-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CONFOR West 2011 - student conference Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:47:41 -0600 From: Erica Graham erica.graham@ualberta.ca To: Martha_Blouw@umanitoba.ca CC: conforwest2011@gmail.com

Hello Martha Blouw,

Could you please pass along this graduate conference information to your graduate students (including attached poster and abstract guidelines).

If you would be willing to put up a couple of posters in your faculty/department, please send me your mailing address and I'll ship hardcopies to you.

Thanks for your help!

Erica Graham MSc Candidate, Forest Biology and Management Department of Renewable Resources University of Alberta 780-492-4135

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November 19 - Call for Abstracts Deadline for CONFOR West 2011

CONFOR West is an annual conference organized by, and for, graduate students in western North America studying environmental sciences, forestry and other related fields. This year´s conference will be held in Jasper from February 3 to 6, 2011.

The 2011 conference theme is, "Ecosystems in Perspective: Integrating Environment, Society& Economy". We hope to expose graduate students to perspectives on environmental and forest research from outside their typical discourses and begin meaningful dialogue between students of different research backgrounds.

This conference is geared towards Senior Undergraduate, Master´s,& PhD students If anyone is interested in being involved in conference promotion, please contact conforwest2011@gmail.com

See the attached poster and abstract guidelines for details of the upcoming CONFOR West 2011 graduate student conference.

www.conforwest.org