November 1 2007 1

IAWS Dinner/Business Meeting during IUFRO Div 5 Conference.

Taipei 29/X – 2/XI 2007

November 1 2007 2

Academy Dinner (casual)

Thursday November 1st 19:00

Venue: Umeko Restaurant

B1, No. 206, Sec. 2, Nanjing Rd.,Jhongshan District, Taipei梅子餐廳台北市南京東路 2段 206號 B1, Phone: 02-25067858

November 1 2007 3

• Marian Babiak and wife• Mike Barnes• Shang-Tzen Chang • Hou-Min Chang and wife• Nam-Seok Cho• Dave Cown and wife• Xavier Deglise• Rob Evans• Chung-Yun Hse and wife• Gyozuke Meshitsuka

• Helmut Resch• Chris Resbrudt• Howard Rosen and wife• Pekka Saranpaa• Todd Shupe• Cathy Wang• Song-Yung Wang• Ruppert Wimmer• Jerold Winandy and wife• Bob Youngs and daughter• Tony Zhang

Participant Fellows

November 1 2007 4

Last IAWS dinner during IUFRO Div 52003 Rotorua N-Z

November 1 2007 5

Members of the Academy

Supporting Members (25)

AUS

CDN

FIN F D IND JPN NZ PL RUS

SLK S ROC

USA

1 2 1 3 4 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 5

United States 93

Australia 12 Switzerland 4

Philippines 2

Norway 1

Japan 39 P.R. China 6 Brazil 3 South Korea 2

Portugal 1

Germany 22 United Kingdom 6

India 3 Belgium 1 South Africa 1

Sweden 20 Russia 5 Romania 3 Egypt 1 Spain 1Canada 18 Austria 4 Chile 2 Greece 1France 15 Denmark 4 Israel 2 Hungary 1Finland 12 Poland 4 Latvia 2 Italy 1New Zealand 13

Taiwan 4 Netherlands 2

Mexico 1

Fellows (316) in 36 Countries

November 1 2007 6

Taiwanese fellows (4)

Shang-Tzen Chang (Peter), National Taiwan University

Hsiu-Hwa Wang (Cathy), National Pingtung University

Song-Yung Wang, National Taiwan University

Jeng-Chuan Yang, TFRI, now National Culture University

November 1 2007 7

IAWS Annual Meetings..in the 21st Century!

• 2000 Reading, UK • 2001 Paihia, New Zealand • 2002 Beijing, P.R.China• 2003 Latvia• 2004 Joint with IAWA, Montpellier, France• 2005 Joint with X Reunión sobre Productos Forestales, Concepcion, Chile• 2006 CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia• 2007 Kyoto Univ., Japan• 2008 Joint with IAWA and Linnean Society, London, UK• 2009 Forest Academy, St Petersburg, Russia• 2010 ?

November 1 2007 8

Milestones 2007/2008December 2007: Election of the VP – New EC

May/June 2008: Election of 4 Academy Board Members – Election of the Chairman of the ABElection of Fellows

28/29 May 2008: IAWS annual meeting joint with IAWA and Linean Society - London

2008 Develop a new activity, certification of Research and Graduate Teaching Programs, in governmental and private institutions, all over the world.

November 1 2007 9

Newly Elected Fellows for 2007

• Konstantin BOGOLITSYN (Russian federation)Faculty of Chemical Technology, Arkhangelsk State technical Univers

• Byron JORDAN (Canada)Optics and Standards Group, FP Innovation (Paprican), Pointe Claire, Quebec.

• Lucian A. LUCIA (USA)Associate Professor. Department of Wood and Paper Science,College of Natural Resources, Raleigh, NC.

• Shawn D. MANSFIELD (Canada)Department of Wood Science,University of British Columbia.

• Sandor MOLNAR (Hungary)Faculty of Wood Sciences, Sopron.

• Yoshiyuki NISHIO (Japan)Division of Forest and Biomaterials Science,Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University.

• Todd F. SHUPE (USA) Louisiana Forest Products Development Center,Renewable Natural Resources, Louisiana State University.

• Junji SUGIYAMA (Japan) Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere,Kyoto University.

• Peter VINDEN (Australia) School of Forest and Ecosystem Science The University of Melbourne.

• Takashi WATANABE (Japan)Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University

November 1 2007 10

The executive committee of IAWS:

• Xavier Deglise, President,• Frank Beall, Vice President, • Howard Rosen Treasurer, • Uwe Schmitt Secretary, • John Barnett, past President • Kent Kirk, former Past President