[cseb national] CSEB National Conference, Halifax, October 4-5, 2007



Dear CSEB Member
The Canadian Society of Environmental Biologists (CSEB) will be holding its national conference this year in Halifax. We'd like to see you there. A key feature of the conference is that it is timed to take place following the Annual Aquatic Toxicity Workshop, a national conclave of environmental biologists in government and private industry, and it offers the opportunity for our members to attend both conferences. The topic is Habitat, and its changing context. We've lined up several guest speakers to focus on different aspects of habitat, and are accepting submitted papers/posters on this topic, or on more general topics of interest to environmental biologists. The conference title is: Habitat: Challenges and Solutions. Please contact me or any one of our national executive with submissions or questions. 

Habitat: Challenges and Solutions
Just as habitat is fundamental to the existence of any organism, the concept of habitat is essential to any serious understanding of the relationship of organisms to their environment. Aside from these important functions, habitat has acquired new roles to help in managing human activity. In particular it has become an important legal and social tool in managing impacts of human activities on the environment. You can't get through a day without hearing about impacts on aquatic environments framed in losses of fish habitat, loss of critical habitat for species at risk, nursery habitat, breeding habitat, habitat diversity, habitat complexity....the list goes on. Increasingly environmental biologists and managers are forced to dust off their textbook definitions and reapply them to the changing 'habitat' landscape.
<>This one-day conference and field trip focuses on the many faces of habitat in marine and freshwater environments, and the terrestrial world--including one biologists are increasingly being asked to consider, the human habitat. Guest speakers in each of the main subject areas (freshwater, marine, terrestrial, and human) will present perspectives on habitat issues and developments, as a counterpoint to contributed presentations dealing with hands-on projects and developments relating to aspects of habitat. A sub-theme of the conference will be aquatic habitat in the context of the Fisheries Act, and an open discussion of aspects of fish habitat policy in federal and provincial governments, will end the afternoon and be continued in the evening. "Habitat­­--Challenges and Solutions" should prove to be one of the more stimulating conferences this year as a venue for ideas and discussion on the many faces of habitat. Presentations will include case studies and papers by academics, consultants, government representatives involved in various aspects of environmental monitoring. Other off-topic and student presentations relevant to environmental<> biology will also be accepted.
The conference will take place at the Westin Nova Scotian in downtown Halifax on October 4-5, 2007. See you there. 


Patrick Stewart, Conference Coordinator.

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