The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is the premier award for recognizing outstanding contributions in the fields of environmental science, environmental protection, energy and environmental health.
Since its inception we have honored fifty-nine individuals and four corporations with the Tyler Prize and through their work, the Tyler Laureates have focused worldwide attention on environmental problems by their discoveries and the solutions that have resulted from these discoveries. The award consists of a gold medallion and a US $200,000 cash prize.
The 2008 Tyler Prize was awarded to Professor Harold A. Mooney, Stanford University and Professor James N. Galloway, University of Virginia for their contributions to earth system science through their research on local and global biogeochemical processes as modified by human impact, and alerting the international community to the environmental consequences of these modifications.
The Tyler Prize Committee would like to extend an invitation to you to submit a nomination for the 2009 Tyler Prize. The requirements for nominations can be found on our website at: http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/tylerprize/nominate.html.
The deadline for this year's nomination process is September 15, 2008. The recipients of the 2009 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement will be announced in April 2009.
For more information on the Tyler Prize please visit our web site at:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/tylerprize/
In the meantime, if you would like to receive nomination materials or suggest a potential candidate, please contact the Tyler Prize office at 213-740-9760 or tylerprz@usc.edu or contact me directly at duguay@usc.edu.
Thank you very much for giving this letter your careful consideration.
Sincerely,
Linda E. Duguay, Ph.D., Executive Director
ESA Presents Faculty Development Workshop:
"Using Continental-scale Data to Teach Undergraduate Ecology"
Funded by the National Science Foundation
Bring cutting edge science into your undergraduate classroom! Explore how large-volume data collected at large temporal and spatial scales can be incorporated into the undergraduate curriculum. Workshop ideas will inform the development of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) cyberinfrastructure.
Apply Online today!
Applications will be accepted until July 7.
Plan now to attend the 6th Annual "Genes in Ecology, Ecology in Genes" Symposium on November 14, 15, & 16, 2008, in Kansas City. We will convene in the Intercontinental Hotel on the beautiful Country Club Plaza on Friday at 6:00 p.m. and conclude on Sunday at noon.
Ecological Genomics is a field at the interface of ecology, evolution and genomics that seeks to place the functional significance of genes and genomics into an ecological and evolutionary context. Featured speakers for the 2008 Symposium include the following:
A poster session will be held on Friday night and Saturday. Poster topics should be related to the field of Ecological Genomics. A limited number of submitted poster abstracts will be selected for oral presentations.
Information will be posted on our website, www.ecogen.ksu.edu, as details are finalized. Please share this announcement with colleagues and students who are interested in learning more about the field of Ecological Genomics. If you have questions, please contact us at (785) 532-3482 or ecogen@ksu.edu.
We are pleased to announce a 2-day conference designed to stimulate conversation between evolutionary ecologists and applied scientists that study weed adaptation to the agricultural system. The goal is to foster new, integrative thinking about the process of weed domestication to agriculture and the evolution of 'weediness.'
Topics include: Weed adaptation to the agricultural system, transgene movement from crops to wild species, parasitic weeds, weed shifts and weedy species of future interest
We will be hosting presentations from the following speakers as well as a poster session for registrants. There will be a poster abstract competition for graduate students and post-docs with the award being $500 travel/housing relief. See the website for details.
This conference will be held at the University of Georgia in the Georgia Center. For registration and more information, please see:
http://www.plantbio.uga.edu/weeds/
Gordon Research Seminar in Ecology for Graduate Students and Post-docs.
This message is to bring to your attention a Graduate Research Seminar (GRS) this July (5th and 6th) in conjunction with the Gordon Research Conference (GRC), Metabolic Basis of Ecology (July 6th-11th). This year’s conference looks to be outstanding; a list of speakers can be found at:
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2008&program=metbasis
The purpose of the GRS is to facilitate interaction among graduate students and postdocs the weekend prior to the GRC. Also, given the high caliber of many of the GRC conferees, grad student and postdoc involvement has been limited in the past. A key goal of the GRS is to prepare young scientists for greater participation during the GRC.
Eight grad students and/or postdocs will give talks during that weekend on topics ranging from dynamics at the cellular, organismal, and population levels to the flow of energy and materials in communities and landscapes in a format identical to the GRC.
More information can be found here:
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2008&program=grad_metab
Funds are available to support registration and travel.
Space and funds are limited. There is room for only 35.
Application Deadline: June 14th
We look forward to meeting you in beautiful Maine this summer!
Sincerely,
Puni Jeyasingh & Chuck Price
ISEPEP arose by the amalgamation of two previous series of meetings: the International Symposium on the Cold Hardiness of Animals and Plants and the European Workshop on Invertebrate Ecophysiology. The idea was to cover the environmental physiology of invertebrates, plants and vertebrate ectotherms (fish, amphibians, reptiles). ISEPEP1 was held at the University of Roskilde, Denmark in 2005 and attracted 90 participants from 14 countries. ISEPEP2 was held in Dunedin, New Zealand.
ISEPEP is the only meeting focused on the environmental physiology of these groups and has the potential to attract an interesting and cohesive group of researchers who work in these areas.
For more information, see: http://www.nias.affrc.go.jp/anhydrobiosis/isepep3/
This is a call for papers and posters for the 6th International Conference on the Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques to Ecological Studies. The IsoEcol VI conference will take place in Honolulu, Hawaii, from August 25-29, 2008.
The aim of this conference is to assemble an international group of isotope scientists engaged in ecological research, share ideas and state-of-the-art science, identify gaps in our knowledge in the field of ecology, and determine where future stable isotope research and interdisciplinary efforts could be best applied. Previous ISOECOL meetings have been very successful in meeting these goals. For the 2008 IsoEcol conference, our goals will be accomplished through oral and poster presentations and, informally, through discussions and debate during organized social events. The conference will begin on August 24th with an opening mixer at the Waikiki Aquarium, located on the shores of Waikiki beach, which should provide an excellent start to meeting our conference goals. We are pleased to announce that our two keynote speakers are Drs. Gabriel Bowen (Purdue Univ.) and Simon Jennings (CEFAS). Dr. Gabe Bowen will provide a synthesis of exciting frontiers in ecological isoscapes and a review of the important information generated from the Isoscapes 2008 conference. Dr. Simon Jennings will present a talk titled ‘Marine food web ecology: insights from stable isotopes’, which will review his research on the impacts of fishing and environmental change on the structure and function of marine communities and ecosystems.
Registration and abstract submission are available online. The abstract deadline is May 15, 2008. The early registration fee will continue until April 20, 2008. Students can apply for one of several student registration waivers. The application is located at the end of the abstract form, and should be submitted with the abstract and before the May 15th deadline. Students who receive the registration waiver and who have already registered for the conference will receive a registration refund.
All IsoEcol VI Conference details, including online registration, abstract submission, and accommodations (book early!) can be found at: http://www.isoecol.org/ If you have any questions about the meeting please contact the organizing committee at isoecol5@hawaii.edu Aloha and a hui hou, IsoEcol VI Organizing Committee
We would like to bring to your attention a Graduate Research Seminar (GRS) this July (5th and 6th) in conjunction with the Gordon Research Conference (GRC), Metabolic Basis of Ecology (July 6th-11th). This year’s conference looks to be outstanding; see the list of speakers.
The purpose of the GRS is to facilitate interaction among graduate students and postdocs the weekend prior to the GRC. Also, given the high caliber of many of the GRC conferees, grad student and postdoc involvement has been limited in the past. A key goal of the GRS is to prepare young scientists for greater participation during the GRC.
Eight grad students and/or postdocs will give talks during that weekend on topics ranging from dynamics at the cellular, organismal, and population levels to the flow of energy and materials in communities and landscapes in a format identical to the GRC.
Prepare 200-word abstracts and apply before April 1st 2008 to be considered for the eight speaker slots.
We have funds to partly defray the GRS registration fees. Moreover, if you also register to stay on for the main GRC-Metabolic Basis Of Ecology we can partly defray your travel expenses.
Space and funds are limited – apply now! There is room for only 35! We look forward to meeting you in beautiful Maine this summer!
Sincerely,
Puni Jeyasingh & Chuck Price
Submission Deadline for Contributed Oral and Poster Abstracts: February 28, 2008
You are invited to submit an abstract for a Contributed Oral or Poster presentation at the 93rd ESA Annual Meeting. The meeting will be held August 3-8, 2008, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Midwest Airlines Center.
Abstracts that address the meeting theme, “Enhancing Ecological Thought by Linking Research and Education”, are especially encouraged, but submissions may address any aspect of ecology and its applications. We also welcome submissions reporting interdisciplinary work, that address communication with broad audiences, or that explore ways of teaching ecology at any level.
Please note that invited speakers for Symposia and Organized Oral Sessions should NOT submit their abstracts until they receive specific instructions by email.
Information regarding the criteria, the submission process, and the cancellation policy are included in the Call for Abstracts. Please adhere to these guidelines closely.
If you have any questions, please contact the ESA Program Chair, Louis Gross (gross@tiem.utk.edu), or the Program Assistant, Aleta Wiley (aleta@esa.org).
Organized by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) and the Botanic Garden of the Delft University of Technology. Abstracts for oral presentations must be electronically submitted by 15 February 2008; abstracts for poster presentations are due 1 March 2008. Everyone is welcome to submit an abstract.
Themes:
Access conference information at http://botanicalresearch2008.bt.tudelft.nl/
A two-day conference on the Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Pollinator Interactions will be held on August 2-3, 2008, immediately prior to the Ecological Society of America Meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
The goal of this conference is to highlight the most exciting recent advances in community and evolutionary pollination biology, and foster interaction among pollination biologists. We aim to encourage a unified framework to the study of community and evolutionary approaches, and to draw attention to largely unexplored questions at the intersection of these disciplines. This two-day conference will feature 23 speakers from five continents, as well as a poster session.
Conference speakers and topics have been selected to complement, rather than repeat, the major themes covered at the 2007 International Pollinator Symposium. The 30 minute symposium presentations will be scheduled throughout the day on Saturday, August 2 and Sunday, August 3. To promote interaction between symposium speakers and participants, there are planned breaks with time for discussion as well as a two-hour poster session and reception on the evening of Saturday, August 2. The poster session will provide an outstanding opportunity for pollination ecologists at all levels to share ideas. We encourage all conference attendees to present a poster. Note that individuals presenting a talk or poster in this Pollination Conference are also welcome to present a contributed paper or poster (even the same poster) at the Ecological Society of America meeting.
For more information, see: http://www3.uakron.edu/biology/pollination/
Aquatic and riparian ecosystems are fragile environments rich in biodiversity. They are threatened by impacts related to a variety of land-water interactions. Degradation of terrestrial environments adjacent to freshwater ecosystems can adversely impact aquatic habitats and associated biological communities through many mechanisms. Understanding the mechanisms driving losses in aquatic and riparian biodiversity is important to the conservation and restoration of these environments worldwide. This symposium will address the effects of agricultural production on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems and their resident biodiversity, and management practices and alternatives that preserve it.
We will convene an international symposium at the 2008 Joint Meetings of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Herpetologists League, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, American Elasmobranch Society) in Montreal, drawing on scientists who conduct research on the impacts and mitigation of agricultural practices on aquatic and riparian ecosystems in North American. We expect to publish the proceedings as an on-line publication that will attract the attention not only of professional scientists but also of public and private officials with a stake in the issues discussed.
Format: Two half-day sessions to be scheduled in the mornings with additional presentations suggested for contributed papers and poster sessions scheduled in the afternoons.
Symposium Chair and Principal Contact:
Frank H. McCormick (fmccormick@fs.fed.us, 360 753 7667)
Co-Chairs: Alan Savitzky, Gerald Smith, Krista McCoy.
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