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SUMMARY:Forests and water: advances and controversies - Prof Douglas Sheil
  (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180622T161500
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180622T183000
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DESCRIPTION:OCTF seminar followed by drinks - all welcome\n\nRecent resear
 ch has increased our understanding of how trees and forests influence wate
 r availability. But major controversies remain. For example\, until recent
 ly most atmospheric scientists were confident that forests don’t attract
  rain\, but new research challenges that confidence\, and suggests that fo
 rests play a vastly more significant role in maintaining global rainfall p
 atterns than was previously realized. Is this really a whole new value for
  forests? Come and decide for yourself.\n\nDouglas Sheil is a professor at
  the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) in Ås\, near Oslo\, Nor
 way.  His research relates to the ecology and conservation of rain forests
 .  He worked with IUCN-the World Conservation Union in East Africa and the
 n\, after completing his doctoral studies in Oxford\, moved to the Center 
 for International Forest Research (CIFOR) in Indonesia\, where he was base
 d from 1998 to 2008.  He then became the director of the Institute for Tro
 pical Forest Conservation in the Bwindi Impenetrable World Heritage site i
 n Uganda for four years\, before spending a year in Southern Cross\, NSW\,
  Australia\, and then moving to Norway.  Douglas remains a Senior Research
  Associate of CIFOR as well as Adjunct Professor of Southern Cross Univers
 ity\, New South Wales\, Australia. He is the Winner of the Queen´s Award 
 from the Commonwealth Forestry Association 2015.\nSpeakers:\nProf Douglas 
 Sheil (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)
LOCATION:Dyson Perrins Building (Beckit Room)\, off South Parks Road OX1 3
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