Other Conference Announcements
Metal fluxes and their stress on terrestrial ecosystems
15th - 20th October 2005
Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland
This meeting aims to bring different disciplines together to communicate and discuss recent developments in the ecology of heavy-metal-stressed terrestrial ecosystems, especially in urbanized and forested areas, where toxic levels have been reached in many cultivated / non-cultivated soils due to anthropogeneous activities in the recent past.
Sessions:
1) Availability of heavy metals;
2) Promoted or impeded heavy metal flux by abiotic environmental
and biotic
factors;
3) Pathway through the cell wall from the root tips to aboveground
compartments;
4) 'From Cell to Tree' http://www.wsl.ch/forest/wus/bioindic/zb/fzb-de
5) Metal exposure to biotical defence reactions;
6) Community consequences;
7) Phytoremediaton; working group summaries.
Conference web site: http://www.waldschutz.ch/bioindic/monte_verita/
EMAN 10TH National
Science Meeting
December 1-3, 2004
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Announcement and Call for Papers and Posters EMAN 10TH National Science Meeting
The theme of this year's Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network National Science Meeting will be "Monitoring and Evaluating Sustainability in Communities, Cities and Watersheds".
Papers are sought in a number of areas related to the monitoring and management of ecological sustainability in communities, cities and urban watersheds/landscapes/seascapes including but not limited to:
- Defining, monitoring and evaluating ecological sustainability
- Optimizing and monitoring ecosystem functions, services and resilience
- Developing and supporting management goals
- Improving the effectiveness of environmental information including Mapping and Indicators
- Providing feedback for community management, evaluation and reporting * Community based monitoring and decision-making in urban areas
- Place-based data integration, presentation and delivery
- Reference sites, thresholds and standards
- Experiences in watershed management from Ecosystem Initiative
- Responding to the information needs of Northern and Aboriginal communities
- The role of Social Capital as a catalyst.
As it is the 10th anniversary of EMAN, we also welcome historical reviews of sites, networks, agencies, organization or disciplines which we propose to organize into a special session on trends in Canadian environmental monitoring and assessment.
Proposals for 20 minute papers including 5 minutes of discussion are requested by July 15, 2004. Please forward your proposals to eman@ec.gc.ca or contact Kathy Finch at 905 336 4414.
As always, we will provide the opportunity for partners to showcase their recent results as presentations or posters and consult partners on network directions and priorities. In addition, we will organize a workshop to consult and provide tools to local community groups and will provide training and side-meetings in response to demand.
This National Science meeting will continue directions and themes developed in recent meetings:
- "Delivering Ecological Science to Society: influencing and informing governance, policy, adaptation and decision-making" (November 2003 in Halifax)
- "Enhancing the Effectiveness of Ecological Monitoring" (April 2002 in Ottawa-Hull); and
- "Accessing, Merging and Sharing Ecological Data and Information" (May 2001 in Calgary
Plan now to attend!