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2002 ANNUAL MEETING: SUPPORT, REGISTRATION, AND ACCOMMODATIONS

• Support for professionals from developing countries and students
• Costs of student registration, accommodation and meals
• Costs of travel

The 16th Annual Meeting of the Society of Conservation Biology will be held in Canterbury, United Kingdom from 14-19 July 2002. The meeting will be co-hosted by the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) and the British Ecological Society (BES). The web site for the 2002 meeting is www.ukc.ac.uk/anthropology/dice/scb2002/. Please visit this site for updates on registration, travel and accommodations, and the scientific and social programme.

Canterbury is within easy reach of all three airports in London: Gatwick (75 minutes away), Heathrow (105 minutes) and Stansted (75 minutes). Taxis are available for a direct journey to Canterbury. Alternatively, all airports have rail and coach links into central London, from whence trains or coaches can be caught to Canterbury (total journey time around 3 hours). Canterbury is 45 minutes from the Channel Tunnel (Eurostar and LeShuttle) and 30 minutes from the ports of Dover and Folkestone.

Support for professionals from developing countries and students

Both SCB and BES have offered significant support for students and for professionals from developing countries to attend the meeting. The different kinds of support available, and details on applying, are listed below. Country classifications will follow those adopted by SCB for its differential membership rates (see www.conbio.org/SCB/Information/Membership/index.cfm).

Costs of student registration, accommodation and meals

BES is offering to cover 50% of the costs of registration, accommodation and meals for students while attending this meeting. This offer is open to any registered student world-wide. Students must apply directly to BES before 28 April 2002, which is also the date that early and author registration closes. If your application is successful, BES will refund 50% of the costs of early (but not late) registration, accommodation and meals after you have attended the meeting. Application details and forms are available from the BES website, currently www.demon.co.uk/bes/grants.cfm#student, soon changing to www.BritishEcologicalSociety.org. The new website will contain a grants page with the same information.

Costs of travel

SCB has offered a generous sum to cover travel costs for students and/or attendees from developing countries. Disbursement of funds will be decided by the meeting's Scientific Committee. Preference will be given to paper presenters. Awards are not available for travel within the UK.

Send applications to Nigel Leader-Williams (scb2002@ukc.ac.uk) after notification of abstract acceptance on 28 February but before 15 March. Decisions will be made by 28 March. Use the subject header SCB Travel Awards and provide the following information:

• your name
• abstract title
• institutional affiliation and address
• whether you are a student and, if so, relevant details of degree and programme for which you are registered
• point of departure
• cost of international round-trip economy class travel, with currency clearly specified
• all other forms and amounts of support sought and received for attending the meeting

Registration forms are available from the meeting web site or by email from scb2002@ukc.ac.uk

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