ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR – Forest and Natural Resources Certification and Sustainability Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and The Savannah River Ecology Laboratory The University of Georgia POSITION: Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in Forest Certification and Natural Resources Sustainability. This is a full time, tenure-track, 12-month, 50% teaching, 50% research appointment. This position is a split appointment between the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (SREL) (50%) and the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources (50%) and is located at The University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. This position is part of an ongoing cluster hire ...
Read MoreMaster’s student research assistantship available at the University of Maine Synopsis: A newly funded project will be starting soon at the School of Forest Resources, University of Maine. The project will support a Master’s student for two years on a research assistantship. The project will be focused on the production and property evaluation of a novel high density packaging material made with paper laminates and cellulose nanofibrils. The experimental work will involve laboratory experiments to produce paper laminates, traditional paper and composite material mechanical property tests, environmental durability assessment using dynamic mechanical tests run under various temperature and relative humidity ...
Read MoreOne PhD position is available for a collaborative research between the Department of Sustainable Bioproducts and Institute of Genomics, Biocomputing and Biotechnology at Mississippi State University. The successful candidate will be involved in a highly multidisciplinary research and will receive training in entomology, wood preservation, genomics, and biocomputing, while studying the effect of wood chemical treatment on metagenome of subterranean termite. The results of this study are expected to be beneficial for understanding the mechanism of wood degradation by termites and improvement of current and development of novel protection means, but it can also be geared toward mining of enzymes ...
Read MoreThe 57th SWST International Convention held in conjunction with: The 7th Wood Structure and Properties Conference and The 6th European Hardwood Conference finished last week and if you didn’t make it to Zvolen, you truly missed out. The conference was an amazing event with participants from 5 different continents. The location was amazing and the presentations touched on the cutting edge research in wood science and technology. Check the SWST website for more information.
Read MoreABOUT INSTITUTE The Institute of Wood Science and Technology (IWST), Bangalore under the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India has the mandate of conducting research on wood science at the national level, and cater to research needs of the forestry sector at regional level. The Institute is recognized to be a Centre of Excellence in Wood Science Research. CONFERENCE AIM In the area of Wood Science, the Institute is presently carrying out wide range of research activities in Wood Properties, Wood Processing, Wood Protection, Wood Modification, Wood Chemistry, Wood-Polymer Composites, Engineered ...
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Richard Vlosky elected Vice-President of the Forest Products Society
Richard Vlosky, Director and Crosby Land and Resources Endowed Professor, Louisiana Forest Products Development Center, LSU AgCenter, has been elected Vice-President of the Forest Products Society. He will be officially installed at the Society’s 68th International Convention in Quebec in August. The Forest Products Society is an international not-for-profit technical association founded in 1947 to provide an information network for all segments of the forest products industry.
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