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Early dates: January 30 to March 31, 2008
Regular dates: April 1 to May 14, 2008
Late dates: May 15 to June 27, 2008

After June 27, only on-site registration will be offered, no boxed lunches, SCB Networking night, fieldtrips and banquet tickets will be sold on site. To add items to your registration, please follow the link provided on your confirmation email (with confirmation code)
Reminder: No refunds of any kind will be given for cancellation occuring after 20 June.

On site registration will be open from 8a to 4p daily from Sunday 13th to Thursday 18th
Speaker Prep Room will be open from 7a to 5p daily.

SCB appreciates the help and energy of its volunteers each year. Volunteers help at meetings by staffing registration, providing meeting room support, and working on various other meeting tasks.

Volunteers working for one day during the conference will have half of their registration fees waived. These fees will be reimbursed onsite. Please indicate if you would like to volunteer by selecting the appropriate option on the online registration form.

SCB Members	Early	Early with Carbon Fee*	Regular	Regular with Carbon Fee*	Late	Late with Carbon Fee*
From countries defined as high-income	$290	$310	$350	$370	$390	$410
One day registration for countries defined as high-income			$140	$145	$175	$180
From Countries not defined as high-income	$120	$125	$140	$145	$165	$170
Students	$120	$125	$140	$145	$165	$170

NON-SCB Members	Early	Early with Carbon Fee*	Regular	Regular with Carbon Fee*	Late	Late with Carbon Fee*
From countries defined as high-income	$400	$420	$440	$460	$500	$520
One day registration for countries defined as high-income			$175	$180	$200	$205
From Countries not defined as high-income	$150	$155	$175	$180	$200	$205
Students	$150	$155	$175	$180	$200	$205

Carbon fee explanation
Climate scientists unanimously agree that human activities, especially emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, are altering the earth's climate in ways that will profoundly affect our lives. Over 95% of SCB's contribution to global warming derives from jet fuel burned to take people to our annual meeting. Each passenger on a fully-booked London-New York flight, for instance, is responsible for about 1.2 tons of carbon.

At the 2006 Board of Governors meeting in San Jose, California, USA, the decision was made to take responsibility for the carbon impacts of travel to our Annual Meetings. By becoming 'carbon neutral,' we will neutralize the effect of our greenhouse gas emissions, so that our activities no longer contribute to global warming.

The first Annual Meeting to be offset was the 2007 Meeting in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. A small voluntary fee could be added to each attendee's registration fee to offset the carbon of the overall travel to the meeting. 98% of attendees voluntarily paid an extra $20 on their registration to offset their carbon emissions. The money will be used at the Baviaanskloof Megareserve, where invasive and degraded vegetation will be replaced with Elephant Bush (Portulacaria afra), a plant known to sequester large amounts of carbon. SCB is the first professional organization to take responsibility for the carbon footprint of its meetings. Further information will soon be available about the success of this effort and future plans for offsetting the carbon output of SCB.


Discount codes are available during registration if you do not wish to pay the carbon fee. The codes are linked to you registration type as follow:
- Full meeting registration - developed: enter code: $20-high
- Full meeting registration - developing: enter code: $5-low
- Full meeting registration - student: enter code: $5-student
- One day registration: enter code: $5-Oneday

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