From sustag@beta.tricity.wsu.eduThu Mar 9 23:54:55 1995 Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 20:29:37 -0800 (PST) From: "Tom Hodges (moderated newsgroup)" To: Principles of Sustainable Agriculture Subject: International Arid Lands Consortium WWW Home Page (fwd) (Note: I have cross-posted this announcement to the various mailing lists which I regularly scan for news items for the IALC Quarterly On-Line Newsletter. My apologies to those who receive this message more than once. -Katherine Waser) INTERNATIONAL ARID LANDS CONSORTIUM WWW HOME PAGE The Office of Arid Lands Studies at The University of Arizona is pleased to announce the on-line debut of a World Wide Web Home Page for the International Arid Lands Consortium (IALC). The IALC is an independent, nonprofit research organization supporting ecological sustainability in arid and semiarid lands worldwide. Its founders are: The University of Arizona, The University of Illinois, New Mexico State University, South Dakota State University, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, the Jewish National Fund, and the USDA Forest Service. The goal of the IALC Home Page is threefold: (1) to heighten awareness of the IALC and its members among the international community of arid lands researchers, land managers, policy makers and development specialists; (2) to provide IALC members and other interested colleagues with access to leading-edge information on a host of topics critical to the pursuit of timely and pragmatic solutions to research questions specific to drylands; and (3) to create new possibilities for interaction among IALC members and their colleagues by means of this network link, especially in terms of facilitating cooperative projects, limiting duplication of effort, and making more efficient use of limited resources by sharing expertise and experience. The IALC Home Page currently includes information on IALC member institutions; the first issue of a quarterly on-line newsletter announcing news, conferences, publications and jobs of potential interest to the arid lands research community; and hot links to other Internet sites of interest. Further newsletter editions, a directory of IALC researchers, and a bibliography of their publications are also under development. The URL for the IALC Home Page is: http://ag.arizona.edu/OALS/IALC/Home.html Editors for the IALC Home Page are: John M. Bancroft E-mail: bancroft@ccit.arizona.edu Phone: 602-621-8584 Katherine V. Waser E-mail: kwaser@ag.arizona.edu Phone: 602-621-8572 --Please repost this announcement where appropriate-- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for taking a look at it. Katherine *********************************************************************** Katherine Waser Internet: kwaser@ag.arizona.edu Information Specialist Tel: 602-621-8572 Office of Arid Lands Studies Fax: 602-621-3816 University of Arizona