Contributors for this week's FIU include: Bill Feidt, Chijien Lin, Michael Köhl, Kerry McKay, Scott Miller, Brita Pajari, and Gary Waggoner. Thanks all!
REMINDER - For those of you who wish to present a paper or poster at Accuracy 2000 (12- 14 July 2000, Amsterdam), please let me remind you that the deadline for abstract submission is 1 OCTOBER 1999. See http://www.gis.wau.nl/Accuracy2000/ for more information. Best regards, Gerard Heuvelink (chairman Organising Committee). Faculty of Environmental Sciences University of Amsterdam
Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130 NL-1018 VZ Amsterdam, Phone: +31 20 525 5820, Fax: +31 20 525 5822
The European Forest and Vegetation Map Catalogue (EFMC) is now available on the Web at: http://www.efi.fi/Forestry_Databank/efmc/. EFMC was created by UNEP/GRID and NASA Gobbard Space Flight Centre. A PC based database was released in 1997. In 1998, UNEP/GRID and the European Forest Institute started their official co-operation and it was decided to make an Internet-based EFMC to provide the meta-information not only to the community of European forest/vegetation data users but to the global community as well. Now this work is completed and EFMC team invites you to visit the Web site. The map meta-information was updated in 1998 when the database construction work started. In order to keep the meta-information up-to-date, EFMC team decided to continue the updating process and to seek for more available map meta-information. You are welcome to make your contributions through a Web questionnaire or by downloading the questionnaire in Word rtf (or Wordperfect formats and sending the filled questionnaire via mail or fax (address following). The EFMC team is looking forward to your visit to the Web site and to your contributions. Sincerely, Chijien LIN (on behalf of EFMC team), Information Systems Manager, European Forest Institute, Torikatu 34, 80100 Joensuu, Finland. Tel: +358 13 252020, Fax: +358013 124393, Web: www.efi.fi
Anon. 1999. Biodiversidad - Análisis normativo y de competencias para Colombia en CD-Rom - Manual del Usuario. Contact: Humboldt, Programa de Inventarios de Biodiversidad, Apartado Aéreo 8693 Bogotá, D.C - Colombia. E-mail: mbaena@cariari.ucr.ac.
Anon. 1999. Status and Trends of the Nation's Biological Resources. The following ordering information is from a USGS webpage http://www.nbs.gov/pr/s+torder.html The new USGS report, Status and trends of the nation's biological resources, can be obtained through the U.S. Government Superintendent of Documents. It may be ordered by phone +1-202-512-1800, or fax +1-202-512-2250, and they will accept credit cards. The stock number to request is 024-001-03603-7, and the cost is $102.00 USD. This excellent new 2-volume document can also be browsed on the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) Many other important national and international biodiversity links can be accessed through the NBII's "Biodiversity, Systematics and Collections" website
Anon. 1999. Guide to Forestry and Natural Resources Education. Journal of Forestry 97(9):44-59.
Greenwood, Chris. 1999. Internet mapping made simple. Mapping Awareness 13(7):31-32.
Johnston, Andrew K.; Lefsky, Michael A.; Parker, Geoffrey G. 1999. Remote Sensing of Forest Canopy Structure Using Landsat TM and Laser Altimetry Data. See http://www.nasm.edu/ceps/reflect/dc/sl.html.
Kendall, Geoff. 1999. A guide to Internet mapping products and pricing. Mapping Awareness 13(7):34-39.
Magnussen, S.; Eggermont, P; LaRiccia, V.N. 1999. Recovering Tree Heights from Airborne Laser Scanner Data. Forest Science 45(3):407-422. See abstract at: http://www.safnet.org/pubs/forscience/index.html.
McKeon, Adrian. 1999. Data sharing, politics, and GIS. Mapping Awareness 13(7):16.
Perry, R.W.; Thill, R.E. 1999. Estimating mast production: an evaluation of visual surveys and comparison with seed traps using white oaks. Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 16(3):164-169. See abstract at: http://www.safnet.org/pubs/southern/index.html.
Pfister, Betsy. 1999. Mapping by video. GEOEurope 8(9):30-31.
Scott, C.T.; Köhl, M.; Schnellbächer, H.J. 1999. A comparison of periodic and annual forest surveys. Forest Science 45(3):433-451. See abstract at: http://www.safnet.org/pubs/forscience/index.html.
Waich, Gertrud; Lautner, Markus. 1999. Visualization takes flight. GEOEurope 8(9):36-39
Westell, Sherree. 1999. Legal protection of databases. Mapping Awareness 13(7):20-21.
Wiley, John P. Jr. 1999. A Census of the Wild. Smithsonian 30(6):20, 22
16 September 1999. Village Forestry and the Forest Management Sub-programme of the Forest Management and Conservation Project (FOMACOP) - Lao PDR. Brown Bag Seminar. Washington, DC. Speaker: Mr. Bouahong Phanthanousy, Manager, Forest Management. Time: 13:30-14:30. Place: USDA Forest Service, 1099 14th St. NW, Suite 5500W, Washington, DC. Tel: +1-202-273-4695. Contact: LeRoy Duvall, USAID/G/ENV/ENR; Tel: +1-202-219-0499; Email: lduvall@afr-sd.org
1-4 October 1999. Forest communities in the 3rd Millennium: Supporting non-timber forest product entrepreneurs with forest inventory science. Kenora, Ontario, Canada. Contact: Darcy Mitchell, University of Victoria, Box 1700, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 2Ys. Tel: +1-250-721-6444. Fax: +1-250-721-8849. Email: dmitchel@hsd.uvic.ca. URL http://www.manitobamodelforest.net/HTFP.html.
8 October 1999. Decision Trees: understanding individual & collective and policy decisions on forestry in northern & southern countries. Moredun Institute, Pentlands Science Park , Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Organiser: Edinburgh Centre for Tropical Forests, Pentlands Science Park. Participative Forestry is increasingly advocated in both temperate and tropical regions, but how similar are the practices in each region? And what socio-economic tools are being used to quantify the factors controlling farmer, commmunity and political decisions? Seven presentations are planned. Price: £20 or £5 for students, includes buffet lunch. For details please see http:www.nmw.ac.uk/ectf/decision/html. Contact: kerry-mckay@ectf-ed.org.uk. Tel. +44 131 440 0400
10-13 November 1999. National and Regional Climate Change Impact Assessments in the Forestry Sector. Hotel Wenddoche near Belzig, Germany (approx. 85 km south of Berlin). The aims of this workshop are 1. to provide a forum for the exchange of experience, where working groups in the field of integrated climate impact assessments on forests present results from their respective national or regional research projects. 2. to develop perspectives for research collaboration on integrated climate impact analysis in forests. Further information can be found in http://www.pik-potsdam.de/cp/chief/nima.html
17-18 November 1999. Conference on Measurements and Quantitative Analysis and Management & The 1999 Southern Mensurationists Meeting. Jekyll Island, Georgia, USA. Contact: Chris J. Cieszewski, Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 USA. Email: biomat@smokey.forestry.uga.edu. Fax: +1-706-542-8169. http://www.forestry.uga.edu/wsfr1/cfb/html/1999_sm_announcement.htm
23 November - 5 December 1999. El diseño de inventarios y el uso de grupos indicadores. Villa de Leyva, Boyacá - Colombia. Contact: Humboldt, Programa de Inventarios de Biodiversidad, Apartado Aéreo 8693 Bogotá, D.C - Colombia. E-mail: mbaena@cariari.ucr.ac. URL: http://www.icn.unal.edu.co/Eventos/eventos.html#Eventos
17-19 April 2000. EOGEO 2000 - Earth Observation (EO) and Geospatial (GEO) Web and Internet Workshop. London, UK. Contact: Jeremy Morley, Dept. of Geomatic Engineering, University College, London, UK. Tel: +44-171-504-2083. Fax: +44-171-380-0453. Email: jmorely@ge.ucl.ac.uk. URL: http://www.ge.ucl.ac.uk/ECGEO2000.html.
8-11 May 2000. The Future of the Mediterranean Rural Environment: Prospects for Sustainable Land Use and Management. Menemen, Turkey. Contact: Gill burrows, Cranfield University at Silsoe, Silsoe, Bedfordshire, MK45 4DT, UK. Fax: +44-1525-863-344. Email: g.burrows@cranfield.ac.uk.
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26-28 June 2000. Association of Applied Biologists: Remote Sensing in Agriculture. Cirencester, UK. Contact: Rosie Bryson, ADAS Boxworth, Battlegate Road, Boxworth CB3 8NN, UK. Tel: +44-1954-268242. Fax: +44-1954-268268. Email: rosie.bryson@#adas.co.uk.
21-25 August 2000. Workshop on Disturbance Dynamics in Boreal Forests. Kuhmo, Finland. Contact: Workshop on Disturbance Dynamics, Department of Forest Ecology, P.O. Box 24, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland. Email: DIST2000@Helsinki.fi, Fax +358-9-1917605 <http://honeybee.helsinki.fi/dist2000/>
A camera has been set up on the crane at Parque Metropolitano and that you can view the pictures at the following web site: http://canopy.stri.si.edu/index.html
Reflections on Earth - Exploring Planet Earth from Space- http://www.nasm.edu/ceps/reflect/refl2.html
Taxonomic resource databases and others - Databases created by the Association of Sytematics Collections (ASC) can be found on Internet and they include forms for submitting new listings. They are both focused on North America, but include information from elsewhere as well. One focuses on taxonomists (Taxonomic Resources and Expertise Database or TRED), while the other deals with collections.
A list of entomological collections worldwide (based on the Arnett and Samuelson book) is maintained at Bishop Museum.
A list of entomologists (not just taxonomists) interested in the Pacific compiled by the Pacific Science Association and Bishop Museum is also available at http://www.bishopmuseum.org/bishop/psa/pacentodir.html
The catalog of the US Library of Congress, one of the largest libraries in the world, is now available online: http://catalog.loc.gov
As always, please share as appropriate. Cheers. Gyde