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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Title :
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">A new classification of boreal forests in Canada: an update on the Canadian National Vegetation Classification<br>
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<b>Presenter:</b> Ken Baldwin<br>
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There is no cost to join this English-only presentation, and pre-registration is not required. This webinar is brought to you by the Great Lakes Forestry Centre (GLFC). GLFC is one of five Canadian Forest Service (CFS) research centres. The CFS is one of six
sectors within Natural Resources Canada. <br>
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<b>Date/time:</b> Tuesday, November 18, 2014<br>
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Eastern time <br>
8:00-9:00 a.m. Pacific time <br>
9:00-10:00 a.m. Mountain time <br>
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12:30-1:30 p.m. Newfoundland time<br>
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<b>Location: </b>Great Lakes Forestry Centre, <br>
Room A103 <br>
1219 Queen St. E., Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="ftp://ftp.nrcan.gc.ca/cfs/glfc/">ftp://ftp.nrcan.gc.ca/cfs/glfc/</a>. All previous Webinars are also archived there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0099FF;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Summary<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">The Canadian National Vegetation Classification (CNVC) is a nationally standardized, hierarchical
classification of vegetation for Canada. The organization of the CNVC hierarchy reflects primary ecological factors that influence vegetation patterns at a range of scales, from site-scale edaphics to global-scale climate. The Canadian Forest Service is coordinating
the forest component of the CNVC, using data and professional expertise provided by the provinces and territories. Recently, the first nationally standardized classification of boreal forests for Canada was confirmed. This presentation will introduce the new
classification, with an emphasis on diagnostic criteria and classification principles for different levels of the boreal hierarchy. An understanding of the diversity of boreal forests in Canada will emerge, and potential applications for this ecological information
framework will be discussed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0099FF;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">About
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Ken Baldwin</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">
is a Forest Ecologist with the Ecosystem Impacts Research Team. He has an Honours Bachelor of Science degree from McMaster University (1975) and a Masters in Science, Plant Sciences from the University of Western Ontario (1982). He joined the staff of the
Canadian Forest Service in 1990 as a plant community ecologist. He has worked on research and technical development projects involving forest ecosystem classification, predictive ecosystem mapping and forest succession. He is currently chair of the Technical
Committee of the Canadian National Vegetation Classification (CNVC) project and coordinator of the CFS' Canadian Forest Ecosystem Classification (CFEC) project that is developing the forest component of the CNVC. Ken may be contacted via email at
<a href="mailto:ken.baldwin@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca">ken.baldwin@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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