Department of Forest Ecology

Welcome!

From the beginning of the year 2010 HU Forest Departments merged to the new Department of Forest Sciences.
Department of Forest Sciences

The mission of the Department of Forest Ecology is to carry out scientific research and to provide teaching based on its disciplines. The Department has chairs in Silviculture, Tropical Silviculture, Forest Tree Ecology, Forest Soil Science and Peatland Ecology and Forestry, Forest Pathology, Forest Tree Breeding, Forest Zoology and Wildlife Management.

News

Forest departments are merging

From beginning of 2010 HU Forest Departments are merging to new Forestry Department. More information about Departments´ reform is found in University’s Intranet ALMA in Departments` merging workgroup area. In Internet you find more information from University reform sites.

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23.11.2009

The application deadline for Atlantis programme (Transatlantic Masters Degree Program in Forest Resources) for 2010 is December 15, 2009. More information about programme here or websites or from coordinator Maija Kovanen.

23.11.2009

Guest lecture, Thursday December 3rd, 2009, at 10:15 in MT243 (Viikki B-building):

Professor Dr Jörg-Peter Schnitzler from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology IMK –
IFU, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research - Atmospheric Environmental Research gives lecture "From experiments to process-based modeling of VOC emissions".

10.11.2009

Field study opportunities in Sudan and Ethiopia (ESUFI project)
announcement and application form.

13.10.2009

New book about Sphagnum is published in series "Helsingin yliopiston metsäekologian laitoksen julkaisuja" (number 39). Laine, J., Harju, P., Timonen, T., Laine, A., Tuittila, E-S., Minkkinen, K. & Vasander, H. 2009. The Intricate Beauty of Sphagnum Mosses - a Finnish Guide to Identification.

7.10.2009

ME310 will be given in II Period. See timetable. Registration in WebOodi. Courses ME312, ME413, ME407 and ME270 are not arranged 2009-2010.

04.09.2009

ME456 will no longer be given and MSc students preparing for their Master's thesis in
English need therefore register for the FOR530 course.

03.06.2009

Helsinki Summer School - Environmental Services in Forest Management 5.-20.8.2009

The Forest Sciences Departments of the University of Helsinki have the pleasure to
inform you that the Helsinki Summer School intensive course on "Environmental Services
in Forest management" is open for  registration.

For further information about the structure and contents of the course as well as the registration procedures, please visit the course website.

The deadline for registration is July 24th, 2009.

Welcome!

01.06.2009

Invitation to Field Course in Laos 4-27 September 2009

UPDATE! SELECTED PARTICIPANTS

A course "Forest Landscape Restoration in the Mekong River Basin" will  be organised by the National University of Laos (NUOL), in Vientiane,  Laos, from 4-27 September 2009, in cooperation with VITRI and  Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand. This activity will take  place under the framework of the FORMEB project coordinated by VITRI  as part of the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs HEI-ICI  Institutional Support Programme.

For this course, a maximum of 15 course participants are invited from  the University of Helsinki, so as to enhance the educational  interaction with trainees in Laos and to contribute to institutional  strengthening and capacity building at  NUOL. In addition, a  possibility for M.Sc. thesis field work in Laos is offered to two of  these participants from Finland. The course corresponds to a total of  6 ECTS credits which can also be awarded as fulfilment of the ME451  field course. All costs for participants from the University of  Helsinki,including international travel,are covered by the FORMEB  project.

Additional information can be obtained from the VITRI website, from  Course Coordinator Adrián Monge (adrian.mongemonge@helsinki.fi) or  Course Leader Prof. Olavi Luukkanen (olavi.luukkanen@helsinki.fi).

Application should be submitted (before 30 of June):
 

1. By direct delivery to Adrián Monge (Forest Sciences Building, room  K112 or in his mail-box room K172 -next to the printer-).
2. By mail or scanned e-mail  attachment (with signature)  to:  VITRI/Adrián Monge ( PB 27, Latokartanonkaari 7,  00014 University of  Helsinki).

Click for full announcement and separate application form (pdf - word).

UPDATE! Tentative program for the course