As part of the celebration honoring 20 years of the European Forest Institute ( EFI ), the international conference MeMoWOOD (Measurement Methods and Modeling Approaches for Predicting Desirable Future Wood Properties) was held at the Park Inn hotel in Nancy from 1-4 October.
This was the seventh meeting of the group 5.01.04 (concentrating on wood quality modeling) of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO).
In attendance were 80 scientists currently studying wood in Togo, Benin and Madagascar, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, France, USA and Canada, Japan, Nepal, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Brazil and Colombia .
It was funded by the registration of participants, by the Lorraine region, AgroParisTech, the EFPA Department of INRA and by Labex ARBRE. It was co-organized by the INRA-AgroParisTech research unit LERFOB in Nancy and the Chair of Forest Biomaterials at the University of Freiburg. Numerous researchers from the Nancy -Freiburg- Zurich network( NFZ ) were also present.
MeMoWood has contributed to the development of state of the art technology designed for measuring and modeling wood properties; technology valuable both for current and future applications, certainly potentially valuable to numerous international collaborative projects.
Presentation summaries, slideshows and posters will soon be posted on the official conference website. Also in preparation is an issue of the Annals of Forest Science dedicated to MeMoWood.
The next IUFRO group conference will take place in June 2016, in Quebec.
For more info: https://colloque.inra.fr/
