Dear Colleagues/Friends:
Please share the following information with potentially interested individuals.
Many thanks.
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"Coupling Humans and Complex Ecological Landscapes" is the theme of the 2009
annual conference of US-IALE (U.S. Regional Association, International
Association for Landscape Ecology, www.usiale.org). The conference will be held
in Snowbird, Utah, from April 12-16, 2009. Proposals for symposia and workshops
are due September 15, 2008; and abstracts are due November 17, 2008.
Several types of financial support for attending and presenting at the
conference are available:
(1) the "Sponsored Student Travel Awards Program" of local sponsors (USGS, Utah
State University, and Utah Department of Natural Resources),
(2) US-IALE's "Foreign Scholar Travel Award" Program
(http://www.usiale.org/fstaward.htm),
(3) the "NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Awards Program"
(http://www.csis.msu.edu/NASA-MSU.htm, supported by NASA and Michigan State
University), and
(4) the "CHANS Fellows Program" of the new International Network of Research on
Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS-Net, supported by NSF, see background
papers in Science http://www.csis.msu.edu/Publication%20files/CHANS_Science.pdf
and Ambio http://www.csis.msu.edu/Publication%20files/CHANS_Ambio.pdf).
US-IALE conferences are particularly students-friendly, with two popular
programs -- Lunch with Mentors and NASA-MSU dinner, and a new program -- We'll
"Pick Up The Tab!".
More information about the conference is available from the web site
(http://www.usiale.org/snowbird2009/).
