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Recent and Upcoming Meetings:
Air Pollution and Climate Change at Contrasting Altitude and Latitude
7-12 September 2008 in Murten, Switzerland
The focus of the conference is on impacts and interactions of air pollutants and climate change on the tree performance across latitudinal and altitudinal ranges. In particular, the regional specificities of tree and ecosystem responsiveness to anthropogenic stressors such as elevated CO2 and O3 regimes, enhanced nitrogen deposition and scenarios of climate change, as represented through altered seasonal temperature and moisture regimes will be emphasized. The overall aim of the conference is the advancement in risk assessment: which are the consequences for carbon sink strength in respect to the post-Kyoto policies? How are strategies such as the critical levels concept in risk assessment to be defined and evaluated by exposure versus dose-related approaches of stress diagnosis? How realistic are potentials towards process-based, i.e. mechanistic concepts for risk assessment? In respect to the above questions the state of the art will be highlighted. The outcome of the conference will provide a cause-effect related basis for environmental policy making.
http://www.wsl.ch/iufro_ch_2008/index_EN?redir=1& |
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Summer DIREnet Meeting and Symposium:
The symposium occurred at the Ecological Society of America / Society for Ecological Restoration joint meeting in San Jose California, on August 9th, 2007, at 1:30-5:00 PM. |
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Cyberinfrastructure (CI) in Science:
This project is developing an innovative process for mobilizing a community of distributed, interdisciplinary scientists to integrate CI into their research and take advantage of its capabilities. A series of ongoing classes covering high-level technical concepts driving CI development are engaging researchers in integrating CI into their research and daily work, and are providing the opportunity to collaborate with computer scientists on new computational and problem solving approaches. The project is utilizes a combination of education, training, and mentoring that is informed by social science and organizational learning theory (See Figure 1).
Figure 1. Participatory design of virtual collaboration.
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A course was held last spring online via Breeze Meetings. A follow-up on-line course will be offered Fall 2008 with a focus on climate change. For more information, contact Deana Pennington or Neil Cobb. |
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