Call for workshops - Climate Change Biogeography - IBS Special Meeting

Call for workshops

The International Biogeography Society seeks proposals for workshops to be held at the 2018 special International Biogeography Society meeting on Climate Change Biogeography, 21-25 March, 2018 in Évora, Portugal.

Workshops are an exciting part of IBS meetings as they offer great opportunities to disseminate and learn about cutting-edge topics in biogeography. Workshops can be either in the form of a full or half-day and ideally would offer conference attendees opportunities to expand their knowledge in specific applications, topics, and opportunities for networking. Workshops will be held on March 20, the day before the beginning of the conference.

Previous workshops at IBS meetings include: Spatial Analysis in Macroecology/Phylogenetic Analysis in Macroecology - Species Distribution Modelling - R-package:  BioGeoBEARS - Map of Life - Communicating Biogeography - Popular Science Writing - Visualizing Evolution in Time and Space - Biogeography of Stress - Biodiversity Informatics - Bayesian Statistical Analysis

Workshop proposals should include the following information:

1) Name, institution and email of organizer(s).  Please delegate a single organizer as the point of contact between the organizers and the IBS.

2) Title of workshop.

3) Workshop outline (< 600 words) targeting audience/technical details: depth of knowledge needed by attendees/level of detail of workshop; Maximum number of people in workshop (if it needs capping); room/power requirements.

IBS will provide the following financial support for workshop organizers chosen (NOTE - amounts are for the entire workshop, not per organizer, and assuming that workshops have a minimum of 25 attendees): $1,000 (USD) per half-day workshop - $2,000 (USD) per full day workshop.

Submission and questions regarding workshops should be sent by email to Miguel Matias (mgmatias@uevora.pt), on behalf of the Organizing Committee, by July 30, 2017.

Call for workshop proposals - IBS 2017, Tucson, AZ

The International Biogeography Society seeks proposals for workshops for the 2017 Biennial Conference, 9-13 January, 2017 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.  Workshops are an exciting part of our meeting as they offer in-depth opportunities to learn about topics of biogeography, often bringing in people to the conference that otherwise might not attend.  Workshops can be either full or half-day in length and ideally would offer conference attendees opportunities to expand their knowledge in specific applications, topics, or opportunities for making connections.  Workshops are scheduled to be held on January 9 (Day 1) of the conference.
 

Workshops can be proposed for any topic, including those held in the past, including: Spatial Analysis in Macroecology/Phylogenetic Analysis in Macroecology - Species Distribution Modelling - R-package:  BioGeoBEARS - Map of Life - Communicating Biogeography - Popular Science Writing - Visualizing Evolution in Time and Space - Biogeography of Stress - Biodiversity Informatics - Bayesian Statistical Analysis

Workshop proposals should include the following information:

1) Name, institution and email of organizer(s).  Please delegate a single organizer as the point of contact between the organizers and the IBS.

2) Title of workshop

3) Workshop outline (< 600 words) targeting audience/technical details:    depth of knowledge needed by attendees/level of detail of workshop; Maximum number of people in workshop (if it needs capping) ; room/power requirements

IBS will provide the following financial support for workshop organizers chosen (NOTE - amounts are for the entire workshop, not per organizer, and assuming that workshops have a minimum of 25 attendees): $1,000 (USD) per half-day workshop - $2,000 (USD) per full day workshop. We welcome all interests/suggestions, however please note that as with the symposia, only a few workshops will be able to be chosen out of an unknown number of submissions.  In the past, we have held 3 to 5 workshops maximum.

Submission and questions: Please send proposals for workshops by email to Pedro Peres-Neto (peres-neto.pedro@uqam.ca), IBS VP for Conferences by June 15, 2016.  The workshop organizing committee will have a decision by June 30, 2016. 

IBS Special Meeting on the Geography of Species Associations

IBS Special Meeting on the Geography of Species Associations
November 15th – 17th, 2013
Montreal, Canada.

Recent advances in macroecology and macroevolution have contributed much to our understanding of the origin and distribution of biodiversity. At the same time, community ecology has been informed by the inclusion of more sophisticated null models and phylogenetic methods, providing new insights into community structure and function, as well as the processes driving species distributions and their patterns of co-occurrence and association. This special meeting of the International Biogeography Society will explore the intersection between these fields and how they have contributed to the study of biogeography.

The meeting will include 6 contributed oral sessions organised around the following themes:
·         Biogeographic perspectives on ecosystem function and services
·         Deconstructing biodiversity
·         The geography of hyperdiverse and neglected organisms
·         Community assembly over evolutionary time scales
Keynote speakers include: Pierre Legendre (University of Montreal), Nick Gotelli (University of Vermont), Rosemary Gillespie (University of California, Berkeley) and Mark McPeek (Dartmouth).

An interactive roundtable discussion will focus on the past, present and future applications of null models in biogeography. We have also invited editors-in-chief and associate editors of Journal of Biogeography, Global Ecology and Biogeography and/or Ecography to host a second roundtable on the peer review process and publishing opportunities in biogeography.

The meeting will be held at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) located in the heart of downtown Montreal, and will accommodate up to 150 attendees. Montreal offers an incomparable cultural experience and heritage, being the only fully bilingual city in North America. Whilst Montreal is a vibrant and cosmopolitan metropolis, it offers the feeling of a relatively small city for its size due to its organization into small and well‐defined neighborhoods with distinct ethnic and architectural features. Montreal has a major international airport with several daily direct flights from major cities in North and South America and Europe. A multitude of hotels, restaurants and bars are within minutes walk from the venue. Participants will have the opportunity to participate in field trips to McGill's Gault Nature Reserve and Montreal Botanical Garden.

More information and registration details will be posted on the meeting website:
http://ibsmontreal.webs.com/

Local organizing committee:
Pedro Peres-Neto (UQAM)
Jonathan Davies (McGill)
Jean-Philippe Lessard (McGill)

INTECOL Call for Workshops

Details of the call for workshops can be found here http://www.intecol2013.org/26_CallforWorkshops.html

Biodiversity Informatics Training Workshop (BITW) - call for applications

Second Call: Applications for VertNet’s first biodiversity informatics workshop are due on January 10th, 2012. Please share this information with your colleagues, students, friends, and anyone else whom you believe would be interested in this opportunity.

The Biodiversity Informatics Training Workshop (BITW), June 24-30, 2012, will provide participants with the training and experience to work with primary biodiversity data sources and new tools necessary to become proficient in biodiversity informatics and conduct biodiversity research. Led by experienced informaticists and researchers, the BITW will emphasize the use and analysis of aggregated biodiversity data from VertNet, and other sources, for a wide of variety of research.

During the course of five days, participants will work closely with trainers to address compelling biodiversity research questions, focusing on the entire scope of a research project, from initial data acquisition to tools for data evaluation to analysis and finally, project dissemination and outreach. The workshop will include large and small group exercises on a common curriculum as well as the opportunity for participants to discuss and explore individual research questions with trainers. During the workshop, participants will explore and utilize:

• Data sources for discovery, acquisition, data standards, database creation and organization (e.g., VertNet, GBIF, Darwin Core)
• Organization, analysis, work flow, and data improvement tools
• Biodiversity measurement and analyses techniques (e.g., species richness, turnover)
• Species distribution modeling approaches
• Dissemination, education and outreach mechanisms (e.g., citizen science)

The goal of the workshop is to provide conceptual frameworks and hands-on experience on a suite of data sources such as VertNet (including MaNIS, FishNet, HerpNET, and ORNIS), EOL and Map of Life, and new and developing software tools such as BioGeomancer, GEOLocate, DivaGIS, Quantum GIS, R Statistics, ArcGIS, ModEco, Maxent, and OpenModeller.

At the end of the week, participants should leave the workshop with:

1. an understanding of the evolution of, and the work flows within, a research project,
2. a set of basic skills to use data repositories and informatics and analytic tools, and understand which tools are appropriate for tasks
3. knowledge of the abundant resources and additional training available.

Who should attend?
Advanced undergraduates, recent post baccalaureates, and early-career graduate students currently working, or interested in a career in a biodiversity related field, including, but not limited to, ecology, conservation, geography, biology, environmental science, computer science, and library science.

Workshop Selection and Support
Acceptance to the BITW is a competitive process and the workshop is limited to 25 participants. All applications materials and recommendations must be received by 11:59pm PT on January 10, 2012 for consideration. Accepted participants will be notified in March 2012. Individuals selected for participation will receive support to cover reasonable costs for transportation, accommodations, and per diem. Accommodations will be provided on the University of Colorado Boulder (UCB) campus.

Application materials are available at http://vertnet.org/about/BITW.php. Submit application materials online (http://vertnet.org/about/BITW.php) or send all completed materials and one letter of recommendation to dbloom@vertnet.org or David Bloom, VertNet Coordinator, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UCB, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720.