Agenda
Day 1 - Wednesday, June 15th
Travel Day
Day 2 - Thursday, June 16th
Tour of the local area; Introduction of the projects by the group leaders; Lunch; Split into groups
Evening lectures:
15h45-15h50 - Fabio Gennaretti (Acknowledgements and introduction)
15h50-16h00 - Yves Bergeron (History of the FERLD)
16h00-17h00 - Etienne Boucher (Interpretation of time series of tree-ring isotopes)
17h00-19h00 - Opening ceremony sponsored by FUQAT
Day 3 - Friday, June 17th
Field day
Evening lectures:
17h30-18h00 - Cleaning and sharpening increment borers
Day 4 - Saturday, June 18th
Laboratory day
Evening lectures:
15h30-16h00 - Jim Speer (The diversity of dendro applications)
16h00-16h30 - Fabio Gennaretti (The network of climate-sensitive tree-ring chronologies from the taiga of Quebec)
16h30-17h00 - Miguel Montoro Girona (Once upon a time a powerful tool to reconstruct forest disturbances: A tale of tree-rings and me)
17h00-19h00 - Barbecue sponsored by CEF and IRNFF
Day 5 - Sunday, June 19th
Laboratory day
Workshop:
10h00-12h00 - Adam Csank (Stable isotopes from tree-rings)
Evening lectures:
16h30-17h00 - Valentina Buttó (Ceci n'est pas un arbre: how to draw a functional tree)
17h00-17h30 - Andria Dawson (Trees as recorders of Earth System change: accounting for uncertainty)
17h30-18h00 - Dendrotools in R
Day 6 - Monday, June 20th
Excursion to Temiscamingue: discover the history of the log drive and attend a harvest
Day 7 - Tuesday, June 21st
Laboratory day
Evening lectures:
16h30-17h00 - Margot Kaye (Dendrochronology dilatant)
17h00-18h00 - Jillian Harvey (Frontiers in Forest Fire Ecology Research from Tree Rings)
Day 8 - Wednesday, June 22nd
Laboratory day and excursion on the development of the FERLD with Claude-Michel Bouchard
Evening lecture:
16h30-17h30 - Trevor Porter (Reconstructing atmospheric mercury variability from boreal tree-ring records in northwestern Canada)
17h30-18h00 - Raquel Alfaro Sánchez (Tree-ring records to understand the response of tree growth to climate changes hazards)
Day 9 - Thursday, June 23rd
Laboratory day
Workshop:
10h00-12h00 - Christoforos Pappas, Richard Peters & Alexander Hurley (R tools for time series analysis)
Evening lectures:
17h00-17h30 - Karen Heeter (Development and application of the North American blue intensity network)
17h30-18h00 - Adam Csank (Added value dendro, what can dendrochemistry do for you?)
Day 10 - Friday, June 24th
Laboratory day
13h00-17h00 - Presentation of projects (PowerPoint)
17h00-19h00 - Closing celebration sponsored by the Minister Mr. Pierre Dufour
Day 11 - Saturday, June 25th
Travel day
Deliverables
Each group will develop and deliver a presentation to all fieldweek participants, starting at 1pm on June 24th.
Each group will also produce a 5-page written report.
A possible joint contribution to a scientific journal or special issue will be foreseen
Picture credits: Jeanny Thivierge-Lampron