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2000 SCB ANNUAL MEETING

9-12 JUNE 2000
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA, MISSOULA, MONTANA, USA

Setting

Missoula is a special and beautiful place. The surrounding Rocky Mountains provide a stunning backdrop for humans and wildlife alike. Missoula is a mecca for conservation scientists, writers, and environmental advocates. The area is served by three major airlines, an interstate highway, and transcontinental bus routes.

The University of Montana, founded in 1893, is the flagship institution of the Montana University System and a major research institution. The 200-acre main campus at the foot of Mt. Sentinel on the Clark Fork River of the Columbia is home to nearly 12,000 students and over 500 full-time faculty. Conservation biology and environmental education at the university includes organismal and wildlife biology, ecology, forestry, and environmental studies; the local organizing committee for the conference includes faculty members from each of these programs.

Sessions will meet on campus. Housing and meals will be available in campus dorms and dining halls; off-campus housing and meals will also be available. Please visit the conference web site at http://www.umt.edu/scb2000/ for further information about the annual meeting, the university, and the local area.

Organization

The theme for the meeting is Large-Scale Conservation: Genes, Landscapes, and People. Effective conservation requires the blending of many disparate pieces: from microsatellites to satellite imagery; from theoretical models to field data; from hectares to continents; from generations to millennia; and from ecological to human communities. The integration of these pieces will be addressed in the plenary sessions and several symposia. The conference setting in the Rocky Mountain West provides an exceptional opportunity for discussion of large-scale conservation because of relatively intact native communities, a large body of scientific knowledge, and an actively engaged community.

The meeting will begin with a plenary session on Friday 9 June. Paper and poster sessions, workshops, organized discussions, and symposia will continue from 10-12 June. Field trips will take place before, during, and after the meeting. Tentative deadlines are

1 May - 1 September 1999: decisions on symposium proposals
15 January 2000: abstracts for contributed papers and posters due
15 February 2000: notification of acceptance
15 April 2000: author registration
Call for Symposia, Workshops, and Discussion Proposals

The local organizing committee invites proposals for symposia. There will be opportunities for both 2-hour and 3.5-hour symposia. Presentations will be in multiples of 15 minutes so that the timing of symposia is coordinated with the contributed paper sessions; for example, a 2-hour symposium could consist of four 30-minute presentations or eight 15-minutes presentations.

There will be 6 symposia, 3 related to the conference theme and 3 that address newly emerging topics or significant syntheses different from those considered in recent SCB symposia. All symposium organizers and speakers must be registered participants.

Proposals should be as brief as possible and include (1) a one-page synopsis, including the title, whether 2 or 3.5 hours, goal or purpose, and explanation of why the topic is appropriate and significant for an SCB-sponsored symposium, (2) tentative list of speakers, presentation titles, and whether they have agreed to participate, and (3) complete contact information for the organizers.

Proposals for workshops and organized discussions are also invited. Workshops facilitate detailed presentations and applications of new concepts or methods. Discussions allow audience participation for exploration of new or controversial issues. Proposals for workshops and discussions should be as brief as possible and include the following: (1) a one-page synopsis composed of a title, goal or purpose, and justification, (2) organizational structure including format, preferred date and time, duration, and expected number of participants, (3) contact information for the organizers. Dates and times should be structured so that they do not conflict with paper sessions (i.e., during lunches, evenings, and before or after the conference). All workshop and discussion organizers and participants must be registered for the conference.

All proposals should be submitted through the conference web site. If this is not possible, proposals may be submitted to Fred Allendorf at the address below. The local organizing committee will begin selecting symposia on 1 May 1999, and complete their selections by 1 September 1999. Proposers will be notified of the committee's decision as soon as possible so that organizers can acquire any funding necessary for their symposium.

For more information, contact the appropriate person below:

Fred Allendorf
Program Committee Chair
Division of Biological Sciences
University of Montana
Missoula, Montana 59812
Telephone (406) 243-5503
FAX (406) 243-4184
darwin@selway.umt.edu

Dan Pletscher
Arrangements Chair
Wildlife Biology Program
University of Montana
Missoula, Montana 59812
Telephone (406) 243-6364
FAX (406) 243-4557
pletsch@forestry.umt.edu

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