Promoting Cooperation to Maintain and Enhance
Environmental Quality in the Gulf of Maine

Winter 2001

Canadian Conference for Fisheries Research is scheduled for January 3 to 5 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Theme sessions include: Climate change impacts on aquatic ecosystems; Fish biology: behavior, conservation and evolutionary genetics; W.E. Ricker: Shaping a science; Aquatic ecological research: Scaling, society and priorities; and Productive capacity of aquatic habitat. For more information go to: http://www.dal.ca/aczisc/conf#CCFR.

Evening sail across the Bay of Fundy
Photo: Andi Rierden

Watershed 2002 will be held February 23 to 27, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The conference brings together environmental professionals for a showcase on integrated resource management and environmental protection principles using watershed-based approaches. Watershed 2002 will explore the challenges of managing the world’s watersheds while highlighting the unique issues of the conference’s host region. Topics of discussion include: planning; modeling; assessment; controls; outreach; financing; extreme events and special topics. For information phone (703) 684-2442.

GIS in Support of Marine Protected Areas, Reserves and Sanctuaries is a special session being held at the 2002 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting scheduled for March 19 to 23 in Los Angeles, California. The session will discuss the role that GIS has played or should play in exploring, designating, managing and/or modeling marine sanctuaries, protected areas and reserves. One goal is to discuss how improvements can be made in GIS to serve marine/coastal applications, while also improving marine/coastal science and methods with the informed use of GIS. For information e-mail Dawn Wright, dawn@dusk.geo.orst.edu.

Freshwater Spills Symposium, March 19 to 21, in Cleveland, Ohio. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will host the 4th Biennial Freshwater Spill Symposium (FSS). The FSS offers an opportunity for local, state, federal and industry responders, natural resource trustees and managers, and facility response planners to exchange information on the unique problems of freshwater oil spills. For more information contact the USEPA Oil Program Center at oilinfo@epamail.epa.gov.

Oceanology International London is scheduled for March 25 to 28 at the Exhibition Centre in London, England. The theme of the conference will be the current state of knowledge about climate change and the critical role that the oceans play and the potential impacts on the marine information industry. There is no registration fee to attend the conference and associated meetings. Ocean International attracts an international audience of policy makers, industrialists, government representatives, decision-makers, researchers, directors, managers and manufacturers involved in every aspect of oceanography. They meet to address the present and future trends of the industry and to view the launch of new technologies, equipment and services. Contact: Angela Pederzolli, at angela.pederzolli@spearhead.co.uk.

The 7th International Wildlife Law Conference will take place on March 30 at the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, D.C. The theme for the conference is The Convention on Biological Diversity: A Ten Year Report Card. The conference will engage participants from throughout the world in an ongoing colloquy about the role of international law and legal institutions in furthering the goal of species conservation and protection of the Earth's biological diversity. Contact: Wil Burns at asilwildlife@pacbell.net.