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International Year and Decades 2013

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International Special Days and Weeks 2013

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Professional and Student Capacity Development

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Using The Guide

This Guide is the result of requests from individuals with diverse interests in conservation, living resources management, especially coastal areas and for updates on annual events in conservation, climate change, tourism, and professional capacity strengthening. It includes therefore a wide range of subjects. It is organized into sections covering International Special Days, Decades, events of special importance for professional development and students, annual events related to Conventions, Agreements, Regional Organizations, Commissions and a monthly list of all events. Each reference has the title of the event, date and location, and a web site or email contact information. In a few cases, some details are missing at the time of compilation. The list is not complete or final: it is expected that new 2013 opportunities will develop, or dates and locations changed. Users are advised to check carefully the details of each event, the professional profile of the organizations involved, the sponsors, locations, deadlines, costs and requirements for participation. Often (especially for students) there are possibilities of full or partial support for attendance, especially if papers, or posters will be done or presentations delivered. Applications need to be made as early as possible Compiled by Boris Fabres December 2012 Email: bafabres@yahoo.com Cover Photos & Credits

1. Student in St. Maarten (Caribbean) with environmental awareness certificate from EPIC’s wetland education program Courtesy: Environmental Protection in the Caribbean - EPIC (www.epic.org)

2. UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ha Long Bay, Viet Nam Courtesy: Centre for Marinelife Conservation and Community Development – MCD (www.mcdvietnam.org)

3. IUCN Red Listed (Endangered) Mona Island (Puerto Rico) Iguana, Cyclura stejnegeri Courtesy: Cielo E. Figuerola

4. IUCN Red Listed (Endangered) black-capped petrel Pterodroma hasitata research: Dominican Republic and Haiti collaboration Courtesy: Ernst Rupp, Grupo Jaragua (http://www.grupojaragua.org.do/)

5. Gender and Conservation Training in Xuan Thuy National Park (Ramsar Site), Viet Nam Courtesy: Tang Duyen Hong, Marine Gifts (http://marinegifts.vn/en)

6. Impacts of feral goat grazing in St. Martin (Caribbean) Courtesy: Mark Yokoyama (“The Incomplete Guide to the Wildlife of Saint Martin”)

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International Years and Decades 2013

2013 is identified as the International Year for a number of themes, and as one year in a number of International decades designated by the United Nations. These include the following: UN International Year of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/67/206 UN International Year of Water Cooperation United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/65/154 United Nations Decade on Biodiversity (2011-2020) www.cbd.int/2011-2020/ United Nations Decade (2010-2020) for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/62/195 http://unddd.unccd.int/index.htm Second United Nations Decade (2008-2017) for the Eradication of Poverty United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/62/205 http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N07/476/07/PDF/N0747607.pdf?OpenElement International Decade (2005-2015) for Action, “Water for Life” United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/58/217 http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/ United Nations Decade (2005-2014) of Education for Sustainable Development United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/57/254 http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N02/556/12/PDF/N0255612.pdf?OpenElemen

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International Special Days and Weeks 2013 _____________________________________________________________________________________________ During 2013 there are International Special Days highlighted to identify specific themes or events. These include the following list arranged chronologically. However this list of International Special Days may be incomplete and readers are advised to check specific organizations to confirm dates and themes for 2013. Information on the United Nations Days of Observance and the related General Assembly Resolutions can be found at: www.un.org/en/events/observances/ 2 February WORLD WETLANDS DAY. 2013 Theme - “Wetlands and Water Management” (Ramsar) www.ramsar.org/ 3 – 8 March NATIONAL INVASIVE SPECIES AWARENESS WEEK Washington, DC, USA

8 March INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY (United Nations) www.un.org/en/events/womensday/ 22 March WORLD WATER DAY (United Nations) http://www.un.org/en/events/waterday/ 22 April EARTH DAY www.earthday.net/ 11-12 May WORLD MIGRATORY BIRD DAY (UNEP/CMS) www.worldmigratorybirdday.org/ 22 May INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY. 2013 Theme - “Water and Biodiversity” (CBD) http://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2012/ntf-2012-138-idb-en.pdf 5 June WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY (UNEP) www.unep.org/ecalendar/e_details_view_new.asp?EventID=1335 8 June WORLD OCEANS DAY (United Nations) http://www.un.org/en/events/oceansday/ 25 June DAY OF THE SEAFARER (IMO) www.imo.org/About/Events/Pages/Day-of-the-Seafarer.aspx 12 August INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY (United Nations) www.un.org/en/events/youthday/

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1-6 September WORLD WATER WEEK, 2013 Theme “Water Cooperation - Building Partnerships” www.worldwaterweek.org/ 21 September INTERNATIONAL COASTAL CLEANUP DAY (Ocean Conservancy) www.oceanconservancy.org/our-work/marine-debris/ 23-27 September WORLD MARITIME DAY (IMO). 2013 Theme - “Sustainable Development: IMO's contribution beyond Rio+20" www.imo.org/About/Events/WorldMaritimeDay/Pages/WMD.aspx 27 September WORLD TOURISM DAY (UNWTO) http://wtd.unwto.org/en October (Caribbean) INTERNATIONAL MIGRATORY BIRD DAY (Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center – SMBC) http://www.birdday.org/ 7 October WORLD HABITAT DAY (United Nations) www.unhabitat.org/ 15 October INTERNATIONAL DAY OF RURAL WOMEN (United Nations - ILO) http://www.un.org/en/events/ruralwomenday/ 16 October WORLD FOOD DAY (United Nations - FAO) www.fao.org/getinvolved/worldfoodday/en/ 17 October INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ERADICATION OF POVERTY (United Nations) http://www.un.org/en/events/povertyday/ 24 October WORLD DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION DAY (United Nations) http://www.un.org/en/events/devinfoday/ 11 December INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN DAY (United Nations) http://www.un.org/en/events/mountainday/

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Professional and Student Capacity Development

This section is focused on capacity development opportunities in 2013. It includes formal training and academic courses for students and professionals as well as graduate student conferences, workshops and internships. The list is arranged chronologically.

In addition, other conferences and workshops listed in the following section ― Conferences, Workshops, Meetings: Monthly List‖ may also include special student sessions, as well as funding opportunities for student attendance. Student Conference on Conservation Science University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, January 21-31, 2013 www.sccs-aus.org/ Phylogenetic Systematics and Molecular Dating University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. 21 January – 1 February 2013 www.taxonomytraining.eu/content/phylogenetic-systematics-and-molecular-dating-0 ICCAT Training course on Stock Synthesis Models Madrid, Spain, January 21-25, 2013 www.iccat.int/Documents/Meetings/Announce/5788-12_ENG.PDF Rights based Approach to Food and Nutrition Security Wageningen University, The Netherlands, January 21-February 1, 2013 www.wageningenur.nl/en/show/CDIcourse_rights_based_approach_2013.htm Botanical Nomenclature Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond Surrey, UK. 28 January – 1 February 2013 www.taxonomytraining.eu/content/botanical-nomenclature-1 University Curriculum in Marine Data Management Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, 28 January - 8 February 2013 www.ioc-unesco.org/index.php?option=com_oe&task=viewEventRecord&eventID=1203 2013 Training session on FishBase and Fish Taxonomy (for Sub-Saharan African Countries) Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium, February 4 - 26 April 26, 2013 http://www.africamuseum.be/museum/research/collaborations/training/doc/call-fishbase2013new Capacity Building for Conservation Conference Humboldt Institute, Villa de Leyva, Colombia, 12-15 February 2013 www.ert-conservation.co.uk/Conf_Aims2.htm 12th Annual International Graduate Student Conference (EWC-IGSC) on the Asia Pacific Region East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, February 14-16, 2013 www.eastwestcenter.org/education/student-programs/international-graduate-student-conference 22nd Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia Columbia University, New York, USA, February 15-16, 2013 www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=197939 Durrell Endangered Species Management Graduate Certificate Durrell Conservation Academy, Jersey, UK. February 18 - May 10, 2013 http://www.durrell.org/academy/Courses/Durrell-Endangered-Species-Management-Graduate-Certificate-2013/

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Climate change adaptation in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Wageningen University, The Netherlands, February 18 - March 1, 2013 www.wageningenur.nl/en/show/CDIcourse_climate_change_adapation.htm 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference on the Global Gulf Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA, February 21-23, 2013 www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=199017 Ecosystem Based Management using Ecopath with Ecosim Scottish Marine Institute, Argyll, Scotland, February 26-28, 2012 www.sams.ac.uk/education/short-courses/Ecopath-with-Ecosim%20/ Women’s Land Rights Visiting Professionals Program Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights, Seattle, Washington, USA. Six Weeks: Deadline: February 28, 2013 http://www.landesa.org/women-and-land/programs-and-projects/women-land-rights-visiting-professionals-program/ 15th Annual Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, March 1-3, 2013 http://seap.einaudi.cornell.edu/ Bodega Applied Phylogenetics Workshop University of California (Davis) Bodega Marine Lab, March 2-9,2013 http://bodegaphylo.wikispot.org/2013_Workshop Visualization and Facilitation Training of Trainers International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, The Philippines, March 4-8, 2013 www.iirr.org/ MCCS 0501: Statistics for Ecology and Conservation Biology Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, Virginia, USA, March 4-15, 2013 http://smconservation.gmu.edu/programs/graduate-and-professional/professional-training-courses/mccs-0501-statistics-for-ecology-and-conservation-biology/ Participatory Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Wageningen University, The Netherlands, March 11-29, 2013 www.wageningenur.nl/en/show/CDIcourse_PPME.htm 3rd International Graduate Student Conference Latin America & The Caribbean York University, Toronto, Canada March 15-16, 2013 www.yorku.ca/cerlac/ Measuring the Economic Impacts of Invasive Alien Species (GEF/UNEP/CABI Project) Port of Spain, Trinidad, March 18-21, 2013 http://www.cabi.org/default.aspx?site=170&page=1684 14th Student Conference on Conservation Science University of Cambridge, UK, March 19-21, 2013 http://www.sccs-cam.org/ Facilitation Skills for Conservation Managers Durrell Conservation Academy, Jersey, UK. March 25-29, 2013 http://www.durrell.org/academy/Courses/Facilitation-and-Communications-Skills-2013/ 21st Annual Graduate Student Conference in African Studies Boston University, Mass., USA, 29-30 March, 2013 www.bu.edu/africa/forstudents/graduate/annual-graduate-conference/

ZSL 2013-15 EDGE Fellowships The Zoological Society of London, application deadline 31st March 2013 http://www.edgeofexistence.org/conservation/fellows.php An Introduction to GIS for Conservation Managers Durrell Conservation Academy, Jersey, UK. April 1-5, 2013 http://www.durrell.org/academy/Courses/An-Introduction-to-GIS-for-Conservation-Managers-2013/ MCCS 0511: Estimating Animal Abundance and Occupancy Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, Virginia, USA, April 1-12, 2013 http://smconservation.gmu.edu/programs/graduate-and-professional/professional-training-courses/estimating-animal-abundance-and-occupancy/ OceanTeacher Academy Training Course: Development and Management of e-Repositories Oostende, Belgium, 8 - 12 April 2013

www.ioc-unesco.org/index.php?option=com_oe&task=viewEventRecord&eventID=1213 3rd Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Workshop in Sustainable Development Columbia University, NY, USA, April 12- 13, 2013 http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/sdds/schedule-events/ipwsd_2012/ UW/UBC Graduate Student Asian Studies Conference University of Washington, Seattle, Wash., USA, April 12-14, 2013 www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=199507 Participatory Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (PMEL) International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, The Philippines, April 16-25, 2013 www.iirr.org/ CONFORWest 2013 Canadian Rockies and Foothills Biogeoscience Institute, Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, April 18-21, 2013 www.conforwest.com MCCS 0503: Species Monitoring and Conservation: Terrestrial Mammals Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, Virginia, USA, April 29-May 10.. 2013 http://smconservation.gmu.edu/programs/graduate-and-professional/professional-training-courses/mccs-0503-species-monitoring-and-conservation-terrestrial-mammals/ Integrated Sustainable Coastal Development Sida: Part 1: May 20 - June 7 (Stockholm, Sweden), Part 2: September 30 - October 11 (Tanzania) https://itp.sida.se/itp/Programcatalog.nsf/0/09BF6DB689F0D112C125774B004C4853?opendocument Species Monitoring and Conservation: Reptiles Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, Virginia, USA, May 13-24, 2013 http://smconservation.gmu.edu/programs/graduate-and-professional/professional-training-courses/species-monitoring-and-conservation-reptiles/ Zoological Nomenclature Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France. May 20 – 24, 2013 www.taxonomytraining.eu/content/zoological-nomenclature-2 Duke University Marine Lab Summer Course Term I Beaufort North Carolina, USA. May 13 - June 14, 2011, www.nicholas.duke.edu/marinelab/programs/courses/summer-I Duke University Marine Lab Summer Course Term II Beaufort North Carolina, USA. July 8 – August 9, 2011 www.nicholas.duke.edu/marinelab/programs/courses/summer-II

ICES Stock Assessment Training (Introduction) Vigo, Spain, May 20-27, 2013 www.ices.dk/iceswork/training/training.asp OceanTeacher Academy Training Course: Fundamentals of Ocean Data Management Oostende, Belgium, 27 - 31 May 2013 www.ioc-unesco.org/index.php?option=com_oe&task=viewEventRecord&eventID=1229 International Ocean Institute Training Programme: Ocean Governance, Policy Law, Management Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 22-July 19, 2013 http://internationaloceaninstitute.dal.ca/ Media Design for Social Change Wageningen University, The Netherlands, May 27- June 7, 2013 www.wageningenur.nl/en/show/CDIcourse_Media_design_for_social_change.htm Summer Session on Environmental Law (2013) American University Washington College of Law, Washington DC, USA, May 28-June 21, 2013 www.wcl.american.edu/environment/summer/ 5th PhD Workshop Agricultural, Food, Re source and Rural Economics Leuven, Belgium, May 29-31, 2013 www.bvle-aber.be/eaae Audubon Seabird Biology and Conservation Training Hog Island, Maine, USA. Session I. Spring: May 31 - June 5, 2013. Session II. Autumn: September 8-13, 2013 http://hogisland.audubon.org/spring-seabird-biology-and-conservation Training of Trainers: Responding to Climate Change and Reef Resilience (East Africa and Western Indian Ocean) Zanzibar, Tanzania, June 2013 www.reefresilience.org/Training_of_Trainers.html Monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment of food and nutrition security programmes Wageningen University, The Netherlands, June 3-21, 2013 www.wageningenur.nl/en/show/CDI_course_monitoring_evaluation_and_impact_assessment.htm 15th Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists - “Coastal Impacts: Global Change in Coastal Ecosystems” University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, RI, USA, June 9-14, 2013 http://metcalfinstitute.org/training/15annual/ Capturing Lessons from the Field: The Writeshop Process International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, The Philippines, June 11-20, 2013 www.iirr.org/ Basics of Taxonomy: Describing, Illustrating and Writing Biodiversity Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences, Kristineberg, Sweden, Two Weeks (Summer) www.taxonomytraining.eu/content/basics-taxonomy-describing-illustrating-and-writing-biodiversity-2 MCCS 0506: Non-Invasive Genetic Techniques in Wildlife Conservation Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, Virginia, USA, June 1-7, 2013 http://smconservation.gmu.edu/programs/graduate-and-professional/professional-training-courses/mccs-0506-non-invasive-genetic-techniques-in-wildlife-conservation/ Conservation for Development Professionals: Strategies for Implementing Biodiversity Action Plans for the Private Sector Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, Virginia, USA, June 10-14, 2013 http://smconservation.gmu.edu/programs/graduate-and-professional/professional-training-courses/designing-and-implementing-a-biodiversity-action-plan-for-conservation-and-development-2/

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MCCS 0507: Adaptive Management for Conservation Success Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, Virginia, USA, June 10-21, 2013 http://smconservation.gmu.edu/programs/graduate-and-professional/professional-training-courses/mccs-0507-adaptive-management-for-conservation-success/ Microbial Oceanography: The Biogeochemistry, Ecology and Genomics of Oceanic Microbial Ecosystems Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, June 16 – 6 July 6, 2013 www.bios.edu/education/summer_courses.html European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE) Summer School (PhD and Masters’ Students) ESEE and the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France, June 17-18, 2013 www.euroecolecon.org/esee-summer-school-june-17-18-2013-reims/#more-978 ICES Training Course: Fisheries Management to meet Biodiversity Conservation Needs Copenhagen, Denmark, June 18-20, 2013 www.ices.dk/iceswork/training/training.asp EAERE-FEEM-VIU European Summer School on Uncertainty, Innovation and Climate Change Venice, Italy, June 30- July 6, 2013 www.feem-web.it/ess/ess13/01index.html International Forestry Graduate Students Conference Faculty of Forestry, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor,Malaysia, July 2-4, 2013 www.conferencealerts.com/show-event?id=101152 Inaugural African Students Conservation Conference National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya, July 2-4 2013 www.tropical-biology.org/information/TAAG_conference.htm 23rd Annual Protected Area Management Course (in Spanish) Colorado State University, CO, USA, July 3- 3 August 3, 2013 http://warnercnr.colostate.edu/cpamt-protected-areas-course/ Coral Reef Ecology Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, July 7 - 27, 2013 www.bios.edu/education/summer_courses.html Endangered Species Recovery Durrell Conservation Academy, Jersey, UK. July 8-19, 2013 http://www.durrell.org/Training/Courses/Endangered-Species-Recovery-2013/ The Global Environments Summer Academy (GESA) for Masters’ and PhD Students Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany, July 27 - August 18, 2013 http://www.globalenvironments.org/gesa-contact Workshop to Identify invasive Polychaetes National Museum, Sydney, Australia. August 1-2, 2013 http://www.cvent.com/events/ipc-2013/custom-122-6793c21557ca4e1d9799b5b9333b66b2.aspx Adaptation Academy Foundation Course Oxford, UK, August 12 – 30, 2013 www.adaptationacademy.org ICES Training Course on Ecosystem Modeling for Fishery Management Copenhagen, Denmark, August 26-30, 2013, www.ices.dk/iceswork/training/training.asp

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12th International NCCR Climate Summer School: "From Climate Reconstructions to Climate Predictions" Grindelwald, Switzerland, 1 – 6 September, 2013 www.nccr-climate.unibe.ch/summer_school/2013/ Executive Summer School on Global Environmental Policy University of Geneva, Switzerland and UNEP, 1-13 September 2013 www.unige.ch/gepp/ess Climate Change Governance Wageningen University, The Netherlands, September 2-13, 2013 www.wageningenur.nl/en/show/CDIcourse_Climte_change_governance_2013.htm Governance for Forest, Nature and People Indonesia, September 2-13, 2013 www.wageningenur.nl/en/show/CDIcourse_Governance_for_forest.htm Facilitating Multi-stakeholder Processes and Social Learning Wageningen University, The Netherlands, September 2-20, 2013 www.wageningenur.nl/en/show/CDIcourse_Faciliating_multstakeholder_processes_2013.htm Climate Change and Development Short Course University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, September 4-17, 2013 https://lred.uea.ac.uk/web/international-development-uea/professional-training/climate-change-and-development Species Monitoring and Conservation: Bird Migration Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, Virginia, USA, September 9-20, 2013 http://smconservation.gmu.edu/programs/graduate-and-professional/professional-training-courses/species-monitoring-and-conservation-bird-migration/ Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Wageningen University, The Netherlands, September 23 – October 11, 2013 www.wageningenur.nl/en/show/CDIcourse_Ecosystem_approach_to_fisheries_2013.htm Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property Rights (Part I) Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden. September 23 - October 11, 2013 http://www.slu.se/grip MCCS 0500: Spatial Ecology, Geospatial Analysis and Remote Sensing for Conservation Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, Virginia, USA, September 30-October 11, 2013 http://smconservation.gmu.edu/programs/graduate-and-professional/professional-training-courses/mccs-0500-spatial-ecology-geospatial-analysis-and-remote-sensing-for-conservation/ Fisheries Governance Wageningen University, The Netherlands, October 21 – November 8, 2013 www.wageningenur.nl/en/show/CDIcourse_Fisheries_governance_2013.htm Landscape Functions and People Thailand, November 18-29, 2013 www.wageningenur.nl/en/show/CDIcourse_Landscape_functions_and_people_2013.htm

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Conferences, Workshops, Meetings: Monthly List

January 72nd Annual Pacific Northwest Insect Management Conference Portland, OR, USA, January 7-8, 2013 http://www.ipmnet.org/PNWIMC/2013_PNW_Call_for_Papers.pdf 24th USDA Interagency Research Forum on Invasive Species Annapolis, Maryland, USA, January 8-11, 2013 http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/disturbance/invasive_species/interagency_forum/ 6th International Conference of the International Biogeography Society Miami, Florida, USA, January 9-13, 2013 www.biogeography.org/html/Meetings/2013/ International Water Summit Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, January 15 –17, 2013 http://iwsabudhabi.com/portal/home.aspx Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM): Cutting Across Multi-Sector Divides Washington, DC, USA, January 16-17, 2013 http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=qhlhbgcab&oeidk=a07e5wg1ffd28160494 Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-1) Plenary Bonn, Germany, 21-26 January 2013, http://www.ipbes.net/plenary/ipbes-1.html Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Ecosystem Science Conference New Orleans, LA, USA, January 21-23, 2013 http://gulfofmexicoconference.org/ Caribbean Waves 2 Gosier, Guadeloupe, January 22--25, 2013 www.caribbeanwaves2.fr/#Home.Z 19th Annual Conference International Society of Tropical Foresters, Yale Chapter New Haven, CT, USA, January 24-26, 2013 www.yale.edu/istf/ 1st EU-CELAC Summit Santiago, Chile, January 26-27, 2013 http://eeas.europa.eu/la/summits/2013/index_en.htm

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BIOPAMA Caribbean Regional Workshop (IUCN/ACP/EU) “Capacity Building for Protected Areas in Africa, Caribbean The Pacific)” University of the West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados January 22-24, 2013 www.iucn.org/.../work/programmes/gpap_home/gpap_capacity2/gpap_biopama WHMSI Steering Committee meeting Washington DC, USA, January 28-29 2013 http://www.whmsi.net/about.cfm?identifier=steering Caribbean Regional Workshop on the Use of Integrated Environmental Assessment Tools for MEAs Mainstreaming Saint Lucia, January 28-30, 2013 Contact: Thérèse N. Yarde, Project Coordinator,CARICOM Secretariat, tyarde@caricom.org IEEM Conference “UK Overseas Territories - Current Programmes and Future Priorities” The Royal Astronomical Society, London, UK, January 31, 2013 http://www.ieem.net/events/371/uk-overseas-territories-current-programmes-and-future-priorities GEF (Global Environment Facility) Familiarization Seminar Washington DC, USA, January 30-1 February, 2013 www.thegef.org/gef/Fam-Sem-2013 Coral Triangle Live Reef Fish Trade Intergovernmental Forum Bangkok, Thailand, 31 January - 1 February 2013 Contact Dr.Darmawan at: darmawan@indo.net.id

February 33rd Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation Baltimore, MD, USA, February 2 – 8, 2013 http://iconferences.seaturtle.org/ Weed Science Society of America Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD, USA. February 4-7, 2013 http://www.wssa.net/ CBD Sustainable Ocean Initiative Capacity-Building Workshop for West Africa Senegal, February 4-8, 2013 www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2012/ntf-2012-141-ebsa-parties-en.pdf CARIWIG (Caribbean Weather Impacts Group) Inaugural Workshop Kingston, Jamaica, February 6-7, 2013 www.cariwig.org/en/news/ Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services in Impact Assessment (IAIA) Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, USA, February 7-8,2013 http://www.iaia.org/IAIA-BioEco-Symposium-DC/ Regional Symposium on Mangrove Ecosystem Management in Southeast Asia: Mainstreaming Mangroves Surabaya, Indonesia, February 11-13, 2013 www.mangrove-mecs.org/index.php/8-event/1-surabaya Subregional Capacity-building Workshop to Address Invasive Alien Species & Achieve Aichi Biodiversity Target 9 in the Arab region Dubai, United Arab Emirates, February 11 - 14 February www.cbd.int/meetings/

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2nd CLIOTOP Symposium (Climate Impacts on Oceanic Top Predators) Noumea, New Caledonia, February 11-15, 2013 www.imber.info/index.php/Science/Regional-Programmes/CLIOTOP Capacity Building for Conservation Humboldt Institute, Villa de Leyva, Colombia, 12-15 February 2013 www.ert-conservation.co.uk/Conf_Aims2.htm 4th International Meeting for Emerging Diseases and Surveillance (IMED 2013) Vienna, Austria, 14-18 February, 2013 http://imed.isid.org/planned_topics.shtml BioSyst.EU 2013 University of Vienna, Austria, February 18–22, 2013 http://biosysteu.univie.ac.at/ 14th UNEP Global Major Groups and Stakeholders Forum (GMGSF-14) Nairobi, Kenya, February 16-17, 2013 www.unep.org/civil-society/GlobalFora/GMGSF-14/tabid/105390/Default.aspx Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) 2013 Aquatic Sciences Meeting New Orleans, LA, USA, February 17-22, 2013 www.aslo.org/meetings/aslomeetings.html 27th Session of the UNEP Governing Council / Global Ministerial Environment Forum Nairobi, Kenya, 18-22 February 2013 http://www.unep.org/ecalendar/contents/upcoming_events.asp Global Island Partnership (GLISPA) Annual Steering Committee Meeting Washington, DC, USA, February 18-21, 2013 http://glispa.org/ 40th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group Portland, Oregon, February 20-24, 2013 www.pacificseabirdgroup.org/index.php?f=meeting&t=Annual Meeting&s=1 Caribbean Sub-Regional Workshop on Capacity-building for the effective implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety St. George's, Grenada, February 25 - 1 March 2013 www.cbd.int/meetings/ Inaugural Meeting: Risk Analysis of Forest Invasive Alien Species (IUFRO) Chandigarh, India, February 27–March 1, 2013 http://riskanalysis-iufro.org/

March CBD Southeast Asia Workshop on Reflecting the GSPC in NBSAPs Singapore, March 4-8, 2013 www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2012/ntf-2012-145-gspc-en.pdf Bahamas National Natural History Conference: Nassau, The Bahamas, March 5-8, 2013 http://www.bnt.bs/Bulletin/Bahamas-National-Natural-History-Conference

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ITES COP16 (and 63rd Meeting of the CITES Standing Committee) Bangkok, Thailand, 3-14 March 2013 www.cites.org/eng/cop/16/ CBD GTI Workshop for Western and Central Africa towards Achieving Aichi Targets 9 and 19 Dakar, Senegal, March 4-7, 2013 www.cbd.int/doc/?meeting=CBWGTI-WCAFR-01 Mekong Environmental Symposium 2013 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 7-9 March 2013 www.mekong-environmental-symposium-2013.org/frontend/index.php Wilson Ornithological Society 125th Anniversary Meeting College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA March 7-10, 2013 www.cvent.com/events/125th-annual-meeting-of-the-wilson-ornithological-society/event-summary-5d289a66b396437cb50d65a6cd35c19e.aspx 4th Coral Triangle Initiative Regional Exchange on Marine Protected Areas Solomon Islands, March 11-15, 2013 Contact: Dr. Darmawan at darmawan@indo.net.id George Wright Society Biennial Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites Denver, Colorado, USA, March 11-15 2013 www.georgewright.org/gws2013 Meeting of the ICCAT-SCRS Working Group on Stock Assessment Methods Madrid, Spain, March 11-15, 2013 www.iccat.int/en/meetingscurrent.htm 11th Applied Environmental Economics Conference March 15, 2013 www.eftec.co.uk/envecon-current/blog 5th Latin American (Inter-American) Environmental Philosophy Conference Puerto Natales, Chile, March 13-17, 2013 http://enviroethics.org/2011/10/12/conference-5th-latin-american-inter-american-environmental-philosophy-conference-2013/ 3rd Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum Incheon, Republic of Korea, March 18-20, 2013 www.asiapacificadapt.net/adaptationforum2013 Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation – Asia Pacific Chapter Annual Meeting 2013 Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, March 18-22, 2013 www.tropicalbio.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=195&Itemid=95 ICES Working Group (ACOM) on Introduction and Transfers of Marine Organisms Montreal, Canada March 20-23, 2013 http://ices.dk/reports/general/2013/2013%20ICES%20Meeting%20Calendar.pdf 4th National Forum on Socioeconomic Research in Coastal Systems: Challenges of Natural Resource Economics & Policy New Orleans, LA, USA, March 21-26, 2013 www.cnrep.lsu.edu/ 4th National Forum on Socioeconomic Research in Coastal Systems New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, March 24-26, 2013 www.cnrep.lsu.edu/

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Latin American Carbon Forum 2013 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 25-27, 2013 www.latincarbon.com/ British Ornithological Society Annual Conference University of Leicester, UK, 26-28 March 2013 www.bou.org.uk/conference/from-populations-to-policy-impact-avian-demography-in-a-changing-world/

April 3rd Conference on Invasion Biology, Ecology, and Management University of Kentucky, KY, USA, 2-4 April, 2013 www2.ca.uky.edu/environment/enviro_event_2013 Annual Conference of the Society for Tropical Ecology Vienna, Austria, April 2-5, 2013 www.gtoe-conference.de/ American Society for Environmental History Toronto, Ontario, Canada. April 3-6 2013 http://aseh.net/conference-workshops/toronto-conference-2013 FINS 2013. Freshwater Invasives networking for Strategy Galway, Ireland. April 8-11,2013 http://finsconference.ie/ 12th International Coastal Symposium Plymouth University, UK, April 8-12, 2013 http://ics2013.org/ 7th International Fisheries Observer and Monitoring Conference (7IFOMC) Viña del Mar, Chile, April 8-12, 2013 www.ifomc.com 10th Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests Istanbul, Turkey, April 8-19, 2013 http://www.un.org/esa/forests/session.html Understanding Ecological and Social Resilience in Island Systems: Informing Policy and Sharing Lessons for Management Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, NY, USA. April 9-11, 2013 https://symposia.cbc.amnh.org/2013/application.html Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Los Angeles, CA, USA, April 9-13, 2013 www.aag.org/annualmeeting 3rd International Conference on Physical Coastal Processes, Management and Engineering Gran Canaria, Spain, April 9-11, 2013 www.wessex.ac.uk/13-conferences/coastal-processes-2013.html Pacific Invasives Partnership Fiji, April 10-12, 2013 http://www.sprep.org/future-events

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1st Guyana Mangrove Forum - “Restoring and Managing Mangrove Ecosystems in a Changing World” Georgetown, Guyana, April 11-13, 2013 http://www.mangrovesgy.org/ 14th Annual Caribbean Conference on Sustainable Tourism Development Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, April 14-17, 2013 www.onecaribbean.org/eventsandcalendars/conferences/ Caribbean Animal Welfare Conference (CAWC) 2013 Port of Spain, Trinidad, April 14-17, 2013 http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/tab2.aspx?EventID=1138416 Biodiversity Without Boundaries Baltimore, MD, USA, April 14-18, 2013 https://connect.natureserve.org/BWB2013 Coastal Processes and Environments Under Sea-Level Rise and Changing Climate: Science to Inform Management Galveston, Texas, USA, April 14–19, 2013 www.geosociety.org/penrose/13Texas.htm 2nd Coastal, Island and Tropical Tourism Conference: Global Impacts, Local Resilience Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, April 16-18, 2013 http://geog.nau.edu/igust/Sabah2013/ 18th International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species (ICAIS) Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, April 21-25, 2013 www.icais.org 14th Annual SALISES Conference “Towards a New Development Paradigm for the Caribbean: The Next 50 Years” University of the West Indies (Cave Hill), Barbados, April 22-24, 2013 http://sta.uwi.edu/media/documents/2012/SALISES%202013%20Call%20for%20Papers.pdf Sustainable Ocean Summit (SOS) 2013 Washington DC, USA, April 22-24, 2013 www.oceancouncil.org/site/summit_2013/ 6th International Oligochaete Taxonomy Meeting (IOTM) Palmeira de Faro, Portugal, April 22-25, 2013 http://6thiotm.tomas-pavlicek-biologie.net/ 11th Session of IOC Intergovernmental Panel on Harmful Algal Blooms (IPHAB) Paris, France, April 28-30, 2013 www.ioc-unesco.org/hab/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10&Itemid=0

May 7th Meeting of ACAP Advisory Committee La Rochelle, France, 6-10 May 2013 http://www.acap.aq/docman/english/advisory-committee/ac7 Island Studies Conference 2013 – “West Coast Canada & Beyond” Gabriola Island, BC, Canada. May 10-13, 2013 http://www.islandstudiesconference2013.org

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Impact of climate change on biological invasions and population distributions Banff International Research Station, Banff, Alberta, Canada. May 12-17, 2013 http://www.birs.ca/events/2013/5-day-workshops/13w5095 45th Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians San Ignacio, Belize, May 12-17, 2013 www.associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/annualmeeting.htm Challenges to Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Ecosystems (ASEM: Asia-Europe Meeting) Brunei, May 12-24, 2013 http://www.aseminfoboard.org/ 15th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Aquatic Sciences Libraries and Information Centres (EURASLIC) Varna, Bulgaria, May 13- 15, 2013 www.euraslic15.io-bas.bg/ 2nd Executive Symposium for Innovators in Coastal Tourism Development Los Cabos, Mexico, May 15-18, 2013 www.crestconference.org/index.html New Technologies for Monitoring Biodiversity ZSL Institute of Zoology, London UK, May 16-17, 2013 http://www.zsl.org/science/events/new-technologies-for-monitoring-biodiversity,631,EV.html Society for Freshwater Science Annual Meeting Jacksonville, FL, USA, May 19–23, 2013 www.freshwater-science.org/Annual-Meeting.aspx 7th International Conference on River Basin Management including all aspects of Hydrology, Ecology, (River Basin Management) Southampton, UK, May 22-24, 2013 www.wessex.ac.uk/13-conferences/river-basin-management-2013.html

June International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) 56th Annual Conference (Six Sessions on Aquatic Invasive Species) Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, June 2-6, 2013 http://iaglr.org/conference/sessions.php 14th Global Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC2013) Mt. Fuji, Japan. June 3-7, 2013 http://www.iasc2013.org/en/index.html 38th Caribbean Studies Association Annual Conference St. George’s, Grenada, 3-7 June 2013 www.caribbeanstudiesassociation.org/ 7th World Environmental Education Congress Marrakech, Morocco, June 9-14, 2013 www.weec2013.org/en 15th Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists - “Coastal Impacts: Global Change in Coastal Ecosystems” University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, RI, USA, June 9-14, 2013 http://metcalfinstitute.org/training/15annual/

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The Bahamas at 40: Reflecting on the Past, Envisioning the Future College of the Bahamas, Nassau, The Bahamas, June 12-14, 2013 www.cob.edu.bs The Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL) 2013 Conference San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 9-14, 2013 http://cariblin.blogspot.com/2012/10/acuril-2013-conference.html GEF (Global Environment Facility) 44th Council Meeting Washington DC, USA, June 18-20, 2013 www.thegef.org/gef/events/gef-44th-council-meeting 36th Scientific Conference Association of Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean (AMLC) University of the West Indies, Discovery Bay, Jamaica, June 17 – 21, 2013 www.amlc-carib.org/meetings/2013.html Joint HZG/LOICZ/ICES Workshop: Mapping Cultural Dimensions of Marine Ecosystem Services Geesthacht, Germany, June 17-21, 2013 http://ices.dk/reports/general/2013/2013%20ICES%20Meeting%20Calendar.pdf CoastGIS 2013 Victoria, BC, Canada, June 18-21 2013 http://coinatlantic.ca/index.php/coastgis-2013/ 10th International Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE) Lille, France, June 18-21, 2013 http://esee2013.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en BirdLife World Congress Ottawa, Canada, June 19-22, 2013 http://www.birdlife.org/community/2011/09/the-birdlife-world-congress-2013-information/ People and the Sea VII - Maritime Futures Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 26-28, 2013 www.marecentre.nl/people_and_the_sea_7/index.html 23rd International Conference on Ecology and Transportation (ICOET) Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, June 23-27, 2013 http://www.icoet.net/ICOET_2013/ Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation Annual Meeting 2013 (50th Anniversary) San Jose, Costa, Rica, June 23-27, 2013 http://atbc2013.org/ 9th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference Okinawa, Japan, 24-28 June 2013 www.fish-isj.jp/9ipfc/ 20th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) Toulouse, France, June 26-29, 2013 www.eaere2013.org/ 27th Session of the IOC Assembly Paris, France, June 26 - July 9, 2013 http://ioc-unesco.org/index.php?option=com_oe&task=viewEventRecord&eventID=1030

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July ICCAT Intersessional Meeting of the Subcommittee on Ecosystems Madrid, Spain, July 1-6, 2013 www.iccat.int/en/meetingscurrent.htm Biodiversity and Integrated Pest Management: Working Together for a Sustainable Future Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, July 4–5, 2013 www.oired.vt.edu/ipmcrsp/biodivipm2013/ Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation 2013 Annual Meeting Plymouth, DEV, UK, July 7-12, 2013 www.cerf-jcr.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=261&Itemid=71 12th Pacific Inter-Science Congress University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, July 8-12 July 2013 www.psi2013.usp.ac.fj/ 9th Convención Internacional sobre Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo Palacio de Convenciones de La Habana, Cuba. July 8 – 12, 2013 http://www.cubambiente.com/ American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH) 2013 Annual Meeting Albuquerque, NM, USA, July 10-15, 2013 www.asih.org/annualmeetings Society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS) Annual Conference Monterey, California, USA, July 15-18, 2013 www.scgis.org/Lev2Page.aspx?Page2ID=7 21st Annual Hawai‘i Conservation Conference Honolulu, HI, USA, July 16-18, 2013 http://hawaiiconservation.org/activities/hawaii_conservation_conference World Conference on Stock Assessment Methods for Sustainable Fisheries Boston, USA, July 15-19, 2013 http://ices.dk/iceswork/symposia/wcsam.asp 19th Meeting Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds (SCSCB) St. Georges, Grenada, July 27-31, 2013 http://www.scscb.org/ Botany 2013 New Orleans, LA, USA, July 27 – 31, 2013 www.2013.botanyconference.org/ 26th International Congress for Conservation Biology Baltimore, MD, USA, July 21-25, 2013 www.conbio.org/mini-sites/iccb-2013 14th International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IIALD) World Congress Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, July 22-24, 2013 www.iaald.org/news/call-proposals-14th-world-congress-international-association-agricultural-information-specialis

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5th National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration Chicago, IL, USA, July 29-2 August, 2013 www.conference.ifas.ufl.edu/ncer2013/ New Zealand Biosecurity Institute National Education and Technology Seminar (NETS) Greymouth, New Zealand, July 31 - August 2, 2013 http://www.biosecurity.org.nz/nets/next-nets/

August ESA 2013, 98th Annual Meeting – “Sustainable Pathways Learning from the Past and shaping the Future” Minneapolis, MN, USA, 4-9 August 2013 www.esa.org/meetings/ International Polychaete Conference Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia, 4-9 August 2013 www.ipc2013.com.au/ 3rd Biennial Symposium: International Society for River Science Beijing, China, August 5-9, 2013 http://www.2013isrs.org/ 11th International Mammalogical Congress (IMC 11) Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, August 11-16, 2013 www.qub.ac.uk/sites/IMC11/ American Ornithologists Union Annual Conference Chicago, IL, USA, August 13-17, 2013 www.aou.org/meetings/ International Association for Ecology (INTECOL) – “Into the Next 100 Years” London,UK, August 18-23, 2013 http://www.intecol2013.org/4_Programme.html 6th Annual International Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) Conference Bali, Indonesia, 26-31 August 2013 www.espconference.org/ESP_Conference 8th International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 20-22, 2013 www.icmb.info/ 5th International Partners in Flight Conference Snowbird, Utah, USA, August 23-24, 2013 www.partnersinflight.org/ 9th Conference of the European Ornithologists' Union (EOU) University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, August 27-31 August wwww.norwich.eounion.org/ 4th Mesoamerican Congress of Protected Areas San Jose, Costa Rica, August 27 - 30, 2013 E-mail: Ricardo Meneses-Orellana, SINAC (ricardo.meneses@sinac.go.cr)

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September Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism Conference (ESTC13) Nairobi, Kenya, September, 2013 http://www.ecotourismconference.org/host-destination 44th Pacific Islands Forum Majuro, Marshall Islands, September 16-20, 2013 www.forumsec.org/index.cfm 5th Western Hemisphere Shorebird Group Meeting Santa Marta, Colombia September 17-21, 2013 http://ornithologyexchange.org/meetings/index.html/_/vth-western-hemisphere-shorebird-group-meeting-r28 12th International Conference - Ecology and Management of Alien Plant Invasions Pirenóplis, Brazil, September 22-26, 2013 www.emapi2013.org/ 9th European Vertebrate Pest Management Conference Finland, 22-27 September 2013 www.evpmc.org/

International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems (IMDIS 2013) Lucca, Italy, September 23-25, 2013 http://imdis2013.seadatanet.org/

ICES Annual Science Conference Reykjavik, Iceland, September 23-27, 2013 www.ices.dk/iceswork/indexasc.asp 7th International Conference on Asian and Pacific Coasts Bali, Indonesia, September 24-26, 2013 http://apac2013.org 37th Annual Meeting Waterbird Society Wilhelmshaven, Germany, September 24-29, 2013 http://www.waterbirds.org/

October International Geographical Union International Conference on Island Development Penghu Archipelago, Taiwan, October 1-5, 2013 http://island.npu.edu.tw/ 2nd World Heritage Marine Site Managers Conference Marseille, France, October 5-7, 2013 www.marineworldheritage-unesco.org/calendar/ The Wildlife Society 2013 Annual Meeting Milwaukee,WI, USA, 5-9 October 2013 http://wildlife.org/

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10th World Wilderness Congress (WWC) Salamanca, Spain, 4-10 October, 2013 www.wild.org/ 5th World Conference on Ecological Restoration (SER2013) Madison, Wisconsin, October 6-11, 2013 www.ser2013.org/ 7th Mexican & 1st Pan-American Coral Reef Congress Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, October 8-11, 2013 http://redoctober.sisal.unam. mx/1CPAC PICES Annual Meeting “Communicating forecasts, uncertainty and consequences of ecosystem change” Nanaimo, Canada, 11 - 20 October 2013 www.ioc-unesco.org/index.php?option=com_oe&task=viewEventRecord&eventID=1231 ECSA 53: Estuaries and coastal areas in times of intense change Shanghai, China, October 13 – 17, 2013 www.estuarinecoastalconference.com/ CBD SBSTTA 17 Montreal, Canada, October 14 -18, 2013 www.cbd.int/meetings/ 39th International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC) Conference Dania Beach, Florida, U.S.A., October 20-24, 2013 www.iamslic.org/activities/conferences 5th Global Botanic Gardens Congress Dunedin Botanic Garden, New Zealand, October 20-25, 2013 www.5gbgc.com/ 3rd International Marine Protected Area Congress (IMPAC3) Marseille and Ajaccio, France, October 21-27, 2013 www.aires-marines.com/Events/International-Marine-Protected-Area-Congress 1st Worldwide Raptor Conference Bariloche City, Argentina, October 21-24, 2013 www.raptorresearchfoundation.org/conferences/current-conference Ecological Modeling for Ecosystem Sustainability in the context of Global Change (ISEM 2013) Toulouse, France, October 28-31, 2013 http://www.meteo.fr/cic/meetings/2013/ISEM/index.html 2nd International Congress on Biological Invasions (ICBI 2013) Qingdao, China, 23-27 October, 2013 Contact: ICBI Secretariat (icbi2013@cass.net.cn) 8th Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA) Scientific Symposium Maputo, Mozambique October 28- November 2, 2013 http://www.wiomsa.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=38&Itemid=73 Global Congress on Integrated Coastal Management Marmaris, Turkey, October 30- November 3, 2013 www.medcoast.org.tr/

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5th National Scientific Conference on Ecology and Biological Resources Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Hanoi, Vietnam. October 2013 http://iebr.ac.vn.pages/HNTQ.asp

November 2013 West Indies Veterinary Conference Basseterre, St. Kitts, November 2-9, 2013 http://www.rossu.edu/veterinary-school/alumni/West-Indies-Veterinary-Conference.cfm Aquaculture Conference: to the Next 40 Years of Sustainable Global Aquaculture, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain, November 3-7, 2013 www.aquaculture-conference.com/index.html 66th Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute (GCFI) Annual Meeting Corpus Christi, TX, USA, 4-8 November 2013 www.gcfi.org/index.php 9th Pacific Island Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas Suva, Fiji, 4-8 November, 2013 http://www.iucn.org/about/union/secretariat/offices/oceania/roundtable/?9922/ 9th World Sponge Conference Fremantle, Australia. 4 – 8 November 2013 http://www.spongeconference2013.org/ 61st Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America Austin, Texas, USA, November 10-13, 2013 www.entsoc.org/entomology2013 23rd Regular Meeting of the ICCAT Commission South Africa, November 18-25, 2013 www.iccat.int/en/meetingscurrent.htm

December 8th International Conference on Coelenterate Biology (ICCB) Eilat, Israel, December 1-5, 2013 www.iccb2013.com/ 20th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals University of Otago, New Zealand, December 9-13, 2013 http://www.marinemammalscience.org/