International Symposium on Conservation Biology of Freshwater Crayfish

Call for proposal of papers
International Symposium: Conservation Biology of Freshwater Crayfish ― New Challenges from Japan, East Asia.

We are pleased to announce that the international symposium "Conservation Biology of Freshwater Crayfishes ― New Challenges from Japan, East Asia" will be held at Ikebukuro Sunshine City, Tokyo, Japan, in 20 September 2009.  This symposium is open to everyone who has interested in freshwater crayfish, from amateur naturalists, company employees, government officers to professional researchers.  The official language will be English.  This symposium will be held as a satellite symposium of The Crustacean Society Summer Meeting in Tokyo, Japan (20-24 Sept.), although it is financially independent.
We invite proposals of papers for the symposium from all over the world.  The followings are guidelines.  The submitted abstracts of the proposed papers will be under peer review by the organizing committee of this symposium, and accepted papers (total four papers) will be presented at the symposium.

1. Speakers may be Ph D students, professional scientists, amateur naturalists, and government officers who study, or work in, conservation of crayfish.
2. Presentation should be in any subject and aspects of conservation biology of crayfish.
3. Each presentation is allotted 30 minutes, including a few minutes discussion.
4. Each speaker will be financially supported to the hotel accommodation close to the venue (a room for one person, three nights around 20 Sept. 2009) and one economy-class, round-trip, discount ticket (for example, IATA-PEX, ZONE-PEX, APEX, IIT, and GIT).
5. A title (maximum 25 words) and an abstract (shorter than 300 words) of proposed presentation together with a list of your recent papers of this field should be submitted as an attached file on e-mail to the organizer Tadashi Kawai  (kawaita@fishexp.pref.hokkaido.jp).  Before the submission, please visit the web-page of this symposium in the TCS Tokyo Meeting web-site (http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/csj4/TCSFirstPage1.html) and read carefully the aim and scope of this symposium.
6. Deadline for the submission is 15 January 2009.
7. We plan to publish a proceedings volume after the symposium.  We welcome submission of full-length manuscripts to the proceedings volume (but  this is NOT mandatory).

Hoping to see you in Tokyo, Japan, next year !

Tadashi Kawai (Chair)

The Organizing Committee, International Symposium: Conservation Biology of Freshwater Crayfishes