Announcements

CONFERENCE & MEETINGS

• INTERNATIONAL DIATOM SYMBOSIUM 2008:

The next meeting of the International Society for Diatom Research will be held in Dubrovnic , Croatia in 7-13th September 2008 .
The meeting will be organised by Nenad Jasprica,

University of Dubrovnik,
Institute for Marine and Coastal Research,
Kneza Damjana Jude 12,  PO Box 83 ,
HR-20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Tel. + 385 20 323 484; Fax +385 20 323 872
email: nenad.jasprica@unidu.hr .

Meeting of German-Speaking Diatomists

COURSES

•  The Iowa Lakeside Summer Lab . courses can be found at: http://www.ag.iastate.edu/centers/lakeside/diatoms.html which is Ecology and Systematics of Diatoms and run by Mark Edliund  Sarah Spaulding

•  http://www.ag.iastate.edu/centers/lakeside/analysis.html which is Analysis of Environmental Data and run by Steve Juggins

•  Courses on Freshwater Phycology, Limnology, and Stream Ecology also conducted every summer (June - August) at The University of Michigan Biological Station (Rex Lowe and Jan Stevenson)

•  The University of Manitoba Field Station at Delta Marsh, Manitoba , Canada often has a short diatom ID course in July (Gordon Goldsborough)

•  Elliot Shubert and Eileen Cox have an algae course at Kindrogan Field Centre in the Scottish Highlands in late July.

•  There is a summer field course in marine botany/phycology held in June at the Shoals Marine Lab on Appledore Island , Maine , USA , offered through Cornell University and the University of New Hampshire .