FIA Symposium 2010 Announcement and First Call for Sessions and Papers

-- Monitoring Across Borders --

October 5-7, 2010

Knoxville, TN, USA

The USDA Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program and the Southern Mensurationists are pleased to announce: “Monitoring Across Borders,” and the opportunity to participate in the FIA Symposium 2010. The Symposiumwill shed new light on contemporary issues, science policy, mensuration, remote sensing/GIS/geo-spatial products, and othertopics.

Symposium Goals

Exchange of science and technology across borders in the broadest sense,

Highlight cutting-edge mensuration, modeling, and related science,

Present ways that FIA has aided in policy and management decisions,

Provide a forum for linking issue-focused analyses with techniques development,

Showcase collaborative efforts and foster continued work with FIA partners,

Display state-of-the-art science and tools, and

Communicate utility of FIA data and analyses to the broader user community.

Location and Format

Information for making hotel reservations will be included in the Second Call for Papers to be sent in a month or so. The format will include morning invited sessions covering advanced science topics followed by contributed focus sessions.

Call for Papers and Sessions

Contributed sessions and papers (limit of two per author)on applications or technologies related to the Symposium’s broad theme are invited. Examples of appropriate topics are:

Current mainstream topics from the Southern landscape,

New statistical/quantitative approaches for inventory and monitoring,

Integrating FIA data with remote sensing and GIS applications,

Assessing biomass stocks and bio-energy potential,

Estimating and tracking carbon sequestration in time and space,

Landscape-level assessments across borders (e.g. climate scenarios, scales, ownerships, biomes,

futures, science frontiers, etc...), and

Monitoring trends over time and space, including forest health, invasive species, wilderness,

rangeland, fire, etc…

If you would like to submit a session or paper, please submit an abstract to the Program Committee via Will McWilliams. Abstracts should be limited to 300 words in length and must identify author’s name(s), title, affiliation, location, phone number, and e-mail address. Each contributed session will be about 2 hours long, allowing for 4 to 8 papers depending on the format of the session. For contributed sessions, an abstract is needed for each presentation. There will be space for posters to be displayed for participants.

Abstracts are due June25, 2010 and should be submitted to:

Will McWilliams

USDA Forest Service

11 Campus Blvd, Suite 200

Newtown Square, PA, USA 19073

(e-mail submissions and MS Word are preferred)

610-557-4050

Final selection of papers and sessions will be made by July 16, 2010 and the authors will be notified.

Publication

All presenters are given the opportunity to publish a brief manuscript (10 pages or so) on their work. The proceedings will be published as a Southern Research Station General Technical Report in CD format expected by the spring of 2011. Manuscripts are due in complete and fully edited form by December 15, 2010.

Registration

Registration procedures and fee will be announced.

Web Page

Information on the Symposiumwill be posted at:

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