Together with 31 participants we had a successful meeting of the heads of the labs in Pallanza! The meeting was very well organized by Aldo Marchetto and his team. We discussed the results of the last deposition and foliar ring tests and had presentations about measuring of samples with low concentrations, the determine weak acids in deposition, actual information about the data base, data submission and new features, proposal for better coding of the methods for C-CO3 and Corg, aqua regia…

Dear members of the ICP Forests community,

The chair of ICP Forests, Marco Ferretti, and the PCC would like to express their gratitude to all colleagues of the ICP Forests community that joined and contributed to the 125th Anniversary Congress of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO).

The congress took place last week in Freiburg, Germany, welcoming more than 2000 participants. In more than…

Dear colleagues,

having attended the 3rd Joint Session of the Working Group on Effects (WGE) and the Steering Body to EMEP from 11-15 September 2017 at Geneva, I want to point to the fact that all basic documents for that meeting are available at the UNECE website. Of relevance for the ICP Forests community is especially the "2017 joint progress report on policy-relevant scientific findings" (ECE/EB.AIR/GE.1/2017/3-ECE/EB.AIR/WG.12017/3) and the "Progress report by the Programme…

Dear members of the ICP Forests Community,

I updated the list of contributions at IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress (IUFRO_Presentations.pdf).

I am looking forward to see you next week,

Anne-Katrin

Dear members of the ICP Forests community,

accompanying the interesting and inspiring presentations at the IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress, the PCC would like to invite you to an informal Get-Together in the pub/restaurant Martin's Bräu, Freiburg, where we booked a few tables. 

When? Wednesday, 20/09/2017, 8:00 pm

Where?…

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 link.

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.

Nomination…

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 me:

Anna Kowalska

Forest Research Institute

Braci Leśnej 3,…

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…