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FOREST INFORMATION UPDATE VOL. 10 NO. 12 December 2009 Welcome to this edition of Forest Information Update. What about that climate change “treaty” surprise at the COP15 in Copenhagen? We have a link to the article and the actual draft of the treaty in this edition. Feel free to follow up this edition with discussions and news items 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 14,000 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-EnvironmentSociety/ 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

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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: . CONTINUING EDUCATION IN FOREST FINANCE AND ECONOMICS COURSE The Department of 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]. Note also 2010 Precision Forestry Symposium. The 4th Precision Forestry Symposium will be held at the Wallenberg Research Centre, Stellenbosch University, from 1 to 3 March 2010. More details in meetings below. . 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 BAFscope/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 800-447-9778 in the US or 909-793-2853, ext. 11235. 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 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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Infosylva, Peter van Sluijs, Clive Richardson, Mani Ram Banjade. Thank you all for sharing your information! HAVE YOU HEARD? NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD ‘DANISH TEXT’ RAISES FURORE - According to The Guardian, developing countries “react furiously” after a draft text allegedly written by the UN conference’s host country was leaked Tuesday. - For more than a week a rumour has circulated that Denmark, host of the ongoing UN conference on climate change, has drawn up a compromise text. On the afternoon of the conference’s second day, The Guardian published what it claimed to be this text. The British newspaper also claims to have read “a confidential analysis of the text by developing countries” which “shows deep unease”. See the text here: http://tinyurl.com/fiucopenhagen . CARBON CREDITED FARMING (CCF) WARNS CENTRAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ABOUT COMPLACENCY OVER ENERGY POLICIES - Speaking as an official participant at the Powering towards 2020 Conference in London, Carbon Credited Farming Plc’s (CCF) Managing Director, Gregg Fryett, reprimanded central and local governments for “Sleepwalking into a cold, dark future where power shortages are commonplace and black-outs the order of the day”. http://tinyurl.com/fiuccf . THE FORESTS DIALOGUE SPEAKS UP ON REDD - The Forests Dialogue (TFD) recently released a report based on four international dialogues on REDD. The dialogues engaged nearly 100 leaders from forest stakeholder groups across the business, environmental, scientific, Indigenous Peoples’ and forest-based communities spectrums between April and September 2009. The press release, executive summary and recommendations from the TFD report are available: TFD REDD-plus Press Statement [en] http://tinyurl.com/fiudialogue1 . FORESTRY CARBON MARKET ON CARDS - Financial Express, in New Delhi reported: Irrespective of the outcome of the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen, the stage is set for creation a forestry carbon market, says Pavan Sukhdev, study leader, The Economics of Ecosystem and Biodiversity (TEEB). http://tinyurl.com/fiucards . U.S. FOREST SERVICE TO ADD $40 MILLION IN BARK BEETLE FIGHTING FUND - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced the U.S. Forest Service will commit an additional $40 million to address public safety concerns and forest health needs arising from the millions of acres of dead and dying trees from bark beetle infestations in the West. Vilsack made the announcement on a conference call with Colorado Governor Bill Ritter. For more information, go to the news release at: http://tinyurl.com/fiubeetle

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. TREE HARVESTER OFFERS TO SAVE INDONESIAN FOREST - Reducing Emissions From Deforestation and Forest Degradation, or REDD, is expected to be part of a new climate treaty. Unlike the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, a new treaty is expected to tackle deforestation, which alone accounts for 20 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. As outlined in the following article, halting deforestation in tropical forest nations like Indonesia and Brazil, the world’s fourth biggest emitter, is considered crucial to reining in global warming. http://tinyurl.com/fiuredd . SHOULD LARGE-SCALE TIMBER CONSTRUCTION BE BANNED? – An interesting article and additional comments on a call to ban multi-storey wooden buildings. http://tinyurl.com/fiubanned . WILD MONEY - The Human Rights Consequences of Illegal Logging and Corruption in Indonesia’s Forestry Sector. http://tinyurl.com/fiuhrw 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. . COMMUNITY FORESTRY INVENTORY GUIDELINES - Shree Krishna Gautam, Department of Forest Research and Survey, Nepal, wrote: Dear Foresters, Forest Department of Nepal is going to revise the Community Forestry Inventory Guideline 2061. For that purpose a central level task group has been formed in order to recommend further major changes in the existing guideline. As a member of that group, I would like to request you to provide suggestions, and comments on CF guideline 2061.For your rigorous review, I have also attached a Nepali version of CF guideline 2061 herewith. Your comments and suggestion for revision of existing guide line will be significant in sustainable forest management in Nepal. With regards, Shree Krishna. [email protected] 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: 4

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/ . HYDROCLIMATE MODELING POSTDOC POSITION - Two-year position for a PostDoc in the area of hydroclimate modeling : Barcelona Spain. The Institut Català de Ciències del Clima (IC3) is a climate research institute created by the Government of Catalunya in 2008. IC3 is offering a two-year postdoctoral contract to an outstanding candidate in the area of hydroclimate modeling, working at the UDIC (Climate and Impact Dinamics Unit) lead by Dr. Xavier Rodó who is also the IC3 director. For more information, go to: http://www.ic3.cat/ . DEPUTY DIRECTOR-GENERAL (RESEARCH) - Via dei Tre Denari 472/a, Maccarese, Italy. Based at Bioversity’s headquarters, in Maccarese, near Rome, Italy, the successful incumbent will be both an inspiring scientific leader and excellent research manager. Reporting to the Director General, the Deputy Director-General (Research) will have responsibility to lead the process of setting the strategic direction and priorities of Bioversity’s research and for managing the overall research portfolio, ensuring that it is geared towards the delivery of outcomes and impact. http://www.bioversityinternational.org/bioversity_international_homepage.html . BIODIVERSITY INFORMATICIAN - Cambridge United Kingdom. We are looking for a Biodiversity Informatician to work in the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). The Biodiversity Informatician will establish and develop integration between ENA molecular data and records available from external biodiversity and taxonomic resources. For further information please visit http://www.embl.org/ and http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ . PRIZE OFFERED FOR FORESTRY AND FOREST INDUSTRY SCIENCE - Call to nominate candidates for the Marcus Wallenberg Prize - The purpose of the Prize is to recognize, encourage and stimulate path breaking scientific achievements which contribute significantly to broadening knowledge and to technical development within the fields of importance to forestry and forest industries. Nominations are accepted by e-mail or airmail at any time of the year and are considered at two meetings of the

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Committee each year. Candidates will be judged and graded initially on the basis of this short nomination. The Prize will be awarded in the Prize Ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden. For more details, go to: http://www.mwp.org . PHD SCHOLARSHIP - "Verification of Groundwater Monitoring Strategies based on 3D Modeling and Interactive 3 D Visualization" :Halle Germany. Former chemical industrial sites are often characterized by groundwater contaminations which are subject of a groundwater monitoring. The PhD candidate should have expertise in groundwater research and geosciences and should have excellent computing and modelling skills. Further requirements are interest and willingness to work on an interdisciplinary topic that combines geology, computer sciences and hydrogeology/hydrochemistry. Please note that you have to apply by application form. You can find the form here: http://www.higrade.ufz.de/index.php?en=14667 . SUPERVISORY NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST - This position serves as the subject matter expert and program manager for vegetation inventory, monitoring, mapping, and forest mensuration for the Pacific Southwest Region. For further information about the duties of the position, please contact Jayne Handley at 707-562-9019. https://www.avuecentral.com/casting/aiportal/control/fromUSAJobs? referenceCode=AUKDK . RESEARCH ECONOMIST/ FORESTER - This position is located with the Northern Research Station, Research Work Unit FS-NRS-13, Institute for Applied Ecosystem Studies: Theory and Application of Scaling Science, located at Rhinelander, WI. For more information, contact Eric Gustafson at (715) 362-1152 or [email protected] http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx? JobID=84763215&JobTitle=Research+Economist %2f+Forester&q=forest+inventory&sort=rv%2cdtex&cn=&rad_units=miles&brd=3876&pp=50&jbf574=AG11&vw=d&re=134&FedEmp= N&FedPub=Y&caller=basic.aspx&ss=0&AVSDM=2009-11-24+00%3a03%3a00 . FORESTRY/CARBON ABATEMENT PROJECT - GreenCollar is very interested in engaging with suitably qualified forestry professionals who have an active interest and experience in forestry related carbon abatement projects. http://www.thesciencejobs.com/jobs/mathematics/10845 . PHD AND MAINSTREAMING CLIMATE ADAPTATION - CSIRO has advertised a series of PhD scholarships, including one on the topic: "Mainstreaming climate adaptation into conservation management and planning". Please find enclosed some additional information that clarifies the type and subject of research that we are seeking to support with this scholarship. Contact Michael Dunlop, Land-water-biodiversityclimate analyst, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems at email: [email protected]

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. BOTANY FELLOWSHIP - The Singapore Botanic Gardens is pleased to offer an annual Humphrey Morrison Burkill Research Fellowship on a competitive basis to a qualified botanist with special interest in the flora of South East Asia. For more information, contact Dr. Chin See Chung, Director, Singapore Botanic Gardens: [email protected]

HAVE YOU READ? Obtain from your local library or from the sources provided. THE PUBLICATION LIST . Finnish Forest Sector Economic Outlook 2009-2010. Slow growth in demand for forest industry products. Although the economic outlook is improving in the European export markets, the situation is not about to return quickly to the pre- recession level. http://tinyurl.com/fiuoutlook . Governing Africa's Forests in a Globalized World. .(CIFOR 2009 . ISBN: 9781844077564, Paperback 413 pages:. Price USD $95.00. Earthprint. http://tinyurl.com/fiugoverning . ESA BULLETIN 140 (November 2009). 17 November 2009. This issue celebrates the anniversary of the beginning of Europe’s independent adventure into space, the first launch of Ariane 1 in 1979. http://tinyurl.com/fiuesa140 More than 30 free e-books covering a range of GIS topics are currently available. Download the ESRI Best Practices e-books for free at www.esri.com/bestpractices ARTICLES OF INTEREST BIODIVERSITY . Alan Grainger et al. Biodiversity and REDD at Copenhagen. Current Biology, 17 November 2009 (Vol. 19, Issue 21, pp. R974-R976). http://tinyurl.com/fiubiodiversity . Edited By Leslie Lipper, C. Leigh Anderson and Timothy J. Dalton. Seed Trade in Rural Markets: Implications for Crop Diversity and Agricultural Development. Earthscan, published November 2009, 224 pages ISBN 9781844077854. http://tinyurl.com/fiuseed

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. A. Keuroghlian & D. P. Eaton. Importance of rare habitats and riparian zones in a tropical forest fragment: preferential use by Tayassu pecari, a wide-ranging frugivore. Journal of Zoology. VL: 275, NO: 3, PG: 283-293, YR: 2008. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2008.00440.x. US: http://tinyurl.com/fiurare . Young, K.R. 2009. Andean land use and biodiversity: humanized landscapes in a time of change. Ann. Mo. Bot. Garden 96(3):492-507. BIOFUEL . Towards Sustainable Production and Use of Resources: Assessing Biofuels. (UNEP 2009). ISBN: 9789280730524. Paperback 36 pages + CD-ROM. Price: USD $30.00. http://tinyurl.com/fiuassess . Heating with Biomass: A Feasibility Study of Wisconsin Schools Heated with Wood. http://tinyurl.com/fiuheat CLASSIFICATION/MAPPING . J. van Alphen et al. Flood risk mapping in Europe, experiences and best practices. Journal of Flood Risk Management. Volume 2 Issue 4, Pages 285 – 292, Published Online: 20 Aug 2009. http://tinyurl.com/fiuflood1 . Josse, C. G. et al. Ecological Systems of the Amazon Basin of Peru and Bolivia: Classification and Mapping. NatureServe.Arlington,Virginia,USA. http://tinyurl.com/fiuamazon2 . Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Ecological Classification for Conservation. http://tinyurl.com/fiusee . Sarah Ryker. Mapping Arsenic in Groundwater. Geotimes, November 2001. http://tinyurl.com/fiuarsenic CLIMATE CHANGE/CARBON Isla S. Castañedaa, Stefan Mulitzab,. Enno Schefußb, Raquel A. Lopes dos Santosa, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damstéa and Stefan Schoutena. Wet phases in the Sahara/Sahel region and human migration patterns in North Africa. PNAS. November 10, 2009; 106 (45). 8

http://tinyurl.com/fiuwet . Melanie Lenart. An unseen carbon sink - Wetlands store vast amounts of carbon, but efforts to make them eligible for credits under a global climate treaty could prove tricky. Nature Reports Climate Change. Published online: 26 November 2009 | doi:10.1038/climate.2009.125. http://tinyurl.com/fiuunseen . Closing the Gaps: Disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change in developing countries. Commission on Climate Change and Development, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden. http://tinyurl.com/fiugaps . Mark Charlesworth & Chukwumerije Okereke. A call to reason. Nature Reports Climate Change. Published online: 12 November 2009. doi:10.1038/climate.2009.118. http://tinyurl.com/fiucall INVENTORY/MONITORING . B.J. MacVicar, H. Piégay, A. Henderson, F. Comiti, C. Oberlin, E. Pecorari. Quantifying the temporal dynamics of wood in large rivers: field trials of wood surveying, dating, tracking, and monitoring techniques (p 2031-2046), Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Volume 34 Issue 15, Pages 2031 – 2046. http://tinyurl.com/fiurivers . DNA Barcoding: A New Tool for Identifying Biological Specimens and Managing Species Diversity. http://tinyurl.com/fiudna . Nielsen, S.E., Johnson, C., Heard, D.C., and Boyce, M.S., 2005. Can models of presence-absence be used to scale abundances? Two case studies considering extremes in life history. Ecography 28, 197-208. http://tinyurl.com/fiuscale . U.S. Drought Monitor. The Drought Impact Reporter is an interactive tool developed by the NDMC to collect, quantify, and map reported drought impacts for the United States. The Drought Impact Reporter was created in response to the need for a national drought impact database. For article details, go to http://tinyurl.com/fiudrought and for diagram http://tinyurl.com/fiumonitor

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MISCELLANEOUS . Ackerman PA, Längin D and Antonides C (Editors) 2006: Precision Forestry in plantations, semi-natural and natural forests. Proceedings of the International Precision Forestry Symposium, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, March 2006. Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch. ISBN 0-7972-1121-7. www.sun.ac.za/forestry/precision . Sue Anne Batey Blackman and William J. Baumol. Natural Resources. The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. 2008. Library of Economics and Liberty. Retrieved December 9, 2009 from the World Wide Web: http://tinyurl.com/fiuconcise . Amory B. Lovins, & L. Hunter Lovins et al. Going Green, Profitably. Harvard Business Review (HBR Article Collection). 40 pages. Publication date: Jul 01, 2007. Prod. #: 2280-PDF-ENG. http://tinyurl.com/fiuprofit REMOTE SENSING/GIS . S. Sudhakar, P. R. C. Prasad, M. L. Arrawatia, K. Sudha, Shilpa Babar and S. K. S. V. Rajeshwar Rao. Landscape analysis in Fambong Lho wildlife sanctuary, East district, Sikkim, India using remote sensing and GIS techniques. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, Volume 36, Number 2 / June, 2008. http://tinyurl.com/fiusanctuary . Ioannis N. Vogiatzakis and Geoffrey H. Griffiths. A GIS-based empirical model for vegetation prediction in Lefka Ori, Crete. Plant Ecology, Volume 184, Number 2 / June, 2006. http://tinyurl.com/fiuprediction . Hudak A.T., Evans J.S., Stuart Smith A.M. LiDAR Utility for Natural Resource Managers. Remote Sensing. 2009; 1(4):934-951. http://tinyurl.com/fiumanagers . Lahsen, Myanna (Lead Author); Sidney Draggan (Topic Editor). 2008. Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia. In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth May 14, 2007; Last revised January 30, 2008; Retrieved December 8, 2009]. http://tinyurl.com/fiuatmosphere Jeff Thurston and Dr. Michael Gould. Empowering Students Using GIS. ESRI has always invested heavily into GIS education. V1 Magazine, December 4, 2009.

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http://tinyurl.com/fiustudents RESOURCE ANALYSIS/MODELING . Climate and Human Activities-Sensitive Runoff Model (pdf). The Climate- and Human Activities-sensitive Runoff Model (CHARM) is a simplified rainfall-runoff model developed to assess water availability over large regions where very little data is available. Land Use Change and Agriculture (LUC) program staff direct substantial efforts toward formulating methodology and developing and enhancing the associated models. Courtesy of IIASA. http://tinyurl.com/fiusensitive . Wilkins, O., Waldron, L., Nahal, H., Provart, N.J., Campbell, M.M. (2009). Genotype and time of day shape the Populus drought response. The Plant Journal. 60, 703715. http://tinyurl.com/fiugenotype . E. Gaume, M. Borga. Post-flood field investigations in upland catchments after major flash floods: proposal of a methodology and illustrations (p 175-189). Published Online: Nov 18 2008. http://tinyurl.com/fiuupland . B.M. Jackson, H.S. Wheater, N.R. Mcintyre, J. Chell, O.J. Francis, Z. Frogbrook, M. Marshall, B. Reynolds, I. Solloway. The impact of upland land management on flooding: insights from a multiscale experimental and modelling programme. Journal of Flood Risk Management, Volume 1, Issue 2, Date: August 2008, Pages: 7180. http://tinyurl.com/fiuupland2 . Nielsen, S.E., and Haney, A., 2003. Vegetation composition, dynamics, and management of a bracken-grassland and northern-dry forest ecosystem. Environmental Management 31, 810-821. http://tinyurl.com/fiuvegetation1 . Sandker, M., Campbell, B.M., Nzooh, Z., Sunderland, T., Amougou, V., Defo, L., and Sayer, J. 2009. Exploring the effectiveness of integrated conservation and development interventions in a Central African forest landscape. Biodivers. Conserv. 18(11):2875-2892. Magnani F, Nolè A, Ripullone F, Grace J. Growth patterns of Pinus sylvestris across Europe: a functional analysis using the HYDRALL model. Journal of Biogeosciences and Forestry published by SISEF. Research Article: vol. 2, pp. 162-171. http://tinyurl.com/fiupinus

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SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT . Robert Ferrier (Editor), Alan Jenkins (Editor). Handbook of Catchment Management. ISBN: 978-1-4051-7122-9. Hardcover. 560 pages. November 2009, Wiley-Blackwell. http://tinyurl.com/fiucatchment CAPTURED ON VIDEO Download videos from the web or from the sources provided. . Challenges and Opportunities in Managing the World’s Forests. RFF Seminar. November 5, 2009. Download video of this seminar at http://www.rff.org/Events/Pages/Challenges-and-Opportunities-in-Managing-the-WorldsForests.aspx 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 . 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 . Impact and Implications of the Global Financial and Economic Crisis on Sustainable Development & Climate Change: Proposals for an Integrated Global Response to the Crisis. Economic Research and Sustainable Development Network. Conference Dates and Locations: 7th -- 11th Dec. 2009 in Toronto, Canada 14th -- 18th Dec.2009 in New York, USA Email: [email protected]

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. 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 . 16-20 December 2009. Le Rendez-Vous Des Collectivites Locales D'afrique. Marrakech, Royaume du Maroc. http://jeuneafrique.neolane.net/r/?id=he3fff,394be1a,396161a . 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 . 2010 Precision Forestry Symposium. The 4th Precision Forestry Symposium will be held at the Wallenberg Research Centre, Stellenbosch University, from 1 to 3 March 2010. The theme of the symposium will be "Developments in Precision Forestry since 2006". The symposium will be presented by the Department of Forest and Wood Science (Stellenbosch University) and the Chair of Forest Work Science and Applied Informatics (Technische Universität München).

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http://academic.sun.ac.za/forestry/pf%202010/PF%202010%20Home.htm . 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 . 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: [email protected] web site: http://www.geoparks2010.com/ . 12-14 April, 2010. International Conference on the Efforts in Response to ForestRelated 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 [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/

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. 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)inconference.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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. Selecting Between the Many Types of Portable Chain Saw Mills http://www.tubeinator.com/tubenews/?p=2233 . Land Use Change and Agriculture. Agro-Ecological Zoning http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/Research-AEZ/index.html?sb=8 . How global warming is already affecting us (the U.S.) and the tough choices we have to make. http://marketplace.publicradio.org/projects/project_display.php? proj_identifier=2009/10/26/climate_race_project . Natureandpoverty.net launches new online platform. IUCN NL coordinates the Natureandpoverty.net programme; a learning network to facilitate linking and learning between NGOs that work in the field of nature conservation and poverty alleviation. As part of this programme an online interactive platform has been established. http://www.natureandpoverty.net/ . MIT Red Balloon Team Wins Darpa Network Challenge. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced that the MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team won the $40,000 cash prize in the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that required participants to locate 10 large, red balloons at undisclosed locations across the United States. The MIT team received the prize for being the first to identify the locations of all 10 balloons. https://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/default.aspx COPYRIGHT NOTICE Items headlined in Forest Information Update are drawn from a number of sources. The source of the item is quoted, either by publication or organisations in line with the practice of fair reporting. Where necessary, Items are translated by TMS Ltd. Every effort is made to ensure use of paid wire service material is avoided at all times. Should users wish to utilise Forest Information Update on their own web sites, we request that this is done to accurately reflect the current layout to ensure attribution is appropriate.

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