Monday 17 July | ||
8:30-8:50: Welcome Address by Jim Hurrell (NCAR Director) | ||
SESSION 1 - Wind Flow and Forests: 8:30-10:50 | ||
Time | Speaker | Title |
8:50-9:10 | Patton, Edward | Turbulent flow over canopy-covered three-dimensional hills |
9:10-9:30 | Harman, Ian | Adjustment of the atmospheric boundary-layer to a forest stand within a complex, fragmented landscape |
9:30-9:50 | Gardiner, Barry | Wind flow in fragmented forested landscapes and the implications for wind damage |
9:50-10:10 | Pan, Ying | Within-canopy vertical momentum transport driven by dispersive stresses |
10:10-10:30 | Finnigan, John | Models, measurements and the myth of canopy drag |
10:30-10:50 | Bryan, George | Tree damage from severe convective storms |
10:50-11:10: Coffee | ||
SESSION 2 - Wind Interaction with Trees: 11:10-15:30 | ||
11:10-11:30 | Peterson, Chris | Computer simulation of tornado damage to forests using a coupled Rankine vortex and tree stability model |
11:30-11:50 | Hoffmann, Lutz | The use of time-localized spectral evaluations to investigate the motion data of heavily damped trees in the wind |
11:50-12:10 | Dellwik, Ebba | Initial results from the Single-Tree Experiment |
12:10-12:30 | Nikolas, Angelou | Long-term measurements of the dynamic wind loads on an open-grown oak tree |
12:30-13:50: Lunch | ||
13:50-14:10 | Achim, Alexis | Modelling wind loading of tree stems during hurricane events in a dry tropical forest |
14:10-14:30 | Pickett, Pat | Training an artificially intelligent program to solve and display motion paths of multiple needle and leaf tips of various species |
14:30-14:50 | Jackson, Toby | The mechanical safety of trees in Wytham Woods. Calculating critical wind speed using field-based and model-based methods. |
14:50-15:10 | Ver Planck, Neil | Relative crown mass influences windthrow susceptibility of Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. |
15:10-15:30 | Göcke, Lothar | Assessing the anchorage of urban trees using root plate inclination in high winds |
15:30-15:50: Coffee | ||
SESSION 3 - Wind Damage to Trees and Forests in a Changing Climate: 15:50-17:30 | ||
15:50-16:10 | Kamimura, Kana | Time-series analysis of typhoon damage in Japanese forests |
16:10-16:30 | Ruel, Jean-Claude | Potential impact of climate change on the risk of windthrow in eastern Canada’s forests |
16:30-16:50 | Jansons, Aris | Application of mechanistic wind damage model to assess adaptation strategies: case study of Norway spruce in Latvia |
16:50-17:10 | Done, James | Characterizing Wind Risk Variability and Change |
17:10-17:30 | Chen, Yi-Ying | Incorporating ForestGALES in the large-scale land surface model ORCHIDEE to quantify the interactions between forest management, climate change and storm damage |
17:30-19:00: Reception at Tree Plaza |
Tuesday 18 July | |
ALL DAY (06:30-18:30) | Field Visit to Rocky Mountain National Park |
Dinner (own plans) |
Wednesday 19 July | ||
SESSION 5 - Wind Disturbance in Forest Ecosystems: 8:30-10:10 | ||
Time | Speaker | Title |
8:30-8:50 | Juarez, Robinson | Squall lines and Amazon forest mortality: From individuals to millions of dead trees |
8:50-9:10 | Baders, Endijs | Stand structure 40 years after the major storm in two different site types of spruce hemi-boreal forests in Slitere National Park, Latvia |
9:10-9:30 | Gardiner, Barry | Can interpolated wind-speed predict forest damage? A validation study across 115 stands from the French Alps and the Jura mountains |
9:30-9:50 | Montoro Girona, Miguel | Tree mortality after experimental shelterwood and seed-tree cuttings in boreal forest |
9:50-10:10 | Mitchell, Stephen | Integrating windthrow in the BFOLDS landscape disturbance simulator |
10:10-10:40: Coffee | ||
SESSION 6 - Managing Wind Damage to Trees and Forests: 10:40-17:10 | ||
10:40-11:00 | Aven, Neal | If a tree falls in the city, does anybody notice? Lessons learned from two Pacific Northwest storms. |
11:00-11:20 | Blackwell, Bruce | Subdivisions and second-growth ‐ The need to incorporate wind throw management strategies into development planning: a case study |
11:20-11:40 | Díaz Yáñez, Olalla | What makes a forest stand more vulnerable to snow and wind damage? |
11:40-12:00 | Donis, Janis | Factors affecting wind damages in hemiboreal forests: case study in Latvia |
12:00-12:20 | Nicoll, Bruce | The resilience of Scotland’s forests after 40 years of wind risk management |
12:20-13:40: Lunch | ||
13:40-14:00 | Valinger, Erik | Forest management and forest state in southern Sweden 10 years after the storm Gudrun in the winter of 2005 |
14:00-14:20 | Wohlgemuth, Thomas | Post-windthrow management in forests of the Swiss Alps |
14:20-14:40 | Morimoto, Junko | Comparison of susceptibility of artificial forests and natural forests to strong winds in Hokkaido, Japan |
14:40-15:00 | Gardiner, Barry | Adapting the ForestGALES operational wind risk tool to incorporate several broadleaf species |
15:00-15:20 | Moore, John | Determining the patterns and drivers of attritional wind damage in planted forests using machine learning techniques |
15:20-15:50: Coffee | ||
15:50-16:10 | Kamimura, Kana | Emergence and propagation of wind damage in forests |
16:10-16:30 | Dellwik, Ebba | WAsP-ForestGALES: a merged tool for improved forest wind damage prediction |
16:30-16:50 | Albrecht, Axel | Testing correlations between modelled gust speed data and empirical storm damage |
16:50-17:10 | Gardiner, Barry | Modelling of wind damage to forests using artificial intelligence techniques |
19:30: Conference Dinner |
Thursday 20 July | ||
SESSION 7a – Tree Biomechanics: 8:30-10:30 | ||
Time | Speaker | Title |
8:30-8:50 | MacFarlane, David | Tree architecture and wind resistance: influence from neighboring trees, or lack thereof |
8:50-9:10 | Newson, Tim | Numerical modelling of static tree pulling of a Norway Spruce tree |
9:10-9:30 | Nanko, Kazuki | Estimation of tree resistance to wind damage using segmented stem and voxelized canopy from terrestrial laser scanner data |
9:30-9:50 | Minamino (Hara), Ryoko | Variation in susceptibility to wind along the trunk of an isolated Larix kaempferi tree |
9:50-10:10 | Dean, Thomas | Static bending properties of longleaf pine and loblolly pine to corrobarate relative mortality rates due to high wind breakage |
10:10-10:30 | Newson, Tim | Buckling behavior of trees under self-weight loading |
10:30-11:00: Coffee | ||
SESSION 8a - Tree adaptation and Acclimation: 11:00-12:20 | ||
11:00-11:20 | Telewski, Frank | Trait selection to improve windfirmness in trees |
11:20-11:40 | Bosc, Alexandre | Strains generated by chronic winds control the secondary aerial and root growth of Pinus pinaster |
11:40-12:00 | Moulia, Bruno | Wind acclimation and wind hazards as major drivers of the allometric shaping of trees though evolution |
12:00-12:20 | Marine Duperat | Effect of stand heterogeneity on changes in wind loading |
12:20-13:40: Lunch | ||
SESSION 7b – Tree Biomechanics: 13:40-15:00 | ||
13:40-14:00 | Sebera, Václav | Tree stability assessed by pulling test accompanied with optical techniques |
14:00-14:20 | Bunce, Amanda | Driving factors of tree sway in temperate deciduous forests of the northeastern United States |
14:20-14:40 | Praus, Ludek | Identifiability of hidden defects in a mechanically loaded tree based on the full-field strain analysis |
14:40-15:10: Coffee | ||
SESSION 8b - Tree adaptation and Acclimation: 15:30-16:50 | ||
15:10-15:30 | Constant, Thiéry | Disentangling the effect of mechanical stimulations in the tree growth response after thinning: first results of an experiment carried out in a beech stand. |
15:30-15:50 | Moulia, Bruno | Habituation to wind as a prime driver of wood production in forest trees |
15:50-16:10 | Van Bloem, Skip | Ethylene production in tropical dry forest trees after simulated hurricane treatments: A mechanism for basal sprouting |
16:10-16:30 | Skrzypczak, Tomasz | Flora Robotica : biomechanical stimulation in plants bio-hybrids |
16:30-17:00: Conference Wrap Up by Barry Gardiner and Edward Patton | ||
17:00: End of Conference |
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