Events

29th Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology & Conservation
17-19 February 2009
Brisbane, Australia

Creating – Community – Collaboration: The symposium will explore themes such as building communication and networking at local, regional, and global scales. It aims to create linkages between communities and to connect communities, policy-makers and managers at all levels with the latest information coming out of sea turtle research and conservation programs. This is the International Sea Turtle Society's annual symposium.

Brisbane 2009 will be the first time in its long history that this symposium has been held in the Australasia and Oceania region. As such, represents an important opportunity for those in this region to attend.

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VENUE: Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
WEBSITE: http://www.turtlesbrisbane2009.org/

INTECOL's theme is: Ecology in a Changing Climate. Two Hemispheres - One Globe. The Congress will be hosted by the Ecological Society of Australia in partnership with the New Zealand Ecological Society. This is the first time that an International Congress of Ecology will have been held in the southern Hemisphere. Ecologists from around the world will explore how global climate change has impacted, and will further impact, ecosystems and their vital services to human communities. They will explore unique features of ecosystems in the southern and northern hemispheres but look for common elements in a search for solutions to this looming problem. Symposia will represent all scales of ecology from individual organisms to landscapes, and report on a diversity of ecosystems from marine to freshwater aquatic systems and terrestrial ecosystems from arid to rainforest and from polar to tropical. The meeting will bring expert ecological commentary on a range of vital processes including land and water use, sea level change, restoration of ecosystems, biotic invasions, changing water patterns, urban ecology and fire ecology. It will include discussions on long term monitoring of ecosystems, on incorporating ecological knowledge into policy, on integrating indigenous knowledge into conventional science, and on communicating ecological information to a broader community.