Dear colleagues,

The 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics (ICEI) from 24 - 28 September, 2018 in Jena, Germany under the theme 'Translating Ecological Data into Knowledge and Decisions in a Rapidly Changing World' will provide a forum to address this question - both from an ecological and a computer science point of view.

We cordially invite special sessions on all aspects of eco-informatics and computational ecology including but not limited to:
• Novel concepts and tools for the acquisition, management, analysis and synthesis of ecological data, including genomic and paleo-ecological data
• Understanding and modeling ecosystem functioning, phenology and evolution
• Informing decisions on environmental issues like sustainability, ecosystem services, climate change and biodiversity.

The call for special session is open and proposals are invited till 15th December 2017. The proposal should provide a title, brief scope of the session and details of the session’s organizer(s) along with the duration.
Please submit your proposals via the submission system EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icei18.

Further information can be obtained from the ICEI conference website: http://icei2018.uni-jena.de/

In case of any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. The conference organizers can be reached via icei2018@listserv.uni-jena.de. There is also a Twitter account: https://twitter.com/ICEIConf.

We are looking forward to your session ideas!

Kind regards,

Jitendra Gaikwad

On behalf of ICEI 2018 organizers,

Friedrich Recknagel (Scientific Chair) and
Birgitta König-Ries (Local Chair)

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Dr Jitendra Gaikwad
Head- Biodiversity Informatics Unit

Phone  +49 3641 946368
Email   jitendra.gaikwad@uni-jena.de 

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Friedrich Schiller University Jena
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Germany

German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
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04103 Leipzig
Germany


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der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena betrieben sowie in Kooperation mit dem Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH – UFZ. 
Beteiligte Kooperationspartner sind die folgenden außeruniversitären Forschungseinrichtungen: das Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH - UFZ, 
das Max-Planck-Institut für Biogeochemie (MPI BGC), das Max-Planck-Institut für chemische Ökologie (MPI CE), das Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie (MPI EVA), 
das Leibniz-Institut Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen (DSMZ), das Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie (IPB), das Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und 
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