ECCB 2006 Congress - Training Courses

The 1st European Congress of Conservation Biology offers a wide range of field tours from morning bird-walk and night bat watching to week-long birding holiday and Central European sightseeing. Please visit the website for details (www.eccb2006.org).

In addition to ECCB 2006 Congress, organisers also offer training courses.

Four congress training courses will be offered on 22 August 2006. Training runs from 9 am until 5 pm on the scheduled day.

Training Course 1.
Systematic conservation planning: concepts & techniques, applications & challenges

TEACHERS
Dr Bob Pressey & Dr Kerrie Wilson
The Ecology Centre
University of Queensland
Australia

Training Course 2.
Population Modeling and PVA

TEACHER
Dr. Resit Akcakaya
Applied Biomathematics
USA

Training Course 3.
Taking the pain out of writing scientific papers

TEACHERS
Gábor Lövei, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences
Rob Marrs, Editor-in-Chief of Biological Conservation, University of Liverpool

Training Course 4.
From Linear Models to NonLinear Mixed Models in R

TEACHER
Andrea Harnos, Szent István University, Budapest

NOTE! Since the courses will start in the morning on 22 August, guest are required either to arrive at Budapest on 20 August and take the transfer bus on 21 August from Budapest to Eger or to arrive at Eger directly on 21 August 2006.

All training courses are optional and will run in parallel.
The registration fee for the courses is Euro 60.
Advance registration is required. Due to the limited space availibilities, we recommend making reservation as early as possible.

The list of 17 symposia, and the 4 student training courses are also on the website with many other information.

Please note that the DEADLINE OF ABSTRACT SUBMISSION is 22 February.

Hope to see you in Eger.

Best regards,

Zsofia Krutak

Zsofia KRUTAK
Altagra Szervezo és Utazasi Iroda Kft.
Altagra Business Services
H-2100 Godollo, Isaszegi ut Pf. 417 HUNGARY
www.altagra.hu
Congress Secretariat of ECCB 2006 Congress
www.eccb2006.org

I hope this is of your interest. Regards,

Jorge Brenner