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The Steering Committee is pleased to announce that the following symposia will be presented at SCB's 2006 annual meeting. General abstracts for the symposia are now available. Abstracts for individual presentations are linked to the general abstracts.

CLICK HERE to download a PDF of all symposium abstracts listed in alphabetical order of senior author.



A new conservation continuum: connecting land and sea

Wednesday 28 June

organized by Norm Sloan (Marine Section, SCB) and Ken Vance-Borland (Freshwater Working Group, SCB)


Advocacy in conservation science

Wednesday 28 June

organized by J. Michael Scott (University of Idaho), Janet Rachlow (University of Idaho), and Robert Lackey (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)


Connectivity and reserve design: incorporating landscape and population connectivity into conservation planning for changing landscapes and seascapes

Monday 26 June

organized by Carlos Carroll (Wilburforce Foundation), Reed Noss (University of Central Florida), and Gary Tabor (Wilburforce Foundation)


Conservation along the United States–México border: bi-national solutions for our shared problems

Sunday 25 June

organized by Laura Lopez-Hoffman (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México) and Karl Flessa (University of Arizona)


Conservation in a changing climate

Tuesday 27 June

organized by Rebecca Shaw (The Nature Conservancy), Christopher Pyke (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), and Joshua Lawler (Oregon State University)


Moving beyond the dotted line: donor engagement with conservation science

Monday 26 June

organized by Lynn Lohr (Consultative Group on Biological Diversity)


Ecological restoration in a changing world: case studies from California

Wednesday 28 June

organized by Jeffrey Corbin (University of California, Berkeley) and Michael Vasey (San Francisco State University)


Freshwater invasive species: a double-edged sword?

Tuesday 27 June

organized by Jennifer Molnar (The Nature Conservancy), Carmen Revenga (The Nature Conservancy), and Mordecai Ogada (Nairobi, Kenya)


From political enmity to ecological cooperation: the Israeli-Jordanian experience

Sunday 25 June

organized by Uri Shanas (University of Haifa, Israel)


Integrative conservation problem solving: the policy sciences as a tool to bridge the natural and social sciences

Sunday 25 June

organized by Richard Wallace (Ursinus College), Tim Clark (Yale University), and Murray Rutherford (Simon Fraser University)


Management for spatial and temporal complexity in ocean ecosystems in the 21st century

Monday 26 June

organized by Satie Airame (University of California, Santa Barbara), Larry Crowder (Duke University), Elliott Norse (Marine Conservation Biology Institute), Gail Osherenko (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Oran Young (University of California, Santa Barbara)


New, market-based strategies for marine conservation

Tuesday 27 June

organized by Mike Beck (The Nature Conservancy), Charles Cook (The Nature Conservancy), Craig Denisoff (Wildlands, Inc.) and Rod Fujita (Environmental Defense)


Policy and management implications of large-scale, interdisciplinary studies of the California Current large marine ecosystem

Sunday 25 June

organized by Mark Carr and Cinamon Vann (Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans)


Regional Habitat Conservation Plans: the California experience

Wednesday 28 June

organized by David Zippin (Jones & Stokes) and Laura Watchman (Defenders of Wildlife)


Scaling up the assessment of bycatch: regional to global impacts of fisheries on seabirds, mammals, and turtles

Sunday 25 June

organized by Rebecca Lewison (San Diego State University) and Larry Crowder (Duke University)


The great migrations: conserving migratory ungulates in a transboundary context

Tuesday 27 June

organized by Simon Thirgood (Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen) and E.J. Milner-Gulland (Imperial College, London)


The quadrupled face of biodiversity conservation in Africa

Monday 26 June

organized by Delali Dovie (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) and Norbert Cordeiro (University of Illinois at Chicago)


The role of recreational fishers in conservation and management: lessons from freshwater systems for marine practitioners

Wednesday 28 June

organized by Elise Granek (Oregon State University), J. David Allan (University of Michigan), Elizabeth Madin (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Mark Brown (U.S. Bureau of Land Management)




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