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2002 ANNUAL MEETING: CALL FOR SYMPOSIUM, WORKSHOP, AND DISCUSSION PROPOSALS

The scientific committee for SCB's 2002 annual meeting invites proposals for symposia. There will be opportunities for both 2-hour and 3.5 hour symposia. Presentations will be in multiples of 15 minutes so that the timing of symposia will be coordinated with the contributed paper sessions. Symposia will either be related to the meeting theme, People and Conservation, or address newly emerging topics or significant syntheses that differ from those considered at recent SCB symposia. Recent symposia (topics to avoid repeating) are listed below.

The meeting's theme reflects two key interests. First, much conservation in Britain has to be achieved in highly human-modified habitats; this is one of the reasons why the British Ecological Society, with its distinguished history of contribution to conservation biology, is co-hosting the meeting. Second, the mission of the meeting's host, the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), is to integrate international conservation and development sustainably by combining natural and social sciences in designing measures to help conserve biological diversity. All symposium organizers and speakers must be registered for the meeting.

Proposals should be as brief as possible and include (1) a one-page outline, including the title, whether 2 or 3.5 hours, goal or purpose, and an explanation of why the topic is appropriate and significant for an SCB/BES co-hosted symposium, (2) tentative list of speakers, presentation titles, and whether they have agreed to participate, and (3) complete contact information for the organizers.

Proposals for workshops and organized discussions are also invited. Workshops facilitate presentations and applications of new concepts or methods. Discussions allow audience participation for exploration of new or controversial issues. Proposals for workshops and discussions should be as brief as possible and include the following: (1) a one-page synopsis composed of a title, goal or purpose, and justification, (2) organizational structure including format, duration, expected number of participants, and preferred date and time, and (3) contact information for the organizers. Dates and times should be structured to have minimal conflict with paper sessions (evenings, days immediately before or after the meeting, and lunches are preferred). All workshop and discussion organizers must be registered for the meeting.

All proposals should be submitted by 15 October 2001 to Andrew Pullin, a.s.pullin@bham.ac.uk. The local organizing committee will complete the selection of symposia, workshops, and discussions for inclusion at this meeting by 15 November 2001. Proposal authors will be notified of the committee's decision as soon as possible so that organizers can acquire any necessary funding for their symposium. The deadline to submit abstracts for the meeting will be 31 January and the deadline for author registration will be 28 April.

For more information about symposia, workshops, or discussions, contact Andrew Pullin, a.s.pullin@bham.ac.uk. For other information contact Nigel Leader-Williams, scb2002@ukc.ac.uk, or visit the meeting web site, www.ukc.ac.uk/anthropology/dice/scb2002/.

Symposia from recent SCB annual meetings

1999 -- College Park, Maryland

• Integrating research into policy
• Biodiversity conservation and foreign policy
• Academics and managers: bridging the gap for conservation biology
• The theory and practice of reproduction in small populations
• Integrating preservation policies for rural and urban environments
• Regional-scale conservation planning
• The impact of scale on ecological management

• Spatial ecology and conservation
• Applying landscape ecology in biological conservation
• Conservation units and multi-scale conservation planning
• Regional assessments of aquatic biodiversity: identifying and evaluating targets, setting goals, and selecting sites
• The role of top predators in ecological communities and biological conservation
• Synergistic effects in fragmented landscapes
• Conservation medicine: the ecological context of health
• Evolutionary ecology of Pacific salmon: lessons from an exercise in applied conservation biology

• Sustaining island ecosystems: can it be achieved in Hawaii?
• Removal of exotic animals from islands in the Americas
• Population biology of invasive species
• Perspectives in conservation genetics: novel approaches to old issues in conservation biology
• Conservation research in tropical island stream systems: importance of a watershed perspective
• Island paleoecology: draining the past to irrigate the future
• The application of top predator distribution to the design and efficacy of marine reserves

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