A Royal Statistical Society meeting on DESIGN OF ECOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS organised by the Environmental Statistics Section All welcome! Date: 2-5:15pm Wednesday 28th May 2008 Venue: Seminar Room 12F47 Central Science Laboratory Sand Hutton York, YO41 1LZ Speakers: JULIA REISS (Queen Mary College London) Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in freshwaters - designer experiments and super models JAMES BULLOCK (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford) Dispersal: seeking the tail of the curve with experiments and models SIMON POULTON (BioEcoSS Ltd) Integrating multiple species and methods into monitoring and surveillance programmes Notes: Attendance is free but registration is essential for the allocation of security badges. To register, please email Marc Kennedy <[log in to unmask]> with the subject line 'ESS meeting registration' by the end of Monday 26th May. Directions: <http://www.csl.gov.uk/shared/how_to_find_csl.pdf> Further details: Please visit <http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/envstat/> or contact the meeting organisers, Marc Kennedy <[log in to unmask]> and Richard Chandler <[log in to unmask]>. -- Dr Christopher Ferro School of Engineering, NCAS Research Fellow Computing and Mathematics University of Exeter Tel. +44 (0)1392 26 3642 Harrison Building Fax. +44 (0)1392 26 4067 North Park Road Web. www.secam.ex.ac.uk/ Exeter, EX4 4QF [log in to unmask] United Kingdom Personal web page: www.secam.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/ferro