. Forestry and Wood Update MAY 2005 - Volume 5 Number 5 CONTENTS COFORD House Arena Road Sandyford 18 Ireland Tel: +353 - 1 - 2130725 Fax: +353 - 1 - 2130611 Email: Web: As this is a hands-on workshop, the number of Irish spruce dynamic yield delegates will be restricted to a maximum of 30 – model early registration is therefore essential as places will The Irish Sitka spruce dynamic yield model will be be filled on a first come first served basis. launched at a workshop on 13 May 2005 at Tipperary Registration forms can be downloaded from the . Institute, Thurles. The workshop will be presented by If you wish to attend, please contact COFORD Paddy Purser (PTR Ltd.), Jacques Hamel (PTR Ltd.) as soon as possible either by telephone – and Ted Lynch (Coillte), who will give an overview 01-2130725 or . The cost of attending will be of the model development and rationale, and This includes a copy of the software and €100.00. demonstrate the model. This will be followed by manual as well as lunch and other refreshments. assisted exercises on production forecasting (no thin and thin regimes). Kevin Black and Bruce Osborne will then give a presentation on Planning for the Wood Energy 2005 future: development of mechanistic models to assess forest productivity in response to climate change. COFORD and the Renewable Energy Information
. Forestry and Wood Update MAY 2005 - Volume 5 Number 5 CONTENTS COFORD House Arena Road Sandyford 18 Ireland Tel: +353 - 1 - 2130725 Fax: +353 - 1 - 2130611 Email: Web: Irish spruce dynamic yield model The Irish Sitka spruce dynamic yield model will be launched at a workshop on 13 May 2005 at Tipperary Institute, Thurles. The workshop will be presented by Paddy Purser (PTR Ltd.), Jacques Hamel (PTR Ltd.) and Ted Lynch (Coillte), who will give an overview of the model development and rationale, and demonstrate the model. This will be followed by assisted exercises on production forecasting (no thin and thin regimes). Kevin Black and Bruce Osborne will then give a presentation on Planning for the future: development of mechanistic models to assess forest productivity in response to climate change. As this is a hands-on workshop, the number of delegates will be restricted to a maximum of 30 – early registration is therefore essential as places will be filled on a first come first served basis. Registration forms can be downloaded from the . If you wish to attend, please contact COFORD as soon as possible – either by telephone 01-2130725 or . The cost of attending will be €100.00. This includes a copy of the software and manual as well as lunch and other refreshments. Wood Energy 2005 COFORD and the Renewable Energy Information