Studenckie Koło Oceanografii

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Dear marine mammal enthousiast,
I am proud to announce the 2008 Conference and AGM of the European Cetacean Society. As said in San Sebastian the 2008 Conference will be organised in The Netherlands for the first time. PLEASE take note of the following dates, more information will be added to special web pages in the near future.

This time the conference will be early so all deadlines are early. This saves you a lot of time and thinking, you will have to act now!

The Conference will be organised in The Netherlands (Hotel Zuiderduin in Egmond aan Zee, familiar to some) in the week of 10-12 March 2008. Workshops will be set up in the weekend 8-9 March with a possibility to do so also on Thursday 13 March. The main title is

MARINE MAMMALS IN TIME: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.

Abstracts for any talk, poster presentation, video presentation or workshop MUST be available to reviewers by 30 November 2007. Talks that fit the theme are very welcome:

PAST - palaeontology, archaeology, evolution, 16th-17th century whaling or research (strandings),

PRESENT - forgotten science: lab and museum basic research, taxonomy, anatomy, 20th centary whaling and

FUTURE - climate change, effects on populations and food, monitor species. The emphasis is on the less sexy but very basic research.

Requests for financial support (students or scientists with low financing) must also be available by 30 November.
This includes information needed for passport and visa.

Financial support depends on availibility of funds and on number of requests.
Forms for review submitting will be available on the ECS site within a few days.
PLEASE wait with sending requests without the proper form - they may be returned.
Before the end of 2007 the review process will have led to the acceptance of several talks.
FOR ALL
Take note of the following:

Early registration for the conference will END by11 January.
Late registration will end 8 February.
More information, date schedules, subscript_ion forms will be available.

Any information is available through [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]

Jan Willem
ECS Editor for Web and Mail/Organising committee ECS 2008