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The [http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/67094.html Chair of Forest Inventory and Remote Sensing], Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology at University of Göttingen together with the [http://www.forestal.uach.cl/index.php Instituto Bosques y Sociedad], Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Recursos Naturales at Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia (UACh) is this year hosting the 6th International DAAD  Alumni and Student Workshop on '''“The science policy gap regarding informed decisions in forest policy and forest management: what scientific information are policy makers really interested in?”''' that will take place in Santiago de Chile (12. to 20. November 2016).

==Background==
This DAAD funded workshop will take place along the ForestSat congress in Santiago de Chile. [http://forestsat2016.com/ ForestSAT 2016] is the seventh edition of this international scientific conference, which aims to disseminate the latest knowledge gained from research in the field of remote sensing and geomatics in forestry applications. We organized this student and alumni workshop together with our partners from the Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Recursos Naturales at Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia (UACh). Thanks to the funding of DAAD, we are now looking back to a series of very successful student and alumni workshops that bring together DAAD funded international students from our [https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/79280.html international Master program (TIF)] and professionals and alumni from all over the world. For more background information on prior workshops in this series we refer to the [[:Category:DAAD workshops|category DAAD workshops]].

==Guest lectures==
[[File:kleinn_forestsat.jpg|thumb|180px|Prof. Dr. Christoph Kleinn]]
[[File:enters_forestsat.jpg|thumb|180px|Thomas Enters, UNEP, Bangkok]]
[[File:morales_forestsat.jpg|thumb|180px|Dr. David Morales, FAO, Rome]]
[[File:john_forestsat.jpg|thumb|180px|Ragna John, GIZ]]
The program for our workshop is divided in two parts. Before we meet on our workshop in Chile there will be an introductory seminar with guest lectures held at the University of Göttingen. These presentations gave an  introduction to the role of International Forestry Policies and the role of National Forest Data and Information. 

===Introduction seminar papers (07.11.2016, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, University of Göttingen, Room F02)===
The Seminar will be on Wednesday, 07 November 2016 from 8:30 till 13:00 in [https://lageplan.uni-goettingen.de/?ident=1660_1_1.UG_-1.136 lecture hall F02]. The seminar is open for public. The seminar program can be [[:File:forestsat_workshop_seminar.pdf|downloaded here...]]


'''08:30 - 08:45 h''' 

''Prof. Dr. Christoph Kleinn, Head of Chair of Forest Inventory and Remote Sensing, Universty of Göttingen'': '''Welcome'''

''Dr. Uwe Muuß, Director of International Office, University of Göttingen'': '''Opening Adress'''


'''08:45 - 09:30 h''' 

''Thomas Enters, Ph.D., UNEP, Bangkok'': '''[[:File:enters_un-redd.pdf|Getting ready for REDD+ in Asia and the Pacific. Experiences of the UN-REDD Programme]]'''      
Thomas Enters is UN-REDD Regional Coordinator of the United Nations Environment Programme
He was working as the Regional Technical Advisor of the UN-REDD Programme for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for the last six years until recently.

[https://www.youtube.com/embed/Zam-AjecZeM UN-REDD Video: Navigating the REDD+ Rule Book for Results-based Finance: Lessons learned in Asia and the Pacific] 


'''09:30 - 10:15 h''' 

''Friedrich Schmitz, BMEL, Bonn'': '''[[:File:schmitz_bmel.pdf|The German NFI - what is the task and what are the expectations of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture]]'''

Mr. Schmitz is desk officer in the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture and there responsible for the National forest inventory.
He is forest student of university of Freiburg / Breisgau and made his state exames in Baden-Württemberg.


'''10:15 - 11:00 h''' 

''Dr. David Morales-Hidalgo, FAO, Rome'': '''[[:File:morales_fao.pdf|A National Forest Monitoring System, more than data collection: Some key highlights from the FAO Voluntary Guidelines on National Forest Monitoring]]'''

Dr. Morales-Hidalgo is Forestry Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). He has more than 20 years working experience in the private, public, NGO and academia in the fields of forest assessment/monitoring, environmental conservation, forest management, forest assessment, climate change and project management in Latin America, North America, Europe, Africa and Central Asia.


'''11:00 - 11:30 h''' Coffee / Tea break


'''11:30 - 12:15 h''' 

''Ragna John, GIZ, Eschborn'':  '''[[:File:ejohn_giz.pdf|Forest Landscape Restoration in the context of German development cooperation]]'''

Ragna John is a qualified forest manager and expert in international forest and climate policy. Since 2012, she is working as a consultant in the GIZ Sektorvorhaben international forest policy.


'''12:15 - 13:00 h''' 

''Dr. Christiane Ehringhaus, KfW, Frankfurt'': '''The importance of forest monitoring for result-based finance: experiences from the REDD Early Movers Program'''

Dr. Ehringhaus is program coordinator for the REDD Early Movers Program at KfW.


[[File:students2_forestsat.jpg|International students|x150px]]
[[File:students1_forestsat.jpg|International students|x150px]]

=Workshop Program (13.-18. November 2016, Santiago de Chile)=
[[:File:forestsat_workshopprogram.pdf|Workshop program in PDF format]]

==Sunday 13 November: Arrival Day==

'''All Day:''' Arrival of participants, Transfer from Airport to hotel

'''18:30 - 20:00:''' Internal meeting of organization committee

==DAY ONE; 14 November 2016==
''Moderation/Minutes: Kumar Bahadur Darjee and George Ofori Ankomah, Supervisor: Marco Gonzales''

'''09:00 - 09:30:''' Welcome and opening address - ''Christoph Kleinn''

'''09:30 - 10:00''' Introductory words and program introduction - ''Christoph Kleinn, Victor Sandoval''

'''10:00 - 10:30''' Best practice in scientific writing — ''Alina Kleinn''

'''10:30 - 11:00''' Coffee beak

===SESSION 1 - Conservation & Biodiversity===
''Moderation/Minutes: Jhenny Salgado and Kevin Jair Hernández Bado, Supervisor: José Imaña''   

'''11:00 - 11:20''' Use and conservation of biodiversity - Inventory and assessment of ecosystems with relict tree species as a tool for establishing criteria for forest public policy - ''Eduardo Treviño''

'''11:20 - 11:40''' [[:File:Gonzales.pdf|Property size as determinant of forest conservati-on in Chile: Implications for policy design]] - ''Ricardo González Jimenez Jerarquía''

'''11:40 - 12:00''' [[:File:valdes&perdomo.pdf|Zoning of an agrisilviculture System: Organic coffee production in Santa Cruz Island - Galápagos]] - ''Alejandra Valdés & Ysabel Perdomo''

'''12:00 - 13:30''' Lunch break

===SESSION 2 - Participatory forest management===
''Moderation/Minutes: Alejandra Valdés and Ysabel Perdomo, Supervisor: Christian Velasco''  

'''13:30 - 13:50''' [[:File:velasco.pdf|The integrated naranjilla round table]] - ''Christian Velasco''

'''13:50 - 14:10''' [[:File:eshetu&kusumadewi.pdf|The implementation of community based forestry as REDD+ activity: Comparative study in Indonesia and Ethiopia]] - ''Shibire Bekele Eshetu & Sonya Dyah Kusumadewi''

'''14:10 - 14:30''' [[:File:acevedo&parajuli.pdf|Community forstry in Nepal and Mexico: Concept, learning, challenges and way forward]] - ''Fátima del Carmen Acevedo Benìtez & Arun Parajuli''

'''14:30 - 14:50''' [[:File:lopez&boucher.pdf|Recognising the ancestral land and biodiversity conservation efforts of indigenous people in Quinchao municipality using GIS- and participatory 3D-mapping tool]] - ''Precious Annie Lopez & Nolwenn Boucher''

'''14:50 - 15:20''' Coffee break

===SESSION 3 - Forest inventory and decision support===
''Moderation/Minutes: Rebeca Campos Valverde and Frederick Dadzie, Subervisor: Mauricio Vega''

'''15:20 - 15:40''' Effect of timber enumeration errors on timber value and decision making - ''Cori Ham''

'''15:40 - 16:00''' Investigating the effect of logging and the optimum sampling design in the tropical forests of Papua New Guinea - ''Riccardo Testolin''

'''16:00 - 16:20''' Geographic Information System of urban forestry Pereira, Colombia - ''Gustavo Cardona''

'''16:20 - 16:40''' Zoning organic management of Maqui (Aristotelia chilensis) in the region of Los Ríos, Chile - ''Julio Gerding Vegas & Milton Serpa''

'''16:40 - 17:00''' Coffee break

'''17:00 - 18:30''' Group working session

==DAY TWO; 15 November 2016==
===SESSION 4 - Land use conflicts===
Moderation/Minutes: ''Shibire Bekele Eshetu and Sonya Dyah Kusumadewi, Supervisor: Stefan Erasmi''  

'''09:00 - 09:20''' Land use and land use change in forestry (LULUCF). A status quo of forestry resources and policy intervention to forest dependents (livelihood) - ''Vianny Ahimbisibwe & Thakur Prasad Magrati''

'''09:20 - 09:40''' Coverage and land use changes - ''Nayadeth Damari Muñoz Gómez & Julia Pintos''

'''09:40 - 10:00''' Illegal gold mining in Amazon Rainforest: the peruvian capital of biodiversity at risk of an environmental catastrophy - ''Rodrigo Vera''

'''10:00 - 10:30''' Coffee break

===SESSION 5 - Methods in Remote Sensing===
''Moderation/Minutes: Fátima del Carmen Acevedo Benìtez and Arun Parajuli, Supervisor: Eduardo Treviño''

'''10:30 - 10:50''' The role of Landsat time-series in forest dynamics research - ''Wanda Graf''

'''10:50 - 11:10''' Time Series of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index in Costa Rica - A highly bioclimatic diverse landscapes - ''Mauricio Vega''

'''11:10 - 11:30''' Radar remote sensing for forest parameter estimation - ''Stefan Erasmi''

'''11:30 - 11:50''' Monitoring Land Cover Changes in Jambi Province, Sumatra using Sentinel-1 and Google Earth Engine - ''Kira Urban & Lutz Fehrmann''

'''11:50 - 12:10''' Exploring NDVI as a remote sensing tool for monitoring tropical forest - ''Rebeca Campos Valverde & Frederick Dadzie''

'''12:10 - 13:30''' Lunch break

===SESSION 6 - Climate Change===
''Moderation/Minutes: Wanda Graf and Riccardo Testolin, Supervisor: Hugo Zerda''

'''13:30 - 13:50''' Biomass on a fragment of the Atlantic Forest at the state of Espirito Santo, Brazil - ''José Imaña''

'''13:50 - 14:10''' Above ground biomass estimation related to field measurement errors - ''Ramón Trucios''

'''14:10 - 14:30''' Climate Change adaptation of forest dependent poor people: A case study comparing Nepal and Ghana - ''Kumar Bahadur Darjee & George Ofori Ankomah''

'''14:30 - 14:50''' Species distribution models as a tool to explore potential effects of climate change in montane forests - ''Carlos Manchego''

'''14:50 - 15:20''' Coffee break

===SESSION 7 - Case studies===
''Moderation/Minutes: Vianny Ahimbisibwe and Thakur Prasad Magrati, Supervisor: Cori Ham''

'''15:20 - 15:40''' Sustainable landscape in the forests of southern Chile - ''Victor Sandoval & Luis Otero''

'''15:40 - 16:00''' Fire history in mexican conifers forest - ''Marco Gonzales''

'''16:00 - 16:20''' Spatial and temporal patterns of fires at the wildland- rural-urban interface. Study case of Santiago del Estero, in Argentina´s chaco dry forest region - ''Hugo Zerda''

'''16:20 - 16:50''' Coffee break

'''16:50 - 17:30''' Group work sessions

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==DAY THREE; 16 November 2016==

===ForestSAT Conference===

'''tba''' Departure to the congress venue

'''08:00''' Registration

'''08:30 - 18:30''' Participation at [http://forestsat2016.com/ ForestSAT conference]

'''18:30 - 20:00''' Transfer back to the Hotel

==DAY FOUR, 17 November 2016==

===Fieldtrip to the National Park "La Campana"===
''Minutes: Jhenny Salgado and Kevin Jair Hernández Bado''

'''08:00 - 18:00''' Field trip to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Campana_National_Park La Campana National Park]

==DAY FIVE; 18 November 2016==

===Workshop evaluation and closing===
''Supervisor: Lutz Fehrmann''

'''09:00 - 11:00''' Presentation of Minutes during ForestSAT

'''11:00 - 11:30''' Coffee break

'''11:30 - 12:30''' Evaluation plenary – without organizers Introduction - ''Lutz Fehrmann''

'''12:30 - 14:00''' Lunch break

'''14:00 - 15:00''' Workshop Wrap-up

'''15:00 - 15:30''' Introduction to DAAD Office in Chile - ''Arpe Caspary''

'''15:30 - 16:00''' Workshop closing, ''Christoph Kleinn''

'''16:00 - 18:30''' Group work sessions

==Workshop venue & accommodation==

Accommodation for most workshop participants is arranged in the Crowne Plaza Hotel:

Sc (Andina) Inc. Av. Libertador Bdo O'Higgins 136, Santiago - 6513491, Chile 

Phone: +56 (0) 2 26381042

Fax: +56 (0) 2 26330960

[http://www.crowneplaza.com/hotels/de/de/santiago/sclco/hoteldetail hotel details]


The venue of our own workshop will be at the office of the Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia (UACh) in Santiago de Chile. The UACh office in Santiago is dedicated among other activities, to represent the university and authorities in different events, meetings and ceremonies in Santiago. In addition, it represents Rectory, Faculties and Institutes. Through that, the presence of UACh is reinforced in the Metropolitan region. Undergraduate and graduate careers are present as well; and several academic and cultural events are managed in different fields for the community.



The venue of the ForestSAT conference that we will visit at one day is on the Campus Huechuraba of the Universidad Mayor (UACh)
 
Camino La Pirámide 5750,
 
Huechuraba , Santiago de Chile

[http://www.umayor.cl/um/campus-huechuraba UACh Campus Huechuraba]




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