The first day of Oikos 2012 was busy and interesting with talks about land-locked salmon in Lake Vänern, environmental warming, catch-and-release of pike and zander. After lunch we were sad to announce that Stefan Bleckert (Vice President of Nature Conservation, Sveaskog) had to cancel. To our excitement the other key-note speakers made great presentations and all contributed to an interesting debate about GMO, policies, views on how ecologists should spread their results and much more. Many thanks to all speakers, and an extra salute for the panel-debaters:

Tags: Björn Risinger, Day 1, Havs- och vattenmyndigheten, Jan Bengtsson, January 31, Mikael Karlsson, Sveaskog, Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
There have been some minor changes in the program. For those of you arriving at lunch tomorrow (Tuesday), the lunch is served at Tak 1!
http://oikos.nrrv.se/program-2/
We now have a full house for the multi lecture and panel debate! Stefan Bleckert, Vice President of Nature Conservation at Sveaskog, will present his view on “The role of ecology in today’s society” and participate in the panel debate on the same topic.

We are looking forward to see you all in Karlstad next week!
Tags: Björn Risinger, ekologens roll i samhället, HaV, Havs- och vattenmyndigheten, Jan Bengtsson, Mikael Karlsson, Oikos, SNF, Stefan Bleckert, Sveaskog, Svenska Naturskyddsföreningen
Due to a low number of registrations we have decided to allow registration to continue until Friday January 20. So take the opportunity to come to Karlstad and listen to interesting talks by skilled key-note speakers and researchers!
Register at: http://oikos.nrrv.se/registrering/
Read about key-notes and panel debate and use the links at: http://oikos.nrrv.se/program/
We hope to see more of you in Karlstad in two weeks!
//The organizers
Tags: prolonged, registration