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(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--

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Thanks for taking a look at it.

Katherine


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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