FIEA Environmental Forestry launched
Friday 8 Mar 2024
With plenty of cooperation from industry leaders, NZ Forest Owners
Association and previous delegates, FIEA is pleased to announce the
release of our Environmental Forestry 2024 conference
programme. This event runs on 25-26 June 2024 in Rotorua,
New Zealand and will also feature pre-conference and post-
conference workshops.
One keynote speaker is Dean Meason, who is a key
scientist in Scion’s Forest Flows Research work programme.
Forest Flows is a five-year research programme (September 2019 to
September 2024) focused on forest hydrology. Scion is leading the MBIE-
supported programme. The programme is developing methods to predict
and optimise water use and supply in planted forests and answer the
questions; Where is the water? Where is it going? and who gets to use it?
This research aims to create a biophysical model of forest
hydrology that accurately predicts water storage and release for
entire catchments, while also providing data on changes in water quality
over time.
The project:
- Identifies key forest hydrological processes by combining monitoring of
soil-plant-atmosphere interactions with a range of targeted ground-based
research over the long term.
- Develops and uses remote-sensing tools to collect data that spans
catchments and forests and can be linked to key forest hydrological
processes.
- Creates a model that predicts hydrological flow across a range of NZ-
planted forests.
- Builds a decision-making framework that provides the necessary
information to optimise water use in planted forests.
A full list of speakers
and programme for Environmental Forestry 2024 can be found on
the event's website. Super early bird discounted registrations are now
available, and finish on 29 March 2024.
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