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Society Awards
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| 2008 Darwin Medal |
The Darwin Medal,
the most prestigious award given by the International Society
for Reef Studies, is presented every four years at the International
Coral Reef Symposium. It is awarded to a senior ISRS member
who is recognized worldwide for major contributions throughout
her/his career. The previous recipients have been Drs. David
Stoddart, Peter Glynn, Ian
Macintyre,Yossi Loya, and J. E. N. (Charlie) Veron. The next
occasion at which the medal will be presented is the Eleventh
International Coral Reef Symposium, to be held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA from 7 July to 11 July 2008.
For more information on the International Coral Reef Symposium,
please see http://www.nova.edu/ncri/11icrs/.
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| ISRS Library Awards
for 2003 |
| The International Society for Reef Studies (ISRS) is very pleased
to announce the winners of its Library Awards for 2003. It received
27 applications, and a committee of the ISRS Council made their
choice of 10 successful applicants based on criteria of relevance
of the applicants' missions to coral reef studies, the number
of people who would be likely to make use of the materials, the
quality of arrangements for access and the track record of contributions
made by the institution so far. Most of the applicants would
have been worthy recipients, but in the end, we selected the
following institutions: |
- Phuket Marine Biological
Centre, Thailand
- Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory, Jamaica
- Marine Biological
Station, Zoological Survey of India, Chennai, India
- Silliman
University Marine Laboratory, Dumaguete City, Philippines
- The Institute of Marine and Coastal Research of Colombia
-INVEMAR, Santa Marta, Colombia
- Institute of Marine Sciences,
Zanzibar, Tanzania
- CORALINA, Corporation for the sustainable
development of the archipelago of San Andres, Old Providence
and Santa Catalina, Colombia
- Unidad Académica -
Sistemas Arrecifales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de México Puerto Morelos, Mexico
- University of Southeastern
Philippines, Davao City, Philippines
- University of Asmara,
Eritrea Through the generosity of a number of authors and
publishers, and a contribution of funds
from
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ISRS, we are offering
10 sets of books (Corals of the world by JEN
Veron and M. Stafford-Smith;
Soft Corals and Sea Fans by K. Fabricius and P.
Alderslade; Systema
Porifera by J. Hooper and R. van
Soest; Proceedings of the 9th
International Coral Reef Symposium, Bali, Indonesia, 2000; Perspectives
on Coral Reefs edited by D. Barnes) and
subscriptions to the ISRS journal Coral Reefs and ISRS
newsletter Reef Encounter for the
triennium 2003-05.
The ISRS is delighted to support these developing-country institutions in this
way, and thanks the authors and publishers (Springer-Verlag and Kluwer), the
Local Organizing Committee of the 9 ICRS, AIMS and the ISRS Library Awards Sub-committee
led by Terry Done, without whose generosity and support, this Award would not
have been possible.
Nicholas Polunin
President of ISRS
School of Marine Science & Technology
University of Newcastle University
NE1 & 7RU, England
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| ISRS Student
Travel Award Program (STAP) |
7th International Conference on Coelenterate Biology - 6-11 July
2003, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
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One roundtrip airfare
(to US$1200) for a graduate student from a developing country
will be paid by ISRS; meeting registration fees, lodging,
and per diem for the five days of the meeting will be paid
by organizers
of ICCB7.
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An applicant must be:
1) A post-graduate student
status (called a graduate student in the US)
2) Presenting a poster or talk at ICCB7
3) A citizen of a developing country enrolled in a university in a developing
countryAPPLICATION
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1) An applicant must
submit an abstract for a poster or talk to be presented at ICCB7
(deadline 1 April 2003; must be submitted electronically through
the ICCB7 website web.nhm.ukans.edu/inverts/iccb).
2) An applicant must ask that two letters of recommendation be submitted, one
of which must be from the student's major professor, attesting to the student's
graduate status and active current involvement with coral reef research in the
field and/or laboratory. They should be in hard copy, addressed to Dr.
Daphne Fautin, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Haworth Hall, University
of Kansas, 1200 Sunnyside Drive, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 USA.
3) An applicant must submit in writing a curriculum vita no longer than two pages
and an essay no longer than one page (10-point Times Roman is the smallest acceptable
font) stating how attending the meeting will advance the student's career in
coral reef science.
4) Abstract and all supporting documents must be in English. Originals of letters
of recommendation in a language other than English must be accompanied by English
translations.
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