A post-doc position in hydrology/biogeochemistry in the boreal landscape
A post-doctoral position is available at the Department of Forest Ecology & Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden.
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Forest field surveys trough a smartphone
MOTI: una innovativa APP forestale per aiutare i rilievi di campagna.
Professor in Insect Ecology at the Department of Ecology, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden
The professorship should focus on the ecology and dynamics of insect populations. Of particular interest is basic understanding of the population processes affecting distribution and abundance and how these processes interact with changing environmental conditions. Understanding of how population growth can be controlled is also central....
2nd European Agroforestry Conference, 04-06 Giugno 2014, Cottbus, Germania: uscita la seconda call for abstract
La Seconda Conferenza Europea di Agroforestry, organizzata dalla European Agroforestry Federation (EURAF) si svolgerà in Germania, in Cottbus, dal 4 al 6 giugno 2014. E’ aperta la call per l’invio degli abstract. Tutti i temi dell’agroforestry sono ben accetti, dai sistemi silvo-pastorali, alle siepi campestri, fasce tampone, vegetazione ripariale, phytoremediation con alberi, consociazioni tra colture arboree (da legno, frutto e ogni tipo), colture erbacee e/o zootecnica.
A scientific roadmap for projections of global change impacts on forests
COST Call for Expression of Interest to participate in the COST Strategic Event A scientific roadmap for projections of global change impacts on forests Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 27-28 August 2014 Background Europe’s forests contribute substantially to human prosperity and well-being. Forests have been subject to...
PhD in systems biology of host-pathogen (Phytophthora) interactions
Scion (New Zealand Forest Research Institute) is very pleased to be advertising the following two PhD scholarships in systems biology of host-pathogen interactions under our Phytophthora Enabling Technologies MBIE program. These fully funded scholarships will be in collaboration with project partners Massey University and The University...
Training School Cost FP1301 EuroCoppice
The Cost Action FP1301 EuroCoppice (www.eurocoppice.uni-freiburg.de) is organising a training school on Silviculture of coppice beech forests, 1-6 July 2014, in Sarajevo (Bosnia Herzegovina) see http://www.eurocoppice.uni-freiburg.de/intern/pdf/1st-training-school-faculty-of-forestry-university-sarajevo.pdf
“Global Forest Change 2000–2012”
La prima mappatura della copertura forestale e dei cambiamenti 2000-2012 disponibile globalmente ma realizzata a una risoluzione tale da poter essere utilizzata anche per scopi locali!
EXPO school
La Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, nell’ambito del progetto Laboratorio Expo, organizza una Expo School aperta a 20 tra neolaureati, studenti di dottorato, borsisti, assegnisti e giovani ricercatori. La scuola sarà tenuta a Milano e avrà una durata di 5 giorni (7-11 aprile) durante i quali i partecipanti...
Two PhD positions in Chemical Ecology in Forestry at the University of Alberta, Canada
University of Alberta, Edmonton (Canada) is seeking two outstanding PhD students in chemical ecology. Current research in the lab explores questions of broad relevance to invasion biology of forest insects in novel environments, emphasizing ecological functions of plant secondary compounds and evolution of insect-plant interactions in...
THE IUFRO INCUBATOR Student and Young Scientist Sessions
Call for abstracts The IUFRO World Congress is pleased to announce a special call for abstracts for the IUFRO Incubator Session – aimed specifically for graduate students and recent graduates to present a summary of their BSc, MSc or PhD thesis work. The call for abstracts...
Postdoctoral Fellowship at ZEF
One-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at ZEF for mapping the forest cover in Central Asia Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for a full time fixed term position for 1yr as Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn, Germany (http://www.zef.de)....
Open position at EFIMED
EFIMED has and open position for a Junior Researcher at the EFIMED Offices in Barcelona, Spain.
Graduate research assistant in Forest Pathology
Glen R. Stanosz, Professor of Tree and Forest Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is interested in applicants to pursue M.S. or Ph.D. degrees while supported as a graduate research assistant. Position A: Investigation of the influence of tree age/extension of rotations, as well as site...
HIGHLIGHTS: Gli alberi non finiscono mai di crescere?
Titolo originale: Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size Autori: Stephenson NL, Das AJ, et al. Rivista: Nature, early view, 15 January 2014 doi: 10.1038/nature12914 Un articolo che rimette un discussione un’opinione ben radicata, che cioè gli alberi grandi e vecchi cessino di...
Docente di Tecnologia del legno in Argentina
DE ACUERDO A LO ESTABLECIDO POR RESOLUCIÓN DEL CONSEJO DIRECTIVO DE LA FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS FORESTALES de la UNaM Nro. 102/13 , SE LLAMA A CONCURSO PUBLICO DE ANTECEDENTES Y OPOSICIÓN PARA LA COBERTURA DE UN CARGO DOCENTE REGULAR, A PARTIR DEL 13 DE DICIEMBRE DEL...
International Plant Science Conference (IPSC)
From Nature to Technological Exploitations Florence, 2 – 5 September 2014
Wood Anatomy & Tree-Ring Ecology
International course on Wood Anatomy of Tree Rings in Budweis (CZ) 25-31 May 2014
Bandi DAAD 2014
Per il quarto anno consecutivo, la cooperazione tra l’associazione Leibniz e il DAAD (Servizio Tedesco per lo Scambio Accademico) si materializza nella forma di un’offerta di borse di studio, mirate a finanziare il soggiorno annuale in Germania, presso uno dei centri di ricerca Leibniz, di ricercatori...
Senior scientist position in land surface modelling
Bioclimatology group at the Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany