The 3rd World Lake Student Meeting
The need and future direction for inland water monitoring and data processing
Dates: 25 October - 4 November 2011
Location: Reno, Nevada & Austin, Texas in U.S.A.
The World Water and Climate Network (WWCN) is seeking ten distinguished students who study any of the fresh water sciences to join the 3rd World Lake Student Meeting. The meeting will be held at the Tahoe Environmental Research Center and will include attending the 14th World Lake Conference in Austin Texas from October 31 to November 4 in conjunction with the International Lake Environmental Committee Foundation (ILEC).
We are pleased to cover all necessary expenses for the students to attend both meetings and we can provide this unique opportunity to share both classic and/or modern fresh water sciences with distinguished researchers and outstanding students from different nations. The problems concerning fresh water resources in the world are becoming increasingly serious and the effective transfer of experience and knowledge on fresh water ecosystems are required to save and manage the world's lakes and rivers as climate change increases its impact on water quality and quantity.
The 3rd World Lake Student Meeting will be focused on but not be limited to the future directions of monitoring and data processing in fresh water systems in order to evaluate and anticipate changes resulting from events like climatic change. Unfortunately, each organization keeps its own database system and most of them are semi-closed to the public. Under a critical situation such as the Japan's nuclear disaster in 2011, decision makers need better updated data which is more rapidly available.
Student belonging to both undergraduate and graduate courses may apply to join this conference by submitting one page abstract which shows your interest and ideas on the future direction of monitoring and data processing in fresh water systems. Send one page abstract, your CV and one letter of recommendation from your supervisor to Tomohiro Sato (wlsm2011@ilec.or.jp) of ILEC by August 20, 2011. The following committee members will select ten students from applicants and inform you of the result by September 10, 2011.
The tentative schedule of this meeting is as follows;
October 25 (Tuesday): Registration/Get-together at Lake Tahoe
October 26 (Wednesday): Guidance/Lectures and Presentations
October 27 (Thursday): Lake Tahoe Field Trip
October 28 (Friday): Discussion/Pre-Presentations
October 29-30: Excursion
October 31 - November 4: World Lake Conferences at Austin, Texas
Selection Committee
- Charles R. Goldman, WWCN President
- Richard Robarts, Director of GEMS,
- Geoffrey S. Schladow, Director of TERC, UC Davis
- Kirsten Olrik, Miljobiologisk Laboratorium Aps
- Michio Kumagai, WWCN Secretary General
Contacts: Tomohiro SATO, International Lake Environmental Committee Foundation (ILEC)
E-mail: wlsm2011@ilec.or.jp
Application deadline: August 20, 2011, 12:00 pm (UTC)
Results are to be announced selected applicants only after September 10, 2011.