Program
SUNDAY 4 JUNE
14:00
15.00
15:30
Registration Open
Student/Early Researchers Workshop
17:00 –
19:00
Welcome Reception
Sponsored by HQ Plantations
CONFERENCE OPENING
Auditorium Foyer
Auditorium B
Auditorium B
Terrace
MONDAY 5 JUNE
08:00
Registration Open
Auditorium Foyer
09:00
Plenary
Certification and Sustainable Forest Management
Matt de Jongh
10:00
Morning Tea
C1
S1.1: In-forest Wood Quality
Assessment, 1
Chair
Room
10:30
Yvette Dickinson
Meeting Room M3
An individual tree growth and wood
properties model for plantation
forests.
David Drew
Impact of needle wear on resistance
drilling to assess wood quality.
Vilius Gendvilas
10:50
Foyer
S22&23: Application and Prospects of
Interdisciplinary Forest Product
Identification and Traceability
Approaches
Andrew Lowe
Meeting Room M2
Unveiling the isotopic distribution of
timber in the Peruvian Amazon.
Charlie Watkinson
Ancient DNA uncovers the information of
tree species used in ancient timber
architecture to reveal the development
of human civilization.
Lichao Jiao
Multiple DNA approaches for identifying
Southeast Asian timber species.
Melita Low
11:10
Acoustic wave behavior in standing
trees and its implication to in-forest
wood quality assessment.
Xiping Wang
11:30
A microactuator device for the
detection of termite damage in timber
poles.
Sebastian Oberst
World Forest ID - science-based solution
to verifying forest product identity and
origin.
Victor Deklerck
11:50
Automated microscopy analysis for
quantifying resin canals in loblolly pine
experiencing dieback.
Nawa Raj Pokhrel
Application of GC and GC-TOFMS-based
metabolomic profiling for forensic
identification of mahogany and
rosewood species.
Isabelle Duchesne
12:10
LUNCH
13:10
Auditorium B
Sponsored by
Responsible Wood
IAWS Academy Lecture
S26: Community and First Nations
Forestry
Charlotte Chia Hua Lee
Meeting Room M3
Environmental and economic analysis
of small-scale wood energy systems
within Alaskas Native communities.
David Nicholls
Design guidelines for sustainable use
and management of forests focusing
on the empowerment of local
people.
Kazuyo Nagahama
Mixedwood management in British
Columbias boreal forest enhances
biodiversity, sustainability, and First
Nations traditional values.
Christopher Hawkins
Design guidelines for sustainable use
and management of forests focusing
on the empowerment of local
people.
Kazuyo Nagahama
Building bridges for the Uapishka
Biodiversity Reserve: How to bring
together a First Nation and a
conservation NGO behind a common
vision?
Andréanne Girard-Lemieux
Foyer
Auditorium B
Advances in the biomimicry of wood for development of novel additively
manufactured materials.
Phil Evans
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C2
Chair
14:00
14:20
14:40
S21: IAWA-IUFRO Symposium:
Promoting Data-Driven Methods for
Species and Origin Identification of
Forest Products
Yafang Yin
Auditorium B
Applications in the scope of anatomical
wood identification using sub-µCT
based volumetric images.
Volker Haag
S20.1: Outcomes from Forest Products
Culture 1
S18: Credence Attributes
Charlotte Lee
Meeting Room M2
Wood culture in Burning man: the ritual
use of wood.
Mona Wu (pre-recorded)
Developing integrated timber data to
enhance legal timber trade of the APEC
through Xylaria networking: progress.
Listya Dewi
How to digitize a wood collection?
Yafang Yin
Woods used during 6th to 10th century
in Himachal Pradesh state of India.
Sangeeta Gupta
Sam van Holsbeeck
Meeting Room M3
The nexus between citizen
preferences towards wooden
building materials and choosing
renovations over demolish & build.
Anne Toppinien
Perceived value of sustainable wine
packaging.
Robert Radics
15:00
C3
Afternoon Tea
S3: Roundwood Sorting and Grading
Chair
Udo Sauter
Auditorium B
Distribution and quantification of
wetwood in Silver fir (Abies alba Mill.)
by x-ray-based computed tomography
(CT).
Franka Brüchert
Investigating the Influence of
Environmental and Silvicultural Factors
on Wood Quality of Southern Pines
grown in south-east Queensland and
Northern New South Wales
Chandan Kumar
Towards the use of small-diameter oak
roundwood for structural purposes:
Determination of mechanical
properties by non-destructive and
destructive testing as prerequisite for
mechanical log grading.
Franka Brüchert
Comparison of different roundwood
measurement methods along the
forestry-wood-chain.
Jörg Staudenmaier
15:20
15:50
16:10
16:30
16:50
The History and Impacts of World Wood
Day
Howard Rosen (pre-recorded)
S15.1: Future Pathways to Forests,
Business and Sustainability 1
Anne Toppinen
Meeting Room M2
Tradeoffs between forest ecosystem
services in southeast Alaska: the
influence of second growth timber
management.
David Nicholls
Circular use of timber in Norway: Policy,
possibilities, and projects.
Lone Ross
Carbon footprint of reused and recycled
wood products.
Johann Kristian Næss
New Zealand’s reputation in the
international timber market and the
performance of the forestry sector in
delivering credence attributes.
Karen Bayne
Foyer
S24: Wood and Forest Cultural
Heritage in Australia, including
Aboriginal Wood and Forest Culture
Laurence Boudreault
Meeting Room M3
The culture of design with timber in
Australia’s commercial and industrial
buildings.
Gregory Nolan
Cultural presentations in reflection of
forest and forest products culture in
Australia.
Charlotte Chia-Hua Lee
Ancient voice of the future.
David Hudson
Market access opportunities for
engineered wood products
manufactured from senile coconut
palms.
Divnesh Swamy
Day Close
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TUESDAY 6 JUNE
8:00
08:20
08:30
C4
Chair
09:20
09:40
10:00
10:20
10:40
Registration and Trade Open
Housekeeping
Foyer
Auditorium B
Auditorium B
Plenary
Sponsored by:
How long will my wood last ? An overview of wood durability and protection.
Forest & Wood
Marie-France Thevenon
Protection Australia
S17.1: Bamboo & Rattan 1
S5: Wood Protection Systems for Long
S29: Wood Anatomy, Chemistry and
Term Carbon Storage
Function
Changhua Fang
Marie-France Thevenon
Victor Deklerck
Auditorium B
Meeting Room M2
Meeting Room M3
Development of biomass-modified
Zinc borate in wood coatings.
Effect of mycorrhiza inoculation on
bamboo fibers for reinforcing asphaltClaudia Marcela Ibañez
the growth of Khaya senegalensis (a.
based composites.
Juss.) seedlings.
Wendy Liu
Adejoke Akinyele
Properties of ply bamboo
Analysis of changes of colour and contact Among-family variations of radial
manufactured from two Malaysian
angle of wettability after thermal
variation patterns of wood properties
bamboo species.
treatment process under atmospheric
in Japanese cedar, hinoki cypress,
Alia Syahirah
conditions.
and Japanese larch.
Marius Aleinikovas
Yusuke Takahashi
Photo-curing 3D printing of
Functionalised wood-based materials and Valorisation of suberin from birch
biocomposites from bamboo fibers and products for carbon capture and storage. bark.
palm oil-based resins.
Tripti Singh
Risto Korpinen
Wendi Liu
Effects of steam-heating treatment on
High subterranean termite resistance of
Evaluation of xylem maturation
basic properties of rattan cane
H2- and H3-weathered tropical
manner by radial variation modeling
Calamus simplicifolius.
hardwood kempas (Koompassia
of wood properties in fast-growing
Shumin Yang
malaccensis) envelope-treated with a
tree species in Japan.
vegetal extracts-cypermethrin-based
Ikumi Nezu
formulation.
Andrew Wong
Morning Tea
Foyer
Elevator Pitch Session 1
11:00
11:05
11:10
11:15
11:20
11:25
11:30
11:35
11:40
11:45
Chair: Roger Meder
Auditorium B
Performance evaluation of briquette produced from three selected tropical hard wood species in Nigeria.
Idowu Abimbola Adegoke
Information disclosure on environmental activities and corporate values of wood industry.
Kenji Nagasaka
A sustainable and clean future with bamboo: a substitute for plastic.
Yanxia Li
Chess as a method of combination and observation in life cycle analysis of forest products versus chess pieces as certified
forest products and services - a sustainable use of forest products.
Vitalie Gulca
Pictorial representation of the forestry usage in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria.
Michael M.A Oke
Forests and forestry reserves as security threat in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria.
Michael M.A Oke
Modeling and simulating the growth of thinned and non-thinned Eucalyptus forests at the individual tree level
Renato Castro
Current state and future opportunities for social responsibility in New Zealand's Forest sector.
Grace B Villamor (TBA)
Wood anatomy of five native species of Paraguay of the Fabaceae family.
Felicia Zárate
Change of liquid-solid phase transition behaviour of water in wood with moisture contents.
Jingbo Shi
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11:50
11:55
12:00
Predicting the potential distribution areas of Phacochoerus africanus (Gmelin 1788) and Potamochoerus porcus (Linnaeus
1758) in Benin.
Florian Gbodja Codjia
Ecotourism development as tool for environmental conservation and its implication to community livelihoods, in case of
Sheka Forest biosphere reserve, in south west Ethiopia.
Ferede Meseret
LUNCH
C5
S11: New and Emerging Species for
Forest Plantations
S8: Durable Hardwood Plantations
S7: Natural durability of wood species
S28: Forests, Climate and
Environment
Chair
Trinh Huynh
Auditorium B
Specialty timber market development determining imported timber traits.
Karen Bayne
Andrew Wong
Meeting Room M2
Effect of stand density on Hoop pine
(Araucaria cunninghamii) and Gympie
messmate (Eucalyptus cloeziana) growth
and stem volume over 31 years.
Nahuel Pachas
Natural durability of plantation and
native forest spotted gum (Corymbia
spp.).
Lesley Francis
Marine performance of Papua New
Guinea plantation and secondary forest
timber species.
Elaine Galore
Naturally durable timbers in log buildings
of New Zealand.
Tripti Singh
Pekka Saranpää
Meeting Room M3
Quantification of climate change
impacts of harvested wood products
with a consideration of time.
Poonam Khatri
13:20
13:40
Cape York Sandalwood, an emerging
native species for Indigenous forestry.
David Lee
14:00
Exotic Grevillea robusta tree
improvement programme in northern
hemisphere.
Maneesh Singh Bhandari
Selection of candidate species for
productive tree plantations in Borneo,
Malaysia
Yani Japarudin (Roger Meder)
14:20
14:40
C5
Chair
15:10
15:30
16:00
16:20
S13: Teakwood Quality: Challenges
and Opportunities
Thulasidas PK
Auditorium B
The role of National Policies and
strategies in ensuring sustainable
supply of wood from Teak plantations
in Ghana.
Valerie Nassah
Supply chain management of forest
biomass utilization for bioenergy
industry development.
Jingxin Wang
Towards a total transformation of teak
wood in Togo: the contribution of
smallholders in the city of Asrama.
Komlan Houelete
Afternoon Tea
S4.1: Material Characterisation 1
Franka Brüchert
Meeting Room M2
Radial scanning of loblolly pine samples
using near-infrared hyperspectral
imaging: impact of surface scanned,
sample thickness and extractives on
partial least squares regression models.
Joseph Dahlen
Condition assessment of wood structure
of Jin Zhongdu watergate site.
Houjiang Zhang
Planting trees in areas affected by
major tropical cyclones.
Gelito Inácio Franco Sululu
Phytoremediation of soil
contaminated with spent lubricating
oil using Jatropha curcas Linn.
Adejoke Akinyele
S17.2: Bamboo & Rattan 2
Wendy Liu
Meeting Room M3
Bamboo wastes to solid biofuel in
China: Opportunities, technologies,
applications, and challenges.
Zhijia Liu
The potential of bamboo as a
substitute for plastic: A perspective
from carbon footprint.
Xiaohua Li
Using Pilodyn for rapid field assessment
of decay condition in hardwood trailer
decking.
Xinfeng Xie
Day Close
FREE EVENING TO EXPLORE CAIRNS.
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WEDNESDAY 7 JUNE
8:00
08:20
08:30
C6
09:20
09:40
10:00
10:20
10:40
C7
Chair
11:00
11:20
Registration Open
Foyer
Housekeeping
Auditorium B
Plenary
Title TBA
Gavin Matthews
S10: Massive timber and EWP
Roger Meder
Auditorium B
Bonding and mechanical properties of
cross-laminated timber (CLT)
manufactured from tropical
hardwoods.
Alia Syahirah Yusoh
Investigation of the performances of
manufactured bagasse particleboard
with treated Bagasse particles by
tannin/ furfural resin.
Marie-France Thevenon
Projecting US residential and
nonresidential construction activities
and carbon benefits of adopting mass
timber under contrasting
socioeconomic futures.
Prakash Nepal
Is Eucalyptus pellita grown in the
tropics suitable for EWP and massive
timber?
Roger Meder
Auditorium B
S20.2: Outcomes from Forest Products
Culture 2
Jinling Su
Meeting Room M2
Importance of Educating Our Children
About Forest Products Culture
Ping Yang
S1.2: In-forest Wood Quality
Assessment, 2
Geoff Downes
Meeting Room M3
Compression strength of planted
Eucalyptus pellita wood by nearinfrared (NIR) spectroscopy.
Adlin Roseley
Socio-cultural relationships of non-wood
forest products
Michelle Baumflek
Wood and timber properties in evenand uneven-aged Norway spruce
stands modeled using a data-fusion
approach.
Jiri Pyörälä
A stand simulator to predict strength
grade in Sitka spruce stands in Great
Britain: a preliminary version.
Ruben Manso
The importance of the International
Journal of Wood Culture
Michael Grabner
Black ash as a cultural keystone species:
W8banakiak issues and perspectives.
Laurence Boudreault
Non-destructive wood quality
assessment of commercially grown
Eucalyptus pellita on the Tiwi Islands,
Northern Australia.
Listya Mustika Dewi
A comparison of radial wood
property variation in southern pines
between IML Resi predictions and
wood increment cores analysed by
SilviScan.
David Lee
S4.2: Material Characterisation 2
S15.2: Future Pathways to Forests,
Business and Sustainability 2
Xiping Wang
Meeting Room M2
Model interpretability vs model
complexity: Comparing partial least
squares and artificial neural network
wood property near infrared
spectroscopy models.
Sameen Raut
Unlocking the secrets of wood: The
power of X-ray CT scanning on increment
cores.
Joris Van Acker
Eric Hansen
Meeting Room M3
Retrofitting with wood: the pathways
to a sustainability transition in the
rural context.
Anne Viljanen
Morning Tea
Perceived value of data for
enhancing corporate environmental
sustainability: Case tissue business.
Anne Toppinen
11:40
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LUNCH
12:00
Elevator Pitch Session 2
Auditorium B
13:25
13:40
Non-destructive determination of Silver Birch (Betula pendula Roth.) and Black Alder (Alnus gluti nosa (L.) Gaertn) wood
hardness in different genetic families.
Benas Šilinskas
Quantify and predict wood and fiber properties grown under intensively managed loblolly pine plantations.
Nawa Raj Pokhrel
Effect of temperature on the structure and properties of rattan carbon-encapsulated iron particles.
Lili Shang
Ironwood in Seri Land.
Jinling Su
Afternoon Tea
C8
S2: Sensor Networks
13:05
13:10
13:20
14:10
14:20
14:40
15:00
15:20
15:40
16:00
19:00 –
22:00
Xiping Wang
Auditorium B
Discbot beyond radiata pine:
expanding the use of a novel tool for
mapping intra-stem wood quality.
Yvette Dickinson
Corebot- adaption of an existing
robotic tree disc scanning platform for
use with 12 mm increment cores.
John Lee
Online processing of Resi traces for
commercial inventory of plantation
wood quality.
Geoffrey Downes
A comparison of Resi and Discbot.
John Lee
Using ground penetrating radar to
predict log moisture content of
commercially important Canadian
softwoods.
Isabelle Duchesne
S9: Global Timber Durability Research
S6: Termite Management
Tripti Singh
Meeting Room M2
Metal migration from treated wood
vineyard trellising into soil and vine
biomass 30 months after installation.
Gerald Presley
Performance of CCA and ACQ treated
radiata pine heartwood decking: 24-year
trial.
Jeffrey Morrell
Effects of moisture content cycles on
screwed timber connections.
Luis Yerman
S12: Plantations Meet Carbon
Reduction
Juan Guo
Auditorium B
Lignin a potential source for carbonnegative building materials.
Zhiyong Cai
Study on biocide-free wood modification
techniques and how they impact on the
termite resistance of wood.
Holger Militz
Assessment of termite damage in CLT
sections using micro-computed
tomography.
Maryam Shirmohammadi
Evaluation of biogenic carbon
content of xylem of representative
plantation trees in China.
Yafang Yin
Analysis of carbon reduction effect
by biomass production at short
rotation coppice forest of Poplar
species in South Korea.
Yoon-Seong Chang
Biomass and carbon sequestration in
spotted gum Corymbia citriodora
subsp. variegata (CCV) plantations.
Trinh Huynh
Advances in solar wood drying.
Gary Waugh
Comparative durability against
subterranean termite attack, white rot
and soft rot decay among 68 Malaysian
lesser-used or renown commercial
hardwoods including planted exotic
hardwoods and imported Burmese teak,
radiata pine and Douglas Fir.
Andrew Wong
Day Close
CONFERENCE DINNER
Sponsored by University of Sunshine Coast
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THURSDAY 8 JUNE
8.20
8:30
Housekeeping
Panel Discussion: Biorefineries
10:30
Sponsored by: Hurford’s
S14: Biorefineries for Bio-based Products: A New Paradigm
S16: Transiting to the bioeconomy: the contributions of
of Biomass Utilization Opportunities
non-timber forest products
David Nicholls
Carsten Smith-Hall
Auditorium B
Meeting Room M2
Biomass derived nanomaterial coatings for postharvest fruit
Theorising and analysing the forest-based bioeconomy
quality control.
through a global production network lens.
Qinglin Wu
Carsten Smith-Hall
Phenolation of potassium hydroxide lignin to improve its
Improving social resilience through Food Forests - an
reactivity.
alternative plantation regime.
M Sarwar Jahan
Karen Bayne
Rapid chemical composition assessment of loblolly pine
Current status and market analysis for aloe products in
forest residues targeted for use in pyrolysis with nearSamburu County, Kenya.
infrared hyperspectral imaging.
Elyas Hassan Mohamed
Sameen Raut
Advanced biomass inventory control models for biorefinery
supply chain management.
Nate Anderson
Morning Tea
10:50
Working Group Business Meetings RG-05.01 to RG-05.12
12:15
LUNCH
13:00
Division 5 Research Group Feedback and Discussion
14:30
CLOSING
C10
Chair
9:10
9:30
9:50
10:10
14:45
AFTERNOON TEA
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