attachment.
Cheers!
Enrico
[The Ohio State University]
Pierluigi (Enrico) Bonello
Professor
College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences Plant Pathology
201 Kottman Hall, 2021 Coffey Road, Columbus, OH 43210
614-688-5401 Office / 614-292-4455 Fax
bonello.2(a)osu.edu<mailto:bonello.2@osu.edu> / https://plantpath.osu.edu/our-people/pierluigi-enrico-bonello
Pronouns: he/him/his
Specialty Chief Editor: Frontiers in Forests and Global Change – Pests, Pathogens and Invasions<https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/forests-and-global-change/sections/pes…>
Center for Applied Plant Sciences<https://caps.osu.edu/>
Infectious Diseases Institute<https://idi.osu.edu/>
Sustainability Institute<https://si.osu.edu/home>
Environmental Science Graduate Program<http://esgp.osu.edu/>
The STEAM Factory<https://steamfactory.osu.edu/>
Hello,
Registration is now open for our 2nd International Beech Leaf Disease Workshop. This will be a virtual meeting held on April 15th via Adobe Connect. We expect to have a wide variety of presenters, including University partners, State and Federal agencies, and private agencies. We will discuss current research results, recent survey and monitoring work, and future projects.
Please click this link for registration and a list of presentations:
Beech Leaf Disease Workshop Registration Page <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/events-na11.adobeconnect.com/content/con…>
We look forward to your participation.
Warm regards,
Dani
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Danielle K. H. Martin
Forest Pathologist
Forest Service
Forest Health Protection
Morgantown Field Office
p: 304-285-1531
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Managing stand structure to restore mixed oak-dominated forests for conservation of biodiversity
Description:
Oak-dominated forests are widespread in Eurasia and North America, supporting high biodiversity and providing important ecosystem services. However, decreasing oak dominance and oak regeneration failure are occurring worldwide, putting oak-associated biodiversity and ecosystem services at risk. Not much is known about the stand structures and light conditions necessary for promoting natural regeneration of oak. This knowledge gap causing problems for cost-effective forest management in oak forests valued for conservation. Our international project (Sweden-Spain-USA) aims to discover stand development pathways that lead to oak dominance in mixed broadleaf stands of ranging site productivities. This will be accomplished with well-replicated field studies designed to define relationships between stand structure, light availability and growth of oak regeneration. The research is organized with supervision from specialists in ecology, eco-physiology, conservation, silviculture and tree growth. An external reference group from forestry and nature conservation will participate.
Qualifications:
We are looking for a strongly motivated candidate with an MSc degree in ecology, environmental sciences, forestry or equivalent. Excellent written and spoken English is essential, as well as the ability to work both independently and in a team. A valid drivers’ license is required.
Place of work:
SLU, Alnarp in Sweden
Forms for funding or employment:
Employment as PhD student (4 years)
Starting date:
According to agreement.
Application:
We welcome your application no later than 2021-04-16, use the link below and buttons available at the position (Phd-student, Forest Resource Management).
https://www.slu.se/en/about-slu/work-at-slu/jobs-vacancies/
Contact person
Magnus Löf, Professor
+46 40-41 51 19, magnus.lof(a)slu.se<mailto:magnus.lof@slu.se>
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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
