Sub-commitee meeting at the Royal Society, London (f.l.t.r.): Rahul Chopra, LS Shashidhara, France Caron, Iain Stewart, Anthony Turner, Chris King. Photo: IUBS The sub-committee meeting within the “Trans-disciplinary Research Oriented Pedagogy for Improving Climate Studies and Understanding (TROP-ICSU)” project took place in London, UK, in December 2017 at the Royal […]
IUBS sent expert to the following workshops to discuss the project “A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It?” and the preparation of the survey Workshop in Taipei, Taiwan, 7-8 November 2017. IUBS supported the participation of […]
ICSU CODATA workshop on Data Standards and Integration, London UK, 13 -15 November 2017. Follow Link
IUBS sponsors the attendance of young scientists to the 17th International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology (BIOMAT 2017) conference, which will be organized from 29th October to 4th November in Russia Follow Link
The International Council for Science (ICSU) invites National, Union Members and other members to attend the 32nd ICSU General Assembly on 23-26 October 2017. As a member IUBS is taking part in it and looks forward to discuss the union with the International Social Science Council (ISSC) on 25-26 October 2017. registration and details at […]
IUBS would like to inform scientists about the initiative of the College of Forestry entitled “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity”. The initiative asks scientists to become a co-signatory for their in-press viewpoint article in the journal Bioscience entitled “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: a second notice”. Initiated by the Union […]
Disaster and Biodiversity (DAB) – beta 2017, Edited by Harufumi Nishida, Jun Yokoyama, Steven J. Wagstaff, Paul Callomon The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake caused a tsunami and nuclear accident that heavily damaged local communities and the natural environment. The loss of biodiversity and precious biological records in nationally significant museums […]
The latest Newsletter of the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) is out and available at their website. It is featuring a variety of articles from an activity report of the IUSS Secretariat, the Minutes of the IUSS Council meetings, which took place during the IUSSInter-Congress Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, activities […]
The latest news from International Organization for Biological Control (IOBC) is out. The article of Peter Kevan introduces collaboration of the IOBC and the International Commission for Plant Pollinator Relations (ICPPR) under the roof of IUBS, the “Use of Managed Pollinators to Disseminate Biological Control Agents & Natural Products for Crop Protection and Pollination”. The […]
The new inititive “Future Earth initiative on Pastoralism: a global comparative research programme” launched in July 2017. The initiative will prepare a new scientific programme for future transnational research with the aid of the IUBS and their ordinary and scientific members.