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The Fifth Annual INRA Environmental and Subsurface
Science Symposium
will be held at the Big Sky Resort in in Big Sky,
Montana from September 19 - 21, 2005. The annual Symposium
will highlight research being performed at the INRA
institutions, regional and national universities, National
Laboratories, as well as others. Research activities within
various topical areas will be presented.
 The keynote speaker
(Invited) is Senator Conrad Burns, Montana
Republican Senator, United States Senate.
Senator Conrad Burns, now in his third-term, is
the longest-serving Republican Senator in Montana
history. Senator Burns has pursued new markets for
agricultural producers while securing millions of
dollars in grants for research and marketing
improvements.
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Plenary speakers include Kei Koizumi,
Director, R&D Budget and Policy Program, AAAS, and
Alan Parker.
 Kei
Koizumi is known as a leading authority on the
federal budget, federal support for research and
development, science policy issues, and R&D funding
data. He is the principal budget analyst, editor,
and writer for the annual AAAS reports on federal
R&D and for the continually updated analyses of
federal R&D on the AAAS R&D web site.
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Presentation Opportunities
We feel that this is an excellent opportunity for you to
share research findings with colleagues, and that they will
be of tremendous interest to INRA and the Symposium
attendees. INRA invites you and your colleagues to submit
abstracts for oral presentations. The technical work can be
sponsored by any source (INRA, DOE, DoD, NSF, Etc.).
Submission of multiple abstracts by a presenter is
encouraged. For more information and abstract submission
guidelines, please visit
www.b-there.com/breg/esss05.
Student Poster Competition
The Symposium will once again feature a student poster
session and competition. Students from both INRA and non-INRA
universities are invited to participate in the judged
competition. The top three poster winners will receive cash
awards totaling $1750. For more information, and abstract
submission guidelines, please visit
www.b-there.com/breg/esss05.
Unmatched Networking Opportunity
The Symposium will provide attendees with an unmatched
networking opportunity, as there will be researchers in
several diverse and complimentary technical fields as well
as policymakers who shape the national research agenda.
Past Symposia have resulted in collaborative research
teams being formed and competitive research proposals being
awarded from a variety of federal sources.
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