Ecosystems Services Partnership, Sept. 15th to 19th 2018
San Sebastian, Spain
Greek colleagues and myself descended on the Euro-culinary hotspot known as San Sebastian (or Donostia in Basque) - just 20 or so Kms from the French frontier in Spain's Basque Country.
Sharing some photos here so you get the feel for a fairly large meeting of scientists and practitioners in one of the top-notch groups doing globally important Ecosystems Services work, the ESP.
More about the conference at:
www.espconference.org/eu2018
Muchas Gracias!
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| World-renowned marine biologist, Angel Borja, one of the local hosts of the meeting. |
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| The taxonomic composition of the conference, by Prof. Rudolf de Groot. Many Spanish, Germans, French, Portuguese, Italians, British, Dutch. Over 50 countries. And we met our first Makedonians too. (Sadly very few Turkish delegates). |
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| Excellent performance by Keynote Prof. Benjamin Burkhardt. Benjamin, a remarkable German geographer does a really great job and is an inspiration. |
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| Top-notch keynote speach by Prof. Vallia Drakou. |
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| The amazing KURSAAL conference building on San Sebastian's foreshore. Architect: Moneo (look it up). |
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| With Ecuadorian colleague, Jose Caseres-Andrade, at his poster. |
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| Vasso with Colombian colleague, Myriam Sanchez Mejia, at her poster. |
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| Ioannis Kokkoris with ES mapping poster on the Lake Stymphalia case-study. |
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Vasso's talk on Cultural Ecosystem Services in Greece's protected areas.
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| Vasso's talk on Cultural Ecosystem Services in Greece's protected areas. |
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| The amazing beach of Zuriolla. |
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| Cliffs and breakers beyond Zuriolla. |
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| Field trip to Pagoeta Natural Park. |
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| Field trip to Pagoeta Natural Park. |
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| Field trip to Pagoeta Natural Park. |
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| Pre-industrial monument: water mill: Vasso is talking with our friend Suili Xiao. |
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| Field trip to Pagoeta Natural Park, Robin. Generally the wet secondary forests and abandonment around the hills produced very few birds. |
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| Field trip to Pagoeta Natural Park: the old restored farm house. |
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| Field trip to Gaintza winery. The local wine is a white called Txakoli. It is terrible but drinkable when really cold. |
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| Getaria village, near the winery. Known as home of Juan Sebastian Elcan, a seaman in Magellen's trip - first man to circumnavigate the Earth. |
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| Txakoli wine was sour, fizzy and went down easy. Dizzy dizzy. |
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| With ESP friends Martine, Bart and Stephanos. Martine van Weelden organizes such ESP meetings with great success! |
