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ORGANIZER:The Institute of Biology
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DESCRIPTION:The Institute of Biology invites you to attend its *_Affiliated
  Societies Forum: Climate Change and the Biologist_*
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\n*Programme*
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\n11.00 Registration
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\n11.30 Introduction – Dr Hugh Montgomer
 y (Chairman) 
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\n11.45 Sari Kovats - ‘Climate and human health: curr
 ent impacts and future threats’ 
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\n12.25 Dr Andrew Stott - ‘The 
 science needed for policy: understanding and responding to climate change i
 mpacts on biodiversity’
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\n12.50 - Lunch
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\n1.30 Prof Katherine Willi
 s - Long-term ecosystem dynamics and environmental change
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\n2.10 Prof Ja
 mes Crabbe - ‘Climate Change and Tropical Marine Ecology’
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\n2.50 Con
 cluding discussion
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\n3.00 Close
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\nPlease contact events [ at ] iob.or
 g to reserve your place as soon as possible
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\n_Dr Hugh Montgomery_ is th
 e Director of the UCL Institute for Human Health and Performance and presen
 ted the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures this year on Back from the Bri
 nk: the Science of Survival. He is also a children’s author and has writt
 en the Genie in the Bottle as part of Project Genie which aims to educate a
 nd engage young people in the climate change debate. 
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\n_Sari Kovats_ is
  a Lecturer in the Public and Environmental Health Research Unit of the Lon
 don School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Editor of the Department of
  Health update on Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK 2008.
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\n_Dr
  Andrew Stott_ is Defra’s Head of Biodiversity and Landscape\, Natural En
 vironment branch with an interest in global biodiversity assessment systems
 .
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\n_Prof Katherine Willis_ is Professor of Long-Term Ecology at the Sch
 ool of Geography and the Environment at Oxford actively researching the rel
 ationship between long-term ecosystem dynamics and environmental change. 
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\n_Prof James Crabbe_ is Dean of the Faculty of Creative Arts\, Technolog
 ies and Science at the University of Bedfordshire and has a long standing i
 nterest in modelling biological systems.
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SUMMARY:Climate Change and the Biologist
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LOCATION:Linnean Society of London Burlington House 
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