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British Ecological Society Tropical Ecology Group announces:
6th Early Career Researcher Meeting, Imperial College, Silwood Park, 28-30 March 2012
Guest speakers:
Professor Andrew Balmford, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
Dr Julia Jones, School of the Environment, Natural Resources and Geography, Bangor University
Workshops:
- Ecological data analysis in R
An in-depth workshop on a popular or topical suite of analyses, whether GLMs, mixed models, or multivariate statistics.
The BES Computational Ecology Group is providing expert instructors to help you get your data analysed!
Send us your suggestions for which topics would be really useful. - Zen and the Art of Communicating Science
A different and, above all, fun approach to getting the message across. This workshop gives you all the tips you need to engage others in your research.
Sessions will include 'getting published', 'what makes a really good talk?', 'combating nerves', 'networking' and 'science for the public'.
If there's a topic you think would particularly useful, please get in touch.
Workshops are open to anyone interested (including non-tropecologists) but places are limited, so please book early to avoid disappointment.
Presentations:
If you would like to give a presentation at the BES TEG early career researcher meeting, please send a 250-word abstract, title and preference for a poster or oral presentation by 17:00 (GMT) on the 20 February 2012.
Each oral presentation should not exceed 15 minutes. This includes 12 minutes for your presentation and 3 minutes for questions.
Photo Competition:
We are excited to announce that this year's ECRM is hosting a tropics-themed photography competition, with three broad categories:
- Flora
- Fauna
- Aquatic life
Please enter a maximum of one photograph per category, and no photo can be entered into more than one category.
Supply your name, a title, the competition category and a maximum 100 word description of the subject/system, location, equipment and settings (if known) and any digital enhancements.
Photos should be supplied as a zipped file and saved as either a TIFF or JPEG file. If digital enhancements have been used, both the original and enhanced photo should be submitted.
Send the photograph(s) and their descriptions via email by 20 February 2012.
Photographer and explorer Andrew Scriven will be judging the competition. Winners will be announced at the meeting, with prizes kindly donated by Oxford University Press and Wiley Blackwell.
Although copyright remains with the photographer, by entering the competition applicants agree to give the BES the right to freely use their image(s).
Further information (inc. timings and travel information) [Adobe PDF, 58 Kb]
Previous Events
26 - 28 April 2011 BESTEG Early Career Researcher Meeting, Newcastle 2011
Making Science Relevant for the Sustainable Management of Tropical Ecosystems
29th March 2011 BES Annual Symposium: TEG Mixer - Ed Yong!
7-9 Sept 2010, BESTEG @ the BES Annual Meeting, Leeds: The BESTEG evening event in the Packhorse Pub went very well. Over 30 people attended, and Roel Brienen gave a great talk, followed by really interesting discussions. Thank you to Sarah Dale for leading the event and Lindsay Banin for helping organise it. More details will be go into the next BES Bulletin.
7-9 April 2010, University of Nottingham: Dealing with Diversity, BES Tropical Ecology Group meeting and workshop. IUCN declared 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity. In response, the Tropical Ecology Group Annual Meeting will focus on the description and analysis of hyper-diverse communities.
27-30 July 2009: Impacts of Gobal Change on Tropical Ecosystems : Joint Meeting of Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation & Society for Tropical Ecology. Marburg, Germany. For further details see here.
27 April-8 May 2009: Kew Tropical Plant Identification Course
30-31st March 2009: 3rd Early Career Researcher Meeting, University of Manchester
24-26 March 2009: Student Conference on Conservation Science 2009, University of Cambridge
October 2008: Understanding large scale ecological patterns and processes in the Amazon: opportunities for learning and knowledge transfer in UK research.
18-19 March 2008: 2nd Early Career Researcher Meeting, Oxford University
September 2007: Early Career Researcher Meeting, Leeds
September 2006: TEG Oxford Meeting Minutes
