Working Party on Environmental and Ecosystem Services
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Mission
The mission of IPC's Working Party on Environmental and Ecosystem Services is to support research, management, education, and outreach of Environmental and Ecosystem Services provided by poplars and other fast-growing trees to sustain people and the environment across the globe.
Primary Activities
Hold meetings as satellite meetings to other relevant conferences
- 14th International Phytotechnologies Conference (September 2017, Montreal, Canada)
- Woody Crops International Conference (July 2018, Rhinelander, Wisconsin, USA)
- 15th International Phytotechnologies Conference (October 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia)
- Seventh International Poplar Symposium (October/November 2018, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- 16th International Phytotechnologies Conference (planned) (2021, Chicago, Illinois, USA)
- Eighth International Poplar Symposium (planned) (2022, Novi Sad, Serbia)
Create science briefs on “green technologies” for distribution via the IPC website to stakeholders
- IPC WP5 sciences briefs are two-page summaries of published manuscripts and major reports, activities, etc. related to Environmental and Ecosystem Services
- If you would like your manuscript, report, etc. summarized into a science brief, please email Ron Zalesny, USDA Forest Service, at: [email protected].
Increase use of the IPC newsletter to disseminate reports on Environmental and Ecosystem Services research conducted by WP5 members
- Poplar and Willow News, issue no 9, October 2018
- Poplar and Willow News, issue no 8, February 2018
- Poplar and Willow News, issue no 7, March 2017
Officers
Chairperson
Ms Sharon Lafferty Doty
Professor
University of Washington
School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
UW Box 352100
Seattle, Washington 98195
USA
Tel: (+1-206) 6166255
E-mail : [email protected]
Website: http://depts.washington.edu/envaplab
Vice-Chairperson
Mr. Andrej Pilipovic
Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment
Faculty of Agriculture
University of Novi Sad
Antona Cehova 13
P.O. Box 117
21000 Novi Sad, Vojvodina
SERBIA
Tel: (+381-63) 458828
E-mail: [email protected]
Vice-Chairperson
Mr Lou Litch
([email protected]) (https://www.ecolotree.com/)
USA
Technical Secretary
Mr Ron Zalesny
US Forest Service
Northern Research Station
5985 Highway K
Rhinelander
Wisconsin, United States
Tel: (+1) 715-362-1132
Email: [email protected]
Science Briefs
March 2019
Riparian Buffers in Agricultural Areas
Phytoremediation in Your Own Neighborhood: A Guide for High School Students
April 2019
Positive Water Linkages of Bioenergy and Phytotechnologies: Poplars and Willows
Bridging the Gap Between Phytoremediation, Agronomy, Horticulture, and Forestry
May 2019
Selecting Poplar Trees to Remediate Landfill Leachate
June 2019
Long-term Phytoremediation Using Poplar: Ecosystem Services
August 2019
Selection of Poplars and Willows for Phytoremediation of Nitrate
October 2019
Poplars Grown on Artificially Contaminated Soils: Growth and Physiology
December 2019
Hybrid Poplar and Russian Olive: Height Growth, Survival, and Phytoremediation on Saline Soils