June 7-11, <strong>2010</strong>Pariquera-Açú, 01 de fevereiro de <strong>2010</strong>.VII SIBANANAÉ com gr<strong>and</strong>e satisfação que a Agência Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegócios (APTA) através do PóloRegional de Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Agronegócio do Vale do Ribeira está organiz<strong>and</strong>o o VIISIBANANA – Simpósio Brasileiro sobre Bananicultura, que ocorrerá no município de Registro-SP, no períodode 07 a 11 de junho de <strong>2010</strong>.O SIBANANA é o principal evento técnico científico relacionado à bananicultura no país, reunindopesquisadores, técnicos, produtores e estudantes, bem como empresários relacionados à área que, com seusconhecimentos, pretendemos direcionar ações futuras com a cultura. Historicamente o evento é promovido pelaSociedade Brasileira de Fruticultura (SBF) e sua primeira edição ocorreu na cidade de Jaboticabal-SP em 1984.No ano de <strong>2010</strong>, em Registro-SP, ocorrerá a sétima edição, com o tema “Atualidades e Perspectivas daBananicultura Sustentável”.A partir da segunda semana de fevereiro estaremos com o site em funcionamento, onde será possívelacessar a programação completa do evento, normas para envio de trabalhos, valores e prazos para inscrição eoutras informações referentes ao evento.A comissão organizadora do VII SIBANANA não medirá esforços para o sucesso deste evento e, maisuma vez contribuir com a bananicultura local e nacional, para tanto gostariamos de contar com sua participação.Erval Rafael Damatto Junior Presidente do VII SIBANANAInformações: E-mail: sibanana<strong>2010</strong>@hotmail.com. Fone (13) 3856-1656June 8, <strong>2010</strong>One <strong>Water</strong> Many Futures Sydney, AustraliaJune 8-10, <strong>2010</strong>Risks in Agriculture Conference, Estonia.Members <strong>and</strong> others interested are invited to participate in the Estonian Branch conference “Risks inAgriculture: Environmental <strong>and</strong> Economic Consequences” for June 8-10, <strong>2010</strong>, in Tallinn, Estonia. Sessionsinclude Environmental Strategy (chair: Anto Raukas, Estonia); Weather <strong>and</strong> <strong>Soil</strong> Resources (chair: GyorgyVarallyay, Hungary); Crop Production (chair: Jean Rogr-Estrade, France); Food Quality <strong>and</strong> Safety (chair: FredStoddard, Finl<strong>and</strong>) <strong>and</strong> Economic Consequences (chair: Volkhard Scholz, Germany). A field tour <strong>of</strong> the Kuusikuregion will be on 10 June. Details are on the website at (http://www.eria.ee/index.php?page=273&). Theconference is jointly organized by the Estonian Branch <strong>of</strong> ISTRO <strong>and</strong> the Estonian Research Institute <strong>of</strong>Agriculture (www.eria.ee), in collaboration with the Scientific Creative <strong>Association</strong> “SCA Ec<strong>of</strong>iller” <strong>and</strong> non-pr<strong>of</strong>itOrganization “Estonian Excellence Centre for Rural Development”.Tallinn can be reached by direct flight, bus, train <strong>and</strong> boats from Helsinki or Stockholm. English will be the <strong>of</strong>ficiallanguage for the Conference. For more information check the website or contact the Chair <strong>of</strong> the organizingcommittee at edvin.nugis@eria.ee, or the RAEEC conference team at RAEECinfo@eria.ee.June 21-22, <strong>2010</strong>Second Open Source GIS UK Conference, Centre for Geospatial Science, University <strong>of</strong> Nottingham Website:http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis10/os_home.htmlhttp://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/cgs_suchith_an<strong>and</strong>.htmlhttp://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/; http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/June 21-23, <strong>2010</strong>Conference on scientific research <strong>and</strong> its role in fighting desertification LibyaJune 21-24, <strong>2010</strong>APPLYING REMOTE SENSING AND GIS in DISASTER MANAGEMENTYOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA, 21-24 JUNE, <strong>2010</strong>, organized by University <strong>of</strong> Gadjah Mada incooperation with GISDECO, EARSeL <strong>and</strong> ITC - UNU-DGIM http://www.itc.nl/gisdeco/June 23-25, <strong>2010</strong>The <strong>2010</strong> International Symposium on Advanced Biological Engineering (ISABE’<strong>2010</strong>)will be held in Beijing, China, from July 23rd to July 25th <strong>2010</strong>.ISABE’<strong>2010</strong> is jointly organized by Tsinghua University, China, Tokyo Institute <strong>of</strong> Technology, Japan, <strong>and</strong>coorganized by Biotechnology <strong>and</strong> Business.38
On behalf <strong>of</strong> the organizing committee, I am honored to welcome all <strong>of</strong> you to ISABE’<strong>2010</strong>. I look forward tomeeting you in July <strong>and</strong> wish you all a pleasant <strong>and</strong> fruitful stay in Beijing.Pr<strong>of</strong>. Xin-Hui Xing, Chairman <strong>of</strong> the Organizing Committee, ISABE’<strong>2010</strong> <strong>2010</strong>isabe@gmail.comJune 23-25, <strong>2010</strong>CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:10th International Precipitation Conference, 23-25 June <strong>2010</strong>, Coimbra, PortugalWe would like to encourage you to submit an abstract to the 10th International Precipitation Conference, whichwill be held in Coimbra (Portugal), from 23 to 25 June <strong>2010</strong>.Abstracts due: 1 March <strong>2010</strong>For information <strong>and</strong> abstract submittal go to http://www.ci.uc.pt/imar/ipc10/Special theme <strong>of</strong> the conference: Space time precipitation from urban scale to global changeThe conference will be organized in the following topical sessions:1. Precipitation prediction on scales ranging from real-time to climate2. Extreme precipitation events: physics <strong>and</strong> statistics based description3. Trends in precipitation time-series4. Instrumentation <strong>and</strong> novel precipitation observing systems5. Variability <strong>of</strong> precipitation over wide range <strong>of</strong> space-time scales6. Hydrologic <strong>and</strong> water resources needs: research <strong>and</strong> engineering applications7. Research needs <strong>and</strong> challengesCome <strong>and</strong> participate in this conference dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary discussions <strong>of</strong> the present state<strong>of</strong> knowledge in research <strong>and</strong> applications related to precipitation.For more information, please contact the IPC10 (ipc10@dec.uc.pt).We would appreciate if you could disseminate this information among your contacts.João de LimaWitold KrajewskiIsabel de Lima______________________________________________________________________Conveners10th International Precipitation Conference IPC-10IMAR/Department <strong>of</strong> Civil Engineering, Faculty <strong>of</strong> Science <strong>and</strong> TechnologyCampus II, University <strong>of</strong> Coimbra, <strong>30</strong><strong>30</strong>-788 Coimbra, PortugalJune 27-<strong>30</strong>, <strong>2010</strong>US Biochar Initiative Conference <strong>2010</strong> to be hosted by Iowa State University on June 27<strong>30</strong>, <strong>2010</strong>The Biochar Initiative Conference is designed to advance the underst<strong>and</strong>ing <strong>of</strong> the science <strong>and</strong> policy issuesrelated to biochar as both an agent for carbon sequestration as well as an amendment for soils. Scientists,engineers, policymakers, policy analysts, producers, <strong>and</strong> users will attend to discuss recent advances. A callfor presentation <strong>and</strong> poster abstracts now open.June 28-29, <strong>2010</strong>The Fourth International Conference <strong>of</strong> Healthy <strong>Water</strong> in the Arab worldCairo, EgyptJune 28-July 1, <strong>2010</strong>International Symposium on Innovation <strong>and</strong> Sustainable Development in Agriculture <strong>and</strong> Food, 28 June -1 July <strong>2010</strong>, Montpellier, France http://www.isda<strong>2010</strong>.net/, inscription_isda<strong>2010</strong>@supagro.inra.frJune 28-July 2, <strong>2010</strong>The deadline for abstract submissions for ESA’s Living Planet Symposium,http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMCNO5RN1G_index_0.html39