Upcoming talk: "Charles Darwin, Geologist"
200th Birth Anniversary of Lincoln and Darwin
Celebration Feb 12, 2009 at NOVA-Annandale
My clever & creative colleague Reva Savkar (chemistry) is putting together a celebration of the 200th birthday of two important individuals in the history of the world: Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, both born on February 12, 1809. The event will be held in the Ernst Community Cultural Center Forum on the Annandale campus, starting at 2:15pm.Celebration Feb 12, 2009 at NOVA-Annandale
The details are still being organized, but the event will feature short talks, music, and activities both from NOVA faculty and outside guests. Confirmed so far are: Bill Stanclift, Reva Savkar, Ralph Eckerlin, Tom Macke, Karla Henthorn, Jill Caporale, Nan Peck, and Bill Gorham.
I'll be presenting a 15-minute talk, starting at 4:30pm entitled "Charles Darwin, Geologist."
The event is free & open to the public. Join us!
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I will be there. As a self proclaimed Darwin nut, I love this time of year. Go evo!
ONLINE REGISTRATION OPEN!
Announcing a 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
Opening Reception: Tuesday evening, Feb. 10 at the NAS Koshland Museum
The Symposium will be held in the AAAS Auditorium at
1200 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
ADMISSION IS FREE, BUT ONLINE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED
The National Academy of Sciences and its US National Committee for DIVERSITAS are pleased to request your participation in a symposium in honor of the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. The goal of the symposium is to focus attention on both the opportunities for designing policies that strengthen and make use of biodiversity and ecosystem services – and the dangers of pursuing policies that put ecosystems at risk.
Speakers will discuss the importance of biodiversity and ecosystems to the public good, and examine the intersection of biodiversity and ecosystem services with key policy issues including climate change and energy; trade, pests and pathogens; and food security. The presentations and discussions at the symposium will be summarized and published in a National Academy workshop report.
Speakers will include Sir Peter Crane (University of Chicago), Cristián Samper (Director, National Museum of Natural History), Steve Schneider (Stanford University), Michael Donoghue (VP, Yale University) Achim Steiner (Director, UNEP), Yadvinder Mahli (Oxford University), Bruce Babbitt (former Secretary of the Interior), Tom Lovejoy (Heinz Center), Jim Collins (NSF), Andrew Revkin (New York Times), and scientists and policy makers from around the world.
Conference Sponsorship – It’s not too late to how your commitment to ecosystem health and biodiversity by sponsoring the Twenty-first Century Ecosystems: Systemic Risk and the Public Good. Please contact Maggie Goud Collins for more information (mcollins@nas.edu).
Online conference registration is open at this site. Watch for additional details at the USNC/DIVERSITAS website (http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-diversitas/index.html); the full agenda will be posted in the last week of January.
SPONSORS: NSF, AAAS, USGS, NOAA, NASA, Defenders of Wildlife, Smithsonian Institution, DIVERSITAS
It's times like this that I wish I lived near Washington.
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