[Pollinator] Fwd: Special Symposium Notice

Wed Aug 12 17:38:39 PDT 2015

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From: Peter Hoch <PETER.HOCH at mobot.org>
Date: Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 1:19 AM
Subject: Special Symposium Notice
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My apologies if you received this mailing from other sources, but here is
the notice for an exciting symposium – “*Biological Extinction and Climate
Change*” – to be held at *Washington University on Friday, 11 September*
(it is unclear if any talks will be presented on Thursday, 10 Sept)*.* The
speakers are excellent, and the topic could not be more timely. And the
price is right – free! Please see the link below for registration, and feel
free to forward to any interested colleagues.

Registration is now available for the Symposium on Biological Extinctions
and Climate Change to be held September 10-11, 2015 in St. Louis, Missouri
at Washington University in St. Louis.  To register, please visit here
<http://mailingsresponse.wustl.edu/trk/click?ref=z1030up2e7_0-fe9x3113ex0265&>.
The symposium is organized by Prof. Peter Raven and Prof. Camille Parmesan.

With major world-wide climate negotiations looming this December (COP21 in
Paris), there is an urgent need for the conservation and biodiversity
communities to reassess the 2°C threshold as defining "dangerous" climate
change, as agreed on by 180+ nations in the Copenhagen Accord (2009). To
this end, this symposium will provide an up-to-date discussion centered on
the theme of extinctions and climate change from the viewpoints of the many
different disciplines that can inform on this topic.

This symposium will represent our current understanding of how rapid
climate change impacts population and species' extinctions from the
perspectives of:

   1. the distant past, through a paleobiology lens
   2. the recent past, through understanding observed impacts of
   anthropogenic climate change
   3. the near future, via modeled projections of impacts of anthropogenic
   climate change

and will synthesize how well anthropogenic climate change has been
incorporated into biodiversity conservation sectors, in terms of our
current ability:

   1. to assess extinction risk
   2. develop conservation priorities
   3. prevent species' extinctions

Organizers and invited speakers:

   - Wendy Foden, PhD, Chair, IUCN Species Survival Commission Climate
   Change Specialist Group, South Africa
   - Brian Huntley, PhD, Professor in the School of Biological and
   Biomedical Sciences, University of Durham, United Kingdom
   - Stephen Jackson, PhD, Center Director of the U.S. Department of
   Interior Southwest Climate Science Center, United States
   - Joshua J. Lawler, PhD, Associate Professor in the School of Forest
   Resources, University of Washington, United States
   - Guy Midgley, PhD, Professor in the Department of Botany and Zoology,
   University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
   - Camille Parmesan, PhD, National Marine Aquarium Chair in the Public
   Understanding of Oceans and Human Health, University of Plymouth, United
   Kingdom
   - Peter Raven, PhD, George Engelmann Professor of Botany Emeritus in
   Arts & Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis and President Emeritus
   of the Missouri Botanical Garden, United States
   - Rebecca Shaw, PhD, Associate Vice President & Senior Lead Scientist,
   Environmental Defense Fund, United States
   - Stephen Williams, PhD, Professor in the Centre for Tropical
   Biodiversity and Climate Change, James Cook University, Australia

The Symposium on Climate Change and Biodiversity is hosted by the
Washington University Climate Change Initiative and will be held at
Washington University in St. Louis.  To register, please visit here.
<http://mailingsresponse.wustl.edu/trk/click?ref=z1030up2e7_0-fe9x3113fx0265&>

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http://mailingsresponse.wustl.edu/trk/open?ref=z1030up2e7_0-fe9x0265]

Peter C. Hoch, Curator/ Director of Graduate Studies, Missouri Botanical
Garden,

P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO  63166-0299  USA +314/577-5175; Fax
+314/577-0820 peter.hoch at mobot.org
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"To discover and share knowledge about plants and their environment, in
order to preserve and enrich life."
               *-mission of the Missouri Botanical Garden*
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