i spent the day scrambling to take care of a million things in preparation for the upcoming week in madrid. i have a position this semester as the research assistant to chuck redman, the director of SOS. we have been looking at the Man and the Biosphere UNESCO program that started in 1972, trying to put forth a compelling argument for the phoenix metropolitan region to join the program. this of course will require a new set of guidelines pertaining to urban areas, as the current network of biospheres consists mostly of relatively isolated "pristine" ecosystems (or at least those with very few permanent human inhabitants). some very amazing cities are interested including new york, new orleans, cape town south africa, helsinki, rome, and others. the conference promises to be very interesting and i am quite humbled to be attending a united nations event. you can peruse the schedule of events here:
3rd World Conference of Biosphere Reserves .
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