Other meetings

Pedometrics 2017 will be a joint conference of the IUSS Pedometrics Commission and five of its Working Groups: Digital Soil Mapping / Digital Soil Morphometrics / Modelling of Soil & Landscape Evolution / Proximal Soil Sensing / Soil Monitoring

NWO organises information meetings for researchers who want to apply for a Veni, Vidi of Vici grant. Practical information is given and selection committee members, NWO secretaries and researchers who have already acquired a Veni, Vidi or Vici share their experiences during a question and answer session. The meetings are in English.

Exploring the major drivers behind the mixing of the world’s biotas and the consequences for conservation of biodiversity.

An annual meeting that brings together scientists, teachers, doctors and students to discuss new developments in the interface between evolutionary biology and medical sciences. It covers topic like infectious diseases, metabolic diseases, antibiotic resistance, ageing and cancer evolution.

This is the biannual international conference of evolutionary biologists and attracts a large number of academics from all over the world.

Wageningen University & Research invites you to participate in the third edition of the Wageningen Soil Conference, to discuss novel insights in (applied) soil science, to identify further actions for soil-based solutions that help achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, to initiate programs that aim at a lasting increase in soil organic carbon, and to develop narratives on soil-based solutions that are convincing to policy makers and other stakeholders.

The origin of life, on Earth and elsewhere, is a topic which fascinates the public, and which is ideally suited to bring together scientists from various disciplines. On August 31st and September 1st, we will organize a two-day symposium called “Fundamentals of Life in the Universe”, covering a wide spectrum of topics, from planetary evolution to the fabrication of synthetic cells.

The congress theme reflects that landscape ecology as a meeting point - where pattern and process meet people and action - seen as a way of thinking when dealing with European landscapes. We want to put emphasis on the integration of pattern and process as a biophysical component of landscape ecology with people and action, bringing in the social and cultural approaches.

De Heimans en Thijsse Stichting organiseert samen met IVN, KNNV en SoortenNL een symposium over de toekomst van het Nederlandse platteland en het nieuwe Europese landbouwbeleid dat in 2020 van start zal gaan. Hoe zal het Nederlandse platteland eruitzien over vijftig jaar? (meeting is in Dutch)

The British Ecological Society (BES), NecoV and the Gesellschaft für Ökologie (GfÖ) have agreed to hold a joint Annual Meeting, 11 – 14 December 2017, in Ghent, Belgium. The joint meeting aims to build closer ties between the vibrant academic ecological communities in Europe, and meets the strategic objectives of all three of the ecological Societies. The meeting will bring together ecologists to discuss the latest advances in ecological research across the whole discipline and will focus on the major environmental challenges at the European level. The meeting will be held in association with the European Ecological Federation (EEF).