World wood day
World Wood Day is a cultural event celebrated annually on March 21st to highlight wood as an eco-friendly and renewable biomaterial and to raise awareness […]
Articles by Dan Ridley-Ellis
Jim and Spencer explain #2
The second video in the Jim and Spencer explain series is now online. Jim Coulson, a board member of the Wood Technology Society (IOM3), is […]
The mysterious “TG1”
This week, the committee known as “TG1” met to evaluate some new settings for machine grading and visual grading assignments for EN1912. TG1 stands, simply, […]
Wood MusICK training school – reminder
The COST Action Wood MusICK, has a Training School on Organology which will take place at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam on 12-15 April 2016. The aim of […]
Jim and Spencer explain
Jim Coulson, a board member of the Wood Technology Society (IOM3), has started to make some short videos about wood with his grandson Spencer. In […]
Conference – wood science & woodworking
The University of Zagreb has issued an announcement calling for papers for The 27th International Conference on Wood Science and Technology “implementation of wood science […]
Grading standards update (!!)
For the following, it may be helpful to refer to the CEN webpages that explain the various stages of drafting standards. The formal vote on […]
Queen’s Anniversary Prize ceremony
HRH The Prince of Wales, with HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, presented Queen’s Anniversary Prizes to recipients of the award in the eleventh […]
Visiting researchers go visting
Visiting researcher, Filip Pantelić (left) and intern researcher Mélanie Libeau (right) took time from their lab work to visit Jonathan Santa Maria Bouquet (centre) – who is a […]
Future of wood science at Hamburg?
There is a petition on change.org to save the (well respected) BSc and MSc programs of Wood Science and Technology at the University of Hamburg. The closing down […]