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DIVERSITAS newsGilles Pinay, member of the DIVERSITAS freshwaterBIODIVERSITY SC, will - during a ceremony that will take place at the end of June - officially receive the CNRS silver medal that was awarded to him last year. More... (in French)
Congratulations to Sandra Diaz, member of the SC-DIVERSITAS, and Associate Professor, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (IMBIV), Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, for her election as Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. More... A new phase in the DIVERSITAS - GISP partnership. More... US president Barack Obama has nominated Jane Lubchenco, member of the DIVERSITAS Advisory Board and former President of ICSU, as head of the National Oceanic and Admospheric Administration (NOAA). More... Nathalie Fomproix ist the new IUBS Executive Director following the retirement of Talal Younès. More… The US National Academies symposium: Science and Policy for Managing the Living World Two Centuries after Darwin, organised by the US National Committee for DIVERSITAS was a great success. View the web casts here. Antje Boetius, past member of the SC DIVERSITAS, is one of the winners of the 2009 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. More... (in German) DIVERSITAS signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the European Platform for Biodiversity Research (EPBRS) to strenghten their collaboration to support policy decisions on biodiversity. Contact: Anne-Hélène Prieur-Richard. 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... 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.
DIVERSITAS publications
Issue 12 - March 2009 of the DIVERSITAS newsletter is out. Click here for the pdf version. Deadline for the next edition is 4 May 2009.
Scope, O. Sala, L. Meyerson, C. Parmesan: Biodiversity Change and Human Health - From Ecosystem Services to Spread of Disease, 2009,
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Upcoming conferences
Second DIVERSITAS Open Science Conference: Biodiversity and society: understanding connections, adapting to change, 13-16 October 2009 -
Conference registration is now open.
Download the second call. Download the first call. Latin American Workshop on Phylogenetics and Molecular Evolution, 22 June-3 July 2009 - Cuernavaca, Mexico; co-sponsored by DIVERSITAS bioGENESIS. Read the conference programme (in Spanish). More...
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The Darwin Symposium organised by US DIVERSITAS National Committee was a great success
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