Dear ICP Forests Community,

Registration for the “EANET Online Workshop on the Utilization of Low Cost Sensors for Air Quality Monitoring: Recommendations and Strategies” is open. The workshop will take place online on Wednesday 6 November 2024 from 13:00 – 16:45 (UTC+7:00 Bangkok time).

The aim of the workshop is:

• To share information on technical requirements, data management, and visualization, citizen participation, policy involvement, and business models by preceded projects on LCS monitoring networks in the Asian region
• To discuss scopes and challenges for establishing a sustainable LCS monitoring network in East Asia and for sharing LCS data and scientific findings to strengthen efforts to improve the regional air quality in East Asia.
• To consider recommendations on future directions of LCS monitoring in EANET

Please find the registration link…

On 25 September 2024, 13:00 - 13:45 CET, our Chairman Marco Ferretti will share his experience of the challenges of leading the ICP Forests network (among other topics) as part of the CLEANFOREST interview series.

The interview series is hosted by the COST Young Researchers Community. It is open to all interested researchers and practitioners.

The registration link to listen to the interview and further information can be found here:

https://cleanforest.eu/news/fifth-interview-energizing-coffee-with-marco/

Please sign up via the registration link BEFORE the interview.

The 9th Meeting of the Heads of the Laboratories will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 17 to 19 September 2024.…

Earlier this year, a group of scientists from our ICP Forests Community discussed the EU proposal for a forest monitoring framework in a position paper published in the journal Forest Ecology and Management (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.121875).

Based on this article, Stefan Fleck, Arthur Gessler, Marco Ferretti and Michèle Kaennel Dobbertin have produced a short text in German, English and French and made it available on…

At the IUFRO in Stockholm, some ICP Forests members presented their research and thus contributed to the international discourse on forests and society towards 2050.

Among others, ICP Forests chaired a thematic session with eight oral and nine poster presentations on trends and implications of nitrogen deposition on forest ecosystem services in a changing climate. The session included presentations focusing on the overall spatial and temporal trends (mainly across Europe) as well as presentations in which researchers focused on specific case studies.

In the oral session, Dr. Arne Verstraeten showed, with the exception of a limited number of plots, a steady but slow decline of the nitrogen deposition across the ICP Forests Level II network in Europe. Dr. Peter Waldner compared the critical limits for nitrate leaching and soil…