ECCB2012 - Call for symposia is open

 The 3rd European Congress of Conservation Biology will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, from 28 August to 1 September 2012, and is organised by the Society for Conservation Biology -Europe Section and
the University of Cumbria's National School of Forestry.

The Call for symposia, workshops and training sessions is now open with a deadline for proposals of 30 September 2011.  Details are posted on the congress website:
http://www.facebook.com/l/1980d3f8JUoi0OijHX3ujzr5Ivw/www.eccb2012.org

This cornerstone international event will bring academics, students, policy makers, natural resource managers and NGO representatives from all over Europe to address all aspects of conservation biology from research to application, from terrestrial to marine issues. Already three renowned plenary speakers confirmed their participation, Ian Boyd, Ilkka Hanski and Peter Vitousek.

We do hope that the conference is of interest to you; please distribute this letter for other interested parties.

Kind regards,

The Organisers

ECCB 2012 - Glasgow - Call for Symposia

http://www.facebook.com/l/1980dCckCLHuEGPgWBBKnAwGnFQ/www.eccb2012.org/call-for-symposia.asp

Greek Summer School 2011 ready to start

The application and selection process for the 2011 Greek Summer School has finished, and the accepted participants have been notified.

The fifteen Erasmus-supported students are from the five participating universities (the host University of Ioannina, and, from north-to-south: Aarhus University (Denmark), the Universities of Cumbria (UK), Hohenheim (Germany) and Siena (Italy). The three additional SCB fellowships were awarded to students from Portugal, Poland and Greece.

Several current or former SCB Europe Directors are among the trainers: Vassiliki (Kiki) Kati is the overall co-ordinator, Andrew Ramsey, Martin Dietrich and Gabor Lovei are core teachers, with John Halley, and Panayotis Dimopoulos. Alessandro Chiarucci (Siena) will teach the first time. The team will be ably assisted by local biologists Haritakis Papaioannou, Maria Noidou, and Giorgos Yfantis.

The participants will stay in the picturesque mountain village of Papingo, literally at the (upper) end of the road, nestling under a spectacular mountain wall, and near the deepest canyon in Europe in the Pindos National Park in northern Greece. During the two weeks, starting on 26 June, they will be exposed to a mixture of theoretical lessons, exercises, field demonstrations, excursions and have to do a field mini-project - not to mention to get to know each other and some Greek culture. We hope to convince them to provide "notes-from-the-field" for the Blog, with photos, so visit back between 27 June and 10 July!

Gabor Lovei & Kiki Kati

(In the picture: Participants of the 2010 Summer School on the alpine tour in the Pindos National Park)