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第39回森林資源科学セミナーを下記のとおり開催いたします。この度は、日本学術振興会外国人招へい研究者として来日するスイス連邦森林・雪・景観研究所のPaolo Cherubini博士 （http://www.wsl.ch/staff/paolo.cherubini/）に３つの講演をお願いしました。
Cherubini博士は年輪研究の第一人者として，気候変動や大気汚染が森林生態系へ及ぼす影響評価等について樹木年輪やアイソトープを用いた研究を勢力的に進められており，第一部として「年輪サイエンスの最前線」の講演を予定しております。また，同氏は国際誌"Dendrochronologia"の編集委員長はじめ多くの編集委員を務められており，近年の"論文ラッシュ"に関する講演を第二部で予定しています。さらに，10月18日には第３部として，福岡演習林において「長期森林生態系研究LTER」に関するセミナーを開催し，スイスおよび日本におけるLTERの最近の動向と展望について議論を深めます。
お忙しい時期ではございますが、ご参加の程、よろしくお願い申し上げます。なお，講演案内ポスターを添付しております。学部生・院生の参加も歓迎いたしますので、研究室の学生への周知をお願いいたします。

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日時：	2007年10月17日（水）13時30分〜
場所：	九州大学国際ホール（箱崎キャンパス内）
講師：	Dr. Paolo Cherubini (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, http://www.wsl.ch/staff/paolo.cherubini/）
	【第一部】（13:30〜15：00）：年輪サイエンスの最前線 Tree rings as archives to reconstruct the impact of environmental changes on forest ecosystems 【第二部】（15:00〜16：30）：科学論文の世界-その謎を問う The Scientific Publishing World:　FAQs and some secrets and mysteries from the pool of the sharks
日時：	2007年10月18日（木）15時00分〜17時00分
場所：	九州大学福岡演習林講義室（福岡県糟屋郡篠栗町）
	【第三部】〜長期森林生態系研究の現状と展望〜 ・スイスにおける長期森林生態系研究　(Dr. Paolo Cherubini) Long Term Forest Ecosystem Research in Switzerland ・日本における長期生態研究 -森林科学からのアプローチ-（Dr. Tsutomu Enoki） Long Term Ecological Research in Japan -Approach from Forest Science- ・日本における長期森林水文研究の取り組み　(Prof. Kyoichi Otsuki) Long Term Forest Hydrological Research in Japan
問い合わせ先：
	吉田茂二郎・溝上展也（農学研究院森林資源科学部門森林計画学分野） syoshida@agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp, mizoue@agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp　 大槻恭一・榎木勉（農学研究院森林資源科学部門森林生態圏管理学講座） otsuki@forest.kyushu-u.ac.jp, enoki@forest.kyushu-u.ac.jp

講演要旨１
"Tree rings as archives to reconstruct the impact of environmental changes on forest ecosystems"

The Swiss Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research (LWF) is a multi-disciplinary, long-term project, established in 1994, designed to provide basic information about forest dynamics in Switzerland, primarily in relation to the sustainable management of the forest resource. The mission of the LWF is to improve the understanding of forest ecosystem processes. A particular emphasis is given to the study of the possible effects of air pollution and climate change on forest ecosystem processes.
Tree-ring studies are applied within the LWF to study the impact of climate changes and air pollution on forest ecosystems. Tree rings, providing information on past environmental conditions with annual resolution, are one of the most powerful tools which provide baseline information for understanding the reaction of forest ecosystems to global change.
In this talk, I shall show examples of the use of dendrochronological methods within the LWF. Particularly, I'll focus on the use of tree-ring width and stable isotopes (13C, 18O, and 15N), for understanding the impact on forest ecosystems of the recent dramatic increase in 1) air temperature, 2) drought occurrence, 3) carbon dioxide concentrations, and 4) nitrogen deposition.

講演要旨２
"The Scientific Publishing World:　FAQs　and some secrets and mysteries from the pool of the sharks"

Research scientists all around the world are increasingly pushed to publish the results of their research work. The "Publish or perish" phylosophy, together with the increasing importance given to ranking lists based on bibliometrical indices such as the impact factor of the Institute of Scientific Information ISI (Thomson Scientific, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA), conquered the laboratory benches and lecture halls of the whole academic and scientific world, with only very few exceptions. This fact, on one hand, has positive consequences, such as the wider dissemination of scientific achievements throughout the broad public, which has been neglected for long time by the academia and which is not only important but essential, and simply due, because most research work is funded by public money. On the other hand, however, the "paper rush" often implies a lowering of paper quality level and scientific soundness, along with decreasing authors' knowledge depth and ethical and professional correctness.
In this talk I shall 1) address these topics at a theoretical level, 2) present the consequences of the current "paper rush", 3) discuss the pros and the cons, showing some examples from past personal experience (both as an editor and as an author, and reviewer, of scientific papers), 4) suggest to young scientists some counteracting antidotical actions to overcome the main negative feedbacks of such phenomenon, and 5) propose a way of life, a life style, in science to resist and survive the "impact factor fever".

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Dr. Paolo Cherubini is Senior Research Scientist at the WSL, the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf (Switzerland), where he is Deputy Head of the Research Unit "Dendrosciences" and Head of the Group "Tree Physiology". He is Adjunct Research Scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, New York City (U.S.A.), and Lecturer at the Department of Geography of the University of Zurich (Switzerland). He is editorially very active: he serves currently as Editor in Chief of the journal Dendrochronologia, Associate Editor of Tree-Ring Research, Editor of Forest@, Member of the Editorial Board of Geochronometria and of Journal of Vegetation Science.