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Habitatnews 2004-06: Thursday 1st April 2004
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Nature-related news for the busy Singaporean.
Home page: http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/index.php
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Webpage postings
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/index.php---> [1] ‘Nature photography and its impact on the conservation of wildlife”
By Joe and Mary Ann McDonald Singapore Art Museum Glass Hall. Fri 2 Apr 2004: 6-9 pm. Admission is free. See webpage for details:
http://www.naturephotosociety.org.sg/ASP/Event.asp?DBEventID=78
---> [2] Helmut Debelius in town, Kinokuniya, Wed 7 Apr: 6pm-7pm
“Helmut has dived in all oceans in the world and has a special knowledge
about the Indo-Pacific region. He is a renowned underwater photographer and
the author and publisher of a number of marine books in the IKAN
Unterwasserarchiv series like Nudibranchs and Sea Snails, Crustacea Guide of
the World, Red Sea Reef Guide, Indian Ocean Reef Guide and lately the
best-selling Asia Pacific Reef Guide.
To meet Helmut and have your books signed by him please come to the
Kinokuniya Bookstore (3rd floor Takashimaya) on Wednesday 7th April from 6
pm to 7 pm.” --- Morten Strange
---> [3] Biology in Asia – Jane Goodall coming in Dec 2004
Jane Goodall is the conference plenary speaker.
Check the conference webpage for details:
http://www.dbs.nus.edu.sg/sibiolconference/general.htm
Download the pdf for information on registration etc.
---> [4] 2004 Science Centre Guidebooks are launched!
The two new guidebooks on 'herbs and spices' (by Wee Yeow Chin) and 'sea stars and other echinoderms' (by David Lane) and were launched on 30th
March. They were the 38th and the 39th books in the series by BP/Singapore
Science Centre coordinated by Anne Dhanaraj.
---> [5] 2004 Wired Rave Awards - "for cracking the spine of the science cartel"
Wired.com Rave Awards for Science was awareded to the Public Library of Science by Michael Eisen, Harold Varmus & Patrick Brown
‘Scientific journals copyright the papers they publish and charge as much as
$20,000 a year for a subscription. "It's insane that the scientific
community has allowed publishers to limit the impact of our research," says
UC Berkeley geneticist Michael Eisen. The three scientists devised the
Public Library of Science. In October 2003, PLoS published the first open
source, peer-reviewed journal, PLoS Biology.
The key concept is what Eisen calls "open access." PLoS posts new research
online, making it available to everyone from high school students to
scientists in the developing world. Authors agree to let anyone annotate,
excerpt, link, and otherwise add value. And that's not all: Online readers
pay nothing. Funders of research - usually government agencies - cover the
cost of publication up front.’
For a full account of Wired.com’s Rave awards, see:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.04/rave.html
For details and photos, see: http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/index.php
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