Post by NAU Wildlife Society Admin on Feb 20, 2009 10:01:09 GMT -5
“Collaborative Conservation in Rapidly Changing Landscapes”
10th Biennial Conference for
Research on the Colorado Plateau
A collaboration of USGS-Southwest Biological Science Center
& the Society for Conservation Biology
October 5-8, 2009
High Country Conference Center, Flagstaff, Arizona
Plenary speaker: Paul Ehrlich
Contacts: Eli Bernstein ebernstein@grandcanyontrust.org, Matt Johnson matthew.johnson@nau.edu
★★★
This is an invitation to all resource managers, scientists, citizens, Society for Conservation Biology chapters and students of North American conservation! Come take part in a grounded, solution-oriented conference that addresses some of the most pressing conservation issues facing not only the Southwest and West, but also virtually every other region in North America:
•Adapting regional natural resource management and conservation efforts to climate change
•Protecting biodiversity through re-structured energy policies
•Adapting to water scarcity at the landscape scale
•Ensuring wildlife habitat connectivity across borders and barriers
•Building effective collaborative conservation networks
•Drafting a unified biodiversity conservation blueprint for North America
•New opportunities/challenges for education and leadership in conservation science
Before discussing organizational themes it is worth mentioning how it came to pass that the USGS Southwest Biological Science Center, the Colorado Plateau and other Southwestern/Western Chapters of SCB, and the North American Section of SCB decided to collaborate on a joint conference in Flagstaff, October 2009.
The USGS Southwest Biological Science Center-Colorado Plateau Research Station, based in Flagstaff, Arizona, has a 20-year record of collaboratively organizing the Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau (http://sbsc.wr.usgs.gov/cprs/news_info/meetings/biennial/2007/index.asp). The Biennial Conference has been considered by many an international exemplar for bringing scientists and managers together to deal with regional conservation issues. The Biennial Conference has also been uniquely open to student scientists presenting their latest research. In 2009 the Biennial Conference will be celebrating its 10th anniversary–and organizers wanted to do something special!
Over the last 14 years since it’s annual meeting first took place outside the United States the Society for Conservation Biology has become an increasingly global organization. Because annual meetings in North America (where a majority of SCB’s members reside) have become less frequent as a result of SCB going global, the North American Section began planning in 2008 for the first-ever sub-regional meeting in North America, with the goal that such meetings would continue to occur every other year. In a spirit of collaboration, the vision behind these meetings is that SCB Chapters, with the endorsement of the SCB North American Section, will host sub-regional meetings that alternate years with the global meetings, as a way to support the large network of North American conservation biologists.
The Colorado Plateau Chapter has been a longstanding chapter of SCB and has been an important collaborator in the USGS Biennial Conference. As such they were asked by SCB North America to be a central organizer of the first sub-regional meeting. Hence, the 2009 meeting planning committee includes the USGS Southwest Biological Science Center, SCB Colorado Plateau chapter along with other regional chapters, and SCB North American Section and SCB Executive Office board members.
As you all know, organizing a national-scale, scientific meeting is long a journey with thousands of small steps that must be taken before the actual event can be realized. The organizers of these events are almost always volunteers and depend on a network of supporting parties. Therefore, collaborative engagement by all organizational entities will be essential to making this meeting a success. That means all of you!
Please familiarize yourself with the calendar below and review the suggestions we’ve made for how you can plug into the planning and orchestration process. We invite your comments and suggestions on the division of labor we have put forward–if you can conceive of a way to help with the meeting that we have failed to identify, please let us know.
We look forward to the 10 months of creative vision, hard work and collaboration ahead! Thanks for joining in this exciting effort to celebrate the ongoing tradition of the Biennial Conference and at the same time begin a new regional North American tradition promoting the principles of conservation biology and SCB chapters in North America!
10th Biennial Conference for
Research on the Colorado Plateau
A collaboration of USGS-Southwest Biological Science Center
& the Society for Conservation Biology
October 5-8, 2009
High Country Conference Center, Flagstaff, Arizona
Plenary speaker: Paul Ehrlich
Contacts: Eli Bernstein ebernstein@grandcanyontrust.org, Matt Johnson matthew.johnson@nau.edu
★★★
This is an invitation to all resource managers, scientists, citizens, Society for Conservation Biology chapters and students of North American conservation! Come take part in a grounded, solution-oriented conference that addresses some of the most pressing conservation issues facing not only the Southwest and West, but also virtually every other region in North America:
•Adapting regional natural resource management and conservation efforts to climate change
•Protecting biodiversity through re-structured energy policies
•Adapting to water scarcity at the landscape scale
•Ensuring wildlife habitat connectivity across borders and barriers
•Building effective collaborative conservation networks
•Drafting a unified biodiversity conservation blueprint for North America
•New opportunities/challenges for education and leadership in conservation science
Before discussing organizational themes it is worth mentioning how it came to pass that the USGS Southwest Biological Science Center, the Colorado Plateau and other Southwestern/Western Chapters of SCB, and the North American Section of SCB decided to collaborate on a joint conference in Flagstaff, October 2009.
The USGS Southwest Biological Science Center-Colorado Plateau Research Station, based in Flagstaff, Arizona, has a 20-year record of collaboratively organizing the Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau (http://sbsc.wr.usgs.gov/cprs/news_info/meetings/biennial/2007/index.asp). The Biennial Conference has been considered by many an international exemplar for bringing scientists and managers together to deal with regional conservation issues. The Biennial Conference has also been uniquely open to student scientists presenting their latest research. In 2009 the Biennial Conference will be celebrating its 10th anniversary–and organizers wanted to do something special!
Over the last 14 years since it’s annual meeting first took place outside the United States the Society for Conservation Biology has become an increasingly global organization. Because annual meetings in North America (where a majority of SCB’s members reside) have become less frequent as a result of SCB going global, the North American Section began planning in 2008 for the first-ever sub-regional meeting in North America, with the goal that such meetings would continue to occur every other year. In a spirit of collaboration, the vision behind these meetings is that SCB Chapters, with the endorsement of the SCB North American Section, will host sub-regional meetings that alternate years with the global meetings, as a way to support the large network of North American conservation biologists.
The Colorado Plateau Chapter has been a longstanding chapter of SCB and has been an important collaborator in the USGS Biennial Conference. As such they were asked by SCB North America to be a central organizer of the first sub-regional meeting. Hence, the 2009 meeting planning committee includes the USGS Southwest Biological Science Center, SCB Colorado Plateau chapter along with other regional chapters, and SCB North American Section and SCB Executive Office board members.
As you all know, organizing a national-scale, scientific meeting is long a journey with thousands of small steps that must be taken before the actual event can be realized. The organizers of these events are almost always volunteers and depend on a network of supporting parties. Therefore, collaborative engagement by all organizational entities will be essential to making this meeting a success. That means all of you!
Please familiarize yourself with the calendar below and review the suggestions we’ve made for how you can plug into the planning and orchestration process. We invite your comments and suggestions on the division of labor we have put forward–if you can conceive of a way to help with the meeting that we have failed to identify, please let us know.
We look forward to the 10 months of creative vision, hard work and collaboration ahead! Thanks for joining in this exciting effort to celebrate the ongoing tradition of the Biennial Conference and at the same time begin a new regional North American tradition promoting the principles of conservation biology and SCB chapters in North America!