International Conference on Rivers and Civilization:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Major River Basins
La Crosse, Wisconsin USA
June 25-28, 2006
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Featured Speakers
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| June 15 , 2006 Final Program and Abstracts posted on Web site |
| June 19, 2006 Regular online and fax registration closes. Registration will resume at the conference site on Sunday, June 25. |
| For more information contact: |
| Program & General Information Ron Rada |
| Registration & Travel Jan Olson |
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Keynote Address: Why The World Runs on Water
Jared Diamond, Professor of
Geography at UCLA, is one of the great minds of our time. The breadth of
his interests and expertise ranges from environmental history through
evolutionary biology to molecular physiology. His Pulitzer-Prize winning
book Guns, Germs and Steel was the top‑selling science book on
Amazon.com for 5 years, with more than a million copies in print. His
newest book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed could
be just as influential. Professor Diamond has received many prestigious
awards for his landmark research and discoveries, including the MacArthur
Foundation Genius Grant, the Conservation Medal of the Zoological Society
of San Diego (1993), the Carr Medal (1989), Japan's International Cosmos
Prize (1998), and the National Medal of Science (1999), the highest
civilian award in science in the USA. In 2001 he was awarded the
prestigious Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, in recognition of
his tremendous contributions to the field of conservation biology.
