The Center for Biodiversity and Conservation holds an annual spring symposium designed to foster interdisciplinary discussion of cutting-edge issues in biodiversity research and conservation.

Topics in these archives cover a wide range of conservation issues impacting numerous sciences. Access them to learn more about topics including: biodiversity science and policy, the extinction process, the value of biodiversity to human health, conservation challenges in the face of climate change, the impact of urban sprawl on biodiversity, the role of recent technological advances in conserving genetic diversity, and much more.

2008: Sustaining Cultural and Biological Diversity in a Rapidly Changing World: Lessons for Global Policy

2007: Small Matters: Microbes and Their Role in Conservation

2006: Conserving Birds in Human-Dominated Landscapes

2005: New Currents in Conserving Freshwater Systems

2004: Expanding the Ark: The Emerging Science and Practice of Invertebrate Conservation

2003: Tiger in the Forest: Sustainable Nature-Based Tourism in Southeast Asia

2002: Sustaining Seascapes: The Science and Policy of Marine Resource Management

2001: Conservation Genetics in the Age of Genomics

2000: Nature in Fragments: The Legacy of Urban Sprawl

1999: Biodiversity and Climate Change: Conservation in the Face of Uncertainty

1997: Humans and Other Catastrophies