This is a reminder that a spartina management session will be offered
at the 6th International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions in
Portland in August, 2009. If you conduct research on spartina or
manage spartina please consider submitting an abstract for the
special session. With the upcoming finalization of the West Coast
Governors' Agreement on Ocean Health Spartina Eradication Plan for
the West Coast we have much to talk about. Your research could inform
management and this meeting is an ideal venue for presenting your
work. The deadline for submission of abstracts is April 20.
Contact me if you have any questions.
Please distribute this message widely.
Mark Sytsma
Sixth International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon USA
August 24-27, 2009
Conference Theme:
Marine Bioinvaders: Agents of Change in a Changing World
Abstracts Deadline Extended, Early Registration Open
Dear Colleagues,
We are extending the abstract submission deadline of the Sixth
International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions to be held at
Portland State University (Oregon, USA) from 24-27 August 2009. The
new deadline is April 20th, 2009. If you have already submitted an
abstract we thank you and look forward to seeing you in Portland.
Please note that registration is open and the early registration
deadline is April 30th, 2009.
This year's meeting is entitled Marine Bioinvaders: Agents of Change
in a Changing World. We, the conference organizers, encourage you to
submit abstracts to any of the following general themes:
1) Ecological and evolutionary impacts
2) How changing global conditions, including climate, will influence
bioinvasions
3) Predicting the scale and diversity of invasions
4) Measuring and/or predicting spread on regional and global scales
5) Invasion patterns over time and space: does the past predict the
future?
6) Detection, identification, and tracking-to-origin capabilities
7) Management, rapid response, eradication, and restoration
8) Recreational vessels as vectors of invasive species
9) Education and outreach: is the message reaching the right audience?
Special sessions include:
A) Advances in detection with a focus on the development of molecular
tools for detection and monitoring
B) Green crab management and ecology
C) Lionfish: causes of invasion, consequences, solutions
D) Propagule Pressure
E) Spartina ecology and management
In addition, we are offering three workshops on marine invaders:
1. Green Crab Control
2. Invasive Seaweeds
3. Spartina, Spartina, Spartina
Please note abstracts can be submitted at the conference website
http://www.clr.pdx.edu/mbic/ until 20, April 2009.
If you are an early-career participant (graduate student nearing
completion or post-doctoral researcher) and would like your abstract
to be considered for a travel award please indicate so on your
abstract submission form . At present, we can offer partial support ~
approximately $500 USD. Because some awards are region-specific,
don't forget to indicate the country in which you work.
Please feel free to distribute this to interested colleagues and
students. Conference announcement suitable for posting can be found
here: http://www.clr.pdx.edu/mbic/mbic_announcement.pdf We look
forward to an informative conference!
Early registration is open until April 30th, after which registration
fees for non-students will go up in price. Please visit http://
www.clr.pdx.edu/mbic/register.html to register and for more
information on the conference.
Scientific Steering Committee:
Mark Sytsma, Meeting Host, Portland State University, USA
Jeb Byers, University of Georgia, USA
Jeff Crooks, Tijuana River NERR, USA
Lisa Drake, SAIC/Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Anders Jelmert, Institute of Marine Research, Norway
Yoon Lee, National Fisheries R&D Institute, Busan, South Korea
Whitman Miller, Smithsonian Institution, USA
Henn Ojaveer, Estonian Marine Institute
Gil Rilov, Oregon State University, USA, and University of Haifa, Israel
Thomas Therriault, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Chela Zabin, Smithsonian Institution and University of California-
Davis, USA
Advisors:
Judith Pederson, MIT Sea Grant College Program, USA
Jim Carlton, Williams College, USA
Sponsors:
The North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES)
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (PSMFC)
Aquatic Bioinvasions Research and Policy Institute at Portland State
University (PSU)
National Sea Grant College Program
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Mark D. Sytsma, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair, Environmental Science Programs
Director, Center for Lakes and Reservoirs and Aquatic Bioinvasion
Research and Policy Institute
Portland State University
Portland OR 97207-0751
[email protected]
503.725.3833 (v)
503.725.3834 (f)
