Dear Participants,
Welcome to the IUFRO-SPDC Pre-Congress Training Workshop Blog on Forests and Human Health!
Modern social media tools such as this Blog allow us to start with our workshop activities even before we physically meet. The first round of interactions is about getting to know each other. Therefore I herewith cordially invite you to post a short statement including affiliation, country, your background and current focus of your professional work.
In order to add your statement or view the statements of other participants, please click on the comment button above.
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Jun 13, 2010 @ 10:43:04
My name is Michael Kleine (from Austria), working at IUFRO Headquarters in Vienna heading IUFRO’s Special Programme for Developing Countries. I am a professional forester trained in research and education in silviculture, growth and yield and forest management, with expierences over 25 years mostly in sub-tropical and tropical Asia.
Now I look forward to reading your short introductory statements.
Jun 24, 2010 @ 06:14:53
Hello and mabuhay(!) to all of you, my name is Floribel Paras, I am an Instructor at the University of the Philippines Los Banos. I am also a professional forester but most of my time is spent in the academe teaching Social Forestry courses. As of the moment, I am finishing up my masters thesis, mainly focused on attitudes and perceptions toward the forestry profession using both implicit and explicit methods. I am interested in pursuing researches in forestry related to human behavior, environment education, communication and culture. I have applied for this training because I believe that aside from the physiological, economic and ecological benefits of the forests, other aspects of human ‘health’ like the psychological and social are understated. I am glad to be a part of this pre-congress training, and I am looking forward to seeing all of you in the training!
Jun 24, 2010 @ 16:59:03
My name is Matti Rousi and I will be one of your trainers. In my early professional career I studied tree resistance to abiotic and biotic threats. In my PhD thesis I was discussing of possibilities to decrease damage by mammalian herbivores by means of tree breeding. Tree secondary metabolites prevent herbivore feeding but those substances may be important for human health also. So I have also studied the genetic and environmental determinants of salicylate production of willows. Dramatic increases in aspirin production in willow plantations can be achieved by means of tree breeding and plantation management.
I’m very pleased that a very good group of scientists from India, Far East, Africa and S America will gather to discuss about forest/human health interface. We trainers are eager to hear about you and your background. And we look forward to hear your opinions and experiences on potential health impacts of forest related actions, project, plan or policy in your country/area.
Jun 26, 2010 @ 16:29:48
I am Kumaran from India. I am an Associate Professor in Forest College and Research Institute of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in Southern India. I am a tree breeder and teach Forest Botany, Remote Sensing, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity, Tree Breeding, etc. I am working on the medicinal properties of trees at present. I am also interested in the area of Forests and Climate Change. Hope this training workshop will update my knowledge in these fields and we can form groups for future interaction and collaboration.
Hope to know about you all
Jul 07, 2010 @ 07:31:52
I am Zuraida from Republic of Indonesia. I am a Phd candidate in natural resource management and Environment, Bogor Agricultural University. I am also a researcher at Forest Research Development Agency (FORDA), Ministry of Forestry Republic of Indonesia. I work at Environmental Division, Biopharmaca Sub Division.I am a coordinator of Biopharmaca Research (plant or tree from forest) in every province in Indonesia.Now, I am working on the medicinal properties of specific tree for my Phd program.I am also interested in the area of Non Timber Forest Product. I Hope this training workshop will update my knowledge in these fields and we can form groups for future interaction and collaboration
Jul 11, 2010 @ 16:03:18
Hello, my name is Ellyn Kathalina Damayanti from Indonesia. I am working as a researcher at the Center for Environmental Research, Bogor Agricultural University, and currently I am a candidate for lecturer at the Division of Plant Diversity Conservation, Department of Forest Resource Conservation, Faculty of Forestry, Bogor Agricultural University.
In my academic background, I have been dealing with ethnobotany, medicinal plants, and nature conservation policy and management. These disciplines will be my future work when I become lecturer, wishfully. In the Center for Environmental Research, I am in charge of domestic and international collaboration researches, not only on researches related to my major, but also other themes and topics on global environment.
I am looking forward to seeing you and learn from all of trainers and trainees in our training.
Jul 15, 2010 @ 11:50:41
am a Nigerian, wood science scientist, affliated with Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, Jericho, Ibadan, Nigeria
Jul 15, 2010 @ 11:51:15
It is a great pleasure to be part of the workshop.The focus of the workshop is very relevant to one of the greatest challenges to human survival in developing countries like Ghana-health concern.This is because traditional herbal medicine is gaining ground in Ghana. The decline in the supply of most of the raw material base for producers of herbal medicine is worrying for primary health service delivery in rural communities in Ghana.I hope the needed attention and network will be developed to address the issue
Jul 20, 2010 @ 06:30:48
Hello, everyone! I am Zhou Li from china. It is really a great honor to have this opportunity to join the training workshop!
Now, I am an Associate Professor in Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy Sciences. My major is forest ecology, especially in forest management and forest biodiversity. My doctor thesis mainly focused on the coarse woody debris in Pinus koraiensis and broadleaved mixed forest in Changbai Mountain.So almost all my research work are carried in Changbai Mountain Nature Reserves, which is situated at the border between China and North Korea. I think maybe somebody have heard that beautiful place, because it is also very famous for tourism. Hope this training workshop will help me learn more knowledge from you, and I think we will be friends for our common interest-forest and human health.
Looking forward to knowing everybody in August.
Jul 20, 2010 @ 06:38:34
Good afternoon everybody.
It is my honor to acquaintance in INFRO World Congress Korea. I think it will be my splendid recall in my life.
I am Yujing Ye, 27-year,female. And I come from China –a beautiful and mysterious country. I am studying in Chinese Academy Institute. My major is ecology, especially forest ecology. And I research on forest carbon trade, especially on CDM in China.I am a lively and optimistic girl. So we can make friends each during the Train and Congress.
Jul 20, 2010 @ 09:46:34
Dear all,
My name is Yan Shuai, from China. I made my forestry bachelor degree at Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China in 2003. Then I continued with the master study on silviculture at the same university. In 2005, I joined the Erasmus Mundus MSc. European Forestry Program and got two years international study experience at several universities (University of Joensuu, BOKU etc.) in Europe. Currently as an exchanged doctoral student from Northwest A&F University, I am studying forest ecology at the Institute of Forest Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna. There is growing interest in exploring the potential of woody biomass as a source of renewable, sustainable energy for some regions in Europe and Asian. My study focuses on nutrient pool characteristics in deciduous forests in order to investigate the effects of stand age and soil type on N, C and exchangeable cations as a basis for sustainable forest management. Forest and human health is not really interrelated with my doctoral study, but I would like to take this opportunity to enrich my experience and enlarge my view. I am confident that we will have good time together and looking forward to meeting all of you soon in Seoul.