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DIVERSITAS news

Prof. H A (Hal) Mooney, Chair, SC-DIVERSITAS, is the winner of the 2008 Tyler Environmental Prize, for helping transform ecology into a global discipline. Hal is recognised for having started or played a key role in the major global ecology programs of the last 40 years, such as the Global Invasive Species Program (GISP), the Global Biodiversity Assessment (GBA), the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) and DIVERSITAS, to name a few. Past recipients include JM Diamond, T Lovejoy, EO Wilson and B Bolin. More..
More on the Tyler Prize.

DIVERSITAS/Projects Officer post available in Ireland. More...

Rebecka Henriksson is the new assistant officer for the bioSUSTAINABILITY IPO now located at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. More...

Mirjam Pulleman appointed at the DIVERSITAS agroBIODIVERSITY International Project Office at Wageningen. More...



DIVERSITAS publications

Issue 9 - March 2008 of the DIVERSITAS newsletter is out. Click here for the pdf version. Deadline for the next edition is 9 June 2008.

Peter Daszak (SC DIVERSITAS) et al: Global trends in emerging infectious diseases. Nature, 451, 2008, pp 990-994.

Edward Barbier (SC DIVERSITAS) et al: Coastal Ecosystem-Based Management with Nonlinear Ecological Functions and Values, Science, 319, 2008, pp 321-323.

The Belgian Forum on Freshwater Ecosystems and freshwaterBIODIVERSITY are pleased to announce the release of the special issue of Hydrobiologia and the book "Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment (FADA)". More...

"The Full Picture" is a new publication released at GEO-IV, detailing early achievements and other Earth observation projects and services. B Walther and co-authors contributed a chapter for DIVERSITAS: Towards a global biodiversity observation network (p 79). Please download at: http://earthobservations.org.

Creative Use of Mountain Biodiversity Databases: The Kazbegi Research Agenda of GMBA-DIVERSITAS - This document was first published in Mountain Research and Development (MRD) and is reproduced courtesy of MRD. The copyright remains with UNU and IMS, MRD's copyrightholders.

  

Upcoming conferences

DIVERSITAS will co-sponsor a pre-CBD-COP9 scientific event, entitled: “Biodiversity Research - Safeguarding the Future”, on 13-16 May 2008, in Bonn (Germany). More...

DIVERSITAS - BESTNet –AgTrans Workshop: Analyzing the Role of Agricultural Transformation and Invasive Species in Disease Emergence
28-30 May 2008 - Tempe, USA, Organizers: Peter Daszak, Ann Kinzig, Charles Perrings. More...

Symposium: Environmental Change, Pathogens, and Human Linkages, 11-12 June, 2008 - Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Kyoto, Japan. More...

BIOSTRAT, DIVERSITAS and the GEO Secretariat will host a meeting to discuss implementation and research poriorities for GEO BON (Biodiversity Observation Network) at the European scale, in Cegléd, Hungary, (25-27 September 2008). More...

World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, 11-15 November 2008, Valencia, Spain. Co-sponsored by DIVERSITAS. More...



DIVERSITAS:OSC2

 

Second DIVERSITAS Open Science Conference: Biodiversity and society: understanding connections, adapting to change, 13-16 October 2009, Cape Town, South Africa

 

GEO-BON in the news
By Alister Doyle

 

Anne Larigauderie, Executive Director DIVERSITAS was interviewed during the 2nd Workshop of GEO BON which was organised by DIVERSITAS, NASA, and the GEO Secretariat from 8-10 April 2008 in Potsdam, Germany. The objective of the workshop was to implement the GEO “Societal Benefit Area” on Biodiversity, called GEO-BON (Group of Earth Observations - Biodiversity Observation Network). More… Click here for additional press coverage.
 

Last updated: 07 May 2008

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