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The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Forests — Exploring New Discoveries and New Directions in Forests
The conferences closed. Thank you for your participation.
The recordings of live sessions are available at:
https://iecf2022.sciforum.net/#recordings
The list of all accepted submissions are available at:
https://iecf2022.sciforum.net/#submissions
The accepted proceedings papers will probably be published as one dedicated volume in MDPI Environmental Sciences Proceedings after the conference.
All participants of IECF2022 are welcome to submit an extended full paper to the Special Issue of the journal Forests, with a 20% discount on the Article Processing Charges.The IECF2022 award winners will be announced at https://iecf2022.sciforum.net/#awards.
the chairs
Dear Colleagues,
It is a pleasure to announce the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Forests (IECF2022)—exploring new discoveries and new directions in forests. The conference has been organized by the MDPI open-access journal Forests (impact factor 2.634) and will be held online from 15 to 31 October 2022.
The conference will provide an opportunity to share new ideas, technologies, and innovations in the broad area of forest sciences with the global community of scientists in the field of forestry.
Forests are crucial for the health of our planet, as also highlighted in the recent COP26 meeting, and all stakeholders, beginning with forest scientists, must focus their attention on the overall sustainability of the forestry sector. Alongside timber production, forests provide several fundamental ecosystem services, such as biodiversity conservation, soil protection, recreation, landscape, food supply, and carbon stocking, without forgetting the value in terms aesthetics, education, spiritualism, art, and identity that forests possess. It is up to us to manage forests in the best possible way, allowing them to continue to carry out all of these crucial roles. The global pandemic has further increased, if possible, the importance of forests, highlighting their relevance in human health.
Taking into account the abovementioned factors, the role of forest research is fundamental, and only through sharing knowledge and competence among the different sectors of forest science will it be possible to achieve the ambitious but crucial goal of Sustainable Forest Management.
Therefore, we invite you to join us with your work and be part of this exciting experience.
The topics of the conference include:
- Forest Ecology and Management;
- Forest Ecophysiology and Genetics;
- Wood Science, Production Chains, Fuelwood and Trade;
- Forest Operations and Engineering;
- Forest and Urban Forest Sustainability;
- Forest Inventory, Quantitative Methods and Remote Sensing;
- Forest Wildfires and Other Natural Hazards;
- Forest Economics, Policy and Social Science;
- Forest Water and Climate Regulation.
For the IECF2022, participation and attendance are FREE of charge. Hopefully, this means it will be an inclusive and sustainable conference due to the lack of taxes, travel costs, or other related expenditures. All you need is a computer and access to the Internet. This online event will bring together researchers from all over the world. However, this conference represents a commitment to a “physical” meeting, which we hope will be held in the very near future.
We warmly invite our colleagues from across the world to actively take part in this important and inspiring event by presenting their latest work.
The conference invites the submission of abstracts that will be reviewed by the conference committee. The authors of accepted contributions will be invited to submit a slideshow presentation, a poster, and/or a video presentation of their work that will be discussed during the conference, as well as a paper to be published in the proceedings of the conference on Forests. This paper will not have a processing charge.
All participants are encouraged to submit a full paper to the dedicated Conference Special Issue in Forests with a 20% discount on the Article Processing Charges (APC).
This is an opportunity to exchange ideas, start fruitful collaborations, and make this third conference a success.
Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Angela Lo Monaco
Prof. Dr. Rodolfo Picchio
Prof. Dr. Mark Vanderwel
The Chairs of the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Forests
Meet the Event Chairs
Important Dates
- Abstract submission deadlineJun 30, 2022
- Abstract acceptance notificationJul 15, 2022
- Full file submission deadlineNov 02, 2022
Meet Our Speakers
Dr. Dominika Janiszewska
Łukasiewicz Research Network -Poznań Institute of Technology, Center of Wood Technology, Poznań, Poland;
Director of Center of Wood Technology at Łukasiewicz Research Network-Poznan Institute of Technology, PhD in chemical technology (Poznan University of Technology), researcher with 17 years of experience in R&D, involved in both scientific works and industrial services, intern at i.a. Stanford University, US, CNR-IVALSA, Italy. For over 10 years, she has been concerned with the topic of wood-based composites technology, in particular looking for new bioadhesives and alternative raw materials for their production. She is the co-author and co-founder of two world patents, four national patents and four patent applications, the author and reviewer for JCR journals, and the auxiliary supervisor of two PhD students. She is a laureate of the Minister of Science and Higher Education award for outstanding young scientist, and alumna of the Leadership Acadamy of Poland.
Dr. Claudia Pelosi
Department of Economics Engineering, Society and Business Organization, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy;
Claudia Pelosi is currently a senior researcher and aggregate professor in analytical chemistry at the Department of Economics, Engineering, Society and Business Organization (DEIM) of the University of Tuscia (Italy). She is also the manager of the Laboratory of Diagnostics and Materials Science and the director of the Laboratory of Multispectral Imaging. She is an assistant professor of chemistry for restoration (CHIM/12); diagnostics and spectroscopy for cultural heritage (CHIM/01); and the Laboratory of Materials Science (ING-IND/22). On 6th September 2018 Claudia obtained her National Scientific Qualification to become an associate professor in analytical chemistry (D.D. 1532/2016), which is valid from 6th September 2018 to 6th September 2027 (art. 16, comma 1, law 240/10). She is an expert in spectroscopic techniques applied to cultural heritage materials as well as to materials for coatings and wood protection. She has coauthored 89 scientific publications so far (source: Scopus, author ID: 22836449900).
Dr. Peter Clinton
New Zealand Forest Research Institute Ltd (Scion), Christchurch, New Zealand;
Peter Clinton is a forest ecologist whose research interests cover Carbon and nutrient dynamics and plant soil interactions with a particular focus on maintaining the productive capacity of commercial forests. He is one of New Zealand’s leading experts in sustainable forest management and his expertise extends to production ecology, tree nutrition, biogeochemistry and the sustainability of forest soils. He considers himself fortunate to have worked in both indigenous and exotic forests of New Zealand, providing him with a wide appreciation of diverse forest ecosystems. He has led the Government funded national programme on Sustainable Forest Management which provides core capability to support the sustainable management of New Zealand planted forests since 2005. He now leads the Forest System team at Scion and was responsible for the Government/industry funded research programme – Growing Confidence in Forestry future (GCFF, https://gcff.nz). He is now the programme leader for the Industry government funded programme “Resilient forests which focuses on multidisciplinary research that aims to increase the resilience of planted forests under an uncertain future. Until recently, he was the coordinator of the International Union of Forest Research Organisations’ working group on Forest Soils. As the Programme Manager of the New Zealand Forest Site Management Cooperative from 2004 until the formation of FFR Ltd in 2008 he has been exposed to a wide variety of environmental issues and research concerns facing the forestry and rural land use sectors. He was awarded an OECD fellowship in 2002 to study sustainable forest management issues in Europe. He was the national team leader for the IEA Bioenergy task for 4 years until 2003. He gained his PhD from the University of Canterbury and has an extensive publications record (>100 international peer-reviewed papers) on the ecology and management of natural and planted forests. He has an extensive international network and enjoys hosting collaborators from all around the world.
Dr. Ignacio J. Diaz-Maroto
Department of Agroforestry Engineering, University of Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Spain;
Ignacio J. Diaz-Maroto got his Higher Degree in Forest Engineering and his Forest Engineering PhD from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. From 1991 to 1992, he worked as a researcher at the Forest Research Centre of Lourizán, Pontevedra, where he kept collaborating until finished his doctoral thesis on ecology, dendrometry and forestry at Quercus robur L. At the same time, in 1992, he began his teaching career at University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) where he currently works as a professor and researcher. Although his teaching specialty is Dendrometry, Forest Inventory and Forest Management, during his almost 30 years as a professor, he has had the possibility of teaching other subjects in Forest Engineering, Environmental Engineering and, now in the Degree in Landscape. Among others, Planning and Management of Natural Protected Areas, Territorial Planning and Landscape Planning. He has led the "Forest Modelling, Dendrochronology and Forest Industries Group" (MoDenFo) at USC from 1994 to 2014. From 2013 to 2014, he performed as Director of the Master in Forest Engineering at USC. He coordinated the Doctoral Program in “Engineering for Rural Development”, Department of Agroforestry Engineering, which obtained the Excellence Mention of the Ministry of Education from 2011 to 2014. Moreover, he has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed articles in international journals indexed by WoS and/or Scopus, as well as books, book chapters and conference proceedings, both national and international. I have been both a principal researcher and a member of the research team in numerous projects, having supervised six doctoral theses. He was a visiting researcher in different centers, the last one by six months at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of several indexed journals (WoS): Anais Academia Brasileira Ciências, Annals of Forest Research, Austrian Journal of Forest Science, Baltic Forestry, Bosque, Ciência Florestal, Ciência Rural, Chapingo Journal: Forestry and Environmental Sciences, Current Forest
Prof. Dr. Robert Keefe
College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho Experimental Forest, Moscow, USA;
Dr. Robert F. Keefe is the Director of the 4,000 ha University of Idaho Experimental Forest and Associate Professor of Forest Operations in the College of Natural Resources. His research includes the development of real-time location services and human and equipment activity recognition modeling to improve the efficiency and safety of logging operations, research to support new approaches to managing forest operations and wildland and prescribed fire, and applications of single-tree inventories in forestry.
Prof. Dr. Rodolfo Picchio
Department of Agricultural and Forest Sciences, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy;
Prof. Dr. Angela Lo Monaco
Department of Agriculture and Forest Science, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy;
Dr. Janine Schweier
Research Group Sustainable Forestry, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland;
Janine Schweier obtained a Forest Science degree and a doctoral degree from the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Since 2019, she has been the head of the research group Sustainable Forestry at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research (WSL). Her research focuses on sustainable forest operations, the provision of forest ecosystem services, forest economy in a changing environment, and forest digitalization. She has coauthored more than 30 scientific publications in international journals indexed by WoS and contributed to many technical magazines, guidelines, and book chapters. She is an editorial board member of the International Journal of Forest Engineering and the Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering, a member of the expert committee silviculture and forest technique of the German Center for Forest Work and Technology (KWF), and a board member of the Swiss Wood Innovation Network S-WIN.
Prof. Dr. Panayotis Dimopoulos
Department of Biology, School of Natural Sciences, University of Patras, Patras, Greece;
- S1. Forest Ecology and Management
- S2. Forest Ecophysiology and Genetics
- S3. Wood Science, Production Chains, Fuelwood and Trade
- S4. Forest Operations and Engineering
- S5. Forest and Urban Forest Sustainability
Sponsors and Partners
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Live Session 1 - Wood Science (17 October 2022)
Live Session 2 - Forest Ecology and Management (20 October 2022)
Live Session 3 - Forest Operations and Engineering (27 October 2022)
Conference have created a Special Issue for selected conference papers in our journal Forests (ISSN 1999-4907, IF 2.634). Papers submitted to this Special Issue, if accepted for publication after peer review, will receive a 20% discount on the Article Processing Charges. More instructions for submission can be found here.
Selected Papers from the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Forests (IECF2022)
Edited by Angela Lo Monaco, Rodolfo Picchio and Mark Vanderwel
Submission deadline: 25 July 2023
Ms. Rainy Han
Ms. Leah Lu
Ms. Emilija Babic
MDPI Branch Office, Beijing, China
E-Mail: iecf2022@mdpi.com
For information regarding submission inquiry and sponsoring opportunities, please feel free to contact us.