Grants approved during the 1st and 2nd year of CLEANFOREST Cost Action (2022-2024)
Members of the Evaluation Committees
Yann Salmon
Grant Awarding Coordinator, MC Member
University of Helsinki
Finland
Finland
Mariangela Fotelli
STSM Coordinator, MC Member
Forest Research Institute, Hellenic Agricultural Organisation Dimitra
Greece
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Jaroslav Durkovic
ITC GC Coordinator, MC Member
Technical University in Zvolen, Faculty of Forestry
Slovakia
Slovakia
Silvana Munzi
Dissemination Grant Manager, DG Coordinator
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia
Portugal
Portugal
Klaudia Ziemblińska
ITC CG Evaluation Committee Member, Young Researcher Coordinator, MC Member
Poznan University of Life Sciences
Poland
Poland
Katerina Machacova
Science Communication Coordinator, ITC CG Evaluation Committee Member, MC Member
Global Change Research Institute, CAS
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
1st Call
01. Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs)
No | Name | Affiliated country | Hosting country | Topic of STSM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Annita Zolles | Austria | Norway | Identification of key parameters affecting tree growth using high frequency growth data. |
2 | Sanne Verdonck | Belgium | Switzerland | Investigating the influence of forest management on the drought impact experienced by European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) through point dendrometers |
3 | Milena Lakićević | Serbia | Montenegro | Climate change effect on soil functioning in Montenegro |
3 | Caitlin Ruth Lewis | UK | Belgium | Assessing former land use as a driver of nitrate leaching in the ICP Level II European database |
4 | Negar Rezaie | Italy | Canada | Unravelling the phenological patterns of wood formation and allocation of coniferous and broadleaved species with dendrometer and xylogenesis data |
5 | Stavroula Zacharoudi | Greece | UK | Soil greenhouse gas assessment, analysis and training at a short rotation broadleaf site |
02. ITC Conference Grants
No submissions.
0.3 Dissemination Grants
No | Name | Affiliated country | Conference title & venue | Title of the oral contribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Silvana Munzi | Portugal | CAPER 2023, annual meeting of the Community of Air Pollution Effects Researchers
Metropolitan University, UK | CLEANFOREST COST Action, the new kid in town |
2nd Call
01. Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs)
No | Name | Affiliated country | Hosting country | Topic of STSM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Marilli Sell | Estonia | UK | Next generation manipulation experiments with concept creation |
2 | Saša Kostić | Serbia | Slovenia | Nitrogen and carbon stable isotope ratios in tree rings: a new driver of environmental pollutant reconstruction thought the time |
3 | Lucia Mondaneli | Italy | Switzerland | The functionality of trees inside and outside cities: human and climate effects on isotopes characterization in Pinus pinea |
3 | Giorgos Xanthopoulos | Greece | Germany | Assessing ecosystem carbon fluxes using the eddy covariance technique, combined with soil respiration measurements and in-growth coring. |
02. ITC Conference Grants
No | Name | Affiliated country | Conference title & venue | Title of the oral contribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Hacı Mehmet Güzey | Turkey | World Congress on Pollution Control, Antalya, Turkey | Neuro Sliding Mode Controller Development for River Pollution |
03. Dissemination Grants
No submissions.
01. Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) - 1st and 2nd Call
WG-targeted STSMs
No | Name | Affiliated country | Hosting country | Topic of STSM | Host Institution & Scientist |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Ivan Limić (WG1) | Croatia | Belgium | Study on the influence of pollen on nitrogen wet deposition | INBO (Host: Arne Verstraeten) and Ghent University (Host: Samuel Bodé)
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2 | Paulina Puchi (WG2) | Italy | Switzerland | Finalizing the literature review database for tree-ring based water use efficiency estimates and performing first analyses | WSL (Host: Marco Lehmann) |
3 | Carlos Miguel Landivar Albis (WG2) | Austria | Switzerland | Reviewing the effects of climate change and atmospheric deposition on European forest ecosystems over the last 30 years through the lens of tree growth, water-use efficiency (WUE) and mortality | WSL (Host: Mathieu Levesque)
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4 | Charlotte Angrove (WG3): | Finland | Germany | Reviewing the recent progress on the effects of climate extremes and nitrogen deposition on trees, soil, and forest ecosystems | University of Μünster (Host: Mana Gharun) |
5 | Lora Stoeva | Bulgaria
| UK | Build a matrix of tree species, soil and management for climate and N mitigation potential
| Forest Research (Host: Elena Vanguelova) |
6 | Anna Gardner | UK | Estonia | Can short-term climate manipulation experiments predict reality in the long term? | University of Tartu (Host: Ivika Ostonen) |
Open-topic STSMs
No | Name | Affiliated country | Hosting country | Topic of STSM | Host Institution & Scientist |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Li Li | China | UK | Interactive effects of N and P fertilization on NSC allocation of temperate deciduous forests at BIFoR-FACE | University of Birmingham (Host: Sami Ullah) |
2 | Lucia Mondanell | Italy | Switzerland | The Functionality of trees inside and outside cities: human and climate effects on isotopes characterization in Pinus pinea | WSL (Host: Paolo Cherubini) |
3 | Toprak Aslan | Finland | USA | Understanding the effect of wind-induced pressure fluctuations on gas exchange at a snow-covered boreal forest | Duke University (Host: Gabriel Katul) |
4 | Angela Balzano | Slovenia | Italy | Secondary Sexual Dimorphism in Response to Environmental Stress in Mediterranean Shrubs
| University of Naples (Host: Veronica de Mico) |
5 | Laura Steward | Spain | Finland | Processing Terrestrial Laser Scans of Three Co-Existing Mediterranean Tree Species Within a Long-Term Drought Stress Experiment | University of Eastern Finland (Host: Samuli Junttila) |
02. ITC Conference Grants - 1st, 2nd and 3rd Call
No | Name | Affiliated country | Conference title and venue | Title of the presentation / poster |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Giorgos Xanthopoulos | Greece | IUFRO 2024 World Congress, Sweden | Carbon stocks and fluxes of a natural Mediterranean Aleppo pine ecosystem |
2 | Stavroula Zacharoudi | Greece | IUFRO 2024 World Congress, Sweden | Seasonal variation of soil respiration in Mediterranean oak-dominated ecosystems in Greece |
3 | Wojciech Kędziora | Poland | IUFRO 2024 World Congress, Sweden | Does fertilization effort pay off at harvest? A case study from 50 years old birch plantations for sustainable bioeconomics |
4 | Oksana Pelyukh | Ukraine | Conference “Earth as a Human-Environmental System”, Poland | Vulnerability of mountain forest ecosystem of the Ukrainian Carpathians: application of the DPSIR framework |
03. Dissemination Grants - 1st, 2nd and 3rd Call
No | Name | Affiliated country | Conference title and venue | Title of the oral contribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Rocio Alonso | Spain | IUFRO RG 8.04 Conference “Role and Fate of Forest Ecosystems in a Changing World”, Thailand | Joint effects of CLimate Extremes and Atmospheric depositioN on European FORESTs – CLEANFOREST EU COST-ACTION CA21138 |
2 | Richard Nair | Ireland | IUFRO 2024 World Congress, Sweden | CLEANFOREST WG4 @ IUFRO |
3 | Daniele Creek | Norway | IUFRO 2024 World Congress, Sweden | Combined effects of climate extremes and atmospheric deposition on forest growth and water-use efficiency |
4 | Silvana Munzi | Portugal | International Botanical Congress, Spain | CLEANFOREST COST Action: helping forests to face the Anthropocene |