How to participate?

• Send us your registration: Please use the attached form, fill it in and send it to Felix Müller  fmueller@ecology.uni-kiel.de . We will be waiting for your feed back until the end of February 2010, but of course we will be happy if you register before. Please take into account that there are a restricted number of participants in Salzau (around 100 persons in maximum); thus a rapid registration might be helpful to be accepted. In case there are more registrations than available space, there must be a selection process which will be carried in cooperation out with the topic and theme coordinators.
• Send us a short abstract of your contribution. This summary will be needed by the theme coordinators to prepare the discussion and construct the workshop schedules. It will also be put on the conference web page to inform all participants. Please, do not exceed 200-300 words and send the abstract to us together with the registration until the end of February 2010.
• Submit your “background paper” to the Encyclopedia of Earth. The background papers will provide the basic information, questions and hypotheses of the thematic discussions. They include a description of the respective state-of-the-art, the actual problems and proposals how to solve them. The background papers thus will provide a baseline for the Salzau discussions and they are the fundaments of forthcoming joint result articles.These papers will be submitted to the online platform “Encyclopedia of Earth” (http://www.eoearth.org/). To get an idea about the layout of these contributions, it is for sure helpful to investigate this web page. We are very happy that Mrs. Ida Kubiszewski from the University of Vermont will support the submission process. Therefore, please send your background paper to the following address: ida.kub@gmail.com and add a copy to F. Müller (fmueller@ecology.uni-kiel.de) which will be needed to update the conference web page. You should enclose your paper as a word file and add a short cv of yourself. You should be aware that there will be a review process and that the editors of the encyclopedia are asking us to avoid jargon, because (besides the conference participants) the web page aims at “an educated and interdisciplinary public”. We are hoping that the background papers can be available in the end of February.
• Submit your “commented hypothesis paper”. If you wish to influence the line-of-argumentation or foster the discussions during the workshop, if you have a burning question, if you see an important problem or if you want to provoke an intensive exchange of certain arguments, it will be a good idea to send us a “commented hypothesis paper”. For these papers there are no formal requirements. They should be short but they should lead the reader to the focal problem on the base of a comprehensive and serious introduction. They should be convincing and in fact, they should be based on a (may be provocative) hypothesis. The theme coordinators will use these papers for structuring the workshops and for sure the authors will be asked to present them at Salzau. The hypothesis papers will be published at the conference web page and all participants will be informed about the submission. Therefore, they should be sent as a word file to Felix Müller (fmueller@ecology.uni-kiel.de). If the authors think that the article could also fit into the Encyclopedia EoE, the papers can also be sent to this online journal.