Pacific Science Association - Upcoming Meetings

UPCOMING scientific MEETINGS, CONFERENCES, and Training Courses IN THE asia-PACIFIC Region

If you have a meeting or conference you would like to submit for listing on this website, please include the following information: Title, Date, Organizers, Sponsors, Location, Venue, Website, Deadline for Abstracts/Proposals , and brief description.

June 2009

IASSID 2nd Annual Asia Pacific Conference
Date: 24 to 27 June 2009
Location: Singapore
Organized by: International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability (IASSID)
Deadline for Abstracts/Proposals:
Description: The theme adopted for IASSID’s 2nd Asia Pacific Conference is Creating Possibilities for an Inclusive Society. Researchers, practitioners and educators, family members and individuals with disabilities are invited to participate.

July 2009

Pacific Island Archaeology in the 21^st Century: Relevance and Engagement Conference

Date: July 1-3, 2009

Location: Palau

Organized by: Palau Bureau of Arts and Culture, Belau National Museum, Garcia and Associates

Deadline for Abstracts/Proposals: April 15, 2009

Description: The conference aims to examine how natural and cultural heritage studies are relevant to the sociopolitical, economic, and environmental challenges facing contemporary and future Pacific island societies and to propose practical methods for encouraging and developing opportunities for community-based heritage preservation and management. The Exhibits and Videos Committee wishes to invite interested individuals, agencies, publishers, and others to send or bring books, DVDs, journals, teaching materials, posters, reports, brochures, or other printed matter for display or sale in the Exhibit Hall. We are also requesting short Pacific natural and cultural heritage films—documentaries or artistic showings of dances, oral histories, educational material, archaeological sites and the like that will be shown in the main auditorium during breaks. You can send your materials for the exhibition to Pacific Archaeology Conference 2009, P.O. Box 666, Koror, Republic of Palau, 96940. Palau is within the U.S Postal System and is international mail only when mailing outside of the U.S. For more information about the exhibition space, the videos, or the conference, visit our website or email Simeon@pacificarchaeology2009.com.

Hawaii Conservation Conference
Hawai'i in a Changing Climate: Ecological, Cultural, Economic and Policy Challenges and Solutions
Date: 28 - 30 July 2009
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Organized by: Hawaii Conservation Alliance
Deadline for Abstracts/Proposals: 20 March 2009
Description: The annual Hawai‘i Conservation Conference, presented by the Hawai‘i Conservation Alliance, is the largest gathering of people actively involved in the protection and management of the natural environment in Hawai‘i and the Pacific Region. The conference facilitates interaction among resource managers, the scientific community, and other stakeholders. This is an annual opportunity to share experiences and ideas on a wide range of conservation issues affecting Hawai‘i and the Pacific.

August 2009

3rd International Symposium on the Environmental Physiology of Ectotherms and Plants
Date: 24 to 28 August 2009
Location: Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Organized by: NIAS
Deadline for abstracts/proposals:
Description: We are pleased to announce the 3rd International Symposium of Environmental Physiology of Ectotherms and Plants (ISEPEP3) to be held in Tsukuba on August 24-28, 2009. ISEPEP arose by the amalgamation of two previous series of meetings: the International Symposium on the Cold Hardiness of Animals and Plants and the European Workshop on Invertebrate Ecophysiology. The idea was to cover the environmental physiology of invertebrates, plants and vertebrate ectotherms (fish, amphibians, reptiles). ISEPEP1 was held at the University of Roskilde, Denmark in 2005 and attracted 90 participants from 14 countries. ISEPEP2 was held in Dunedin, New Zealand. ISEPEP is the only meeting focused on the environmental physiology of these groups and has the potential to attract an interesting and cohesive group of researchers who work in these areas. Proposed topics for the conference include: 1. Cold and heat stress; 2. Water relations; 3. Metabolism; 4. Ecological perspectives; and 5. Dormancy.

September 2009

5th International Conference on Asian and Pacific Coasts (APAC 2009)
Date: 23 to 25 September 2009
Location: Singapore
Organized by: Maritime Research Centre
Deadline for Abstracts/Proposals:
Description: Biennial international conference on focusing on coastal and harbour engineering development, and coastal environmental problems in the Asian and Pacific regions.

October 2009

World Climate Conference-3
Date: 12 - 16 October 2009
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Organized by: World Meteorological Organization, in cooperation with 10 other UN Organizations and Programmes
Description: Fifteenth World Meteorological Congress (May 2007) approved WCC-3 and its overarching theme: Climate prediction for decision-making: focusing on seasonal to interannual time-scales. Congress also suggested the conference title “Predicting Weather and Climate for a Changing World” on the understanding that the final decision would be made in the course of the organization of the Conference. WCC-3 will have the potential to promote disaster risk reduction, contribute to achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and help bridge the gap between scientists and end-users. There will be four sub-themes in parallel sessions on:

Climate prediction science
Maximizing global exchange, sharing and applying climate-prediction products
Applications and socio-economic benefits of climate prediction; and
Using climate predictions in decision-making.

November 2009

Third International Barcode of Life Conference
Date: 7 - 12 November 2009
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Venue: Mexican Academy of Sciences and UNAM’s Science Museum
Organized by: The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) and the Instituto de Biologia of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
Deadline for Abstracts/Proposals:
Description: The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL; www.barcoding.si.edu) and the Instituto de Biologia of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) invite you to the Third International Barcode of Life Conference in Mexico City during the week of 7-12 November 2009. The main conference will be Tuesday-Thursday, 10-12 November at the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and there will be three days of pre-conference workshops and a post-conference public event at UNAM’s Science Museum. The conference website is now open at www.dnabarcodes2009.org and the online registration system will be opening next week. Calls for abstracts and applications for travel bursaries (only for participants from developing countries) will also be available through the website in the coming week. If you would like to be placed on the distribution list to receive future notices about the conference, please send an email to message to inquiries.dnabarcodes2009@si.edu with "MAILING LIST" on the subject line. Please include your name and institutional affiliation in the body of your message.

December 2009

None yet listed. If you know of a science or social science conference or meeting either held in the Asia-Pacific, or directly related to the region, please contact the PSA Executive Secretary, Burke Burnett.

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May 2010

The Evolution of Pacific Biota
Date: 20 - 22 May 2010
Location: University of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Venue: University of Hawaii-Manoa
Organized by: Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, University of California at Berkeley's The University & Jepson Herbaria, University of Hawaii at Manoa's Department of Botany, and the National Tropical Botanical Garden
Deadline for Abstracts/Proposals: TBD
Description: Evolution of Pacific Island Biota is a three-day, stand-alone meeting to be held on Oahu, HI at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. It is designed to bring together a diverse international group of experts and students to examine the biogeography and evolution of terrestrial, near-shore, and freshwater biota from across the tree-of-life, including humans, which are distributed across the Pacific Islands.
There will be a variety of ways to participate in the meeting, including public lectures, invited
presentations, contributed papers, poster and discussion sessions, as well as pre- and post-meeting
fieldtrips and workshops. The meeting will be organized around several theme questions, and will focus
on both empirical studies and methods for analyzing biogeographical data. Theme examples include:
• What phylogeographic patterns are found in the Pacific Islands?
• Do Pacific Islands act as sources for dispersal to other areas?
• Do fossil data change our interpretation of evolution and biogeography of the Pacific Islands?
• What are the evolutionary patterns of community assembly?
• Do Pacific biogeographic patterns track the geologic or human history of the area?
• How do data from biogeography and evolution inform conservation efforts?

To be added to the participant list and receive more information please send an email to the Scientific
Program Coordinator, Danica Harbaugh at harbaughd (at) si.edu.

June 2010

July 2010

Association for Tropical Biodiversity 2010
"Tropical Diversity: Facing the Food and Energy Crisis and Climate Change"
Date: 19 - 23 July 2010
Location: Bali, Indonesia
Venue: TBD
Organized by: Association for Tropical Biodiversity
Deadline for Abstracts/Proposals: TBD
Description: TBD

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2011

22nd Pacific Science Inter-Congress
Date: 13 - 17 June 2011
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Organized by: The Pacific Science Association, Malaysia Academy of Science (ASM), Ministry for Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), International Science, Technology and Innovation Centre for South-South Cooperation (ISTIC), ICSU Regional Office for Asia-Pacific
Supported by: Universiti Malaya, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Putra Malaysia
Description: TBA

XVIII International Botanical Congress
Date: 24-30 July 2011
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Organized by: International Association of Botanical and Mycological Societies (IABMS)
Description: The scientific program will accommodate all aspects of the botanical sciences, particularly the core disciplinary areas of:

Ecology and the environment
Conservation and restoration biology
Population biology
Systematics and evolutionary biology
Physiology and phytochemistry
Botanical diversity and taxonomy
Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics
Physiology and Functional Genomics
Structure and Development
Botanical History
Ethnobotany
Bioinformatics, biological databases, knowledge management

In addition, the scientific program will incorporate symposia that look “over the horizon”, fundamentally re-examining the way we think about how plants evolve, function, and exist in a complex and changing environment as we approach the 2011 Congress.

Further, with Australia’s position in the southern hemisphere and its gondwanic origins and consequent evolution of a unique biota, other symposia will provide opportunities to explore the diversity and evolution of Oceania and the gondwanic floras.

These more specialized symposia will include:

Urban plant ecology and conservation
Restoration ecology
Genes and genome evolution
Climate change
Function and development
Biogeography of Oceania
Biosecurity – invasives and invasiveness
The rhizosphere
Evolution of gondwanic floras
Sustainable agriculture
Systematics and botanical diversity in the genomics age
Tropical forests

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