Upcoming Meetings

Joint BES IUCN Symposium 2012: Investing in Peatlands –  Demonstrating Success Bangor University, UK
26 - 28 June 2012 (link)

This symposium will bring together experts from science, policy and practice from a wide range of backgrounds to highlight and debate the importance of peatlands from an ecological, social and economic perspective. Our current state of knowledge of peatlands and their ecosystem services will be reviewed and important knowledge gaps will be addressed in order to provide recommendations on how these can be filled. The symposium will assess socio-economic tools to embed peatland conservation in practice and policy, e.g. through payment for ecosystem services as well as novel partnership approaches between conservation, business and policy.

The symposium will be interdisciplinary with a strong focus on interaction of ecology and conservation science with socio-economics and policy. This will be reflected in the selection of keynote speakers and themes for the breakout sessions.

BES Annual Meeting 2011, University of Sheffield, UK. Oral Session 23: Thematic Topic: Peatlands Ecosystems. WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER. Chair: Dr Aletta Bonn, and Dr Simon Caporn (link)

Peatland session for the 2011 annual meeting of the Geological Society of America (link)

Recent Meetings

Third International Field Symposium: WEST SIBERIAN PEATLANDS AND CARBON CYCLE:  PAST AND PRESENT. June 27 - July 5    2011. Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. Conference link: http://en.ugrasu.ru/international/WSPCC_2011/

International Symposium on Responsible Peatland Management and Growing Media Production Québec City, Canada, 13 – 17 June, 2011.

Workshop on Identification of Peatland Bryophytes to be held in Fairbanks, Alaska on 5-7 August, 2010

Reclamation and Restoration of Boreal Peatlands and Forest Ecosystems: Toward a Sustainable Future, 25-27 March, 2010, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

The 2nd International Symposium: Peatlands in the Global Carbon Cycle, Prague, Czech Republic, 25-30 September, 2009. Link to meeting web page here. Link to meeting abstracts here.

Ecology and Identification of Sphagnum, August 2008, Anchorage, Alaska

Highlights from the Carbon Conference 2007 in Wageningen, The Netherlands.

More information about the recent Peat Workshop held at Villanova University, March 27-29, 2008.

Information about the Field Symposium from Siberia coming soon.

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