Announcements from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR)

Job announcements are now listed on a separate page. Archival announcements (announcements which previously appeared on the page that you're now reading, but are older or out-of-date) are also available online. Upcoming national and international invasive species meetings are listed by the National Invasive Species Information Center.

National Native Seed Conference The National Native Seed Conference, presented by the Institute for Applied Ecology and Bureau of Land Management, will focus on strategies to develop a national native seed supply that has the flexibility to meet short-term emergency stabilization and rehabilitation needs and to satisfy demand for longer-term restoration projects, including habitat restoration and hazardous fuels reduction. The conference will be held 17-21 May 2010 in Snowbird, Utah. (Info posted 26 October 2009)

Pesticide risk reduction education short courses A schedule of short courses to prepare for the Hawaii Department of Agriculture's certification exam for restricted use pesticides is posted by the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawaii at Manoa. The next course will be on Maui on 17-19 February 2010. Deadline for applications is 15 January 2010. (Info updated 17 November 2009)

Public Lands Program Capacity Building Grants The Public Lands Program Capacity Building Grants are designed to provide funding to strengthen the organizational effectiveness of community-based 501(c)(3) nonprofits whose mission is focused on serving a public lands site in the United States. Deadline for grant applications is 3 December 2009. (Info posted 29 October 2009)

Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council's 25th Annual Symposium The 2010 FLEPPC symposium promises to be another thought-provoking meeting with the latest information on a variety of topics related to invasive species in Florida. The meeting will be held 5-8 April 2010 in Crystal River, Florida. Abstracts are due 30 November 2009. (Info posted 28 October 2009)

Kauai Native Plant Society Events Kauai Native Plant Society events include hikes, lectures, plant give-aways, and parties. (Info posted 28 October 2009)

"Natural Treasures of Hawaii" Free Lecture Series Hawaii Conservation Alliance presents a free lecture series on the last Wednesday of the month from 5-7 pm at the ING DIRECT Café, 1958 Kalakaua Ave., Honolulu. All ages are welcome. (Info posted 26 October 2009)

Scholarship and Educational Grants Scholarship and grant opportunities for students are listed by the Hawaii Division of Forestry and Wildlife on its blog. (Info posted 26 October 2009)

The 2009-2010 Jack Jeffrey Conservation Education Grant The 2009-2010 Jack Jeffrey Grant  is available for conservation education on the Big Island. Closing date for proposals is 12 December 2009. (Info posted 12 October 2009)

2010 Imported Fire Ant (IFA) Conference The 2010 IFA Conference  will be held 19-22 April 2010 at the Little Rock Doubletree located along the Arkansas River in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas. (Info posted 11 September 2009)

The Center for Plant Conservation workshop The Center for Plant Conservation applied plant conservation workshop will be held 16-21 November 2009 in Phoenix, Arizona. The Center for Plant Conservation, with botanists nationwide, has designed this training to present an overview of seventeen important conservation topics during one week of intensive classroom instruction. Tuition is free for Department of Interior personnel. (Info posted 9 September 2009)

2009 Hawaii Conservation Conference presentations available online 2009 Hawaii Conservation Conference presentations are available online. (Info posted 11 August 2009)

Joint Annual Meeting of the Society for Rangeland Management and the Weed Science Society of America Meeting of the Society for Rangeland Management and the Weed Science Society of America will be held 7-11 February 2010 in Denver, Colorado. The meeting includes an invasive plant symposium. (Info posted 11 August 2009)

International invasive ant management workshop A workshop on management of invasive ants will be held in Darwin, Australia on 27-29 April 2010. The workshop aims to facilitate networking among people involved in invasive ant management, and improve the incorporation of research and ant biology into management. (Info posted 3 June 2009, updated 5 October 2009)

Some documents posted on the HEAR website are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. If your computer is not already set up to read these files, you can download the FREE Adobe Acrobat reader. You can set up most web browsers to automatically invoke this reader (as a "helper application" or "add-in") upon encountering documents of this type (refer to your browser's documentation for how to do this).

Some documents posted on the HEAR website are in Excel spreadsheet format. If your computer is not already set up to read these files, you can download the FREE Excel reader. You can set up most web browsers to automatically invoke this reader (as a "helper application" or "add-in") upon encountering documents of this type; refer to your browser's documentation for how to do this.

The Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk (HEAR) project is currently funded by the Pacific Basin Information Node (PBIN) of the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) through PIERC (USGS) with support from HCSU (UH-Hilo). More details are available online.

This page was created on 26 July 2001 by PT, and was last updated on 19 November 2009 by PN.