Home

Program

Field Tour

Sponsors

Joint Meetings

Conference Materials

Resources

Contact Us

Download Brochure

Short Rotation Crops International

Conference Materials

This webpage includes documents distributed during the conference. Please feel free to use these documents as reference for your personal use.

Documents posted online are in Acrobat Reader pdf version. Please be advised, some files are quite large, which may take a while to download.

Final Announcement

General Technical Report-NRS-P-31

Adendum Abstracts

Full Attendee List

Conference Powerpoint Presentations:

Welcome

• IEA Bioenergy Task 30 Short Rotation Crops: Welcome to Conference
  - Ian Nicholas, IEA

 Plenary Session I – Putting Energy in Perspective

• U.S. Department of Energy: Putting Energy in Perspective
  - John Ferrell, DOE
  
• Short Rotation Woody Crops: Enhancing U.S. Energy Security, Environmental Quality and Economic Opportunity
  - Ann Bartuska, USFS

Plenary Session II – Putting Energy in Perspective

• Moving to a Bioeconomy: is it wise?
  - Gale Buchanan, USDA

Plenary Session III – A Global Perspective on Bioenergy

• Socially Responsible Expansion of Brazilian Ethanol
  -Gerd Sparovek
  
• Water Perspectives on Large Scale Bioenergy
  -Göran Berndes
  
• Regional Feedstock Partnership
  -Tim Rials

Concurrent Session I: Implications of Sustainable Biofuels
A. Breeding and Genetics
B. Woody Production Systems
C. Production System Logistics
D. Ecosystem Services
E. Bioenergy Production Systems I

Concurrent Session II: Implications of Sustainable Biofuels
A. Social Factors and Policy Issues
B. Costs and Operational Feasibility
C. Phytotechnologies
D. Bionergy Production Systems II

Special Session I: Herbaceous Biomass: State of the Art

• Herbaceous Biomass: State of the Art
  -Ken Moore
  
• Development of Switchgrass into a Biomass Energy Crop
  -Ken Vogel
  
• Sugar/Energy Canes as Feedstocks for the Biofuels Industry
  -Ed Richard

Special Session II: Woody Biomass: State of the Art

• Commercializing Willow Biomass Crops in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States
  -Tim Volk
  
• Genetic Improvement of Hybrid Poplar for the Renewable Fuels Industry: A Pacific Northwest Perspective
  - Brian Stanton
  
• Agroforestry and Cellulosic Ethanol from Sustainable Poplar Tree Farms
  -Jake Eaton
  
• Woody Biomass Crops in the Midwestern United States
  -Bill Berguson
  
• Purpose-grown Trees as a Sustainable Renewable Energy Source
  -Michael Cunningham
  
• Poplar and Willow Short Rotation Intensive Culture in Western Canada
  - Cees van Oosten
  
• Production of Biomass for Energy from Sustainable Forestry Systems: Canada and Europe
  -Jim Richardson

Special Session III – Panel Discussion – Sustainable Bioenergy Production Systems: Feast, Famine, or Folly for the Producer

• Impacts of Biofuel Production on Grassland Birds in Wisconsin
  -David Sample
  
• Herbaceous Crops
  -Rob Mitchell
  
• Woody Bioenergy Systems in Canada
  -Ken van Rees
  
• Woody Bioenergy Systems in the U.S.
  -Rick Hall
  
• Economic and Social Aspects of Bioenergy Systems
  -Mark Downing
  
• Putting it all Together
  -Ron Zalesny & Rob Mitchell

Closing Remarks – Bryce Stokes