FOREST INFORMATION UPDATE VOL. 11 NO.

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June 2010
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HAVE YOU HEARD? NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

BRAZILS DETER SYSTEM CONFIRMS AMAZON DEFORESTATION LIFT - DETER

system - Deforestation Detection in Real Time from the National Institute for Space
Research (INPE), confirmed during March and April, respectively, 51.79 km2 and 51.71
km2 of deforestation by shallow cut or by environmental progressive degradation in the
Amazon state, totalizing 103.5 km2. DETER shows in the table below the total
deforestation occurred in two months in the Legal Amazonia.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuamazon

CHINA APPROVES GUIDELINES TO ENHANCE FOREST PROTECTION - The State

Council, China's cabinet, approved guidelines Wednesday that protect, restore and
ensure the sustainable use of forests for the 2010-2020 period. Participants at the
State Council meeting, chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao, reviewed and approved the
guidelines for forest protection and utilization for the 10-year period. The guidelines say
China will lift its forest coverage to 223 million hectares by the end of 2020, or 23

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http://tinyurl.com/fiuchinaguide

. INDONESIA AND CONFUSION OVER FORESTRY LICENSES AND US$1B

CONSERVATION DEAL WITH NORWAY. Norway's billion dollar contribution to forest
and peatlands conservation in Indonesia will not fund reforestation of deforested areas,
a government minister told The Jakarta Post. Agus Purnomo, head of the secretariat of
Indonesia's National Climate Change Council, said that Norway has only agreed to
support reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD)
programs, which promote conservation and sustainable forest management, rather than
REDD+ programs, which include reforestation.
http://tinyurl.com/fiunorway

EU LAUNCHES FORESTRY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TOOL - EU

researchers have developed a tool to help governments and industry make sustainable
development the number one goal of the EU forestry sector. ToSIA (Tool for
sustainability impact assessment) allows policymakers to consider in equal measure the
economic, social and environmental elements of sustainable development. EU support
came from the EFORWOOD ('Tools for sustainability impact assessment of the forestry-
wood chain') project, one of the biggest ever European forestry research studies, with a
budget of EUR 20 million including a contribution of nearly EUR 13 million from the
'Sustainable development, global change and ecosystems' Thematic area of the EU's
Sixth Framework Programme (FP6).
http://tinyurl.com/fiueutool

SCIENTISTS AND STAKEHOLDERS GATHERED FOR JOENSUU FORESTRY

NETWORKING WEEK 2010 - Globally, water and its quality and availability are of
highest importance. Forests play an important role in this, as they protect the quality of
water reserves, and regulate the water flow, preventing other areas from flooding.
However, forests also use water and change its quality by intercepting rainfall, and by
taking it up from the soil, and bringing it into the air. This was the topic of the Joensuu
Forestry Networking week organised for the second time in Joensuu, Finland recently.
The event gathered scientists, professionals and stakeholders in forestry from various
regions in Europe to discuss the issues regarding forests and water in Europe.
http://tinyurl.com/fiujoensuu

TRIMBLE ACQUIRES DEFINIENS' EARTH SCIENCES BUSINESS - Trimble and

Definiens, a Germany-based company specializing in image analysis solutions, have
announced Trimble's acquisition of Definiens' Earth Sciences business assets and
licensing of its software technology platform in an all-cash transaction. Financial terms
were not disclosed.
http://tinyurl.com/fiutrimble

. STUDENT IN FORESTRY CLASS WINS 2002 CHEVROLET IMPALA. Nathan

Cardinal said he was in the forestry classroom at the Career Development Center in
Southwest Vermont, joking with his friends about how unlikely it would be if any of them

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won a 2002 Chevrolet Impala being given away. To find out what happened next, go to:
http://tinyurl.com/fiuimpala

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

. THANKS FOR MANGROVE INFO (via ESRI Forestry Group at LinkedIn) Re FIU Vol
11 No 5 links re mangroves: Elaine George writes: Thank you for posting the link for
the mangroves. For those like myself who are not familiar with mangroves I found the
following link:
http://www.floridaplants.com/horticulture/mangrove.htm
which provides basic information about mangroves. Since mangroves filter water is it
likely that they can handle the extreme phytologic stress from the oil which is washing
into the coastal habitats in Louisiana and other areas? Is the mangrove a tree which is
easily grown, so that some of the damage from the BP oil rig disaster can be
remediated by replanting?

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.

CARBON SEQUESTRATION ACTIVITIES AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL - Gyde Lund

writes: I am looking for any publications on what various countries are doing in regard
to carbon sequestration activities involving forests. What are the various techniques or
methods that countries are using to mitigate the effects caused by CO_2. Any URL or
publication which lists or summarizes such activities by country would be especially
useful. Thank you in advance for your kind assistance. Cheers, Gyde.
(gyde@comcast.net
mailto:gyde@comcast.net

RESPONSIBLE (ETHICAL) INVESTMENTS IN FORESTS - Dragana Stojkovic, MSc

student of Sustainable Tropical Forestry writes via Forest Investment Group on
LinkedIn; I am working on MSc thesis research about Responsible (ethical)
investments in forests. The aim of my research is to provide an overview of current
trends in sustainable/responsible/ethical forest investments, as well to assess the
criteria applied in selection of these investments. I am gathering opinions and
perspectives of various socially responsible investment funds (banks, pension funds,
timberland or environment special funds, etc.) engaged in forest investments.
Additionally I am including the perspectives of other stakeholders such are NGOs,

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governments, and academia. Please contact me, if you would like to participate in my
research or if you have information related to the topic. Any help is appreciated.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuethical

. HAWAII FOREST ZOO PARTNERS SOUGHT - Partners sought for Panaewa Zoo
Discovery Forest project. The Hawaii Forest Industry Association (HFIA) and Hawaii
County Parks & Recreation, along with a diverse group of community partners, have
launched the Panaewa Zoo Discovery Forest project. For more information:
www.HawaiiForest.org

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
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/

. PHD-STUDENT IN FOREST ECONOMICS - Department of Ecology and Natural

Resource Management at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) has a three
year PhD-position vacant from September 1, 2010. The position is related to economic
analysis of carbon sequestration and storage in African forests.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuumb

. 10 PHD SCHOLARSHIPS - CALL OPENED! The 2010 call for applications for the
2011-2014 edition is now opened. The new call contains 43 research topics and
deadline for submission is 1 October 2010. Selected doctoral candidates should expect
to start their doctoral studies around 1 September 2011. Offer from Forest and Nature
for Society (FONASO) - a Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Programme offered by a
consortium of internationally recognised European universities:
http://www.fonaso.eu/

. 13 PHD POSITIONS - The Centre for Statistics at the Georg-August-Universitt

Gttingen is currently inviting applications for 13 PhD Positions in Statistics and their
Fields of Application; within the Research Training Group (RTG 1644) on Scaling
Problems in Statistics funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG).
http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/156579.html

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. RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP INVASIVE SHRUBS - BI-Mestre: Shrub invasion:
effects on carbon, nitrogen and water cycling (FCT). A research scholarship (BI-Mestre)
is open at Instituto Superior de Agronomia (Lisbon), for a highly motivated student with
a completed MSc for the project Shrub encroachment: effects on carbon, nitrogen and
water cycling (PTDC/AGR/-AAM/098790/2008) financed by the Fundao para a
Cincia e Tecnologia. This project can be a basis for a PhD project. Details at:
http://tinyurl.com/fiushrubs
or send an email:
to mcaldeira@isa.utl.pt

. APN'S 2010 ANNUAL CALLS FOR PROPOSALS - The Asia-Pacific Network for
Global Change Research (APN) is inviting proposals under two separate programmes,
the Annual Regional Call for Research Proposals (ARCP) Programme and the Scientific
Capacity Building/Enhancement for Sustainable Development in Developing Countries
(CAPaBLE) Programme, for funding from April 2011, and is able to provide a limited
amount of financial support for research and capacity development activities that fall
within its areas of interest. For further information on these Calls and to view the
guidelines for application, you may check this out:
http://tinyurl.com/fiuapn

HAVE YOU READ?

Obtain from your local library or from the sources provided.

THE PUBLICATION LIST

. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. Call for Abstracts - Special

Issue. New PE&RS Special Issue September 2011 Remote Sensing for the Haiti
Earthquake. Call for Abstracts.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuhaitiquake

. Call for papers. Remote Sensing of Environment. An Interdisciplinary Journal. Call for
Papers Special Issue on Remote Sensing of Urban Environments. Submission
deadline: July 1st, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuurban

. SmallWood 2010: Bridges, Business, and Biomass. Link to biographies, abstracts,

and presentations given at SmallWood 2010:
http://tinyurl.com/fiusmallwood

. The Amazon: Below Water - For the first time the reader can see the fish
communities in their natural habitat. Steven Simpson Books.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuwater

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. Community Rights, Conservation and Contested Land. The Politics of Natural
Resource Governance in Africa. Edited by Fred Nelson.
http://tinyurl.com/fiugovernance

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

BIODIVERSITY

. Roger L. H. Dennis. A Resource-Based Habitat View for Conservation: Butterflies

in the British Landscape. ISBN: 978-1-4051-9945-2. Hardcover. 420 pages. February
2010, Wiley-Blackwell.
http://tinyurl.com/fiubutterflies

. Principal Investigator: Aaron Ellison. Impacts of elevated temperature on ant

species, communities, and ecological roles at two temperate forests in eastern
North America. Harvard Forest: Jan 01 2008 - Dec 31 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuant

. Stephen P. Yanoviak, Yonatan Munk, Mike Kaspari, and Robert Dudley. Aerial
manoeuvrability in wingless gliding ants (Cephalotes atratus). Proc. R. Soc. B July
22, 2010 277:2199-2204; published online before print March 17, 2010,
doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.0170. Abstract.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuglidingon

BIOFUEL

. John A. Mathews Biofuels, climate change and industrial development: can the
tropical South build 2000 biorefineries in the next decade?
Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining. Volume 2, Issue 2, Date: March/April 2008,
Pages: 103-125.

CLASSIFICATION/MAPPING

. Patricia A. Soranno et. al. Using Landscape Limnology to Classify Freshwater

Ecosystems for Multi-ecosystem Management and Conservation. BioScience Jun
2010, Vol. 60, No. 6: 440454.
http://tinyurl.com/fiueco

. Paul H. Williams, Kevin J. Gaston, and Chris J. Humphries. Mapping biodiversity

value worldwide: combining higher-taxon richness from different groups. Proc. R.
Soc. Lond. B January 22, 1997 264:141-148; doi:10.1098/rspb.1997.0021.

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http://tinyurl.com/fiutaxon

. Ivana Stehlik, John P Caspersen, and Spencer C.H Barrett. Spatial ecology of
mating success in a sexually polymorphic plant. Proc. R. Soc. B February 22, 2006
273:387-394; doi:10.1098/rspb.2005.3317.
http://tinyurl.com/fiumating

. Paini, D.R., Worner, S.P., Cook, D.C., De Barro, P.J., and Thomas, M.B. 2010. Using
a self-organizing map to predict invasive species: sensitivity to data errors and a
comparison with expert opinion. Journal of Applied Ecology. 47(2):290-298.
http://tinyurl.com/fiupredict

CLIMATE CHANGE/CARBON

. Jason Scott Johnston and Robert G. Fuller, Jr. Global Warming Advocacy Science:
a Cross Examination. Program on Law, Environment and Economy University of
Pennsylvania Law School. First Draft. September, 2008. This Revision. May, 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuadvocacy

. Prins Gwyn. et. al. The Hartwell Paper: a new direction for climate policy after the
crash of 2009. Institute for Science, Innovation & Society, University of Oxford; LSE
Mackinder Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science, London,
UK.
http://tinyurl.com/fiucrash

. Air Pollution and Climate Change: Major Threats for Forests. Yusuf Serengil and
Elena Paoletti from IUFRO 7.01.00. Proceedings are being produced from the IUFRO
7.01.00 biannual meeting on "Adaptation of Forest Ecosystems to Air Pollution and
Climate Change" from 22-26 March 2010 in Antalya, Turkey.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuthreats

. IUFRO Policy Brief - African Forests and People Need to Adapt to Climate Change.
New Policy Brief Takes a View of Climate Change Impacts and Options for Adaptation.
The Policy Brief is available for download under:
http://tinyurl.com/fiubrief

INVENTORY/MONITORING

. Min Zhao and Guang-Sheng Zhou. Estimating net primary productivity of Chinese
pine forests based on forest inventory data. Forestry, doi:10.1093/forestry/cpl002.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuprimary

. Corona P. Integration of forest mapping and inventory to support forest

management. iForest 3: 59-64 (2010).
http://tinyurl.com/fiuintegration

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. Somogyi Z, et. al. (2008). Allometric biomass and carbon factors database.
iForest 1: 107-113. [online 2008-07-09] URL:
http://tinyurl.com/fiuallometric

. . C. Hepcan, Idot. A. Turan, M. B. zkan. Monitoring land use change in the

escedilme coastal zone, Turkey using aerial photographs and satellite imaging.
Land Degradation & Development.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuturkey

. Paul Z. Goldstein. Systematic collection data in North American invertebrate

conservation and monitoring programmes. Journal of Applied Ecology. Volume 41,
Issue 1, Date: February 2004, Pages: 175-180.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuinvertebrate

MISCELLANEOUS

. Stuart Blackman. Promises, Promises - Ill-judged predictions and projections can be

embarrassing at best and, at worst, damaging to the authority of science and science
policy. The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences. Volume 23 Issue 11. Page 28.
Date: 2009-11-01.
http://tinyurl.com/fiupromises

REMOTE SENSING/GIS

. Richard M. Lucas et. al. The potential of L-band SAR for quantifying mangrove
characteristics and change: case studies from the tropics. Aquatic Conservation:
Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. Volume 17, Issue 3, Date: May 2007, Pages: 245-
264.
http://tinyurl.com/fiusar

. Michael A. Wulder, Ronald J. Hall, Nicholas C. Coops, Steven E. Franklin. High

Spatial Resolution Remotely Sensed Data for Ecosystem Characterization.
BioScience Jun 2004, Vol. 54, No. 6: 511521.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuhigh

. Alfred J. Wagtendonk and Richard A.M. De Jeu. Sensible Field Computing:

Evaluating the Use of Mobile GIS Methods in Scientific Fieldwork. PE&RS June
2007. Volume 73, Number 6. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. Journal
of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
http://tinyurl.com/fiumobile

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RESOURCE ANALYSIS/MODELING

. Stephen J. Walsh, Joseph P. Messina, and Daniel G. Brown. Mapping & Modeling
Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics in Frontier Settings. PE&RS June 2008. Volume
74, Number 6. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. Journal Of The
American Society For Photogrammetry And Remote Sensing.
http://tinyurl.com/fiufrontier

. Alvin Powell. Modeling the forest and the trees - Moorcroft models provide
detailed view of forest responses to climate variation. News Office. Thursday,
December 18, 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/fiumoorcroft

. Murray Logan. Biostatistical Design and Analysis Using R. ISBN: 978-1-4051-

9008-4. Paperback. 576 pages. May 2010, Wiley-Blackwell.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuusingr

. Jingyi Li, Amy M. Brunner, Richard Meilan, Steven H. Strauss. Matrix attachment
region elements have small and variable effects on transgene expression and
stability in field-grown Populus. Plant Biotechnology Journal. Volume 6, Issue 9,
Date: December 2008, Pages: 887-896.
http://tinyurl.com/fiumatrix

SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT

. Timothy M. Beardsley. Sustainability for Here and Now. BioScience Jun 2010, Vol.
60, No. 6: 403403.
http://tinyurl.com/fiunow

. Communities and REDD+: Losing or gaining control? Provided by Regan Suzuki,

REDD-net Asia-Pacific Coordinator RECOFTC.
http://tinyurl.com/fiucontrol

. Social assessment of conservation initiatives: A review of rapid methodologies.

Publisher: IIED, May 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/fiurapid

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

. Measuring the economic impact of a natural disaster. Research by Professor

Janet Hunter finds that patterns are emerging that permit insights into the psychology of
markets. These suggest that even short-term profit-seeking, although seemingly callous
and opportunistic, ultimately plays a vital role in assuring swift recovery.

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http://tinyurl.com/fiuimpact

. The Mathematics of Machine Learning| (from the Research Channel). Computers

struggle with tasks we find simple. But try to describe explicitly the difference between
the handwritten numerals 1 and 7, and you begin to appreciate the problem. Professor
Martin Anthony explains what role mathematicians play in making computers less
stupid.
http://tinyurl.com/fiumachine

HARVARD FOREST WEBCAM - Harvard Forest Mega-plot Census Begins: Harvard

Forest researchers, with the assistance of scientists from the Center for Tropical Forest
Science (CTFS), began the census of woody stems within a 35 ha plot located on
Prospect Hill. Below is a web cam of Prospect Hill.
http://tinyurl.com/fiuprospect

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

. 23-24 June 2010. 3rd Annual National Ecosystem Markets Conference

"Ecosystem Markets: Making Them Work". Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina.
http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/salzman/

. 25 June 2010. Geographic Information Systems. ESACB. Castello Branco.

Portugal.
http://www.esa.ipcb.pt/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=977

. 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

. 1 July 2010. Delivering REDD+: From Copenhagen to Cancun. Location:

Edinburgh's International Conference Centre.

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www.cfc2010.org

. 5-7 July 2010. FLAD XI Summer Institute on Global Environmental Studies.

Foundation Luso-American. Auditrio da FLAD : Rua Sacramento Lapa, n 21,
Lisboa.
vtor.ventura@flad.ptou

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

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

. 28 July 2010 - The Dive GIS summer course will celebrate its 5th anniversary in
2010! The 5th edition of the course will be held from the 28th of July to the 7th of August
in Crotone at the Capo Rizzuto Marine Protected Area. Enrollment deadline is May 31st!
Go to:
www.mappamondogis.it/divegis.htm or write an email to info@mappamondogis.com

. 2-13 August 2010. Short courses for technical personnel: Collecting and processing
forest inventory data. Dili (Democratic Republic of East-Timor).
http://www.cifap.utad.pt/timor10-1st-announcement.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 todays rapidly changing
world: are libraries still relevant? Visit: http://www.cfm2009.org/
Contact: vanda.ferreira(at)fao.org

. 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

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

. 28 June 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/

. 2-13 August 2010. Short courses for technical personnel: Collecting and
processing forest inventory data. Dili (Democratic Republic of East-Timor).
http://www.cifap.utad.pt/timor10-1st-announcement.pdf

. 16-20 August 2010. 2nd International Conference: Climate, Sustainability and

Development in Semi-arid Regions. Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil. For more information,
contact (at)icid18.org or go to the web site at:
http://www.icid18.org/

. 17-20 August 2010. IUFRO 5.10.00 & The UNECE/FAO Team of Specialists on
Forest Products Markets and Marketing: Joint Pre-Conference to the IUFRO World
Congress. Hokkaido, Japan. IUFRO 5.10.00, go to web site
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-5/50000/51000/

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

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. 3 - 6 SEPTEMBER, 2010. International Conference in Landscape Ecology.
Organized by CZ-IALE Brno Prague, Czech Republic. "Landscape structures,
functions and management: response to global ecological change". Details are available
at:
http://www.iale.cz/en/downloads/ICLE10_1ozn.pdf

. 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

16-18 September. SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS. International aerial archaeology

conference. AARG 2010 Bucharest. Address for conference correspondence: Dave
Cowley, RCAHMS, 16 Bernard Terrace, Edinburgh, EH8 9NX, Scotland. Email
dave.cowley@rcahms.gov.uk
Conference website - http://aarg2010.cimec.ro/

. 20-14 September 2010 - Structures and Processes of the Initial Ecosystem

Development. Cottbus, Germany. IUFRO 1.06.00.
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-1/10000/10600/

http://lsb-server.umwelt.tu-cottbus.de/MYRES_2010/myres4/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

. 3-6 October, 2010. An International Workshop on "Electromagnetic Signals

Associated with Earthquakes and Volcanoes" will be held on the campus of
Chapman University, Orange, California. Please visit:
http://sites.google.com/site/emsev2010/

. 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

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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/

. 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

. 29 November to 03 December 2010. The Fifth Session of the International

Conference Geotunis 2010. The use of GIS and remote sensing for sustainable
development. Tunisia.
http://www.geotunis.org/

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

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

. 10-15 April 2011. ISRSE 2011 - Abstract Submission Now Open. 34th International
Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment. Sydney convention and Exhibition
Centre. The GEOSS Era: Towards Operational Environmental Monitoring. Email:
isrse34@arinex.com.au

. 15-19 March 2011. 3rd International Meeting of Fire Effects on Soil Properties
(FESP 2011), to be held in Guimares, Portugal. Contact
fespiii@gmail.com

WHILE SURFING THE WEBINTERESTING LINKS

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

. LIDAR Analysis in ArcGIS 9.3.1 for Forestry Applications Coupling ArcGIS with the
ArcGIS Server Image extension.
http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/lidar-analysis-forestry.pdf

. UNEP-WCMC has launched a new website highlighting the potential for actions
on reducing emissions from land use change to secure additional important benefits
for biodiversity and ecosystem services (co-benefits).
http://www.carbon-biodiversity.net

. American Carbon Registry releases forestry standard in anticipation of U.S.

federal cap and trade bill.
http://www.americancarbonregistry.org/news-1/Forestry-20Carbon-20Project-
20Standard.pdf

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