Please, distribute among graduate students. (Sorry for any unlikely cross-posting) CONFORWest 2015
February 5th - 8th, Friday Harbor Laboratories, UofW Friday Harbor, Wa., USA Call for submissions CONFORWest is an annual conference for graduate and upper level undergraduate students from environmental sciences, forestry, ecology and other natural resource management fields. It is organized by graduate students from northwestern North American universities, who hope to provide a unique and comfortable forum for discussing future challenges, while building networks with peers. We're students too! We hope to expose graduate students to varying perspectives on environmental and forestry research from outside their disciplines and to encourage meaningful dialogue between students of different research backgrounds. Unlike other conferences, our main goal is to facilitate discussion while giving students a chance to practice their communication skills. Abstract Submission Information You are encouraged to submit an abstract for a presentation in any area of academic study related to the environment or natural resources, from social to biological fields. There will be 3 types of presentations: poster, 5 minute oral, and 15 minute oral. For the 5 minute presentations, slides will change automatically every 20 seconds, and each presenter will be allowed 15 slides. This is a challenging but achievable format and proved to be very effective during previous CONFORWest conferences. Please indicate your presentation type preference with your abstract submission. Research projects that include results and discussions will be favoured when selecting oral presentations. General guidelines Your abstract should include: (1) study’s objectives, (2) methodology, (3) results and (4) significance, if applicable. When using abbreviations or acronyms, please spell them out first. Please indicate up to four keywords below the abstract. Note that the keywords should be general enough to help us organize all the presentations into thematic sessions. The following information should also be included on separate lines before your abstract in your submission. Information to include (will be changed to a Google Form) Name: Undergrad/Master’s/PhD: How far along is your research (beginning, middle, close to the end): Presenting results (yes or no): Primary presentation preference (one of 5 min oral, 15 min oral, or poster): Secondary presentation preference (one of 5 min oral, 15 min oral, or poster): Title of presentation (please only capitalize the first word of your title, unless you include proper nouns): All authors with presenting author’s name underlined: Presenting author’s affiliation: Might be interested in hosting CONFORWest 2016: Yes/No/Maybe : How do you plan to get to the conference? With you own vehicle, flying to Victoria or Nanaimo, by bus, others? This is to help us plan potential common transportation. All text should be left-aligned. Please use 12-point Times New Roman, regular font. Abstract size is limited to 250 words or 2000 characters (including spaces), whichever comes first. Please respect formatting rules as submissions in the wrong format will not be accepted. Use the submission example below as a reference. File formats: Please submit the abstract as a Word file (*.doc or *.docx). Please use the following file naming format: lastname_university.doc. Email: Send abstracts to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. Include “CONFORWest Abstract” and your name in the subject line. Deadline: The deadline for abstract submission is December 30th, 2014. Registration fee should be around US$ 250. It will be fixed at the beginning of January 2015. Thanks Fabián Cid Yáñez Ph. D. Student Complex Environmental Systems Lab UBC Okanagan complexity.ok.ubc.ca<http://complexity.ok.ubc.ca>
