Just a reminder that the closing date for the 6th ESAI photography Competition is December 30th 2011.
The Environmental Science Association of Ireland invites entries from interested individuals to participate in the sixth ESAI photography competition. To celebrate the prestigious, international Euroscience Open Forum conference to be held in Dublin, the City of Science 2012, from 11-15th July, 2012, the theme for this year’s competition is: “Nature in the Urban Jungle”. Entrants are encouraged to interpret the theme as they see fit.
Entries are welcome from all amateur photographers and will be assessed on the basis of picture quality, composition and the appropriateness of the caption. Please download the Entry Form and Terms & Conditions from the ESAI website.
First prize: €50 voucher sponsored by the Environmental Research Institute.
Professional framing of the winning entry
One year membership of ESAI
Two runners up will each receive a one year membership of ESAI.
Closing date is Friday December 30st 2011.
The winner will be notified by email on Friday January 27th 2012.
The newest edition of the ESAI newsletter Environews is now available. Click here to download the PDF (5MB).
Dates: 26-30 August, 2012 Venue: COEX in Seoul, Korea
The conference will be held in a close cooperation with the "Advances in Environmental Research (AER), An International Journal" and under an umbrella of ACEM12 (the 2012 World Congress on Advances in Civil, Environmental, and Materials Research).
It is with great pleasure for us to invite you to present your current work at the "AEST12" Conference and/or to organize a mini symposium with 5-8 papers in the area of your expertise. Details can be found in the above web site. We would greatly appreciate your participation in this interesting event and your contribution to the "AEST12" Conference.
The vast majority of Ireland’s 31,000 species belong to small, obscure groups of animals and plants such as fungi, algae and invertebrates. These groups are poorly understood as they are very difficult to study and identify to species level. Yet despite their complexity these organisms play a valuable role in the provision of goods and services to Irish society, services which are estimated to contribute at least €2.9 billion per annum to the Irish economy.
To understand and protect this valuable resource, new user-friendly, online identification keys on Ireland’s biodiversity are required to increase our knowledge on these poorly studied aspects of Ireland’s biodiversity.
The National Biodiversity Data Centre has developed specialised software, Biodiversity Keys, to meet this need. This software allows scientific experts to develop online keys for aiding the identification of animals and plants, specifically tailored to Irish science.
The first of these online keys is to Irish freshwater worms. Freshwater worms are an obscure group of animals that are sensitive to changes in water quality and are used in water quality assessments. The author of this identification key, Irish expert and environmental consultant, Pascal Sweeney, states ‘that this is another very valuable service provided by the National Biodiversity Data Centre and one that will improve the understanding of highly specialised but important aspects of Ireland’s biodiversity’.
The online key is available on the website of the National Biodiversity Data Centre at http://apps.biodiversityireland.ie/OligochaeteIdKey.
If you are an expert in a poorly studied taxonomic group and would be interested in developing a specific Irish online identification key for that group, please contact the Data Centre to discuss collaboration.
The Environmental Science Association of Ireland invites entries from interested individuals to participate in the sixth ESAI photography competition.
To celebrate the prestigious, international Euroscience Open Forum conference to be held in Dublin, the City of Science 2012, from 11-15th July, 2012, the theme for this year's competition is: "Nature in the Urban Jungle".
Entrants are encouraged to interpret the theme as they see fit. Entries are welcome from all amateur photographers and will be assessed on the basis of picture quality, composition and the appropriateness of the caption.
First prize: €250 voucher sponsored by the Environmental Research Institute, UCC.
Professional framing of the winning entry
One year membership of ESAI
Two runners up will each receive a one year membership of ESAI.
Please click here to download an Entry Form and copy of the Competition Terms & Conditions.
Closing date is Friday December 31st 2011. The winner will be notified by email on Friday January 27th 2012.
Professor Michael Depledge (former Chairman of the UK Science Advisory Committee on the Environment & Climate Change) delivered a thought provoking colloquium keynote address on the topic of "Health and the Value of Nature". Professor Depledge, who has recently established the European Centre for Environment and Human Health in Cornwall, talked about the importance of the natural environment to human health outlining evidence from his research that close interaction by people with their natural environment (whether it be a walk on the park, cycling in the countryside or a swim at the beach) has demonstrable beneficial health effects.
Professor Depledge's talk can be viewed at: http://interactive.ucc.ie/test/new/include/sciencelectures-current.html
The 2012 Sino-European Symposium on Environment and Health (SESEH 2012) provides an international platform for interaction between scientists, consultants, and public servants engaged in the multi-disciplinary areas of environment and health. With the fast economic growth, the importance of environment and health is widely recognized in China, and China welcomes international experts for collaboration. This symposium provides an opportunity for a direct communication between experts from China and the rest of the world, and helps to foster and develop international collaborations with China, the 2nd largest economy of the world.
The conference is co-organized by GIS Centre of NUI Galway, The Geographical Society of China (www.gsc.org.cn) and Environmental Sciences Association of Ireland (ISAI, http://www.esaiweb.org), supported by Ryan Institute of NUI Galway (http://www.ryaninstitute.ie), Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health (SEGH, www.segh.net), International Medical Geology Association (IMGA, www.medicalgeology.org), Geographical Society of Ireland (www.ucd.ie/gsi) and Ireland Chinese Association of Environment, Resources & Energy (ICAERE, www.icaere.ie).
SESEH 2012 themes cover a wide range of issues in environment and health:
For more information visit www.nuigalway.ie/seseh2012
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