PEAT NEWS
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3/2014
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areas, Professor Markku Yli-Halla, University of Helsinki
Yrjö Pessi’s jubilee speech
If you wish to participate, please contact Reijo Heikkilä by 30 April 2014; raheikkila (at) gmail.com or by calling +358
50 526 0395. More information can also be found at www.suoseura.fi. (Leila Korpela, Suoseura)
Successful Peloid Congress in Bad Bayersoien, Germany
The beautiful and friendly Park Hotel Bayersoien in Germany was a fine place for the interesting Peloid Congress
during 21 -22 March 2014. Altogether about 50 participants were present. Dr Leena Larva, Chair of IPS Commission VI
on Peat balneology, medicine and therapeutics, congratulated Professor André-Michael Beer and his colleagues for
their great efforts to organise this meeting. Many of us know that peat is not only important for energy, agriculture
and climate. It helps in health promotion too. From a scientific point of view, it is not enough that people are happy
with the treatment, but notice that they look better after having peat cures. A lot of academic work is needed to show
the effectiveness of peat therapy to the other medical doctors. (Leena Larva, MD Gynecologist, Aino Klinikat)
Siberian Peat Resources Conference in Tomsk
An International conference «Problems of studying and use of Siberian peat resources» will be held in Tomsk, Russia,
18 - 21 August 2014 (note: shortly before the IPS Annual Meetings!). Topics to be discussed include genesis,
investigation and peat resources, physical and chemical characteristics of peat, peat in energy, peat and agriculture,
application of peat in medicine, composite materials on the basis of peat, wise use of peat resources, nature
protection aspects in production and application of peat, environmental impacts of peat production, modern
technologies in studying and development of peat, and mire ecology, and mire conservation. One-day field trips to
Siberian peatlands will head to the Temnoe and the Vasyugan mires. Deadline for abstract submission is 1 May 2014.
Please contact ltetomsk (at) yandex.ru or the Siberian Scientific Research Institute of Agriculture and Peat, Anna
Sinyutkina, phone: +7 382 2527541, 533390, +7 929 371 5297. More information: www.sibniit.tomsknet.ru.
Bioenergy from Forest Conference in Helsinki
The Bioenergy from Forest Conference will be held in Helsinki, Finland from 15 - 18 September 2014, at the Marina
Congress Center. The Conference will focus on the factors affecting the future of the bioenergy and biobased modern
technologies and business solutions, including logistic systems, management, total procurement chains, the effects of
the energy markets, the influence of green marketing and other trends affecting forestr 䰁