2008 World Water Week—Stockholm, Sweden: August 17-23, 2008.
This annual global meeting is designed to promote capacity-building, partnership, and follow-up on the implementation of international water development processes and programs. The event promotes the exchange of views and experiences between the scientific, business, policy, and civil society communities. This year’s theme, “Progress and Prospects on Water: For a clean and Healthy World,” has an emphasis on sanitation. Over 90 different plenary sessions, workshops, seminars, and other programs will be offered.
rosanna.ricciuti@siwi.org
www.worldwaterweek.org
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting: Celebrating the International Year of Planet Earth—Houston, Texas: October 5-9 2008.
The vision of this conference is to highlight and stimulate discussions on areas of common interest across a diversity of disciplines and organizations. Shared involvement in energy, water resources, education, and earth systems will foster a program of thousands of scientific papers, hundreds of exhibits, and a myriad of distinguished lecturers and special events to engage students and professionals in the earth sciences and in employment sectors.
wcox@geosociety.org
www.acsmeetings.org/2008/
46th Annual Conference of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA)—New Orleans, Louisiana: October 7-10, 2008.
The URISA Annual Conference traditionally attracts professionals interested in management/policy discussions on information technology (IT) and geographic information systems (GIS) issues. URISA 2008 will challenge participants to better manage, analyze, plan, and implement technology for more effective and efficient government operations.
info@urisa.org
www.urisa.org/conferences/aboutannual
Fourth National Conference on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration—Providence, Rhode Island: October 11-15, 2008.
This conference will address all aspects of coastal and estuarine habitat restoration on all scales. The five-day conference will explore the latest aspects of restoration and is comprised of field sessions, plenary sessions, expert presentations, special evening events, workshops, a poster hall, and a restoration exposition. The goal of this conference is to advance the science, scale, pace, practice, and success of habitat restoration an all scales. It brings together the entire coastal and estuarine habitat restoration community, providing a blend of people, policy, science, strategy, business, and best practices.
conference@estuaries.org
www.estuaries.org
14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering—Beijing, China: October 12-17, 2008.
Started in 1956 and held every four years, the World Conference on Earthquake Engineering is the most influential and largest professional event in the field of earthquake engineering. This year’s meeting will serve as an international forum at which more than 3,000 specialists, government officials, and non-governmental organization representatives in earthquake engineering and related fields will exchange their latest research results and technologies. It also serves as an opportunity for related vendors to display products and services. The conference strives to promote innovation, transformative practice, and durable safety in reducing the impact of earthquakes on society and the natural environment.
pco@14wcee.org
www.14wcee.org
IHDP Seventh Open Meeting: Social Challenges of Global Change—New Delhi, India: October 16-19, 2008.
This meeting, organized by the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IDHP) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), is applicable to the South Asian region, particularly India. The conference will follow outcomes from the Open Meeting in Bonn in 2005, which tried to outline the need for a more selective scientific approach. The four core issues to be addressed are: demographic challenges; limitations of resources and ecosystem services; maintenance of social cohesion while increasing global equity; and adaptation of institutions to address global change.
openmeeting@ihdp.unu.edu
www.openmeeting2008.org
Gender and Climate Change Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance—Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines: October 19-22, 2008.
Women in governance and environmental organizations, youth leaders, and media practitioners are encouraged to attend this meeting. The discussion on gender and climate change will be organized around identifying challenges to action, as well as defining appropriate responses to effectively address the impacts of climate change. Discussions will focus on defining and elaborating actions (i.e., preparedness, disaster risk reduction, adaptation, and mitigation) to cope with climate change and its impacts.
globalcongress2008@capwip.org
www.capwip.org
1868 Hayward Earthquake Alliance Third Conference on Earthquake Hazards in the Eastern San Francisco Bay Area—Hayward, California: October 22-24, 2008.
Meeting organizers include representatives from the California Geological Survey, the U.S. Geological Survey, CSU East Bay, University of California-Berkeley, and URS Corporation. This event commemorates the 140th anniversary of the 1868 Hayward Fault earthquake. The conference represents the third of a series of workshops, the last of which was held in 1992. It offers scientific presentations, a free public forum on earthquake hazards and preparedness, teacher workshops/tutorials on earthquake science, and geology and engineering field trips in the East Bay area. kknudsen@consrv.ca.gov
1868alliance.org/activities/?id=16
Interdisciplinary Climate Research Symposium—Saguaro Lake Ranch, Arizona: November 2-9, 2008.
The Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change Research connects natural and social scientists engaged in research related to climate change impacts and solutions. The goal is to broaden perspectives and establish a collegial peer network addressing climate challenges at the intersection of science and society. The annual symposium brings a select group of early career scientists interested in working across traditional disciplinary boundaries together. Conference participants will provide oral and poster presentations in plenary format, hone interdisciplinary communication and team skills, and discuss emerging issues with each other, as well as established researchers invited to serve as mentors.
phd@whitman.edu
www.disccrs.org
National Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Education Conference: Backyards and Beyond— Tampa, Florida: November 6-8, 2008.
This conference provides an opportunity to learn from those who work in the wildland/urban interface. More than 500 individuals from fire protection, mitigation, research, insurance, planning, and emergency management will gather to exchange ideas, share personal and professional experiences, and learn the latest developments in mitigation, organizing, and conducting community activities to improve safety and survival from wildfires.
www.firewise.org