First Announcement

International scientific conference "Modern Methods and Technologies for Forest Inventory and Evaluation of Ecosystem

Services"

devoted to the accomplishing of the Project "Geoinformation Technologies, Spatio-temporal Approaches, and Full Carbon Account for Improving Accuracy of GHG Inventories (GESAPU)" (EC Marie-Curie Project, 2011-2014)

Place and time: Educational and Research Institute of Forestry and Landscape-Park Management (ERIFLPM), National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (NULESU), May 5-8, 2014, Kyiv, Ukraine

Organizers: Educational and Research Institute of Forestry and Landscape-Park Management of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine with the participation of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria, System Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, National University "Lviv Polytechnic", Lviv, Ukraine.

 Organizing CommitteeDr. Prof. Petro Lakyda– Chairman, Director of the Educational and Research Institute of Forestry and Landscape-Park Management of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine;Dr. Prof. Anatoly Shvidenko- Deputy Chairman, Senior Research Scholar of the Ecosystems Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria;Dr. Prof. Zbigniew Nahorski- Deputy Chairman, Director of the System Research Institute, Poland;Dr. Prof. Rostislav Bun - Deputy Chairman, Department of Applied Mathematics, National University "Lviv Polytechnic", Lviv, Ukraine.

Scientific directions of the conference:

1.Methods and tools of forest inventory and evaluation of ecosystem services (biomass, impact on major biogeochemical cycles etc.) based on use of advanced information technologies and modeling;2.Systems approach to informational support of sustainable forest management (forest inventory and planning, national forest inventory, forest monitoring);3.Anthropogenic emissions and their assessment (will be considered at a special technical session devoted to the results of the GESAPU project).

Specialists in the areas of systems analysis, applied mathematics, forest inventory and forest management are invited to take part in the Conference.

Proceedings of the conference will be published in Ukrainian, Russian and English languages (as it will be submitted to the Organization Committee) in a special Issue of the Scientific Bulletin of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine. Series ”Forestry and Landscape-Park Management”.

REGISTRATION FORM

International scientific conference "Modern methods and technologies for forest inventory and assessment of ecosystem

functions"

devoted to the accomplishing of the project "Geoinformation technologies, spatio-temporal approaches, and full carbon account for improving accuracy of GHG inventories (GESAPU)"

(EC Marie-Curie Project, 2011-2014)

Educational and Research Institute of Forestry and Landscape-Park ManagementNational University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine

May 5-8, 2014, Kyiv, Ukraine

Note: After filling please save this registration form by giving the form a personal file designation, i.e. replace Namexx in the file designation “GESAPU-conference-Kyiv-Namexx” with your family name.

Hotel Accommodation: For those coming from outside Kyiv please choose one of the conference hotels: Hotel NULESU (300 UAH/night), Hotel “Holosiyivsky" http://www.hotelgolos.com/en/our_hotel.html(400-600UAH/night), Hotel "Myr” http://hotelmir.kiev.ua/en (500-800 UAH/night). Please make your own reservation by mentioning “GESAPU conference May 2014”.

Please complete the registration form and send by 1February 2014to the Conference Secretary Dr. Ivan Lakyda to: ivan.lakyda@gmail.com

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Contact:Dr. IvanLakyda, Phones: +38 044 527 85 28, + 38 044 527 81 53