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SCB’s Annual Meetings are recognized as the most important global meeting for conservation professionals and students.
SCB's Annual Meetings are a forum for addressing conservation challenges. They are the global venue for presenting and discussing new research and developments in conservation science and practice. Most importantly, they connect our global community of conservation professionals and serve as the major networking outlet for anyone interested in conservation. Plenary sessions are presented by conservation leaders and visionaries. Each year the meeting features numerous symposia, concurrent sessions, workshops, short courses, and field trips.
The meeting attendees are concerned with the science and practice of conserving biological diversity. SCB Annual Meetings bring together more than 1,800 conservation professionals and students from every sector of the field including the biological and social sciences, management, policy, and planning. Attendees work for universities, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, private foundations and organizations, and publications. They are scientists, students, managers, decision-makers, writers, and other conservation professionals from throughout the world.
Meeting locations
The Society for Conservation Biology rotates its Annual Meetings in its regional sections, which are: Africa, Asia, Australasia, Austral and Neotropical America, Europe, Marine, and North America.
The Annual Meeting is scheduled in specific regions, if not yet cities, through the year 2011.
If you are interested in hosting an Annual Meeting after the year 2011, send your "interest" to our Executive office who will contact you if SCB plans an Annual Meeting in your region in the future.
Meeting Resources
The SCB Student Affairs Committee has created a guide to designing conservation science posters that includes motivational advice, design suggestions, a guide to avoiding common mistakes, presentation tips, and other useful resources.
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Climate scientists unanimously agree that human activities, especially emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, are altering the earth’s climate in ways that will profoundly affect our lives. Over 95% of SCB’s contribution to global warming derives from jet fuel burned to take people to our annual meeting. Each passenger on a fully-booked London-New York flight, for instance, is responsible for about 1.2 tons of carbon.
At the June Board of Governors meeting in San Jose, California, USA, the decision was made to take responsibility for the carbon impacts of travel to our Annual Meetings. By becoming ‘carbon neutral,’ we will neutralize the effect of our greenhouse gas emissions, so that our activities no longer contribute to global warming.
The first Annual Meeting (travel) to be offset is the 2007 Meeting in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. A small fee was added to each attendee’s registration fee to offset the carbon of the overall travel to the meeting.
Further information will soon be available about the success of this effort and future plans for offsetting the carbon output of SCB.
Visit the Carbon Offset Website |
