YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Dear ECOLOG-L members, The International Society of Tropical Foresters (ISTF), Yale Student Chapter, is organizing a Conference from January 27th - 29th, 2011 titled "Communities, Commodities, and Carbon: Innovations in Tropical Forest Management". Each year, ISTF organizes a two-day conference at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in New Haven, Connecticut to discuss emerging topics in the tropics. The 2011 conference aims to bring together practitioners and researchers from government, academia, and environmental and development organizations to explore innovations in tropical forest conservation and management. ISTF is currently seeking presenters to share experiences and engage in discussions during the conference. We encourage you to apply, by sending your abstract by November 5, 2010 to yalei...@gmail.com. Attached you will find our call for papers with details on how to participate, and the key questions we are looking to address at the conference. Please feel free to forward this information to anyone else that might be interested in applying. For those interested in attending (without presenting) the conference is free to registrants, more info will be available for registration as the date approaches, but feel free to contact yalei...@gmail.com for any questions. For more information, please visit our website http://www.yale.edu/istf or contact us directly at yalei...@gmail.com. ISTF is looking forward to hearing from you. Regards, The International Society of Tropical Foresters Yale Student Chapter