The Local Organising Committee for this year's annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Australia would like to welcome you to our conference website. We hope that you will join us in Sydney this year for what promises to be an exciting conference. As well as the usual open sessions, we have a diverse range of topical symposia, a stimulating line-up of plenary speakers: Jane Lubchenco, Joel Brown, John Bruno, Meg Lowman and Rick Shine; and - for the first time at an ESA conference - "speed sessions", workshops and a fully carbon-neutral conference.

We also have a great range of options in the social program, ranging from mid-week day trips to wild and scenic National Parks of the Sydney region hosted by local experts, social events in the atmostpheric sandstone venues of the University of Sydney and a huge range of restaurant and evening options in the lively surrounding suburbs of Glebe and Newtown.

We hope that you will join us, and we look forward to seeing you all... next month!

Clare Mc Arthur
On behalf of the Sydney 2008 LOC

Key dates

Call for Papers & Posters - open
Registration - open
Abstracts due - September 30
Early Bird Registration closes - September 30
Accepted Authors notified - October 15
Final Abstracts due - October 31
Final program available - October 31
Online registration closes - November 17

Coming to Sydney for the conference? Why not also attend “SCIENCE UNDER SIEGE" - a forum of the Royal Zoological Society. See www.rzsnsw.org.au for more details.