Biological Consequences of Global Change
4th International Symposium of Integrative Zoology
The International Society of Zoological Sciences (ISZS), together with the International Union of Biological Science (IUBS), will hold its 4th International Symposium of Integrative Zoology (4th ISIZ) at Kunming Hotel, Kunming, the capital city of Yunnan Province, China, from December 4 to 6, 2010. The theme of the symposium is Biological Consequences of Global Change – Data Analysis and Sharing.
In 2008, the ISZS launched the international research program Biological Consequences of Global Climate Change (BCGCC). In October 2009, the program was expanded and renamed Biological Consequences of Global Change (BCGC) and adopted by the IUBS as a new International Scientific Program at the 30th General Assembly in Cape Town, South Africa. Currently, 13 well-known, established scientists from the USA, Australia, Norway, Chile, Russia, India and China have already joined or have expressed interest in joining the program.
Conducting any scientific program like BCGC, historical data play an extremely important role. However, most of the existing programs on global change are being conducted by scientists and laboratories scattered around the world without a clear mechanism for data collaboration and information sharing. As a result, the focus of the 4th ISIZ will be on how to collect and analyze data for global change research so that the scientists from around the world can work together to plot out a practical approach to establish a working mechanism for international data analysis and information sharing.
The topics at the 4th ISIZ will consist of:
- Global changes and biodiversity
- Global changes and species conservation
- Global changes and agricultural disaster
- Global changes and diseases
- Global changes and biological invasion
- Study on global change in botanical gardens
- Paleogeologic data and analysis
- Historical data collecting and analysis
- Biological specimen data collecting and analysis
- Analytical tools and methods
Currently, the 4th ISIZ Organizing Committee is seeking symposium organizers. If you are interested in organizing the above mentioned sub-symposia or want to suggest other themes to be included, please contact us as soon as possible. The new International Research Program – BCGC – will be prominently featured during the symposium. At the same time, the ISZS is seeing expressions of interest from researchers and sponsors for the BCGC program. If you or your institution is interested, please contact the ISZS before 31 October 2010.
Also, in order to encourage the involvement of students in the scientific community, an ISZS Young Scientist Award will be presented at the symposium to support young scientists and graduate students under 35 years of age participating in the ISIZ. Five awardees will receive up to 2000 RMB each. See the Registration Form for application instructions.
On behalf of the 4th ISIZ Organizing Committee, we warmly invite you to attend the 4th International Symposium of Integrative Zoology and encourage you to complete and return the registration form attached to this letter.
Jean-Marc Jallon Zhibin Zhang
President, ISZS Chair,
4th ISIZ Organizing Committee
C-506 Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1 Beichenxi Lu, Beijing 100101, China
+86-10-64807295
iszs@ioz.ac.cn
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