#Metsätiede2025
Place: Viikki Campus of the University of Helsinki, Forest Sciences’ Building, Latokartanonkaari 7 and remote connection with Zoom
Time: Tuesday 21 October 2025, whole day
Registration to the 2025 Forest Sciences’ Day is open. Deadline registration will be 15 Oct 2025.
This year’s theme is “Forest layers”. Both the forests themselves and humans’ relationships with them are layered in many ways. In the morning, we will have a plenary session, in which the best experts of the topic make reviews on the theme from the viewpoints of forest soils, exchange of greenhouse gases, remote sensing of forests and forest-related decision making.
In the afternoon, the science clubs of the Finnish Society of Forest Science will organise six parallel sessions. Topics of the parallel sessions are:
- Tracing the biological memory of forests (Forest Biology Club)
- Layers of forest economics (Forest Economist Club)
- How do we affect the layering of forests through management? (Silviculture Club)
- The multi-layered complexity of power and agency in human-forest relationships: What does societal transformation bring along? (Human-Forest Relationship Research Club)
- Layers in forest management planning and inventory (Forest Mensuration Club)
- Multi-directional and multi-dimensional wood procurement (Technology Club)
By the end of the afternoon, we all will gather to hear greetings of the excursion to Latvia in August and we will see the movie “Definition of forest”. The day will end with the traditional buffet dinner, during which we expect lively discussions on forest sciences.
The traditional Forest Sciences’ Day of the Finnish Society of Forest Science will be organised this year for the 33rd time. This is the fourth hybrid Forest Sciences’ Day. The event has become the most important gathering of forest scientists and all those interested in scientific knowledge and its application on forests and forestry.
Register at latest 15.10.2025 using this form: https://forms.gle/cSzBHq3aPTg5fszx5