[MPWG] 3RD SYMPOSIUM ON HEMLOCK WOOLLY ADELGID

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3RD SYMPOSIUM ON HEMLOCK WOOLLY ADELGID -- The Hemlock Woolly Adelgid 
Working Group and the Save Our Hemlocks Action Team invite you to attend 
the 3rd Symposium on Hemlock Woolly Adelgid in the Eastern United 
States, February 1-3, 2005, Renaissance Hotel, Asheville, North Carolina.

Registration materials and agenda with speakers are at 
http://www.saveourhemlocks.org/conference/conference.shtml.
Join us in Asheville for a two and one-half day conference on the 
biology, impacts, research and technology development, and management of 
hemlock woolly adelgid in the Eastern United States.

If you are interested in presenting a talk or poster, contact Fred Hain 
at fred_hain at ncsu.edu with a preliminary title. Please be advised that 
most volunteer presentations will probably be assigned as a poster since 
the program for oral presentations is almost full with invited papers.

At the Renaissance Asheville Hotel, One Thomas Wolfe Plaza, Asheville, 
North Carolina 28801, a block of rooms is being held at the Federal 
Government per diem rate of $81.00 plus tax. To make your reservation, 
call the Renaissance at 828-252-8211 or 1-800-468-3571 and mention the 
Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Conference. This room block will be held until 
TODAY!! January 10, 2005. After that date, the hotel will accept 
reservations on a space available basis.


2005 SMOKIES ALL TAXA BIODIVERSITY INVENTORY GRANTS AVAILABLE -- 
Discover Life in America, Inc. (DLIA) invites proposals for research in 
support of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park's All Taxa 
Biodiversity Inventory (GSMNP's ATBI).  $52,500 is allocated for the 
upcoming (2005) field season.  Proposals for collecting expeditions to 
GSMNP and for identification of georeferenced specimens are especially 
encouraged.  In addition, for 2005, high priority will be given to 
proposals for a pollinator workshop, specific taxonomic working group 
(TWIG) products (e.g., revisions, database-driven species web pages, 
identification guides, keys, and other primary literature), bioblitzes, 
workshops, previously uninventoried taxa, and proposals of $5,000 or less.

Find the 2005 RFP http://www.dlia.org/dlia/rfp_2005.shtml and submission 
form http://www.dlia.org/dlia/proposal_2005.shtml and other related 
information on the DLIA web site or contact Jeanie Hilten for more 
information <jeanie at dlia.org>.


UPCOMING EVENTS
February 1-3 - 3rd Symposium on Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, Asheville, NC  
http://www.saveourhemlocks.org/conference/conference.shtml


See 
<http://samab.org/Events/events.html>http://samab.org/Events/events.html 
for details on these and other regional events.

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    Robert S. (Robb) Turner, PhD
    Executive Director, Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB)
    Technical Director, Southern Appalachian Information Node, NBII
    314 UT Conference Center
    Knoxville, Tennessee  37996-4138
    865-974-4585
    865-974-4609 (fax)
    rtt at ornl.gov or rsturner at utk.edu or samab at utk.edu
    http://samab.org, http://sain.nbii.gov


    Robert S. (Robb) Turner, PhD
    Executive Director, Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB)
    Technical Director, Southern Appalachian Information Node, NBII
    314 UT Conference Center
    Knoxville, Tennessee  37996-4138
    865-974-4585
    865-974-4609 (fax)
    rtt at ornl.gov or rsturner at utk.edu or samab at utk.edu
    http://samab.org, http://sain.nbii.gov

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