AUTHORS AND  TITLES OF ABSTRACTS OF ECHINODERMALOGICAL NATURE PRESENTED AT VARIOUS  MEETINGS AROUND THE WORLD  CAN BE OBTAINED IN

THE ECHINODERM NEWSLETTER

This Newsletter  lists contact information,  current research, publications, dissertations, announcements,  websites and many entertaining contributions from the nearly 800  echinoderm researchers worldwide! Because there is no international  society of echinoderm researchers, the Newsletter is the best  unifying document there is.


THE  INTERNATIONAL ECHINODERM CONFERENCES

THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE  IS GENERALLY HELD EVERY 3 YEARS. THE 9TH IEC WAS HELD IN SAN  FRANCISCO, CA IN AUGUST 1996. THE 10TH IEC WAS HELD IN DUNEDIN, NEW  ZEALAND, IN FEBRUARY 2000. The 11th meeting is scheduled for Munich, Germany in the summer of 2003.

 10th  INTERNATIONAL ECHINODERM CONFERENCE, DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND

 PROCEEDINGS,  9TH INTERNATIONAL ECHINODERM CONFERENCE


THE  REGIONAL ECHINODERM CONFERENCES

THE REGIONAL MEETINGS ARE HELD  IN THE INTERIM YEARS BETWEEN INTERNAIONAL CONFERENCES, AND ARE  INTENDED TO BE TRUE REGIONAL MEETINGS. THE EUROPEAN CONFERENCE HAS  GROWN TO BE A LARGE, INTERNATIONAL MEETING WITH ATTENDEES FROM NORTH  AMERICA AND THE PACIFIC. THE NORTH AMERICAN MEETING HAS REMAINED VERY  SMALL AND INFORMAL.  IT IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS  TO PRESENT THEIR RESEARCH, EVEN IN EARLY STAGES, AND MEET THE (NORTH  AMERICAN) PERSONALITIES OF THE ECHINODERM COMMUNITY IN A LOW-KEY SETTING.

North  American Echinoderm Conference

The 4th Meeting was held at the Darling Marine Center in August of 2001. See the Echinoderm Newsletter conference section for a list of papers.

European Echinoderm Conference

Proceedings and information from the 6th ECE, Sixth European Conference on Echinoderms,  3-7 September 2001,  Banyuls-sur-mer, FRANCE. See the Echinoderm Newsletter conference section for a list of papers.


SOCIETIES  WITH ANNUAL MEETINGS

Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

Visit the page for  information on the 2001 Meeting in Chicago.

Society for Systematic Biologists

Visit the page for Evolution  2002 Meetings, the joint conference of SSB, the Society for the Study  of  Evolution and the American Society of Naturalists, June 28 through July 2 in Urbana, Illinois: EVOLUTION 2002

Willi Hennig Society


GENERAL MEETINGS

9th Deep Sea Biology Symposium,  Galway, Ireland,  June 25 - June 30 2000

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A GREAT SITE LISTING NUMEROUS CONFERENCES IS AT THE BIOSIS   SITE