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“Economic Analysis of Ecology and Biodiversity”
Hosted by: Department of Land Economy,
The
The conference will have sessions with papers examining the management of biological resources and biological processes as well as two plenary policy sessions chaired by IFPRI and DIVERSITAS respectively on the economic analysis of policies for biodiversity conservation.
Papers may be submitted for presentation within the conference and will be considered by the programme committee. Electronic copies (in WORD or PDF format) should be sent to Dr. Andreas Kontoleon (ak219@cam.ac.uk) no later than
A selection of papers (upon authors’ approval) will be published as a special issue in a peered reviewed Journal or published as an edited book by a major publisher. Papers presented in previous BIOECON conferences have appeared as special issues in Land Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and Environment and Development Economics as well as in an edited volume published by Cambridge University Press.
Conference sessions will commence on the morning of the 29th and conclude on the afternoon of the 30th of August. Accommodation for all participants will be organised within
The hosts will cover all conference costs (except travel) for paper presenters and discussants (two nights accommodation on the 28th and 29th of August at
be a £250 registration fee for all other participants that will include two nights lodging at
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GIS FOR POLICY & DECISION-MAKERS IN CONSERVATION!
June 14-15, 2006 at Smithsonian's Conservation & Research Center in
Front Royal, VA
Registration Deadline: May 28, 2006
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Researchers at Smithsonian's National Zoo have developed a new training
course tailored to the needs of senior staff working in leading
positions in local, state, and national government or in environmental
organizations. CEOs, policymakers and decision-makers often rely on
maps and spatial data created with Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
for their analysis and decision making. While leaders don't have to be
GIS specialists, they do need a good understanding of the strengths and
limitations of the technology and what it can do for their respective
agencies or organizations.
Our course allows policy- and decision-makers to:
* gain a comprehensive overview of the current state of GIS, satellite
and aerial monitoring technology;
* learn how these basic but powerful tools allow us to address resource
issues across different scales ranging from local to global;
* understand basic mapping and GIS concepts required to read GIS data
correctly;
* learn how to ask the "right" questions with GIS to get the most out of
these tools;
* find out how maps can lie, and how to avoid being fooled by "lying"
maps;
* learn about the strengths and limitations of these technologies to
assess, monitor, and model resource distribution and use.
TUITION
Tuition for the course is $800, and includes instruction, a training
manual, use of the laboratory and equipment.
FOR INQUIRIES WRITE TO: giscourse@gmail.com or giscourse@si.edu
For more information visit:
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Plenary speakers and discussion groups at the 2006 AIBS Annual Meeting will approach the topic of "Biodiversity: the interplay of science, valuation, and policy" from a variety of cross-cutting themes. In recent years policy makers have increasingly recognized the economic values associated with biodiversity, economists have increasingly found ways to incorporate values associated with biodiversity into economic thinking, and scientists have increasingly documented the variety of services that diverse ecosystems provide. Participants will have the opportunity to explore the diverse linkages among these fields. The rest of the meeting's program is rounded out by events such as a poster session, AIBS awards, and a workshop on media training for biologists.
Sponsored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Geological Survey
Web page: http://www.aibs.org/annual-meeting/annual_meeting_2006.html
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INFO:
The Gold Coast, with its famous beaches and attractions will continue the conference's history of world-class venue settings for bringing together coastal scientists, managers, planners and engineers from around the world to discuss issues and activities relating to the coastal region.
The ICS2007 Organising Committee invites you to submit an abstract using the details found on the ICS2007 WWW site:
http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/eng/ics2007
The ICS2007 proceedings, for papers that satisfy the required criteria, will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Coastal Research. This will be handed out at the conference.
Should you have questions please visit the ICS2007 WWW site and/or contact ICS2007@griffith.edu.au
Yours sincerely,
A/Prof Charles Lemckert
Chair ? ICS2007
Email: ICS2007@griffith.edu.au
Best,
Jorge Brenner
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The deadline for the Science and Practice of Ecology and Society Award is fast approaching. If you are interested in submitting a nominations, please read the text below for details and send your nominations to Dr. Marco Janssen (Marco.Janssen@asu.edu) before July 1st.
THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY AWARD
The Science and Practice of Ecology & Society Award is an annual award given to the individual or organization that is the most effective in bringing transdisciplinary science of the interactions of ecology and society into practice. The year 2006 will be the inauguration of this award. Examples of possible winners include, a high school teacher who develops a special curriculum, a mayor with initiatives and actions for her/his town based on scientific concepts, a journalist who brings scientific insights to a broader audience, or a NGO group who facilitates local knowledge production in rural communities.
The purpose of this award is to recognize the importance of practitioners who translate the scientific findings and insights of the scholarly community to practical applications. We want to identify innovative practitioners so that their story can be an example for others.
The Award
The award consists of 1000 Euro and an article in Ecology and Society devoted to this person or organization. This article will be written by those who send in the nomination.
Who can be nominated?
A person or organization that has succeeded in translating transdisciplinary science theory into practice.
Who nominates?
Any academic scholar or group of academic scholars can nominate a person or organization. An accompanying letter will argue why this person or organization is an exemplary example of the interface of practice and science in the domain of ecology and society.
Where to submit nominations?
The deadline for nominations will be July 1, 2006. Nomination letters can be sent, preferably electronically, to Dr. Marco Janssen, Email: Marco.Janssen@asu.edu. School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Box 872402, Tempe, AZ 85287-2402.
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The latest version of HEXACORALLIANS OF THE WORLD has just been released.
In addition to the continually growing number of occurrence records (nearly
50,000) for sea anemones, scleractinian corals, antipatharians, cerianthids,
and zoanthids, new kinds of data and new tools are now available at
http://geoportal.kgs.ku.edu/hexacoral/anemone2/index.cfm
The KGSMapper tool now has 52 environmental datasets for habitat inference
(all at half-degree resolution, gridded in register); many datasets for
benthic parameters have been added. You can now upload organism occurrence
data to be analyzed by KGSMapper, either separately from data in any database
with which KGSMapper is associated, or in conjunction with data from such a
database. 50% of the locality data can be withheld from an analysis to use to
assess the goodness of the analysis.
A module entitled “Scleractinian Corals and other Hexacorallians of the
Northwestern Hawai'ian Islands†can be found through Hexacorallians of the
World, or accessed directly
(http://geoportal.kgs.ku.edu/hexacoral/hawaii/biodata). On this site, which
focuses on the hexacorals and environment of the Hawai’ian Islands
(including Johnston Atoll), is a version of KGSMapper that has high-resolution
environmental data nested into the half-degree cells. Currently this is
restricted to bathymetric data at 2’ resolution but other datasets are being
prepared.
Information on date of record, museum specimens, habitat, etc. are now
available, and all pages are downloadable as XML. Complete lists of nominal
and valid species of hexacorals are also downloadable.
Please try the new, improved HEXACORALLIANS OF THE WORLD and let us know how
we can make it still better (Daphne Fautin: fautin@ku.edu; Bob Buddemeier:
buddrw@kgs.ku.edu).
Thanks to NBII, OBIS, and Census of Marine Life for funds that have made these
upgrades possible.
Daphne G. Fautin
Professor, University of Kansas
Curator, KU Natural History Museum
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
1200 Sunnyside Drive
Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
http://www.nhm.ku.edu/inverts/
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Best,
Jorge Brenner
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GODAE Symposium on ocean data assimilation and prediction in Asia-Oceania
16-18 October 2006, Beijing, China Website http://ctwf.iap.ac.cn/godae2006/
Introduction
Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) is an international
program that aims to advance ocean data assimilation by synthesizing
satellite and in-situ observations (e.g. from satellite altimeters and ARGO
floats) with state-of-the art models of global ocean circulation. In the
past few years, a suite of GODAE systems have been developed to produce
global and basin-scale ocean analysis and short-term forecasts. GODAE
products are also being used for ecosystem applications and to provide
lateral open boundary conditions for regional and coastal systems. The
specific requirements of these applications are important to the GODAE
product developers as well as to the understanding of the need for
large-scale observational systems. GODAE prediction systems for the
Asia-Oceania region are being actively developed. Capitalizing on these
developments, GODAE is organizing a symposium in Beijing, China to address
key technical issues and to enhance the interaction of GODAE syst em
developers and product users, especially in the Asia and Oceania regions.
Main Topics
1. Observing systems
2. Representation of data and model errors
3. Coastal and regional applications
4. Marine ecosystem
Symposium Structure
The symposium will consist of invited and general oral presentations, poster
presentations, and plenary discussion for each of the four themes described
above.
On-line regestration and abstract submission
http://ctwf.iap.ac.cn/godae2006/
Deadlines
Abstract submission: July 1, 2006.
Abstract acceptance notification: July 30, 2006.
Registration: August 30, 2006.
Jiang Zhu
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THE RAVAGE OF THE PLANET 2006
First International Conference on the Management of Natural Resources,
Sustainable Development and Ecological Hazards
12 - 14 December 2006, Bariloche, Argentina
Dear Colleague
RE: The Ravage of the Planet 2006: Paper Deadline 11 August 2006
This is a short note to remind you that the First International Conference
on the Management of Natural Resources, Sustainable Development and
Ecological Hazards is to take place from 12 - 14 December 2006 in Bariloche,
Argentina. The meeting is organised by Wessex Institute of Technology, UK;
University of Siena, Italy and sponsored by WIT Transactions on Ecology and
the Environment.
I am currently preparing the programme for the conference and do hope that
you can participate. This successful conference has attracted the interest
of many of our colleagues around the world and continues to update the
international scientific community through the subsequent distribution of
the conference book and the permanent archive of selected conference papers
in the Transactions of the Wessex Institute (http://library.witpress.com/).
If you wish to present a paper, I will need to receive your abstract now so
that we can incorporate the work into the conference programme. Please note
that the paper deadline is 11 August 2006, however if you need any
additional time please contact me.
At this stage, I only need a short abstract (200 words or so) plus the title
of the paper and name(s) of the author(s) with affiliation(s) and full
particulars of the corresponding author. Please could you also let me know
which topics the paper will cover (see list below).
For further information about the conference, you can visit:
http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2006/planet2006/3.html
I hope to hear from you shortly.
Yours sincerely
Carlos Brebbia
Conference Director
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CLOSING DATE FOR RECEPTION OF APPLICATIONS -
The
IEB is a recently created research institute (one of three) of the Chilean Millennium Science Initiative (ICM). http://www.mideplan.cl/milenio/icm.htm IEB replaces and expands former CMEB (
1) Palaeoecology and Biogeography
2) Ecosystems Ecology
3) Microevolutionary Processes
4) Conservation and Society / Global Change Impacts.
IEB functions in a network mode and encourages collaborative and comparative research. Its lead scientists are academics at the Universidad de Chile Chile (Santiago), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago), Universidad de La Serena (La Serena), Universidad de Concepción (Concepción) and Universidad de Magallanes (Punta Arenas).
More detailed information on the research foci and the CVs of the lead researchers, including full listing of their scientific publications can be found at www.ieb-chile.cl .
Persons who are interested in applying for a postdoctoral award should:
a) Establish formal contact with an IEB scientist.
b) Send the following materials to: The Fellowship Committtee,
1) Evidence of completion of a Ph.D. in the last three year and at the time of the closure of the competition.
2) CV, including full bibliographic citations of all scientific publications, academic positions held, other experience, any previous postdoctoral awards, current telephone numbers, fax and e-mail.
3) Two letters of recommendation from scientists who are familiar with your work. One letter must be from the candidate's major professor (thesis advisor). The letters should rank the intellect, performance, writing skills, and capacity for collaborative research of the applicant in relation to other peers.
4) One page outline (single-spaced) of your research goals and the questions to be addressed for the period of the fellowship. Include a statement describing how the proposed research fits into the research themes developed at IEB and what products can be expected.
5) A letter from an IEB scientist indicating his/her willingness to host the research.
The deadline for reception of application materials is
Application materials should be sent to:
Fellowship Committee,
For courier packages, use the following street address: Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Las
Palmeras 3425, Ñunoa,
Materials can be sent by e-mail to: ieb@uchile.cl, cc: chenriqu@uchile.cl
For further information, contact, Dr. Mary T. K. Arroyo, Director, IEB, e-mail: southern@abello.dic.uchile.cl , Phone: 56(2) 271-5464
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Closing Date:
UNU-IAS is now accepting applications for its Phd and postdoctoral fellowships beginning in October 2006, as well as the JSPS-UNU postdoctoral fellowships, beginning in November 2006.
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This is the first international workshop dedicated to the analyses of ecosystem services such as water production, carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation, and recreation in the tropical and temperate areas of
Topics related to ecosystem services from forests and other terrestrial and aquatic systems that will be covered are:
· Assessment of services
· Transdisciplinary methods and approaches
· Impacts of climate change and disturbances
· Economic valuation
· Policy and planning
· Education and outreach
· Restoration
· Social and cultural issues.
One of the goals of this workshop will be the creation of a “Latin American Network on Ecosystem Services” to pursue collaboration on research, education, management and outreach on these topics. The network will be open to people from any nationality working in the neotropics.
The event will be organized by FORECOS, a Scientific Nucleus from the “Universidad Austral de Chile” dedicated to research, education and outreach on Forest Ecosystem Services to Aquatic Systems. This Nucleus aims at the development of transdisciplinary research through the integration of various disciplines, forest and aquatic ecology and biogeochemistry, hydrology, stratigraphy, dendroclimatology, silviculture, aquaculture, economics and science communication. FORECOS is part of the Millennium Scientific Initiative funded by the Chilean Ministry of Planning (MIDEPLAN).
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Natural World Heritage Sites (NWHS) represent the world's pre-eminent areas of biodiversity, and their identification and protection are key parts of the global community's responsibility for conservation. When emergencies occur, critical time is often lost organizing and fundraising for a response, during which time precious natural world heritage may be irreparably damaged.
To effectively deal with situations like this, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Fauna & Flora International, and the United Nations Foundation have created the Rapid Response Facility (RRF). The Facility aims to mobilise small grants of US$5,000 - US$30,000 in just three weeks to deal with emergencies and threats affecting Natural World Heritage Sites and their surrounding areas of influence. The RRF will be tested over the next two years, delivering five or six small grants each year, and should ensure that some of the world's most important reserves of biodiversity receive the protection they need.
Sites eligible to apply include all sites inscribed onto the List of World Heritage under criterion N(iv) (before 2005) or criterion (x) (from 2005) as well as nominated sites whose inscription to the List was deferred due to immediate threats to their ecological integrity and, in exceptional circumstances, NWHS sites on the national World HeritageTentative lists.
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Windows Live Academic is now in beta. We currently index content related to computer science, physics, electrical engineering, and related subject areas.
Academic search enables you to search for peer reviewed journal articles contained in journal publisher portals and on the web in locations like citeseer.
Academic search works with libraries and institutions to search and provide access to subscription content for their members. Access restricted resources include subscription services or premium peer-reviewed journals. You may be able to access restricted content through your library or institution.
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We are pleased to inform you that in response to wide interests in marine
biodiversity, and thanks to support of the Network of Excellence MarBEF, the
Institute of Oceanography, University of Gdansk (IO UG), Poland, together
with the Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Centre for Estuarine and Marine
Ecology, Yerseke, the Netherlands, is organising a training course - the
Marine Biology Summer School 2006 - on "Biodiversity and adaptive strategies
of marine biota in European coastal systems",
The Summer School that will be held at the Hel Marine Station, Hel, Poland
in the period July 9-16, 2006.
The Marine Biology Summer School 2006 is dedicated to the adaptation
capacity of marine organisms, and the (subsequent) marine biodiversity at
different organizational levels, going from genetic diversity through
physiological diversity to community diversity, with an emphasis on coastal
zoobenthic organisms and communities. The school is open for under- and
postgraduate students, young researchers and all interested in marine
biodiversity from European countries.
The Network of Excellence MarBEF supports the attendance of students from
the Associated Members with 500 Euro per person for fee, travel and
subsistence, to a maximum of 10 persons. Moreover, the course is endorsed by
MarBEF to facilitate the participation of students from full MarBEF members
who can book the fee, travel and subsistence for this course on their MarBEF
account. More details on the program, venue, logistics, admission, etc. can
be found at the web site: http://www.ocean.univ.gda.pl/bss/.
The school welcomes a maximum of 16 participants, so early enrolment is
encouraged.
The deadline for registration has been extended to May 10, 2006. The
Application Form as a WinWord file is available at the web site.
We would be grateful for your kind help in distributing this message among
students and young researchers in your institutes.
Best wishes,
Adam Sokolowski
Secretary of the MBSS 2006
Phone: + 48 58 660 16 40
Fax: + 48 58 620 21 65
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I hope this is of your interest. Regards,
Jorge Brenner
E-mail: oceas@univ.gda.pl
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A think-tank on: Biodiversity analysis and conservation; Information systems; Coastal and marine research and management; and Strategic knowledge and thinking for sustainability of the Global Coastal - Marine Environment. Take yourself a moment to review, think and COMMENT!
