2nd Biennial Conference of IBS - January 2005
The second biennial conference of the International Biogeography Society (IBS) will be held 5-9 January 2005 at the U.S. National Conservation Training Center (NCTC; http://training.fws.gov/), a 584-acre federal campus situated at Shepherdstown, WV, on the Potomac River approximately 85 miles northwest of Washington, D.C. The NCTC campus is suffused with a conservation theme, both philosophical and practical, and will thus serve as an excellent forum for IBS 2005 and its theme - Conservation Biogeography.
The structure of the 2005 meeting will be much like that of the inaugural meeting in Mesquite NV, with five symposia (consisting of five invited speakers each), and formal poster presentations over the 3-day period (6-8 of January). Registration, a tool-based workshop, naturalists led walks, and a society mixer will be held on January 5. An optional field trip for a behind the scenes tour to the Smithsonian Institute will be held on January 9. Additional workshops to engage government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and biogeographers concerned with the application of biogeographic principals to the conservation of biological diversity will be held before and after the meeting.