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FOREST INFORMATION UPDATE VOL. 10 NO. 11 November 2009 Welcome to this edition of Forest Information Update. You can now join and discuss, add news or new jobs at the new Forest Information Linked-in group at http://tinyurl.com/filink Please feel free to contact me if you have any queries about content or sponsorship. Kind regards, Mike Smith, Editor and Director [email protected] Forward to a friend You may wish to download this edition from the Forest Information Update Current Edition web page at http://tinyurl.com/fiunov09 INTRODUCTION Forest Information Update (FIU) is a free monthly email newsletter sent to people interested in the inventorying and monitoring of natural resources and reaches about 7000 natural resource specialists worldwide. FIU is produced by Trade and Media Services Ltd (www.southem.com) and is supported by organizations, agencies and individuals working in the natural resources field. FIU is sent to each of the following international lists - all are free, low volume and secure: . Conserve Africa Group- send a blank email to: [email protected] . Forest list – See http://joyx.joensuu.fi/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=forest-list&A=1 . Global Association of Online Foresters (GAOF) - see http://www.foresters.org/portal/newmember.php . International Forest List (IFL) - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ifl-tech2000/ . Nepalese Foresters - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nepaleseforesters/ . Wetlandfriends – see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wetlandfriends and http://www.dgroups.org/groups/wetlandfriends/ . Global e-Forum on Climate Change and Global Warming http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ClimateConcern/ . Applied-GIS-RS homepage - http://www.matox.com/agisrs . Carbon, Environment, Society - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Climate-Environment-Society/ You may receive FIU by joining one of the above. If you wish to receive FIU only - send a blank email to [email protected]. For questions, to submit material, or to sponsor FIU, please contact me at [email protected] Mike FIU SPONSORS - This issue of FIU is sponsored in part through the generous support of the follow sponsors – please visit their web sites, learn about what they do and utilize their services: . FORSight Resources LLC – FORSight Resources, LLC, is a private consulting firm that specializes in forest management planning and related services to the forestry and natural resources sectors. Our staff brings together decades of combined forestry and GIS/GPS experience to provide a full suite of decision support offerings for natural resource management. The company’s offerings include forest planning, inventory, acquisition due diligence, wood and fiber supply studies, growth and yield modeling, GIS analysis and custom programming, as well as other decision support services geared specifically towards natural resource management. FORSight Resources is an authorized Business Partner for Trimble and ESRI, offering sales and support for their respective products. With 3 offices located in South Carolina, Wisconsin and Washington, FORSight Resources is well-positioned to serve clients throughout North America and abroad. For more information, please contact Bruce Carroll (SC) +1-843.552.0717, Chuck Stiff (WI) +1608.868.2799, or Karl Walters (WA) +1-360.882.9030, email us at [email protected] or visit our web site http://www.FORSightResources.com. . CONTINUING EDUCATION IN FOREST FINANCE AND ECONOMICS COURSE - The Department of

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Forest and Wood Science, Stellenbosch University, will again present the “Continues Education in Forest Finance and Economics Course” in 2009. This two week block course will cover the theory of discounting and financial analysis procedures, financial decision tools, land valuation and relevant contemporary South African forestry economic topics. For more information see www.sun.ac.za/forestry or contact Cori Ham at [email protected]. . LASER TECHNOLOGY, INC. is the innovator and pioneer of reflectorless distance measurement and the leading manufacturer of pulse-laser products and mapping systems. Introducing the Criterion RD1000, the first patented electronic BAF-scope/dendrometer that displays direct read-outs of heights, diameters and BAF values for IN/OUT determinations. The illuminated and adjustable bar scales is what makes this product so unique! The TruPulse series, a low-cost professional rangefinder that measures horizontal, vertical and slope distance as well as height...and now azimuth! It provides crystal-clear optics and superior performance with +/-1 ft. (30 cm) distance accuracy and +/- 1 degree azimuth accuracy. Visit: http://www.lasertech.com/ for more info! . ESRI - As the leader in GIS technology, ESRI offers innovative solutions that will help you create, visualize, analyze, and present natural resources information better and more clearly. Working with location information, ESRI's GIS software and solutions give you the power to solve problems you encounter every day. Forestry and other natural resource organizations around the world are using this ESRI software to make smart and timely decisions. ESRI provides powerful GIS solutions to more than 300,000 clients in more than 189 countries and offers mapping technology to meet today's global needs. Using ESRI technology, you too can unlock the spatial component of your valuable data and see your organization's information from a new perspective. For more information, contact them at 800-4479778 in the US or 909-793-2853, ext. 1-1235. Or go to the web site at http://www.esri.com/industries/forestry/index.html?utm_campaign=forestryinfoupdateforestry&utm_medium=text ad&utm_source=forestryinfoupdate&utm_content=forestry Or http://tinyurl.com/fiu4esri . SOUTHEM PODCAST: Chilean forestry sector adapting to demand for bioenergy plantations. http://tinyurl.com/southembiofuel . SOUTHEM PODCAST: Communities prepare youngsters for bush fire season trauma. http://tinyurl.com/southemfire 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, Infosylva, Lorraine Whitmarsh, Hem Raj Bist, Marc Karell, Badri Ghimire, Ajith Chandran, Cidália Fonte, Philippe Freund, Mike McCall, Maika Tabukovu. Thank you all for sharing your information! HAVE YOU HEARD? NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD . ‘BARKODING’ MILLIONS OF TREES COULD RELIEVE GLOBAL WARMING - Helveta, a British tech company, feels that forests can benefit from the same methods used by your local store owner to protect their goods. So the company has hammered plastic barcodes (barkodes?l) on a million trees across Africa, southeast Asia and South America to help countries keep track of timber reserves. Source: Yuka Yoneda, Inhabitat. http://tinyurl.com/fiuinhabitat GIS FORESTRY TOOL LOWERS COSTS OF FINNISH FOREST MANAGEMENT - Forestry Development Centre Tapio of Finland is using ESRI's ArcGIS software and a solution designed by Tieto, an ESRI business partner, to meet Forestry Centres' goal to decrease forest inventory costs by 40 percent. The solution is designed to improve productivity, cost efficiency, and cooperation between organizations, including data procurement and two-way dataflow. It will also increase Forestry Centres' customer use of Forestry Centre services and advice. Working with Finland's Ministry of Agriculture and

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Forestry, Tapio supports forest management planning for the country's 13 regional Forestry Centres by providing them with information systems. To make operative planning more effective, Tapio deployed Tieto's solution, which is built on ArcGIS 9.3, ESRI's geographic information system (GIS) software. ArcGIS has been used to support forest management solutions for decades. The system enables Forestry Centres to maintain an up-to-date, high-quality forest resource database for the entire country. http://tinyurl.com/fiufinnish . GOOGLE JOINS SPACE AGENCIES MONITORING DEFORESTATION - Google is joining forces with space agencies around the world and the conservation organization Group on Earth Observations (GEO) to monitor deforestation rates using satellite imagery. Among the space agencies working on the program are NASA, the ESA, and the national space agencies of Japan, Germany, Italy, India, and Brazil. http://tinyurl.com/fiugoog . EMISSION CAPTURE STUDY FUNDED FOR PAPER INDUSTRY. May lead to reduction of greenhouse gases - Battelle and Boise Inc. will conduct the first-ever feasibility study of new carbon capture and storage technology in the $140 billion pulp, paper and paperboard industry, under a $500,000 project announced by the US Department of Energy (DOE). Successful completion of the study could pave the way for pulp, paper, and other industries to use technology that captures carbon dioxide (CO2). http://tinyurl.com/fiughg . BOAT TAIL REDUCES TRUCK FUEL CONSUMPTION BY 7.5 PERCENT - A boat tail, a tapering protrusion mounted on the rear of a truck, leads to fuel savings of 7.5 percent. This is due to dramaticallyimproved aerodynamics, as shown by road tests conducted by the PART (Platform for Aerodynamic Road Transport) public-private partnership platform. An articulated lorry was driven for a period of one year with a boat tail (of varying length) and one year without a boat tail. The improved aerodynamics, depending on the length of the boat tail, resulted in reduced fuel consumption (and emissions!) of up to 7.5 percent. The optimum boat tail length proved to be two metres. http://tinyurl.com/fiuboat . EXTINCTION CRISIS CONTINUES APACE - The latest update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species shows that 17,291 species out of the 47,677 assessed species are threatened with extinction. The results confirm that 21% of all known mammals, 30% of all known amphibians, 12 per cent of all known birds and 32% of all known gymnosperms (conifers and cycads) are threatened with extinction. Results for other species-groups that have not yet been comprehensively assessed, such as freshwater fishes and dragonflies, indicate similar high levels of threat. http://tinyurl.com/fiucrisis

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. . GROWTH AND YIELD MODELLING SOFTWARE - Maika Tabukovu (Diploma in tropical forestry coordinator) writes: I am interested in knowing any growth and yield modelling software suitable for mahogany and other tropical species. I am working in Fiji and interested in some software. Thank You. Contact Maika at:

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[email protected] http://www.fiteducation.net/ 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/ . POSTDOC RESEARCHER IN ECOLOGICAL NICHE MODELING - The Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F) has recently been founded by the Senckenberg Gesellschaft fuer Naturforschung, the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, and additional partners. We seek a postdoctoral researcher to apply existing and develop new methods for modelling the ecological niches of organisms in the context of global change. Applicants must possess a PhD (or equivalent qualification) for example in biology, ecology, informatics, mathematics or statistics. PostDoc Researcher (pursuant to BAT IIa) “Ecological Niche Modelling” PB B [Ref. #B03]. Closes 27 November. For more details, contact Prof. Dr. Oliver Tackenberg at: [email protected] . ROAD-FOREST FIRE SPATIAL ANALYSIS - Postdoctoral position: Spatial analysis of fire occurrence and of vegetation at road-forest interfaces. Contract duration: 18 months; Starting date: December 2009. Geographical position (if needed): Aix-en-Provence, France. Research unit: Cemagref, EMAX Ecosystèmes Méditerranéens et Risques.Persons in charge: Marielle Jappiot, Anne Ganteaume. Pass on the information and CV to: [email protected] <mailto:marielle.jappiot@ cemagref. fr> and [email protected] <mailto:anne.ganteaume@ cemagref. fr> . SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHER FOR GEO VISUALIZATION AND COMMUNICATIONS. Reference number: ALT-09-CGI-20-R. The Centre for Geo-information (CGI) is a leading research centre for GeoInformation and ICT for the green living environment. You will be responsible for the definition and execution of scientific research projects within the theme geo-visualization and communications with emphasis on 3D geo-visualization combined with interactive modeling. For details, email: [email protected] . POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSISTANT - Researcher in satellite remote sensing/time series analysis. University of Bristol - School of Geographical Sciences. (Ref. 15107) The post is based in the Bristol Glaciology Centre working on a European Union project, ice2sea, (www.ice2sea.eu) which aims to explore present-day and future contributions to sea level from glaciers and ice sheets. This is a collaborative project involving 25 partners internationally. The aim of this post is to produce a time series of mass trends for Antarctica and Greenland from a range of satellite observations combined with climate and statistical modelling http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAF953/postdoctoral-research-assistant/

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. SENIOR CONSULTANT CARBON AND FORESTRY – Applicants should have a Masters degree in environmental sciences/ engineering and 2 to 3 years working experience in CDM projects advisory or development. You will work directly with associate directors and project managers and have the responsibility for a variety projects, in particular CDM projects and projects in the field of forestry and avoided deforestation. You will also have opportunities to work on other engagements (environmental consulting, development of new products/services and investment funds) and interact with BeCitizen financial and institutional partners. For more information, go to: http://www.becitizen.com/recrutement_postes.php?lang=en http://www.becitizen.com/pdf/Nov09CarbonForestry_nov09.pdf . STUDENT INNOVATION PRIZE FOR GEOINFORMATICS - Call for Papers for 52°North Student Innovation Prize for Geoinformatics - The 52°North Open Source Initiative issues a call for papers for the 52°North Student Innovation Prize for Geoinformatics 2010. This innovation prize aims to encourage students to contribute to the development and practical realization of innovative concepts in the field of Geoinformatics. In return, the students gain valuable, practical experience working in an international team of researchers and developers, benefit from a new social environment, individualised supervision and support for their work, and acquire additional qualification resulting from successful completion of the work. This call is open to all students of geoinformatics, computer science, business informatics, media informatics and other fields associated with geoinformatics, who have not yet completed a Master’s Degree or Diploma in geoinformatics/informatics/computer science. Students are invited to apply as individuals or in small teams (2 - 3 members). For more information see the website. http://tinyurl.com/fiuprize

HAVE YOU READ? Obtain from your local library or from the sources provided. THE PUBLICATION LIST . The report Public Attitudes to Environmental Change a selective review of theory and practice summarizes a selection of academic and non-academic evidence relevant to public attitudes to environmental change in the UK. The main aim is to inform public engagement for the Living with Environmental Change program, but the results will be of interest to any organization working in a similar field. http://tinyurl.com/fiuchange . Himalaya Headlines Oct 22-31(84),2009. Courtesy of Badri Ghimire, MSc. Coordinator, Environmental Graduates in Himalaya (EGH) http://tinyurl.com/fiueghOct ARTICLES OF INTEREST

BIODIVERSITY . Raymond D. Semlitsch et al. Timber Harvest and Amphibians (Timber Harvest Impacts Amphibians Differently During Life Stages). The 2009 Issue of BioScience - Vol. 59, No. 10. http://tinyurl.com/fiuamphibians . Haider Rizvi. UN Biodiversity Chief Calls for 'New Plans' to Conserve Life – A senior United Nations official today criticized world leaders for failing to match their words with deeds in addressing the ongoing loss of biological diversity. Environment News Services (ENS), 3 November, 2009.

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http://tinyurl.com/fiuplans . Anneli Jalkanen: The probability of moose damage at the stand level in southern Finland. Silva Fennica 35(2): 159–168. http://tinyurl.com/fiumoose . Christian Brannstrom. South America's Neoliberal Agricultural Frontiers: Places of Environmental Sacrifice or Conservation Opportunity. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment. Volume 38, Issue 3 (May 2009). http://tinyurl.com/fiuliberal . Simcha Lev-Yadun. Large-Scale Species Introductions to Preserve Global Biodiversity: Noah's Ark Revisited. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment. Volume 38, Issue 3 (May 2009) http://tinyurl.com/fiunoah BIOFUEL . Shen-Long Tsai, Jeongseok Oh, Shailendra Singh, Ruizhen Chen, and Wilfred Chen. Functional Assembly of Minicellulosomes on the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cell Surface for Cellulose Hydrolysis and Ethanol Production. Appl. Envir. Microbiol. 2009 75: 6087-6093. http://tinyurl.com/fiumicrobiol . Jaakko Repola: Biomass equations for Scots pine and Norway spruce in Finland. Silva Fennica 43(4): 625–647. http://tinyurl.com/fiuscots CLASSIFICATION/MAPPING . Stefan Löfgren, Maria Kahlert, Mats Johansson, and Jakob Bergengren. Classification of Two Swedish Forest Streams in Accordance with the European Union Water Framework Directive. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment. Volume 38, Issue 7 (November 2009). http://tinyurl.com/fiustreams . Christian Davenport and Allan C. Stam. What Really Happened in Rwanda? How spatial mapping software helped researchers who say the accepted story of the mass killings of 1994 is incomplete, and the full truth needs to come out. Miller-McCune Research Essay, October 06, 2009. http://tinyurl.com/fiurwanda . Decadal Forest Change Mapping (DFCM) Project. CARPE Administrator, 16 June 2008. http://tinyurl.com/fiudfcm . Mr Surat Lertlum, Prof. Shunji Murai. Forest Mapping with NOAA AVHRR Data Case Study: Effect of Thermal Band for Refiing Forest Mapping. GIS Development, Proceedings, ACRS 1994 http://tinyurl.com/fiucasestudy CLIMATE CHANGE/CARBON . Jim Weinbauer demo on FICAT. Forest Industries Carbon Assessment Tool. Investment and Financing Forum presentations 22 October 2009, XIII World Forestry Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina. http://tinyurl.com/fiutool . Spracklen, D. V., L. J. Mickley, J. A. Logan, R. C. Hudman, R. Yevich, M. D. Flannigan, and A. L.

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Westerling (2009), Impacts of climate change from 2000 to 2050 on wildfire activity and carbonaceous aerosol concentrations in the western United States, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D20301, doi:10.1029/2008JD010966. http://tinyurl.com/fiutimpacts . Assessing the potential impacts of climate change on spruce and Douglas fir forests in BC using bioclimatic envelope models. May 7th 2009. CCCma Lunch Time Seminar Series. Aquila Flower and Trevor Q. Murdock. Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium. http://tinyurl.com/fiubioclimatic . Ana Cecilia Conde Alvarez and Carlos Gay Garcia, Coordinators - Guia Para la Generacion de Escenarios de Cambio Climatico a Escala Regional. First version, November 2008. Centro de Ciencias de la Atmosfera, UNAM. http://tinyurl.com/fiuguia . Climate studies to benefit from 12 years of satellite aerosol data. As of the end of October 2009, the full GlobAEROSOL dataset is publicly available for download. ESA's GlobAerosol project. http://tinyurl.com/fiuaerosol . Talitha Haller and Gabriel Thoumi. What Kind of Assets are Forestry Credits? The Katoomba Group, 4 November 2009. http://tinyurl.com/fiuassets INVENTORY/MONITORING . The Forest Community Monitoring System deployed in Cameroon has been implemented by Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), University College London (UCL), Centre pour L’Environnement et Le Developpement (CED) and Helveta with local and indigenous forest communities across the southern forest zone of Cameroon. Traditional techniques for forest monitoring are expensive and time-consuming due to their dependence on elite outsiders manipulating gadgets requiring education and literacy. The project sought to engage with semi and non-literate indigenous communities by allowing them to actively record data relating to community land-use and, at the same time, monitor logging activity. http://tinyurl.com/fiucommunity . Make sure your monitoring and recordkeeping systems are first class. Comment re EPA finalizing its GHG calculation and reporting rule. CCESWORLD, 5 November 2009. http://tinyurl.com/fiurecords . Wireless Wildfire Monitoring System. University of California System: University of California, Berkeley. http://tinyurl.com/fiuwireless MISCELLANEOUS . Questionnaire on Geo-Spatial Challenges Facing Developing Nations http://tinyurl.com/fiugsdi REMOTE SENSING/GIS . Teijo Palander: A local DLP-GIS-LP system for geographically decentralized wood procurement planning and decision making. Silva Fennica 31(2): 179–192. http://tinyurl.com/fiudlpgis

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. Vince Beiser. Finding Water from Outer Space. A globe-trotting geologist uses satellites and other remote-sensing platforms to find water under some of the world's thirstiest places. Miller-McCune, 19 October 2009. http://tinyurl.com/fiuouterspace . Wehr, A.; Lohr, U. Airborne laser scanning-an introduction and overview. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Volume 54, Issue 2-3, July 1999, Pages 68-82. http://tinyurl.com/fiuairborne . Pekkarinen, A.; Reithmaier, L.; Strobl, P. Pan-European forest/non-forest mapping with Landsat ETM+ and CORINE Land Cover 2000 data. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Volume 64, Issue 2, March 2009, Pages 171-183. http://tinyurl.com/fiulandcover RESOURCE ANALYSIS/MODELING . Robert Tomusiak, Paweł Zarzyński - The old tree trunk’s volume determination with use of theodolite — Określanie miąższości pni sędziwych drzew za pomocą teodolitu. Rocznika Dendrologicznego, Vol. 55, 2007. http://preview.tinyurl.com/fiutheodolite . Jari Miina, Juha-Pekka Hotanen & Kauko Salo: Modelling the abundance and temporal variation in the production of bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus L.) in Finnish mineral soil forests. Silva Fennica 43(4): 577–593. http://tinyurl.com/fiusoil . Chris J. Cieszewski, Mike Strub. The Foundation of Mathematical and Computational Forestry & Natural-Resource Sciences (MCFNS). Mathematical and Computational Forestry & Natural-Resource Sciences (MCFNS), Vol 1, No 1. http://tinyurl.com/fiumcfns . Bais, A. F., et al. (2003), International Photolysis Frequency Measurement and Model Intercomparison (IPMMI): Spectral actinic solar flux measurements and modeling, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D16), 8543, doi:10.1029/2002JD002891. http://tinyurl.com/fiusolar . Chaboureau, J.-P.; Tulet, P.; Mari, C. Diurnal Cycle of Dust and Cirrus Over West Africa as Seen from Meteosat Second Generation Satellite and a Regional Forecast Model. Geophysical Research Letters, January 30, 2007 (Vol. 34, No. 2, L02822, Paper No. 10.1029/2006GL027771). http://tinyurl.com/fiudust . Frazer, L. N., T. R. Anderson, and C. H. Fletcher (2009), Modeling storms improves estimates of long-term shoreline change, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L20404, doi:10.1029/2009GL040061. http://tinyurl.com/fiustorms SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT Scott A. Weyenberg, Lee E. Frelich & Peter B. Reich: Logging versus fire: how does disturbance type influence the abundance of Pinus strobus regeneration? Silva Fennica 38(2): 179–194. http://tinyurl.com/fiuregen . Karin Öhman, Jan Seibert, and Hjalmar Laudon. An Approach for Including Consideration of

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Stream Water Dissolved Organic Carbon in Long Term Forest Planning. Volume 38, Issue 7 (November 2009) AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment. Article: pp. 387–394 http://tinyurl.com/fiustreamwater

CAPTURED ON VIDEO Download videos from the web or from the sources provided. . Ecosystems: Do We Need Them? One of a series of seminars run by the Earth Institute that addresses the question “Is Sustainable Development Feasible?” http://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/watch/39 http://earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/2298

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 November, 2009. Theory to Action: The Science, Economics, and Policy of Climate Change Washington DC - The American Association for the Advancement of Science 6.30 to 9pm. Web site www.fulbright.org/NCAC /Climatechange.pdf . 23 November-10 December, 2009. Virtual forum. Los Corredores Biológicos Dentro Del Derecho Ambiental De Conservación. A virtual forum aimed at lawyers and jurists in environmental, forest rights and conservation issues. For more information, email: [email protected] . 23-24 November 2009. 2009 WITS - Water, Innovation, Technology and Sustainability. Place: Manaus, Brazil. Contact email/website: Rozana Trilha [email protected] http://witsmanaus.mgt.unm.ed . 26 to 28 November 2009. VII International Pensa Conference Economic Crisis: Food, Fiber and Bioenergy Chain. Sao Paulo, Brazil. Contact email & website: [email protected] http://www.pensaconference.org . 7-11 December, 2009. Population Viability Analysis IV: Modeling Occupancy for Conservation. Location: NCTC, Shepherdstown, WV. Register online at https://doilearn.doi.gov/ . 16-20 December 2009. Le Rendez-Vous Des Collectivites Locales D'afrique. Marrakech, Royaume du Maroc.

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http://jeuneafrique.neolane.net/r/?id=he3fff,394be1a,396161a . 13 December 2009. Forest Day 3. Copenhagen, Denmark. Forest Day 3 will take place alongside the 15th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and will be hosted by the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, the Government of Denmark, and CIFOR. http://www.mailprosx.com/mp/link.php?M=115574&N=784&L=3173&F=H . 14-17 Dec 2009. Asia and the Pacific Forest Products Workshop – Green Technology for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation. Colombo, Sri Lanka. IUFRO 5.00.00 http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-5/50000/activities/ Contact: Sim Heok-Choh, simhc(at)frim.gov.my; sim(at)apafri.org http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-5/50000/activities/ . 14-18 December 2009. NH03: Remote Sensing of Natural Hazards during the Fall AGU meeting to be held in San Francisco, USA. You are invited to submit your abstract for presentation (oral and poster) by September 3, 2009. For more details, go to: http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/program/scientific_session_search.php?show=detail&sessid=269 . 28-30 December. ICECS - Dubai 2009: The 2nd International Conference on Environmental and Computer Science http://www.icecs.org/ . 3-13 January, 2010. The Smithsonian's Center for Conservation Education and Sustainability and the George Mason Center for Conservation Studies are offering a graduate and professional course, Effective Conservation Leadership, to be held at the Conservation and Research Center, Front Royal, Virginia. Contact [email protected] . 2 February 2010. World Wetlands Day 2010 - Wetlands, Biodiversity, and Climate Change. http://ramsar.org/wwd/10/wwd2010_advance.htm . 10-15 February, 2010. GEOProcessing 2010: The Second International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services. St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles. Submission deadline: October 5, 2009. General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/GEOProcessing10.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/CfPGEOProcessing10.html . 8–19 March 2010. International Training Event: Third Executive Forest Policy Short Course – Enhancing Forest Policy in the Greater Mekong Subregion. RECOFTC, Bangkok, Thailand, Registration deadline: 31 December 2009> http://www.mailprosx.com/mp/link.php?M=115574&N=900&L=3523&F=H . 13-20 March 2010. DISCCRS V: Interdisciplinary Climate Change Research Symposium. Saguaro Lake Ranch, USA. Contact email/website: [email protected] http://disccrs.org/DISCCRSposter.pdf . 9-15 April, 2010. 4th International UNESCO Conference on Geoparks. Langkawi Global Geopark, Malaysia. Email: [email protected] web site: http://www.geoparks2010.com/ . 12-14 April, 2010. International Conference on the Efforts in Response to Forest-Related Natural

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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 [email protected] 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. http://www.forestrynepal.org/event/4398 . 6-9 July, 2010. First Call for Papers GI_Forum 2010. The Geoinformatics Forum Salzburg (GI_Forum) at the University of Salzburg, Austria. http://www.gi-forum.org/ . 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: [email protected] 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 . 4-6 May 2010. International Biomass Conference & Expo. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. http://www.biomassconference.com/ . 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 . 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/ . 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

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WHILE SURFING THE WEB…INTERESTING LINKS For a complete listing of links go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/forest_information_update/ . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species web site made easy: a users’ guide is now available! In order to help users to navigate their way through the wider range of functions on the web site, a set of instructions have been developed (The Users’ Guide to the IUCN Red List web site. Version 1.0 (March 2009)) and this document is now available to download from the link below. http://www.iucnredlist.org/news/iucn-red-list-site-made-easy-guide . The Conservation Measures Partnership. CMP is a partnership of conservation NGOs that seek better ways to design, manage, and measure the impacts of their conservation actions. http://www.conservationmeasures.org/CMP/Products.cfm . The Global Rain Forest Mapping Project. The project goals are to acquire spatially and temporally contiguous L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data sets over the tropical belt of the Earth using the Japanese Earth Resources Satellite (JERS-1), and to generate semi-continental scale, 100 m resolution, image mosaics to be provided for research and educational purposes world wide. http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov/GRFM/ . National Land Cover Data: Mapping Procedures. Version 05-25-99. (Updated: December, 1998; May, 1999). http://landcover.usgs.gov/mapping_proc.php

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