FOREST INFORMATION UPDATE VOL. 11 NO.

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March 2010
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Infosylva, Helen Shapiro, IUFRO, Hermann Klug, Hugo Ahlenius and many more.
Thank you all for sharing your information!

HAVE YOU HEARD? NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

. WORLD DEFORESTATION DOWN, BUT STILL ALARMING IN MANY COUNTRIES

- World deforestation, mainly the conversion of tropical forests to agricultural land, has
decreased over the past ten years but it continues at an alarmingly high rate in many
countries, according to key findings of FAO’s most comprehensive forest review to date,
The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010.
http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/40893/icode/

. BIGGER, MORE FREQUENT FOREST FIRES COULD BENEFIT PACIFIC

NORTHWEST - Many scientists warn that with a changing climate there's a good
chance that forest fires in the Pacific Northwest will become larger and more frequent –
and according to one expert, that's just fine.
http://tinyurl.com/fiupnwfires

. GUYANA, GUATEMALA AND SURINAME ARE NOW MEMBERS OF THE FOREST

-11 – The move for these countries to join the F-11, follows the outcome of a Ministerial-

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level meeting of group members held in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, Stabroek News
reported. The F-11 group consists of countries with rainforests and is a forum intended
to increase effective cooperation and partnership in sustainable forest management
(SFM) in order to overcome the challenges of deforestation, a release on the
Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry website said.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuf11

. AFRICA’S FIRST LARGE-SCALE ‘KYOTO PROTOCOL’ FORESTRY PROJECT -

On the margins of the annual Africa Carbon Forum, a new initiative to bring
environmental and financial benefits to local communities in the impoverished highlands
of Ethiopia was announced recently, it’s reported. The Humbo Assisted Natural
Regeneration Project is said in the report to be “Africa's first large-scale forestry project”
to be registered under the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol.
http://tinyurl.com/fiucdmafrica

PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR FORESTS VITAL - The Earth needs its forests more than
ever as climate change bites, but foresters must heed the needs of society if we are to
realise their benefits, Britain's top forester has warned. Tim Rollinson, Director-General
of the British Forestry Commission, and Chairman of the Global Partnership on Forest
Landscape Restoration, was delivering the prestigious annual Forestry Lecture in
Sustainability at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He said the
pressure on the Earth's resources, including land, were going to be immense as the
world's population grew to a forecast eight billion by 2025. At the same time, the
continuing drift of people to towns and cities meant they were losing their contact with
forests and their understanding of how crucial they are to life on Earth.
http://tinyurl.com/fiusupport

. FINITE CARBON AND LYME FOREST IN TENNESSEE FOREST CARBON

PROJECT - Finite Carbon Corporation has signed an agreement with Lyme Brimstone
Forest Company – a subsidiary of The Lyme Forest Fund, the forestland investment
arm of The Lyme Timber Company – to develop an Improved Forest Management (IFM)
project in Tennessee under the updated Climate Action Reserve (CAR) Forest Project
Protocol.
http://tinyurl.com/fiufinite

. SCIENTISTS FIND NEW GENES FOR CANCER, OTHER DISEASES IN PLANTS,

YEAST AND WORMS - From deep within the genomes of organisms as diverse as
plants, worms and yeast, scientists have uncovered new genes responsible for causing
human diseases such as cancer and deafness. The University of Texas at Austin
scientists exploited the fact that all life on Earth shares common ancestry, and therefore
shares sets of genes.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuworms

. RESEARCHER FINDS BENEFICIAL COMPOUNDS IN PURE MAPLE SYRUP –

Before you dig in to your next stack of French toast or waffles, you might want to pour
on pure maple syrup. That’s because University of Rhode Island researcher Navindra

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Seeram, who specializes in medicinal plant research, has found more than 20
compounds in maple syrup from Canada that have been linked to human health, 13 of
which are newly discovered in maple syrup. In addition, eight of the compounds have
been found in the Acer (maple) family for the first time.
http://tinyurl.com/fiumaple

BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED...

This section is devoted to resource inventory tips and miscellaneous blurbs for
whatever uses you care to make. Please limit contributions to one paragraph or so.
Thanks, Mike Smith.

HELP!

FEEDBACK

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE – “Pay it forward!” If you can help with any of the requests
below, please take the time to do so. Your kind assistance will be appreciated and
rewarded.

Via Applied GIS and RS:

. HOW TO GENERATE DEM - Aurelie Shapiro writes: “I was recently asked about
deriving a DEM for Madagascar. I know the ASTER DEM products are generally best
available, but our colleagues said there were errors...if one wanted higher resolution - is
it worth creating a new DEM? how does one go about make one? Stereo pair images?
What satellites data are typically used? Radar? any ideas on a method, and who
generally does this typs of work would be very appreciated. Cheers! –Aurelie”.
aurelie.shapiro@wwf.de

. NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN HYDROLOGY AND REMOTE - Hugo Ahlenius writes: I

am preparing a little review related to hydrology and food security, and I would like to
get tips (and references) regarding new developments related to hydrology:
Groundwater assessment with remote sensing; and, estimation of hydrological
parameters from meterological data. I am interested in both new findings/research, as
well as databases and monitoring programmes! Cheers, Hugo.
hugo.ahlenius@NORDPIL.COM

OPPORTUNITIES - Several readers of FIU are seeking employment in the forestry

field. If you have jobs available and are in need of good people, please consider posting
your vacancies in FIU (there is no charge for this service) and the following outlets:
http://lists.topica.com/lists/wood
http://stateforesters.org/news.html
http://www.canadian-forests.com/job.html
http://www.cyber-sierra.com/nrjobs/forest.html
http://www.devnetjobs.org

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 http://www.foresters.org/portal
http://www.forestryusa.com/jobs.htm
http://www.HigherEdJobs.com
http://www.postdocjobs.com/jobseekers/search_fellowships.shtml
http://www.safnet.org/careercenter/classifieds.cfm
http://www.careerjet.com
http://www.mygreeneducation.com/
http://www.getforestryjobs.net/

. GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS) PROGRAM MANAGER – Position

available in Natural Resources, Colorado State Forest Service, Colorado State
University, Fort Collins, USA. Under the general supervision of the Information
Technology Staff Forester, the GIS Program Manager is responsible for managing all
aspects of the CSFS GIS Program.
http://tinyurl.com/fiugismanager

. SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING OF EVAPOTRANSPIRATION AND SOIL

MOISTURE CONDITIONS - The Department of Geography and Geology, University of
Copenhagen, is seeking two highly qualified scientists 1) a Post Doc researcher (2
years) and 2) a PhD-fellow (3 years) both starting June 1, 2010 or as soon as possible
thereafter. These positions are part of a collaborative project, Earth Observation of long
term changes in land surface moisture conditions (CaLM ), with IRI , Columbia
University focusing on land surface moisture and evapotranspiration mapping of
continental Africa.
Further information about the positions can be obtained from Associate Professor Inge
Sandholt,
is@geo.ku.dk
http://tinyurl.com/fiuearth

. WETLAND ECOLOGY FIELD TECHNICIANS - Wetland Ecology Field

Technicians/Lead Technicians Research Associate I/II - Botany/Plant Taxonomy -
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA. The Colorado Natural Heritage
Program seeks experienced field technicians for summer field projects assessing the
condition of wetlands throughout Colorado. All projects require field botany or ecology
skills. Knowledge of plant taxonomy and species identification required. Experience in
wetland ecology and identifying Colorado flora preferred.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuwetland1

. 20 PHD BURSARIES IN GEOGRAPHY FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS - The

School of Geography at the University of Southampton in the UK is offering 20 bursaries
for PhD programmes starting September 2010. Each bursary is equivalent to 25% of the
annual tuition fee which can be used to reduce the costs of the whole tuition fee or
taken as funds for maintenance. For more information, go to:
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/geography/

PH.D. RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIP IN REMOTE SENSING OF DEFORESTATION

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IN MEXICO. The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife
Ecology, is offering the following: One position is available for a highly motivated
graduate student at the PhD level to conduct a research project focusing on
deforestation monitoring with remote sensing in Mexico. The successful applicant will
have a strong interest in remote sensing, GIS, landscape ecology, and land use
science. For more information, please see
http://www.wisc.edu/grad

. GEOSCIENTIST - The Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources

(BUNDESANSTALT FÜR GEOWIS-SENSCHAFTEN UND ROHSTOFFE, BGR) in
Austria is searching for a Geoscientist to be hired as soon as possible, for the duration
of the research project “GS Soil” until 31.05.2012. The position is part of the BGR’s
contributions to the project GS Soil (Assessment and Strategic De-velopment of
INSPIRE-compliant Geodata-Services for European Soil Data www.gssoil.eu), financed
under the EU eContentplus Programme. For more information, contact Dr. Hermann
Klug at:
hermann.klug@sbg.ac.at
http://www.uni-salzburg.at/zgis/klug

. FULL-TIME FACULTY APPOINTMENT: FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY OF TREES - The

Department of Biological Sciences at UQAM, Canada, is seeking a terrestrial ecologist
to fill a tenure-track faculty position. This position is connected to the new NSERC
Industrial Research Chair in tree growth control.
http://www.iufro.org/discover/noticeboard/#c14607

HAVE YOU READ?

Obtain from your local library or from the sources provided.

THE PUBLICATION LIST

. Systematic Land Information and Management: A Technical Manual for the

Establishment and Implementation of a Municipal Geographic Information
System. Published by UN-HABITAT.
http://tinyurl.com/fiumunicipalgis

. Biocultural Diversity Conservation. A Global Sourcebook. By Luisa Maffi and

Ellen Woodley.
http://tinyurl.com/fiusourcebook

. Forests for People: Community Rights and Forest Tenure Reform. Edited by
Anne M. Larson, Deborah Barry, Ganga Ram Dahal and Carol J. Pierce Colfer.
Earthscan, 2010, 263 p.

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. The 101st issue of Headlines Himalaya is out. The editors are Suchita Shrestha and
Suvhadin Gautam. Congratulations!
http://www.resourceshimalaya.org/content_files/HH08march2010_sAnUmAn4b9624c22
2f70.pdf

. Dictionary of the Environment and Forestry (English/German, German/English) by

Walter Warkotsch and Renate Prueller. 30,000 entries on 480 pages on environmental
and forestry themes. ISBN 978-3-935638-00-5. Contact: Norbert Kessel,
nkessel(at)web.de

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

BIODIVERSITY

. Clement, C.R., Santos, R.P., Desmouliere, S.J.M., Ferreira, E.J.L., and Neto, J.T.F.
2009. Ecological adaptation of wild peach palm, its in situ conservation and
deforestation-mediated extinction in southern Brazilian Amazonia. PLoS ONE
4(2):e4564.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuwildpeachpalm

. Celia A. Harvey, Barney Dickson, Cyril Kormos. Opportunities for achieving

biodiversity conservation through REDD (p 53-61). Conservation Letters. Volume 3
Issue 1, Pages 53 – 61. Published Online: 19 Nov 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/fiureddops

. Dent, D.H., and Wright, S.J. 2009. The future of tropical species in secondary
forests: a quantitative review. Biol. Conserv. 142(12):2833-2843.

BIOFUEL

Matthew Kocoloski , W Michael Griffin and H Scott Matthews. Indirect land use change
and biofuel policy. 2009 Environ. Res. Lett. 4 034008 doi: 10.1088/1748-
9326/4/3/034008
http://tinyurl.com/fiubiofuelpolicy

. David M Lapola and J Priess. Modeling the land requirements and potential
productivity of biofuel crops in Brazil and India. 2009 IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ.
Sci. 6 342027.
http://tinyurl.com/fiubiofuelcrops

CLASSIFICATION/MAPPING

. A Baccini et al. A first map of tropical Africa's above-ground biomass derived

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from satellite imagery. Environmental Research Letters 2008 3 045011.
http://tinyurl.com/fiubiomassmap

. Pierce, Kenneth B.; Ohmann, Janet L.; Wimberly, Michael C.; Gregory, Matthew J.;
Fried, Jeremy S.
Mapping wildland fuels and forest structure for land management: a comparison
of nearest neighbor imputation and other methods. Canadian Journal of Forest
Research, Volume 39, Number 10, 1 October 2009 , pp. 1901-1916(16).
http://tinyurl.com/fiuwildland

. Craig Hanson, Logan Yonavjak, Caitlin Clarke, Susan Minnemeyer, Lauriane

Boisrobert, Andrew Leach, Karen Schleeweis. Southern Forests for the Future. This
report introduces readers to the forests of the southern United States. It provides data,
maps, and other forms of information about southern forests, their condition, and trends.
WRI publication. March, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/fiusouthernforests

CLIMATE CHANGE/CARBON

. How Forests Will Fit Into the Climate Discussion in 2010. This is a Q-and-A article
on the World Resources Institute web site with WRI’s managing director, Manish Bapna.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuredd2

. D. J. Read and others. Combating Climate Change: A Role for UK Forests: An

assessment of the potential of the UK's trees and woodland to mitigate and adapt
to climate change: The Synthesis Report (Edinburgh: The Stationery Office, 2009).
http://tinyurl.com/fiuukforests

. FAO Releases Ex-ante Carbon Accounting Tool for Agriculture and Forestry.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has released EX-ACT (EX-ante
Appraisal Carbon-balance Tool), a land-based accounting tool that provides ex-ante
measurements of the impacts of agriculture and forestry projects on greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions and carbon sequestration.
http://tinyurl.com/fiufaotool

INVENTORY/MONITORING

. Mike Wulder. Optical remote-sensing techniques for the assessment of forest

inventory and biophysical parameters. Progress in Physical Geography, December
1998; 22: 449 - 476.
http://tinyurl.com/fiubiophysical

. Jonathan E. M. Baillie et al. Toward monitoring global biodiversity (p 18-26).

Conservation Letters. Volume 1 Issue 1 , Pages 1 - 51 (April 2008). Published Online:
Jul 4 2008 11:28AM.

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http://tinyurl.com/fiuglobal1

. Glen M. Green and Robert W. Sussman. Deforestation History of the Eastern Rain
Forests of Madagascar from Satellite Images. Science, Apr 1990; 248: 212 - 215.
http://tinyurl.com/fiumadagascar

. K. S. Andam, P. J. Ferraro, A. Pfaff, G. A. Sanchez-Azofeifa, and J. A. Robalino

(2008). Measuring the effectiveness of protected area networks in reducing
deforestation. PNAS 105, 16089-16094.
http://tinyurl.com/fiunetworks

. Risto Päivinen, Jo Van Brusselen, and Andreas Schuck. The growing stock of
European forests using remote sensing and forest inventory data. Forestry,
December 2009; 82: 479 - 490.
http://tinyurl.com/fiueuroforests

MISCELLANEOUS

. Rusty A. Feagin et al. Shelter from the storm? Use and misuse of coastal vegetation
bioshields for managing natural disasters (p 1-11). Conservation Letters. Volume 3
Issue 1, Pages 1 – 11. Published Online: 19 Nov 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/fiubioshields

REMOTE SENSING/GIS

. Barbier, Nicolas; Couteron, Pierre; Proisy, Christophe; Malhi, Yadvinder; Gastellu-

Etchegorry, Jean-Philippe. The variation of apparent crown size and canopy
heterogeneity across lowland Amazonian forests. Global Ecology & Biogeography,
Volume 19, Number 1, January 2010 , pp. 72-84(13).
http://tinyurl.com/fiuvariation

. J. S. Kimball, A. R. Keyser, S. W. Running, and S. S. Saatchi. Regional assessment

of boreal forest productivity using an ecological process model and remote
sensing parameter maps. Tree Physiology, June 2000; 20: 761 - 775.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuecomodel

. Brito, J.C., Acosta, A.L., Álvares, F., and Cuzin, F. 2009. Biogeography and
conservation of taxa from remote regions: an application of ecological-niche
based models and GIS to North-African canids. Biological Conservation.
142(12):3020-3029.
http://tinyurl.com/fiunichemodels

. Suvinen, Antti; Tokola, Timo; Saarilahti, Martti. Terrain Trafficability Prediction with
GIS Analysis. Forest Science, Volume 55, Number 5, October 2009 , pp. 433-442(10).

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http://tinyurl.com/fiutraffic

RESOURCE ANALYSIS/MODELING

. Scarnati, L., Attorre, F., Farcomeni, A., Francesconi, F., and De Sanctis, M. 2009.
Modelling the spatial distribution of tree species with fragmented populations
from abundance data. Community Ecology 10:215-224.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuspatial1

. V.V. Galitskii. Dynamics of competition in uniform communities of trees.

Community Ecology 10.1556.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuuniform1

. Albright, T.P., Anderson, D.P., Keuler, N.S., Pearson, S.M., and Turner, M.G. 2009.
The spatial legacy of introduction: Celastrus orbiculatus in the southern
Appalachians, USA. Journal of Applied Ecology. 46(6):1229-1238.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuappalac

. Pottier, Julien; Bédécarrats, Alain; Marrs, Robert H. Analysing the spatial

heterogeneity of emergent groups to assess ecological restoration. Journal of
Applied Ecology, Volume 46, Number 6, December 2009 , pp. 1248-1257(10). Blackwell
Publishing.
http://tinyurl.com/fiurestoration

. Dent, D.H., and Wright, S.J. 2009. The future of tropical species in secondary
forests: a quantitative review. Biological Conservation. 142(12):2833-2843.
http://tinyurl.com/fiusecondaryforests

SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT

. Patrick B. Durst, Wulf Killmann, and Chris Brown. 2004. Asia’s New Woods. Journal
of Forestry 102 (4): 46-53.

. Sarr, D. and K. J. Puettmann. 2008. Forest management, restoration, and

designer ecosystems: Integrating strategies for a crowded planet. Invited paper for
Special Issue, EcoScience. 15:17-26.
http://tinyurl.com/fiucrowdedplanet

CAPTURED ON VIDEO
Download videos from the web or from the sources provided.

THE UPPER GREEN RIVER VALLEY: A VIEW FROM ABOVE - Google Earth
technology is combined with satellite imagery and aerial photography in this ten minute
video produced by SkyTruth to introduce the impacts of the dramatic growth of gas and

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oil drilling in the ecologically sensitive Upper Green River Valley in Wyoming, USA.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuskyvid

YOU'RE INVITED!
For a more complete listing of upcoming inventory and monitoring related meetings,
see:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/infomeets/
http://www.agnic.org/mtg/index.html
http://www.asprs.org/asprs/meetings/calendar.html
http://www.conferencealerts.com/
http://www.efi.int/events
http://www.efi.int/portal/news___events/events/event_calendar/
http://www.etfrn.org/etfrn/resource/frames/agenda.html
http://www.fao.org/forestry/for/forc/free/education/courses.asp
http://www.iufro.org/events/calendar-of-meetings/
http://www.safnet.org/meetings/index.cfm
www.conferencealerts.com

. 8-9 April, 2010. Species Introductions and Re-introductions. Mississippi State

University, Starkville, MS, USA.
http://www.cfr.msstate.edu/wildlife/symposium/

. 9-15 April, 2010. 4th International UNESCO Conference on Geoparks. Langkawi

Global Geopark, Malaysia. Email:
rasanubari@langkawigeopark.com.my
web site:
http://www.geoparks2010.com/

. 12-14 April, 2010. International Conference on the Efforts in Response to Forest-

Related Natural Disasters. The 1st Forest Science Forum. Beijing, China.
http://www.gfsf2010.org/

. 15-17 April 2010. Special Session on Uncertainty in Geographical Information,

25th Mini Euroconference on Uncertainty and Robustness in Planning and
Decision Making (URPDM 2010). A special session on Uncertainty in Geographical
Information will be organized in the 25th Mini Euroconference on Uncertainty and
Robustness in Planning and Decision Making (URPDM 2010) (http://www.inescc.
pt/urpdm2010), that will take place in Coimbra (Portugal). Deadline for the submission
of short papers (4 to 6 pages): 30th of November 2009. The papers to be included in
this session should be sent to
ugi_urpdm2010@inescc.pt
and should be prepared following the instructions provided on the web page
http://www.inescc.pt/urpdm2010/guidelines.html

. 7-8 June, 2010. Forest-People Interaction, organised by Institute of Forestry, Nepal.

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http://www.forestrynepal.org/event/4398

. 28 June-2 July 2010 – 18th Commonwealth Forestry Conference. New Session

Added: Post-. Copenhagen: Delivering REDD+. For more details on the conference, go
to:
http://www.cfc2010.org/index.html

. 6-9 July, 2010. The Geoinformatics Forum Salzburg (GI_Forum) at the University of
Salzburg, Austria.
http://www.gi-forum.org/

. 21-22 June 2010. Second Open source GIS UK Conference. CGS, University of
Nottingham, UK.
http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/%7Eosgis10/gvsig.pdf

. August 9-13, 2010. Northern Primeval Forests: Ecology, Conservation and

Management PRIFOR 2010 conference, Sundsvall, Sweden. Julia Rauchfuss, Dept of
Natural Sciences, Engineering & Mathematics, Mid Sweden University. 851 70
Sundsvall, Sweden. Email & web site:
julia.rauchfuss@miun.se
www.prifor2010.org

. 23-28 August 2010. XXIII IUFRO World Congress "Forests for the Future:
Sustaining Society and the Environment", Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Invitation: http://www.iufro.org/auth/events/congresses/world-congress-2010/
1st Announcement: http://www.iufro2010.com/text/upload/1st_Announcement.pdf

. Forestry Information Session - At the World Forestry Congress there will be a

session on “The evolving role of information specialists in today’s rapidly changing
world: are libraries still relevant?” Visit: http://www.cfm2009.org/
Contact: vanda.ferreira(at)fao.org

. 3-4 May 2010. International Thematic workshop on Geographic Information

Analysis for economical and spatial development and planning. Case studies,
methods and models. First announcement and call for abstracts. University of Trieste
(Gorizia Branch), Via B. Alviano, 18, Gorizia (Italy).
http://sites.google.com/site/geoganmodgolocal2010/
e-mail: geoganmodlocal@gmail.com

. 4-6 May 2010. International Biomass Conference & Expo. Minneapolis, Minnesota,
USA.
http://www.biomassconference.com/

. 4-6 May 2010. Workshop on the Assessment of Forest Fire Risks and Innovative
Strategies for Fire Prevention. Rhodes, Greece.
http://www.iufro.org/info/discover/noticeboard/

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. 11-14 May 2010. 13th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science:
“Geospatial Thinking”. Guimarães, Portugal. Call for Papers. Go to:
http://agile2010.dsi.uminho.pt

. 14 May 2010. 16th Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference

(BSSRC). First call for papers and posters - Please consider presenting a paper or
poster at the 16th Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference (BSSRC),
including the special session, Southern Forest Science in Support of a Low Carbon
Economy. Formatted papers for inclusion in the proceedings are due to the conference
proceedings committee on March 1, 2011. For more information, please contact Chris
Maier (cmaier@fs.fed.us) or call 919-549-4072.

. 31 May – 2 June 2010. 12th International Symposium on Legal Aspects of

European Forest Sustainable Development. IUFRO Division 6: Social, Economic,
Information and Policy Sciences, Research Group 6.13.00: Forest Law and
Environmental Legislation. Registration requested by 31 January 2010. For more
information contact Peter HERBST, Wulfenstr. HP@net4you.at
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-6/60000/61300/activities/

. 31 May-3 June 2010. 30th EARSeL SYMPOSIUM "Remote Sensing for Science,
Education, and Natural and Cultural Heritage", hosted by: UNESCO Headquarters,
Paris, France.
http://www.earsel.org/symposia/2010-symposium-Paris/index.php

. 9-11 June, 2010. Conference on Forest Ecosystem Genomics and Adaptation. A

call for abstracts is NOW OPEN for the scientific conference on 'Forest ecosystem
genomics and adaptation', organized by the EVOLTREE Network of Excellence
(www.evoltree.org). San Lorenzo de El Escorial
(Madrid), Spain. Website:
www.ecosystemgenomics2010.fgua.es

. June and July dates 2010. The Vespucci Initiative for the Advancement of Geographic
Information Science announces the 8th Annual Summer Institute on Geographic
Information Science. To be held at the following locations:
14-18 Florence (Firenze), Italy
Interfacing social and environmental modeling

and
4-10 July 2010. Las Navas, Spain
20th Anniversary Meeting on Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic
Space
http://vespucci.org/presentation

. 28 June – 1 July, 2010. International Workshop on Collective Action, Property

Rights, and Conflict in Natural Resources Management. Siem Reap, Cambodia.

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http://www.mailprosx.com/mp/link.php?M=115574&N=1119&L=4335&F=H

. 28 Jun – 2 Jul 2010. 18th Commonwealth Forestry Conference. Edinburgh,

Scotland, UK. Organized by the British Forestry Commission. Contact: cfcc(at)in-
conference.org.uk
http://www.cfc2010.org

. July 20-23, 2010. Accuracy 2010. International Spatial Accuracy Research

Association (ISARA). Ninth International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment
in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences. Leicester, UK.
http://www.accuracy2010.org/

. 23-28 August, 2010 – Forests for the Future: Sustaining Society and the
Environment. Seoul, Republic of Korea.
http://www.iufro2010.com/

. 24–26 March 2010. Taking stock of smallholder and community forestry: Where
do we go from here? Montpellier, France.
http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/Events/Smallholder+and+community+forestry/

. 7-9 September 2010 – ForestSat 2010 - organized by the Laboratorio do Territorio

(LaboraTe), a research and teaching group at the University of Santiago de Compostela
(USC), which incorporates teachers and researchers from diverse areas of knowledge.
The event will take place at the USC university campus in city of Lugo (Galicia, Spain).
http://forestsat2010.usc.es/en/index.html

. 27 September-1 October 2010. Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing,

to be held in Valencia, Spain, from. For further information please visit the website at
http://ipl.uv.es/raqrs

. 30 September-2 October 2010. Workshop: Value of Geoinformation 2010,

Hamburg, Germany. First announcement. Call for extended abstracts. Further
information, contact Alenka Poplin.
alenka.poplin@hcu-hamburg.de

. 18-20 October 2010. Opportunities and Risks for Douglas-Fir in a Changing

Climate. Freiburg, Germany. IUFRO 1.01.00. Contact: Kaisu Makkonen-Spiecker,
kaisu.makkonen-spiecker(at)forst.bwl.de.
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-1/10000/10100/activities/

. 19-21 October 2010. IX Seminar on Remote Sensing and GIS applied to Forestry.
Curitiba, Parana State, Brazil. IUFRO 4.02.05
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-4/40000/40200/40205/
Contact: Tomasz Zawila-Niedzwiecki, tzawila(at)ibles.waw.pl
http://www.9seminarioflorestal.com.br/home/

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. 23-25 November 2010. International Conference on Forestry Education and
Research for the Asia-Pacific Region. Manila, Philippines.
http://worldagroforestry.org/sea/ph/node/110

. 14-17 February, 2011. 16th Biennial Southern Silviculture Research Conference.

Charleston, SC www.ncsu.edu/feop/BSSRC

WHILE SURFING THE WEB…INTERESTING LINKS

For a complete listing of links go to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/forest_information_update/

. New 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership Companion Website: The National

Biodiversity Indicators Portal.
http://www.bipnational.net/

. Life at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies – Yale.

http://www.yale.edu/printer/bulletin/htmlfiles/forestry/life-at-the-school-of-forestry-and-
environmental-studies.html

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