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2006 EMAN National Science Meeting

The Ecological Monitoring & Assessment Network (EMAN) Coordinating Office invites you to participate in the 2006 National Science Meeting in Winnipeg, Manitoba. EMAN National Science Meetings offer an occasion for the ecological monitoring community across Canada to meet, present their program and findings, learn mechanisms to enhance the effectiveness of their monitoring programs, and identify collaboration opportunities. Network partners increasingly note the challenge of turning monitoring data into meaningful knowledge to influence decision-making. This year?s conference will emphasize the synthesis and delivery of monitoring information under the theme ?Data to Outcomes: What have we learned? Who did we tell? What difference did it make??

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TD Canada Trust Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup

The TD Canada Trust Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup (GCSC) is a conservation program aimed at removing litter from along Canadian rivers, lakes, wetlands and oceans. Volunteers work together to help create safer, garbage-free habitats for Canada’s wildlife and gather valuable information at the same time. Each debris item collected is recorded on special data cards, and the data are used to target, through education and legislation, the behaviours that produce the most aquatic debris.

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