What’s New? February 2009 Symposium to Highlight Biodiversity Policy The National Academy of Sciences and the USNC/DIVERSITAS will convene a symposium on the Science and Policy for Managing the Living World Two Centuries after the birth of Charles Darwin on February 11-12, 2009 at the AAAS Auditorium in Washington, DC. The symposium, entitled “Twenty-First Century Ecosystems: Systemic Risk and the Public Good,” will focus attention on opportunities for designing policies that strengthen and make use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as well as the dangers of pursuing policies that put ecosystems at risk. Conference registration will open in December. Download event announcement… SC-DIVERSITAS Chair Receives 2008 Tyler Prize Prof. H A (Hal) Mooney, Chair, SC-DIVERSITAS, has been awarded the 2008 Tyler Environmental Prize for his work in transforming ecology into a global discipline. Learn more about the 2008 Tyler Prize recipients… Land Change Science for Global Environmental Change View PNAS article on land change and its science by B. L. Turner II, Eric F. Lambin, and Anette Reenberg: The emergence of land change science for global environmental change and sustainability. PNAS 104 (52): 20666-20671. Link to PNAS (PDF) download. DIVERSITAS: An international program of biodiversity science Established in 1991 as an international program to address broad and complex issues related to global biodiversity, DIVERSITAS seeks to promote biodiversity research as an integrated science combining expertise in biology, ecology, geology, and the social sciences. DIVERSITAS is sponsored by four organizations: the International Council for Science (ICSU), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS), and the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE).		Who We Are… The U.S. National Committee for DIVERSITAS (USNC/DIVERSITAS) is charged with advancing DIVERSITAS as an international biodiversity science program that links biological, ecological and social disciplines. The USNC/DIVERSITAS is composed of representatives from academia, non-governmental organizations, and experts in the different DIVERSITAS program elements. The senior American member of the Scientific Steering Committee (SC) of the international DIVERSITAS program serves as an ex officio member of the committee. Presently the SC Chairman, Professor Hal Mooney serves on the USNC. Members of the SC and chairs of DIVERSITAS core programs and cross-cutting initiatives are invited to all USNC meetings. The USNC/DIVERSITAS represents the National Academy of Sciences and operates within the Board on International Scientific Organizations (BISO) of the Policy and Global Affairs Division. Learn more about the activities of the USNC/DIVERSITAS... DIVERSITAS: An integrative approach to biodiversity science The four core projects of DIVERSITAS are bioDISCOVERY, bioGENESIS, ecoSERVICES, and bioSUSTAINABILITY. Learn more about the mission of DIVERSITAS…		Upcoming Meetings 28 – 31 July 2008 Houston, Texas, USA 4th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology 29 September – 3 October 2008 Mexico The International Group of Funding Agencies for Global Change Research (IGFA) will hold its 2008 annual meeting in Mexico. Details to be found at: http://www.igfagcr.org 3 – 5 October 2008 Toronto, Canada 18th annual meeting of the Canadian Resource and Environmental Economics Study Group. More information visit: http://economics.ryerson.ca/cree. 5 – 9 October 2008 Estes Park, Colorado, USA Colorado State University’s Warner College will host this Pathways to Success 2008 Conference at the YMCA of the Rockies, entitled “Human Dimensions in Fisheries and Wildlife Management.” For more information, visit: http://www.warnercnr.colostate.edu/nrrt/hdfw 16 – 19 October 2009 Cape Town, South Africa The Second DIVERSITAS Open Science Conference (OSC2) will take place in South Africa next fall. Additional details to be found at: http://www.diversitas-osc.org/ 9 – 13 November 2008 Miami, Florida, USA 1st Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (IMBER) IMBIZO: Biogeochemical and Ecosystems Interactions in a Changing Ocean.” Imbizo is a Zulu word meaning “gathering” or “meeting.” For more information about this innovative series, visit: http://www.imber.info/imbizo.html View a complete list of activities on the DIVERSITAS calendar page...
				2007 DIVERSITAS Annual Report (PDF) is now available The DIVERSITAS newsletter is published every 3 months. Read the current issue.
				International Visitors Office Scientists and students traveling to the United States for professional activities can obtain information from the International Visitors Office, a program operated by the BISO. Sponsor The USNC/DIVERSITAS is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DBI-0222688.
Revised 12 November 2008