Dear Gep-Ed folks:
I write to invite those of you with work that concerns the
conservation of biological diversity to consider participating in a meeting of
the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB). I am the vice president of SCB's
Social Science Working Group, and we are actively seeking to network with social
scientists who are either already SCB members or who are not SCB members but
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 550 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
Website: http://www.conbio.org/2006/
There are two relevant deadlines for folks interested in
participating formally. The first, for symposia, workshops, and organized
discussions, is Oct.15th. The second, for individual papers, is January
10th. More information on the various formats for proposals is
available on the web site. I am the contact person at SCB who is working with
social scientists interested in participating, so if you are interested, 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 participating. 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.
Cheers,
Rich
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Richard L. Wallace
Director, Environmental Studies Program
Ursinus College
P.O. Box 1000
Collegeville, PA 19426
(610) 409-3730
(610) 409-3660 fax
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