FIA Symposium 2010 Announcement and First Call for Sessions and Papers
-- Monitoring Across Borders -October 5-7, 2010
Knoxville, TN, USA
The USDA Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program and the Southern
Mensurationists are pleased to announce: “Monitoring Across Borders,” and the opportunity to
participate in the FIA Symposium 2010. The Symposium will shed new light on contemporary
issues, science policy, mensuration, remote sensing/GIS/geo-spatial products, and other topics.
Symposium Goals
Exchange of science and technology across borders in the broadest sense,
Highlight cutting-edge mensuration, modeling, and related science,
Present ways that FIA has aided in policy and management decisions,
Provide a forum for linking issue-focused analyses with techniques development,
Showcase collaborative efforts and foster continued work with FIA partners,
Display state-of-the-art science and tools, and
Communicate utility of FIA data and analyses to the broader user community.
Location and Format
Information for making hotel reservations will be included in the Second Call for Papers to be
sent in a month or so. The format will include morning invited sessions covering advanced
science topics followed by contributed focus sessions.
Call for Papers and Sessions
Contributed sessions and papers (limit of two per author) on applications or technologies related
to the Symposium’s broad theme are invited. Examples of appropriate topics are:
Current mainstream topics from the Southern landscape,
New statistical/quantitative approaches for inventory and monitoring,
Integrating FIA data with remote sensing and GIS applications,
Assessing biomass stocks and bio-energy potential,
Estimating and tracking carbon sequestration in time and space,
Landscape-level assessments across borders (e.g. climate scenarios, scales, ownerships, biomes,
futures, science frontiers, etc...), and
Monitoring trends over time and space, including forest health, invasive species, wilderness,
rangeland, fire, etc…
If you would like to submit a session or paper, please submit an abstract to the Program
Committee via Will McWilliams. Abstracts should be limited to 300 words in length and must
identify author’s name(s), title, affiliation, location, phone number, and e-mail address. Each
contributed session will be about 2 hours long, allowing for 4 to 8 papers depending on the
format of the session. For contributed sessions, an abstract is needed for each presentation.
There will be space for posters to be displayed for participants.
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Abstracts are due June 25, 2010 and should be submitted to:
Will McWilliams
USDA Forest Service
11 Campus Blvd, Suite 200
Newtown Square, PA, USA 19073
wmcwilliams@fs.fed.us (e-mail submissions and MS Word are preferred)
610-557-4050
Final selection of papers and sessions will be made by July 16, 2010 and the authors will be
notified.
Publication
All presenters are given the opportunity to publish a brief manuscript (10 pages or so) on their
work. The proceedings will be published as a Southern Research Station General Technical
Report in CD format expected by the spring of 2011. Manuscripts are due in complete and fully
edited form by December 15, 2010.
Registration
Registration procedures and fee will be announced.
Web Page
Information on the Symposium will be posted at: http://www.fia.fs.fed.us/symposium/
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