David
Dr. David W. Inouye, Professor Dept. of Biology University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-4415 Rocky Mtn. Biological Laboratory PO Box 519 Crested Butte, CO 81224 [email protected]301-405-6946
I made a trip to Korea earlier this month to talk at a symposium
organized by the National Ecological Institute, which was created
recently by the Ministry of Environment. The NEI has started
construction on a 100ha $330 million facility near Seocheon, about a
3-hr bus ride south of Seoul. We took a field trip to the site, where
a large number of research greenhouses are finished, and work is
proceeding on an ecology education center, a guest house for 300, an
ecosystem exhibit area (somewhat reminiscent of Biosphere II), an
endangered species research center (5,200 m2), and an ecology
research center (8,400 m2) (some architectural information at
<http://architecture-now2.blogspot.com/2010/04/ecorium-project-of-national-ecological.html>http://architecture-now2.blogspot.com/2010/04/ecorium-project-of-national-ecological.html).
There's an adjacent reservoir and wetland area for research use, an
agricultural garden area, and a variety of plantings of types of
forest representative of Korean ecosystems. They intend to hire a
staff of 300, largely ecologists, and plan an inaugural symposium for
late 2012. NEI head is Dr. Chang-seok Lee, a restoration ecologist
and formerly a faculty member at a university in Seoul. There will be
an inaugural conference in late 2012, when the facility is expected to open.
- [ECOLOG-L] Ecology in Korea David Inouye
- Re: [ECOLOG-L] Ecology in Korea Tyler Hicks
