Invitation to participate in a biodiversity conservation meeting

[Wallace, Richard]

Dear GEP-Ed folks:   I write to follow up on my e-mail of earlier this fall, and this time to invite those of you with work that concerns the conservation of biological diversity to consider submitting an abstract for an oral or poster presentation at the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) 2006 annual meeting. I am the vice president of SCB's Social Science Working Group, and we are actively seeking to network with social scientists whose work concerns biodiversity and its conservation. For those of you interested in attending and participating in a meeting of the SCB, I want to reach out to you in the hopes of widening our network of social scientists who are doing applied work within the realm of biodiversity conservation. SCB is an 8,000-member international professional organization. The Social Science Working Group of SCB has more than 600 members (and counting), and has been given a prominent role within the society to promote the integration of the social sciences into the society's goals and workings (much as we believe in the necessity of integrating the social with natural sciences toward the goal of successful conservation).   The meeting details are as follows:   Society for Conservation Biology 20th Annual Meeting - "Conservation Without Borders" Location: San Jose, California, USA Dates: June 24-28, 2006 Meeting website: http://www.conbio.org/2006/   The deadline for abstracts is January 10th. More information on the various formats for proposals is available on the following web site: http://www.conbio.org/2006/Abstractcall.cfm   I am the primary contact at SCB for social scientists and others outside of the traditional conservation biology realm who are interested in participating, so if you are interested or have questions, please contact me. While we don't have financial support to offer (yet, except to students), we are providing other means of assistance, such as networking and editorial, to folks interested in submitting an abstract.   Also, please share this with any interested colleagues.   Finally, if you are interested in learning more about SCB or its Social Science Working Group, even if participating in the meeting is not something you are inclined to do, please contact me.   My apologies for cross-postings or multiple e-mails.   Cheers,   Rich Wallace Vice President and Program Committee Chair Social Science Working Group Society for Conservation Biology and Director, Environmental Studies Program Ursinus College P.O. Box 1000 Collegeville, PA 19426 (610) 409-3730 (610) 409-3660 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED]