Events and meetings
BioFresh project scientists and technicians are participating at several workshops and meetings.
2nd World Biodiversity Congress (WBC -2)
September 8-12, 2011, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
The Second World Congress on Biodiversity is being organized by Century Foundation, Bangalore; Sarawak Convention Bureau, Government of Sarawak and University of Technology Mara ( UiTM), Sarawak will provide a forum for reorienting policies and programs in more productive and sustainable biodiversity utilization and conservation. After the United Nation Conference on Environment and Development was held in Rio in 1991, many countries have formulated or are implementing a series of action plans associated with their own environmental protection, biodiversity conservation and priority development. Judicious planning and meticulous implementation of different innovative programs of United Nations, Governments, and Research institutions, Private Organizations, Universities and NGOs have paved the way for the conservation of biological diversity on our earth.
AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
4-7 October 2011, Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania
The conference will aim to communicate recent advances in the aquatic biodiversity: assessment, monitoring, conservation and management, aquatic habitats - biodiversity interrelations, food web interactions and aquatic productivity, ecologic reconstruction and the biodiversity, research methods.
Topics: aquatic biodiversity: assessment, monitoring, conservation and management; aquatic habitats - biodiversity interrelations; aquatic biodiversity and alien species; aquatic microbial ecology; food web interactions and aquatic productivity; wetlands biodiversity; research methods in aquatic ecology/biodiversity; ecologic reconstruction and the biodiversity; human impact and the aquatic biodiversity; global changes.
Visit the website of the conference for more information.
ECSA meeting: Estuarine and Lagoon Ecosystem Trajectories
CEMAGREF, Bordeaux, 24-28 October 2011
This international symposium will focus on Estuarine and Lagoon Ecosystem Trajectories. Throughout the world, estuaries and lagoons are among the most intensely modified and threatened aquatic ecosystems. Moreover, these systems are vulnerable to the consequences of global change.
From a management point of view, there is a tremendous and concrete lack of knowledge regarding the functioning of estuarine ecosystems and the socio-economic relations that bind the various actors to these environments.
This ECSA symposium will contribute to provide sound science on past and future estuarine and lagoon ecosystem evolution. A special session will be dedicated to the concept of good ecological status (GES) in the context of the Water Framework Directive.
Abstract submission will open in January 2011 and close the 1st of May 2011.
Visit the website for more information: www.ecsa-bordeaux2011.fr
The way ahead in surface water assessment and management
WISER final conference, 23-26 January 2012 Tallinn, Estonia
The conference aims at providing a platform to present the applicability of the developed tools and approaches. The focus will be on a science-policy interface with specific sessions for in-depth scientific presentations and hands-on sessions for end users. The overall programme will start with the WISER Final Project Meeting (Monday, Tuesday), followed by the Final Conference (Wednesday, Thursday), where the whole WISER story will be told from the beginning (the Water Framework Directive and the Intercalibration Exercise) until the future (European surface water assessment and management in light of global and climate change).
The conference will summarise the project outcome and targets both scientists and practitioners in river basin and water management. In 16 presentations, project partners and invited keynote speakers will show new bioassessment methods and management schemes to achieve the goal of the Water Framework Directive. Invited experts will provide insight into experiences from other regions outside Europe and address more recent but largelyneglected – topics in aquatic ecosystem evaluation, such as ecosystem functions and services. Two poster sessions will add more specific results and provide room for discussions with WISER experts.
Untill August 31, 2011: Early bird registration fee
For more information visit the project website