UPCOMING EVENTS

See for additional and up-to-date information: http://www.imcg.net/imcgdia.htm

Asian Wetland Symposium

6-9 February 2005, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India.

for more information surf to:http://www.aws2005.com/

Coastal Ecosystems of West Africa (Biological Diversity - Resources - Conservation)

15-16 February 2005, Brussels, Belgium

for more information contact prcm@iucn.org or download the symposium announcement:

www.imcg.net/docum/wa05.doc

First European Chapter meeting of the Society of Wetland Scientists

Spring, 2005, Hull, United Kingdom

for more information surf to:biology.bangor.ac.uk/~bss113/SWS_Europe.htm

International workshop on Sphagnum farming

29. April to 1st May 2005, Bremen, Germany

For more information visit:http://www.uni-greifswald.de/~sphagnumfarming.

Peatlands in Saxony

3-5 June 2005, Dresden-Marsdorf, Germany

for more information see http://www.ecology.uni-kiel.de/~michael/imcg/dgmt0501.pdf

Shallow lakes in a changing world

5-9 June 2005, Dalfsen, The Netherlands

for more information surf to: www.shallowlakes.nl.

Coastal Plain Wetlands: Ecological, Landscape, and Regulatory Transformations

5-10 June 2005, Charleston, South Carolina, USA

for more information surf to: http://www.sws.org

INTECOL ESA joint meeting: Ecology at multiple scales

7-12 August 2005, Montreal, Canada

for more information surf to:http://www.esa.org/montreal.

WETPOL Wetland Pollutant dynamics and Control

4-8 September 2005, Ghent, Belgium

for more information surf to:http://www.biomath.ugent.be/wetpol.

Peat in Horticulture

4 - 10 September 2005, Angers, France.

This joint Symposium of the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) and IPS on Growing Media will be a combination of paper and poster presentations related to growing media and peat as well as excursions to growing media, peat cutting, and horticultural operations. During the conference, there will be a one-day session with emphasis on peat only, entitled “Wise Use” of Peat in Horticulture.”

For more information: www.peatsociety.fi  or www.ishs-angers.agrena.org

.17th Annual Conference Ecological Restoration: A Global Challenge

September 12 - 18, 2005, Zaragoza, Spain

for more information surf to:http://www.ser.org/content/2005Conference.asp

W3M Conference For Wetlands: Monitoring, Modelling and Management

22-25 September 2005, Wierzba, Poland

For more information:

http://levis.sggw.waw.pl/wethydro

Ramsar Cop 9

8 – 15 November 2005, Uganda

for more information surf to: www.ramsar.org

IMCG Field Symposium in Tierra del Fuego

21 November – 1 December  2005, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

for more information see IMCG Newsletter 2004-1 or http://www.imcg.s5.com/