Reflections by a member of the Editorial Board

Kevin T. Smith
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I thank Co-Editors Ass. Prof. Dr. Jože Kropivšek and Prof. Dr. Katarina Čufar for the opportunity to serve as an Editorial Board member of Les/Wood, an international journal firmly grounded in the broad sweep of Slovene wood science and technology. The Editorial Board works to extend the relevance and impact of Les/Wood within and beyond Slovenia to the international community of wood science and technology in the broadest sense. We see the journal as a tool to support research and development of specific technologies, as well as to develop common terminology. I would like to use this opportunity to sketch out how I came to be involved with wood science in Slovenia. In retrospect that involvement seems inevitable, but the path was not always clear at the time! After completing my postgraduate education in plant pathology and mycology in the USA in 1982, I accepted my current position as supervisory plant physiologist for the USDA Forest Service, a US federal land management agency with a strong commitment to research & development and to international forestry. Throughout my career, my personal research has involved tree growth and wood decay in response to injury, infection, and environmental change. These tree responses affect forest health, the economic value of wood for art and industry, the tree-ring record of environmental conditions, and the performance of trees in urban and community environments. My USDA FS mentor and colleague Dr. Walter Shortle met Prof. Dr. Niko Torelli and Prof. Dr. Katarina Čufar at the IAWA conference in Hamburg (1983) and at the IUFRO World Conference 1996 in Ljubljana, where the two of them were local organizers. Afterwards they obtained a joint Yugoslav American Project, “Possible alterations of wood in air polluted trees”, which defined my earlier collaborations with Professor Torelli and Katarina Čufar on silver fir decline in Slovenia and Europe. Later, Katarina Čufar, Dr. Tom Levanič, and I identified changes in the climatic responses of silver fir in Slovenia and of red spruce in the northeastern US. I also worked with Dr. Primož Oven on special considerations for the health and safety of city trees. Later, Katarina Čufar and I both served on the Executive Council of the Tree Ring Society, an international association for dendrochronological research. We co-taught a tree biology section at the Dendro Fieldweek as part of the World Dendro conference 2010 in Finland. We found that our combination of research experience both intensified and broadened our understanding and presentation of wood structure and function. Since then, we have worked to provide Slovene students and scientists a platform to share techniques and experiences that both extend the science and community of scientists in the international research community. As an active researcher, I see Les/Wood as noteworthy because of the potential breadth of articles reporting on topics from wood mechanical properties to technologies and industrial processing to underlying anatomy and the biological processes that result in wood formation and preservation. In addition to the high level of scholarship and technical expertise within Les/Wood, I find collegiality of spirit, openness of approach, and pride of history and context. These qualities lift up and support ongoing and future research for Slovenia, its geographic surroundings, and the broader world research community. I’m excited at the prospect of Les/Wood extending its traditional strengths to meet the critical need for wood science to optimize wood utilization, ecological understanding, and cultural patrimony.
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我感谢联合编辑助理Jože Kropivšek教授和KatarinaČufar教授博士有机会担任《Les/Wood》的编辑委员会成员,这是一本以广泛的斯洛文尼亚木材科学和技术为基础的国际期刊。编辑委员会致力于将Les/Wood在斯洛文尼亚内外的相关性和影响扩大到最广泛意义上的国际木材科学和技术界。我们将该杂志视为支持特定技术研究和开发以及开发通用术语的工具。我想借此机会简要介绍一下我是如何在斯洛文尼亚从事木材科学的。回想起来,这种参与似乎是不可避免的,但当时的道路并不总是清晰的!1982年,我在美国完成了植物病理学和真菌学的研究生教育,之后我接受了美国农业部林业局的植物生理学家监督职位,这是一家美国联邦土地管理机构,致力于研发和国际林业。在我的整个职业生涯中,我的个人研究涉及树木生长和木材腐烂对伤害、感染和环境变化的反应。这些树木反应影响森林健康、木材对艺术和工业的经济价值、环境条件的树木年轮记录以及树木在城市和社区环境中的表现。我的美国农业部FS导师兼同事Walter Shortle博士在汉堡举行的IAWA会议(1983年)和卢布尔雅那举行的1996年国际林研联世界会议上会见了Niko Torelli教授博士和KatarinaČufar教授博士。之后,他们获得了一个南斯拉夫-美国联合项目,“空气污染树木中木材的可能变化”,该项目定义了我早些时候与Torelli教授和KatarinaČufar就斯洛文尼亚和欧洲银杉衰退问题进行的合作。后来,KatarinaČufar、Tom Levanič博士和我确定了斯洛文尼亚银杉和美国东北部红云杉的气候响应变化。我还与PrimožOven博士合作,对城市树木的健康和安全进行了特殊考虑。后来,KatarinaČufar和我都在树木年轮协会执行委员会任职,该协会是一个国际树木纪年研究协会。作为2010年芬兰世界树木大会的一部分,我们在Dendro Fieldweek上共同教授了树木生物学部分。我们发现,我们结合研究经验,既强化又拓宽了我们对木材结构和功能的理解和呈现。从那时起,我们一直致力于为斯洛文尼亚学生和科学家提供一个分享技术和经验的平台,这些技术和经验既扩展了国际研究界的科学和科学家群体。作为一名积极的研究人员,我认为Les/Wood值得注意,因为从木材机械性能到技术和工业加工,再到潜在的解剖学和导致木材形成和保存的生物过程,这些文章的报道范围可能很广。除了Les/Wood的高水平学术和技术专业知识外,我还发现了精神上的合作精神、方法上的开放性以及对历史和背景的自豪感。这些品质提升并支持斯洛文尼亚、其地理环境和更广泛的世界研究界正在进行的和未来的研究。我对Les/Wood扩展其传统优势以满足木材科学优化木材利用、生态理解和文化遗产的迫切需求感到兴奋。
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