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2004 ANNUAL MEETING: REGISTRATION, SYMPOSIA, AND WORKSHOPS
The Center for Environmental Research and Conservation and its consortium members welcome you to the 18th annual meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Conservation in an Urbanizing World, which will be held 29 July--2 August 2004 in New York City.
The early registration deadline is 15 March. Regular rates apply until 1 June, with late rates thereafter. After 20 July, individuals must register on site. Presenting authors (oral and poster) must register by 15 April. You may register by mail or FAX using the attached form or online at www.conbio.org/2004.
Fees. The registration fee includes admission to all plenary, concurrent, and poster sessions, refreshment breaks, receptions, and SCB member meetings. One-day registration is available in advance or on site. Information about hotel accommodations is available at www.conbio.org/2004. All costs are in U.S. dollars.
Travel Agents
Valerie Wilson Travel
contacts: July Gitow, Lori Ean, Emily Short
(800) 823-9055 t www.vwti.com
The preferred agent for Columbia University. Discounted airlines tickets on Delta Shuttle may be available.
World Travel Service
contact: Matthew Strausbaugh
1200 18th St. NW, Suite 600
Washington, D.C. 20036
(202) 293-9278 t FAX (202) 466-2884
matthews@worldtravelservice.com
Booking with World Travel enables SCB to receive travel vouchers that will be used to support travel by members from developing countries. A service fee may be charged.
Hertz Car Rental
contact: Anthony Ciminera
(212) 373-6406 or (800) 654-3131
Discounts may be available. Mention Columbia University and CDP# 254158.
Travel Grants
A limited number of travel grants are available for current students (any country) and professionals from developing countries who have submitted an abstract for an oral or poster presentation. Residents of North America may receive up to US$300 for travel and residents of other continents may receive up to US$1000.
Submit applications (and questions) via email to 2004@conbio.org. The deadline for award applications is 29 February 2004. Grant recipients will be notified by 1 April. Applications must contain the following information.
1. Name and full contact information, including email address
2. Abstract title
3. Institutional affiliation and address
4. Professional status (student, postdoctoral fellow, professional). Students must list the degree they are seeking and the program in which they are enrolled.
5. Point of departure
6. Cost of international round-trip economy class travel, with currency clearly specified
7. All other forms and amounts of support sought and received for attending the meeting
8. If student, the contact information of a professor or administrator as reference
Field Trips
For additional details, see www.conbio.org/2004. Trips that do not meet minimum enrollment requirements will be cancelled. Several trips have been scheduled during the meetings for the benefit of family members or other accompanying persons.
SCB and the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation are grateful to the following organizations for subsidizing the cost of one or more field trips: American Museum of Natural History, Hackensack Riverkeeper, New York Botanical Garden, New York City Department of Environmental Protection, The Nature Conservancy (Eastern New York and Long Island chapters), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. National Park Service, and Wildlife Conservation Society.
From the Forest to the Faucet (27-28 July, $30)
Two day trips highlight the New York City watershed and its water delivery and treatment systems. Visit reservoirs, a model farm and forest, and water distribution tunnels located 600 feet below Manhattan. Cost includes two breakfasts and one lunch.
EPA Monitoring of New York Harbor (27 July, free)
Join the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on its monitoring vessel to learn how the agency monitors harbors and responds to emerging management needs.
Upper Delaware / Nevasink River Float Trip (27 July, $75)
Canoe while learning about local restoration and conservation.
Karner Blue Butterfly and the Albany Pine Bush Preserve (28 July, $125)
Following the trail of past naturalists, take a beautiful train ride up the Hudson River to Albany to see the Karner blue butterfly and learn about restoration efforts at the preserve. Cost includes transportation and lunch.
New Jersey Meadowlands--An Urban Everglades (28 July, afternoon, $25)
Take an afternoon cruise with the Hackensack River Keeper to see the lush wetlands on the west side of Manhattan Island.
Drag the Harbor (28 July or 3 August, voluntary donation)
Participate in a drag of New York Harbor. This is an ideal trip for teenagers accompanied by an adult.
The New York Botanical Garden and the Bronx Zoo (28 July, 29 July, 2 August, or 3 August, free)
Go behind the scenes at the Herbarium and local ecosystems at the Garden and learn about enrichment and breeding programs and children's wildlife education at the Zoo.
Highlights of the American Museum of Natural History (29 July, 2:00 P.M.; 30 July, 11:00 A.M.; 3 August, 11:00 A.M.)
A free, one-hour tour.
Special Collections at the American Museum of Natural History (29 July, afternoon, free)
Three small groups will have the opportunity to visit special collections "behind the scenes" at the museum.
Central Park Zoo Insider Tour (29 July, 3 August, or 4 August, free)
Join the Curator of the Central Park Zoo behind the scenes.
Fire and Water Ecology of the Long Island Pine Barrens (29 July, $50)
Pitch pine and scrub oak barrens, pine-oak forest, and wetlands cover 50,000 acres in central Long Island, primarily on coarse soils derived from glacial moraine and outwash. We will explore an area burned by wildfire and discuss prescribed fire management. Cost includes transportation, breakfast, and lunch.
Family Day on the Clearwater (30 July, $60)
Sail the Hudson River on the sloop Clearwater.
Fire Island (3 August, $25)
Learn about research and conservation efforts at this National Seashore, a barrier island on the Atlantic Ocean. Ride a ferry to the island and then take a boat tour of the island and its protected areas. There will be time to enjoy the beach, and overnight camping options are available.
Hunter Mountain (3 August, $75)
Hike to the summit of Hunter Mountain through the Catskill Forest.
Staten Island - New York City's Nature Borough and Birthplace of American Botany (3 August, $15)
Visit the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, the New York City Parks Department's Native Plants Nursery, and New York City's Bluebelt, a natural stormwater management system that has preserved more than 200 acres of wetlands. Cost includes transportation to Staten Island and a boxed lunch.
Ecology of the Shawangunk Ridge (4 August, $80)
Hike on the Shawangunk Ridge, renowned for its spectacular views of the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson River Valley. Cost includes transportation, breakfast, and box lunch.
Please see www.conbio.org/2004 for updates and cost information for the following field trips.
Kayak tour of New York City
Tour of Jamaica Bay
Trip to the New York--New Jersey Highlands with an overnight stay at Blackrock Forest
Fishing in New York Harbor
Whale Watching
The Great Swamp and the Raptor Trust
A day at Cheesequake State Park, New Jersey with David and Joan Ehrenfeld
Symposia
The local organizing committee received 68 proposals for symposia and 18 proposals for workshops, several times the number received for previous annual meetings. The following symposia, workshops, and organized discussions will be presented in New York. Complete descriptions are available at www.conbio.org/2004.
- Allee effects and conservation
- Amphibian and reptile conservation in human-dominated landscapes: patterns, processes and solutions
- Assessing the sustainability of wildlife trade using data from urban markets
- Biodiversity, ecological health and sustainability in metropolitan New York City
- Biotechnology and biodiversity: understanding the potential conservation risks and benefits of genetic engineering
- Conservation in areas of high human population density in sub-Saharan Africa
- Conservation of urban biodiversity: a global perspective
- Creating a conservation estate for North America: current status and future goals
- Designing networks of reserves: theory, tools, and case studies
- Ecologically sustainable water management: meeting human and ecological needs for water in the 21st century
- From the forest to the city: urban wildlife markets and their contribution to the loss of tropical forest wildlife
- Invertebrate conservation: transforming data into conservation action
- Integrating ecological effectiveness into conservation policy
- Managing urban growth and landscape change: a key to conservation in the 21st century
- Measuring conservation progress through a partnership of conservation practitioners
- Madagascar as microcosm: collaboration and conservation in the world's top hotspot
- Planet as patient: does disease ecology in a globalized world lend itself to conservation-friendly policies?
- Risks to wildlife and human survival in an urbanizing world: perspectives from the developing world
- Reserve design for protecting freshwater biodiversity
- Sea of Cortez: bi-national science and conservation in the aquarium of the world
- Slowing homogenization: conserving native species in an age of urban sprawl
- Urbanizing landscapes, conservation and the ecology of emerging diseases
- Understanding human impacts--what remote sensing adds to a conservation biologist's toolbox
- What do species distribution models add to conservation biology?
Workshops and Organized Discussions
- Applied course reform for conservation biology
- Biodiversity in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
- Biotechnology and biodiversity: understanding the potential conservation risks and benefits of genetic engineering
- Building, managing and accessing invertebrate data for conservation
- Challenges and opportunities for social science in conservation action
- Conceptual mapping for topics in conservation biology--a useful tool for teaching
- Conservation planning tools: applications, issues, new directions
- Easing the publication process: how to publish in Conservation Biology
- Hackensack Meadowlands: emerging issues in the restoration of an urban estuary
- How to teach advocacy in the conservation biology classroom
- Hybridization in threatened and endangered species: a biological and legal perspective
- Incorporating non-use values into Marine Protected Area planning
- Millennium Development Goal 7 on Environmental Sustainability: relevance to conservation
- Remote sensing guides--new resources for conservation biologists
- Standardizing the use of camera traps to assess felid abundance in the tropics
- Teaching conservation at the university level: resources of the network for conservation educators and practitioners
- The Environmental Finance Center Network: helping people answer the "how to pay" question of providing environmental services
- The New England Chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology: current activities and future directions
- The role of popular media in conservation
- The Seabird Ecological Assessment Network (SEANET): expansion of a collaborative marine ecosystem health monitoring project in the New York--New Jersey region
- Values and urban / suburban biodiversity
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