Tag: International

Southern Institute of Forest Genetics Hosts International Student Visitor

by Sarah Farmer, SRS Science Delivery Group  • 
Carmen Santos, a Ph.D. student from Lisbon, Portugal, recently traveled to Saucier, Mississippi, for an internship with the U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS). Santos will be working with C. Dana Nelson, project leader and research geneticist at the SRS Southern Institute of Forest Genetics, and biological sciences lab technician Chuck Burdine. “We have…  More 

International Student Visitor Arrives in Auburn for Forest Service Internship

by Sarah Farmer, SRS Science Delivery Group  • 
Wellington Cardoso, an undergraduate student from Brazil, arrived in Auburn, Alabama, this past January to begin an internship with the U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station. “Cardoso will play a major role in studying a biomass harvesting operation,” says Dana Mitchell, project leader of the Forest Operations research unit, which is hosting Cardoso. The operation…  More 

International Researchers Mobilize Against Risky Stowaway Pests

by Stephanie Worley Firley  • 
Sometimes there’s more to global trade than meets the eye. While consumers and economies may benefit from expanding market opportunities and a seemingly endless array of readily available goods, harmful pests could be lurking as people and products are transported between countries. An international research network, including scientists from the U.S. Forest Service, has come…  More 

International Evapotranspiration Symposium: April 7 – 10, 2014, Raleigh, NC

by Sarah Farmer, SRS Science Delivery Group  • 
  Register now for Evapotranspiration: Challenges in Measurement and Modeling from the Leaf to the Landscape Scale and Beyond. An important part of the hydrologic water cycle is plant water use (transpiration) and evaporation from earth and ocean surfaces. Together, these two processes are called evapotranspiration. Scientists and engineers studying climate, ecosystem productivity, water use,…  More 

Celebrating Pioneering Researcher Ken Cordell

by Zoe Hoyle, SRS Science Communications  • 
Ken Cordell recently retired after a phenomenally productive 50+ year career in the U.S. Forest Service, most recently as pioneering scientist and project leader with the Forest Service Southern Research Station. His planning assessments and research covered trends and futures of outdoor recreation, demographic and societal shifts, natural amenity migration and natural amenity values, and…  More 

Southern Research Station Scientist Receives International Recognition

by Sarah Farmer, SRS Science Delivery Group  • 
On January 10, 2014, Hse Chung-yun, a U.S. Forest Service researcher at the Southern Research Station (SRS) Utilization of Southern Forest Resources unit, received the International Science and Technology Cooperation Award. The non-monetary award is one of the highest honors the People’s Republic of China awards to recognize scientists who have made significant contributions to China’s scientific…  More 

Mangroves in Mozambique

by Zoe Hoyle, SRS Science Communications  • 
September found U.S. Forest Service researchers Carl Trettin and Christina Stringer camping out on the edge of a mangrove swamp in Africa, watching the ocean tides for the best time to take their skiffs out to search for plots to set up for inventory. They were in Mozambique, which stretches along the eastern coast of Africa…  More 

A Southern Forester in Rome

by Sarah Farmer, SRS Science Delivery Group  • 
Since the 1940s, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has coordinated a global Forest Resource Assessment every 5 to 10 years. The assessments describe the world’s forests and how they are changing, and include information about the health and diversity of each country’s forests, as well as their productivity, ecological value, and other…  More 

Korean Forests Gain Ground with U.S. Forest Service Support

by Stephanie Worley Firley, EFETAC  • 
Korean forest scientists know all too well how degraded forests affect ecosystems and people. During the 20th century, unsustainable harvesting and conversion of forests to cropland caused “serious social and environmental problems like lack of fuel, severe flooding, and droughts,” according to the Korea Forest Service. In the 1970s, the country began a widespread forest…  More 

International Researchers Mobilize Against Risky Stowaway Pests

by Stephanie Worley Firley  • 
Sometimes there is more to global trade than meets the eye. While consumers and economies may benefit from expanding market opportunities and a seemingly endless array of readily available goods, harmful pests could be lurking as people and products are transported between countries. An international research network, including scientists from the U.S. Forest Service, recently met to…  More