Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Imperial College London are hosting a free virtual conference today on NPG’s/Macmillan’s Elucian Islands in Second Life. If you are interested in the science of climate change and carbon-dioxide storage and want to hear from some great speakers, please register and come along, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. GMT (7 a.m. -11 a.m. PST). The Second Life location is Khufu Conference Centre, co-ordinates: 141,10,27.
The conference will be broad-based, covering all aspects of climate change and research on carbon dioxide storage. The presentations will be accessible to any researcher interested in learning more about the subject, although technical posters on all aspects of climate change, ocean acidification, carbon-dioxide separation, transport or storage are welcomed and encouraged.
Keynote Speaker: Franklyn M. Orr Jr, Director of the Global Climate and Energy Project and Professor of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University.
Among the other speakers is Martin J. Blunt, head of the Department of Earth Sciences and Engineering at Imperial College London.
Why attend a virtual conference?
– Listen to top international speakers
– All attendees are invited to present a poster
– The convenience of attending a conference from your office: no flights, no hotels, NO HASSLE!
– It is FREE! An excellent opportunity to present student posters
– Save 1.5 tons of carbon dioxide per international traveller on flights alone
The virtual poster session is available online from 2 to 16 December for attendees to view at their leisure. Presenters are encouraged to be available on 3 December before and/or after the talks for questions.
More information about the conference is here.
More about Second Nature and the Elucian Islands on Second Life.
Joanna Scott’s Second Life blog at Nature Network – for news, advice and all matters Second Nature. (Her post about this particular conference is here.)
While on the subject, Jeff Tollefson, Nature‘s climate reporter, is at the UN climate conference in Poznan, Poland this week (see his scene-setting post here). He’s posting updates from the meeting as they happen at the blog In The Field. For his preview of what to expect from the conference — the last big step before negotiators convene in Copenhagen next year, hoping to hammer out a successor to the Kyoto Protocol — see Nature 456, 428-429 (2008).