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New members IRG welcomes the following new members. READ INFORMATION 2007 Ron Cockcroft Award recipients and IRG Travel Awards READ INFORMATION Regulatory News Business News Europe: Wood for energy is a waste? The European paper industry ( CEPI) has published an independent study showing that using wood as a resource for paper products first, and only using it as a source of energy at the end of the product life cycle adds four times more added value to the economy and retains six times more jobs than simply burning wood for energy. Read more From Friday Offcuts – 22 June 2007. Germany: Post doc position available in Göttingen A post doc position focussing on "Wood protection/ wood modification" is available at the Institute of Wood Biology and Wood Technology, Georg-August University Göttingen. Payment/ salary: group 13TV-L Area of research: Wood modification / wood protection Start: 1/9/2007 or later Duration: Permanent, starting with a 3 years' contract Payment / salary: Group 13TV-L Candidate should have a PhD in above area, furthermore research experience in wood anatomy / microscopy Further information: Prof. Dr. Holger Militz, Institute for Wood Biology and Wood Technology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Büsgenweg 4, 37077 Gôttingen, Germany. Tel: +49 551 393541/42 Fax: +49 551 399646 Short description of subject Scientific News Autralia: Termites get the vibe on what tastes good Researchers from CSIRO and UNSW@ADFA have shown that termites can tell what sort of material their food is made of, without having to actually touch it. Read more From Friday Offcuts – 30 March 2007. Europe: COST Action E37 10th Workshop ended COST Action E37 10th Workshop 17 - 19 June 2007 in Braşov, România on 'Key issues for bringing new technologies to the market' was very well attended by nearly 100 delegates and guests from 25 countries. The results are available at the CA E37 web site. Read more People in the News IRG Secretariat News IRG 38 at the Jackson Lake Lodge, US The meeting at Jackson Lake Lodge, Wyoming, attracted nearly 170 delegates, inc of companions. The Local Organizing Committee with chairman Rich Ziobro had done an excellent job to organize a meeting with a friendly atmosphere in spectacular surroundings. For the first time in IRG history, as far as any member present could remember, it was snowing one day! About 90 papers were presented in well-attended technical sessions. The main structure of the programme had been somewhat changed this year. Instead of five main session (one per Section), only one main session was held at the beginning of the Meeting with one presentation from each Section. A Scientific Plenary Session was held at the end of the Meeting. The first part of this session was "housekeeping" to report back from the activities in the various Working Parties and Sections as well as to plan for next year's meeting. The second part focused on two discussion topics concerning the future of copper-based wood preservatives and the future of wood protection research. The latter was introduced by Dr Preston, who showed a worrying trend for IRG - a decline in the number of papers and participants over the last years. The severe decline in public and industry funding, the latter mainly because of the consolidation of the wood preservative manufacturing industry, was thought to be the reason for this. Less people are involved in wood protection research than 10 years ago. It was generally agreed that IRG should extend its focus to other aspects of wood protection like coatings, fire, design etc, and therefore should try to reach other groups as well (architects, designers, marketing people etc). Developing better recognition of the IRG papers was also highlighted in the discussion. Some members thought that IRG papers should be peer reviewed but there was no consensus on this issue and no answer was given on the way to proceed for peer reviewing papers. Members and other delegates attending the Meeting are welcome with views on the new structure of the technical part of the Meeting. Please e-mail the Secretariat at irg@sp.se. From the meeting can also be reported:
Finally it has to mentioned that the IRG 38 website will be open for some time still. On the website you can find pdf files of all presentations in Working Parties and the Scientific Main Session. Photos from the Meeting will also be available. Procedures Manual updated The IRG Procedures Manual is a "handbook" for IRG Members and Sponsors. In connection with this year's Annual Meeting, the Statutes (IRG/WP 07-60243) were slightly revised (= the Membership Committee suspended) and a new guideline for IRG support of regional meetings (IRG/WP 07-60244) approved. The guidelines for IRG Travel Awards (IRG/WP 07-60242), Nomination procedure (IRG/WP 07-60245), and membership (IRG/WP 07-60246) were revised. You can download the new/revised documents by clicking on the links. Ideas for IRG 39 Annual Meeting in Turkey During the Annual Meeting at Jackson Lake Lodge, a number of proposals for special sessions were raised:
If you want to prepare your paper early, a templateis available now. Problems with the Compendium login ID? Some members have reported problems with the Compendium login. The following procedure seems to work in most cases: First you need to clear your Internet cache. If you are using Internet Explorer, click on the Tools menu and then Internet Options. Find and select Clear temporary internet files. In Mozilla Firefox, you choose Tools and then Clear sensitive data. Check Cache and Session data and hit clear. NB. In order to get renewed login ID, the 2007 dues must be paid. The web-based Compendium will be updated with the 2007 papers as soon as all late/corrected papers have been received. Hopefully this will happen by 1 September at the latest. IRG Regional Meeting in collaboration with IUFRO The IUFRO All Division 5 Conference takes place in Taipei, Taiwan on 29 October -2 November 2007. The wood protection sessions of the IUFRO conference will be jointly organized with the IRG. There will be about 4 dedicated IRG-IUFRO wood protection sessions, and a session keynote/position paper will be presented by the IRG President, Dr Gérard Deroubaix. If you are interested in presenting a paper at the conference, please submit an abstract to Dr Bernie Dawson by 15 July 2007 at the latest in order to secure that your paper will be included in the programme. Papers will be assigned an IRG document number, and a templateis available now. For information about the conference, please visit the conference website at www.alldiv5iufro2007.org. 5th Conference of the Pacific Rim Termite Research Group The 5th Conference of the Pacific Rim Termite Research Group (TRG) will be held in Bali, Indonesia on 3-4 March 2008. Further information will be provided through a contact with Kunio Tsunoda. Sponsor the IRG e-Newsletter in 2007 IRG regular sponsors and members' institutes are kindly invited to sponsor the production of the IRG e-Newsletter in order to cover the costs involved for production of the same. The IRG e-Newsletter is scheduled for six issues per year, and for each issue a sponsor is welcome. The fee for sponsoring the e-Newsletter is USD 450 (SEK 3 000) in 2007. The e-Newsletter sponsor will then get the company/institute logo on the front page and a link to the company/institute website. Sponsors so far have been: Arch (UK), Arch (US), CSI, Dr Wolman GmbH, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Lanxess, Nisus Corporation, Osmose (US), Troy Corporation, US Borax, Dyrup (DK), and Sankyo Agro. Please contact the IRG Secretariat, if you are interested in sponsoring the e-Newsletter. Contact details Please report any change of contact details (address, e-mail, tel, fax) to the IRG Secretariat immediately in order to keep our register up to date and to facilitate the Secretariat's communication with Members and Sponsors. Legal Information Read legal information here Editorial If you have information related to wood protection being of general interest for Regular Members, Student Members or IRG Sponsors, please email to the NiB editor with the name of the web page and the URL.  |
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Click the logo to visit the e-Newsletter sponsor! Updated: Events Biodeterioration of Wood and Wood Products - BWWP 2007 (26 - 29 August 2007, Riga, Latvia) NWPC Bi-Annual Meeting (14 - 16 August 2007, Stavanger, Norway) Bioenergy 2007 - International Bioenergy Conference and Exhibition (03 - 06 September 2007, Jyväskylä, Finland) 57th WEI Annual Congress (04 - 08 September 2007, Seattle, Washington, USA) 23rd Conference on Wood Protection (05 - 07 September 2007, Rogow, Poland) International Medicinal Mushroom Conference (IMMC4) (23 - 27 September 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia) Third European Conference on Wood Modification (15 - 16 October 2007, Cardiff, UK) First International Panel Products Symposium (17 - 19 October 2007, Cardiff, UK) IUFRO All Division 5 Conference (29 Oct - 02 Nov 2007, Taipei, Taiwan) COST Action E37 11th Workshop (04 - 06 Nov 2007, Florence, Italy) 11th International Conference on Durability of Building Materials and Components - “Globality” and “Locality” in Durability (11 - 14 May 2008, Istanbul, Turkey) COST Actions 
The Procedures Manual The IRG Procedures Manual ia a "handbook" for IRG Members and Sponsors. It has the following contents:
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