SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY 2010 CONFERENCE

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12th Deep-sea Biology Symposium

The 12th Deep-sea Biology Symposium will happen in Reykjavík, Iceland, 7-11 June 2010.

The deep-sea biology symposia are the biggest events of the deep-sea community. Many deep-sea researchers have excellent memories from past meetings and strong links between resarchers have been made at these meetings. At these meeting projects numerous projects have been planned and many young scientists have gotten their first invitations there for a berth at sea.

Registration will open in January 2010 at the event's homepage.

More information here.

SETAC Europe 20th Annual Meeting - abstracts deadline

Don't forget: 30 November 2009: Deadline abstract submission / deadline short course proposals

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PINC: Application for academic year 2010-2012 is open!

The application for PINC (Post-graduation International Nematology Course) academic year 2010 - 2012 is open!!!

The scholarship granted by the Flemish interuniversity council and university development cooperation is oriented towards students and professionals from countries from the following list: VLIR country list. The VLIR scholarship programme is particularly aimed to people from developing countries with a minimum of professional experience who occupy key or strategic positions at an institution in their native country. The opportunities for knowledge application and transfer after the scholar returns home are an important scholarship selection criterion. Other admission requirements refer to: age, education, motivation, language, gender, financial resources.

With the support of the Belgian Directorate-General for Development Cooperation, each year 12 scholarships are assigned to students applying for the Master of Nematology.

For more information you can visit the VLIRuos or PINC website!

Workshop on meiofauna from chemosynthetic deep-sea environments

The Census of Marine Life project ChEss (Biogeography of Deep-Water Chemosynthetic Ecosystems) is organizing a workshop on ‘Meiofauna from chemosynthetic deep-sea environments’ in conjunction with the 14th International Meiofauna Conference at Ghent University July, 17 2010. This workshop is organized by Monika Bright and Ann Vanreusel and we would like to invite you to attend for free.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together meiofauna researchers who are interested in any biological aspect concerning deep- sea reducing environments, such as hydrothermal vents, cold seeps, whale falls, sunken wood, and areas of low oxygen that intersect with continental margins and seamounts.

We will have sessions in which we will discuss the current state of knowledge of biogeography, biodiversity and abundance, ecology, origin and evolution, morphological and molecular phylogeny, and taxonomy, and future plans. Further we will discuss the possiblities of multidisciplinary and integrative research, building a platform of researchers to combine our efforts in databases, field programmes, and outreach activities.

Registration: email to Monika Bright - monika.bright@univie.ac.at

Deadline of registration June 30, 2010

Any questions and suggestions: email to Monika Bright - monika.bright@univie.ac.at

Third Darwin Scholarship Programme: Monitoring and Communicating Biodiversity

Third Darwin Scholarship Programme: Monitoring and Communicating Biodiversity (13-23 August, 2010)

The Darwin Scholarship Programme has been running since 2008. Over 40 people from 25 countries have attended. Feedback from the programmes have been tremendously positive
In 2010 we will be running the third Darwin Scholarship Programme. We are now inviting applications for the 25 places that are available.

The scholarship programme is aimed at…
Young Scientists from around the world, probably working for an non-governmental organisation, government department or in a Biology or Ecology faculty at University. You should be under the age of 35 and studying at graduate or post graduate level or be a young lecturer or work for an environmental organisation.
The aim of the Darwin Scholar Programme is to develop “better naturalists” in the spirit of Darwin’s love of nature and observing the natural world. The Scholarship will focus on three areas - skills of observation and identification - skills of recording biodiversity and skills of communicating biodiversity to different target groups
This is a unique opportunity to work with leading scientists and educators in the UK and will be based in Shrewsbury - a beautiful historic English market town and the birthplace of Charles Darwin.

More information here.

A special thanks to Tatiana Maria for informing me about the Programme!

BOOK: Ecotoxicology Modeling (Emerging Topics in Ecotoxicology)

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Ecotoxicology Modeling is a comprehensive and well-documented text providing a collection of computational methods to the ecotoxicologists primarily interested in the study of the adverse effects of chemicals, their mechanisms of action and/or their environmental fate and behavior. Avoiding mathematical jargon, the book presents numerous case studies to enable the reader to understand the interest but also the limitations of linear and nonlinear models in ecotoxicology.

Written by an international team of scientists, Ecotoxicology Modeling is of primary interest to those whose research or professional activity is directly concerned with the development and application of models in ecotoxicology. It is also intended to provide the graduate and post-graduate students with a clear and accessible text covering the main types of modeling approaches used in environmental sciences.

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MeiofaunaBrasil: 3 years!

Today we are celebrating 3 years of Meiofauna Brasil on air...

Maybe some of you can remember that in the begining was all in Portuguese, than with 6 months we've decided to translate everything to English.

In the second year of Meiofauna Brasil we migrated for the new format of Blogger which have new resources including the possibility of marking our posts with keywords. We also started to send periodical updatings for a selected e-mail list (based on the adresses in THIRIMCO). If somebody wants to be included just contact us in our e-mail: meiofaunablogspot@gmail.com

In the third year we changed our layout for this new beautiful blue version (very well done by Priscila). We also reorganized the links and added a new research resource using Google which makes the looking for specific subjects quiet easier than before.

Furthermore we created profiles on Twitter (http://twitter.com/meiofaunabrasil) and Orkut (http://www.orkut.com.br/Main#Profile.aspx?origin=is&uid=7313733478867360227 (it is necessary to be joined)!

What we really expect is to spread more an more the Meiofauna Brasil website and "popularize" our fascinating animals!

We know that there is still much to improve and specially concern the need of keeping it more updated. Sometimes it is a quite difficult task with all our activities but we will continue...

We also would like to use the opportunity to ask our dear visitors to give their suggestions and help us sending news about meiofauna. So, feel free to send us your comments and sugestions!

MEIOFAUNA BRASIL IS FOR YOU… COMENT ON AND CONTRIBUTE TO MAKE IT ALWAYS BETTER!

Thanks for all meiobenthologists and lovers of these fantastic animals!

SETAC Europe 20th Annual Meeting - IMPORTANT DEADLINES

The SETAC Europe Annual Meeting is Europe's biggest meeting on environmental toxicology and chemistry with more than 1500 presentations in parallel platform sessions and poster sessions, participants scientific speakers from academia, business and government and a blend of scientists and practioners, researchers and regulators all in attendance.

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Rotifera XIII: Meeting Possibilities

The XIII International Rotifer Symposium (Rotifera XIII) will be in 2012.

For the next meeting in 2012 proposals should be made. The prospective candidates willing to organise this meeting should download an information and question file. Expressions of interests should be submitted immediately to Linda May. Full proposals with answers to the questions should be submitted by end of August 2010 to Linda May.

Download Information and question file to Rotifera XIII can be found here.

You also can see already a proposal for India by Prof. Sharma in the same page.