DAAD ForestSAT Workshop
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).
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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.
Guest lectures
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 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.
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.
Workshop Program (14.-18. November 2016, Santiago de Chile)
DAY ONE; 14 November 2016
DAY TWO; 15 November 2016
DAY THREE; 16 November 2016
DAY FOUR, 17 November 2016
DAY FIVE; 18 November 2016
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
The venue of our own workshop will be organized by our partners from the Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Recursos Naturales at Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia (UACh). Details will be announced soon.
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
