Short Rotation Crops International Conference:

Biofuels, Bioenergy, and Bioproducts

from Sustainable Agricultural and Forest Crops

 

 

Holiday Inn Select Minneapolis Airport Hotel – Mall of America

Bloomington, Minnesota, USA

August 18-22, 2008

 

Most conferences about short rotation crops have primarily focused on either agricultural or forest crops, resulting in less integration and slower advancement of common underlying science and application. The goal of this conference is to initiate and provide opportunities for scientific exchange and full integration of the science and application of producing both agricultural and forest crops for biofuels, bioenergy, and bioproducts. There is a substantial global need for development of such systems and technologies for the sustainability of short rotation crops across multiple temporal and spatial scales. This conference offers an international forum for discussion and scientific exchange on methods that can economically and sustainably produce large quantities of biofuels, bioenergy, and bioproducts. 

 

The abstract submission deadline is Friday, April 4, 2008. The main topic areas are (A) biological and environmental and (B) economic and policy implications of sustainable biofuels, bioenergy, and bioproducts.

 

There will be a field tour during the conference to the University of Minnesota Southern Research and Outreach Center in Waseca, Minnesota to see both agricultural and forestry research projects. Opportunities for pre- and post-conference tours to biomass research and development projects in the region will be offered.

 

Registration ($350 US), hotel, and tour information will be available at http://www.cinram.umn.edu/srwc

or by contacting RaeLynn Jones Loss (CINRAM / University of Minnesota Department of Forest Resources) at

+1 (612) 624-7418, raelynn@umn.edu or Dean Current (CINRAM / University of Minnesota Department of Forest Resources) at +1 (612) 624-3400, curre002@umn.edu.