2008
March
-March 13, IPY International Polar Science Day: Changing Earth, Past and Present
http://www.ipy.org/
Contact Rhian Salmon ipy.ras@gmail.com
-March 17-19, Miami, Florida: IAATO special meeting on Antarctic Tourism
-March 20-21, Principality of Monaco: International seminar, Towards a new governance of high seas biodiversity
http://www.seas-at-risk.org/1mages/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20Announcement%20International%20Seminar%20on%20High%20Seas%20Governance.pdf
-March 27-29, Buffalo, New York: The Geological Society of America Northeastern Meeting - "Antarctic
Climate Evolution"
http://www.geosociety.org/sectdiv/northe/08mtg/techprog.htm
-March 31-April 4, London, England (Horticultural Halls): International Maritime Organization Marine
Environmental Protection Committee
http://www.imo.org/
April
-April 7-9, Bremen, Germany: International Census of Marine Microbes International Workshop on
Ribosomal RNA Technology
http://www.arb-silva.de/rrna-workshop
-April 13-18, Vienna, Austria: General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU),
Session on "Cenozoic Antarctic Glacial History"
http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2008/index.html
-April 16-18, Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA: Dynamics in the Southern Ocean (ICED) programme - first model development workshop “Integrating Climate and Ecosystem” focused on Southern Ocean food web models.
Contact Rachel Cavanagh at RCAV@bas.ac.uk
May
-May 4-11, Colorado Springs, Colorado, New Generation of Polar Researchers (NGPR) Symposium
http://www.disccrs.org/ngpr/
-May 5-9, Cape Town, South Africa: 4th IGBP Congress
http://www.igbp2008.co.za/index.php?id=6
-May 22-28, Seoul, Korea (Korea Green Foundation): 5th Green Film Festival
http://www.greenfestival.or.kr/
June
-June 1-13, Santiago, Chile: International Whaling Commission Scientific Committee Meeting.
http://www.iwcoffice.org/meetings/meeting2008.htm
-June 2-13, Kiev, Ukraine: XXXI Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, XI Meeting of the
Committee for Environmental Protection
http://www.ats.aq/
-June 6, Plymouth Museum, United Kingdom: A Celebration Of R.F. Scott's 140th BIRTHDAY,
lunchtime talk on Captain Scott by Dr. David Wilson, and a formal dinner sponsored by the Devon
and Cornwall Polar Buffs will be held at (tentatively) on the HMS Drake
http://www.antarctic-circle.org/events.htm
-June 16-20, Hobart, Australia: CCAMLR WG-EMM Predator Survey Workshop
http://www.ccamlr.org/
-June 18th, International Polar Year Day: Land Plants and Animals/Land and Life
http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/international_polar_days/
-June 23-27, Santiago, Chile: International Whaling Commission, 60th Annual Meeting.
http://www.iwcoffice.org/meetings/meeting2008.htm
-June 23-26, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom: Advances in Marine Ecosystem Modelling
Research Symposium
http://www.amemr.info/default.asp?page=2008symposium
-June 26-27, Oamaru, New Zealand: 6th Oamaru Penguin Symposium. The meeting will focus on the penguins of New Zealand, Australia and their Sub-Antarctic Islands.
http://www.penguin.net.nz/oamaru/
-dates not set, Hobart, Australia: CCAMLR Performance Review
July
-July 5-7, St Petersburg, Russia: XXX SCAR Science Week with business meetings and workshops
of SCAR's Standing Scientific Groups
http://www.scar.org/
-July 8, St. Petersburg, Russia: SCAR/IASC Accessing and Preserving Data as an IPY Legacy
Contact bruin@nioz.nl
-July 14-August 1, Moscow, Russia: CCAMLR WG-SAM and WG-EMM
http://www.ccamlr.org/
-July 8-11, St Petersburg, Russia: Joint SCAR-IASC Open Science Conference
http://www.scar.org/circular.pdf; http://www.scar-iasc-ipy2008.org/
-July 14-16, Moscow, Russia: XXX SCAR Delegates' Meeting
http://www.scar.org/
August
-August 6-14, Oslo, Norway: 33rd International Geological Congress, 'Cenozoic Antarctic glacial history'
http://www.33igc.org
-August 11–15, Cape Town, South Africa: 4th International Conference on the Biology and Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels
http://iapc4.adu.org.za/
-August 11-15. Hobart, Australia, Joint CCAMLR-IWC Workshop.
http://www.iwcoffice.org/_documents/sci_com/workshops/SC-59-EM1.pdf
-August 12-15, Tunis, Tunisia: 31st International Geographical Congress http://www.igu-net.org/uk/news_and_events/tunisia2008.html
-August 18-26, Cape Town, South Africa: ACAP Working Groups and 4th Advisory Group Meeting (August 22-25)
http://www.acap.aq/
-August 26-28, Santa Barbara, California: SCAR - 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth
Sciences (ISAES X)
http://isaes2007.geol.ucsb.edu/
-August 27-28, Bergen, Norway: International Antarctic Zone Program (iAnZone) 10th biennial meeting,
Contact peter.haugan@gfi.uib.no
September
-September 4-10, Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand: I
magining Antarctica
http://www.engl.canterbury.ac.nz/extra/imagining_antarctica.shtml
-September 10-17, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland: British Ecological Society 2007 Annual
Meeting: Life in Extreme Aquatic Environments
http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/articles/meetings/current/
October
-October 3-5, Buenos Aires, Argentina: IHO Hydrographic Committee Antarctica (HCA) meeting http://www.iho.shom.fr/REG_HYD_COM/HCA/HCA.htm
-October 5-14, Barcelona, Spain: IUCN 4th World Conservation Congress
www.iucn.org/congress
-October 6-10, London, England: International Maritime Organization, Marine
Environmental Protection Committee's 58th meeting
http://www.imo.org/
-October 6-8, Monaco: 2nd Symposium on the Ocean in a High CO2 World Contact
m.hood@unesco.org
-October 13-24, Hobart, Australia: CCAMLR WG-FSA and ad hoc WG-IMAF
http://www.ccamlr.org
-October 27-November 7, CCAMLR-XXVII and SC-CAMLR-XXVII
http://www.ccamlr.org/
November
-November 11-15, Valencia, Spain: World Conference on Marine Biodiversity
http://www.marbef.org/worldconference/
-November 12-18, Auckland, New Zealand: Census of Marine Life (CoML) - All Programmes Meeting
http://www.coml.org/
December
-December 12, 80 Degrees South at the foot of the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica: Fourth Antarctic
Ice Marathon
http://www.icemarathon.com/live/145.html