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Subject: Fw: 2002 World Congress on Natural Resource Modelling - Call for papers
From: Nicolas Becu (nicolas_becu@yahoo.com)
Date: mar avr 09 2002 - 17:43:31 CEST
Apologies for multiple postings...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matsinos Giannis" <gmats@aegean.gr>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 12:39 PM
Subject: 2002 World Congress on Natural Resource Modelling - Call for papers
> Dear colleague,
>
> -apologizing for any cross posting! -
>
> I would like to inform you that the 2002 World Congress on Natural
Resource
> Modelling titled "Modelling Natural and Biotic Resources in a Changing
> Planet"will be held in Lesvos, Greece 23-26 June 2002 and has an open call
> for papers (until May 15). Interested scientists (including graduate
> students) are kindly invited to contribute to the scientific program by
> submitting an abstract. Please visit the web page
> http://resourcemodelling.org/conferences/2002lesvos.htm for directions on
> how to contribute and all registration information.
>
> Our keynote speakers are:
> * Prof. Wolfgang Cramer, Department of Global Change and Natural
> Systems, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
> "Assessing global change impacts on ecosystem services: interfacing 'hard
> science' and stakeholders"
> June 24 10:00 am plenary
> * Prof. Michel Loreau, Laboratoire d' Ecologie, Ecole Normale
> Superieure, France
> "Modelling Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning; current trends and
future
> challenges"
> June 25 10:00 am plenary
> * Prof. Marten Schaffer, Department of Environmental Sciences, Aquatic
> Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Wageningen University,
> Netherlands
> "Non-linear response of ecosystems to global change"
> June 26 10:00 am plenary
>
> Please allow me to inform you about the aims and the audience of the
> upcoming Congress.
> The Resource Modeling Association (RMA) was founded in the early 1980s by
a
> group of applied mathematicians, applied population biologists, fisheries
> scientists, and resource economists, primarily from the West coast of
North
> America to organize annual meetings in order to discuss the application of
> models to resource management. Since then, the Association has extended
its
> meeting activities to be international in scope. The RMA has published the
> international journal Natural Resource Modeling since 1986. The RMA also
has
> a standing committee on resource policy issues, whose responsibility it is
> to maintain a membership expertise data base. This data base is available
to
> organizations trying to identify scientists whom they can consult on
> resource management and policy issues. A newsletter is published three
times
> annually with information concerning member activities.
>
> The annual world congresses have taken place in a different continent as
> follows:
>
> Logan, Utah, USA [2001]
> Wageningen, the Netherlands [2000]
> Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada [1999]
> Ensenada, Mexico [1998]
> Hobart, Tasmania, Australia [1997]
> Seattle, Washington, USA [1997]
> Lake Superior, Minnesota, USA [1996]
> Pietermaritzburg, South Africa [1995]
> Juneau, Alaska, USA [1995]
>
> Each year the conference has a main theme of high importance among natural
> resource modellers. Past themes include:
>
> * Spatial and temporal dynamic models for the management of natural
> resources (Logan, Utah, USA [2001) with keynote speakers:
>
> Jon Conrad, Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell
> University, "Right Whales in the western North Atlantic: Population
Dynamics
> and the Mortality from Ship Strikes and Entanglement in Fishing Gear"
>
> Roger Sedjo, Director of Forest Economics and Policy Program at Resources
> for the Future, "Terrestrial Systems to Mitigate Climate Change"
>
> Richard Lammers, Water Systems Analysis Group, University of New
Hampshire,
> "Freshwater Resources at Continental and Global Scales"
>
> Terry Quinn, Fisheries Division, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences,
> University of Alaska, "Ruminations on the Development and Future of
> Fisheries Population Dynamic Models"
>
> * "The Ecology of Scale" (Wageningen, the Netherlands [2000]) with
> keynote speakers:
>
> Jim Reynolds, Duke University, "How to recognize and grasp scale-related
> problems in ecology"
>
> Mark Stafford Smith, CSIRO Australia "Lessons learned from applications
> across scales"
>
> Andrew Skidmore, ITC, Netherlands,"Do scale-related models provide a
better
> understanding of phenomena in the real world?"
>
> This year we are organizing a conference under the theme "Modelling
Natural
> and Biotic Resources in a Changing Planet" with a clear emphasis on the
> issue of global change both from the natural and the biotic aspect. Even
> the selection of the congress venue (Museum of Natural History of the
Sigri
> Petrified Forest) is a standing witness of the planetary change through
> geological times.
>
> Scientific committee:
>
> Rob Alexander, Dept of Applied & International Economics, Massey
University,
> New Zealand
> Tony Charles, Finance and Management Science, Saint Mary's University,
> Canada
> John Hearne, Department of Mathematics, University of Natal, South Africa
> Ken Lyon, Department of Economics, Utah State University, USA
> Yiannis Matsinos, Dept of Environmental Studies, University of the Aegean,
> Greece
> Max Rietkerk, Dept of Environmental Sciences, Utrecht University,
> Netherlands
> Tony Smith, CSIRO Marine Research , Australia
> Andreas Troumbis, Dept of Environmental Studies, University of the Aegean,
> Greece
>
> More details regarding the call for papers, schedule etc. can be found at
> the web site http://resourcemodelling.org/conferences/2002lesvos.htm
>
> I would like to provide any additional information; please do not hesitate
> to contact me,
>
> Cordially,
>
> Yiannis G. Matsinos
> Assistant Professor
> Biodiversity Conservation Laboratory
> Department of Environmental Studies
> University of the Aegean
> Mytilene 81100
> Greece
> tel. +30 251 0 36228
> fax +30 251 0 36298
> e-mail: gmats@aegean.gr
>
>
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