- Wood Collection of Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brazil requests registration
- A recent request was received from Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brazil for registration of its wood collection. The wood collection founded in 2009 contains 1,500 specimens, 40 genera of native and introduced species of Brazil.
- Special Issue on Vessel Elements – Identification of Asian Timbers available for the IAWA Office
- The identification of timbers used in pulp and paper is becoming increasingly important for the implementation of national and international legislation that forbids the use of illegally logged or endangered species. This Atlas portrays and
- Apply now
- Candidates may nominate their own submissions directly to the editors (c/o pieter.baas@naturalis.nl ), together with a one page cv, and one supporting statement from a senior IAWA Member before September 1st of the current year. Submissions
- The IAWA New Website has been established successfully
- After more than a year of multiple attempts, the IAWA domain name has been transferred from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Netherlandsto and is now hosted in Madison, USA. The newly designed IAWA Website was established and published on
- Prof. Dr. Fritz Schweingruber from Switzerland has been formally elected as a new Honorary Member of
- It is a very great pleasure to inform that the IAWA Council elected Prof. Dr. Fritz Schweingruberas an Honorary Member of our Association in June of 2018, following his nomination by two individual members Dr. Pieter Baas and
- The 2017 Impact factor of IAWA Journal is released
- On June 26, 2018, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) released the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and impact factors for 2017. The impact factor of IAWA Journal, Sponsored by the International Association of Wood Anatomists
- I.W. Bailey Award ceremony at the Japan Wood Society Meeting
- Dr. Hiromi Shibui of Hokkaido University received the I.W. Bailey Award 2017, and a prize of 1,000 EUR was awarded. The award ceremony and the lecture were held prior to the research meeting of wood anatomy and wood properties at the
- IAWA New website has been built in Beijing, China
- Multiple attempts to transfer the IAWA domain name (iawa-website.org) from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands to the Chinese Academy of Forestry, China failed. In order to manage the IAWA website, a new IAWA domain name
- InsideWood asks for your help
- As of April 20, 2017, InsideWood (IW, http://insidewood.lib.ncsu.edu) has 9,050 descriptions in IAWA hardwood codes and 46,796 images. Although IW has a wide coverage, there are thousands more woody species needing descriptions and
- Digitalization of IAWA Bulletins (1957–1979) is completed
- Dr. TomoFujii, Fellow of the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI) in Tsukuba, Japan, has completed the digitalization of old IAWA Bulletins issued from19571979. These IAWA Bulletins contain some important classical papers
- Multilingual Glossary of Terms Used in Wood Anatomy (1964) is available on the web
- Prof. Yuzou Sano of the Hokkaido University and Dr. RyogoNakada of FFPRI, Japan made a pdf file of the IAWA glossary in Japanese, which is now available at http://www.jwrs.org/kenkyu/wa_wp/glossary/glossary.html together with the other
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- n order to receive notifications of new issues, IAWA members are advised to click on subscribe to ToC alert on the Brill / IAWA Journal home page in the column under Sign in. Once subscribed, you will automatically receive electronic
- Elisabeth Robert is a new Associate Editor of the IAWA Journal
- We welcome Elisabeth Robert as a new associate editor of the IAWA Journal. Elisabeths expertise is in functional and ecological tree biology and wood anatomy. She currently holds a position at the Centre for Ecological and Forestry
