Mark your calendars for the 4th Annual Research Symposium sponsored by the Tropical Conservation Biology & Environmental Science Program at UH Hilo! Over two engaging days of presentations about recent scientific research carried out in Hawai‘i, the public is invited to join us on April 12-13, 2012 (Thursday and Friday).

Our goal is to increase undergraduate and graduate student participation in both the oral and poster presentation sessions.  To encourage widespread participation, we are offering this event free of charge, and will be awarding prizes for outstanding presentations in various categories.

        Whether you are a graduate or undergraduate student, resident or visiting faculty, or agency personnel, we invite you to come and share and find out about the latest research in the community around you!

Keynote speaker - Dr. Alan Friedlander

    We are pleased to welcome Alan Friedlander as our symposium's keynote speaker! Alan's work incorporates ecology, remote sensing and GIS technologies, along with traditional resource knowledge to better understand coral reef ecosystem function and how best to conserve and manage these resources for future generations. He is currently the assistant leader of the Hawaii Cooperative Fishery Research Unit and associate professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. Alan holds a Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii and was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate with the Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory in Pacific Grove, California. Alan was as a fisheries extension officer in the Kingdom of Tonga in the early 1980s and for nearly 30 years he has conducted coral reef fisheries and ecosystem-based research throughout the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean regions. 

Silent auction & Poster session

    
    On April 12, immediately following the main talks, we will be holding a special joint silent auction and poster session in the lanai outside of UCB 127. Please check out the silent auction page for more information!

Event location

        The symposium's oral presentations will take place at "the fishbowl," room UCB 127 the University of Hawaii, Hilo campus - for those who attended last year, it will be in the same room. The University Classroom Buildings immediate face the campus main parking entrance, and room 127 is on the first floor, a room with full length glass windows. See the campus map here. You may purchase a daily parking permit for $3 at the security window at the parking lot entrance, or park on the street.

Symposium flyer - Please distribute widely!

        Below is the flyer for the symposium, courtesy of TCBES student Mark Wasser. Please feel more than welcome to post to an email list, in your workplace, to a bulletin board. We appreciate your help in publicizing this event! Download a high-resolution version of this flyer for printing here (4 mb).