Activities and events
Unit 4.01.00
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2023-10-24 |
Webinar series "Forest Mensuration and Modelling Chats": "Assessment of Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Community Resource Management Areas in the Northern Savanna Zone" | online | ||
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Contact: Bianca Eskelson, Email: bianca.eskelson@ubc.ca |
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2023-05-24 |
Webinar series "Forest Mensuration and Modelling Chats": "Small area estimation in forest inventories, what to do when sample sizes become small" | online | ||
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Contact: Bianca Eskelson, Email: bianca.eskelson@ubc.ca |
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2023-04-25 |
Webinar series "Modelling mixtures and uneven-aged forests: From pattern to process to application" | online | ||
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Contact: Bianca Eskelson, Email: bianca.eskelson@ubc.ca |
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2023-03-28 |
Webinar series "Forest Mensuration and Modelling Chats": "Tree species growth of oak and pine in mixture - a dynamic sensitive equilibrium" | online | ||
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Contact: Bianca Eskelson, Email: bianca.eskelson@ubc.ca |
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2023-02-28 |
Webinar series: Forest Mensuration and Modelling Chats: Measuring biomass and carbon stock in forests of southwestern Amazonia: from science generation to dissemination | online | ||
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Contact: Bianca Eskelson, Email: bianca.eskelson@ubc.ca |
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2023-01-26 |
Webinar series "Forest Mensuration and Modelling Chats": "Modeling allometric relationships for Caribbean trees using a mixed-effects random forest algorithm" | online | ||
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Contact: Bianca Eskelson, Email: bianca.eskelson@ubc.ca |
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Upcoming IUFRO meetings
- Webinar series "Forest Mensuration and Modelling Chats": "Assessment of Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Community Resource ManagementAreas in the Northern Savanna Zone"; online; 24 October 2023, 9:05-10:00 am Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). Join Dr. Stella Britwum Acquah, Senior Research Scientist, CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, when she talks about assessing deforestation and forest degradation in the northern Savanna zone. Registration: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_57QwMFnlJOMKPXg
- Webinar series "Forest Mensuration and Modelling Chats": "Small area estimation in forest inventories, what to do when sample sizes become small"; online; 24 May 2023, 8:05-9:00 am Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). Join Dr. Francisco Mauro, Research Associate, University of Valladolid, Spain, and Dr. Bryce Frank, Oregon/Washington State Biometrician, United States Bureau of Land Management, when they talk about small area estimation in forest inventories. Registration: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0HttIjFNswnMx9k
- Webinar series “Modelling mixtures and uneven-aged forests: From pattern to process to application”; online; 25 April 2023, 15:05 – 16:00 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). Join Dr. David Forrester, Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO, Australia, when he talks about modelling species mixtures and uneven-aged forests.
Registration: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5p3u4ClMjNaWClE
- Webinar series "Forest Mensuration and Modelling Chats": "Tree species growth of oak and pine in mixture - a dynamic sensitive equilibrium"; online; 28 March 2023, 8:05-9:00 am Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). Join Dr. Sonja Vospernik, Associate Professor at BOKU, University of Natural Resources, Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, Institute of Forest Growth, when she talks about tree species growth response to climate in oak-pine mixtures across Europe. Registration: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6WjS4e4yfqi4g62
Past Meetings
- Webinar series "Forest Mensuration and Modelling Chats": "Measuring biomass and carbon stock in forests of southwestern Amazonia: from science generation to dissemination"; online; 28 February 2023, 7:05-8:00 am Pacific Standard Time (PST).
Speaker: Dr. Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro, Associate Professor at the Federal University of Acre, Brazil. Report
- Webinar series "Forest Mensuration and Modelling Chats": "Modeling allometric relationships for Caribbean trees using a mixed-effects random forest algorithm"; online; 26 January 2023, 8:05-9:00 am Pacific Standard time (PST). Speakers: Dr. Sheng-I Yang, Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, and Dr. Thomas Brandeis, Research Forester with the Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service. Report
- 2nd North American Mensurationists Conference; Portland, Oregon, USA; 11-14 December 2022. IUFRO Units involved: 4.01.00, 4.03.00. Conference homepage
- Webinar series "Forest Mensuration and Modelling Chats": "Field Study on Critical Height Sampling and Its Antithetic Variants"; online; 28 November 2022, 10:05-11:00 pm Pacific Standard Time (PST). Speaker: Dr. Tzeng Yih Lam, Associate Professor, School of Forestry and Resource Conservation, National Taiwan University.
Report - Webinar series "Forest Mensuration and Modelling Chats": Effects of multicollinearity in model-based inference; online; 24 October 2022, 6:05-7:00 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).
Speaker: Dr. Svetlana Saarela, Researcher in the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA) of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).
Report
- Webinar Series "Forest Mensuration and Modelling Chats": Growth and yield modeling of fast-grown intensively-managed forest plantations in Chile: A long term collaborative research effort; online; 27 September 2022, 6:05-7:00 am Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).
Speaker: Dr. Guillermo Trincado, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Forest Science and Natural Resources at the Universidad Austral de Chile.
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- Webinar Series "Forest Mensuration and Modelling Chats": Modelling growth of natural forests with scarce data: challenges and a proposal; online; 19 July 2022, 9:05-10:00 am Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).
Speaker: Dr. Christian Salas, Professor at the Centre for Ecosystem Modelling and Monitoring at the Universidad Mayor, Chile.
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- Webinar Series "Forest Mensuration and Modelling Chats": Building your single-tree simulator in R with SiTree; online; 30 May 2022, 8:30-9:30 am Pacific Standard Time (PST).
Speaker: Dr. Clara Antón Fernández, Research Scientist with the Division of Forest and Forest Resources, NIBIO (Norwegian Institute for Bioeconomy Research), Norway
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- Webinar Series "Forest Mensuration and Modelling Chats": Forest carbon modelling: challenges and examples from Canada; online; 27 April 2022, 9:05-10:00 am Pacific Standard Time (PST).
Speaker: Dr. Céline Boisvenue, Research Scientist with the Canadian Forest Service
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- Webinar Series "Forest Mensuration and Modelling Chats": Resilient and resistant urban forests: Adventures in statistical modeling of forest structure and response to disturbance; online; 30 March 2022, 9:05-10:00 am Pacific Standard Time (PST).
Speaker: Dr. Christina Staudhammer, Professor at the University of Alabama
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- Webinar: Our favorite parts of the book - previously unpublished material, new research ideas, and things learned during writing; online; 23 February 2022, 9:05-10:00 am Pacific Standard Time (PST).
Speakers: Lauri Mehtätalo and Juha Lappi, Natural Resources Institute, Finland
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- 2021 Western Mensurationists Meeting - Monday morning session on "Linking growth models with remote sensing data"; online; 20-22 June 2021. Units involved: 4.01.00, 4.01.02. Conference homepage - Report
- Forest Biometrics and Modeling Research: Past Successes, Current Challenges and Future Prospects; Blacksburg, Virginia, USA; 28-30 October 2018. Conference homepage - Conference announcement and Call for papers
- New Frontiers in Forecasting Forests 2018; Stellenbosch, South Africa; 25-27 September 2018. IUFRO Units involved: 4.01.00, 4.02.07, 4.03.00, 4.04.02, 5.01.04. Conference homepage - Report
- International Conference on Sustainable Forest Management Adapting to Climate Change; Beijing, China; 13-16 October 2012. 1st announcement - 2nd announcement
- SilviLaser 2012 - 12th International Conference on LiDAR Applications for Assessing Forest Ecosystems; Vancouver, Canada; 16-19 September 2012. Units involved: 4.00.00, 4.01.00, 4.03.00. Conference homepage
- ForestSAT 2012: "Promoting science-based applications of remote sensing and other spatial data in forested systems";Corvallis, Oregon, United States; 11-14 September 2012; Conference homepage
- Global change and Mediterranean pines: alternatives for management/Cambio global y pinos mediterráneos: alternativas para los gestores; Palencia, Spain; 10-12 February 2010. Units 1.01.10, 2.02.13, 4.01.00. First announcement - Second announcement - Third announcement - Poster - Summary - Meeting Evaluation
- Meeting multiple demands for forest information: New technologies in forest data gathering; Mount Gambier, Australia; 17-20 August 2009. Units involved: 4.01.00, 4.02.03, 6.15.00, 3.01.00. Conference homepage
- Extending forest inventory and monitoring, over space and time; Quebec City, Canada; 19-22 May 2009. Units involved: 4.00.00, 4.01.00, 4.02.00, 4.02.05, 4.03.00. Conference homepage
- 4.01.02: Complex Stand Structures and Associated Dynamics: measurement indices and modeling approaches; 29 July - 2 August 2007; Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. Conference homepage
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