[Taxacom] Symposium Free Registration: UMich Biodiversity Informatics March 25

[Rabeler, Richard]

Colleagues:

[Sent on behalf of Christopher Dick - UM EEB - by Rich Rabeler]:

We are pleased to announce this year's Early Career Scientist Symposium, to be held Sunday, March 25, 2012 at Palmer Commons in Forum Hall on the campus of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  The theme this year is "Biodiversity informatics."

Our outstanding lineup of up-and-coming leaders in this relatively new field will discuss  biodiversity informatics and its application to broad questions in ecology and evolutionary biology. The keynote address will be given by Dr. Robert Guralnick<http://sites.google.com/site/robgur/> of the University of Colorado at Boulder, who will describe "Mapping life: challenges with overcoming the Wallacean shortfall and documenting global scale biodiversity change."

Registration is free of charge but we strongly encourage you to register so we may provide adequate food and refreshment.  Graduate students from all universities and all disciplines are invited to present their work during a lunchtime poster session, and can indicate so when they register.  For poster specifications, please refer to: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/ecss2012/posters.  Lunch will be provided at the poster session and a dinner reception will follow the symposium.

Register to attend and obtain more information by going to http://sitemaker.umich.edu/ecss2012/home.

On behalf of the 2012 ECSS organizing committee:
Christopher Dick, Philip Myers, Stephen Smith, Evan Economo, Hayley Lanier, Ya Yang, Cindy Carl

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/ecss2012/home