Program Overview
Program Overview
| 23rd Morning | 24th Morning | 25th Morning |
| Session 4. Forest Wildfires | Session 3. Climate Smart Forestry and Forest Innovations Session 5. Wood Science, Production Chains, Fuelwood and Trade |
Session 1. Forest Ecology and Management |
| 23rd Afternoon | 24th Afternoon | |
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Session 2.Forest Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, and Earth Observations |
Session 6. Bioeconomy and Forest Economics |
IECF 2024 Program (DAY1)
IECF 2024
Session 4. Forest Wildfires
Date: 23rd September 2024 (Monday)
Time: 9:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Title |
| 09:00-09:10 | Dr. Giorgos Mallinis Event Chair |
Welcome from the Event Chair |
| 09:10-09:20 | Dr. José Aranha Committee Member |
Welcome from the Committee Member |
| 09:20-09:40 |
Prof. Dr. Brendan Mackey |
How climate change and forest management are influencing wildfire burn severity |
| 09:40-09:55 | Michail-Christos Tsoutsos | Modelling the Domino Effect of Wildfires |
| 09:55-10:10 | Suresh Babu KV | Advancing Wildfire Detection Through Enhanced Satellite Technologies—Review |
| 10:10-10:25 | Angelos Alamanos | The Impacts of a Forest Wildfire on Flooding and Economic Damages |
| 10:25-10:40 | Sebastião Agrela | Operational Plan for Combating Rural Fires on the Island of Madeira |
IECF 2024
Session 2. Forest Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, and Earth Observations
Date: 23rd September 2024 (Monday)
Time: 14:00 (CEST, Basel) | 08:00 (EDT, New York) | 20:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Title |
| 14:00-14:10 | Prof. Dr. Tianxiang Yue Session Chair |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
| 14:10-14:30 | Prof. Dr. Tianxiang Yue, Ms. Chenchen Wu Invited Speakers |
The Relationship Between Tree Species Diversity and Forest Carbon Stocks |
| 14:30-14:45 | Ronald C. Estoque | Spatiotemporal Patterns of Global Tropical Forest Loss Before and After 2015 and Its Implications for Mitigation, Biodiversity Conservation and Disaster Risk Reduction |
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14:45-15:00 |
Diaz-Maroto I.J. | Effects of Landscape Homogenization on Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Services |
| 15:00-15:15 | Victoria Saavedra Alvarado | Integrating Ecology and Territorial Management: Balancing Biodiversity Conservation with Agricultural Production in the Argentine Gran Chaco |
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15:15-15:30 |
Federico Filipponi | Virtual Constellation of Sentinel-2 and PlanetScope Satellites to Monitor Forest Ecosystems |
| 15:30-15:45 | Uaktho Baishnab | Assessment of Plant Species and Biodiversity in SUST Campus—A Peri Urban Area. |
| 15:45-16:00 | Adriana Martinez Arias |
Quantifying Potential Organic Carbon in Mangrove Soils: A Machine Learning Approach to Improve Conservation Efforts in the Colombian Pacific Coast |
IECF 2024 Program (DAY2)
IECF 2024
Session 3. Climate Smart Forestry and Forest Innovations
Session 5. Wood Science, Production Chains, Fuelwood and Trade
Date: 24th September 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 9:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Title |
| 09:00-09:10 | Prof. Dr. Rodolfo Picchio & Dr. Rachele Venanzi Session Chairs |
Welcome from the Session Chairs |
| 09:10-09:30 | Dr. Francesco Latterini Invited Speaker |
Climate-Smart Forest Operations: How to Adapt Forest Operations to a Changing Climate |
| 09:30-09:50 | Dr. Paweł Horodecki Invited Speaker |
Invasive Tree Species Effect on the Leaf-litter Decomposition Process |
| 09:50-10:05 | Eva Kiraly | Evaluating the Potential for Climate Change Mitigation through Doubling the Area of Windbreak Plantations in Hungary |
| 10:05-10:20 | Lokesh Chandra Dube | Challenges and Opportunities for India's Carbon Forestry in a Dynamic 'Climate change Supermarket’ |
| 10:20-10:35 | María Rosario García-Gil | Landscape Breeding |
| 10:35-10:50 | BREAK | |
| 10:50-11:00 |
Prof. Angela Lo Monaco |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
| 11:00-11:20 |
Dr. Mauro Bernabei |
Timber Trade in Roman Times as Inferred by Dendrochronology |
| 11:20-11:40 | Dr. Gianluca Tondi Invited Speaker |
Tannin-based polymers |
| 11:40-11:55 | Osman Emre Özkan | Effects of Chemical Modification with Citric Acid on Wood |
| 11:55-12:10 | María Carmona Cruz | Pinus pinea L. xylogenesis Under Extreme Conditions in the Llobregat Delta Litoral Forests |
| 12:10-12:25 | Bu Kelkar |
Evaluating the Effects of Thermal Pretreatment of Bamboo Fibers on Characteristics of Bamboo–polypropylene Thermoplastic Composites |
| 12:25-12:40 | Claudia Marcela Ibañez | Preliminary Studies on the Selection of Uruguayan Woods for the Production of Transparent Wood |
IECF 2024
Session 6. Bioeconomy and Forest Economics
Time: 14:00 (CEST, Basel) | 08:00 (EDT, New York) | 20:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
| 14:00-14:10 | Prof. Dr. Emmanuel G. Koukios Session Chair |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
| 14:10-14:20 | Prof. Dr. Emmanuel G. Koukios Session Chair |
Overview Speech |
| 14:20-14:40 | Assoc. Prof. Konstantinos G. Papaspyropoulos Invited Speaker |
Accountability of Forest Organizations in the Bioeconomy era |
| 14:40-15:00 |
Dr. Verina Ingram |
Sustainably Governing Bioeconomies of Global and Local Forest Product Value Chains |
| 15:00-15:15 | Nugraha Akbar Nurrochmat | Climate Justice: Balancing Deforestation for Developing and Maintaining Food Security in Ghana to Mitigate Global Warming with Fairness |
| 15:15-16:15 | Prof. Dr. Emmanuel G. Koukios | Round Table Discussion |
IECF 2024 Program (DAY3)
IECF 2024
Session 1. Forest Ecology and Management
Date: 25th September 2024 (Wednesday)
Time: 9:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Title |
| 09:00-9:10 | Dr. Giovanna Battipaglia Session Chair |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
| 09:10-09:40 | Dr. Giovanna Battipaglia Keynote Speaker |
Forest vulnerability to climate change |
| 09:40-10:00 |
Dr. Camilla Wellstein |
The role of forest diversity and vegetation dynamics in face of extreme meteorological and biological events in the South Eastern Alps |
| 10:00-10:15 | Hristina Hristova | Enhancing Forest Inventory with Cost-Effective Videogrammetry: A Case Study Using Insta360 Pro 2 |
| 10:15-10:30 | Longina Chojnacka-Ożga | The Impact of Extreme Weather Conditions on the Forest Dieback in the Polish Mountains |
| 10:30-10:45 | Francesco Niccoli | A Comprehensive Analysis of Castel Volturno's Pinus pinea L. Forest Dieback Using Land-Based and Remote Sensing Techniques |
| 10:45-11:00 | Afef Hajaji | Research on Optimal Biochar Amount Needed to Mitigate Salt Stress-induced Effects on Germination and Growth of Moringa Oleifera |
| 11:00-11:15 | Dmitry Dergunov | Quantitative wood anatomy of Scots pine over 270 years in the foothills of the Western Sayan, Siberia |
| 11:15-11:30 | Ayushman Malakar | Genetic Variability Assessment of Azadirachta indica A. Juss in Eastern India: Implications for Tree Improvement |