Fourth workshop on TLS in forest ecology

Congratulations to Kim Calders, Sruthi Moorthy, Hans Verbeeck and Miro Demol on organizing a fantastic workshop in Gent Belgium, focussed on the applications of TLS in forest ecology 6-7 May. The meeting attracted around 80 participants and consisted of a series of key-note presentations and open discussions chaired by a rapporteur http://www.tlsforest2019.ugent.be/

The meeting followed on from earlier workshops held in Salford and Tampere, and the Royal Society meeting in the UK in 2017. Gent provided a superb historic setting for the meeting and attracted many of the leading lights in forest TLS research from around the world

Historic Gent from the main canal 

Mark Danson presented a poster describing some results of the work with SALCA at Harvard Forest in 2017 and chaired the session "New opportunities with 3D data" which featured three excellent talks from Phil Wilkes (UCL, UK), Jennifer Adams (ESA) and Sean Levick (CSIRO, Australia).

Look out for a review paper analysing the key messages from the meeting in the near future. The fifth meeting will probably be in 2021.

Mark Danson and co-author Alan Strahler

Spring in Boston

Mark Danson has just returned from a one month study visit to Boston, hosted by Professor Crystal Schaaf from University of Massachusetts Boston. During the visit Mark worked on SALCA data collected in the Harvard Forest field experiment in 2017, had research discussions with Dave Orwig and Audrey Barker-Plotkin at Harvard Forest, and attended the Harvard Forest 2019 Annual Forest Ecology Symposium "Celebrating 30 Years of the Harvard Forest LTER Program"
https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/symposium

Thanks to Crystal for hosting the visit and for her great hospitality. Thanks also to the team and Peter Boucher, Arthur Elmes and Francesco Peri in particular for their interaction and support....and see you in Belgium for the TLS workshop in May!

Snowy Harvard Forest