July/August 1997
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July/August 1997 |
For information on the following meetings of the International Joint Commission and its various boards, contact Commission office.
| July | 17-18 | International Air Quality Advisory Board Meeting, St. Andrews, NB |
| August | 5-6 | IJC Executive Meeting, Ann Arbor, MI |
| August | 7 | IJC Sector Roundtable, Ann Arbor, MI |
| August | 20-21 | Pesticide Workshop, Toledo, OH (tentative date) |
| September | 3- 4 | Great Lakes Science Advisory Board Mohawk Council of Awkesasne, Cornwall, ON |
| September | 5- 7 | Workshop on the Policy Implications of New Evidence regarding
Persistent Toxic Substances and Human Health, Wingspread, Racine, WI |
| September | 19 | Human Health and Aquatic Life Workshop (LaMPs), Cleveland, OH |
| October | 6-10 | IJC Semi-Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC |
| October | 30 | Niagara Board of Control Annual Public Meeting, Fort Erie, ON |
| October | 30-31 | Council of Great Lakes Research Managers, Niagara Falls, ON |
| October | 31 | IJC Roundtable, Niagara Falls, ON |
| November | 1- 2 | IJC's Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
Public Forum, Niagara Falls, ON |
| November | 1 | 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Great Lakes Water
Quality
Agreement, Niagara Falls, NY |
| December | 9-11 | IJC Executive Meeting, Washington, DC |
The Essex County Field Naturalists' Club will host this year's Joint Conference and Annual General Meetings of The Federation of Ontario Naturalists and Canadian Nature Federation on August 14-17, 1997 in Windsor, Ontario. Traditionally scheduled May meetings have been intentionally shifted to mid-August to take advantage of the area's seasonal spectacles including the colorful bursts of native tallgrass, fall shorebird and songbird migration peaks and butterfly population explosions. For conference information and registration, contact Karen Cedar, Conference Coordinator, Ojibway Nature Centre, 5200 Matchette Road, Windsor, ON N9C 4E8. (519)966-5852; email parkrec@city.windsor.on.ca.
Lake Superior Center will offer a hands-on, get-wet teacher development program this summer for teachers of science, grades five-12. The two-day workshop, called Lake Matters: Teaching Lake Superior Aquatic Ecology through Stewardship and Monitoring, will be held in Duluth, Minnesota, August 14-15, 1997. Teachers will be shown techniques for teaching Lake Superior's complex ecology through environmental stewardship and ecological monitoring programs. Teachers must register in pairs. Pairs must be from the same school and at least one of the pair must be a science teacher. The program is free. Each teacher team will receive a $200 grant to fund an environmental stewardship or monitoring project during the 1997-1998 school year. The program is sponsored by the Minnesota Sea Grant Program and Lake Superior Center. Call (218)720-3033 for a registration form.
Global Rivers Environmental Education Network has announced their 1997 collection of GREEN Public Workshops to be held at various locations and dates throughout the United States. Included is the popular workshop entitled: What's GREEN & WET? An Introduction to Watershed Education. GREEN has developed an educational model that combines real environmental investigations, community partnerships and problem solving, enhanced by classroom materials designed and written by the national headquarters of Project WET (Water Education for Teachers). For a listing of workshops offered this year by GREEN, including the dates and locations nearest you, contact GREEN, 206 South Fifth Avenue, Suite 150, Ann Arbor, MI 48104. (313)761-8142; fax (313)761-4951; email: green@green.org.
American Forests is pleased to announce Cities By Nature's Design, the 8th National Urban Forest Conference, a four-day conference to examine the role of natural resources in the future of urban areas. The conference will bring together diverse groups who are working to build sustainable communities. Participants will examine environmental, human, economic and public policy issues and how to build them into an action program greater than the sum of the parts. The conference is September 17-20, 1997 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, and is organized by American Forests in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service, the National Association of State Foresters and dozens of local organizations. For a free program and registration form, contact American Forests, 8th National Urban Forest Conference, P.O. Box 2000, Washington, D.C. 20013-2000.. (800)368-5748; fax (202)667-7751; email: rlussier@amfor.org; or register online at American Forests' homepage: http://www.amfor.org .
A three-day event on restoring Lake Erie's waters will include a Lakewide Management Plan workshop sponsored by the International Joint Commission that will highlight human health and aquatic life issues; the Sixth Annual Ohio Lake Erie Conference; and a Remedial Action Plan Forum focusing on Lake Erie Areas of Concern sponsored by the Ohio Lake Erie Commission. The event will be held on the shores of Lake Erie September 18-20, 1997 at the new Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio. For more information, telephone Jill Woodyard at the Ohio Lake Erie Office (419) 245-2514.
The International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) includes hundreds of local cleanups done around the world, typically on the third Saturday of September. In 1986, the Center for Marine Conservation sponsored its first coastal cleanup along 122 miles of Texas shoreline. Ten years later, the 1995 cleanup had grown to 43 states and territories, and more than 70 other countries. This growth is a testament to the global nature of marine rubbish problems and the growing realization that a significant amount of coastal debris originates from inland sources. ICC efforts are expanding to include inland areas along streams, rivers, lakes and other drainage systems. For more information about how you can get involved in the September 20, 1997 ICC effort, please call (612)297-5474.
The Canadian Dam Safety Association and the Canadian National Committee on Large Dams will be holding their Ninth Annual Joint Conference in Montreal, Quebec, September 22-25, 1997. For details and information on the program and registration, contact Gerard Verzeni, President of the organizing committee, 680 Sherbrooke Street West, 19th Floor, Montreal, PQ H3C 4T8. (514)289-7438; fax (514)289-7342.
The Wildlife Habitat Council, in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Army Corps of Engineers, the Natural Resource Conservation Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is sponsoring two workshops, Working with Wetlands, and Wildlife Workshop, September 24-25, 1997 in Denver, Colorado and in mid-January in Sacramento, California. The workshops will address the techniques, opportunities, benefits and costs of wetlands management, while demonstrating the most effective and efficient means of planning and implementing wetlands restoration, creation and management projects. For more information, contact the Wildlife Habitat Council, 1010 Wayne Avenue, Suite 920, Silver Spring, MD 20910. (301)588-8994; fax (301)588-4629.
The Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management Society is initiating the John R. Vallentyne Lecture Series at its 5th International Conference on Aquatic Ecosystem Health, "Aquatic Ecosystem Health: Linking Science, Education, Politics and Society" at Lake Chapala, Ajijic, Guadalajara, Mexico, October 26-27, 1997. Dr. Vallentyne worked extensively for the International Joint Commission from 1966 to 1991, and was instrumental in getting the concept of the ecosystem approach to management incorporated into the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1978. This approach is based on the view that social, economic and environmental considerations are inextricably linked and that one cannot be sacrificed for another. In Guadalajara, Dr Vallentyne will present the first lecture in the series, Infusing the notion of ecology into politics. Through the invited John R. Vallentyne lectures at each of its biennial conferences held in various locations around the world, the society intends to promote the concept of the ecosystem approach and its implementation worldwide. For more information on the conference, contact Conference Co-Chair Dr. Laura Davalos-Lind, Chapala Ecology Station, P.O. Box 97388, Waco, TX 76798-7388. (817)755-2911; fax (817)755-2969; email: laura_davalos-lind@qmgatewy.baylor.edu. Or, contact Conference Co-Chair Dr. M. Munawar, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, CCIW, 867 Lakeshore Rd., P.O. Box 5050, Burlington, ON L7R 4A6. (905)336-4867; fax (905)634-3516; email: mohi.munawar@cciw.ca.
The Seventeenth Annual International Symposium of the North American Lake Management Society (NALMS) will be held December 3-6, 1997 in Houston, Texas. For more information, contact NALMS, P.O. Box 5443, 1040 Warf Building, 610 Walnut Street, Madison, WI 53705-5443. (608)233-2836; fax (608)233-3186.
Revised: July 7, 1997
Maintained by Kevin McGunagle,
mcgunaglek@ijc.wincom.net