Calendar of Events
This page is provided for announcements of meetings, symposia, workshops, and other events of interest hosted by aquatic science societies and organizations. New entries may be found at the top of this list. Entries are removed after the meeting occurs. You may submit your announcement for posting using a convenient online form.
- SAFARI Remote Sensing & Fisheries Symposium
- FSAM 2010 - Fish Sampling With Active Methods
- 2010 Antarctic Biology Course
- CUAHSI Hands-on Workshop: In-situ Optical Sensors for Water Quality
- Geological Society of America 2009 Annual Meeting
- Resurrection Ecology Symposium 2009
SAFARI Remote Sensing & Fisheries Symposium
Dates: 15-17 February 2010
Location: Kochi, India
The symposium will address a number of themes including Operational Use of Remote Sensing for Fish Harvesting; Ecosystem Indicators to assess Fish Health, Growth and Recruitment; and Implications of Climate Change on Fisheries, amongst others. For further information please see the symposium website at: http://www.geosafari.org/kochi.
The deadline for registration is: October 15, 2009.
For more information, contact: info - at- geosafari.org.
FSAM 2010 - Fish Sampling With Active Methods
Dates: 8 - 11 September 2010
Location: Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
INFO: www.fsam2010.wz.cz
The main aim of the meeting is to encourage a broad discussion on and summarize the progress in using active netting gear, such as trawls, beach and purse seines for the population estimates. Contributions on other active approaches of fish sampling including remote techniques (hydroacoustic and optical observations) and other principles of direct capture are welcome. Special attention will be paid to the limitations, selectivity, efficiency and standardization of active sampling gear. The sampling application is no way limited by the habitats, i.e. contributions from lakes, rivers, streams, transitional waters and seas, as well as intercalibration between active and passive sampling gears are invited.
Researchers, Academics, Regulators, Policy Makers, Managers, Consultants, Students and all others are warmly invited.
The conference follows the successful meeting of FSAMLR 2007.
CONFERENCE OUTPUT: Successfully reviewed manuscripts will be published in the Elsevier journal Fisheries Research as a special issue.
CONTACT & INFORMATION: Contact us at fsam2010@hbu.cas.cz, for more info see www.fsam2010.wz.cz
DEADLINES: Deadline for registration and abstracts - 20 April 2010.
Deadline for submission of manuscripts for Fisheries Research Special Issue - 9 September 2010 at the conference.
2010 Antarctic Biology Course
Dates: 30 Dec 2009-2 Feb 2010
Location: McMurdo Station, Antarctica
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Advanced Biology Training Course in Antarctica, January 2010
TOPIC: Integrative Biology and Adaptation of Antarctic Marine Organisms
This National Science Foundation sponsored course will be held in Antarctica at the United States' McMurdo Station for one month, starting January 2010. This is an international course, open to all nationalities. Applications are invited from graduate students currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program, postdoctoral fellows, and early-career faculty who are interested in the study of extreme environments and the biology of Antarctic organisms. Full scholarships are available for each participant accepted into the course to cover the cost of travel from home institution to Antarctica, and room and board while in Antarctica. The emphasis of the Antarctic Biology Course is on integrative biology, with laboratory- and field-based projects focused on biological adaptations in an extreme environment, with an emphasis on rapid climate change in polar regions. A diverse teaching faculty will offer students the opportunity to study a wide range of Antarctic organisms (bacteria/archaea, algae, invertebrates, and fish), as well as studying several different levels of biological analysis (molecular biology, biomechanics, physiological ecology, species diversity, and evolution). For more information and on-line applications, please see -- <http://antarctica.usc.edu/>http<http://antarctica.usc.edu/>://antarctica.usc.edu
DEADLINE: Deadline for receipt of completed applications is August 1, 2009.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Deneb Karentz
University of San Francisco
karentzd@usfca.edu
CUAHSI Hands-on Workshop: In-situ Optical Sensors for Water Quality
Dates: 2-5 August 2009
Location: University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
This 3-day training workshop will focus on how to successfully deploy, maintain and process data from in situ optical sensors in freshwater systems. The workshop will focus on the use of in situ fluorometers and spectrophotometers for studies of organic matter, nitrate and particulates in rivers, streams and lakes. The workshop will be led by the USGS Bay-Delta Carbon Group (California Water Science Center), which is one of the few groups conducting research with in situ optical sensors in freshwater systems. The USGS group currently owns and operates instrumentation used for direct measurements and proxies for depth profiles in reservoirs, diurnal studies in rivers and shallow wetlands, storm event sampling, long-term river deployments, and tidal wetland fluxes. This workshop should be of interest to graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and research scientists working on watershed management, drinking water quality, ecosystem dynamics, and climate change.
For information and registration, please visit http://www.cuahsi.org/hmf/sensor/index.html or contact workshop coordinators:
Breck Bowden, University of Vermont (breck.bowden@uvm.edu);
Brian Pellerin, USGS (bpeller@usgs.gov);
Joe Bartlett, University of Vermont (joseph.bartlett@uvm.edu).
Geological Society of America 2009 Annual Meeting
Dates: 18-21 October 2009
Location: Portland, Oregon
From Volcanoes to Vineyards: Living with Dynamic Landscape
18-21 October 2009 • Portland, Oregon
Oregon Convention Center
http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2009/
Registration deadline: Standard, 1 June thru 14 September 2009
Abstract deadline: 11 August 2009
Beth Engle, Meetings Department
bengle@geosociety.org
303-357-1006
Resurrection Ecology Symposium
Dates: 13-18 September 2009
Location: Herzberg Conference Center, Herzberg
This symposium aims to gather together active researchers in ecology, evolutionary biology, paleolimnology, and paleoecological disciplines to 1) present results of investigations, 2) to further define the emerging field of "resurrection ecology", and 3) share techniques (as talks or posters).
Our invited speakers are:
John Colbourne – Indiana University, USA Luc De Meester – Katholieke Universiteit, Belgium Nelson Hairston Jr. – Cornell University, USA Charles Kerfoot – Michigan Technological University, USA Peter R. Leavitt – University of Regina, Canada Mathew Leibold – University of Texas at Austin, USA Larry J. Weider – University of Oklahoma, USA
Spread the word - pre-registration is open!
We look forward to meeting you,
Nora Brede and Piet Spaak
info@resurrection-ecology.net