All:
The 2009 Pine Barrens Research Forum will be held Thursday, October 1 &
Friday, October 2, 2009 at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and we are
pleased to announce that *the Forum Program is now on the Commission web
site at http://www.pb.state.ny.us/agendas/2009_forum.pdf .*
The 14th Annual Forum theme is /*Laying a Foundation for Policy Through
Research*/, and features scientific and technical speakers from near -
the New York Metro Area - and far - the Midwest and the East Coast.
Equally diverse are the technical topics for '09: ecological integrity
assessment, ecosystem based management, the current state of the
Twinnings Program with our "twin park" in Pisa, Italy, local effects of
climate change, mercury deposition, ozone, Long Island's aquifer, and
flora & fauna studies. Commission Chair Peter Scully, BNL Director Dr.
Samuel Aronson, and US Dept. of Energy Brookhaven Area Manager Michael
Holland have been invited to provide welcoming remarks.
Day 2 will feature a web based international student teleconference on
the Twinnings Program and its ongoing biodiversity mapping effort. This
will be followed by walking field session with scientists and
naturalists through the coastal plain ponds of the Peconic River
headwaters. (Preregistration is required for the field session.)
I hope that you will join the Commission and its Forum partners -
Brookhaven National Laboratory, the LI Groundwater Research Institute at
Stony Brook University, and the Foundation for Ecological Research in
the Northeast - for this annual exchange of new research results and
technical reports with your colleagues. There is no cost for attending,
and we ask only that you register as promptly as possible - please see
the Program for details
I look forward to seeing everyone there!
Karen Eichelberger
Pine Barrens Commission
