Warsaw Agricultural University FACULTY OF FORESTRY Poland

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Warsaw Agricultural University FACULTY OF
FORESTRY Poland
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Faculty of Forestry History of the Faculty
started almost two hundred years ago (1816).
Today this is one of the 11 faculties at Warsaw
Agricultural University, and the oldest and the
biggest school of forestry in Poland.
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The former building of Forestry Faculty
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In 2003 the Faculty was moved to a new campus in
the southern part of Warsaw (Ursynów district).
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Part of teaching is organized in the
Experimental Forest in Rogów (LZD)
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This place was created to fulfill the educational
and research needs of the Faculty
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Staff structure

• There are about 120 people working at the
  Faculty.
• Some 90 of them are university teachers.
• Administrative crew consists of 5 people.

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Teaching activity

• More than 300 students enrolled every year
• Over 1500 students registered
• Reconstruction of study curricula under Bologna
  agreement,
• An extensive PhD programs with more than 60
  participants

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international programs SOCRATES, ERASMUS,
member of the SILVA Network,
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1. Department of Forest Botany 2. Department of
Silviculture 3. Department of Forest Protection
and Ecology 4. Department of Forest Management,
Geomatics and Forest Economics. 5.
Department of Forest Utilization 6. Division of
Dendrometry and Forest Productivity
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Department Head Professor Stefan ZAJACZKOWSKI,
Ph.D., D.Sc. Academic staff consists of 10
scientists.
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• The main areas of research are
• role of phytohormones in xylogenesis,
  rhyzogenesis and senescence, environmental stress
  and water transport
• dynamics of forest plants communities
• introduction, growth and development of foreign
  arborescent plants.

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Department Head Professor Henryk ZYBURA,
Ph.D., D.Sc. There are 12 scientists in academic
staff.
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• The main areas of research
• development of natural stands
• identification of silvicultural aims in managed
  forests
• inter- and intra-populational variability of
  different provenances of both domestic and
  exotic species, assessment of their value in
  silviculture
• improving conditions and production methods for
  planting vegetative and generative trees and
  shrubs
• study on conditions for establishment and
  development of natural regeneration, formation of
  two-storied forest stands.
• plants.

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• Department Head Professor Slawomir MAZUR, Ph.D.,
  D.Sc.
• Twenty scientists work in the Department.
• Their main areas of research are as follow
• influence of forest management and agriculture
  utilization on composition and structure of
  faunal and epigeal soil inhabitants
• ecological effects of forest fires and
  chemicalization of the forest environment
• monitoring changes in forest ecosystems
• biology, ecology, economics importance and
  taxonomy of insects, spiders, birds and mammals

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- the role of fungi in wood decay- diseases of
forest trees caused by air pollution and climate
change- biodiversity of fungi and its
protection- introduction of biological and
chemical methods of forest protection-
influence of selective forest protection agents
on insect communities- the impact of herbivores
on forest vegetation- modeling of wildlife
management.
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Department of Forest Management, Geomatics and
Forest Economics.
Department Head Professor Edward STEPIEN, Ph.D.,
D.Sc. It is the biggest Department at the
Faculty, with 24 scientific workers.

• The main area of research
• integrated forest inventory systems for the
  purposes of complex assesment of forest
  condition, valuation, classification and
  management of multifunctional forest
• methods of organizing time and space in
  sustainable forest management (state, private,
  protected and municipal forests)

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• methods of collection, processing and accessing
  spatial information for the purposes of forestry,
  environmental protection and landscape planning
• the role of forestry in regional development
• the economic value of forest and their products
• incorporating non-timber products into forest
  accounting.

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Department of Forest Utilization
Department Head Professor Piotr PASCHALIS,
Ph.D., D.Sc. At this Department we have 14
scientific workers.
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Department of Forest Utilization

• The main area of research looks like
• organizational and technological processes of
  timber harvesting
• harvesting of raw material and by-products
• evaluation of different systems of harvesting
  worldwide
• developing forest infrastructure
• ergonomic analysis combined with forest
  technology
• non-wood forest products and services
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Division of Dendrometry and Forest Productivity

• Division Head Professor Arkadiusz BRUCHWALD,
  Ph.D., D.Sc.
• Six scientific workers belong to this unit.
• Their main area of research
• - development and implementing the forest growth
  models
• study on influence of different factors and
  silvicultural measures on the total production
  and growth
• assessing and improving methods of volume and
  increment determination.

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DEANS BOARD
The Faculty Dean Professor Heronim
OLENDEREK Ph.D., D.Sc.
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DEANS BOARD
Vice Deans Henryk ZYBURA, Ph.D.,
D.Sc. Scientific Affairs - Justyna
NOWAKOWSKA, Ph.D. Students Affairs
- Michal ZASADA, Ph.D. Students Affairs
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