The National Institute of Education will be hosting a three-day workshop organised by the Center for Tropical Forest Science - Arnold Arboretum (CTFS-AA), Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), on Carbon and Functional Traits in Asian Forests beginning April 7, 2008. The workshop will be led by STRI senior scientists Joe Wright, Helene Muller-Landau, and Ben Turner. It will held in conjunction with a newly crafted set of CTFS forest research initiatives, and will also establish a component of the SI-GEO (Smithsonian Institute – Global Earth Observatory) programme, a worldwide network of forest monitoring stations, in Asia.
We will be opening the three-day event with a half-day public symposium on "Carbon and Forests" on April 7th. Speakers include tropical forest scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and representatives of the CTFS community. In addition, we hope to have locally-based scientists and policy makers on hand to give their views on carbon research and policy.
Programme
Welcome Remarks
by Prof Leo Tan, NIE
Introductory Comments
by Stuart Davies, CTFS-AA
Climate Change Issues – a Singaporean perspective
by Mr Ong Seng Eng, Natinonal Environment Agency, Singapore
Climate Change in Asia – a regional perspective
by Prof Raman Sukumar, Indian Institute of Science
Global Change and Forest Carbon Budgets
by Helene Muller-Landau, STRI
Climate Change and Plant Functional Traits
by Joe Wright, STRI
Soil carbon and Global Climate Change
by Ben Turner, STRI
Time: 9am-12noon
Venue: LT5, located at the corner of Block 2 that faces the Main Admin Bldg (Blk 1) Directions to the NIE campus
Contact: Shawn Lum shawn.lum@nie.edu.sg
