| 17th September 2004 | Jacki Schirmer
Australian National University Forestry | Socio-economic impact assessment: approaches to improving best practice and methods of assessing the impacts of the forest sector |
| 1st October 2004 | Iwona Skrzecz
Forest Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland | Hylobius abietis management in poland- practice and research |
| 29th October 2004 | Colin Campbell
Macauley Institute, Aberdeen | The relevance of soil microbial diversity to ecosystem functioning of Native woodlands |
| 5th November 2004 | Eric Casella
Biometrics, Surveys and Statistics Division, Forest Research, Farnham | Leaf expansion stage rather than irradiance drives the intra-canopy gradients of leaf nitrogen in two fast-growing Populus clones |
| 19th November 2004 | Marla Emery
USDA Forest Service, Burlington, Vermont | Non-timber forest product (NTFP) gatherers and gathering in the eastern US: Implications for policy and management |
| 3rd December | Richard Ennos
Institute for Ecology and Resource Management, Edinburgh University | Genetic behaviour of fragmented tree populations - Implications for forest restoration |
| 14th January 2005 | Amy Eycott
Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, UEA | Seed dispersal and herbivory in managed forest landscapes: impacts on plant regional population dynamics and biodiversity |
| 4th February 2005 | Fintan Bracken
Department of Zoology, University College Dublin | The diversity of birds and butterflies in Irish lowland landscapes with special reference to the effects of set-aside management on birds in the breeding season |
| 8th April 2005 | Mark Jarvis
Environmental Agricultural & Analytical Chemistry, Glasgow University | The Relationship between Wood Structure and Mechanical Performance |
| 22nd April 2005 | Douglas Godbold
School of Agricultural and Forest sciences,University of Wales, Bangor | Fine root dynamics and C sequestration |
| 1st July 2005 | Sven-Olof Lundqvist
Swedish Pulp and Paper Research Institute | Wood and Fibre Properties in Forest Resources - Measurements and models for better knowledge and improved industrial raw material |