From drkjroberts from gmail.com Sun Mar 1 13:41:07 2009 From: drkjroberts from gmail.com (Karl Roberts) Date: Sun Mar 1 15:24:51 2009 Subject: [Agroforestry] International Science and Engineering Fair - Call for Judges Message-ID: Hi, I am the Plant Sciences Grand Awards Co-Chair for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair to be held May 10-15, 2009 in Reno, Nevada. I am actively seeking individuals to serve as Grand Awards Judges for the upcoming event. The ISEF is the premier world-wide showcase for student researchers from grades 9-12. This year students from 45 different countries compete for over $4 million dollars in cash awards, scholarships and special awards. In order to assure the quality of our winners, we need your help. As professionals in the biological sciences, you provide the knowledge and expertise necessary to choose the absolute best student finalists from among the many excellent research projects at this year's Fair. If you or your collegues are interested in becoming a Grand Awards judge this year, please visit the official ISEF website: http://www.sciserv.org/isef/judges/index.asp or feel to contact me via e-mail at kroberts@pgcc.edu or by phone at (301) 386-7544. Thanks for your consideration, and I hope to hear from you. Karl J. Roberts, Ph.D. Plant Sciences Grand Awards Co-Chair Intel ISEF From joe from invalid.invalid Mon Mar 2 10:22:55 2009 From: joe from invalid.invalid (Joe) Date: Tue Mar 3 13:57:47 2009 Subject: [Agroforestry] forestry expose on Channel 5, 3-5-09 11PM Message-ID: If any of you can get Channel 5 Boston (http://www.thebostonchannel.com/index.html)- be sure to watch it this Thursday night at 11 or Friday at 5:45 for a short but hard hitting forestry expose. It will also be linked as a video on that web site, but not sure when. When that link is established, I'll upload it here for the rest of you who don't live close to the Athens of the western hemisphere. Joe From audetm from aecl.ca Thu Mar 12 15:22:57 2009 From: audetm from aecl.ca (Audet, Marc) Date: Thu Mar 12 16:00:54 2009 Subject: [Agroforestry] Senior scientist position, mountain vegetation remote sensing, Sweden. Message-ID: UNRESTRICTED | ILLIMIT? Hey Steve, Sorry to come at you through this corridor, but I have a question for you concerning remote sensing. Have you heard of an application of remote sensing to examine the spectral signature of plants to detect radioactivity that has been taken up into the plant tissue? Essentially, I'm thinking about an indirect measure of radioactivity. One specific nuclide is Sr-90, and so Sr metal detection in leaf tissue might be the specific condition to look for. Have you heard of an application like this? 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From vnkvrdn from yahoo.ca Sat Mar 14 10:08:47 2009 From: vnkvrdn from yahoo.ca (Gerald Van Koeverden) Date: Sat Mar 14 12:21:07 2009 Subject: [Agroforestry] paulownia Message-ID: <9949DE56-58D2-4A77-BB40-F3F14FF03D1F@yahoo.ca> A Bob Smale from Mossley, Ontario, Canada is promoting the sale of "Empress Splendor" a strain of Paulownia tomentosa. He's planting 1000 trees in the area. Will be curious to see how cold-hardy they are. http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2009/03/05/pf-8636631.html Smale's web site is: www.empresssplendorcanada.com From dmorris from enocis.org Sun Mar 15 11:15:35 2009 From: dmorris from enocis.org (David W Morris) Date: Sun Mar 15 15:29:32 2009 Subject: [Agroforestry] Paulownia Empress Splendor in Canada Message-ID: "A Bob Smale from Mossley, Ontario, Canada is promoting the sale of "Empress Splendor" a strain of Paulownia tomentosa. He's planting 1000 trees in the area. Will be curious to see how cold-hardy they are". Gerald the Enoch Olinga College (ENOCIS) will be interested in knowing the results too since paulownia are ok for commercial purposes up to zone 5. I went to his web site and looked at the trees. The trees, leaves and flowers look just like our paulownia elongata. www.paulownianow.org Take a look. David W Morris Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -- Thomas A. Edison From vnkvrdn from yahoo.ca Mon Mar 16 08:11:32 2009 From: vnkvrdn from yahoo.ca (Gerald Van Koeverden) Date: Mon Mar 16 12:01:58 2009 Subject: [Agroforestry] Re: Paulownia Empress Splendor in Canada In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I went to Smale's web site too. But I wonder about his figures, for =20 example: "Grains produce approximately 10 tonnes of grain per acre. =20 Empress Splendor=99 is capable of producing up to 70 tonnes of =20 cellulose per acre." Wheat yields in Ontario average about 65-70 bu/acre; with wheat =20 @60lb./bu, that works out to about 4,000 lb./acre, or 2 tons. So =20 maybe I have to divide his 70 tons of Paulownia by 5 too? I'm also wondering about his description of Empress Splendor as a =20 "bioengineered" plant. Is he just referring to the plant as being =20 propagated by tissue culture, or has it been genetically altered; if =20 so, what specifically did the breeder do to it? I can't find any =20 information on the genetic history. On 16-Mar-09, at 12:15 AM, David W Morris wrote: > > =93A Bob Smale from Mossley, Ontario, Canada is promoting the sale of =20= > "Empress Splendor" a strain of Paulownia tomentosa. He's planting =20 > 1000 trees in the area. Will be curious to see how cold-hardy they =20= > are=94. > > Gerald the Enoch Olinga College (ENOCIS) will be interested in =20 > knowing the results too since paulownia are ok for commercial =20 > purposes up to zone 5. > > I went to his web site and looked at the trees. The trees, leaves =20 > and flowers look just like our paulownia elongata. =20 > www.paulownianow.org Take a look. > > David W Morris > > > Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in =20 > overalls and looks like work. -- Thomas A. Edison > From dmorris from enocis.org Mon Mar 16 16:14:32 2009 From: dmorris from enocis.org (David W Morris) Date: Mon Mar 16 16:22:50 2009 Subject: [Agroforestry] RE: Paulownia Empress Splendor in Canada: I concur on ALL points In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <003301c9a67c$34a19510$9de4bf30$@org> Gerald I agree with your observations BUT then again if it is his money, it is his problem. However, if he is using country from the State you should inform the appropriate agencies of your concern. The university has a lab in Georgia we clone with but bioengineer is another issue completely. We spend a lot of time trying to correct the misconceptions about paulownia. Like teak was the panacea twenty years ago, paulownia is rapidly falling into that category. Gerald, ENOCIS has an investors web site www.panampro.com for people interested in investing in managed paulownia forests. The numbers therein, are by third parties and not the university so it adds credibility to its content. As a swag, in ten years one can earn approximately $115,000 USD gross from investing $10,000 USD in one hectare of paulownia, in the tropics, not hundreds of thousands as is purported on some pages. David W Morris As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. -- Woody Allen De: Gerald Van Koeverden [mailto:vnkvrdn@yahoo.ca] Enviado el: Lunes, 16 de Marzo de 2009 08:12 a.m. Para: dmorris@enocis.org CC: ag-forst@magpie.bio.indiana.edu Asunto: Re: Paulownia Empress Splendor in Canada Importancia: Alta I went to Smale's web site too. But I wonder about his figures, for example: "Grains produce approximately 10 tonnes of grain per acre. Empress SplendorT is capable of producing up to 70 tonnes of cellulose per acre." Wheat yields in Ontario average about 65-70 bu/acre; with wheat @60lb./bu, that works out to about 4,000 lb./acre, or 2 tons. So maybe I have to divide his 70 tons of Paulownia by 5 too? I'm also wondering about his description of Empress Splendor as a "bioengineered" plant. Is he just referring to the plant as being propagated by tissue culture, or has it been genetically altered; if so, what specifically did the breeder do to it? I can't find any information on the genetic history. On 16-Mar-09, at 12:15 AM, David W Morris wrote: "A Bob Smale from Mossley, Ontario, Canada is promoting the sale of "Empress Splendor" a strain of Paulownia tomentosa. He's planting 1000 trees in the area. Will be curious to see how cold-hardy they are". Gerald the Enoch Olinga College (ENOCIS) will be interested in knowing the results too since paulownia are ok for commercial purposes up to zone 5. I went to his web site and looked at the trees. The trees, leaves and flowers look just like our paulownia elongata. www.paulownianow.org Take a look. David W Morris Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -- Thomas A. Edison No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.278 / Virus Database: 270.11.15/2004 - Release Date: 03/16/09 07:04:00 From jboehnert from gmail.com Wed Mar 18 12:36:50 2009 From: jboehnert from gmail.com (Joaquin Boehnert) Date: Wed Mar 18 14:04:19 2009 Subject: [Agroforestry] Agroforestry in bufferzone management of protected areas in Latin America Message-ID: Dear members of this group, I like to inform you about a new web-site in the Spanish language concerning bufferzone management of natural protected areas and agroforestry in Peru and Latin America - www.zonasdeamortiguamiento.org -. Best regards from Lima - Peru, Joaquin Boehnert.