Dear Marmam folks:
I am delighted to
announce the initial call for proposals for the 2011 annual meeting of the
Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences, to be held in Burlington,
Vermont in late June 2011. This is the CFP for symposia, panel sessions,
workshops, roundtable discussions. There will be a second call (in January) for
individual abstracts for oral or poster presentations. More information below
and through the links provided.
We hope to continue
to foster the participation of the marine science and conservation community,
and especially the community of practitioners involved in marine mammal
research and management. The U.S. Marine Mammal Commission was a major sponsor
of the 2010 AESS annual meeting, and it is our desire to intentionally grow the
marine content of the AESS forums, including the annual meeting and our new
journal, to be published by Springer.
We are aware that
the 2011 AESS meeting comes close on the heels of the 2nd
International Marine Conservation Congress being held in British Columbia in
May 2011, and hope that you perceive the AESS meeting as a viable alternative
for (among other things) East Coast-based folks who are seeking a professional
venue closer to home.
Please contact me
if you have questions, and apologies for cross-postings!
Cheers,
Rich Wallace
--
Richard
L. Wallace, Ph.D.
Program
Committee Chair
Association
for Environmental Studies and Sciences
and
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
Ursinus College
rwallace@ursinus.edu
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consider the environment before printing this e-mail.
Association for Environmental Studies and
Sciences
2011 Annual Meeting
"Confronting
Complexity"
June
23-26, 2011, Burlington, Vermont
Hosted
by the University of Vermont
Call for Session
Proposals Now Open!!
Click here for more information on
submitting a proposal
Featuring Plenary Addresses by
Climatologist Heidi Cullen
and
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (invited)
More on the Conference Theme:
AESS
recognizes and embraces complexity as the hallmark of our field. Social,
physical, biological and ideological factors in environmental problems are
intricately linked, and environmental problems are so tightly interconnected
that addressing one invariably affects others. This limits our predictive
capacity and challenges the assumptions embedded in our models of natural and
social phenomena. Engaging in dialogues about complexity presents
challenges in both classroom and public sphere. Confronting complexity is
critical to our ability to develop effective responses, thus this theme for the
AESS 2011 annual meeting.
About the
Conference Host:
The
University of Vermont, the state’s land grant institution, is one of the
top green universities in the United States. It offers numerous
environmental majors and is home to 10,000 undergraduates, 1,500 graduate
students, and 1,300 faculty. Located in Burlington, Vermont, the campus
and green conference venue are perched on a hill and look west across Lake
Champlain to the Adirondacks and east to the Green Mountains. Downtown is
a short shuttle ride or walk from campus with easy access to shops and
restaurants. Burlington is the largest metropolitan area in Vermont and
has received high ratings for livability, sustainability, and cultural
engagement.
To
learn more about AESS or to become an AESS member, click here!
If you have
questions, please e-mail:
AESS Program
Committee Chair Rich Wallace at rwallace@ursinus.edu
or
AESS 2011 Site Host
Stephanie Kaza at Stephanie.Kaza@uvm.edu