Wednesday, January 26, 2011

2011 - geomicro relevant conferences and workshops on the horizon

Pondering my options... and wishing I could go to the rest! This is a work in progress, feel free to suggest additions.

Conferences:

Gordon Conference: Geobiology. January 30 - February 4, 2011.
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2011&program=geobiology

Goldschmidt 2011, Prague, Czech Republic, 14-19 Aug 2011, Abstracts due before 15 April
http://goldschmidt2011.org/

ISEB 20: Frontiers in Biogeochemistry, Istanbul, Turkey, 27-30 Sept 2011. Abstracts due before 30 April.
http://www.isebiogeochemistry.com/ISEB_20.htm

Keystone Symposium: Microbial Communities as Drivers of Ecosystem Complexity, 25 - 30 March 2011, Breckenridge, Colorado. Registration deadline: 25 March 2011.
http://www.keystonesymposia.org/meetings/viewMeetings.cfm?MeetingID=1059 
other Keystone symposia: http://www.keystonesymposia.org/default.cfm 

ASLO meetings: http://aslo.org/meetings/aslomeetings.html

NACE: Corrosion conferences etc http://www.nace.org/content.cfm?parentid=1006¤tID=1006

Workshops/Shortcourses:

MSU Microbial Metagenomics Course, East Lansing, Michigan. 12-25 June 2011.
http://www.mmg.msu.edu/

Short Course: Tools in Environmental Biogeochemistry - Opportunities and Limitations, University of Tuebingen, Germany. Application due: 31 Jan 2011.
4 day workshop organized by Thomas Borch (Colorado), Ruben Kretzschmar (RTH Zürich) and Andreas Kappler. It will present and discuss the application of several spectroscopic and microscopic techniques in environmental biogeochemistry.