Workshop on Historical Biogeography of Neotropical Freshwater Fishes; June 1989; San Francisco, California

该奖项将部分支持美国和拉丁美洲的研究人员参加关于新热带淡水鱼历史生物地理学的国际研讨会，该研讨会将于6月17-23日在加利福尼亚州旧金山举行的美国鱼类学家和爬行动物学家协会年会期间举行。该研讨会由加州州立理工大学的乔纳森·N·巴斯金教授和巴西圣保罗大学的纳尔西奥·梅内塞斯教授共同举办，将把生态学家、地质学家、古生物学家和其他人聚集在一起，促进思想的交流和发展。科学家和公众都广泛认识到了解和保护新热带生物群的重要性，但淡水鱼的多样性和复杂性充其量也只是刚刚开始了解。通过将来自拉丁美洲的相当数量的研究人员与他们的美国同行聚集在一起，该奖项有助于实现发展中国家的科学计划的目标。

This award will partially support U.S. and Latin American researchers to participate in an international workshop on the historical biogeography of neotropical freshwater fishes to be held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in San Francisco, California, June 17-23. Co-organized by Professor Jonathan N. Baskin of California State Polytechnic University and Professor Naercio Menezes of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, the workshop will serve to bring together ecologists, geologists, paleontologists and others to promote the exchange and development of ideas. The importance of understanding and conserving the Neotropical biota is widely appreciated by both scientists and the public, but the diversity and complexity of the freshwater fishes is at best only beginning to be understood. By bringing together a sizable number of researchers in the field from Latin America with their U.S. counterparts, this award serves to fulfill the goals of the Science in Developing Countries Program.