SAVE THE DATE! The organizing committee of the 29th Annual Symposium of the U.S. Chapter of the International Association of Landscape Ecologists invites you to the 2014 Annual Symposium to be held in Anchorage, Alaska, May 18-22, 2014. This will be the first time Alaska has been the host of a US-IALE Symposium and we hope you'll join us and experience our diverse landscape. Alaska is the land of extremes and has a unique cultural component to their landscapes. 

• Presentations will be accepted until February 1, 2014.
• Notification of acceptance will be sent by email by February 14, 2014.
• The call-for-presentations submission will need to include: Title of Presentation, Authors and Affiliation, Abstract (up to 250 words), Topic Area (that best matches your research focus), Keywords (up to 5), and whether it's an oral presenation, poster or part of a symposium.
• Please refer to US-IALE website at for complete submission guidelines: http://usiale.org/anchorage2014/presentation-and-poster-guidelines.
• Registration: Presenting authors must register and pay to attend the conference. A separate online registration form will be available via the symposium website.

We are pleased to announce a preliminary list of special symposia that will be offered at the 2014 Annual US-IALE Symposium. Visit the conference website for descriptions. 

1. Vulnerability of Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems Under a Changing Climate
   Conveners: Forrest M. Hoffman, Jitendra Kumar, Larry Hinzman - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Earth Sciences Group
2. Prioritizing Landscape Ecology's Contribution to Policy Development and Analysis
   Conveners: US-IALE Public Policy Committee
3. Soundscape Theory and Application: Current Direction and Future Trends for Investigating and Monitoring Acoustic Dynamics Across Heterogeneous Systems
   Conveners: Almo Farina, Department of Basic Sciences and Foundations, Urbino University, Italy; Christopher Bobryk, Department of Forestry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, U.S.; Giusi Buscaino, CNR- Institute for Marine Coastal Environment, Capo Granitola, Italy; Timothy Mullet, EWHALE Lab, Biology and Wildlife Department, University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK, U.S.
4. North Pacific Temperate Rainforests in a Time of Change
   Conveners: Allison Bidlack, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Environmental Science and Director, Alaska Coastal Rainforest Center, University of Alaska Southeast; Brian Buma, University of Alaska Southeast
5. Cascading Thresholds in Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS) and the Emergence of Wicked Problems
   Conveners: Jelena Vukomanovic and Patrick Bourgeron
6. Impacts of Global Change: Linking Across Scales
   Conveners: Professor Janet Franklin; Dr. Josep M.(Pep)Serra-Diaz, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ; Dr. Lynn Sweet, Earth Research Institute, University of California - Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA
7. The Sustainability of Wildlife Management in Alaska
   Convener: Tammy L. Wilson, National Park Service, Southwest Alaska Network
8. Integrating Measurements and Models of Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystem Phenology
   Conveners: William W. Hargrove, Steven P. Norman, Forrest M. Hoffman, Jiafu Mao
9. Open Science for the Public Good: Applications of Open Access Datasets and Online Institutional Repositories in Landscape Ecological Modeling and Biodiversity Conservation
   Convener: Andy Baltensperger, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska-Fairbanks
10. Breaking Landscapes Smartly, Can it be Done?
    Convener: Karen Kelleher, Anchorage District Manager, Bureau of Land Management, Anchorage, AK
11. Conservation in the Big Picture: Data and Analysis to Inform the Future
    Convener: Jocelyn Aycrigg, Ph.D., National Gap Analysis Program, Department of Fish and Wildlife Sciences, University of Idaho