Proposal for the University of Washington to Join the I/UCRC Center for Advanced Forest Systems (CAFS)

华盛顿大学布里格斯华盛顿大学（UW）计划加入现有的多所大学产学研合作研究中心（I/UCRC），名为“先进林业系统中心”（CAFS），该中心于2007年成立，有四个成员机构：北卡罗莱纳州立大学（领导大学）、俄勒冈州立大学、普渡大学和弗吉尼亚理工大学的专业知识和拟议项目将扩大和补充管理种植园场地资源的领域；利用遥感测量和监测其生长、产量和质量响应；发展改良的生长、产量和木材质量预测模型；完善景观级决策支持系统。华盛顿大学拟议的活动将扩大目前中非合作中心的项目，并将更充分地满足科学和技术进步的需要，以提高美国林业部门的竞争力。西澳大学的努力有可能通过应用研究和加强机构合作来解决关键问题，从而提高林产品工业的竞争力。会员将受益于对更广泛的技术能力的了解。技术转让将通过成员学术机构的科学家、林业部门成员、审稿出版物和在科学会议上的发言以及培训研究生和本科生之间的直接相互作用来促进。将在代表性不足的群体中积极招聘研究生，增加学术界和工业界劳动力的多样性。促进多样性的活动是华盛顿大学增加多样性的整体承诺和计划的一部分。

IIP 0855690University of WashingtonBriggsUniversity of Washington (UW) is planning to join the existing multi-university Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) entitled "The Center for Advanced Forestry Systems" (CAFS) which was established in 2007 with four member institutions: North Carolina State University (lead university), Oregon State University, Purdue University and Virginia Tech. UW expertise and proposed projects will expand and complement the areas of managing plantation site resources; measuring and monitoring their growth, yield and quality response with remote sensing; developing improved growth and yield and wood quality prediction models; and improving landscape-level decision support systems. The proposed activities at UW will augment current CAFS projects, and will more fully address the needs for scientific and technological advances for enhancing the competitiveness of the US forestry sector. The effort at UW has the potential to improve the competitiveness of the forest products industry by solving key problems using applied research and enhanced institutional collaboration. Members will benefit by becoming knowledgeable about a wider range of technological capabilities. Technology transfer will be facilitated by direct interactions between the scientist of member academic institutions forest sector members, refereed publications and presentations at scientific meetings, and training of graduate and under-graduate students. Aggressive recruiting for graduate students among under-represented groups will be conducted, increasing the diversity of the workforce for both academia and industry. The diversity promoting activities are part of the UW's overall commitment to and plan for increasing diversity.