Meetings

June 7 & 8th are the dates for the 2012 Peter Yodzis Colloquium in Fundamental Ecology. We are pleased now to follow up with more information regarding the line up of invited speakers and a reminder that registration is now open at http://yodziscolloquium.wordpress.com/.

The theme of the program, developed with financial assistance from the Ontario Ministries of Natural Resources and Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, is "Sustainability, Socio-ecological Complexity and Adaptive Management". The 2-day Colloquium will focus on the challenges of conservation of biodiversity in the Anthropocene, and the opportunities for science at the policy interface. Featured speakers from academic, government, non-government and resource industry sectors will share their experiences and insights regarding the roles of decision analysis and adaptive management for confronting and reducing uncertainty that threatens to undermine conservation efforts. More information about the Colloquium can be found in the attachments and at the website above. Tom Nudds Professor. Please see PDF's attached for more information.

Please join us for one of the next Research Enterprise and Scholarly Communication workshops taking place from noon to 1:00 pm in Room 103 in the Library.

May 16
Depositing your work online in the Atrium, the University of Guelph Institutional Repository. This workshop will discuss ways to maximize global access to your research and ways to preserve your intellectual output. Topics will include content selection; copyright and access permissions; metadata creation; document preparation and formatting; repository policies; and deposit procedures.

June 6
Assessing Impact of Research: Citing References & Journal Impact Factors. Topics of this workshop include cited reference searching, verifying the impact of a journal, finding out who is citing a published work, and a discussion about the latest ways scholars are demonstrating impact.

You are invited to fill out the registration form by visiting:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHJIalMtM2VDOGlpN3FIQlB0R0cyb2c6MQ 

The International Advisory Board is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Ninth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability and the call for submissions to the peer-reviewed International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability. 
http://onsustainability.com/conference-2013/

The International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability will be held 23 - 25 January 2013 at the International Conference Center Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan. This interdisciplinary conference is for scholars, teachers, and practitioners from any professional discipline who share an interest in and concern for sustainability in an holistic perspective, where environmental, cultural, economic and social concerns intersect. Proposals are invited that address issues of sustainability through one of the following categories:

a) Environmental Sustainability: What have been the forms and effects of human interventions on nature?  How can we create a viable home for ourselves and the other lifeforms of the planet?

b) Cultural Sustainability:  How does culture forge a productive diversity for the human species as well as nurture the sources of cohesion in ways of seeing, ways of thinking, ways of meaning, ways of relating to each other, ways of connecting with nature?

c) Economic Sustainability:  How can we create economic systems which are environmentally, culturally, and socially viable?

d) Social Sustainability:  What allows for all our participation as autonomous yet social beings? How do we promote good citizenship and ensure justice? How do we integrate the four fundamentals of environment, culture, economy and society so we can address our human futures and live to the full our human potentials?

Dear students and faculty of the humanities and social sciences:

Are you registered for the Canada’s largest academic gathering celebrating research, ideas and collaborations in the humanities and social sciences?

Online registration for the 2012 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is open and the early-bird registration deadline is March 31 st .

Don’t miss 8-days of stellar programming , keynote lectures, professional development session, panels, receptions and cultural events in Kitchener-Waterloo. Congress runs from May 26 to June 2 , is being co-hosted by Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo, and will encompass the annual meetings of about 70 scholarly associations, with many events open to all attendees.

Keynote lecturers this year include: Margaret Atwood, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Mary Eberts, Chris Hedges, Janine Brodie and Jane Urquhart, with more to be announced!
Please share this news widely among your networks or visit http://congress2012.ca/planning/logos/ for logos, blurbs, ads and other tools that allow you to promote Congress via your website or newsletter.
For customized ads, write-ups, blog posts and more ideas for sharing Congress within your community, please email Ahebbs@fedcan.ca or call 613-238-6112 ext. 351.
Regards, Alison Hebbs Director, Policy and Communications~Directrice en politiques et communications
CFHSS~FCSH  ahebbs@fedcan.ca 613-238-6112 poste 351

As you may know proteomics is the new science that identifies and measures the presence of thousands of proteins from biological samples and involves physics, mathematics and chemistry. This is a cutting edge science where Canadians are leading internationally. The Canadian National Proteomics conference will be in Toronto this April and we have noticed that apparently we have not targeted our message well to the University of X since there were few submissions.

I would deeply appreciate you help since the Canadian National Proteomic Network has few members from the OAC at the University of Guelph despite its prominence in Canadian Biology. Best Regards Associate Professor John G Marshall Ryerson University Treasurer CNPN Subject line: "7 days left to register for the Canadian National Proteomics annual conference in Toronto April 23-25th MTCC"

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE IN SOCIETY University of California, Berkeley, USA     
17 - 19 November 2012