U.S. Graduate Student Travel to International Biogeography Society Conference

这个项目将有助于提供统一和持续增长的领域的生态学，一个跨学科的研究，整合了重要的生态学，进化生物学和保护生物学的主题。它将通过资助20名美国研究生参加将于2007年1月在西班牙加那利群岛举行的国际生物地理学会第三届两年一度的会议的旅费和生活费来实现这一目标。在会议上，学生将参加一系列网络和专业发展活动，这些活动将为他们的专业发展提供更广泛的影响，并提高他们的智力发展。这些学生将参加一些旨在跨越年龄和经验水平，国界和传统学术界限的网络活动。学生将接触并参与目前正在研究领域进行的前沿科学，该领域最近通过新的统计技术，技术进步以及适用于地理学领域进步的数据扩散而重新焕发活力。该项目将有助于促进参与学生的智力，专业和网络进步。这样做，这个项目将有助于推进这些学生的职业生涯，促进更多的合作和研究，并促进地理学领域。通过这次会议的活动，以及传播会议上提出的研究成果，该项目还应加强向普通公众、决策者和管理人员提供的有关海洋和陆地环境保护方面重大问题的信息。

This project will help provide for the unification and continued growth of the field of biogeography, an interdisciplinary study that integrates topics of importance in ecology, evolutionary biology, and conservation biology. It will accomplish this by funding the travel and subsistence costs of 20 US-based graduate students to attend the third biennial conference of the International Biogeography Society, which will be held in the Canary Islands, Spain in January of 2007. At the conference students will participate in a series of networking and professional development activities that will provide many benefits of broader impact to their professional development, as well as enhancing their intellectual development. These students will participate in a number of networking activities designed to cut across age and experience levels, national borders, and traditional academic boundaries. Students will be exposed to and participate in the cutting-edge science now being conducted in a field of study that has been recently rejuvenated by new statistical techniques, advances in technology, and a proliferation of data appropriate for the advancement of the field of biogeography. This project will help to facilitate strong intellectual, professional and networking advances for the participating students. In so doing, this project will help to advance the careers of these students, facilitate additional collaboration and research, and promote the field of biogeography. Through the activities of this conference, and the dissemination of research presented therein, this project should also enhance the information that is available to the lay public, policy makers, and managers on topics of significant concern to conservation in both marine and terrestrial environments.