The Encyclopedia of Life has gone live!

According to the official portal of the EOL:

(...) This is the very beginning of our exciting journey to document all species of life on Earth.

Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing, and personalized, the Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about all life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. Our goals are to:

• Create a constantly evolving encyclopedia that lives on the Internet, with contributions from scientists and amateurs alike.
• Transform the science of biology, and inspire a new generation of scientists, by aggregating virtually all known data about every living species.
• Engage a wide audience of schoolchildren, educators, citizen scientists, academics and those who are just curious about Earth's species.
• Increase our collective understanding of life on Earth, and safeguard the richest possible spectrum of biodiversity.

A good article about the project's launch can be viewed at http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL2566738920080225.

Visit the EOL Portal Today!

http://www.eol.org

10th International Estuarine Biogeochemistry Symposium- “Estuaries in a changing world”, May 18-22, 2008, Xiamen, China.

The "10th International Estuarine Biogeochemistry Symposium" which will be held at the State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, on May 18-22, 2008.

The deadline of abstract submission is February 28, 2008.

Latest news will be available on the website.

http://mel.xmu.edu.cn/meeting/10th_iebs

http://mel.xmu.edu.cn/meeting/10th_iebs

Seventh International Chrysophyte Symposium 2008

The International Chrysophyte Symposium will be held in New London, CT, USA during the week of June 23rd, 2008.

The deadline for registration is April 15th and Abstracts are due by  May 1st.

http://www.conncoll.edu/academics/departments/botany/ICS.html
http://www.conncoll.edu/academics/departments/botany/ICS.html

Bottled Water: Who Needs It?

In the UK last year we spent nearly £2 billion buying bottled water, yet a billion people around the world don't have access to safe drinking water.
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Bottled Water: Who Needs It?

Panorama: Bottled Water - Who Needs It, BBC One 8.30pm Monday 18 February 2008.

RESILIENCE CONFERENCE 2008

Resilience 2008

The international science and policy conference "Resilience 2008 - Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation in Turbulent Times" is held in Stockholm, Sweden, April 14-17 2008.

The aim is to bring together scientists working with the complex dynamics of interconnected social-ecological systems and to present, discuss, and if possible, summarise the current understanding of resilience, adaptability and pathways of transformation in such systems.

Among the guest speakers you will find B. Holling, E. Ostrom, S. Carpenter as keynote speakers but also B. Walker, C. Folke, K. Brown, T. Hughes, M. Scheffer and F. Westley as other key speakers.

For more information, please see the official website www.resilience2008.org or have a look at the program http://resilience2008.org/resilience/programme/.

SHALLOW LAKES CONFERENCE - “Structure and function of world shallow lakes" - Uruguay (23rd-28th November 2008)

SHALLOW LAKES CONFERENCE - URUGUAY 2008

We are pleased to announce the opening of the abstracts submission for the 6th Shallow Lake conference, to be held in Punta del Este-Uruguay (23rd-28th November 2008).

You may now visit the website www.shallowlakes2008.org and register (just need to provide a username and password), to have access to more information and be able to submit your abstracts. The deadline is 31st March, and the decisions on their acceptance will be announced in May. Please follow the instructions given about format and sizes.

The final registration fee will be displayed in the website by 1st March the latest.

For more information visit the Conference website:
http://www.shallowlakes2008.org/

International Congress SeaSink 2008, Oporto, Portugal

http://seasink.ufp.pt

http://seasink.ufp.pt

Oceans, representing about 70% of the earth surface, are considered as deposits for a large number of anthropogenic residues. Receiving input from human activities through land drainage, atmospheric deposition, rivers,  and direct dumping, oceans act as sinks for several classes of compounds. Among these, several substances may be mobilized at any time, and may also be incorporated into the biota, hundreds of kilometres away from the original source. This scenario is progressively more likely to occur, and may endanger not only marine ecosystems but also human health, since oceans are also valuable sources of nutrients for human consumption. In any case, the ocean sinking capacity is an important service to mankind. A good example of this is the "ocean biological pump" and its usefulness in preventing a faster than observed accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. One of the most important scientific challenges is in preventing that carrying capacity of marine ecosystems to human induced stresses is exceeded.

IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES

• 15 March 2008: submission of abstracts for communications.
• 30 March 2008: notification to authors, if a given abstract was accepted for oral communication or for poster presentation, or not illegible.
• 30 April 2008: registration deadline; after this date a percentage of 20% - 50% on registration fees will be charged.

All questions may be sent to the institutional address of the congress:
seasink2008@ufp.pt.

31st International Conference on Coastal Engineering (ICCE) / Hamburg

The ICCE 2008 will be held in Hamburg / Germany from Sunday, 31st August 2008 to Friday, 5th September 2008 at the Hamburg Congress Centre CCH. The ICCE 2008 will be organised by the German Society of Port Engineering and the German Coastal Engineering Research Council under the auspices of the Coastal Engineering Research Council (CERC) of Coasts, Ocean, Ports and Rivers Institute (COPRI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Papers will be presented on theory, measurement, analysis, modelling and practice for the following conference topics:

• Coastal Processes
• Coastal, Shore and Estuarine Structures
• Ports, Harbours and Waterways
• Coastal Environment
• Coastal Risks
• Coastal Development

Practical papers detailing the design, construction and performance of case study coastal projects will also be presented.

Further details concerning the conference are available on the conference website:

http://icce2008.hamburg.baw.de

Registration is now online:

http://icce2008.hamburg.baw.de/registration.html
or
http://www.i-plan.de/reg/hhicce08/

11th International Congress of Ethnobiology - Cusco, Peru 25-30 June 2008

Livelihoods and Collective Biocultural Heritage
More information: http://www.icecusco.net/index.php

http://www.icecusco.net/index.php