{"id":78,"date":"2007-09-21T08:57:25","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T12:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2007-09-21T08:57:25","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T12:57:25","slug":"nas-colloquium-ile-ii-biodiversity-and-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2007\/09\/21\/nas-colloquium-ile-ii-biodiversity-and-extinction\/","title":{"rendered":"NAS Colloquium -“ILE II: Biodiversity and Extinction”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Colleague:
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\nThis is to invite you to attend an Arthur M. Sackler colloquium, In the Light of Evolution II: Biodiversity and Extinction<\/em><\/strong>, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences.\u00c2 The Colloquium will be December 6-8, 2007<\/strong>, at the Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering in Irvine, California.\u00c2 A preliminary program can be viewed at www.nasonline.or.
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\nDarwin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s experience as a natural historian contributed greatly to his explanation of evolution by natural selection, which stands as one of the grand intellectual achievements in the history of science. The Earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exuberant biodiversity is a wellspring for scientific curiosity and discovery about nature\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s workings. Bringing together leading researchers and students interested in biodiversity from evolutionary as well as ecological perspectives, this colloquium seeks to synthesize recent discoveries and concepts regarding the global abundance and distribution of biodiversity, and to compare the biodiversity patterns to conditions in the near and distant evolutionary past, as well as to those plausible in the near-term future.
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\nAttendance at the Colloquium is limited to 250 registered individuals.\u00c2 To facilitate the participation of younger scientists, we request that you extend this invitation to interested graduate students and postdocs.\u00c2 The NAS has provided funds to supplement the expenses of participating graduate students and postdocs up to $125 for hotel costs and up to $300 for air travel.\u00c2 Awards will be granted with priority based exclusively on the order in which requests (accompanied by the registration fee<\/strong>) are received.\u00c2 Notification of the award will be made shortly after receiving the application but the awards will be paid after<\/strong> the Colloquium, upon documentation of qualifying expenses.
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\nPlease register on the NAS website http:\/\/www.nasonline.org\/Sackler_biodiversity<\/a>.\u00c2 Registrations will be accepted only when the registration fee is included and in the order in which they are received.\u00c2 The registration fee is $350<\/strong>, which includes the cost of meals, reception, and banquet.\u00c2 However, an early registration fee of $250<\/strong> (also including meals, reception, and banquet) is available to those posting their registration by November 1, 2007.<\/strong>\u00c2 A reduced all-inclusive registration fee of $150<\/strong> is offered to Graduate Students and Postdocs<\/strong> who register by November 1, 2007<\/strong>.
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\n<\/strong>After submitting your online registration form and payment, you will receive an email confirmation including details for reserving a room at the Hyatt Regency Newport Beach at the discounted rate of $118 per night.\u00c2 \u00c2 <\/strong>Please do not call the hotel directly for room reservations as the discounted rate is only available through the Academy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s travel agency.\u00c2 After November 1, 2006, we cannot guarantee that a hotel room will be available. Shuttle bus service between the hotel and the Beckman Center will be provided free of charge at specified times.
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\nSincerely yours,
\nJohn C. Avise, Stephen P. Hubbell and Francisco J. Ayala
\nColloquium Organizing Committee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is to invite you to attend an Arthur M. Sackler colloquium, In the Light of Evolution II: Biodiversity and Extinction, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences. The Colloquium will be December 6-8, 2007, at the Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering in Irvine, California. A preliminary program can be viewed at www.nasonline.or.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-news-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}