Forest Monitoring to assess Forest Functioning under Air Pollution and Climate Change ¶
ICP Forests / SwissForestLab / NFZ Summer school 2021
Date: August 22 - August 28, 2021
Location: Davos (Eastern Switzerland)
Organized by: ICP Forests / SwissForestLab / NFZ.forestnet
Language: English
Type of event: Summer School
Target audience: Ph.D. students (but also MSc in their last year and PostDocs) from any country in the world
Forest monitoring is defined by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) as the regular and periodic measurement of certain parameters of forests (physical, chemical, and biological) to determine baselines to detect and observe changes over time. Without standardized and harmonized methodologies, understanding the loss of biodiversity and reduction of carbon sequestration capacity that results from global change becomes much more difficult.
Climate change and air pollution affect forest ecosystems in many different ways. Drought periods, as the one in 2018, strongly reduce tree growth and increase tree mortality in Europe and elsewhere. At the same time, elevated air pollution levels affect forests from the leaf to ecosystem level. While societies' expectations to forests are increasing and forests have become focal points for local, national and global interests, the provision of ecosystem services such as timber production, water purification, and carbon sequestration is more and more endangered. To address the impact of global change on forest ecosystems and their resilience, long-term data series are indispensable to evaluate status, trends and processes in forest ecosystems.
Latest debates on fake news, climate crisis and increasing expectations to forests and future forest management demonstrate not only the demand for scientific sound information but also the need to address the impact of global change on forest ecosystems and changing societal conditions and needs from complementary angles
The ICP Forests/SwissForestLab/NFZ Summer School 2021 aims to provide an in-depth understanding of the concepts, approaches, and available data infrastructure of forest long-term monitoring. Novel modeling and assessment approaches will be discussed considering the expectations to future forests from a scientific, forest management, and socio-economic perspective. Experienced researchers in forest science will discuss the potential limitation of disciplinary and interdisciplinary concepts.
The participants will reflect on their own scientific work with respect to other disciplinary methods and discuss possible benefits of interdisciplinary approaches in their field.
The Summer School is open to PhD students (but also MSc in their last year and PostDocs) in forest research and related disciplines from any country in the world.
Further information can be found in the flyer.
Contact
If you have any questions, please contact the organizing committee via: swissforestlab_summerschool(at)wsl.ch.
Organizing committee
- Dr. Marcus Schaub (WSL, ICP Forests)
- Prof. Dr. Arthur Gessler (WSL, SwissForestLab)
- Dr. Stefan Hunziker (WSL)
- Dr. Julia Born (SwissForestLab, WSL)