Dear Karel,

Many thanks for this message.  I am sure that the INTECOL Board will be very happy to be a sponsor of the 2nd International Conference on Hydrology and Ecology in the way that you outline.  I am copying this reply to our Secretary General and Webmaster, Professor Eun-Shik Kim, and to our Bulletin Editor, Dr Sun-Kee Hong for their information.  We will advertise the meeting through both our web site and e-Bulletin.  I wish you every success in planning the conference,

With kindest regards

John Lee
President, INTECOL

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Dear Professor Lee,

INTECOL was one of the sponsors of the HydroEco2006 conference ‘Hydrology and Ecology: The Groundwater/Ecology Connection,’ held in September 2006 in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.

This HydroEco2006 was a successful meeting and has provided a forum for an interdisciplinary exchange of information between hydrologists and ecologists.

The 2nd International Conference on Hydrology and Ecology, under the theme "Ecosystems Interfacing with Groundwater and Surface Water", will be held in Vienna, 20-23 April 2009.

The objectives, scope and topics of HydroEco2009 will be similar to those for HydroEco2006.

The preliminary version of the HydroEco2009 conference website is available at http://www.natur.cuni.cz/hydroeco2009/.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I would like to ask you if INTECOL would, as for HydroEco2006, be interested in being a sponsor for the conference. INTECOL's name and logo would appear on the conference materials. We are not soliciting direct funding; we would like you to publicize the conference (on your website and in announcements to membership). We do not expect any financial contribution.

Given the great experience of the conference organizers, we wish to assure you that HydroEco2009 will again be an excellently organized conference.

Thank you for considering this invitation for sponsorship.

With best regards,

Karel Kovar
Vice President of the International Commission on Groundwater, of the nternational Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)

On behalf of the Organizing Committee:

Hans-Peter Nachtnebel
Universitat fur Bodenkultur Wien (BOKU), University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna

Karel Kovar
Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP), Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Zbynek Hrkal
Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Andras Szollosi-Nagy
UNESCO, Paris, France

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Karel Kovar
Milieu- en Natuurplanbureau
Postbus 303
3720 AH Bilthoven
www.mnp.nl
Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
P.O.Box 303, 3720 AH
BILTHOVEN The Netherlands
ph. +31 30 274 3360
fax +31 30 274 4435
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