Financial Support for BIOGEOMON, The Third International Symposium on Ecosystem Behavior (Conference Date June 21-25, 1997)

wider97 -08543。由维拉诺瓦大学和捷克地质调查局共同主办的第三届生态系统行为国际专题讨论会将于1997年6月21日至25日在维拉诺瓦大学校园举行。BIOGEOMON是一系列会议中的第三次；前两次会议分别于1987年和1993年在布拉格举行。1993年的会议吸引了来自五大洲27个国家的近200名科学家。BIOGEOMON的基本原理一直是，并将继续是，生物地球化学家需要在一个允许在正式和非正式讨论的气氛中展示最新研究成果的环境中偶尔举行会议。BIOGEOMON的主要重点是生物地球化学或陆地生态系统（主要但不完全是温带森林），1997年会议将以流域为生物地球化学调查单位（流域监测、操纵和建模）、生物地球化学研究的新兴工具和方法（自然丰度稳定同位素、自然丰度放射性和宇宙成因同位素、地理信息系统）、并选择当前主题（酸化及其逆转；氮循环，限制和饱和；碳气体通量跨越陆地/大气边界；与全球气候变化相关的养分循环）。除了6名主讲人和36名特邀发言者外，还收到了来自32个国家的170多名个人的预登记表格，表明他们希望在1997年BIOGEOMON上作口头或海报贡献。BIOGEOMON的主要目标是提供一个论坛，传播和讨论最近的研究成果，探索生物地球化学研究的未来方向，并促进区域、国家和国际范围内所有年龄的研究人员之间的跨学科合作。会议摘要将发表在《会议摘要杂志》上，与会者可以选择提交一份手稿，以便在《水、空气和土壤污染》的特刊上发表。

Wieder 97-08543 .BIOGEOMON, Third International Symposium on Ecosystem Behavior, co-sponsored by Villanova University and the Czech Geological Survey, will be held on the campus or Villanova University on June 21-25, 1997. BIOGEOMON is the third in a series or meetings; the previous two were held in Prague in 1987 and 1993. The 1993 conference attracted nearly 200 scientists from 27 countries on five continents. The rationale behind BIOGEOMON has been and continues to be that there is a need for biogeochemists to occasionally meet in a setting that allows recent research findings to be presented i9 an atmosphere that rosters formal and informal discussion. BIOGEOMON's major focus is the biogeochemistry or terrestrial ecosystems (mostly, but not exclusively, temperate forests), and the 997 conference will feature sessions on watersheds as units for biogeochemical investigation (watershed monitoring, manipulation, and modeling), emerging tools for and approaches to biogeochemical research (natural abundance stable isotopes, natural abundance radioactive and cosmogenic isotopes, geographic information systems), and selected current topics (acidification and its reversal; nitrogen cycling, limitation and saturation; carbon gas fluxes across the land/atmosphere boundary; nutrient cycling as related to global climate change). In addition to six keynote speakers and 36 invited speakers, pre-registration forms have been received from over 170 individuals in 32 countries, indicating a desire to present an oral or poster contribution at BIOGEOMON in 1997. BIOGEOMON' s primary goals are to provide a forum for the dissemination and discussion of recent research findings, to explore future directions for biogeochemical research, and to foster interdisciplinary, collaboration between researchers or all ages at regional, national, and international scales. The conference abstracts will be published in the Journal of Conference Abstracts, and participants will have the option of sub mitting a manuscript four consideration for publication in a special issue of Water, Air, and Soil Pollution.