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Restore America's Estuaries Conference - Call for Proposals - Deadline Jan 31
The deadline for the Call for Proposals is January 31, 2008 for Restore America's Estuaries' 4th National Conference on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration - Creating Solutions through Collaborative Partnerships. The Conference will be held October 11-15, 2008 at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, RI.
Restore America's Estuaries Conference - Call for Proposals - Deadline Jan 31
The deadline for the Call for Proposals is January 31, 2008 for Restore America's Estuaries' 4th National Conference on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration - Creating Solutions through Collaborative Partnerships. The Conference will be held October 11-15, 2008 at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, RI.
Proposals are now being accepted for Dedicated Sessions, Presentations, Posters, and the Student Poster Contest. Proposals are due January 31, 2008. For more information or to submit a proposal, visit http://program.estuaries.org/.
This is the only national conference that focuses exclusively on coastal habitat restoration, and we invite you to be a part of it. The Conference will bring timely national attention to the challenges to and opportunities for comprehensive coastal ecosystem restoration. Healthy coasts and estuaries are essential to the very fabric of our lives - the social, economic and ecological well being of humans in the coastal landscape. And successful habitat restoration at all scales is critical to achieving this.
The 4th National Conference on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration will advance the science, pace, practice, and success of habitat restoration at all scales. More than 1,400 members of the broad coastal and estuarine habitat restoration community - restoration practitioners, scientists, citizens and community leaders, businesses and consultants, educators, planners, engineers, volunteers, philanthropists, coastal program managers, field staff, regulators and others involved in restoration efforts - attended the 3rd National Conference in New Orleans last year. The conference
brings together the entire coastal and estuarine habitat restoration community and provides a unique blend of people and policy, science and strategy, business and best practices.
The Conference Program will address all aspects of coastal and estuarine habitat restoration, in all habitats and at all scales. Habitat restoration - manipulation of the physical, chemical or biological characteristics of a site with the goal of returning self-sustaining natural or historic structure and functions to former or degraded habitat - offers great promise for reversing trends of habitat loss and degradation and is a crucial component of comprehensive ecosystem restoration, protection and management.
Conference themes include:
Coastal Restoration in the Context of Climate Change
Human Dimensions of Restoration
Education and Outreach
Comprehensive Ecosystem Restoration and Management
Advances in Science and Technology
Best Practices On-the-Ground
Measuring and Communicating Results
Policy and Funding
For more information about the Conference Program, contact Steve
Emmett-Mattox at 303-652-0392 or external-link
Mahlon C. Kennicutt II
Director Sustainable Development
Team Leader, Sustainable Coastal Margins Program
Professor of Oceanography
Office of the Vice President for Research
Mailing Address:
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College Station, TX 77843-1112
Tel. 979-458-0115 / Fax. 979-845-1855
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