Conferences and Meetings

Listed below are upcoming and past conferences, meetings and workshops relevant to the EBA community.

2012

XXXII SCAR and Open Science Conference
13 - 25 July 2012, Portland, Oregon, USA
Friday 13 - Sunday 15 July: SCAR Business meetings (SSGs and subsidiary groups)
Monday 16 - Thursday 19 July: Open Science Conference
Friday 20 July: SCAR SSG meetings (without subsidiary groups)
Monday 23 - Wednesday 25 July: SCAR Delegates Meeting

2010
Workshop: Southern Ocean benthic biodiversity and biogeography: What are the key spatial patterns in macro-and megabenthos and what drives them?
21-25 March 2010, Wilhelmshaven, Germany

IPY Oslo Science Conference
8 - 12 June 2010, Oslo, Norway

XXXI SCAR and Open Science Conference
30 July - 11 August 2010, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Friday 30 July - Monday 2 August: SCAR Business Meetings
Tuesday 3 August - Friday 6 August: Open Science Conference
Monday 9 August - Wednesday 11 August: Delegates Meeting

World Seabirds Conference
September 2010, Victoria, BC, Canada

Census of Marine Life 2010: A Decade of Discovery
4 - 8 October 2010, London, UK

2009
Antarctic Treaty Meeting of Experts on Ship-borne Tourism
9 - 11 December 2009, Wellington, New Zealand.
For details, please e-mail atme@tcc.co.nz

Oecologia Brasiliensis - VI Symposium in Ecology: Antarctic-South American Interactions in the Marine Environment
5-6 November 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

LA CAML/BioMAntar/COMARGE Integrated Workshop on Antarctic-South American Interactions in the Marine Environment
3-4 November 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Arctic Marine Science Workshop for early career researchers
12-13th October 2009, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK

OceanObs'09
21-25 September 2009, Venice, Italy

Workshop on Ocean Biology Observations
16-18 September 2009, Mestre, Venice, Italy

British Ecological Society Annual Meeting
8-10 September 2009, University of Hertfordshire, UK

Latin American Congress of Antarctic Research
2-4 September 2009, La Libertad, Ecuador

Workshop on the Response of Antarctic Biota to Climate Change
24 - 29 August 2009, Madralin, near Warsaw, Poland

Xth SCAR International Biology Symposium
27 - 31 July 2009, Sapporo, Japan

EBA Committee Meeting - Minutes

3rd GLOBEC Open Science Meeting
22-26 June 2009, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

International Conference on Biodiversity Informatics
1-3 June 2009, London, England

Oceans Past II: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the History and Future of Marine Animal Populations
26 - 28 May 2009, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

CAML Final Symposium
18-20 May 2009, Genoa, Italy

Monitoring Climate Change Impacts - Establishing a Southern Ocean Sentinel Program Workshop
20-24 April 2009, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

4th Malaysian International Seminar on Antarctica
Includes a workshop on Antarctic Climate Change and its impact on terrestrial and marine biodiversity
1-3 April 2009, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

Antarctic Sea Ice Workshop-IPY Cruises
23-24 March 2009, Il Ciocco, Lucca, Italy
If you are interested in attending, please send an email to the following people:
Steve Ackley: sackley@pol.net and
Klaus Meiners: Klaus.meiners@acecrc.org.au

Gordon Research Conference in Polar Marine Science
15-20 March 2009, Lucca (Barga), Italy

2008
World Conference on Marine Biodiversity
11-15 November 2008, Valencia, Spain

SCAR-MarBIN Workshop
8 - 9 November 2008, Valencia, Spain
Contact Dr Claude De Broyer, claude.debroyer@naturalsciences.be

2nd Symposium on the Ocean in a High CO₂ World
6 - 9 October 2008, Monaco.

Ancient Polar Ecosystems and Environments: Proxies for Understanding Climate Change and Global Warming
5 - 9 October 2008, Houston, Texas, USA
Contact Anthony Fiorillo, (email: tfiorillo@natureandscience.org)

15th International Symposium on Polar Sciences - KOPRI - 'Polar Ecosystems: Biodiversity and Adaptation'
24 - 26 September 2008, Songdo Techno Park, Incheon, Korea

ICES Annual Science Meeting
22 - 26 September 2008, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Fourth International Conference on the Biology and Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels
11 - 15 August 2008, Cape Town, South Africa

SCAR Open Science Conference
8-11 July 2008, St Petersburg, Russia
5th July EBA Workshop

International Polar Days - Land and Life June 18th - Download activity page

The polar and alpine environments: molecular and evolutionary adaptations in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms -
International Workshop
29-30 May, 2008, Naples, Italy
Contact: c.verde@ibp.cnr.it

Antarctic Gradients - EBA sponsored Invited Workshop
19-21 May 2008, Cambridge, UK - Workshop Report

Polar and Alpine Microbiology
11-15 May 2008, Banff, Alberta, Canada

2007
Census of Marine Life (CoML) - All Programmes Meeting
12 - 18 November 2007, Auckland, New Zealand
Among other programmes, CAML will present its latest results at this meeting.

The Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) Workshop
1-3 October 2007, Bremen, Germany - Interim Report

British Ecological Society 2007 Annual Meeting: Life in Extreme Aquatic Environments
10 - 12 September 2007, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences (ISAES-2007)
26 August - 1 September, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Joint EBA-ACE session

International Conference on Cryogenic Resources of Polar Regions
17-21 June 2007
Joint EBA-MERGE session

2006
SCAR-MarBIN Workshop: Evolution of Marine Organisms of the Southern Ocean
December 2006, Leuven, Belgium

SCAR Cross-Linkages Workshop
6-8 November 2006, Rome, Italy – Report

Workshop on Terrestrial biodiversity in the Antarctic: Microbial, Macroscopic, Indigenous and Alien
18-20 October 2006, Stellenbosch, South Africa - Report

TARANTELLA – IPY Implementation Workshop
October 2006, The Netherlands

SYSTCO-IPY Workshop
September 2006, Bremerhaven, Germany

XVIII SCAR Open Science Conference
10 July 2006, Hobart, Australia

EBA Core Steering Committee Meeting 8 July – Minutes
EBA Work Package Leader Meeting 10 July – Minutes
LGP International Workshop 10 July – Final Report
CAML Workshop 11 July
EBA Open Meeting 12 July – Minutes
Aliens Workshop 15 July - Minutes

2005
IX SCAR Biology Symposium
25-29 July 2005, Curitiba, Brazil

For a more comprehensive listing of Antarctic related meetings go to: http://www.scar.org/events/