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NJF seminar 424
Mapping and Monitoring
of Nordic Vegetation and Landscapes
16-18 September 2009 Iceland |
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The Nordic countries face numerous common challenges regarding the development of their landscapes. Their northern position, similar nature and similar cultural values suggest a number of possible benefits from an increased Nordic cooperation. Moreover, most of the Nordic countries have signed the European landscape convention and thereby committed themselves to managing their landscapes in a way that maintains viable populations of plants and animals and that safeguards diversity of habitat types and landscapes.
These issues call for increased information exchange between the Nordic countries regarding the mapping and monitoring of vegetation and landscapes. The scientific milieus and practitioners working with these themes deal with questions on the interface between research, private sector development and management of nature and cultural landscapes. However, contact and cooperation amongst these milieus needs to be strengthened. We are therefore arranging a Nordic conference in Iceland in September 2009 with the following aims:
• Share experience and knowledge about up-to-date Nordic vegetation and landscape mapping and monitoring: methods, study design, content, implementation, analysis and most recent tools for processing map data.
• Present scientific findings relevant for the private and public sector, the agricultural sector and nature management.
• Develop networks between different countries’ scientific mapping communities.
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• Mapping of vegetation and landscapes
• Monitoring of vegetation and landscapes
• Cultural landscapes and management
• Landscape structure, processes and change
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Professor Donald A. Walker, University of Alaska, USA: Methods and applications for different Circumpolar Vegetation Maps.
Assistant Professor Helene Wagner, University of Toronto, Canada: The linkage between landscape patterns and processes and methods for map modelling.
Dr. Maria Luisa Paracchini, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy: Landscape monitoring in Europe.
Senior Specialist Andrew Baker, Natural England, United Kingdom: Countryside Quality Counts - An indicator for Monitoring Change in the Character of the English Landscape 1990 – 2003. |
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| We seek to engage two broad scientific and practicing milieus; vegetation and landscape mapping and monitoring that produce multi-use data. Both scientists and practitioners working on these topics build much of their mapping and monitoring on the use of aerial photo interpretation combined with different degrees of fieldwork, and thereby share important methodological approaches as well as numerous challenges. |
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Please take a look at the flyer "Guidelines for oral / poster presentations".
Abstracts with a landscape focus should be submitted to wenche.dramstad@skogoglandskap.no, abstracts with a vegetation focus should be submitted to anders.bryn@skogoglandskap.no.
Presentations will be published as short-articles (4 pages) in a conference proceeding. Short-articles for conference proceedings must be submitted by 1st October to anders.bryn@skogoglandskap.no. See flyer for guidelines. |
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The conference will take place at Hotel Örk, 45 kilometers east of Reykjavik, Iceland. See more info on flyer to be downloaded (Hotel information).
Flights to Reykjavik can be found at: http://www.icelandair.com/
See travel info on flyer to be downloaded (How do we get there?). |
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We will send you the invoice directly to your e-mail address by the end of June.
The registration fee includes accommodation, food and excursion.
Cancellations received before 1st August will be refunded except for a 50 Euro service charge. Refunds are not possible after 1st August 2009 (in which case, we suggest that you find a substitute participant).
NB: Participants from Iceland may attend on a 2-day basis without overnight, dinner and excursion (120 Euro in total) - notify us during the registration in the field "Message to seminar committee". |
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| NJF members before : 500 EUR |
| NJF members after : 500 EUR |
| Others before : 500 EUR |
| Others after : 500 EUR |
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| The seminar will be held at Hotel Örk, Hveragerđi, Iceland. |
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- Submission of abstracts for oral presentations: 2009-04-01
- Proposal for posters and papers: 2009-04-01
- Notification of acceptance for oral and poster presentations: 2009-05-01
- Final registration: 2009-07-01
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Norway:
Anders Bryn and Wenche Dramstad, Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute.
Iceland:
Guđmundur Guđjónsson, The Icelandic Institute of Natural History.
Guđrún Gísladóttir, University of Iceland.
Sweden:
Lars Andersson, Lantmäteriet.
Anna Allard, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
Margareta Ihse, Stockholm University.
Finland:
Reija Hietala and Niina Käyhkö, University of Turku.
Denmark:
Ole Hjorth Caspersen, Forest & Landscape Denmark.
Geoff B. Groom, National Environmental Research Institute. |
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Anders Bryn, Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute
http://www.skogoglandskap.no
P.O. Box 115,
N-1431 Ĺs, Norway.
Phone: (47) 64 94 97 41
Fax: (47) 64 94 80 01
E-mail: anders.bryn@skogoglandskap.no
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