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De : IALE - North America General Discussion List [mailto:IALENA-L@LISTSERV.URI.EDU] De la part de Melissa Lucash
Objet : Upcoming postdoc position in Ecosystem Ecology of Siberia, based in WI and OR.
*Have you always wanted to learn more about Siberia? *
Come study disturbance ecology and vegetation shifts due to climate change with our amazing team of researchers at Portland State, US Forest Service, Oak Ridge National Lab, U of Tennessee-Knoxville and IIASA in Austria.
*Postdoctoral Researcher to study climate change and disturbances in
Siberia*
*This outreach notice is an early alert* to inform potential applicants that the Department of Geography at Portland State University will soon be advertising for a *2+ year post-doctoral researcher funded by the National Science Foundation. *
The successful candidate will be a member of an international interdisciplinary team of landscape ecologists, forest ecologists, and spatial modelers at Portland State University, the U.S. Forest Service, Oak Ridge National Lab, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria. The candidate will estimate the ability of arctic and boreal ecosystems to keep pace with climate change and to quantify temporal and spatial variation in biome shifts and C stocks across a large latitudinal gradient in Siberian Russia ( https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1844435) Capitalizing on a rich and underutilized empirical dataset of Siberia, we will project future species composition and C dynamics under climate change using a landscape-scale forest simulation model (LANDIS-II) and compare our results to similar output from a global scale DGVM (CLM-FATES). The results will be used to improve how DGVMs account for landscape-scale processes such as dispersal, disturbance and species-level interactions, which will ultimately impact the land cover inputs used by Global Circulation Models to project future global climate. The successful candidate will have primary responsibility for the LANDIS-II modeling portion of the project.
Major duties and tasks of the position:
· Develop and validate initial conditions for the study area
· Improve capabilities to model non-tree species (e.g., shrubs,
sphagnum, grass).
· Verify and validate permafrost behavior and hydrological impacts
in the model.
· Calibrate disturbances for each study area.
· Assist in developing and testing a new LANDIS-II output extension
to estimate land surface albedo.
· Conduct simulation experiments and analyze spatial and tabular
outputs using GIS, R and other analytical tools to test hypotheses.
· Collaborate with project personnel to publish and disseminate
results.
The position will be located at the US Forest Service Institute for Applied Ecosystems in Rhinelander, WI for approximately the first 14 months of the appointment, and then at Portland State University in Portland, OR for an additional 12 months. Compensation includes an annual salary of $54,000 with health benefits provided by Portland State. *The position will be officially advertised in mid-October and will begin on Jan 15, 2020*, although it could begin as late as March 1, 2020.
*Contact Information*
To express interest in this position please send an email, including a current CV and 1-pg letter of interest describing how your experience prepares you for the duties of the position, to Dr. Melissa Lucash (Principal Investigator) at lucash(a)pdx.edu.
*About the Locations*
*Rhinelander, WI*
The Institute for Applied Ecosystem Studies is located in Rhinelander, WI (home of the mythical Hodag; pop. 7,798) in the heart of Wisconsin’s Northwoods and lake country. The city is surrounded by national, state, and county parks and forests that provide multiple recreational opportunities year-round such as boating, fishing, camping, mountain-biking, and hiking activities in the summer months to snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, and ice-fishing in the winter months ( www.travelwisconsin.com/northeast <http://www.travelwisconsin.com/northesast>). Rhinelander is surrounded by
232 lakes within 15 minutes of downtown, and is known as the “Ice Fishing Capital of the World.” Additional information about Rhinelander and neighboring cities within the Northwoods can be found at:
www.rhinelanderchamber.com and www.ExploreRhinelander.com <http://www.explorerhinelander.com/>. The Institute for Applied Ecosystem Studies webpage (www.nrs.fs.fed.us/units/iaes/) has details about our research, including the LANDIS model.
*Portland, OR*
Portland State University is located in the Portland metropolitan area https://www.pdx.edu/. Portland is in the heart of the Pacific Northwest and it provides exceptional recreational opportunities and healthy work/life balance (https://www.travelportland.com/) Details about Dr. Lucash’s research lab can be found here: https://www.melissalucash.com/
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*Dr. Melissa S. Lucash*
*Research Assistant Professor*
*Department of Geography*
*Portland State University*
*Portland, OR*
*lucash [a] pdx.edu <lucash(a)pdx.edu>*
*503-725-2170*
*https://melissalucash.com <https://melissalucash.com>*
Dear all, Diane Pearson (cc to this email) is organizing a SI that may be of
interest to some of you
The message from Diane is bellow, I think that some aspects of agroforestry
and PES could be a good asset for this SI
Cheers
Sandra
The special issues is entitled 'Multiple Roles for Landscape Ecology in
Future Farming Systems' It is based on the symposium I co-organised at the
IALE WC but we are keen to get a variety of worldviews and perspectives
beyond what was presented at the symposium.
It would be fantastic to have some aspect of your work included in this
publication and/or to have a perspective from Europe or South America.
Details of the special issue and more details can be found at
<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/land/special_issues/landscape_farmingsystems>
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/land/special_issues/landscape_farmingsystems.
We have also attached some more information that introduces the ideas behind
the special issue.
Finally, we have the ability to offer a bit of discount off the usual cost
for publication in LAND if you, or someone you know, are interested in
publishing your work in this special issue.
Looking forward to hearing back from you.
Kind Regards,
Diane
Diane Pearson | Professor in Environmental Management
School of Agriculture and Environment | Massey University | Private Bag
11222 | Palmerston North 4442 | New Zealand
E-mail: <mailto:D.Pearson@massey.ac.nz> D.Pearson(a)massey.ac.nz| Phone: +64
6 951 7837 Internal ext: 84837
Dear IUFRO Landscape Ecology WP members,
In October, during the IUFRO World Congress in Curitiba, the IUFRO
Landscape Ecology Working Party will elect Officers for the coming two
years. Working Party Officers are responsible for managing and
coordination the working party, nominating regional and thematic
coordinators, and articulating the activity of the WP with IUFRO and
other institutions, among other responsibilities.
We hereby declare our intention of running to Working Party Officers in
the coming election. Our motivation is mainly to maintain the dynamics
of this extraordinary network of landscape ecologists and other
scientists and practitioners which has had an enormous impact in science
and in professional activities that somehow involve landscapes and trees.
With this candidature we specifically aim to:
- Maintain the interaction among members of the WP, either landscape
ecologists, forest scientists and practitioners in these and related
fields and their organizations to promote knowledge and experience
exchange and sustainable management of landscapes and forests,
- Preserve the geographic structure of the WP including coordinators
and representatives from all regions and continents in the world,
- Improve institutional cooperation with other organizations in fields
related to landscapes and forests, namely through the work of thematic
coordinators for IUFRO-IALE and for urban forestry,
- Maintain the regular organization of international conferences across
the world on relevant topics for the landscape ecology and forest
communities,
- Maintain the regular publication of books, special issues and
individual papers resulting from the events organized by the WP and from
other initiatives of the WP members, and
- Increase the involvement of young researchers in the structure of the WP.
This candidature involves João Azevedo, as chair, and Peilei Fan and
Jose Alberto Gobbi, as deputies of the Working Group, as well as the
following regional coordinators:
Pınar Pamukçu Albers: Europe
Ke-Ming Ma: China
Dolors Armenteras: Latin America
Ken Sugimura: Japan and Oceania
Peilei Fan: North America
Syed Ajijur Rahman: South & South-east Asia
The structure of the WP will also include the thematic coordinators
Dolors Armenteras for IALE-IUFRO affairs and Giovanni Sanesi for Urban
Forestry. The WP will create a new coordination position directed to
your researchers, to be nominated after the election.
The election will be on *October 2, from 18:30 to 19:20 in Room R10 -
WING 2*. Please let me know if you will be there.
Nevertheless, we hope to count with your support.
See you in Curitiba or in the 2021 IUFRO Landscape Ecology International
Conference.
João Azevedo
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João Azevedo, Prof. Coordenador
Vice-Coordenador do Centro de Investigação de Montanha (CIMO)
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança
Escola Superior Agrária
Campus de Santa Apolónia
5300-253 BRAGANÇA
PORTUGAL
telefones: (+351) 273 330 901 / 273 303 341
e-mail: jazevedo(a)ipb.pt
web: http://www.esa.ipb.pt/cv/jazevedo/
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Sandra
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Objet : Full/Assoc Prof & Asst Prof Positions at Texas State University
Fellow Landscape Ecologists,
We are looking for two awesome individuals to join us at Texas State
University, one at the Asst Prof level in Physical Geography and one at the
Full/Assoc Prof level in Environmental/Physical Geography. Both ads are
broad, but note that we are giving preference to Water Resources for the
Asst Prof ad. The Full/Assoc Prof ad is aimed at Landscape Ecologists,
Watershed Scientists, or anyone else who uses sophisticated modeling
techniques to investigate biophysical processes that are important for env
mgt or natural resource use. For questions about the Full/Assoc Prof
position, please contact me at
Jason.Julian(a)txstate.edu<mailto:Jason.Julian@txstate.edu>. For questions
about the Asst Prof position, please contact Dr. Ben Zhan at
Zhan(a)txstate.edu<mailto:Zhan@txstate.edu>.
Link to Full/Assoc Prof position: https://jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/25265
Link to Asst Prof position: https://jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/25264
The Department of Geography at Texas State University has 39 full-time
faculty members, over 500 undergraduate majors in BA and BS programs and
over 120 graduate students in our Master of Science (MS), Master of Applied
Geography (MAG), and PhD programs in Geography, Geographic Education, and
Geographic Information Science. The Department of Geography is part of the
College of Liberal Arts. Texas State University is located in San Marcos, a
city of about 65,000 residents situated in the beautiful Central Texas Hill
Country, 30 miles south of Austin and 48 miles north of San Antonio. The
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching classifies Texas State
University as a "Doctoral Universities: Higher Research Activity," the
second-highest designation for research institutions in the United States.
Texas State University is located in the burgeoning Austin-San Antonio
corridor, and, with ~39,000 students, is among the largest universities in
the state. With a diverse campus community including 50% of the student body
from ethnic minorities, Texas State is one of the top 13 producers of
Hispanic baccalaureate graduates in the nation and a doctoral-granting
Emerging Research University. Additional information about Texas State and
its nationally recognized academic programs is available at www.txstate.edu.
Looking forward to outstanding applications, Jason
Jason Julian, PhD
Professor & Associate Chair
Department of Geography
Texas State University
Personal Website<http://jasonjulian.wp.txstate.edu/>
Objet : IUFRO2019 - Pre Congress Training
APPLY NOW: IUFRO World Congress Pre-congress training!
Don’t miss out on this final opportunity to register now for the IFSA-IUFRO mentoring program and pre-congress training!
PRE-CONGRESS TRAINING:
Students and early career researchers (students and/or under 35 years old) are invited to attend the FREE pre-congress training day. Topics will cover publishing in an open access environment, forest and social entrepreneurship, and peer mentoring/pre-congress prep. For more information see <https://www.ifsa.net/iufro-world-congress-2019/> https://www.ifsa.net/iufro-world-congress-2019/
Time and date: Saturday, September 28th, 2019. 9am-5pm.
Location: Alta Reggia Hotel, Alamo Room. Curitiba
A: “Publishing your research in an open science environment”
As changes in the forest sector have reached to the research environment and publishing, it is as vital now as ever to make sure that researchers are communicating their work effectively and professionally in this open research environment. This course is specifically designed to address the competencies needed by providing a unique and applicable training for students and early career scientists, by including talks by editors of leading forest science journals and will include real-world examples. Students will be instructed on the scientific writing process and will improve on and gain scientific writing skills necessary to publish in a research environment.
B: “Forest Entrepreneurship”
With increasing demand of timber products and agricultural land, there is growing pressure to find sustainable alternatives in forest use. Several professional accreditations have therefore identified entrepreneurship as a highly desirable soft skill for a knowledge-based society, as a tool to bridge science and practice. This course fosters entrepreneurship learning by using the forestry sector as a context, and will teach the basics of forest entrepreneurship by providing real world examples of situations where businesses could develop, and expound upon students’ understanding of the Sustainable Development Goals and their relation to forestry.
Click here to register!
APPLY NOW: IUFRO World Congress Pre-congress training!
Don’t miss out on this final opportunity to register now for the IFSA-IUFRO pre-Congress training!
PRE-CONGRESS TRAINING:
Students and early career researchers (students and/or under 35 years old) are invited to attend the FREE pre-congress training day.
Topics will cover publishing in an open access environment, forest and social entrepreneurship, and peer mentoring/pre-congress prep.
For more information see https://www.ifsa.net/iufro-world-congress-2019/ <https://ceibo.cnpf.embrapa.br/link.php?M=66678&N=1182&L=830&F=H>
Time and date: Saturday, September 28th, 2019. 9am-5pm.
Location: Alta Reggia Hotel, Alamo Room. Curitiba
A: “Publishing your research in an open science environment”
As changes in the forest sector have reached to the research environment and publishing, it is as vital now as ever to make sure that researchers are communicating their work effectively and professionally in this open research environment. This course is specifically designed to address the competencies needed by providing a unique and applicable training for students and early career scientists, by including talks by editors of leading forest science journals and will include real-world examples. Students will be instructed on the scientific writing process and will improve on and gain scientific writing skills necessary to publish in a research environment.
B: “Forest Entrepreneurship”
With increasing demand of timber products and agricultural land, there is growing pressure to find sustainable alternatives in forest use. Several professional accreditations have therefore identified entrepreneurship as a highly desirable soft skill for a knowledge-based society, as a tool to bridge science and practice. This course fosters entrepreneurship learning by using the forestry sector as a context, and will teach the basics of forest entrepreneurship by providing real world examples of situations where businesses could develop, and expound upon students’ understanding of the Sustainable Development Goals and their relation to forestry.
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Objet : PhD position in forest carbon
PhD opportunity in Forest Ecology at UNBC
Project: Long term effects of forest management on the carbon stocks and
flux of British Columbia's forests.
Applications are invited for a funded 4-year PhD position in UNBC's
Conservation Solutions Lab collaborating with the BC Ministry of Forests,
Lands, Natural Resource Operations & Rural Development (FLNRORD).
The project
Forests play an important role in mitigating climate change, absorbing
almost a third of anthropogenic carbon emissions. Current forest management
practices risk disrupting these carbon stores and potentially converting
forests from carbon sinks to sources of carbon emissions. However, empirical
studies of alternate forest management on forest carbon stocks are sparse
and often short-term.
In the early 1990s the British Columbia government established 21 large
scale experiments across the province to investigate lower impact forest
management practices. Now, 25 yearslater, these large scale experiments
provide a unique opportunity to quantify the long-term effects of varying
harvesting practices on the carbon stocks and flux of forests, and compare
them to the conservation of old growth forests. This work will contribute to
the basic scientific knowledge of forest carbon in harvested forests
compared to intact old growth forest, and be highly relevant to decision
makers interested in climate change mitigation.
The student will conduct field work at selected experiments in BC to measure
forest dynamics and various forest carbon pools. The student will lead the
field campaigns, requiring strong organization skills and the ability to
work in difficult terrain. The student will also have access to existing
pre-harvest and post-harvest datasets to estimate carbon stocks over time,
and collaborate closely with a postdoctoral fellow and research assistant.
The student should have:
* Completion or expected completion of a MSc degree in ecology,
forestry, biology, or related subject.
* Strong analytical skills.
* Field work experience.
* Demonstration of the ability to work in difficult conditions or
terrain.
* Driver's license.
* Excellent written, verbal, and digital communication skills.
* Ability to work independently.
The process:
The successful applicant will be working with Dr. Oscar Venter (University
of Northern British Columbia), Dr. Caren Dymond (University of Calgary; B.C.
Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations & Rural
Development), and Dr. Michelle Venter (UNBC). Four years of funding are
guaranteed to cover stipend and field expenses for this position.
Interested students should contact Oscar Venter (oscar dot venter at unbc
dot ca) or Caren Dymond (Caren dot Dymond at gov.bc.ca) for further
information on this research opportunity and position. Applicants for this
position are asked to send a letter of interest, detailed CV, transcripts,
and names of 3 references to Oscar Venter by September 1st, 2019. The
preferred start date for this position will be January 2020.
PhD, Forest Carbon and Climate Change
Government of BC
Caren.Dymond(a)gov.bc.ca<mailto:Caren.Dymond@gov.bc.ca>
778-974-5655 (Victoria area code)
http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/natural-resource-stewardship/n
atural-resources-climate-change
https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=DeQbUS4AAAAJ&hl=en
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We have a 16 months postdoctoral position in Montpellier, France
He/she has a proven track record in one or more of the following fields:
Joint species distribution models (JSDMs), environmental modelling,
eco-informatics, computational ecology, geography or equivalent with strong
background on Spatial Information Systems. Expertise in remote sensing is an
added value. Skills in statistical modelling, programming, spatial analysis
and geomatics further details are attached
Kindest regards ,
Sandra Luque
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Sandra Luque PhD, HDR
Chair IUFRO Division 8 - Forest Environment
Director of Research at IRSTEA
National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and
Agriculture
UMR TETIS Land, environment, remote sensing and spatial information
500 rue Jean-François Breton / 34093 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
Mob. +33 769150689 / Skype: sandra.luque2
<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sandra_Luque>
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sandra_Luquehttps://www.umr-tetis.fr/index.php/fr/https://www.iufro.org/
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De : div8 [mailto:div8-bounces@lists.iufro.org] De la part de Brigitte
Burger
Objet : [IUFRO Div 8] FAO/ EUSALP Conference on "Protective Functions of
Forests in a Changing Climate"
FAO/ EUSALP Conference on "Protective Functions of Forests in a Changing
Climate"
2627 September 2019; Innsbruck, Austria
The Austrian Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism and the FAO
European Forestry Commission (EFC) cordially invite to the expert conference
on "Protective Functions of Forests in a Changing Climate" in the Alpine
city of Innsbruck, Austria, with an excursion to Stubai Valley to witness
the multifunctional approach to forest management. The Preliminary Program
as well as the Registration Form are attached.
For more information, please contact:
Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism
Directorate III/5, Marxergasse 2, 1030 Vienna
Telephone: +43 1 711 00-607378
E-Mail: <mailto:wpmmw2019@bmnt.gv.at> wpmmw2019(a)bmnt.gv.at
A great opportunity for an online course on Landscape Ecology
De : kienast [ <mailto:felix.kienast@wsl.ch> mailto:felix.kienast@wsl.ch]
Objet : Second edition of MOOC on Landscape Ecology
Dear colleagues
Here we go again: this fall we will run the second edition of our Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Landscape Ecology, the discipline where natural and social sciences meet. The course features theory, methods and tools to solve landscape-related environmental problems. Building on introductory theory units, leading Landscape Ecology professors present case studies from around the world, highlighting innovative and collaborative approaches. For this year’s edition, we are excited to present a brand new case study on soundscapes in the Swiss Alps.
Head to our course page to find out more:
<https://www.edx.org/course/landscape-ecology-2> https://www.edx.org/course/landscape-ecology-2
The course includes 14 weekly units on the Edx platform, starting on September 9th. We have put a lot of effort into improving our course and make it an even more exciting learning experience. Now we look forward to re-run the course with participants from all over the world!
Help us spread the word - please forward this email to interested colleagues, and post it on social media channels and websites of your organisations (IALE, IUFRO, IFLA, Landscape Observatory etc.). Thanks!
Best regards,
Felix Kienast
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Prof. Dr. Felix Kienast
ETHZ & Swiss Federal Institute for Forest,
Snow and Landscape Research WSL
8903 Birmensdorf
Switzerland
Tel +41 44 739'23'66
E-Mail: felix.kienast(a)wsl.ch <mailto:felix.kienast@wsl.ch>
https://www.wsl.ch/de/mitarbeitende/kienast.html
Past President 2015-2019
International Association for Landscape Ecology IALE
(http://www.landscape-ecology.org <http://www.landscape-ecology.org/> )
