Forest Engineering Professionals to Meet in Historic New Bern, NC

The Council on Forest Engineering (COFE) will hold its 35th annual meeting September 10-12, 2012 in New Bern, North Carolina at the Doubletree Riverfront Hotel. The theme of the meeting is “Engineering New Solutions for Energy Supply and Demand”. The local host of the meeting is North Carolina State University’s Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources.

The annual meeting features oral and poster presentations, and a local field tour; COFE logoall pertaining to research/technology of forest engineering. The meeting serves as a showcase for innovation, and is a fertile atmosphere for problem-solving and networking. Online registration and payment are available. See the meeting web site for full details: http://www.ncsu-feop.org/COFE/.

COFE is an international organization with the goal of fostering the development of forest engineering in industry, government, and in university teaching, research, and extension programs to promote the best methods of managing and operating forests; to serve the forestry profession on matters of policy in the area of forest engineering; and to disseminate technical information on forest engineering subjects. For more information about COFE, visit: http://www.cofe.org/