Dear members of the ICP Forests website community,

The Chairman of ICP Forests and the team at the Programme Co-ordinating Centre wish you happy holidays & a peaceful and happy new year 2020!

Marco Ferretti, Chairman of ICP Forests
Kai Schwärzel, Till Kirchner, Alexa Michel, Anne-Katrin Prescher, Ralph Ryl, Programme Co-ordinating Centre of ICP Forests

Alexa Michel from PCC and co-authors were awarded the Thünen Research Prize for Excellence in Target Group-Oriented Work by the Society of the Friends of the Thünen Institute for their concept and realisation of the ICP Forests Brief.

On Monday, 9^th Dec 2019, the winners of the Thünen Research Awards 2019 were awarded as part of the first "Thünen Day". One out of five prizes was given to Alexa Michel, Inken Krüger, Anne-Katrin Prescher, Tanja Sanders, Andreas Schmitz and Walter Seidling for ICP Forests Brief: Publishing a new international publication series on European forest monitoring for better communication between science, politics and society. In representation…

On 21st November and 22nd November 2019, ICP Forests colleagues met delegates from the Acid Deposition Monitoring Network in East Asia (EANET) in a joint "Workshop on regional impact assessment of atmospheric deposition and air pollution on forest ecosystems" in Niigata, Japan. The workshop was initiated by Hiroyuki Sase in cooperation with ICP Forests chair Marco Ferretti to share and compare the European knowledge and experience with colleagues from EANET, and to promote further co-operation in the future. From the ICP Forests community, chair Marco Ferretti, head of…

Last week, the XXV IUFRO World Congress took place in Curitiba, Brazil.

One highlight was the very successful session on “Long-Term Forest Monitoring Networks for Evaluating Responses to Environmental Change” organised and chaired by the ICP Forests Scientific Committee chair Marcus Schaub, co-chair Lars Vesterdal, EANET partner Hiroyuki Sase and ICP Forests chair Marco Ferretti. In addition, several oral and poster presentations were presented by members of the ICP Forests community representing the broad range of research activities in the programm.

Thank you to all presenters, organisers and authors!