2025 Western Mensurationists Annual Meeting

Registration now open for the 2025 Western Mensurationists’ meeting in Moscow, Idaho June 15-17. The theme is “Advancements in Digital Forestry, Mensuration, and Biometrics Across the Forest Supply Chain”.

 

Call For Abstracts

The call for abstracts is open for the 2025 Western Mensurationists’ meeting in Moscow, Idaho June 15-17.  The general theme is “Advancements in Digital Forestry, Mensuration, and Biometrics Across the Forest Supply Chain”.  We are inviting individuals to submit abstracts for traditional talks, science flashes, or poster presentations.  We encourage submissions that relate broadly to the use of Machine Learning, Remote Sensing, and Virtual Reality in the creation of Digital Forest Twins that aid in quantifying forest populations.  However, topics for abstracts are open to all aspects of mensuration — forest measurements, modeling, inventory, growth and yield, planning, analysis, etc.

Abstracts should be less than 750 words.  The due date for submission of abstracts is Friday, March 28.

Abstracts can be submitted online HERE.  Please be sure to select the format best suited for your presentation (traditional oral, science flash oral, or poster).

Any questions should be addressed to Mark Kimsey via email.

 

Western Mensurationists Lifetime Achievements Award

“Western Mensurationists Lifetime Achievement Award” honors scientists that contributed significantly to the quantitative aspects of the western North American forestry. The award aims at senior researchers that are associated with the Western Mensurationists group and have shaped the forest research of/from the western region of the USA and Canada.  The award is given only once to an individual. The selection process starts by ranking the scientists according to the number of nominations from fellows mensurationists. The person with the largest number of nominations is then validated by the Lifetime Achievement award committee.

Please submit your nomination for the 2025 Award by clicking HERE.

 

Call for Kim Iles Mathematical Challenge Submissions

In 2009 two SOMENS fellows, Lewis Jordan and Ray Souter, started the Mike Strub Challenge contest, to honor Mike Strub’s inquisitory mind, tenacity in pursuing forest related questions, and not the least, its kindness. Western Mensurationists decided to mirror this passion for numerical forestry with a challenge of its own. Therefore, starting with 2023, the Kim Iles Mathematical Challenge was launched in Canmore AB, Canada. The challenge bears the name of Kim Iles who can be considered the epitome of a forest mensurationist: integrated within the environment, considerate toward nature and humans,  comprehensive in endeavor, inquisitorial in scientific pursue, wise in recommendations, and Shakespearian in expressing. Different from SOMENS, the Western Mens challenge has two parts one for theoretical and one practical.

We seek challenging submissions from the Mensurationist community by April 18, which can be submitted HERE.

After review, the committee will select a theoretical and practical challenge and call for solutions. Solutions can be submitted HERE by May 16.  The winner will receive a certificate and a check for $100.

 

Society of American Foresters CFE Credits

Meeting attendees will be eligible for credits through the Society of American Foresters.