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IAWA at IUFRO Division 5 Conference - July 8-13, 2012
The programme of the IUFRO Division 5 Conference in Estoril, Portugal this summer will feature an impressive selection of contributions on wood structure as related to wood quality, with special interest sessions on wood development, climate change, dendrochronology, and non-timber forest products such as cork. IAWA will host a short business meeting and a more extensive social hour on Monday 9 July. We look forward to seeing many IAWA members at this important forest products conference. For further details see the IUFRO website (www.iufro.org).
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Fossil IAWA Wood Symposium at IPC XIII / IOPC IX 2012 - August 23-30, 2012
A joint meeting of the 13th International Palynological Congress and 9th International Organization of Palaeobotany Conference, Tokyo, Japan, Campus of Chuo University.
On behalf of IAWA, Kazuo Terada (Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Japan), Kyungsik Kim (Chonbuk National University, Korea), and Elisabeth Wheeler (N. C. State University, USA) have organized a session on “Late Cretaceous and Tertiary Woods. Ecological, Systematic, and Biogeographic Insights from the Fossil Wood Record.”
This symposium has broad geographic coverage. Tentative speakers and presentation titles include: 1) Marion Bamford - Late Cretaceous and Tertiary woods from southern Africa; 2) Nareerat Boonchai - Diversity and palaeoenvironment of Eocene petrified woods from Parnell Draw, southwestern Wyoming, USA; 3) Emilio Estrada-Ruiz - Angiosperm wood floras from the southern Western Interior of North America: new data and interpretations; 4) Eun Kyoung Jeong and Kyungsik Kim: Miocene wood assemblages of Korea and Japan with special references to the East Sea (Japan Sea) opening; 5) Anumeha Shukla and R.C. Mehrotra - Fossil wood flora of western India and its bearing on palaeoecological and phytogeographical interpretations; 6) Kazuo Terada and Imogen Poole - Vegetational changes during Late Cretaceous–Tertiary interval from Antarctica to South America, based on fossil wood record; 7) Elisabeth Wheeler and Pieter Baas - Late Cretaceous woods and APG III. What orders and families are represented?
Other symposia with involvement of IAWA members include: Paleofloristic and paleoenvironmental changes in Asia throughout the Mesozoic: Palynological and megafossil evidence. Organizers: Harufumi Nishida, Marc Philippe, Kazuo Terada & Julien Legrand, and Use and management of plant resources in prehistoric periods in East Asia. Organizers: Shuichi Noshiro & Yuichiro Kudo. There is also a general session to which abstracts can be submitted.
The IPC XIII / IOPC IX 2012 web site is now open for registration: http://www.psj3.org/ipc-iopc2012/Welcome.html. Presenting author abstracts are due March 31. Online early registration ends April 30, online registration closes May 31, 2012. There are five options for mid-conference field trips on August 26; and two pre- and five post-congress field trips.
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IAWS meeting in Zvolen, Slovakia - September 26-28, 2012
The International Academy of Wood Science will hold its annual meeting at the Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia. The IAWS meeting will combine forces with the 5th International Symposium on the Interaction of Wood with Various Forms of Energy. For further information visit the IAWS website at www.iaws-web.org or contact the organizer Dr. Rastislav Lagaña by e-mail (lagana@vsld.tuzvo.sk).
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2012 IAWA Pan-American Meeting - October 1-5, 2012
Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
2012 Encontro Pan-Americano da IAWA
Including Two Special Symposia:
The Second SIMBRAMAD - II Brazilian Symposium on Wood Anatomy
(II Simpósio Brasileiro de Anatomia de Madeira)
The First IAWA Bark Symposium
(I Simpósio sobre Casca da IAWA)
The 2012 IAWA Pan-American Meeting will be held from 01 to 05 October 2012 in Recife, Pernambuco. This meeting will be an international forum for the exchange of knowledge and experience in a wide variety of areas, including general wood anatomy and identification, wood formation and cambial activity, dendrochronology, ecological wood anatomy, paleobotany, ecophysiology, and research in wood quality with a focus on sustainable and adequate use of the wood. Ultrastructure, and the use of new technologies, including near-infrared spectroscopy and the recent advances in microscopy and molecular biology are leading the boundaries of wood anatomy to new challenges. This meeting will be organized by Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas (FCA), UNESP/Botucatu, and the Fundação de Estudos e Pesquisas Agrícolas e Florestais (FEPAF).
In the 2012 IAWA Pan-American Meeting there will be included two other events, the II SIMBRAMAD (II Brazilian Symposium on Wood Anatomy) organized by Dr. Gregorio Ceccantini, and the I IAWA Bark Symposium organized by Dr. Veronica Angyalossy. The Bark Symposium will be a special session to explore the need and feasibility of a future "List of terms used in anatomy of bark."
Participants will have the opportunity to discuss recent progress in their research and exchange knowledge with their colleges. The IAWA Pan-American Meeting is co-sponsored by the International Association of Wood Anatomists (IAWA); Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas, UNESP/Botucatu; Centro de Ciências Biológicas, UFPE/Recife; Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, UFPB/João Pessoa; and Instituto de Biociências, USP/São Paulo. The event will be held in five days of activities (01 to 05 October 2012) with lectures, panels, discussions, symposiums, with the participation of national and international researchers. Recife, in the state of Pernambuco, was chosen because of the infrastructure of hotels and one of the most modern airports in Brazil, besides the support of the UFPE, a wide variety of cultural attractions, and the occurrence of different Biomes near the city, such as mangroves, rainforest, and caatinga, as well as the beautiful landscapes. The local for the meeting and information regarding registration and submission of abstracts will be published soon.
Organizing Committee for the 2012 IAWA Pan-American Meeting
President: Carmen Regina Marcati – Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas - UNESP – Botucatu/SP
Vice President: Rivete Silva de Lima – Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza -UFPB – João Pessoa/PB
Local Organizer: Marccus Alves – Centro de Ciências Biológicas – UFPE – Recife/PE
Scientific Committee
Veronica Angyalossy – Instituto de Biociências – USP – São Paulo/SP
Gregorio Ceccantini – Instituto de Biociências – USP – São Paulo/SP
Rivete Lima – Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza -UFPB – João Pessoa/PB
Patricia Soffiatti – Setor de Ciências Biológicas – UFPR – Curitiba/PR
Lázaro Benedito da Silva – Instituto de Biologia – UFBA – Salvador/BA
Claudia Luizon Dias-Leme – Instituto de Biologia – UFBA – Salvador/BA
Cláudio Sérgio Lisi – Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde – UFS – São Cristóvão/SE
Carmen Regina Marcati – Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas - UNESP – Botucatu/SP
Silvia Rodrigues Machado – Instituto de Biociências – UNESP – Botucatu/SP
Marccus Alves – Centro de Ciências Biológicas – UFPE – Recife/PE
Executive Coordinator: Edison Baptistão - Fundação de Estudos e Pesquisas Agrícolas e Florestais, FEPAF - Botucatu/SP
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First workshop of the NECLIME working group on fossil wood in Brno, Czech Republic, 2013
NECLIME is a project which tries to reconstruct the Neogene climate and vegetation of Eurasia and has several working groups. In September 2011 in Bucharest a special fossil wood working group was proposed. Its first workshop is planned for June 2013 at the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology of Mendel University in Brno (Czech Republic). The emphasis will be on Cenozoic fossil angiosperm wood with two main objectives: 1) to reconsider the nearest living relatives of fossil taxa, 2) to revise “taxon complexes” by adding fossil wood morphogenera and 3) to summarize the fossil wood localities suitable for Wiemann et al.’s statistical approach of paleoclimate reconstruction. A well equipped room with a projector directly connected with a teaching microscope and 25 good-quality microscopes as well as numerous reference slides of modern Central European and some tropical wood will be at our disposal. The workshop is primarily for people who would be interested to become a NECLIME member and to cooperate with the fossil wood working group. However, IAWA members and others interested are also most welcome! The city of Brno where the workshop will take place is a nice and historical metropolis of Moravia, easily accessible by car or public transport. Moravian wine tasting and visits to historical sites and the beautiful Moravian Karst landscape are further incentives to come. We look forward to welcome you in Brno in 2013!
Vladimir Gryc (Mendel University in Brno) & Jakub Sakala (Charles University in Prague), organizers (e-mail contact: rade@natur.cuni.cz).
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8th PRWAC in Nanjing China, 2013
The 8th Pacific Regional Wood Anatomy Conference (PRWAC 2013) will be held in the second half of October, 2013 in Nanjing, China. Our local host and the chairman of the conference will be Professor Qisheng Zhang from Nanjing Forestry University. The conference is co-organized by the Wood Science Branch of the Chinese Society of Forestry and is co-sponsored by the International Association of Wood Anatomists (IAWA). Please look out for the further announcements on the IAWA Website or in the forthcoming issues of the IAWA Journal. The contact address for the conference: Professor Pan Biao, School of Wood Science and Technology, Nanjing Forestry University (e-mail: pan.biao@163.com).
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News
Association Affairs
A vote of thanks to Regis Miller and Tomoyuki Fujii
Following the transfer of the IAWA Office from Madison to Leiden last year as announced in IAWA J. 32(4): 536, we would like to express our gratitude for the long-time service of Regis Miller and Tomoyuki Fujii as Executive Secretary and Deputy Executive Secretary, respectively. From 1997 until 2011 Regis and Tomoyuki have served our association extremely well. Regis moreover served as Deputy Executive Secretary from 1990 to 1997, and it is very gratifying that he is prepared to remain in charge of the American account of IAWA, and continues to be active in the collection of membership dues in the Americas. Tomoyuki Fujii has been a driving force for many years in the highly active Pacific Regional Group of IAWA. We wish both Regis and Tomo the very best for their personal and professional future and look forward to an opportunity to thank Regis and Tomoyuki in public at one of the future IAWA meetings.
Frederic Lens and the IAWA Council.
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IAWA Dues 2012 – a reminder
Willem Hurkmans (w.hurkmans@home.nl), our new membership officer and treasurer has asked us to remind you of your outstanding IAWA dues, in case you have not yet reacted to his e-mailed dues notices sent out last December. Please make life bearable for him and transfer your dues by bank or credit card at your earliest convenience. When using bank transfer please use the IBAN and BIC (SWIFT) codes of the IAWA bank accounts in order to reduce banking costs and make sure that your name is clearly indicated in the transfer documentation (also if your payment is with the credit card of a friend or colleague, or your employer). We sometimes receive dues payments without clear member identification, which causes much unnecessary work.
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Upgrading the IAWA Website
Bruce Hoffman, the recently appointed webmaster of IAWA is very busy updating the IAWA Website. This includes posting the latest wood anatomy news, and abstracts of papers published in the current year’s IAWA Journal as well as full papers of all IAWA Journal volumes published a year previously. Meanwhile we also have updated the very old-fashioned instructions to authors and order forms for special IAWA publications. There is also an extremely useful page of important links to sites of major databases such as InsideWood and various institutional wood collections. Please visit us regularly at www.iawa-website.org and let us know if you have any suggestions for improvement or additional information!
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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 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).
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Notice and request about 'Index Xylariorum - institutional wood collections of the world' Edition 4 - DRAFT
William Stern's 'Index Xylariorum - institutional
wood collections of the world' was last published in 1988 as the third
edition (IX3). Since then, and particularly in recent years, there have
been many changes in the institutions holding wood collections around the
world, including advances in communication and information provision using
the Internet.
In 2009 we produced an updated edition of the index (IX4). A draft of this is now available
online at kew.org/collections/wood-index/. It comprises old entries as listed
in the 1988 IX3 publication, along with updates sent to Peter Gasson at various times since 2001, and is therefore
very much a work in progress with some very out of date information!
We are asking IAWA members to check the entry for their own Institute's
wood collection and from the web pages to submit electronically any
required changes. The entries
are currently arranged by country so it should be easy for you to check
also for other wood collections you know of in your own country and to see
if the information is up-to-date.
In particular, we are interested in receiving information about new
wood collections established since the late 1980s, and about collections in
countries not yet listed or long outdated. Other changes to entries
that may be needed are current staff names, email contact details, and
relevant websites.
Please
check the draft [http://www.kew.org/collections/wood-index/Index_Xylariorum4.htm]
and:
- if you curate a collection that does not have an entry, please
complete and submit the questionnaire.
- if the collection you curate has an entry which needs updating, please
complete all respondent details,
institute name and country and any
fields needing an update, and submit the questionnaire.
- if you are not a curator, but know of a collection that should be
included, please email us
the contact details of the curator or ask him/her to complete the
questionnaire.
Contact details and more information
can also be found on these web pages, but general queries should be sent to
index.xylariorum@kew.org.
Anna Lynch & Peter Gasson, Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,
Richmond, Surrey UK.
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