FOREST INFORMATION UPDATE VOL. 12 NO. 9 September 2011 Welcome to this edition of FIU. Mike Smith, Editor and Director info@southem.com INTRODUCTION Forest Information Update (FIU) is a free monthly email newsletter sent to people interested in the inventory and monitoring of natural resources and reaches about 22,000 natural resource specialists and other recipients 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. LINK IN TO FIU Follow up this edition with discussions and news items at the new Forest Information Linked-in group at: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2304033&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr Yahoo Group - Download this and previous editions the Forest Information Yahoo group at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/forest_information_update/?yguid=224336867 FACE-TO-FACE A new Facebook page has been established so you can personalize your contacts with other FIU users and contributors. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Forestry-info/143128941914?ref=ts FIU SPONSORS 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.: UNDERWOOD FARM - FORESTRY/RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION - 1,120 HECTARES - This stunning property lies only around half an hour from Picton over mostly sealed roads. At any given time there is approximately 800 hectares of professionally managed, mostly second rotation Pinus radiata forest, complete with extensive high quality logging infrastructure. Having an abundance of highly desirable ‘Sounds’ coastline here is also the option to capitalise the recently approved Resource Consent permitting a unique subdivision containing 25 welllocated residential sections that will enjoy easy access to the beach and coastal views of his world renowned location. This property has a long history of professional sustainable forest management and is now, for the first time, being offered for genuine sale. . The substantial amount of desirable Sounds coastline that comes with it which includes. . BAYS, BEACHES AND VIEWS . 12 titles Option to secure an APPROVED SUBDIVISON of 25 lifestyle blocks. It includes a large area zoned “Sounds Residential” in Opihi Bay, for which resource consent for a
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NEW MAP GIVES PUBLIC A GLOBAL VIEW OF BIOFUEL DEVELOPMENT – A new interactive map providing a geographical overview of biofuel production, consumption and investment around the world aims to make easier the assessing of how biofuels affect forests and people’s livelihoods and how its production can be more sustainable. The Global Biofuel Information Tool (GBIT), developed by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), with support from Profundo, is the first systematic attempt at gathering and consolidating data on biofuels and making this accessible in a user-friendly format. http://blog.cifor.org/4103/new-map-gives-public-a-global-view-of-biofueldevelopment/ FAO-SUPPORTED FOREST POLICY IN GAMBIA WINS AWARD - Gambia's Community Forestry Policy, put in place with support from the UN FAO, has won silver in the 2011 Future Policy Awards as one of the world's most inspiring and innovative forest policies. http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/89896/icode/ MOSCOW FOREST WITH A SURPRISE - Sometimes woods near Moscow may have much unexpected surprises. Here is, for example, an ordinary forest: bushes, grass, trees. Everything is green, living, natural. And then suddenly an electric control panel occurred from behind a tree. http://englishrussia.com/2011/09/10/forest-with-a-surprise/ 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. Updated call for papers (and distribute broadly) for remote sensing and monitoring at the SPIE international Conference in Baltimore MD April 2012. Abstracts due October 10, 2011. http://www.spie.org/oceans/ 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/ ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN FISH POPULATION ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION - The Department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (http://eco.umass.edu/) is seeking applications for a 9month, tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor in Fish Population Ecology and Conservation. For more information, contact: tkfuller@eco.umass.edu PHD STUDENTSHIP IN AUTOMATION OF FORESTRY CRANES at Umeå University, Sweden. The Department of Applied Physics and Electronics offers PhD studentship in Automation of Forestry Cranes at Umeå University, Sweden. http://scholarship-positions.com/phd-studentship-in-automation-of-forestry-cranes-atumea-university-sweden/2011/09/28/ PHD STUDENTSHIP:HYDROLOGICAL DROUGHT RISK IN EUROPE at AlbertLudwig University of Freiburg, Germany. EU FP-7 funded Doctoral Studentship in the field of hydrology, geography, environmental sciences at Albert-Ludwig, University of Freiburg, Germany. http://scholarship-positions.com/phd-studentshiphydrological-drought-risk-in-europeat-albert-ludwig-university-of-freiburg-germany/2011/09/05/ EIGHT POSTGRADUATE POSITIONS AVAILABLE AT CARBOLEA. “We are happy to announce that seven PhD positions and one MSc positions are available at Carbolea.” These are listed below: The Combustion of Biofuels under Combustor Relevant Conditions (2 PhDs Available) Use of functionalized mesoporous silicas for pyrolysis oil upgrading (One PhD Available) Catalytic conversion of biomethane to methanol and higher alcohols (2 PhDs Available) Tar mitigation in biosyngas production (One PhD Available) The hydrogenation of furfural to furfuryl alcohol (One PhD Available) http://www.carbolea.ul.ie/news.html#30_4_11 DATABASE MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST - Redding, CA, USA. “ACRT Inc. is currently seeking energetic, experienced professional who have previous experience
working with Vegetation Management databases. This position will provide technical expertise specific to our client contract needs regarding database management and GIS systems.” http://www.getforestryjobs.net/database-management-specialist-redding-ca-reddingcalifornia-2561734.htm HAVE YOU READ? Obtain from your local library or from the sources provided. ARTICLES OF INTEREST BIODIVERSITY Elizabeth Pennisi - Banking Seeds for Future Evolutionary Scientists - Science 23 September 2011: Vol. 333 no. 6050 p. 1693. DOI: 10.1126/science.333.6050.1693, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6050/1693.summary Schroeder, Doris; Pisupat, Balakrishna. 2010. Ethics, Justice and the Convention on Biological Diversity. Kenya: UNEP. 47 p. www.unep.org/dec/PDF/publicationEthicsJusticeandCBD.pdf Maria Costanza Torri, PhD. Medicinal Plants Used in Mapuche Traditional Medicine in Araucanía, Chile: Linking Sociocultural and Religious Values with Local Heath Practices. Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary & Alternative Medicine October 2010 vol. 15 no. 3 132-148. http://chp.sagepub.com/content/15/3/132.abstract?rss=1 Paul H. Michaletz and Vincent H. Travnichek, editors. Conservation, Ecology, and Management of Catfish: The Second International Symposium. 780 pages, hard cover. Published by the American Fisheries Society. Publication date: August 2011. ISBN: 978-1-934874-25-7. $79.00 list price, $55.30 AFS members. To order: www.afsbooks.org/54077C BIOFUEL/BIOMASS Mark Kimsey Jr., Deborah Page-Dumroese and Mark Coleman. Article: Assessing Bioenergy Harvest Risks: Geospatially Explicit Tools for Maintaining Soil Productivity in Western US Forests. Forests 2011, 2(3), 797-813; doi:10.3390/f2030797 - published online 20 September 2011. http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/2/3/797/ Aburto-Oropeza O, Erisman B, Galland GR, Mascareñas-Osorio I, Sala E, et al. (2011) Large Recovery of Fish Biomass in a No-Take Marine Reserve. PLoS ONE 6(8): e23601. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023601. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0023601 R.G. Nelson, M. Walsh, J.J. Sheehan, and R. Graham. Methodology for Estimating Removable Quantities of Agricultural Residues for Bioenergy and Bioproduct Use. 25th Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals.
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/biomass/pdfs/36157.pdf CLASSIFICATION/MAPPING Herbert Pang et al. Pathway analysis using random forests classification and regression. Bioinformatics (2006) 22 (16): 2028-2036. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl344 First published online: June 29, 2006. http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/16/2028.short Ramón Díaz-Uriarte and Sara Alvarez de Andrés. Gene selection and classification of microarray data using random forest. BMC Bioinformatics. 2006; 7: 3. Published online 2006 January 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-3. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1363357/ Wesche, K. A classification of a tropical Shorea robusta forest stand in southern Nepal. Phytocoenologia Vol 27 Issue 1, 103-118. 1997. http://www.forestrynepal.org/publications/biblio/4619 Jørn Erik Bjørndalen. Classification of basiphilous pine forests in Telemark, SE Norway: a numerical approach. Nordic Journal of Botany. Volume 1, Issue 5, pages 665–670, December 1981. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1756-1051.1981.tb01422.x/abstract Juan C. Linares, Lahcen Taïqui and Jesús Julio Camarero. Increasing Drought Sensitivity and Decline of Atlas Cedar (Cedrus atlantica) in the Moroccan Middle Atlas Forests. Forests 2011, 2(3), 777-796; doi:10.3390/f2030777 published online 15 September 2011. http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/2/3/777/ CLIMATE CHANGE/CARBON Skole, David. 2009. Developing Small-holder Agroforestry Carbon Offset Protocols for Carbon Financial Markets‐ Twinning Sustainable Livelihoods and Climate Mitigation http://www.apngcr.org/newAPN/activities/ARCP/2009/ARCP2009_09NSY_Skole/ARCP200909NSY-Skole-FinalReport.pdf Bogner J, Pipatti R et al. Mitigation of global greenhouse gas emissions from waste: conclusions and strategies from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report. Working Group III (Mitigation). Waste Manag Res. A review. 2008 Feb;26(1):11-32. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18338699 P. Smith. Monitoring and verification of soil carbon changes under Article 3.4 of the Kyoto Protocol. Soil Use and Management. Volume 20, Issue 2, pages 264– 270, June 2004. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-2743.2004.tb00367.x/abstract INVENTORY/MONITORING
Teppei Ebina, Hiroyuki Toh, and Yutaka Kuroda. DROP: an SVM domain linker predictor trained with optimal features selected by random forest. Bioinformatics (2011) 27(4): 487-494 first published online December 17, 2010 doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btq700. http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/4/487.abstract?sid=abf893b4-1dfa403b-a744-2fc5a2b47f38 Mervyn C Lötter and Hans T Beck. Preliminary inventory and classification of indigenous afromontane forests on the Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve, Mpumalanga, South Africa. BMC Ecology 2004, 4:9doi:10.1186/1472-6785-4-9. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6785/4/9 Hannes Böttcher et al. An assessment of monitoring requirements and costs of 'Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation’. Carbon Balance Manag. 2009; 4: 7. Published online 2009 August 26. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2741441/ J. J. McCall. Operating Characteristics of Opportunistic Replacement and Inspection Policies. Management Science, 1963, vol. 10, issue 1, pages 85-97. http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search/search.asp?ft=monitoring MISCELLANEOUS Melissa B. Agustin, Waya P. Sengpracha and Weerachai Phutdhawong. Electrocoagulation of Palm Oil Mill Effluent. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2008, 5(3), 177-180; doi:10.3390/ijerph5030177. Received: 20 February 2008 / Accepted: 21 March 2008 / Published: 30 September 2008. http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/5/3/177/ Prasad, A. E. (2010) Effects of an Exotic Plant Invasion on Native Understory Plants in a Tropical Dry Forest. Conservation Biology, 24 (3), 747–757. http://www.ncf-india.org/publication.php?type=Journal+Article&title=211 REMOTE SENSING/GIS Kellner, James R., Gregory P. Asner, Kealoha M. Kinney, Scott R. Loarie, David E. Knapp, Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin, Erin J. Questad, Susan Cordell, and Jarrod M. Thaxton. 2011. Remote analysis of biological invasion and the impact of enemy release. Ecological Applications 21:2094–2104. [doi:10.1890/10-0859.1]. http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/10-0859.1 Dominy, N. J. and B. Duncan. 2001. GPS and GIS methods in an African rain forest: applications to tropical ecology and conservation. Conservation Ecology 5(2): 6. [online] URL: http://www.consecol.org/vol5/iss2/art6/ Clement Aga Alo and Robert Gilmore Pontius. Identifying systematic land-cover transitions using remote sensing and GIS: the fate of forests inside and outside protected areas of Southwestern Ghana. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 2008, vol. 35, issue 2, pages 280-295.
http://econpapers.repec.org/article/pioenvirb/v_3a35_3ay_3a2008_3ai_3a2_3ap_3a2 80-295.htm RESOURCE ANALYSIS/MODELING Brown, Sandra. 2002. Measuring carbon in forests: current status and future challenges. Environmental Pollution 116 2002 363–372. http://www.winrock.org/ecosystems/files/2002ForestCarbon.pdf Ford, Chelcy R., Stephanie H. Laseter, Wayne T. Swank, and James M. Vose. 2011. Can forest management be used to sustain water-based ecosystem services in the face of climate change? Ecological Applications 21:2049–2067. [doi:10.1890/10-2246.1] http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/10-2246.1 Stephen Barker et al. 800,000 Years of Abrupt Climate Variability. Published online 8 September 2011 [DOI:10.1126/science.1203580]. Scienceexpress. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/recent SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT Bruce Sundquist - The Earth's Carrying Capacity - Some Related Reviews and Analyses. The initial web site contained a collection of five literature reviews done to understand the global magnitude of the loss and degradation of some of the earth's key life-support systems. http://home.windstream.net/bsundquist1/ CAPTURED ON VIDEO UN WEBCAST - Statement by Minister of Forestry and Environment of Gambia on behalf of The African States, at the General Assembly 6th plenary meetings. Opening of the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on addressing desertification , land degradation and drought in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication. http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2011/09/minister-of-forestry-andenvironment-of-gambia-on-behalf-of-the-african-states-6th-plenary-meetingsdesertification-general-assembly.html RESEARCHERS IN COIMBRA CREATE SYSTEM THAT LOCATES FIRES ON THE NET - FireTrack sends an alert by SMS and locates, with precision, the focus of fires in maps available on the Net. To read more: (Translated [roughly] from the text below.) Investigadores de Coimbra criam sistema que localiza incêndios na Net (vídeo) FireTrack lança alertas por SMS e localiza, com precisão, focos de incêndio em mapas disponíveis na Net. http://aeiou.exameinformatica.pt/investigadores-de-coimbra-criam-sistema-quelocaliza-incendios-na-net-video=f1010681?amp=#ixzz1ZI6FjQPJ 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 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - 8-13 July 2012. 2012 IUFRO ALL-DIVISION 5 CONFERENCE. Estoril Congress Centre, Lisbon, Portugal. http://www.iufro2012.org/ FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT for the International Symposium on Mountain Resource Management in a Changing Environment. The Aquatic Ecology Centre, Kathmandu University, and Institute of Forestry, Tribhuvan University in collaboration with the Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), University of Life Sciences, Norway, invite papers and posters from scholars and researchers to be presented at the symposium on “Mountain Resource Management in a Changing Environment” to be held in Kathmandu, Nepal, during May 29-31, 2012. Please see the website: www.ku.edu.np/aec 10 - 14 October 2011. 69th session of UNECE Timber Committee and 36th session of European Forestry Commission (B). Kemer Conference and Resort Hotel, Ataturk Blv. Yeni Mah No. 24, Kemer, Antalya, Turkey. http://live.unece.org/index.php?id=16262 11-13 October 2011. Asian Wetland Symposium on Human Well-being and Wetlands (AWS Wuxi 2011). Venue: Xizhou Grand Hotel, Wuxi, China. http://aws-wuxi-2011.a.la9.jp/0.top.html 14-16 October 2011. 2011 International Conference on Signal and Information Processing(ICSIP 2011). Singapore. The deadline for abstracts/proposals is 10 July 2011. Enquiries: IACSITconferences@gmail.com 24 - 28 October 2011. Analysis of Zero Inflated Data. Elche (Close to Alicante), Spain. Further info: http://www.highstat.com/statscourse.htm 26-28 October 2011. VIII Congreso Latinoamericano de Derecho Forestal – Ambiental. San José, Costa Rica. IUFRO 9.06.01, http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-9/90000/90600/90601/ Contact: Lucia Ruiz, lruiz(at)cima.org.pe
http://www.congresoforestalcr.org 6-11 November 2011. The Future Role of Bio-Energy from Tree Biomass in Europe. Vienna, Austria. IUFRO Taskforce on Forest Bioenergy, http://www.iufro.org/science/task-forces/forest-bioenergy/ Contact: Rolf Björheden Rolf.Bjorheden(at)skogforsk.se http://www.esf.org/index.php?id=8196 14-18 November 2011. IUFRO 2011 Eucalypts. IUFRO Working Group 2.08.03. Improvement and Culture of Eucalypts. “Joining silvicult8ural and genetic strategies to minimize Eucalyptus environmental stresses: from research to practice”. Brasil. www.euciufro2011.com euciufro@esalq.usp.br 21-24 November, 2011. BIOLIEF 2011 – 2nd World Conference on Biological Invasions and Ecosystem Functioning. Mar del Plata, Argentina. REGISTRATION DEADLINE - June 30. BIOLIEF 2011 www.grieta.org.ar/biolief 8th Southern Forestry and Natural Resources GIS Conference – Peter Bettinger writes: We are scheduling the 8th conference in this series for Dec. 11-13, 2011 in Athens, GA. Please send any ideas regarding practical "software updates" or "how to" presentations to me (pbettinger@warnell.uga.edu) 5-12 August 2012. Ecological Society of America - The 97th Annual Meeting will be held, in Portland, OR. This meeting’s theme is "Life on Earth: Preserving, Utilizing, and Sustaining our Ecosystems”. http://esa.org/portland/ WHILE SURFING THE WEB…INTERESTING LINKS For a complete listing of links go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/forest_information_update/ A new product from CIFOR – the Global Biofuel Information Tool (GBIT) - provides an overview of the state of development of the biofuel sector in the global south. Its interactive map presents national production and consumption data and an overview of key investments in the sector. http://www.cifor.org/bioenergy/maps/ 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.