[AA Listerv] FW: Symposium of interest

Sun Oct 14 22:03:14 PDT 2007

Dear Karen
Thank you for the conference information.

Darren Bito

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[AA Listerv] FW: Symposium of interest

Dear all,  this conference may be of interest to you.

Best wishes,  Karen Firestone
Secretary/Treasurer, SCB-Australasia

From: Ian McLean [mailto:pacconsbiol at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Friday, 12 October 2007 3:00 AM
To: Karen Firestone; Craig Morley; Brendan Mackey; Richard Kingsford; 
Nicola Nelson; ROB at GRADUATE.UWA.EDU.AU; Wendy Jackson; Miriam Supuma; 
hjrecher at pacific.net.au; Jean-Marc Hero
Subject: Re: Symposium of interest?

Dear Editor:

I am co-organizer (with John Avise and Steve Hubbell) of the colloquium 
mentioned below.  We believe that the colloquium will be of interest to 
many of your Pacific Conservation Biology subscribers.

Would it be possible to post an ad or link on the journal website or 
otherwise inform your subscribers?

I will appreciate whatever help you could give in this matter.

With best wishes,
Francisco Ayala

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Dear Colleague:

This is to invite you to attend an Arthur M. Sackler colloquium, In the 
Light of Evolution II: Biodiversity and Extinction, sponsored by the 
National Academy of Sciences.  The Colloquium will be December 6-8, 2007, 
at the Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and 
Engineering in Irvine, California.  A preliminary program can be viewed at 
www.nasonline.org/Sackler_biodiversity_program.

Darwin’s experience as a natural historian contributed greatly to his 
explanation of evolution by natural selection, which stands as one of the 
grand intellectual achievements in the history of science. The Earth’s 
exuberant biodiversity is a wellspring for scientific curiosity and 
discovery about nature’s workings. Bringing together leading researchers 
and students interested in biodiversity from evolutionary as well as 
ecological perspectives, this colloquium seeks to synthesize recent 
discoveries and concepts regarding the global abundance and distribution 
of biodiversity, and to compare the biodiversity patterns to conditions in 
the near and distant evolutionary past, as well as to those plausible in 
the near-term future.

Attendance at the Colloquium is limited to 250 registered individuals.  To 
facilitate the participation of younger scientists, we request that you 
extend this invitation to interested graduate students and postdocs.  The 
NAS has provided funds to supplement the expenses of participating 
graduate students and postdocs up to $125 for hotel costs and up to $300 
for air travel.  Awards will be granted with priority based exclusively on 
the order in which requests (accompanied by the registration fee) are 
received.  Notification of the award will be made shortly after receiving 
the application but the awards will be paid after the Colloquium, upon 
documentation of qualifying expenses.

Please register on the NAS website www.nasonline.org/Sackler_biodiversity. 
 Registrations will be accepted only when the registration fee is included 
and in the order in which they are received.  The registration fee is $350
, which includes the cost of meals, reception, and banquet.  However, an 
early registration fee of $250 (also including meals, reception, and 
banquet) is available to those posting their registration by November 1, 
2007.  A reduced all-inclusive registration fee of $150 is offered to 
Graduate Students and Postdocs who register by November 1, 2007.

After submitting your online registration form and payment, you will 
receive an email confirmation including details for reserving a room at 
the Hyatt Regency Newport Beach at the discounted rate of $118 per night.  
Please do not call the hotel directly for room reservations as the 
discounted rate is only available through the Academy’s travel agency. 
After November 1, 2006, we cannot guarantee that a hotel room will be 
available. Shuttle bus service between the hotel and the Beckman Center 
will be provided free of charge at specified times.

Sincerely yours,
John C. Avise, Stephen P. Hubbell and Francisco J. Ayala
Colloquium Organizing Committee

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Francisco J. Ayala
2001 National Medal of Science Laureate
University Professor
Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences
University of California, Irvine
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
321 Steinhaus Hall
Irvine, CA 92697-2525, USA
tel: +1-949-824-8293
fax: +1-949-824-2474
fjayala at uci.edu
http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2134

Yours sincerely 

Ian McLean
_____________________________________

Managing Editor
Pacific Conservation Biology
wwwscience.murdoch.edu.au/centres/others/pcb
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