Attention Conservation Ecology and Biodiversity Researchers--
My name is Thilina Surasinghe (Assistant Professor, Bridgewater State University, MA), the host of the conservation biology sessions at Northeastern Natural History Conference 2017. We are soliciting suitable abstracts for conservation biology sessions. Please read the following announcement for the session descriptions, deadlines, and contacts. *Proposed Sessions for the 2017 Conference Conservation Lessons and Ecological Research from Afar:* *Global-scale Biodiversity Conservation * This session will include oral presentations on ecological and conservation research conducted both internationally and elsewhere in North America that can inform research and management efforts within northeastern North America. Conservation is a multidisciplinary science without political borders. Applications of conservation actions, habitat and species management plans, species status assessments, reserve designing, and many other aspects of ecological research conducted across the world can shed useful insights on regional or national conservation planning, environmental policy and advocacy, and nature education in the northeastern United States and vise versa. International treaties (Convention of Biological Diversity, CITIES, Ramsar Convention), landscape-scale conservation planning (Northern Appalachian/Acadian ecoregion-wide conservation), and delineation of Transfrontier Conservation Areas provide credence for the need for knowledge-sharing about conservation outside the regional focus. The Northeast Natural History Conference has a regional focus on ecological research and conservation efforts related to the northeastern United States. Therefore, when screening abstracts submitted to this session, we will select those that are concerned with species, communities, habitats, methodology, and conservation efforts that have direct application to or explicitly provide insight for research and management efforts conducted in the northeastern United States. Suitable themes are: tropical ecology, natural history and autecology of understudied species, challenges and opportunities in conservation in developing nations, landscape-scale conservation planning, endangered species conservation, applications of GIS and remote sensing in conservation, reserve design and habitat connectivity, conservation outside protected areas, community-based conservation, environmental and wildlife policies, and more ... *Biodiversity Conservation in the Northeast * This session will focus on ecological research and the practice and principles of conservation biology in the northeastern North America. Conservation biology has a strong scientific foundation, yet have evolved into a multidisciplinary theme that converge biological and life sciences with different aspects of environmental studies, natural resource management, public policy, sustainability, environmental economics, and human-wildlife conflicts. If we receive enough submissions on more-specific conservation topics, we will organize into multiple separately themed sessions. Our intention with these 2 sessions is to deliver a powerful message to conference attendees on the importance of global-scale biodiversity conservation to researchers everywhere and to underscore the importance of multilateral knowledge-sharing. We invite individuals and interest groups in universities, not-for-profit organizations, and federal agencies to participate in these sessions. If you are interested, please contact the organizer, Dr. Thilina Surasinghe (Bridgewater State University, MA) [email protected], with your proposed presentation topic. If he deems it a good fit for one of the sessions, then you will need to submit your abstract to [email protected] no later than March 6, 2017. Guidelines for conference presentations can be found at https://www.eaglehill.us/NENHC_2017/guidelines/oral-presentations.shtml. If you have any questions about the sessions, please contact Dr. Thilina Surasinghe (Bridgewater State University, MA) [email protected]. For information about the conference, please visit https://eaglehill.us/NENHC_2017/NENHC2017.shtml. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thilina Dilan Surasinghe (Ph.D. in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology) Assistant Professor in Ecology and Conservation Biology Department of Biological Science Bridgewater State University Conant Science Building 24 Park Avenue Bridgewater, MA 02325 USA email: [email protected] <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.” Richard Dawkins "It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know". Sam Harris "Good people will do good things, and bad people will do bad things. But for good people to do bad things—that takes religion." Steven Weinberg
