About

The International Association of Wood Anatomists was founded in 1931. Its objectives are:
• to create awareness of the place of wood anatomy in science, technology and conservation of natural resources, for the public good;
• to exchange ideas and information through correspondence and meetings;
• to facilitate collection, storage and exchange of research materials;
• to provide rational bases for the consistent use of terminology in descriptions of wood and bark, and to cooperate with others having similar aims in other related fields of plant anatomy;
• to stimulate the publication of scientific articles on wood anatomy and related fields (including bark anatomy, "woody" monocotyledons);
• to encourage and assist the study and teaching of wood anatomy and related fields;
• to promote research in wood anatomy and related fields and to engage in any other activity consistent with the objectives of the Association.

The Association is governed by an International Council of 12 elected members. Each Council serves for a period of three years and Council members are eligible for a maximum of two consecutive terms. The IAWA Council appoints an Executive Secretary for the day-to-day management of the Association. Please feel free to contact one of the Officers or Council Members listed below if you would like to know more about IAWA.

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Executive Secretary

Frederic Lens, Ph.D.
the Netherlands

IAWA Office:
c/o Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity

Naturalis (Section NHN)
P.O. Box 9514, 2300 RA,

Leiden, The Netherlands
Fax: 31-71-5273511
e-mail: eevn@euronet.nl

Deputy Executive Secretary
Hisashi Abe

PR Officer

Guillermo Angeles

Mexico

PR Officer and Associate Editor

Steven Jansen

Germany

Financial Officer of the US Account

Regis B. Miller

USA

Regional IAWA Groups

Jointly with numerous other organizations IAWA Members are active all over the world in organizing scientific meetings in which the study of wood structure and function plays a major part. Whenever the IAWA is a leading partner in these meetings, the regional IAWA Committees play an active part in their organization. Over the last decade the composition of regional committees has undergone minor or major changes. Below is the current composition, as we are aware of them. Some of the forthcoming meetings these groups are organizing are added (see also the Wood Anatomy News pages here and in issue 33-1).

Pan American regional group: Carmen Marcati, Fidel Roig, Barbara Lachenbruch, Veronica Angyalossy, Teresa Terrazas (Recife, Brazil, October 2012).

Pacific regional group: Tomoyuki Fujii, Hisashi Abe, Lloyd Donaldson, Y.S. Kim, Keiko Kuroda, M. Hamami bin Sahri, Takao Itoh (Nanjing, China, October 2013).

Afro-European regional group: Pieter Baas, Steven Jansen, Veronica de Micco, Imogen Poole, Rupert Wimmer (Hamburg, Germany 2014).

2012 IAWA Council Members

Gregorio Ceccantini

Barbara Lachenbruch (also Listserv Officer)

Lloyd A. Donaldson (also Associate Editor)

Robert Evans

Gerald Koch

Keiko Kuroda

Carmen Marcati

Veronica de Mico

Fidel Roig

Teresa Terrazas

Alex Wiedenhoeft

Yafang Yin

Comments: Bruce Hoffman - Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis - Netherlands National Herbarium - Leiden University
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