Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!bionet!macaulay-land-use.scot-agric-res-inst.ac.uk!MI002 From: MI002@macaulay-land-use.scot-agric-res-inst.ac.uk Newsgroups: bionet.agroforestry Subject: (none) Message-ID: <9004131436.AA01908@genbank.bio.net> Date: 13 Apr 90 14:06:44 GMT Sender: daemon@genbank.BIO.NET Lines: 196 The Agroforestry Research : UK Discussion Forum The Agroforestry Research : UK Discussion Forum is an informal group of research workers in the UK involved in various aspects of silvopastoral and silvoarable research. We hold an annual, informal meeting to report on progress in various areas of work and to visit field sites. There follows a copy of the letter that is being circulated by post to the current mailing list. If you work in the UK, or indeed if you work abroad, and wish to attend the meeting please contact me. My various addresses are listed below and in the registration form which is attached. Please note that the Forum has no funds, that there is no registration fee, that those attending must pay their way and that the meeting is entirely informal. +------------------------------+ Alan R Sibbald | Phone: 031-445-3401 | Secretary | FAX: 031-445-4035 | AFRUKDF |e-mail: mi002@uk.ac.sari.mluri| +------------------------------+ Agroforestry Research : UK Discussion Forum, Annual Meeting 13-15 June 1990 The annual meeting of the Forum for 1990 is to be held at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen over the period 13 - 15 June. A draft programme is attached. The programme will begin on the 13th for those of you who wish to attend the meeting of the Below Ground Interactions Group. This meeting has been arranged for 7pm that evening at the School of Agriculture, University of Aberdeen, 481 King Street, Aberdeen. The main meeting of the Forum will be on Thursday 14th June. On Friday 15th June there will be field trips to the MLURI Glensaugh Research Station where one of the National Network experiments and three other agroforestry projects are located and to a research site run by the Scottish Agricultural Colleges (SAC) and Department of Agriculture, Aberdeen University at Tillycorthie. The Tillycorthie site has a Forestry Commission/SAC cultivation and vegetation control trial and a trial on alder with and without inoculation with *Frankia*. The meeting is being organised locally by Colin Campbell (MLURI), John Hooker (Aberdeen University) and myself. We will need as soon as possible a clear idea of the numbers who will be attending and their domestic requirements for accommodation, food and local transport. If you intend to come to the meeting will you please complete the attached form showing which facilities you require us to arrange. As before, because the Forum has no funds of its own and because there is no registration fee, all participants will be required to pay for their own food and accommodation as they go. We will try to arrange rooms in hotels in the #20-#25 B&B category, if this does not suit you please let us know on the form and we will attempt, without any guarantee, to book what you require. Lunch on the Thursday will be served in the canteen at MLURI at a cost of about #2.50 depending on what you select. Lunch on the Friday for those taking part in the field trip will be at a restaurant close to Glensaugh. This is only a small establishment and we will need to get your choice from the menu and the money to cover it at some time during the meeting on Thursday so that we can phone the order ahead. Your co-operation in this matter will be greatly appreciated. For the purpose of organising the Group meetings, please also indicate on the form those Group sessions that you wish to attend. Please note that the Network Managers' Meeting and the Silvoarable Group Meeting are scheduled concurrently for the late afternoon *after* the main meeting. I look forward to meeting you at the Meeting, especially if you complete and return the attached form promptly and before 30th April. Yours sincerely, Alan R Sibbald Secretary AFRUKDF Agroforestry Research : UK Discussion Forum Provisional Programme for the Annual Meeting, 13-15 June 1990 To be held at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen Wednesday 13th June 19:00 - 22:00 Below Ground Interactions Group Meeting(Aberdeen U) Thursday 14th June 09:00 - 09:10 Welcome by Prof T.J. Maxwell, Director of MLURI 09:10 - 09:40 Report of the Network Managers' Group 09:40 - 10:10 Report of the Silvoarable Group 10:10 - 10:40 Report of the Below Ground Interactions Group 10:40 - 11:10 Coffee Break 11:10 - 13:00 Reports from individual research sites. 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 15:30 Tree Protection - a discussion led by Chris Nixon 15:30 - 16:00 Tea Break 16:00 - 17:00 Formal business 1. Office bearers 2. Newsletter 3. Bulletin board 4. Date & place for next meeting 17:00 - 19:00 $1. Meeting of the Network Managers' Group (concurrent)--$ $2. Meeting of the Silvoarable Group Friday 15th June 09:00 - 10:00 Travel to Glensaugh 10:00 - 13:00 1. The National Network Site - Alan Sibbald and Chris Nixon 2. Nutrient losses in silvopastoral systems - Christine Watson 3. Nitrogen and water relations of grass and trees - Colin Campbell 4. Tree protection trial - Chris Nixon 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 15:00 Travel to University of Aberdeen site, Tillycorthie 15:00 - 16:30 1. FC/SAC cultivation and vegetation control trial - David Atkinson 2. Alder trial with and without *Frankia* inoculation - John Hooker 16:30 - 17:00 Return to Aberdeen Agroforestry Research : UK Discussion Forum Registration form and indication of domestic requirements +------------------------+ Name:............................. |Return this form by | |30th April at the LATEST| Organisation:............................. |to: | | | Address:............................. | Alan Sibbald, | | MLURI, | ............................. | Pentlandfield, | | Roslin, | ............................. | Midlothian | | EH25 9RF | Post Code:.............................. | | | Phone: 031-445-3401 | Telephone:.............................. | FAX: 031-445-4035 | | e-mail: | FAX number:.............................. | mi002@uk.ac.sari.mluri| +------------------------+ I will attend the following sessions: +---+ Main Forum Meeting (Thurs 14th) | | +---+ Below Ground Interactions Group (Wed 13th) | | +---+ Network Managers Group (Thurs 14th) | | +---+ NB ONLY ONE OF Silvoarable Group (Thurs 14th) | | +---+ Field trip to Glensaugh | | +---+ Field trip to Tillycorthie | | +---+ I require the following: Overnight accommodation for the night of Lunch +---+ Wednesday 13th June | | +---+ +---+ Thursday 14th June | | | | #2.50 +---+ +---+ Friday 15th June | | | | #4.50 +---+ +---+ Collected from the: +---+ Station | | +---+ at ....am/pm on ......th June Airport | | +---+ Dropped off at the: +---+ Station | | +---+ at ....am/pm on ......th June Airport | | +---+ +---+ Transport for the field trips | | +---+