Biogeosciences Calendar

Meetings and Events

December 2008

1-5 December 2008, University of California, Irvine, California, USA International Conference on Water Scarcity, Global Changes, and Groundwater Management Responses: Global changes—such as population growth, climate variability, and expanding urbanization, often combined with pollution—severely affect water availability and lead to chronic water shortage in a growing number of regions. It is estimated that within 25 years two-thirds of the world’s inhabitants will live in countries with serious water problems. This conference aims to bring together leading water management and climate change experts, scientists and engineers, policy-makers, lawyers and economists, and executives of water services of local and regional authorities to solve global water issues that we face in the future.
2-5 December 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA 2008 NGWA Ground Water Expo: Come join your fellow ground water professionals for the 2008 NGWA Ground Water Expo and Annual Meeting taking place December 2-5 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. This year's event should be an extra special one as the National Ground Water Association is celebrating its 60th anniversary as well as the International Year of Planet Earth! The Expo will offer an unparalleled educational program, an exhibit hall showcasing the latest in equipment and technological innovations, a multitude of networking opportunities, and much more.
14-17 December 2008, Djibouti, République de Djibouti International Symposium in Hydrogeology (SIHD): Includes themes such as: Volcanic rocks hydrogeology, Prospection of volcanic aquifers, Groundwater Recharge, Natural environment, water resources uses and vulnerability, Modeling of volcanic aquifers, Geothermal reservoirs in volcanic medium, Sustainable development of groundwater, Water policies and institutional issues. 01 July 2008 : Opening registration and online payment. 30 July 2008 : Abstracts' submission deadline. End of October : Articles' submission deadline.
15-19 December 2008, San Fransisco, California, USA American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting: The Fall Meeting is expected to draw a crowd of over 15,000 geophysicists from around the world. There will be two sessions that directly apply to biogeosciences; entitled B05: Peat Soils: Natural Archives of Information on Sea-level Rise, Landscape Evolution, and Anthropogenic Disturbance and B23: Environmental and Ecological Consequences of Deploying Second Generation Biofuels on the Landscape. You are encouraged to submit an abstract to either session (Online Submission Deadline - 10 September 2008). With your participation, both should be exciting and highly visible sessions.

November 2008

October 2008

5-9 October 2008, George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas, USA 2008 Joint Annual Meeting: The International Year of Planet Earth: Come to the annual j oint meeting between The Geological Society of America (GSA), Soil Science Society of America (SSSA), American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies with the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM (GCAGS), hosted by the Houston Geological Society (HGS). Our vision is to highlight and stimulate discussions in areas of common interest across the diversity of disciplines and organizations represented. Shared involvement in Energy, Water Resources, Education, and Earth Systems, to name a few, will foster a program comprised of thousands of scientific papers, hundreds of exhibits, and a myriad of distinguished lectures and special events, to engage students and professionals across the earth sciences and in every employment sector.
8-10 October 2008, Athens, Greece 8th International Hydrogeological Congress of Greece & 3rd Workshop on Fissured Rocks Hydrology: The goal of the congress is the presentation and development of opinions and solutions of the contemporary Hydrogeologic problems in connection with the promotion of knowledge and science. Special care will be paid to Water and Environment in general, as well as Fissured Rocks Hydrology. These rocks constitute the last “solution in search of underground water” for many areas, nationally and internationally.
13-16 October 2008, Portland, Maine, USA AGU Chapman Conference on Biogeophysics: “Biogeophysics” is a rapidly evolving Earth science discipline concerned with the geophysical signatures of (1) microbial cells themselves in the Earth, (2) the interaction between microorganisms and subsurface geologic media, and (3) alteration of the physical properties of geologic media as a result of microbial activity. It is a new interdisciplinary field of research that spans established disciplines of Environmental Microbiology, Geomicrobiology, and Geophysics.
20-23 October 2008, The Banff Center, Alberta, Canada The Geoscience of Climate Change: The conference will consist of two and one half days of invited oral presentations. Additional presentations by poster-display are to be solicited from the geoscience community. The conference will conclude with a one-day field trip to examine the record of Holocene climate change in the Banff-Calgary area. .
26-31 October 2008, Toyama City, Japan 36th Congress of IAH; Integrating Groundwater Science and Human Well-Being: The main theme of the Congress in 2008 is "Integrating groundwater science and human well-being˜. This is based on the idea that we, the experts have to deepen our understanding on groundwater by integrating many issues concerning groundwater such as disasters, climate changes, groundwater management and ecosystems. Then, we have to help disseminate the correct scientific knowledge on groundwater issues to people from all walks of life, especially government officers, citizens and children through dialogues with them, which we believe will lead to increased recognition of the value of groundwater to all human and wildlife on the globe and eventually enhance human well-being.

September 2008

8-10 September 2008, Brisbane, Australia 9th International Congress for Applied Mineralogy - ICAM 2008: Attend the ICAM committee's quadrennial event to review the progress and discuss the future of applied mineralogy. Scientist and engineers join together to develop new tools and methods to help the mining industry to recover more valuables, to reduce operational and capital costs, and to minimize environmental and social impact. The main theme of this Congress is“Automating Quantitative Mineralogy”, which is appropriate because Brisbane is the world-wide focus of automated mineralogy with the two suppliers of the technology based in this city.
The Program
If you are interested in participating in this event as an author, delegate, sponsor or exhibition or would like to suggest themes you would like covered in the Congress Program, please complete the online Expression of Interest form. Your suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
8-11 September 2008, North Wales, United Kingdom 13th Biennial Challenger Special Interest Group Meeting: Biogeochemistry and Biophysical Interactions in the Oceans: This year, a Challenger joint SIG meeting for Advances in Biogeochemistry / Biophysical Interactions will be held in North Wales, UK, hosted by the Martin Ryan Marine Science Institute at Bangor University. Broad themes for the meeting include: Ocean atmosphere interactions and biogeochemical cycling; Observing and modelling the oceans; The oceans in past and future climate change; and Biological, physical and chemical processes and interactions. The meeting will also include workshops in topics such as: Why We Need a Marine Science Strategy; Advances during IPY and future challenges for early career scientists; and Communicating research and education at the European level: The role of the EFMS.
10-11 September 2008, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Environmental Information Management 2008: This conference is intended to bring together informatics practitioners, developers and environmental scientists interested in technologies that enable data collection, description, curation, discovery, access, integration and analysis in all disciplines of environmental research. It provides a forum to build partnerships, explore solutions to the common challenges faced by environmental observatories, and to present advances in community standards, practical system design, implementation and assessment. Share your experiences and knowledge both informally and formally with an oral presentation that will be published in the Conference Proceedings, or a poster or a demonstration of new developments. Provide input to the discussion of future meeting venues and formats.
20-24 September 2008, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA 3rd International Professional Geologic Conference: The American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG) and the Arizona Hydrological Society (AHS) are hosting their Annual Meetings in conjunction with the 3rd International Professional Geology Conference (3rd IPGC) at the High Country Conference Center at the Northern Arizona University (NAU) and the Radisson Hotel in Flagstaff, Arizona. The conference will focus on the many contirbutions geoscientist make to the well being of the world. Geoscientists are a diverse community of professionals that work to uncover and discover the resources needed to sustain and enhance life and that contribute greatly to each nation’s economy, environment, public health and welfare.
22-24 September 2008, Florence, Italy GeoMod2008: The GeoMod2008 represents a follow-up of the two successful geological modelling meetings held in Milan (RealMod2002) and Lucerne (GeoMod2004). The conference will offer the opportunity to present and discuss the latest research results, and aims to bring together researchers from universities and industries who deal with analogue and/or numerical modelling. Particularly welcome are contributions entailing a strong interaction between modelling results and geological data from real-world case studies.

August 2008

3-8 August 2008, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 93rd Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Meeting: The theme for this year's meeting is Enhancing Ecological Thought by Linking Research and Education, and will illustrate instances in which research endeavors benefited from careful attention to public policy concerns, outreach and educational activities. This highlights our continuing attempts to relate research to policy and management and to communicate effectively the implications of our research. Opportunities exist for enterprising students at all levels to carry out fascinating ecological research. Incorporating interdisciplinary concepts is central to both public understanding of ecology and our ability to educate the ecologists of the future. This gathering will illustrate how effective collaborations are developed amongst the numerous disciplines related to ecology. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, located on the shores of Lake Michigan, offers many opportunities to explore this theme.
6-14 August 2008, Oslo, Norway 33rd International Geological Congress: In 2008 the Nordic countries will arrange the 33rd International Geological Congress, 33IGC, in Oslo 6-14 August. The Congress will run with 40 parallel sessions and cover the whole spectrum of geosciences. There will be a major poster session as well as a large exhibition - Geoexpo 2008 - in which Nordic and international industry and other organizations will be able to exhibit their products and services.
During the Congress 7 major themes will be treated in full-day plenary sessions of lectures given by invited lecturers. The themes comprise early life and biodiversity, natural hazards, climate change, energy, mineral resources, water and health, and planetary geosciences. Focus is placed on both scientific and societal aspects. Nordic ministers will be invited to open these sessions and to participate in panel debates and press conferences related to these “Themes of the day”.
11-12 August 2008, Trondheim, Norway Nor-Fishing Technology Conference (NFTC): The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Institute of Marine Research, SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture Ltd and The Nor-Fishing Foundation are holding a conference on sustainable fishing methods on August 11-12. The fishing fleet for the future must be based on principles of sustainable utilization of raw materials from the sea. The environmental dimension of sustainable fisheries involves exploitation with a long- term perspective in mind, which means that future generations also must be able to fulfil their needs for fish. The main topics include Future catching platforms and strategies - consequences and capabilities of future technology, Traceability and Quality Control, and Methods and Strategies to Analyse and Improve the Environmental Efficiency of the Fishing Industry.
17-20 August 2008, Perth, Australia Inaugural Global Geotourism Conference: It gives me great pleasure to convene the Inaugural Global Geotourism Conference ‘Discover the Earth beneath our Feet’ being held in Fremantle, Western Australia. It has been organised by a dedicated team of enthusiasts who have been working on this exciting event for the last three years. The Conference will be a hallmark event that promises to set a benchmark for the tourism industry in relation to the development, management and marketing of geotourism. The conference will also examine many aspects of Geoheritage as well as discuss the growing Geoparks movement. The program includes presentations from a range of outstanding keynote and invited speakers who are acknowledged leaders in their fields. They will be supported by papers, panel sessions, workshops and posters.
18-22 August 2008, London, UK Geochemistry of the Earth's Surface 8 (GES-8): The Geochemistry of the Earth’s Surface conference series is now in its 21st year. The GES organization is a working group of the International Association of GeoChemistry (IAGC). This years conference will be held at The Natural History Museum in London, UK. The conference will cover the geochemistry of the immediate surface of the earth; air, rocks, water and life as they occur both naturally and as perturbed by man.
Presentations comprise a series of extended oral presentations by invited speakers together with poster presentations by delegates. The overall goal of the research that is discussed at the meetings is to understand the processes governing chemical reactions at the earth’s surface. This understanding will provide solutions to many present and future global and local environmental problems.
Sessions: Mineral weathering, Synchrotrons in environmental science, Global geochemical cycles and climate change, Contaminated environments and toxicology, Biomineralisation, Environment and Human Health.
24-27 August, 2008, Cork, Ireland Agricultural Biotechnology International Conference (ABIC): The ABIC foundation is having their biennial conference at the University of Cork in Cork, Ireland. The Foundation's goal is to ensure ongoing opportunities for continuous learning and networking within the agricultural biotechnology community. The conference is composed of both plenary and parallel sessions and will host a trade exhibition. Topics include: Ag-Biotech: The sustainability challenge facing society and the economy, Biofuels & Bioenergy Biotech, Marine & Algal Biotechnology, Plant genetic engineering, Seed, fruit & reproductive biotechnology, and Animal genomics & biotechnology.

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