AIM & OBJECTIVES
We are opening a call for participants of the Interdisciplinary Summer School on Forest Ecosystems 2025. It is already the third year in a row where we are planning to do a summer school where multiple COST Actions will get together and train a new generation of scientists on how to map, monitor, understand better or model forest ecosystems.
Forest ecosystems are highly challenged by a wide variety of global change factors, which undermine their health and functioning as well as the ecosystem services we rely on. The good news is that the development in many sectors is going through revolutionary scientific and technological advancement. Awareness of the state-of-the-art across disciplines that focus on forest ecosystem applications is very important. That is why we have connected four forest-related COST Actions together: 3DForEcoTech, ARiF, CLEANFOREST and PANGEOS. Participants will gain experience in topics including ground-based lidar, remote sensing, augmented reality, tree ecophysiology and forest ecology and more – all with a focus on forest monitoring.
During the summer school, we will organise a poster session on the participants’ current research interests, and the work will stimulate open exchange and discussion between students and trainers.
TARGET AUDIENCE
This summer school is designed for PhD candidates and postdocs from a variety of research fields.
HOW TO APPLY?
Please apply through the form by April 30th, 2025. Here is the application form.
We have approximately 40 places available for this summer school spread across the four distinguished topics. Each applicant is requested to upload (i) a short motivation letter, (ii) a one-page CV and (iii) a 300-word abstract of the participants’ current work. The organising committee will use this information to decide which candidates will be accepted. Decisions on participation will be communicated no later than 19th May 2025.
WHEN & WHERE?
04/8/2023 – 08/8/2023, Oxford, United Kingdom
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford & Wytham Woods
Local Organiser: Sruthi M Krishna Moorthy – University of Oxford
For any questions or comments contact us here: 3dforecotech@gmail.com
Participation fee & support: No registration fee. COST actions 3DForEcoTech, ARiF, CLEANFOREST and PANGEOS will reimburse the costs of selected participants’ travel, accommodation and subsistence. Only applicants from COST countries (https://www.cost.eu/about/members/) are eligible for reimbursement. The costs will be reimbursed only after the completion of the summer school. Students from outside these countries can also apply, but they have to use their own funding.
KEYNOTES
Yadvinder Malhi – University Oxford (UK)
Maria J. Santos – University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Stefano Puliti – Norwegian Institute for Bio-economy Research (Norway)
Mathias Disney – University College London (UK)
TBA
ORGANISERS & TRAINERS
3DForEcoTech COST Action
- Martin Mokroš – University College London
- Emily Lines – University of Cambridge
- Markus Eichhorn – University College Cork
- Sruthi M Krishna Moorthy – University of Oxford
ARiF
- Thomas Purfürst – Universität Freiburg
- TBA
CLEANFOREST
- Rossella Guerrieri – University of Bologna
- Danielle Creek – Norwegian University of Life Sciences
- TBA
PANGEOS
- Shawn C. Kefauver – University of Barcelona
- TBA
