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The International Society of Limnology (formerly International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology; Societas Internationalis Limnologiae, SIL) promotes and communicates new and emerging knowledge among limnologists to advance the understanding of inland aquatic ecosystems and their management. The aim of SIL, which was founded in 1922, is to further the study and understanding of all aspects of limnology. A primary means toward this end is through the organization of triennial congresses to promote scientific intercourse among those pursuing fundamental research and those concerned with practical fishery, pollution, and water-supply problems. Generally about a week is devoted to contributed papers and discussions and a week or longer for scientific excursions to lakes and rivers, laboratories, fishery institutions, places where pollution problems are being addressed, and water treatment facilities. Any member is entitled to give a lecture on one of a great diversity of subjects of special interest. A few authorities are invited to lecture on subjects of particular current interest and other speakers are encouraged to make contributions to selected themes of either outstanding universal topicality or of special relevance to the host country. ... [Information of the supplier]
A considerable number of interdisciplinary researches have been developed at the interface between hydrology and ecology during the last decade. The increasing number of peer-reviewed papers on the topic demonstrates the vitality of this theme. This interest in coupling hydrological and ecological studies has been triggered by purely scientific questions related to the quantification of the role of interactions between hydrological and biological processes on surface and groundwater resources and quality, but also by the importance of these physical and biological interactions at small, local and regional scales. These scales are of paramount importance for applied environmental issues related to air and water quality or biodiversity dynamics for instance. The aim of this fourth conference after the three last ones in Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czech Republic in 2006, and in Vienna in Austria in 2009 and 2011, is fourfold: i) to present new findings and approaches on interactions between hydrology and ecology, ii) to promote interdisciplinary interactions on water related issues between hydrology, hydrogeology, biogeochemistry, microbial ecology and ecology, iii) to explore emerging patterns, breakthroughs and Challenges, and iv) to provide management applications and guidelines to tackle environmental issues. To address the relevant issues, the conference aims to bring together experts from different disciplines such as hydrologists (groundwater, surface water), ecologists, biologists, subsurface microbiologists, environmental biogeochemists, eco-technologists, geomorphologists, hydraulic engineers, forest managers, nature reserve managers, regional and landscape planners, as well as experts from governmental institutions. ... [Information of the supplier]
FINS is the Freshwater Invasives – Networking for Strategy conference being hosted by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) and the European Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Advisory Commission (EIFAAC). FINS will address key topics relating to freshwater invasive species and harmful aquatic pathogens. The primary objective of the conference is to provide a forum where international scientists, policy makers and stakeholders will address designated themes with a view to informing management and policy development in this increasingly important area. The themes that will provide the focus for deliberations during the conference will be: Policy & Strategy, Biosecurity, Management and Economics. Invited experts from around the globe will address the above themes, with ample time given to panel discussion. Workshop sessions led by the keynote speakers and other experts, as required, will provide the main focus of the conference and will be arranged to facilitate involvement of all delegates in relatively small groups. Synthesis sessions will aim to draw firm conclusions from the discussions and put forward concrete recommendations that will inform both national and international policy makers. ... [Information of the supplier]
Im Namen des Organisationsteams heißen wir Sie herzlich willkommen zur diesjährigen 29. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Limnologie (DGL), die am Campus Griebnitzsee zwischen Potsdam und Berlin vom 9.-13.9.2013 parallel mit der 43. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Ökologie (GfÖ) stattfinden wird. Die DGL-Tagung wird gemeinsam von der Universität Potsdam und dem Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB) veranstaltet. Wie gewohnt wird es Fachvorträge in Parallelsessions und Poster zu allen aktuellen Themen der angewandten und forschenden Limnologie und Gewässerökologie geben. Darüber hinaus werden interessante Plenarvorträge und Vorträge von jungen WissenschaftlerInnen im Rahmen des Nachwuchspreises das Programm bereichern. Als diesjährige Besonderheit bieten wir außerdem gemeinsame Sessions mit der Gesellschaft für Ökologie (GfÖ) unter dem Tagungsmotto „Building bridges in ecology - linking systems, scales and disciplines“ an, womit wir den Austausch zwischen aquatischen und terrestrischen Ökologen intensivieren wollen. ... [Information des Anbieters]
We are very pleased to invite you to the 13th Symposium SAME, this year called First EMBO Conference on Aquatic Microbial Ecology: SAME13 after the very welcome acknowledgment of the quality of the SAME series by the European Molecular Biology Organization. The meeting will be held in Stresa, on the shore of Lake Maggiore (Italy), from September 8th to 13th, 2013. This meeting will be organized in the tradition of the very successful SAME symposia, coupling the outstanding scientific level of lectures and communications to the unique convivial atmosphere of SAME. ... [Information of the supplier]
The conference will aim to communicate recent advances in: 1. Aquatic biodiversity: assessment, monitoring, conservation and management 2. Aquatic habitats - biodiversity interrelations 3. Aquatic biodiversity and alien species 4. Aquatic microbial ecology 5. Food web interactions and aquatic productivity 6. Wetlands biodiversity 7. Research methods in aquatic ecology / biodiversity 8. Ecologic reconstruction and the biodiversity 9. Human impact and the aquatic biodiversity 10. Global changes ... [Information of the supplier]
The aim of this fifth HydroEco conference – after the four previous meetings, in Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czech Republic in 2006, in Vienna in Austria in 2009 and 2011, and in Rennes in France in 2013 – is fourfold: i) to present new findings and approaches on interactions between hydrology and ecology, ii) to promote interdisciplinary interactions on water related issues between hydrology, hydrogeology, biogeochemistry, microbial ecology and ecology, iii) to explore advances in monitoring, modelling and predicting dynamics of hydroecological processes, and iv) to discuss management approaches and applications to tackle environmental issues, including engineering measures for ecosystem preservation and restoration of ecologically valuable environments.To address the relevant issues, the conference aims to bring together experts from different disciplines such as hydrologists (groundwater, surface water), ecologists, biologists, subsurface microbiologists, environmental biogeochemists, eco-technologists, geomorphologists, hydraulic engineers, forest managers, nature reserve managers, regional and landscape planners, as well as experts from governmental institutions. The unifying theme is the interaction between groundwater and (or) /surface water and ecological systems. A typical example is the hyporheic zone in riparian areas, where the ecological system interacts with water and chemical flows between surface water, groundwater and unsaturated soil zone. ... [Information of the supplier]
Das lokale Organisationstem lädt Sie herzlich zur 30. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Limnologie ein. Das Treffen wird in diesem Jahr vom Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ und der Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal mit Unterstützung von F&U Confirm veranstaltet. Die wissenschaftlichen Sitzungen werden auf dem Magdeburger Campus "Herrenkrug" der Hochschule gehalten. Genaueres zu Terminen und Veranstaltungsprogramm entnehmen Sie bitte den Angaben unter entsprechenden Rubriken. ... [Information des Anbieters]
Essen liegt im Zentrum des Ruhrgebietes, einer der am dichtesten besiedelten Regionen Europas. Die Region war lange Zeit ein Synonym für massive Umweltverschmutzung. Der Himmel war grau, ebenso das Wasser in den Bächen und Flüssen. Heute gehört das Ruhrgebiet zu den grünsten Metropolen Deutschlands und ist zudem Schauplatz des weltweit größten Vorhabens zur naturnahen Umgestaltung eines Gewässers: dem Umbau des Emschersystems. Der Himmel ist wieder blau, ebenso wie das Wasser in den Bächen und Flüssen. „Wasser“ ist ein schnell wachsendes Schwerpunktthema der Universität Duisburg-Essen. Zwei technische, vier chemische und vier biologische Arbeitsgruppen haben wässerige Forschungsgebiete, weitere Arbeitsgruppen werden in den nächsten Jahren entstehen. Die meisten dieser Arbeitsgruppen betreiben angewandte Forschung in den Bereichen Biofilme, Ökotoxikologie und Ressourcenmanagement. Seit Jahren begleiten Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler der Universität zudem die Umsetzung von Umweltschutzmaßnahmen und Rechtsnormen. Insofern ist es konsequent, dass die DGL-Tagung in Essen mit einem wichtigen Datum der europäischen Gewässerschutzpolitik zusammenfällt: der ersten Zielerreichungsfrist der Wasserrahmenrichtlinie für den guten ökologischen Zustand bzw. das gute ökologische Potenzial der Oberflächengewässer. Dieses Jubiläum -15 Jahre EG-Wasserrahmenrichtlinie- sollte ein Anlass für einen kritischen Rückblick und Ausblick sein: Wo stehen wir im Gewässerschutz? Was hat sich getan, was haben wir erreicht? Was haben wir (noch) nicht erreicht? Und was ist überhaupt erreichbar? Vor diesem Hintergrund wird die Tagung, 25 Jahre nach der letzten DGL-Tagung in Essen, einen besonderen Schwerpunkt auf angewandte Themen legen—ohne jedoch Grundlagenthemen zu vernachlässigen. Wir wollen zudem dazu beitragen, die Verbindung der Anwender aus Behörden, Wasserwirtschaft und Unternehmen mit der DGL weiter zu stärken. Die Tagung wird daher in enger Kooperation mit den großen Wasserwirtschaftsverbänden in Essen ausgerichtet: Emschergenossenschaft, Lippeverband und Ruhrverband. Verschiedene Exkursionsangebote zu wasserwirtschaftlichen Maßnahmen, unter anderem zu einigen Großbaustellen der Gewässerentwicklung in Nordrhein-Westfalen, sollen die praktischen Aspekte des Gewässerschutzes anschaulich vor Augen führen. Das Themenspektrum bleibt dabei, wie gewohnt, vielfältig. ... [Information des Anbieters]
We live on a blue planet. Yet freshwater makes up only 3 % of all water on earth, 2 % of which is locked up in snow and ice, leaving just 1 % for all of us to use. The availability of clean freshwater is vital for life, humans and nature alike. UNEP estimates, however, that by 2025 two out of three people will live in water stressed areas. Yet other parts of the world will be subject to increased flood risks. Nature in rivers, lakes and wetlands is equally dependent on ample, clean freshwater. Changes in the global water cycle instigated by changes in precipitation snow and ice-melt, which are part of global changes in climate, will enhance the uncertainty in the availability of freshwater in the (near) future. Moreover, freshwater systems are under extreme pressure from modification, over-exploitation, eutrophication and pollution. This is a threat to the extraordinary level of biodiversity these systems maintain. Other important services freshwater systems provide are the provision of drinking water, irrigation, fisheries and recreation. These services can only be maintained if the freshwater ecosystems maintain their resilience under stress. The functioning and resilience of ecosystems is strongly dependent on the level of biodiversity. What emerges is that various global crises – loss of biodiversity, climate change and water scarcity – interact and may strengthen each other. All of this requires much better governance of the increasingly limited water supplies as well as proper management of water quantity, quality and aquatic biodiversity. For this freshwater sciences are indispensable. It has been 100 years since François Alphonse Forel passed away. Forel, the founder of Limnology, lived and worked in the Lake Geneva area and published his major work on this lake “Le Leman” between 1892 and 1902. One could say that by hosting SEFS in Geneva in 2015 freshwater sciences are coming home. A time to commemorate more than a century of freshwater studies, but above all a time to look ahead, since in the 21st century freshwater sciences are needed more than ever before. ... [Information of the supplier]
