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The Chair of Forest Inventory and Remote Sensing, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology at University of Göttingen together with the 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).

[edit] Background

This DAAD funded workshop will take place along the ForestSat congress in Santiago de Chile. 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 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.

[edit] Guest lectures

Prof. Dr. Christoph Kleinn

Thomas Enters, UNEP, Bangkok

Dr. David Morales, FAO, Rome

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.

[edit] 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 lecture hall F02. The seminar is open for public. The seminar program can be 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: 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.

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: 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: 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: 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.

[edit] Workshop Program (13.-18. November 2016, Santiago de Chile)

Workshop program in PDF format

[edit] Sunday 13 November: Arrival Day

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

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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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 Property size as determinant of forest conservati-on in Chile: Implications for policy design - Ricardo González Jimenez Jerarquía

11:40 - 12:00 Zoning of an agrisilviculture System: Organic coffee production in Santa Cruz Island - Galápagos - Alejandra Valdés & Ysabel Perdomo

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break

[edit] SESSION 2 - Participatory forest management

Moderation/Minutes: Alejandra Valdés and Ysabel Perdomo, Supervisor: Christian Velasco

13:30 - 13:50 The integrated naranjilla round table - Christian Velasco

13:50 - 14:10 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 Community forestry in Nepal and Mexico: Concept, learning, challenges and way forward - Fátima del Carmen Acevedo Benìtez & Arun Parajuli

14:30 - 14:50 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

[edit] 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

[edit] DAY TWO; 15 November 2016

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] DAY THREE; 16 November 2016

[edit] ForestSAT Conference

07:30 Departure to the congress venue

08:00 Registration

08:30 - 18:30 Participation at ForestSAT conference

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

[edit] DAY FOUR, 17 November 2016

[edit] Fieldtrip to the National Park "La Campana"

Minutes: Jhenny Salgado and Kevin Jair Hernández Bado

08:00 - 18:00 Field trip to La Campana National Park

[edit] DAY FIVE; 18 November 2016

Workshop participants from 20 countries

[edit] 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 - Lutz Fehrmann

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

[edit] 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

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

UACh Campus Huechuraba

[edit] Media

Reports on our workshop were published on the website of the Universidad Austral de Chile and the homepage of the Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Recursos Naturales