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EURING Newsletter - Volume 3 - July 2001 INVITATION
TO THE MAX PLANCK
RESEARCH CENTRE FOR ORNITHOLOGY The staff of Max Planck Research Centre for Ornithology, Vogelwarte Radolfzell, invites and welcomes the next EURING technical conference on the analysis of mark-recapture and ring-recovery data to be held October 5th - October 12th 2003 at Radolfzell am Bodensee (Lake of Constance, see fig. 1), Southern Germany. The EURING technical conferences are undoubtely among the most important EURING initiatives and aim to bring together statisticians and ornithologists in the joint effort of making the best possible use of mark-recapture data in the study of bird population dynamics. Proceedings of the former meetings in Wageningen, Sempach, Montpellier, Patuxent, and Norwich are available, proccedings of the 2000 meeting in California will follow soon. Please check out for detailed informations about the 2003 meeting in Radolfzell at http://www.phidot.org/euring/. The place Radolfzell is a small city with 30,000 inhabitants in Southern Germany, situated directly at the western shore of Lake of Constance, on an axis between the larger Cities Singen and Konstanz (Constance). More info (in German) at http://www.radolfzell.de . The border to Switzerland is 8 km away across the western end of Lake of Constance. The direct distance to Zürich is 50 km. Tourism is well developed (tourists come mainly may - september) and the city is comfortable to reach by train and freeway. The next airports are Zürich and Stuttgart (see below). Soon after World War II Radolfzell became the hometown of former "Vogelwarte Rossitten", the ornithological field station and institute founded by Johannes Thienemann in 1901 on the Courish Spit in Eastern Prussia (which also was the first ringing centre all over the world). Today, the now called "Vogelwarte Radolfzell" is part of the Research Centre for Ornithology of the Max Planck Society (more info at http://vowa.ornithol.mpg.de). A large part of the delegates at the EURING 2000 meeting rejected the idea to meet at a university because the more familiar and exclusive frame of the meetings are considered to be an important key to their success. The old town of Radolfzell can more or less be regarded as "on site" facility because we would have short and easy to walk distances between railway station, hotel and lecture hall. Housing & meals The city hall of Radolfzell ("Milchwerk Radolfzell") is used for concerts and cultural events as well as for conferences and meetings. The former factory for dairy products has been converted to a very well equipped and appealing centre with several halls and meeting rooms for 30 to 1100 participants. For our purposes the small hall ("kleiner Saal") with 139 seats should fit very well for the lectures and the foyer or one of the smaller meeting rooms are suitable for the posters. More info (in German) at http://www.radolfzell.de à Wirtschaft à Milchwerk. Several hotels with good standard can be booked in a distance of a 10 minutes walk from the lecture hall and <1 km from the railway station and lake shore. Fixed (reduced) prices will be arraged for housing. Breakfast is always included with the rooms, Lunch and supper will be booked at the "Milchwerk" catering service. In addition, there are lots of restaurants of various categories in the old town. During an excursion day trips to "Wollmatinger Ried" (internationally important wetland area, 20 km from Radolfzell) and to the Alps (Switzerland, full day trip by bus) are intended. How to come For long distance travellers it is most convenient to take an airplane to Zürich Airport. From Zürich Airport to Radolfzell there are at least hourly train connections which take 1:40 h. Late flight arrivals (later than 8 pm) still make it possible to reach the city of Singen by train. From Singen to Radolfzell a shuttle service can be organized with institute cars. Flight arrivals at Stuttgart are also possible (i.e. for people expecting problems in getting a transit visum for Switzerland). The train connection from there might take 3:00 h and trains are availabe at least departing between 8 am and 6 pm. Frankfurt or Munic airports are less recommended because of travelling times > 4 h by train. Train connections to Radolfzell are good to very good. Fast trains directed to Zürich and Stuttgart as well as regional trains to Karlsruhe, Munic and Basel / France run at least each 2 hours from morning till evening. Freeways from south (via Zürich) and north (via Stuttgart) and a fairly good connection from west (Freiburg) and east (Munic, Lindau) make it also convenient to reach Radolfzell by car. Fig. 1
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