IBS meeting - Travel awards

Dear Biogeographers

The International Biogeography Society and the Paleontological Society are awarding travel grants for students and post-docs (i.e. received the PhD less than two years ago) to attend the 2013 IBS biennial meeting, 9-13 January 2013 in Miami, Florida. Grants will be awarded to individuals giving oral and poster presentations at the meeting; all applicants must be current members of the International Biogeography Society.

The standardized application form for all awards can be downloaded from the conference web site. Applications and supporting materials are due by September 30th, 2012.  Awards include registration, attendance at a workshop, and up to $500 of travel costs.

If you or anyone you know of could benefit from these awards, please refer them to http://www.biogeography.org/html/Meetings/2013/travelawards.html for details and contact ibstravelawards@gmail.com with any questions.

If you are a student yourself, please note that all applicants must be current members of the International Biogeography Society.  If you are not a current member and are otherwise eligible for the awards, you can renew here prior to applying:
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Registration is now OPEN for the 

6th Biennial Conference of the  International Biogeography Society
North Miami, Florida, USA - January 9-13th

The meeting is built around four successive SYMPOSIA (10th & 11th January)  each with a suite of leading international scientists and *openings for contributed papers*:

1. Island Biogeography: new syntheses
    (Organizers: Rob Whittaker & Kostas Triantis).
2. Beyond Bergmann:  new persectives on the biogeography of traits

    (Organizers: Adam C. Algar and Nathan G. Swenson).
3. The convergence of conservation paleontology and biogeography

    (Organizers:  Jenny McGuire & Edward Davis).
4. Predicting species and biodiversity in a warmer world:  are we doing a good job?

    (Organizers:  Antoine Guisan & Niklaus E. Zimmermann).

The meeting also has 12 sessions of CONTRIBUTED PAPERS (12th January) on key topics:
i.  Island biogeography
ii.  Neotropical biogeography
iii.  Climate-change biogeography
iv. Conservation biogeography
v.  Pre-quaternary paleoecology and biogeography
vi.  Quaternary paleoecology
vii.  Phylogeography
viii.  Marine biogeography
ix.  Natural disturbance biogeography
x.  Global-scale biogeography
xi.  Hot topics in biogeography

Dr. Jim Brown will give a keynote lecture after receiving the Alfred Russel Wallace Award, recognizing his lifetime of outstanding contributions to biogeography.
&
Dr. Miguel Araújo will give a keynote lecture after receiving the Macarthur & Wilson Award, a new award recognizing an early-research individual for a notable, innovative contribution to biogeography.

In addition, before the meeting, on the 9th of January, five WORKSHOPS will be held: Biodiversity Informatics Training, Biogeography of Stress, Communicating Biogeography, Popular Science Writing, & an Introduction to Bayesian Statistical Analysis.

On the 9th & 13th of January, arranged FIELD EXCURSIONS will visit a number of Florida's beautiful biogeographic locations.

Check out the IBS meeting website for more details and to register (http://www.biogeography.org/html/Meetings/2013/index.html)