Feb 2011 - Feb 2015

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Knowledge exchange between Europe and America on forest growth models and optimisation for adaptive forestry

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Participant 6: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), Faculty of Agronomy and Forest Engineering, Department of Forest Sciences

• Main Tasks: Staff exchange, research and networking
• Address: Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860 Código Postal 6904411 Macul, Santiago. CHILE
• Website: www.uc.cl/index.html www.uc.cl/agronomia

General Information

The Department of Forest Science is one of the five Departments at the School of Agriculture and Forest Engineering (FAIF- Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería Forestal), of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. The University is one of the top ranked Universities of Chile and Latin America, with long experience on Education, both at under and post-graduate level. With around 22000 students and 2800 academic staff (92% of them with postgraduate studies), the PUC is leader in research and education at the country.

Main research areas

In the Department of Forest Sciences academic staff is recognised for their engineering background, giving rise to different research lines such as: ecophysiology modelling (functional-structural modelling of trees), tree architecture, wood quality modelling, forest growth modelling, non destructive testing of wood, site productivity modelling, forest management modelling, forest inventories and optimization, valuation of yield information, spatial variability and related models on Geographic Information Systems, carbon sequestration in forest systems, global change, forest ecosystems adaptation to global change and soil conservation.

Key Persons

Dr. M. Paulina Fernández, Associate Professor of the Department of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Agronomy and Forest Engineering. Dr. Horacio Gilabert, Professor of the Department of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Agronomy and Forest Engineering.

International collaboration

In general terms the University and the Faculty of Agronomy and Forest Engineering has a long record of international relations through cooperative research, researchers’ exchange, and postgraduate students’ exchange. The department of Forest Sciences participated in a national project with international cooperation, between the PUC, Universidad de Chile, Fundación Chile and CIRAD/INRA (Montpellier, France). The project: “Tree modelling: Tree architecture and wood quality of Pinus radiata D. Don” integrated in an already existing forest stand modelling platform, including stochastic modelling approaches. Department staff has participated in technical visits to Sweden and Finland (for wood industry and modelling approaches discussions).