Upcoming Events

2008 WEBS Symposium Details

Date: October 19-22, 2008
Location: Pack Forest Conference Center outside of Seattle, WA
Cost: Free. Participants will be responsible for travel to the conference. All on-site expenses will be covered by WEBS.
Application deadline: April 15, 2008. Visit the WEBS application website for more details.
FAQs: Visit our Announcements and Resources page for answers to Frequently Asked Questions.

Below is a sample symposium schedule and list of confirmed speakers for the 2008 symposium.

Confirmed Speakers for 2008 WEBS Symposium

• Jessica Brown, Former Ocean Science Outreach Specialist for SeaWeb's COMPASS program (Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea). URL: http://www.compassonline.org/about/staff.asp#jbrown
• Laurie Eberhardt, Associate Professor of Biology at Valparaiso University. URL:
  http://www.valpo.edu/biology/FACULTY.HTML
• Martha Groom, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Conservation Biology at the University of Washington, Bothell and Seattle. URL: http://faculty.washington.edu/groom/
• Susan Kephart, Professor of Biology at Willamette University. URL: http://www.willamette.edu/cla/biology/faculty/kephart/
• Mimi Koehl, Gill Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. URL: http://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/koehl/aboutmimi.html
• Penny Kukuk, Research Professor in the Division of Biological Sciences at University of Montana. URL: http://dbs.umt.edu/people/faculty/facultyDetail.aspx?id=891
• Peggy Fiedler, Ecosystem Science & Restoration Services, WSP Environment & Energy. URL: http://www.wspenvironmental.com/usa (link may not work with Firefox)
• Christopher J. Loving, Founder of the Leadership Institute for Tomorrow (LIFT) and Loving Leadership, Inc.
• Lee Anne Martinez, Associate Professor of Biology, Colorado State University - Pueblo. URL:
  http://faculty.colostate-pueblo.edu/leeanne.martinez/
• Nalini Nadkarni, Member of the Faculty at the Evergreen State College. URL: http://academic.evergreen.edu/n/nadkarnn/
• Ingrid Parker, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of California, Santa Cruz. URL: http://bio.research.ucsc.edu/people/parker/IMP/index.html
• Roberta Troy, Biology Department Head and Assistant Provost of Undergraduate Studies at Tuskegee University. URL: http://www.tuskegee.edu/Global/story.asp?S=4647209
• Marta Wayne, Director of the University of Florida Genetics Graduate Program, and Associate Professor of Zoology at University of Florida. URL: http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/faculty/wayne.html
• Judith Weis, Professor of Biological Sciences at Rutgers University. URL:
  http://newarkbiosci.rutgers.edu/Faculty/weis.html
• Phyllis Wise Provost and Executive Vice President at University of Washington. URL: http://depts.washington.edu/wiselab/
• Robyn Wright Dunbar, Senior Associate Director for Science and Engineering at Stanford’s Center for Teaching and Learning. http://ctl.stanford.edu/General/bio_robyn.html

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