WORKSHOP: Biodiversity and Aquatic Ecosystem Functioning: Travel Support Spring 2002

Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick NJ

Investigators

Abstract

Abstract Morin and Covich This proposal requests funds to support travel to Switzerland for a joint European/ US workshop to examine biodiversity and ecosystem function in aquatic systems. This is an area that has not received as much attention in aquatic systems as it has in terrestrial systems. The Ecology program specifically encouraged inclusion of marine participants in the proposed workshop. More than half of the attendees supported by NSF Funds are junior participants (grad students, post-docs and young faculty), and 50% of these were women. The workshop will also foster international collaborations between groups of scientists that have had relatively little interaction.