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43rd Council on Forest Engineering and 53rd International Symposium on Forestry Mechanization, September 27-30, 2021, Corvallis | Oregon & virtuell meeting

Please visit https://cofe-formec2021.org/ for all the details.

The 43rd annual meeting of the Council on Forest Engineering (COFE) and the 53rd annual meeting of the International Symposium on Forest Mechanization (FORMEC) will occur jointly as a virtual meeting in 2021. This event will be the second of the three consecutive annual joint meetings scheduled between COFE and FORMEC.

last update June 18, 2021

  • Call for Abstracts: closed by May 1, 2021
  • Notification of acceptance: notified - (guidelines for presenters)
  • Start of Registration: June 1, 2021 - now open (Registration)
  • Online Conference: September 27-30, 2021

  • John Sessions (Chair), Oregon State University
  • Raffaele Cavalli, University of Padua
  • Han-Sup Han, Northern Arizona University
  • Kevin Lyons, Oregon State University
  • Dominik Röser, The University of British Columbia
  • Karl Stampfer, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
  • Rien Visser, University of Canterbury

  • Woodam Chung (Chair), Oregon State University
  • Karl Stampfer (Co-Chair), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
  • Francisca Belart, Oregon State University
  • Christian Kanzian, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
  • Martin Kühmaier, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
  • Jim Kiser, Oregon State University
  • Ben Leshchinsky, Oregon State University
  • Kevin Lyons, Oregon State University
  • Steve Pilkerton, Oregon State University
  • Catalina Segura, Oregon State University
  • Jeff Wimer, Oregon State University
  • Michael Wing, Oregon State University

For the first time in their history, FORMEC and COFE co-organized a joint annual meeting in Hungary/Austria, October 6-9, 2019.  The meeting was also the result of the joint venture between the University of Sopron, Hungary and the University of Life Sciences Vienna, Austria as hosting organizations.  A total of 280 participants from 30 countries attended this year meeting including over 30 participants from North America.  The conference hosted 110 presentations spread over three parallel sessions in two days that provided insight in the latest development in forest engineering research and technology.