Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Aquatic Invasive Species (Short Course)
Course Overview
This course will allow you to develop an applied understanding of the ecology and management of aquatic invasive species through a series of lectures and a field visit. Concentrating primarily on freshwater environments, you will be able to demonstrate a critical understanding of survey techniques relevant to invasive species ecology, monitoring and research. Material covered will be highly appropriate for underpinning management strategies and protocols.How to apply
- Complete the application form (MS Word document)
- Save the completed form to your computer
- Log-in to your email account and open new message
- Attach the application form
- Send email to csshortcourses@bournemouth.ac.uk.
Contact us ...
If you have any questions or would just like to register your interest in the course:- Give us a call (Monday - Friday 8am - 8pm) on 08456 501 501* or (0)1202 961916 (UK and International/EU alternative number)
- Drop us an email: askBUenquiries@bournemouth.ac.uk
Duration: 6-9 September 2010
Información
Next Meeting on 2011 - Congress on Malacology
The Congress will be held on the Campus of Álava of the University of the Basque Country and in the 'Palacio de Congresos Europa'.
Updated information will be available at the Congress website http://www.euromalacol2011.eu.
FIRST CIRCULAR
Oceans Past III: Stories from the sea - history of marine animal populations and their exploitation
The first decade of international, multi-disciplinary “History of Marine Animal Populations” (HMAP) research program culminates in 2010. At this juncture, it is appropriate to reflect on the project’s major achievements, to look ahead and consider the future of marine environmental history and historical ecology, and to consider how the knowledge assembled to date can be applied to marine resource management and conservation.
Contact
Questions regarding the program schould be directed to Project Coordinator Anne Husum Marboe: marboe@ruc.dk
Questions concerning local issues should be send to Trinity Long Room Hub, Eva Muhlhause: eva.muhlhause@tcd.ie
Registration
Download registration form here: Word or pdf
E-mail, Fax or mail the registrationform to:
E-mail: lrhub@tcd.ie
Fax: 00353 (1) 896 4220
Mail: Ocean's Past III, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
California and the World Ocean 2010
The co-chairs of the international California and the World Ocean Conference 2010 (CWO ’10), Secretary for Natural Resources Lester Snow, State Controller John Chiang, and Secretary for Environmental Protection Linda Adams invite you to participate in CWO ‘10. This conference, organized by the California Ocean Protection Council, the California Natural Resources Agency, and the California Environmental Protection Agency, will be held September 7-10, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
As with the previous CWO conferences, CWO ‘10 will seek the experience, views and innovative ideas of experts throughout California, the United States, and the international community in addressing ocean and coastal resource management issues facing California and other states and nations. In addition, the conference will provide an opportunity to bring together representatives from government, academia, industry, and the public to share ideas and formulate action strategies for the 21st century. CWO ’10 will take place as President Obama begins the implementation of a new national ocean policy and national framework for marine spatial planning. This is an exciting time for ocean and coastal policy in this nation and throughout the world, and participants should use this conference as an opportunity to help stimulate creative approaches to address the ecological, environmental and economic challenges that we face.
Presentations at CWO ’10 will address all ocean and coastal subjects that can be applied to resource management and policy. Emerging topics such as climate change impacts, marine spatial planning, marine protected areas, regional ocean governance, and renewable offshore energy will be featured, among other important topics. Presentations will focus on actions that can be taken at the local, state, regional, national, and international levels.
We hope to use this conference to help build on work accomplished through Governor Schwarzenegger’s Ocean Action Plan and help inform our efforts to update the strategic plan for the California Ocean Protection Council. Similarly, we believe CWO ‘10 will help inform our actions with Oregon and Washington in the West Coast Governors’ Agreement on Ocean Health and nationally with President Obama’s new national ocean policy. This information exchanged at CWO ‘10 should be useful to participants from California, other states, and other nations.
CWO ’10 promises to be an enlightening and engaging opportunity for all. We look forward to your participation and hope to see you there.
| Lester Snow Secretary for Natural Resources | John Chiang State Controller | Linda Adams Secretary for Environmental Protection |
Further information HERE |
International Conference on Invertebrate Reproduction and Development in the Age of Genetic Modifications (New information)
SESSIONS AND THEIR ORGANIZERS (PRELIMINARY LIST)
1.Genomes, genes, and worms (J.L. Ram)
2.The impacts of climate change and pollution on reproductive processes in marine invertebrates (C.N. Lewis)
3.Biochemistry and molecular biology of molting in crustacaea and insects (H. Laufer)
4.Daphnia and other cladocerans as model organisms (J. Seďa, A. Petrusek)
5.Dormancy and developmental arrests in invertebrates (V. Košťál)
6.Impact of genetically modified crops on arthropod development and reproduction (A. Gatehouse)
7.Miscellaneous reports on invertebrate reproduction and development
PROGRAMME OF ORAL PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS
Preliminary time schedule - lectures
Preliminary list - posters
More information here
Friday, July 2, 2010
Exhibition Foraminifera of Northern Germany
(Information from: www.foraminifer.blogspot.com)
Opening:
Saturday, 7th of August 2010 at 14.00h
Ice Age Museum Lütjenburg/Germany
www.eiszeitmuseum.de
Foraminifera objects
by artist Anna Mandel
www.annamandel.de
Contact me, if you want to organize an exhibition where you are. Michael:
michael@foraminifera.eu
Más información aquí
PUBLICATIONS
Discoveries of the Census of Marine LifePaul V. R. Snelgrove
Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Citizens of the SeaNancy Knowlton
National Geographic Society, 2010.
Schatzkammer OzeanDarlene Trew Crist, Gail Scowcroft, James M. Harding, Jr.
Spektrum Publishing, 2010.
SEE: WWW.COML.ORG
Thursday, July 1, 2010
XI Congresso Brasileiro de Ecotoxicologia (Brazilian Congress on Ecotoxicology)
Visite o site do evento para obter mais informações.
WEB SITE
XIV International Symposium on Amphipoda (New Information)
PUBLICATION OF PROCEEDINGS IN ZOOLOGICA BAETICA
The proceedings of the Colloquium will be published in a special volume of the international journal Zoologica Baetica (http://www.ugr.es/~zool_bae/). Authors interested in publishing their work in this journal are urged to carefully read the Instructions for authors and send their manuscrips before 13th September 2010 (by e-mail to jmguerra@us.es). No manuscript will be accepted after this date. If manuscripts do not follow the guidelines of the journal, they will be returned to the author for revision to conform to the style. Papers will be review by two referees (mainly members of the scientific committee) before final publication. The volumen is expected to be published by the beggining of 2011.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
49th Annual Meeting. Society of Nematologists. Boise, Idaho
Abstracts
Abstract Submission Deadline has passed.
VIEW ABSTRACTS - pdf file
ABSTRACT INFORMATION
Time for oral presentations = 12 minutes, plus 3 minutes for discussion.
Posters must be 46 inches (height) x 36 inches (width)More information here
Friday, June 18, 2010
Workshop on meiofauna from chemosynthetic deep-sea environments
The Census of Marine Life project ChEss (Biogeography of Deep-Water Chemosynthetic Ecosystems) is organizing a workshop on ‘Meiofauna from chemosynthetic deep-sea environments’ in conjunction with the 14th International Meiofauna Conference at Ghent University July, 17 2010. This workshop is organized by Monika Bright and Ann Vanreusel and we would like to invite you to attend for free.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together meiofauna researchers who are interested in any biological aspect concerning deep- sea reducing environments, such as hydrothermal vents, cold seeps, whale falls, sunken wood, and areas of low oxygen that intersect with continental margins and seamounts.
We will have sessions in which we will discuss the current state of knowledge of biogeography, biodiversity and abundance, ecology, origin and evolution, morphological and molecular phylogeny, and taxonomy, and future plans. Further we will discuss the possiblities of multidisciplinary and integrative research, building a platform of researchers to combine our efforts in databases, field programmes, and outreach activities.
See also on www.hydrothermalvent.com
Registration: email to Monika Bright monika.bright@univie.ac.at
Registration deadline: June 30, 2010
Any questions and suggestions: email to Monika Bright monika.bright@univie.ac.at
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
12th Deep Sea Biology Symposium (Event recently finalized)
Reykjavík, Iceland, 7-11 June 2010
The 12th Deep-sea Biology Symposium is going to be held in Reykjavík, Iceland from June 7-11 (with a time-saving early sign-in on June 6th for those who wish to come the day before and sign in rather that doing it early on Monday morning). The University of Iceland will be hosting the event and there will be at least two excursions: one full day and one evening (we are still working out details of the rest of the social aspect of the week). The convener is Professor Jörundur Svavarsson.
We welcome you to the symposium home page and look forward to seeing you in June.
Photo top left - Organisms on bottom: Copyright, Centre for Geobiology, University of Bergen.
Program Book as a .pdf
Well, the symposium is half finished, but it was brought to our atention that we needed to post the final copy of the book of abstracts here. Because of its size and the fact that it had to be sent in e-mail to me for upload, it is in three parts.Program Book-part 1
Program Book-part 2
Program Book-part 3
More information here
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Recent Publications On Meiofauna
Use of colloidal iron as a tracer to measure the ingestion rates of free-living marine nematodes
Fascículo/ejemplar/númeroVolume 66, Number 2 / abril de 2010
Dongsung Kim1 and Yoshihisa Shirayama2
| (1) | Marine Living Resources Research Division, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute, Ansan P.O. Box 29, Seoul, 425-600, Korea |
| (2) | Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Shirahama-cho, Wakayama 649-2211, Japan |
Received: 10 September 2009 Revised: 24 November 2009 Accepted: 24 November 2009 Published online: 25 March 2010
Abstract
Ingestion rates of free-living marine nematodes were measured using colloidal iron as a tracer. Detritus labeled with colloidal iron was fed to the dominant nematode species and cultured. The iron ingested by the animals was quantified using a scanning electron microscope equipped with differential X-ray energy analyzer (EDX). Average ingestion rates (µgC ind.−1day−1) measured were 0.28 for Symplocostoma sp., 0.29 for Polygastrophora sp., 0.73 for Mesacanthion sp. and 0.15 for Metachromadora sp. These values were higher than the values determined using radioactive organic materials as tracers, though the present method is considered to provide conservative values. This result thus strongly suggests that the ingestion rates of nematodes measured so far were underestimated, and the use of colloidal iron has advantages over the use of radioactive organic matter as a tracer.
Keywords Ingestion rates - nematodes - colloidal iron - EDX - subtidal
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Diuronotus aspetos (Gastrotricha): new morphological data and description of the spermatozoon
Fascículo/ejemplar/númeroVolume 64, Number 1 / marzo de 2010
Maria Balsamo1 , L. Guidi1, M. Ferraguti2, L. Pierboni1 and R. M. Kristensen3
, L. Guidi1, M. Ferraguti2, L. Pierboni1 and R. M. Kristensen3| (1) | Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Uomo, dell’Ambiente e della Natura, Università di Urbino, Urbino, Italy |
| (2) | Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milan, Italy |
| (3) | Zoological Museum, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen OE, Denmark |
Received: 4 February 2009 Revised: 30 April 2009 Accepted: 11 May 2009 Published online: 30 June 2009
Communicated by H.-D. Franke.
Abstract The genus Diuronotus (Gastrotricha Chaetonotida) includes two species, D. aspetos and D. rupperti; its morphological affinity with the genus Musellifer has been pointed out. Here, new morphological data from light and electron microscopy and the description of the spermatozoon of D. aspetos are reported, with the aim of clarifying the phylogenetic position of the genus. The mouth cavity has a wreath of stout, protrusible processes. The two secondary furcal tubes are inserted ventrally and are covered with elongate scales. All the caudal tubes contain a duo-gland adhesive system. Three kinds of ciliated sensory receptors are described for the first time in Diuronotus. The filiform spermatozoon consists of an acrosome, a nuclear-mitochondrial complex, and a flagellum. The acrosome including two long and different cones, the single, giant mitochondrion surrounding the nuclear base, and the axoneme arising from a deep nuclear ‘fossa’ appear as autapomorphic characters. The keeled, solid cuticular body scales and the spermatozoon with a supernumerary membrane are features shared with Musellifer delamarei. The structure of the accessory fibres is a strong spermatological similarity between the families Muselliferidae and Xenotrichulidae. Thus morphological and spermatological characters support the inclusion of D. aspetos and M. delamarei into the family Muselliferidae recently described. The comparative spermatology also suggests that Xenotrichulidae may be the sister group of Muselliferidae.
Keywords Diuronotus aspetos - Gastrotricha - Chaetonotida - Ultrastructure - Spermatozoon
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Reflections on distribution and origin of the halacarid genus Isobactrus (Acari: Halacaridae)
Fascículo/ejemplar/númeroVolume 40, Number 1 / marzo de 2010
Ilse Bartsch1
| (1) | Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, DZMB, c/o DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany |
Received: 9 April 2009 Revised: 14 October 2009 Accepted: 2 November 2009 Published online: 24 November 2009
Abstract
Isobactrus is a worldwide-spread genus. Most species live in the upper and middle area of a more or less regularly emerged zone. The species diversity is distinctly higher in the northern than in the southern hemisphere. At present, the genus consists of 29 species. An analysis of the geographical distribution of 36 external morphological characters revealed a uniformity in the combination of states of northern Pacific species, but a heterogeneity in the characters of northern Atlantic species. Several character states demonstrate a distinct north/south or north/tropics/south distribution. A parsimony analysis revealed basal northern Atlantic clades, a northern Pacific clade that also includes Northern Atlantic species and an Indo-Pacific clade with a tropical area cluster. The present data suggest that the genus Isobactrus evolved in the Palaearctic Ocean and might represent a basal lineage within the family Halacaridae.
Keywords Halacaroidea - Characters - Distribution - Phylogeny - Palaearctic Ocean
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Paper: Molecular ecology
Ultrasequencing of the meiofaunal biosphere: practice, pitfalls and promises
ABSTRACT
Biodiversity assessment is the key to understanding the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, but there is a well-acknowledged biodiversity identification gap related to eukaryotic meiofaunal organisms. Meiofaunal identification is confounded by the small size of taxa, morphological convergence and intraspecific variation. However, the most important restricting factor in meiofaunal ecological research is the mismatch between diversity and the number of taxonomists that are able to simultaneously identify and catalogue meiofaunal diversity. Accordingly, a molecular operational taxonomic unit (MOTU)-based approach has been advocated for en mass meiofaunal biodiversity assessment, but it has been restricted by the lack of throughput afforded by chain termination sequencing. Contemporary pyrosequencing offers a solution to this problem in the form of environmental metagenetic analyses, but this represents a novel field of biodiversity assessment. Here, we provide an overview of meiofaunal metagenetic analyses, ranging from sample preservation and DNA extraction to PCR, sequencing and the bioinformatic interrogation of multiple, independent samples using 454 Roche sequencing platforms. We report two examples of environmental metagenetic nuclear small subunit 18S (nSSU) analyses of marine and tropical rainforest habitats and provide critical appraisals of the level of putative recombinant DNA molecules (chimeras) in metagenetic data sets. Following stringent quality control measures, environmental metagenetic analyses achieve MOTU formation across the eukaryote domain of life at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional approaches. The effectiveness of Roche 454 sequencing brings substantial advantages to studies aiming to elucidate the molecular genetic richness of not only meiofaunal, but also all complex eukaryotic communities.
Molecular Ecology
Volume 19 Issue s1, Pages 4 - 20
Special Issue: Next Generation Molecular Ecology
Published Online: 10 Feb 2010
© 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Further information HERE
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
30th International Symposium in Vienna (European Society of Nematologists)
The European Society of Nematologists will hold its 30th International Symposium in Vienna, Austria from September 19th - 23rd 2010.
The Symposium will be hosted by the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna. This venue provides excellent facilities on a campus in a charming green environment and with a blend of traditional and modern architecture.
General information about Austria and Vienna can be found here.
Conference contacts:
Contact: esn2010@boku.ac.at
Location: Information on the location and how to get there:
Local Organizers:
Florian Grundler
Monika Pribil
Julia Hofmann
Krzysztof Wieczorek
Holger Bohlmann
Scientific Board:
Silvia Bulgheresi
Keith Davies
Ralph Udo Ehlers
Carolina Escobar
Johannes Hallmann
John Jones
Marie-Noelle Rosso
Patricia Timper
Miroslav Sobczak
Loes de Nijs
Further information: here
7th European Ostracodologists’ Meeting
7th European Ostracodologists’ Meeting!
EOM has been taken place for the first time at Frankfurt/Main in 1989. Now, it has become a very important and traditional convention in this field of science. Although it is called a “European Meeting”, usually people from all over the world join this conference and are highly welcomed.
EOM 7 is open for any contribution dealing with ostracods. Deep time or Recent ostracods, freshwater or marine mussel shrimps, pure taxonomy, (palaeo-)environmental, (palaeo-)biogeographical or biostratigraphical studies, genetical and morphometrical analyses or even new methodical approaches are greatly appreciated.
EOM 7 takes place in Graz, located in south-eastern Austria. Parts of this medieval city are not only a UNESCO World Heritage, but Graz is also well known as a city of universities (founded in 1585), famous museums (Joanneum, founded 1811) and modern arts (cultural capital of Europe in 2003). All together: a stimulating place for our – hopefully – successful meeting! If you are interested, please see the following fact sheets.
Date and location
25. – 28. July, 2011
Karl-Franzens-University of Graz, Heinrichstrasse 26, A-8010 Graz
Time schedule
● Now: Invitation
● 1. December, 2010 2nd circular: further informations, possibility for registration
● 30. April, 2011 Deadline for abstract submission and payment of the reduced fee● 15. June, 2011 3rd circular (send to participants only; final programme, last information)
● 24. July, 2011 Arrival, possibility for registration
● 25. – 28. July, 2011 Programme of EOM 7
● 29. July, 2011 Departure
Inscription fee
The reduced conference fee is 165,- Euro (paid until 30.4.2011!). The fee for later payment is 200,- Euro. Detailed information for payment follows in the 2nd circular or on request.
The inscription fee includes:
– coffee breaks
– three evening events
– one field trip (incl. bus transfer)
– conference utilities
– publication of the abstract volume
Abstracts
All contributions to EOM 7 are published in the “Joannea Geologie und Paläontologie”, which is a peer reviewed, open access journal of the Universalmuseum Joanneum. Abstracts must be processed according the “instructions to authors” and must be submitted until 30. April, 2011. Abstracts are treated like “short communications” and should not exceed 5 pages in length (including figures, font: times new roman 12 pt.). Colour figures are free of charge.
Talks – Posters
The conference language is English. Speaker’s time is 15 min (regular talks) respectively 30 min for key lectures (incl. discussion).
Posters must be prepared in upright A0 format (height 1189 mm, width 841 mm).
Contact
Martin Gross, martin.gross@museum-joanneum.at
Universalmuseum Joanneum, Geology & Palaeontology, Weinzöttlstrasse 16, A-8045 Graz
Organisation committee
Martin Gross (UM Joanneum)
Frank Gitter (UM Joanneum)
Marco Caporaletti (Univ. Graz)
Werner E. Piller (Univ. Graz)
Ingomar Fritz (UM Joanneum)
Scientific committee
Ian Boomer (Univ. Birmingham)
Sylvie Crasquin-Soleau (Univ. Paris)
Dan L. Danielopol (c/o Austrian Acad. Sci.)
Peter Frenzel (Univ. Jena)
Elsa Gliozzi (Univ. Roma)
Alan R. Lord (Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg)
Koen Martens (Royal Belgian Inst. Nat. Sci.)
Renate Matzke-Karasz (Univ. Munich)
Accommodation and transport
Please contact the homepage of the city of Graz.
SCIENTIFIC EVENTS
Sep. 13-18, 2010.
The XIVth International Colloquium on Amphipoda will be held in the Faculty of Biology (green building) at Campus Reina Mercedes of the University of Sevilla, Spain, 13-18 September 2010
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Further information: website
The International Association of Meiobenthologists is pleased to invite you to participate in its
14th International Meiofauna Conference
FourtIMCo
Ghent - Belgium
July 11-16, 2010
The conference will be hosted by Ghent University, in the province of Eastern Flanders. The city of Ghent is located at the cultural and economic heart of Europe. It is one of the leading institutions of higher education and research in the Low Countries. The Aula academica, situated in the beautiful historic city center, will be the conference venue.
The FourtIMCo aims to bring high-quality scientific presentations and discussions in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere, allowing optimal interaction between scientists from different levels, disciplines, etc… The organizers will therefore endeavour to provide a forum both to established experienced scientists and to young researchers in an early stage of their career.
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More information: website
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