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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.

The Council on Forest Engineering (COFE) and the International Symposium on Forest Mechanization (FORMEC) invite researchers, students, and professionals to submit abstracts for presentation at the 2021 Joint Annual Meeting.  The meeting will feature a wide range of exciting talks, discussions and virtual networking opportunities with researchers, industry experts, government agencies and academics in the field of Forest Engineering.

Abstract Deadline: May 1, 2021

updated March 01, 2021

  • Call for Abstracts: now open
  • Abstract submission deadline: May 1, 2021
  • Notification of acceptance: June 1, 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.