Upcoming events

Field trip and Seminar in Helge River Baltic Landscape

Event
13.08.2013 11:30 - 15.08.2013 15:45
Location: 
Höör, Sweden

 

We are pleased to invite you to a joint Field trip & Seminar in Helge River Baltic Landscape that will be organized 13-15 August 2013 on the topic Forest Governance on a Landscape Scale.

Students from the SLU doctoral course PFS0093Forest Governance on a Landscape Scale will during these tree days report on their work dealing with a specific governance issue related to Helge River, Vilhelmina, Bergslagen, Ilomantsi and Mazury areas.

Temadag: "Kulturkvalitet og øget træproduktion"

Event
23.08.2013 09:00 - 14:45
Location: 
Nilles Kro, Hadstenvej 209, 8471 Sabro, Danmark

NordGen Skov inviterer i samarbejde med Danske Planteskoler og Naturstyrelsen til temadag fredag 23. august 2013.

På programmet er øget biomasseproduktion, plantetal i kulturer, kulturintensitet og kulturmodeller, biomasseoptimeret skovdyrkning samt kulturkvalitet som grundlag for produktionsskov i Sverige. Programmet sluttes af med en ekskursion på Frijsenborg.

Mere information og tilmelding.

Föreningen Skogens Höstexkursion

Event
28.08.2013 09:00 - 29.08.2013 16:00
Location: 
Sundsvall, Sweden

Det blir skogsskötsel och skogspolitik när Föreningen Skogen håller sin årliga Höstexkursion, i år tillsammans med Skogsstyrelsen den 28-29 augusti 2013 i Sundsvall.

Skogspolitikens följder diskuteras på plats i skogen och det är upplagt för livliga debatter med hänsyn till bland annat den offentliga skogsdebatten och pågående utredningar.

Förvänta dig två händelserika och informativa dagar – ett utmärkt tillfälle att knyta nya kontakter och träffa gamla bekanta.

Nordic Workshop: "The forest sector in the biobased economy – perspectives from policy and economic sciences”

Workshop
28.08.2013 09:00 - 29.08.2013 09:00
Location: 
Eklundshof in Uppsala

Background

The idea of a biobased economy is receiving increasing interest as a way towards a more resource efficient and greener growth. The forest sector (including forestry, industry to forest product market) plays a crucial role for the realization of a biobased economy, particularly in the Nordic countries because these are committed to promote a green growth, have important forest sectors, and implement programs for a bioenergy development.

Focus meeting “Planning Tools” Forestry and Water Network

Event
10.09.2013 12:00 - 12.09.2013 17:00
Location: 
Göteborg, Sweden

The Swedish Forest Agency have the pleasure of inviting you to a Forestry and Water Network meeting. The meeting will focus on planning tools related to forestry and water. 

Uncertainties of forest carbon balance

Seminar
11.09.2013 09:00 - 12.09.2013 18:00
Location: 
Metla Vantaa unit

Organizers: Metla 

Location: Metla Vantaa unit, close to the airport of Helsinki.

Topics of the seminar are:

- 11.9.2013 Forest inventory data and bayesian methods for modeling and for uncertainty estimation

- 12.9.2013 Soil carbon processes

Preliminary program of the seminar here.

Combined Workshop/PhD course in genomics based breeding in forest trees

Event
16.09.2013 (All day) - 19.09.2013 (All day)
Location: 
Copenhagen, Denmark

AdapCAR’s Combined Workshop/PhD course in genomics based breeding in forest trees is held in Copenhagen on September 16-19, 2013.

Day one (September 16) will be presentations of how to use genomic data in breeding – both in trees, other plants and animals.

Day 2-4 (September 17-19 – only participants in the PhD course) will be hands-on computer exercises mixed with presentations and introductions. Lecturers will be Ross Whetten and Fikret Isik, both from North Carolina State University.

Conference: Northern Forests in a Changing Climate

Event
17.09.2013 (All day) - 18.09.2013 (All day)
Location: 
Hallormsstaður, eastern Iceland

A Nordgen Forest conference will be held in Hallormsstaður in eastern Iceland on 17-18 September 2013. The conference theme is Northern Forests in a Changing Climate.

The conference will focus on possible developments in northern forest ecosystems in a changing climate and the potential influences on forestry practices. A special emphasis is on how a changing climate may influence our choices of tree species and provenances, now and in the future.

EFI 20 Years Science and Policy Forum

Event
23.09.2013 (All day) - 27.09.2013 (All day)
Location: 
Nancy, France

Our forests in the 21st century – ready for risks and opportunities?

European Forest Institute (EFI) celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2013. This commemoration of its major achievements is also an opportunity to analyse of the future of our forests - and how EFI and its partners can contribute to meet the challenges related to the various changes, risks and uncertainties to which our forests will be exposed.

Trees4Future stakeholder meeting: Contributing to the green bio-economy

Event
24.09.2013 08:30 - 16:00
Location: 
AgroParisTech, Nancy, France

 

This Trees4Future meeting provides an opportunity for discussions amongst a broad spectrum of stakeholders on European research needs in contributing to green bio-economy, and especially the role of genetics and genomics.

These are issues of strategic importance for the forest-based sector, and the outcomes of the meeting will help to steer the activities of the Trees4Future project to allow the project to better meet the needs of different stakeholders. Meeting registration is open to all interested stakeholders.

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