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2004 ANNUAL MEETING UPDATE

Thanks to those of you who already have registered for the 2004 annual meeting.

Please continue to visit the meeting Web site, www.conbio.org/2004, for updated information. Three new field trips not listed in the February newsletter are open for registration. The password included in the email confirming your initial registration allows you to re-enter the system if you would like to register now for field trips or other events. Also, if you are booking accommodations at hotels with SCB room blocks listed on the Web site, please mention SCB when making your reservation. Several hotels still have rooms available.

The complete program will be available on the Web site by 26 April, and abstracts will be on-line by mid-May. In addition to the academic portions of the meeting, we are scheduling a photography exhibit, an event featuring artists working with communities and the environment, and a panel on governance of nongovernmental organizations.

We are pleased to include as part of the academic program almost 400 contributed oral presentations and 312 posters addressing conservation in an urbanizing world and many other emerging topics in conservation biology. In order to reduce paper use for the meeting, we hope you will view abstracts online or use the CD version of the Book of Abstracts, which will be available at the meeting.

We have had outstanding international representation and have offered partial travel grants to more than sixty participants. We would like to make education, training, and scientific materials available to conservation biology students from the developing world for them to take back to their countries. Please bring (or mail in advance) reference materials, slightly dated textbooks, journals, and extra reprints of books related to ecology, biology, and conservation.

We hope you will join us for the Closing Dinner on Monday 2 August. Food will be provided by Moveable Feast, a cooperative of organic and wildlife-friendly farms in the Hudson Valley.

Please contact Eva Fearn at 2004@conbio.org with questions and suggestions. We look forward to welcoming you at Columbia University!

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