Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Darwin Symposium Webcast: Feb. 11-Feb 12, 2009

The US National Committee for DIVERSITAS and the DIVERSITAS community invite you to follow live on the web the DARWIN symposium TODAY and TOMORROW:


DARWIN SYMPOSIUM WEBCAST!

The National Academy of Sciences Symposium in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin

Twenty-first Century Ecosystems:Systemic Risk and the Public Good

An NAS Symposium on the Science and Policy for Managing the Living World Two Centuries after Darwin

Wednesday February 11-Thursday February 12, 2009

8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. EST

The Symposium is being held in the AAAS Auditorium at

1200 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.

If you can’t join us in person, we’re glad to be able to offer, live from Washington, talks and discussions exploring the importance of biodiversity and ecosystems to the public good, emphasizing the intersection of biodiversity and ecosystem services with key policy issues including climate change and energy; trade, pests and pathogens; and food security.

Speakers will include Sir Peter Crane, Cristián Samper, Stephen Schneider, Michael Donoghue, Larry Schweiger, Bruce Babbitt, Jerome Ringo, Andrew Revkin, and scientists and policy makers from around the world. See the entire agenda HERE.

SPONSORS include:

NSF, US Forest Service, NOAA, USGS, Defenders of Wildlife, and IUCN.

We offer special thanks to our organizing partners:

AAAS, Smithsonian Institution, and DIVERSITAS

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