Forest Inventory and Analysis Symposium 2010 – Second Call for Sessions, Papers, and Posters

“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 Symposium will shed new light on contemporary issues, science policy, mensuration, remote sensing/GIS/geo-spatial science, and other topics.

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.

Venue and Registration

Venue and registration procedures will be announced in the Final Call.

Call for Sessions, Papers, and Posters

Contributed sessions, papers, and posters (limit of two per author) on applications or technologies related to the Symposium’s broad theme are invited.  The format will include morning invited sessions covering advanced science topics followed by concurrent contributed sessions. An area will be set up for poster display.  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, paper, or poster, please submit an abstract to the Program Committee via Will McWilliams.  Abstracts should be limited to 300 words 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.

Abstracts are due July 23, 2010 and should be submitted to:

Will McWilliams
USDA Forest Service
11 Campus Blvd, Suite 200
Newtown Square, PA, USA   19073
wmcwilliams@fs.fed.us (e-mail submissions and MS Word are preferred)
610-557-4050

Authors will be notified following final selection of sessions and papers.

Publication

All presenters are given the opportunity to publish a manuscript (10 pages or so) on their work.  The proceedings will be published as a Southern Research Station General Technical Report in CD format.  Manuscripts are due in complete and fully edited form¹ to Will McWilliams by December 15, 2010.

Web Page

Information on the Symposium will be posted at:  http://www.fia.fs.fed.us/symposium/

¹ USDA Forest Service submitters need to include station-level manuscript approval forms for papers and abstracts.