Dear Participants,
Welcome to the IUFRO-SPDC Pre-Congress Training Workshop Blog on Traditional Forest Knowledge!
Modern social media tools such as this Blog allow us to start with our workshop activities even before we physically meet. The first round of interactions is about getting to know each other. Therefore I herewith cordially invite you to post a short statement including affiliation, country, your background and current focus of your professional work.
In order to add your statement or view the statements of other participants, please click on the comment button above.
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Jun 13, 2010 @ 10:36:10
My name is Michael Kleine (from Austria), working at IUFRO Headquarters in Vienna heading IUFRO’s Special Programme for Developing Countries. I am a professional forester trained in research and education in silviculture, growth and yield and forest management, with expierences over 25 years mostly in sub-tropical and tropical Asia.
Now I look forward to reading your short introductory statements.
Jun 22, 2010 @ 11:33:27
I am Him Lal Shrestha from Nepal. I am working in Kathmandu Forestry College as an Academic Coordinator cum faculty on GIS, Remote sensing and aerial photo interpretation. I am graduate in forestry and masters in Geoinformatics. I am working in several cross cutting issues of forestry and Geoinformatics i.e. Application of Geoinformatics in forest biomass, REDD mechanism, forest boundary mapping using GIS and GPS etc.
Jun 23, 2010 @ 10:29:28
Hi to all,
I am Divine Foundjem Tita of Cameroonian nationality. I am a World agroforestry Centre ( ICRAF) PhD research fellow academically affiliated to the Ghent university in Belgium. I work on policy and institutional analyses of Non Timber Forests Products value chain, domestication of indigenous forests species and policy issues related to agroforestry development.
I look forward to interacting with you all before, during and after our training and congress.
kind regards
DiFoTi
Jun 28, 2010 @ 03:15:19
Hi,
I am Arif Nuryawan, one of SAP awardees from Indonesia. I am a teaching staff and researcher at The University of Sumatera Utara (The University of North Sumatera), Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Forestry.
I was graduated from Bogor Agricultural University. My focus research in Biocomposite area. It’s one of subjects in Forest Products Technology. Thank you and I look forward to reading from the others.
Jul 15, 2010 @ 11:47:38
It will be my pleasure to attend pre conference workshop of IUFRO Seoul. My research interest is to identify socio-economic drivers that motivate farmers to shift from shifting cultivation to agroforestry, a sustainable land use system. I am currently working with CIFOR for PEN and IFAR project to manage tropical forest by the small scale farmers. I have some papers already published in the peer reviewed journals and waiting to get more scientific ideas from the fellow colleagues , scientists and other participants of IUFRO, Seoul.
Jul 15, 2010 @ 11:48:09
I will be facilitating the workshop, and Michael asked me to post something about myself. I am an Associate Professor of Aboriginal Forestry, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia. I have been at UBC since July, 2004, having moved from the School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, where I was Professor and Director of the Native American Forestry Program. At UBC I teach two courses on Indigenous peoples and forests, and a course on community Forestry. I am an enrolled member of the Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana. I worked there as a tribal economist from 1983-1989. I received a Ph. D. in economics from Harvard University in 1974. My most recent research has been a study of the reasons for the resilience of societies on the Northwest Coast of North America, published in a book, Resilience, Reciprocity and Ecological Economics: Northwest Coast Sustainability (London: Routledge, 2009) Ronald Trosper
Jul 19, 2010 @ 10:17:26
Hello Everybody,
I am Nur from Bangladesh currently working at Freiburg University of Germany. My research interests are particpatory forestry, Indigenous people, policy issues on community forestry etc. I would look forward to interact with the colleagues from arround the world on the topic ‘traditional forest knowledge’.
Jul 19, 2010 @ 12:09:02
Hi,
I am a Research Scientist in Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria. I specialised in Forest Growth and Yield Assessment and Forest Biometrics. I am currently undergoing my MSc in Forest Biometrics at University of Ibadan, Nigeria which focuses on Comparing Weibul and Beta Distribution functions for Diameter distribution modeling in Tropical Natural Forest. I am one of the SAP awardee from Nigeria. I will be glad to meet more experts in this area to widen my scope at IUFRO. Meet you there.
Jul 19, 2010 @ 15:08:15
I am Robert Bakiika, researcher at Faculty of Forestry and Nature Conservation, Makerere University in Uganda and a member of the African Forest Forum, African Tree Genomic Consortium and Uganda Forest Working Group. I am a graduate of wood science and technology and also work on issues of forest management; REDD+ governance, institution and forest policy reforms.
Jul 31, 2010 @ 07:06:06
Hello everybody
I’m Kamrul (Kazi Kamrul Islam), PhD student of Kyushu University Japan and I already finished my MSc from Wageningen University, Netherlands. I’m also working in Bangladesh Agricultural University since 2004. My research area is Agroforestry/participatory and poverty alleviation; Looking forward to meet you all in Seoul.