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- Kompas newspaper: Ahli-ahli Biologi Tropika Kumpul di Bali (Sat, 17 July 2010 16:00:00 +0800) Indonesia menjadi tuan rumah konferensi internasional Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) 2010 yang akan digelar di Bali, 19-23 Juli 2010. ATBC merupakan organisasi profesi terbesar dan tertua di dunia di bidang biologi dan pelestarian alam tropika. “Hampir semua ahli bidang biologi tropika akan hadir,” ujar Dr Adi Basukriadi, Dekan Fakultas MIPA Universitas Indonesia yang juga Ketua Panitia Pengarah ATBC 2010. Menurutnya, ini merupakan konferensi biologi tropika terbesar yang digelar setiap tahun. Konferensi terbesar bidang biologi tropika tersebut total akan dihadiri sekitar 900 peserta dari 60 negara di dunia.
- Available for download: schedule of presentations (Sun, 11 July 2010 21:10:00 +0700) Schedule of plenaries, versbal sessions and poster sessions is available for download as a PDF.
- Of interest: 5th Biennial Conference of The International Biogeography Society (Thur, 1 July 2010 21:10:00 +0800) The International Biogeography Society will hold its 5th Biennial Conference in Crete, from 7th to 11th January, 2011. Registration opens late-August 2010. The core of the meeting will be four successive symposia on broad foundational and cutting-edge topics and approaches in biogeography and macroecology, each with a suite of leading international scientists as well as openings for contributed papers: (1) Mediterranean Biogeography: Where History Meets Ecology Across Scales (2) New Perspectives on Comparative Phylogeography – Novel Integrative Approaches and Challenges (3) Biogeography and Ecology: Two Lenses in One Telescope (4) Analytical Advancements in Macroecology and Biogeography The meeting also has six sessions of contributed papers on key topics: (i) Island biogeography, (ii) Climate change biogeography, (iii) Conservation biogeography, (iv) Palaeoecology, (v) Marine biogeography, and (vii) Hot topics in Biogeography. Dr. Robert E. Ricklefs will give a keynote lecture after receiving the Alfred Russel Wallace Award, recognizing his lifetime of outstanding contributions to biogeography. On the day just before and after the conference (7 and 11 January), there will be arranged field excursions to a number Crete’s most exciting historic and biogeographic locations. In addition, on 7 January, three workshops will held: Spatial Analysis in Macroecology, Phylogenetic Analysis in Macroecology, and Communicating Biogeography.
- Research opportunities in Indonesia (Thur, 1 July 2010 21:10:00 +0800) Are you, or your graduate students, interested in undertaking biodiversity research projects in Indonesia? The New England Tropical Conservatory (NETC) and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) have a pending proposal that can offer foreign scientists opportunity for research in Indonesia. Our partnership, the Indonesia Biodiversity Education and Training Project (IBETP), can facilitate your research in the following ways: i) identify an appropriate LIPI scientific collaborator, ii) facilitate your permitting, iii) coordinate logistics for field study, iv) develop expedition teams for greater efficiency. To find out more, contact Scott Hoover in the USA: [email protected] (or telephone 413-458-9464), or contact Harry Wiriadinata in Indonesia: [email protected].
- ATBC 2010 plenary speakers (Wed, 30 June 2010 09:40:00 +0800) Umar Anggara Jenie, Michael Donoghue, Daniel Murdiyarso, Charlie Veron, Kathy MacKinnon, Frans Bongers
- Organizing Commitee Chairman profiled in Jakarta Post (Sat, 26 June 2010 19:00:00 +0800) … The director of PROSEA, who has undauntedly been voicing the importance of safeguarding Indonesia’s biodiversity, has been named committee chairman of the Association of Tropical Biodiversity Conservation (ATBC) meeting slated for July 19-23, 2010, in Denpasar, Bali. Around 700 participants from 50 countries will attend the session. ATBC, set up in 1963, is the world’s largest professional organization of tropical biology and nature conservation…
- Field Course: Biodiversity, Conserservation & Sustainable Development Field Course (Wed, 21 April 2010 12:25:00 +0700) During this six-week field course participants will study forest ecology, conservation biology and sustainable development through both resource staff led practicals and participant-led research projects. The course will be international in character with participants selected from across the Asia-Pacific region and a diverse pool of resource staff from both regional and local research institutions. In the current (tentative) schedule we propose to study biomes on either side of Wallace’s Line. The course will start at Alas Purwo National Park, East Java, which is predominantly comprised of dry seasonal forest over limestone. Here participants will receive an introduction to the study of different taxa and advanced phylogenetic and statistical methods. We will then move briefly to Bali Barat National Park, which harbours a diversity of forest types but predominantly seasonal evergreen forest, where participants will study conservation and sustainable development, before continuing to Rinjani, Lombok, a lower montane forest, to study plant-animal interactions. Participants will conduct short research projects (5 days) at both Alas Purwo and Rinjani. The course will finish at Bali Botanic Gardens where participants will analyse and write up their findings, which will be presented to an invited audience at a course symposium on 3rd Sep.
- Course: Scientific Paper Writing (Wed, 21 April 2010 12:25:00 +0700) The ATBC Asia-Pacific chapter will run a one day workshop on Scientific Paper Writing in conjunction with the ATBC Bali 2010 meeting. The workshop will cover the process of preparing and submitting a scientific paper, how to prepare a good poster, ethical questions surrounding the publication “game”, and the review process. Professor Jaboury Ghazoul, Editor of Biotropica will give a guest lecture on “An editor’s perspective”. It is targeted at young scientists with limited previous experience of publishing scientific papers.
- Course: Experimental Design and Data Analysis (Wed, 21 April 2010 12:25:00 +0700) The ATBC Asia-Pacific chapter is running two Experimental Design and Data Analysis courses, which is being held in conjunction with the ATBC Bali 2010 meeting. The Introductory course is targeted at post-graduate level participants who have received only very basic training in statistics. It will introduce basic concepts in experimental design and sampling and how to analyse data using traditional modeling methods, including ANOVA and regression. The Advanced course assumes participants are familiar with these basic methods and will introduce maximum likelihood approaches, more advance GLMs and multivariate methods. Please see the course outlines given below. Practicals for both courses will be conducted in R – a free opensource statistical computing program – and will provide an introduction to its use. Participants are required to bring their own laptop computers.
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