Conference
participants will learn about all aspects of and issues surrounding
nitrogen, one of the most fascinating elements on Earth.
Nitrogen
is an essential component of any plan for reducing world hunger,
poverty, and disease. When used in excess, however, N becomes
an important pollutant. This duality is one of the major challenges
that humanity has to face now and in the future if we want to
ensure environmental sustainability. The complex problems of N
cannot be tackled individually, but rather the solutions must
engage a large community that encompasses a broad spectrum of
professionals. For N2007, we are inviting not only participants
concerned with particular aspects of N cycling, but also participants
from the policy, development, and engineering communities. The
N2007 meeting is the perfect venue to discuss these issues and
to find common ground to begin to find answers and solutions to
alleviate world hunger with minimal environmental harm. N-2007
will build an agenda for how to better manage nitrogen across
our planet. We will develop some specific goals to reach by 2025,
set in the context of the goals of the United Nations Millennium
Development Program. To achieve these goals, we will use a mixture
of plenary lectures, short workshops, and poster sessions. The
plenary lectures will be used to inspire and challenge the meeting
participants. Detailed scientific presentations will be given
in a series of concurrent workshops. In addition to the traditional
plenary talks, contributed talks and poster sessions, we are proposing
a series of six-hour workshops to be held during the conference.
The main objective of these workshops is to discuss in depth certain
topics that are crucial to the development of a sustainable agenda
for nitrogen use. The final product of each workshop is a document
that will summarize the findings of each workshop. In addition
to these activities we are organizing a series of six short courses
for students.
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Products
We will publish workshops results, general conclusions, and statements
in the web site of the International Nitrogen Initiative, which
guarantees free global access, with much less delay than has traditionally
been possible. Selected presentations will be invited to submit
their material to a peer-review journal . Indefinite future access
to these materials will be provided by posting them to D-space
publication space at Cornell University.
Intended
Audience
Overtime, the attendance at the International Nitrogen Conferences
has grown increasingly diverse in terms of professional discipline.
N-2007 will be no different. We expect a strong representation
from both the energy and food production industries, as well as
from NGOs, and United Nation agencies (FAO, UNEP, WHO). This broad-based
attendance will help insure that post-conference distribution
of conference products will also be extensive.
Venue
The conference will be held October 1-5, 2007 in the Costa do
Sauípe complex, which is located 110 km north from the
city of Salvador, capital of the State of Bahia. Brazil was chosen
because it is an important country in terms of both food/feed
production (soybean, beef) and because of the large extent of
intact natural ecosystems. The State of Bahia, which the capital
is the city of Salvador was chosen because this is one of the
most beautiful coast of Brazil, but it is also a typical poor
region of Brazil with low-nitrogen input.
The
Scientific Committee
· Amy Austin (University of Buenos Aires and IFEVA-CONICET,
Argentina)
· Carlos Nobre (IGBP, Brasil)
· Cliff Duke (Ecological Society of America, EUA)
· Ernesto Medina (Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones
Científicas, Venezuela)
· James N. Galloway (University of Virginia, EUA)
· Jan Willem Erisman (Energy Research Center of the Netherlands)
· Jerry Melillo (Woods Hole Marine Laboratory, EUA)
· Julio Baisre (Ministerio de la Industria Pesquera, Cuba)
· Kilaparti Ramakrishna (UNEP, Kenya)
· Luc Maene (International Fertilizer Association, França)
· Luiz Antonio Martinelli (General Coordinator- University
of São Paulo, Brasil)
· Mateete Bekunda (Makerere University, Uganda)
· Reynaldo Luiz Victoria (University of São Paulo,
Brasil)
· Robert Howarth (Cornell University, EUA)
· Vinicius Moreira (Louisiana State University, EUA)
· Zucong Cai (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
The
Local Committee
· Epaminondas S. B. Ferraz – CENA/USP (epferraz@cena.usp.br)
· Jean Pierre H.B. Ometto - IGBP (jpometto@cena.usp.br)
· Luiz Antonio Martinelli – CENA/USP (martinelli@cena.usp.br)
· Plínio B de Camargo – CENA/USP (pcmargo@cena.usp.br)
