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By Jennifer Donovan, Director of News & Media Relations
University Marketing & Communications
Michigan Technological University
The international natural resources honor society Xi Sigma Pi is sponsoring a symposium from 2 to 5 p.m. Friday, March 24 in Room G002 of the Forestry Building at Michigan Tech. The annual symposium promotes the fields of forestry and natural resources. This year’s theme is “The Cutting Edge: Modern Technologies in Natural Resources.”
The symposium features a series of experts who will cover advances in technologies related to genetics, the latest changes in harvesting equipment, and unmanned aerial systems and LiDAR. They are:
- Meg Staton, University of Tennessee, “Hardwood Genomics Web: a web portal and database resource for hardwood tree genomic and genetic research.”
- Curtis Edson, Michigan Technological University, “Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and LiDAR in Natural Resources.”
- Joe Salzer, Ponsse North America, Rhinelander, Wisconsin, “Information Transfer from the Woods to the Mill.”
The symposium is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided.
The event is being partially sponsored/funded by the Visiting Women & Minority Lecturer/Scholar Series (VWMLS) which is funded by a grant to Institutional Equity & Inclusion from the State of Michigan’s King-Chavez-Parks Initiative.
