UCD Forestry School of Agriculture & Food Science UCD College of Agriculture, Food Science & Veterinary Medicine University College Dublin
Organisation type:
University
Country:
Ireland
Short name:
UCD Forestry
Description:
UCD Forestry is the only university forestry programme in Ireland and has a long and prestigious heritage dating back to 1927. Most of the forestry professionals and scientists working in Ireland have studied forestry at undergraduate and post-graduate level in UCD. In earlier years, the focus of forestry in Ireland was on species selection and forest establishment, nowadays the emphasis has moved towards the sustainable development and management of Ireland’s forest resources, with the aim to produce the optimal mix of goods and services for the forest owners and society as a whole.
The UCD Forestry programme consists of four pillars: 1. education, 2. research, 3. innovation and 4. extension. UCD Forestry staff are active in all of these, at both a national and international level.
3. Innovation
Many of the outcomes of the research carried out at UCD Forestry result in innovative products and services, especially in relation to ICT and decision support systems. Examples are the dynamic growth models for Irish forests, decision support systems for the management of privately owned forests, wind throw prediction models, a web-based national harvest forecasting system, and single tree taper and volume models. All of these models are used on a daily basis, by professional foresters, enabling them to improve their decision making, resulting in the better management and use of the forest resources.
Current (ICT) research aims to:
Develop an inventory protocol and decision support system for the management of privately-owned forests
Develop a GIS-based multi-objective decision support system for the optimal management of forests on sensitive sites
National & International Links
All staff in UCD Forestry are active on national and international forums, representing UCD and Irish forestry, to ensure the expertise present in UCD Forestry is used to inform national and international decision making, and also to guarantee that UCD Forestry will be part of any future research consortia and that the strengths and research needs of Irish forestry are recognized in an international context.
Examples are :
IUFRO (International Unions of Forest Research Organisations)
EFI (European Forest Institute)
COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)
ICRAF (The World Agroforestry Centre)
Silvanet (the network of forestry universities in Europe)
Irish Forest Policy Review groups
COFORD forest research review groups
FTEI (Forestry Training and Education Ireland).
UCD Forestry
School of Agriculture & Food Science UCD
College of Agriculture, Food Science & Veterinary Medicine
University College Dublin
UCD Forestry is the only university forestry programme in Ireland and has a long and prestigious heritage dating back to 1927. Most of the forestry professionals and scientists working in Ireland have studied forestry at undergraduate and post-graduate level in UCD. In earlier years, the focus of forestry in Ireland was on species selection and forest establishment, nowadays the emphasis has moved towards the sustainable development and management of Ireland’s forest resources, with the aim to produce the optimal mix of goods and services for the forest owners and society as a whole.
The UCD Forestry programme consists of four pillars: 1. education, 2. research, 3. innovation and 4. extension. UCD Forestry staff are active in all of these, at both a national and international level.
3. Innovation
Many of the outcomes of the research carried out at UCD Forestry result in innovative products and services, especially in relation to ICT and decision support systems. Examples are the dynamic growth models for Irish forests, decision support systems for the management of privately owned forests, wind throw prediction models, a web-based national harvest forecasting system, and single tree taper and volume models. All of these models are used on a daily basis, by professional foresters, enabling them to improve their decision making, resulting in the better management and use of the forest resources.
Current (ICT) research aims to:
Develop an inventory protocol and decision support system for the management of privately-owned forests
Develop a GIS-based multi-objective decision support system for the optimal management of forests on sensitive sites
National & International Links
All staff in UCD Forestry are active on national and international forums, representing UCD and Irish forestry, to ensure the expertise present in UCD Forestry is used to inform national and international decision making, and also to guarantee that UCD Forestry will be part of any future research consortia and that the strengths and research needs of Irish forestry are recognized in an international context.
Examples are :
IUFRO (International Unions of Forest Research Organisations)
EFI (European Forest Institute)
COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)
ICRAF (The World Agroforestry Centre)
Silvanet (the network of forestry universities in Europe)
Irish Forest Policy Review groups
COFORD forest research review groups
FTEI (Forestry Training and Education Ireland).