Dear Colleagues:
The mission of the International Canopy Network (ICAN) is to promote forest canopy and forest ecosystem conservation through the integration of research, education, and environmental outreach activities that concern forest canopy organisms and interactions. Founded in 1994, ICAN works to ensure the connectivity of canopy researchers and provide members with professional benefits. Conservation can begin with education, and because the canopy ecosystem in inherently interesting to many people, it is an ideal tool for the promotion of science and forest conservation. ICAN is a growing non-profit organization. Your membership is critical to help us develop and distribute our quarterly newsletter, compile the ICAN directory, and develop educational and conservation projects. Below, we outline our future programs and describe how you may get further involved. ICAN’s email bulletin board, or listserv, provides an opportunity for researchers, educators, and others to discuss the many concepts, perspectives, and objectives associated with forest canopies. Please email us for instructions on how to subscribe. ICAN’s future educational projects include a video series titled “Treetop Talks”, which will highlight current researchers in the field and will be free and available to the public through our website. We are also planning to work with local primary school children on the campus of the University of Utah through an experiential learning series called “Tree for Tots” that brings faculty members throughout a range disciplines to teach the children about the importance of trees in their field of study. Contribute your latest research, observations, artwork, job postings or queries, or news about upcoming meetings to our quarterly newsletter, What’s Up?. Send contributions to the editor at [email protected]. To receive these benefits and to support ICAN activities, please consider a membership. Benefits include: * Our quarterly newsletter * The membership directory * Professional meetings and symposia * Collaboration with distinguished peers * Access to databases on canopy research and education (over 7700 citations) To find out more about a subscription to ICAN, please email [email protected]. Thank you for supporting ICAN, Autumn Amici ICAN Program Coordinator *Email: [email protected] <[email protected]>* and Nalini Nadkarni President -- Autumn Amici ICAN Program Coordinator [email protected]
