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March 2010
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INPUT - This month's input comes from: Gyde Lund, Krishna Devkota, Gary Krupnick,
Nelson Wong, Lance Olsen, Tina Etherington, Gandhiv Kafle, Artur Gil, Ross Mayhew,
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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
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
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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
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.
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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/
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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
. 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
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
. 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
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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
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
. 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
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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
. 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
. 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
. 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
. 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.
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
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http://www.forestrynepal.org/event/4398
. 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
. 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
. 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
. 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
. 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
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http://www.mailprosx.com/mp/link.php?M=115574&N=1119&L=4335&F=H
. 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/
. 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
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