[Taxacom] Fwd: TDWG 2015 Call for Abstracts

[Cynthia Parr]

Dear Colleagues,



It gives me great pleasure to announce the Call for Abstracts for the 2015
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Conference.  The conference will
be held from 28 September to 3 October 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya.  This is
TDWG’s first conference in Africa! The theme of the conference *is
Applications, Standards and Capacity Building for Sustaining Global
Biodiversity*.  Subprograms will include: Digitization, Semantic
Technologies, Phyloinformatics, Outreach and Collaboration, ePublications,
Trait Data, and Conservation informatics.   The program committee is
soliciting contributions that address the conference theme or other topics
in biodiversity informatics.  Information on how to prepare and submit
abstracts in response to the call is provided on the conference websites,
which is available at this link: http://www.tdwg.org/2015-conference/.



Please help us to disseminate word of this announcement to organizations
and individuals with interests in TDWG.  We hope to see you in Nairobi!



Kindest regards,

Hank Bart, Program Chair

 Henry L. Bart Jr., Ph.D.

Director, Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute

Curator, Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection

3705 Main Street

Belle Chasse, LA 70037

Voice: 504-394-1711; Fax: 504-394-5045



Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Tulane University

400 Lindy Boggs Hall

New Orleans, LA 70118

Voice: 504-862-8283; Fax 504-862-8706



http://people.tubri.org/hank/