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First Latin American ABS Meeting: Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, 2006
| What | Meeting |
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| When |
2006-04-04 18:30
to 2006-11-04 18:30 |
| Where | Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico |
| Contact Name | Rogelio Macías-Ordóñez |
| Contact Email | rogelio@ecologia.edu.mx |
| Contact Phone | (+52)(228)8421800 ext 3009 |
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First Announcement:The Latin American Affairs Committee (LAAC) has proposed to organize a regular meeting to promote ABS membership in Latin America, and to promote interaction between Latin American, US and Canadian ABS members. Such meeting is proposed to be scheduled every two years in a Latin American country, under a format similar to US regional meetings (2-3 days, 80-150 people, no parallel sessions, and a poster session). Although open to all members, research topics and study sites, it should be of special interest to those members living or doing field work in Latin-America, or interested in establishing collaborations between US, Canadian and Latin American researchers.
Mexico has a large contingent of ABS members, and recent experience organizing the 2004 annual ABS meeting in Oaxaca. Geographically, Mexico is a natural bridge between Latin America and the rest of North America. Xalapa is a small and picturesque city in the mountains of the Sierra Madre Oriental, surrounded by cloud forest, sixty miles from the Port of Veracruz (with connecting flights to the US). Visit http://www.xalapa.net/sitios/xalapa.htm for a quick tour.
In order to promote attendance and to avoid competing with the regular meeting or the Winter Animal Behavior Conference, possible dates for the Xalapa meeting are either late April-early May or late October-early November. The organizing committee would appreciate your input sent to rogelio@ecologia.edu.mx on which of these dates would make it more likely for you or your students to attend, as well as any other suggestion. A second announcement with the scheduled dates based on the input received will be posted on the ABS website in October, and sent with the November newsletter.