The Newforests project is arriving to its end. In this link you can check the published SCI articles framed in the project.

Within the Newforests project framework, a new course on Statistical Modelling for Forest Sciences is organized for the first week of July 2015. Dr. Marc Mazzerole will come from Abitibi UQAT to Solsona to share advance methods in statistics used in forest sciences. Both if you are working on forest administration or forest research, or if you are interested in this discipline, don’t hesitate and join up the course. More information here

The CEF member Yves Bergeron has visited Solsona headquarters and has met with the different research groups in order to identify common approaches and establish new research priorities in the Newforests project framework. Yves Bergeron and Francine Tremblay also presented their work in an open seminar.

On november 4th-5th the “Colloque De Bois et de Services: Aménager dans un monde changeant”  will be conducted in Shawinigan, Quebec. Newforests Canadian members will participate as speakers, and european members will be among the assistant public.

Brian Harvey and Suzanne Brais presented in the Forest Sciences Center of Catalonia their work carried out in the UQAT. Brian Harvey presented “Modelling stand dynamics after partial harvesting in eastern Canadian boreal mixedwoods” and Suzanne Brais “Deadwood, fungi and decomposition (with emphasis on the boreal forest)”. Great conferences!

We have two new stages in Canada from CTFC:

18th October 2016 – 18th November 2016

Quim Canelles from the CTFC stays one month with Alain Leduc from CEF . Quim will be working on vegetation dynamic modelling, more specifically in calibrating vegetation growth and post-disturbance transitions.

27th October 2016 – 3rd December 2016

Assu Gil-Tena, from the CTFC, spends one month and a half in Catana working with CEF researchers (Pierre Drapeau). Assu will be finishing the work started from the previous stay in 2014, on the development of landscape network assessments to determine how woodpeckers are affected by landscape fragmentation in boreal forests of Quebec.

Have both a nice stay!

12nd October 2016 – 6th December 2016

Alejandra Morán, from the Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia, is spending two months in CEF. Ale will be working on the assessment of ecosystem services values associated to forest systems in highly dynamic landscapes under sifferent scenarios. Have a nice stay!

24th September 2016 – 15th November 2016

Aitor Ameztegui, past member of CEF and current researcher at the CREAF, is now spending 1.5 months in Montréal investigating the role of functional diversity on individual tree growth for a set of 19 tree species. He will work with Alain Paquette within the IDENT experimental network. Enjoy!

20th September 2016 – 7th December 2016

Núria Aquilué, from the Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia, is spending two months in CEF working on the spatial modelling of land-use changes and its interaction with fire regimes in Mediterranean and Boreal systems. Enjoy!

19th September 2016 – 21th November 2016

Carla Bellera, from the Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia, is spending two months in CEF. Carla will be preparing the Capitalization Report of the Newforests project, which will present final results about knowledge gathered by project researchers.