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DIVERSITAS news

DIVERSITAS Annual report 2007 is now out. Please click here for the on line version, or order a paper copy from the Secretariat.

Prof. H A (Hal) Mooney, Chair, SC-DIVERSITAS, is the winner of the 2008 Tyler Environmental Prize, for helping transform ecology into a global discipline. More... More on the Tyler Prize.

Charles Perrings, Chair of the ecoSERVICES core project, and former Vice Chair of the SC-DIVERSITAS received the 2008 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award. Charles Perrings and Manfred Max-Neef are the joint winners for outstanding contributions to ecological economics. More...

DIVERSITAS welcomes Professor Deliang Chen as new Executive Director of ICSU, the International Council for Science, one of the sponsors of DIVERSITAS. He will take up the appointment on 1 February 2009, following the retirement of Professor Thomas Rosswall. More...

DIVERSITAS welcomes Rodrigo Arriagada, as new science officer for the ecoSERVICES International Project Office, at Arizona State University. Rodrigo is a Chilean economist who did his PhD on payments for ecosystem services in Costa Rica. More...

DIVERSITAS publications

Issue 10 - July 2008 of the DIVERSITAS newsletter is out. Click here for the pdf version. Deadline for the next edition is 31 October 2008.

Peter Daszak (SC DIVERSITAS) et al: Global trends in emerging infectious diseases. Nature, 451, 2008, pp 990-994.

Edward Barbier (SC DIVERSITAS) et al: Coastal Ecosystem-Based Management with Nonlinear Ecological Functions and Values, Science, 319, 2008, pp 321-323.

Upcoming conferences

Second DIVERSITAS Open Science Conference: Biodiversity and society: understanding connections, adapting to change, 13-16 October 2009, Cape Town, South Africa. More...

Download the first call (call for symposia) or submit a symposium for DIVERSITAS OSC2 online.

BIOSTRAT, DIVERSITAS and the GEO Secretariat will host a meeting to discuss implementation and research priorities for GEO BON (Biodiversity Observation Network) at the European scale, in Cegléd, Hungary, (25-27 September 2008). More...

World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, 11-15 November 2008, Valencia, Spain. Co-sponsored by DIVERSITAS. More...

GMBA Workshop: Geostatistics and Biodiversity Information in the Himalayas, 15-16 November 2008, Kathmandu, Nepal. More...

ESSP (DIVERSITAS, IGBP, IHDP & WCRP) /IPCC/ Netherlands Global Change Committee: Future climate change response research: Learning from IPCC's Fourth Assessment, 21-23 January 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Upon invitation. Contact: Rik Leemans.

Two DIVERSITAS related sessions at "Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions", Copenhagen 10-12 March 2009; More info and Call for abstracts (deadline: 1 September 2008).

Article "Toward a Global Biodiversity Observing System" in Science

In the August 22 issue of the journal Science, RJ Scholes and colleagues from DIVERSITAS, NASA and the GEO Secretariat present plans "Toward a Global Biodiversity Observing System", in the context of GEOSS, the Global Biodiversity Earth Observation System of Systems. Science, vol 321, 1044-45. Full list of authors: R. J. Scholes, G. M. Mace, W. Turner, G. N. Geller, N. Jürgens, A. Larigauderie, D. Muchoney, B. A. Walther, H. A. Mooney. To access the article, click here.


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