The second call for Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) within COST Action CA15226 "CLIMO" opened the 2nd of November 2017.

The aim of STSM calls for 2017 is to contribute to the scientific objectives of the CLIMO and to foster collaboration of Early Carrier Investigators - ECI (less than 8 years from his/her PhD).

Further information on the Action is available at: http://climo.unimol.it

The Second STSM call submission deadline is 1, December 2017
All supported STSMs have to be completed before 15, March 2018

More information and rules for application HERE

The EFI 2017 Annual Conference has elected Prof. Marco Marchetti, Italy as a new Board member for the period 2017-2020.

Prof. Marchetti (Member of Steering Committee of the EFI-Project Centre MOUNTFOR) is Full Professor (Chair of Forest Management and Conservation) and Vice Rector at the University of Molise, Italy.

The 10th Triennial Air Pollution & Global Change Symposium on “Air Pollution as Part of Global Change – Responses of Plants and Ecosystems” will take place on 12 - 15 July at the lecture hall of the Helmholtz Zentrum München, Gemany.

Future Earth and the Stockholm Resilience Centre are launching a call for applications for Sustainable Development Goal Labs (SDG Labs).
The organisers of the call are seeking “brilliant ideas with the potential to make major breakthroughs on the SDGs". The deadline for applications to run a lab is 10 February 2017.

When: 31st January, 2017  -  10:30
Location: Ministry for Agricolture and Forestry, Rome (ITA)
Event type: Eusalp Action Plan presentation (by Anna Giorgi)

Antonucci S., Rossi S., Deslaurier A., Morin H., Lombardi F., Marchetti M., Tognetti R. (2016) Large-scale estimation of xylem phenology in black spruce through remote sensing. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Volume 233, 15 February 2017, doi 10.1016/j.agrformet.2016.11.011.v

OVERVIEW: Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) integrates the three-dimensions of sustainable development (economic, social and environmental), and aims at sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and incomes, adapting and building resilience to climate change (CC), and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.CLIMO wants to translate the CSA concept for a Climate-Smart Forestry (CSF). Three main pillars will be considered: improve livelihood of mountain inhabitants by sustainably increasing forest ecosystem services (ES); enhance the adaptation and resilience to CC of mountain forests; optimise the CC mitigation potential of mountain forests, focusing on the most efficient and cost-effective mitigation options and capitalising on adaptation-mitigation synergies. The main objective is to define CSF in the European context, which will require the identification of key silvicultural characteristics and the harmonisation of CSF in mountain areas to create a common knowledge at European level. The “smartness” of the European forests will be defined according to the sustainability of forest management and mitigation potential. The ““smartness”” will be defined on the basis of measurable criteria and a checklist of parameters of “smartness” for mountain forests will be proposed. Experimental forest sites with available data to quantify the “smartness” of mountain forests will be identified to build a European Smart Forest Network (ESFONET). A feasibility study for the development of a cyber-technology able to quickly transfer data from monitoring sites to stakeholders will be developed. Innovative schemes of payment for ES (PES) will be developed to shift the objective of mountain forest management from the production of timber to the production of ES.

Roberto Tognetti, Coordinator of MountFor, is the Chair of the COST Action CLIMO.

For further information, please visit the COST website.