PINEMAP Forest Research and Decision Support Tool Rollout
Forest Research and Decision Support Tool Rollout
Be the first to hear about the research results that can boost your productivity and your bottom line!
This meeting is for foresters, technical advisors, TIMO's, REIT's, Forest research cooperative members and others interested in managing pines in changing times. This one day meeting will include research results, forest models and decision support tools from the six year PINEMAP project.*
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$125 Registration includes lunch and dinner reception on Tuesday and breakfast on Wednesday .Participants will receive a folder and thumbdrive with PINEMAP related research, as well as copies of the presentations. 7.0 SAF CFE Cat1 Credits will be available. |
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Tuesday, May 16th State Botanic Garden of Georgia, Garden Club of Georgia Terrace Room, Athens
11 am Registration,
11:30 am Lunch,
1:00 pm meeting starts
5:30 pm dinner & reception
Wednesday, May 17th - Warnell School of Forestry, UGA, Athens, GA
7 am breakfast
8 am start
12 pm conclusion
Travel Information:
The meeting is at the State Botanic Garden of Georgia, Garden Club of Georgia Terrace Room on the first day, starting at 11 am for registration. The botanic garden is less than a 15 minute drive away from the hotel. On the second day, we will meet at the Warnell School of Forestry, Bldgs 4 and 1, which are a short 10 minute walk from the hotel. Parking can be found a the
South Campus parking deck located next to the UGA Center for Continuing Education Hotel.
If you need a ride from the Hotel to the Botanic garden for the meeting on Tuesday, please email or call Leslie at 706-612-7875.
Tuesday May 16th- meeting is at the State Botanic Garden of Georgia, Athens
2450 S. Milledge Ave. Athens, GA 30605
Directions from the UGA hotel to the State Botanic Garden of Georgia
Shuttle from Altlanta
Shuttles from the Atlanta airport are available via Groome Transportation or other companies listed here:
Preferred directions: Atlanta to Athens area (less traffic)
Atlanta city center to Georgia Botanic Garden (day 1 of meeting)
ATL airport to Georgia Botanic Garden (day 1 of meeting)
ATL airport to UGA Georgia Center (hotel)
Atlanta city center to UGA Georgia Center (hotel)
Hotel Reservations
There is a hotel block reserved at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education, on campus, with rooms for $98 per night. Rooms are available at this rate for May 15th, 16th and 17th.
Reservations can be made by phone at: (706) 548-1311
or online at: http://www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/uga-hotel/hotel-home
Block Code is: 88707
Rooms will be: $98 per night
PDFs of Presentations can be found here:
Dr. Tim Martin- Introduction and Context of PINEMAP presentation
Dr. Randy Wynne- Modeling Future Productivity
Dr. Jason Vogel- Plantation Carbon Storage: Distribution and Management Effects
Dr. Bob Abt- Regional Effects of Changes in Pine Plantation Growth
Dr. Puneet Dwivedi- Impact of Changing Climate on Ex-situ Carbon Storage
Dr. Thomas Fox- Increasing Efficiency of Nitrogen Fertilization in Loblolly Pine Plantations
Dr. Brooks Mendell- "What do changing forests imply for timberland owners, investments and markets?"
Dr. Steve McKeand- Refined Seedling Deployment Tools
Dr. Ross Whetten- Genomic Tools in Breeding
Dr. Mark Megalos_Leslie Boby-Facilitation Cross-Sector Communication
Dr. Damian Adams- New Frontiers in Forest Economics and Policy
Dr. Steve McNulty- What will the future hold?
