Dear ECOresearchers,

You are cordially invited to submit theoretical, conceptual or descriptive articles to the Minitrack on Environmental Online Communication, held in January 2006 as part of the 39th Hawaii Conference on Systems Sciences. The Minitrack investigates the role of information networks in advocating sustainability and ecosystem protection. Possible topics range from Raising Environmental Awareness to Environmental Web Portals, Networks and Virtual Communities, Corporate Sustainability and the Environmental Sciences (Call for Papers).

The Climateprediction.net project has published first results in Nature, Vol 433 (Jan 2005). The article on the "Uncertainty in Predictions of the Climate Response to Rising Levels of Greenhouse Gases" shows climate sensitivities of between 2 and 11 degrees Celsius - much greater than the range of 2-6 degrees previously accepted (Article | Press Release | EOC Chapter 12).

With kind regards,
The ECOresearch Team

------------------------------

UPCOMING EVENTS

Event Date: Feb 23, 2005 - Feb 23, 2005
Conference - Web-based Communities:
(Feb 23-25): The mission of this conference is to publish and integrate scientific results and act catalytically to the fast developing culture of web communities. The conference invites original papers, review papers, technical reports and case studies on WWW in particular the emerging role of so-called WWW-based Communities.
Find out more.

Event Date: Feb 28, 2005 - Feb 28, 2005
Submission - IT in Env Engineering (ITEE-05):
(Sep 25-27): Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering (ITEE'2005) will provide a forum for exchanging information among pollution engineers, knowledge engineers and scientists. The conference focuses on long-term data storage, data update and validation, and data consistency, and aims to discuss the potential of individual teams in implementing and modeling large-scale systems.
Find out more.

Event Date: Feb 28, 2005 - Feb 28, 2005
Submission - eChallenges 2005:
(Oct 19-21): This is the fifteenth in a series of annual conferences supported by the European Commission, which regularly attracts over 500 delegates from commercial, government & research organisations around the world. Focusing on eBusiness, eGovernment, eWork and eEurope beyond 2005, the goal of the conference is to stimulate take-up of Research & Technology Development results by industry and the European public sector.
Find out more.

Event Date: Mar 17, 2005 - Mar 17, 2005
Submission - Comm & Environment (COCE-05):
(June 24-27): The 8th Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment focuses on "Wilderness, Advocacy, and the Media". The very idea of wilderness is mediated through various technologies (photograph, television, film, computers). This conference will explore questions around the relation of environmental activism to the media and how human-nature relations are formed and transformed through media.
Find out more.

Event Date: Apr 01, 2005
Conference - Planetwork-2005:
(Apr 1-3): Planetwork illuminates the critical role that the conscious use of information technologies and the Internet can, and indeed must, play in creating a truly democratic, ecologically sane and socially just future.
Find out more.

Event Date: May 03, 2005
Conference - Ecosystems & Sustainable Development:
(May 3-5): ECOSUD 2005 is the Fifth International Conference in the well-established series on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development. The meetings provide a unique forum for the presentation and discussion of recent work on aspects of ecosystems and sustainable development, including physical aspects and modelling.
Find out more.