Workshop Registration

Workshops are extremely important where organizers engage and actively share their expertise with other scientists.  Following the call for workshops that was Advertised here , three (3) workshops were approved by the conference scientific committee. We now invite eligible candidates to Register here to participate in the workshops.

(1) Workshop 1:  Forest growth and carbon with uncertainty from tree-rings and census data

The objectives of this workshop are: 1) to motivate the need for uncertainty quantification and data integration to produce more reliable estimates of tree growth, tree size, climate-growth relationships, and forest carbon accounting; 2) to introduce the data types (forest inventory and tree ring data), tools (Bayesian state-space model, R/Rstudio, STAN), and workflows to achieve the first objective; 3) to discuss with participants how this framework could be applied in their own work; and 4) to provide an opportunity for scientists to share knowledge and develop community.

We will work through examples developed in R and RStudio. Experience with R is helpful but not required. All are welcome.

Contacts on all technical issues related to this workshop: Andria Dawson adawson@mtroyal.ca

Date: Sunday, 27th July 2025

Duration: 4hours

Time: 9:00am -1:00pm (CAT)

Location: Chapa Lodge, Livingstone

Mode of delivery: In-person

Eligibility: Only paid-up candidates for the 11th WorldDendro conference and/or African Dendrochronological Fieldschool (ADF) qualify to participate in the workshop.

Costs: The workshop is free to all eligible candidates.  

Registration closing date: 11th July, 2025. We have limited slots and the offer is on a first-come-first-served basis

(2) Workshop 2: Publishing Tree-Ring Science: Past, Present, and Future

Tree-ring science has always been published in several very different international scholarly journals. Given the broad spectrum of applications of tree-ring methods and techniques, ranging from earth and environmental sciences such as climatology, geomorphology, ecology, environmental chemistry to humanities such as archaeology or art history and forensics, authors have typically chosen journals from many different scientific disciplines, published by scientific societies or private publishers. Since the early 2000s, open access (OA) journals mushroomed as a reaction to the established pay-to-read publishing system, and scholars were increasingly urged to publish OA, a new pay-to-publish publishing system, to provide broader access to the scientific literature. Today, however, control over OA lies in the hands of the old oligopoly of publishing houses. Scholars all over the world now pay to write. As a result, peer review has been degraded to a puppet system to legitimize the fast publication of countless studies, regardless of their scientific soundness. At the same time, publication fees continue to rise, causing even scholars in rich countries to question the value of investing limited research funds in publishing rather than actually producing new research. We all continue to pay ever-higher fees. This cycle has created a monster of a new publishing system. How can we change direction? What does the future of scientific publishing look like? And most importantly for us, what does the future of publishing tree-ring science look like? Is there anything we can do to change the direction?

Contacts on all technical issues related to this workshop: Paolo Cherubini (paolo.cherubini@wsl.ch)

Date: Thursday, 31st July 2025

Duration: 1hour 30 minutes

Time: 14:20 hours to 16:00 hours (PM, CAT)

Location: Avani Victoria Falls Resort, Livingstone

Mode of delivery: In-person: Round Table Discussion

Eligibility: Only paid-up candidates for the 11th WorldDendro conference and/or African Dendrochronological Fieldschool (ADF) qualify to participate in the workshop 

Costs: The workshop is free to all eligible candidates

Registration closing date: 11th July 2025

(3) African Tree-ring Network

Contacts on all technical issues related to this workshop: a.gebrekirstos@cifor-icraf.org