SPRING SYMPOSIUM 2007
Thinking Small: Microbial Diversity and Its Role in Conservation
The Center for Biodiversity and Conservation's Twelfth Annual Symposium
Thursday and Friday, April 26 and 27, 2007
American Museum of Natural History
New York City, New York USA
Spring Symposia
The Center for Biodiversity and Conservation holds an annual spring
symposium designed to foster interdisciplinary discussion of cutting-edge
issues
in biodiversity research and conservation.
Visit our Spring Symposium Archives to learn more about topics including: biodiversity science and policy, the extinction process, the value of biodiversity to human health, conservation challenges in the face of climate change, the impact of urban sprawl on biodiversity, and the role of recent technological advances in conserving genetic diversity.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS AND WORKSHOPS
Living
With Biodiversity
Resource guides from a four-night lecture series, exploring ways for individuals
to contribute to conservation in their daily lives through their food
selection, water consumption, energy use, and product choices.
New
York State Environmental Summit
A statewide environmental summit in February 2001 brought together legislators
and grassroots conservation groups to identify common environmental agendas.
Species
Identification Workshops
Recognizing the enormous instructional value of the Museum’s extensive
invertebrate collections, the CBC began organizing annual identification
workshops in collaboration with the Division of Invertebrate Zoology in
1998. Attendees have included biologists, naturalists, land managers,
consultants, teachers, and others responsible for the conservation and
management of much of the New York region’s biodiversity. These
two- and three-day workshops, led by Museum scientists and other experts,
enable
participants to hone their taxonomic identification skills in both the
laboratory and the field, and to gain a better understanding of the ecology
and conservation requirements for the taxa being studied. Workshops to
date have focused on butterflies and moths, dragonflies and damselflies,
and freshwater mussels and snails. A bee course was given in spring 2002.
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