Dear members of the ICP Forests community,

next week, 18 - 22 September 2017, the 125th Anniversary Congress of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) will take place in Freiburg, Germany. The extensive and diverse congress program is featuring several oral and poster presentations of the ICP Forests community.

Marco Ferretti (chair of ICP Forests) and the PCC initiated a compilation of the presentations that can be downloaded below:…

On 28 - 31 August 2017, the meeting of the ICP Forests Expert Panel on Ambient Air Quality and the Intercalibration Course on ozone induced symptoms took place in Trento, Italy. The event was organized by the Research and Innovation Centre of Fondazione Edmund Mach FEM in collaboration with The Swiss Federal…

I would like to cordially thank the Research and Innovation Centre of Fondazione Edmund Mach and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research for the excellent organisation of the Expert Panel on Ambient Air Quality Meeting and Intercalibaration Course in Trento. It was a great event with an interesting and mixed program of back-ground and hands-on activities allowing a perfect intercalibration of the assessment of ozone induced symptoms.  I appreciated and strongly…

Dear all,

MSC-E has published two Report: the one on heavy metals might be of interest for some of us:

Dear Colleagues,



In accordance with the 2016-2017 Work-plan for the implementation of the Convention [ECE/EB.AIR/133/Add.1] MSC-E continues work on the assessment of POP and HM atmospheric pollution over the EMEP domain and individual countries (Case study), and work on transition to the new EMEP grid.



The results of the…

Dear website discussion group leaders,

I would very much appreciate it if you took some time over the summer to look at your groups on this website and delete the ones that are not actively used anymore OR initiate the discussion once more.

Thanks so much!
Alexa

Dear members of the ICP Forests website community,

I have uploaded a few pictures from this year's Expert Panel Meeting in Zagreb - thanks Nenad! - and Scientific Conference and Task Force Meeting in Bucharest - thanks Ovidiu!

Please remember to upload pictures to the website from any ICP Forests meetings, field work, forest ecosystems that you would like to share. I also always look for pictures for ICP Forests reports and this is a great source. Thank…

On behalf of the ICP Forests lead country and all members of ICP Forests, Mr Clemens Neumann, Head of the Directorate 5 at the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, expresses his sincerest thanks to former Chairman of ICP Forests, Mr Michael Köhl, for more than ten years of work for ICP Forests. For the complete thank-you letter please follow this…

Dear Michael

On behalf of the Programme Co-ordinating Centre (PCC) of ICP Forests at the Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems I would like to thank you for successfully administrating ICP Forests since 2005.…

The Programme Co-ordinating Centre of ICP Forests is very happy to announce that Dr Marco Ferretti from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL has been appointed as new Chairman of ICP Forests by the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture. Marco has been very active in this programme for many years and we are very happy about this decision.…

Dear members of the ICP Forests community,

On behalf of the local organizers, Ms Tamara Jakovljević and Mr Nenad Potočić, please find…

Dear colleagues, dear friends.

The second call for the 6th Scientific Conference is available under the item 'Events'. Besides general Information, guidelines for abstract prepartation are given. Please, consider a contribution from your field of activity.

Best regards and see you in Bucharest in May.

Walter

Dear colleagues,

the results of the 19th Needle/Leaf Interlaboratory Comparison Test are available on the FFCC homepage. Your qualification reports can be downloaded from the ringtest web-interface. You had to login here with your lab code and your password. The following ICP-Forests laboratories (=laboratories analysing…

It is with pleasure that we invite you to the

6th ICP Forests Scientific Conference 2017

"Air pollution, climate change and forest ecosystems: Evidence for effects, adaptation, and mitigation…

Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to invite all laboratories to participate in the 8^th Deposition and soil solutions Working Ring Test. 

Please, find detailed information in Invitation_WRT2016.pdf 

If you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact…

The ICP Forests community has adopted the new Strategy of ICP Forests 2016-2023 at its last Task Force Meeting in Luxembourg in May 2016. This document defines the mission, aims, and current features of the programme, provides a vision for the future of ICP Forests, and proposes actions to be taken. It is available here and under Publications/ICP Forests Others.

With best…

We are happy to inform you about the online publication of the

2016 Technical Report of ICP Forests

You can download the report from the ICP Forests website…

Dear colleagues,

registration for this test ended in July 2016 - till now 45 laboratories participate (see timetable). For this test three spruce and one pine needle sample were prepared. The results for the elements S, N. P, K, Ca, Mg, C, Zn, Mn, Fe, Cu, Pb, Cd and B will be evaluated. Other elements can be analyzed – especially results of heavy metals like As, Co, Cr, Hg, Mo, Ni, Tl and V are most welcome.…

With the 5th ICP Forests Scientific Conference in Luxembourg on May 11-12, 2016 approaching soon, I am happy to announce that the Book of Abstracts is now available online.

With best…

Dear members and friends of the ICP Forests website community,

We are happy to inform you about the online publication of the

30 Years Anniversary Report of ICP Forests

You can download the report from the ICP Forests website

http://icp-forests.net/page/icp-forests-executive-report

With best wishes

Alexa Michel, Programme Co-ordinating Centre of ICP…

We cordially invite you to register now for the 5th Scientific Conference and 32nd Task Force Meeting of ICP Forests at http://icp-forests.org/forms/tfm_2016/ and benefit from early-bird registration rates until April 15, 2016.

Please keep in mind that the deadline for…