“The future is uncertain: wind resilient forests in a changed climate”.
The 10th International Wind and Trees Conference will be hosted by the IUFRO Working Party 8.03.06, at Villa Bolasco in Castelfranco Veneto, province of Treviso, Italy from 20 to 23 June 2023.
Scientists from a range of disciplines will have the opportunity to share advances in knowledge on topics including:
Understanding damage patterns and processes in forests due to windstorms
Mechanics of wind damage
Tree acclimation and adaptation to the wind
Designing wind-resistant and resilient forests
There will be a half day dedicated to Flash Talks (7 minutes + 3 minutes for questions) and Posters (1 slide to present poster) with a prize for the best student Flash Talk and best student Poster.
The conference will focus on the understanding of the processes of wind damage to forests and how we use this knowledge to develop resistant and resilient forests in our changed climate.
There will also be a half-day with four workshops:
Using remote sensing to determine wind damage in forests
Machine learning as a tool for understanding wind damage and wind effects on trees
Tree pulling to determine tree resistance to uprooting
Training in the use of the wind damage risk model (fgr R library)
Conference scientific committee
Prof. Emanuele Lingua: Universit? degli studi di Padova
Maximiliano Costa: Universit? degli studi di Padova
Dr. Barry Gardiner: IEFC/Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg/Forest Research
Dr. Kana Kamimura: Shinshu University
Dr. Amanda Bunce: University of Connecticut
Dr. Yi-ying Chen: Academia Sinica
Dr Dirk Schindler: Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Conference organizing committee
Prof. Emanuele Lingua: Universit? degli studi di Padova
Maximiliano Costa: Universit? degli studi di Padova
Davide Marangon: Universit? degli studi di Padova
Paola Bolzon: Universit? degli studi di Padova
Dr. Luca Marchi: Universit? degli Studi di Padova
Prof. Raffaella Marzano: Universit? degli studi di Torino
Fabio Meloni: Universit? degli studi di Torino
Dr. Barry Gardiner: IEFC/Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg/Forest Research