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03.01.2006 - The presentation schedule has now been posted.

US-IALE 2006 Annual Symposium will be held in San Diego, California, March 28 - April 1, 2006 at the Bahia Resort Hotel.
The United States Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) will hold it's 2006 annual symposium in San Diego, California from Tuesday, March 28 to Saturday, April 1, 2006. The meeting will be held at the Bahia Resort Hotel in the Mission Beach area of San Diego. Preconference workshops and business meeting on Tuesday will be followed by plenary and concurrent sessions on Wednesday, Thursday morning, and Friday. Field Trips will be on Thursday afternoon and Saturday (post-conference). The Local Organizing Committee Chair for the meeting is Janet Franklin, Department of Biology, San Diego State University.

If you have any questions please send an email to Cindy Delaney.

2006 US-IALE MEETING THEME:
Linking Landscapes and Seascapes: Conservation and Ecosystem Management at the Land-Sea Interface - Solving current and future environmental issues requires multidisciplinary approaches that integrate the physical, ecological, and social sciences in space and time. The theme of this meeting was selected to highlight emerging issues critical to San Diego and the Southern California region and increasingly important worldwide. These include:

• integrating landscape-based conservation planning and ecosystem management across the land-sea interface because most people in the world live in the coastal zone;
• the causes and ecological consequences of the spatial composition and configuration of landscape mosaics, in aquatic, marine and terrestrial ecosystems;
• working together across disciplinary boundaries to build theory and develop an understanding of landscape pattern and process, develop tools, and apply them to solve problems.

Keynote Speakers

The keynote speakers will be Professor Hugh Possingham from the University of Queensland, and Dr. Exequiel Ezcurra from the San Diego Natural History Museum.

NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Awards: Call for Applications

The NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Awards will be available for the 9th consecutive year to students who are going to give oral or poster presentations at US-IALE2006. These special awards are made possible by the support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Michigan State University (MSU). Approximately 20 awards (up to $700 each) will be given for the selected students to cover expenses associated with attending the symposium. All applications must be RECEIVED by January 16, 2006.

The web site with details about the application procedure is http://www.csis.msu.edu/NASA-MSU.htm

US-IALE Student Forum

US-IALE hosts an online forum for topics of common interest to its student members. Please visit the forum for meeting infomation including roommates and other activities in San Diego.