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2004 ANNUAL MEETING--NEW YORK CITY, 30 JULY - 2 AUGUST - CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR SYMPOSIA, WORKSHOPS, AND ORGANIZED DISCUSSIONS

The 18th Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology will be held at Columbia University's Morningside campus in New York City, New York, USA from 30 July - 2 August 2004. The meeting will be hosted by the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC), a consortium of five New York City research and education organizations: Columbia University, the American Museum of Natural History, New York Botanical Garden, Wildlife Conservation Society, and Wildlife Trust.

The theme of the 2004 meeting is Conservation in an Urbanizing World. 2003 marks the first year in which more of the world's population lives in urban settings than in non-urban settings. The urbanization process has resulted in significant conservation challenges in cities as well as in suburban and ex-urban settings. It also has changed local, regional, and global patterns of consumption and trade. Conservation biology must begin to turn more of its attention to the challenges of conservation in the urbanizing world.

Field trips to several sites in the New York City region will be organized, including

• A land and sea tour of the Gateway National Seashore. The Seashore includes Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, where about 25-30% of all bird species in the United States spend some part of the year.
• Visits to New York area parks and recreational areas, where attendees will be able to see ecological restoration projects and species reintroduction programs.
• A visit to Black Rock Forest to learn about long-term forest monitoring and the impacts of invasive species.
• A visit to Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University's campus on the Hudson River.
• Visits to each of the CERC partner organizations.

Symposia

There will be opportunities for both 2-hour and 3.5-hour symposia. Symposium presentations will be in multiples of 15 minutes so that the timing of the symposia will be coordinated with the contributed paper sessions. Symposia will either be related to the meeting theme or address newly emerging topics or significant syntheses. Symposium proposals should differ from those addressed at recent SCB annual meetings (see below for a list of recent symposia).

Proposals should be as brief as possible and include the following explicit headings:

1. Symposium title
   
2. Organizer(s) and complete contact information
   
3. Length (2 or 3.5 hours)
   
4. Justification of theme (why the topic is appropriate and significant for presentation at the 2004 meeting)
   
5. A tentative list of speakers, presentation titles, and whether they have agreed to participate

Workshops and discussions

Workshops facilitate the presentation and application of new concepts or methods. Discussions allow audience participation for exploration of new or controversial issues. Proposals must include the following:

1. Workshop or discussion title (specify whether workshop or discussion)
   
2. Organizer(s) and complete contact information
   
3. Length and location in schedule (lunch, evening, pre-meeting)
   
4. Justification of theme (why the topic is appropriate and significant for presentation at the 2004 meeting)
   
5. Format of workshop or discussion
   
6. Expected number of participants

Dates and times of workshops and organized discussions 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 must be submitted by 31 October 2003 to 2004@conservationbiology.org. The local organizing committee will complete the selection of symposia, workshops, and organized discussions for inclusion at the 2004 meeting by 1 December 2003. 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 Call for Abstracts will be published in September 2003. For more information contact 2004@conservationbiology.org or visit the meeting website, cerc.columbia.edu/scb2004.

Symposia from recent SCB annual meetings

2001--Hilo, Hawaii, USA

• 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

• Integrating people and conservation
• Direct payments as an alternative approach to conservation investment
• Gerald Durrell's legacy: managing species in human-modified landscapes
• Mitigating unsustainable hunting and the bushmeat trade in tropical forest countries: using science to change practices
• Approaches to conserving exploited species in marine and terrestrial ecosystems
• Sustained use and conservation of wild plants: building on traditional knowledge at the local people and protected area interface
• Conservation planning for the Cape Floristic Region
• Cultural landscapes and land-use: the conservation-society interface
• Ecological networks: carnivores, cores, and approaches for protecting wildlands
• Human-carnivore conflict: local solutions with global applications
• Living with wildlife in Africa: conservation challenges and opportunities
• Protected areas, conservation, and people within a rural society: case studies from Myanmar
• The future of biodiversity in Britain's agricultural landscape
• Global amphibian declines: is current research meeting conservation needs?
• Climate change and biodiversity: what are the solutions?
• Toward evidence-based conservation practice: a policy framework for co-ordinating science and practice

• Conservation in a warmer world: Great Lakes ecosystems, climate change and the need for new approaches for ecosystem protection
• The interface of land-use planning and biodiversity protection
• Maintaining connections for nature: the importance of connectivity for conservation
• Human interaction with aquatic systems: how knowledge of aquatic systems impacts individual and institutional action
• The future of conservation biology in Austral and Neotropical America
• Values, ecology and management: integrating biodiversity and Great Lakes fisheries management
• Reversing the paradigm: science-based conservation planning in the boreal forest
• Freshwater biodiversity conservation: from priorities to action
• Protecting moving targets: integrating movement ecology and conservation practice
• Coastal wetland vegetation as a harbinger of environmental change
• Community involvement in crane and ecosystem conservation on three continents
• Comparing marine and terrestrial ecosystems: implications for conservation theory and practice
• Education in conservation biology: translating education into practice
• Conservation planning for wide-ranging species
• Marine reserves: a global perspective

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