Workshop Organizers

If you have any questions or comments about the conference please contact:

IEA Bioenergy Task 43 Task Leader: Göran Berndes Chalmers University of Technology, Division of Physical Resource Theory Phone: +46 31 77203148, +46 730 794287 Fax: +46 31 772 3150 goran.berndes@chalmers.se

LTSP Andy Scott USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station Phone: 318-473-7204 Fax: 318-473-7273 andyscott@fs.fed.us

Registration

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Carrie Wunderlich cwunderlich@tru.ca
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Workshop co-ordination

Technical program:
Tat Smith, Canada, tat.smith@utoronto.ca
Andy Scott, USA, andyscott@fs.fed.us

Proceedings: Oana Popescu, USA, opopescu@tamu.edu
Local host: Shannon Berch, Canada, Shannon.berch@gov.bc.ca
Sponsor: TRU

This is an international workshop organized by IEA Task 43 and the Long-Term Soil Productivity Study. In 2010, the Long-Term Soil Productivity Study celebrates its 20th anniversary by meshing its purpose and findings with those of the international land-based biomass community.

IEA Bioenergy is an international collaborative R&D agreement, with the aim to accelerate the use of environmentally sound and cost-competitive bioenergy on a sustainable basis, to provide increased security of supply and a substantial contribution to future energy demands. Within this framework, a number of collaborators concentrate on different aspects of the bioenergy chain. The objective of TASK 43, Biomass Feedstocks for Energy Markets, is to promote sound bioenergy development that is driven by well-informed decisions in business, governments and elsewhere. This will be achieved by providing to relevant actors timely and topical analyses, syntheses and conclusions on all fields related to biomass feedstock, including biomass markets and the socioeconomic and environmental consequences of feedstock production. The Task covers all aspects of feedstock, its markets and environmental as well as socio-economic impacts. It has a global scope and includes commercial, near-commercial and promising production systems in agriculture and forestry. The primary focus is on land use and bioenergy feedstock production systems including their markets. The Task will be concerned with issues related to the linking of sustainable biomass feedstocks to energy markets, explicitly considering environmental and socioeconomic aspects. Systems analysis integrating several disciplines will be used to conduct analyses that allow evaluation of alternatives across sectors and explicit examination of issues related to tradeoffs, compatibility and synergies between food, fibre and energy production systems and related markets.

The Long-Term Soil Productivity (LTSP) program began in 1989 as a "grass roots" proposal that grew to be a national program of the USDA Forest Service. LTSP was founded to examine the long-term consequences of soil disturbance on fundamental forest productivity. The concept caught the imagination of others. Soon, partnerships and affiliations were forged among public and private sectors in the United States and Canada. Today, more than 100 LTSP and affiliated sites comprise the world’s largest coordinated research network addressing basic and applied science issues of forest management and sustained productivity. Studies range from applied growth and yield monitoring, through elucidating mechanisms controlling carbon capture above and below ground, to developing indices of soil quality practicable in monitoring. Site organic matter and soil porosity are easily affected by forest management operations. Therefore, they were targeted for specific manipulation in large-scale, long-term experiments. Because the organic matter manipulations include bole-only harvesting, whole-tree harvesting, and whole tree harvesting pus forest floor removal, they are particularly relevant to the sustainability of forest biomass removals.