For those of you who are interested, the AMSA conference will be held in Perth this year. info can be found at http://www.amsa2011.com.au/. The theme is crossing boundaries, i will be presentign a project on the use of computer algorithms for marine reserve design.
here is a description:
About the AMSA Conference
The annual AMSA conference attracts an international community of researchers, academics, government and industry scientists as well as students from a wide range of disciplines including marine biology, ecology, oceanography, geology, molecular biology and chemistry.
AMSA’s annual conference is held in a different part of Australia each year, and is only hosted in WA every 10 years or so. AMSA’s WA branch is pulling out all stops to make the conference a success for our local, eastern states and international colleagues.
Conference Theme
The conference theme for 2011 is ‘Crossing Boundaries’, reflecting the need for communicating across AMSA’s wide diversity of disciplines, and for understanding and communicating across different scales, spaces and environments. Our conference logo has stylised versions of the Leeuwin Current and East Australian Current – which cross State boundaries and bio-geographical boundaries.
Already we’ve had a great response to calls for conference symposia, with some themes as follows:
■First Census of Marine Life 2010 – Highlights of a Decade of Discovery
■Mangroves and saltmarshes – crucial communities at the land-sea boundary
■Studying large marine fauna – techniques for crossing spatial and temporal boundaries
■Health assessment of estuaries – how to do it, and how to report to the community
■From Sound to Sea – the oceanography of the Kimberley
■Bridging the Eco-Devo divide – molecular ecology of marine larvae
■Mega-dredging projects – crossing the boundary from science into management
■Underwater acoustic applications in Australia – ‘sound’ science is multi-disciplinary
■Marine geomicrobiology & biogeochemistry – cellular scale to planetary scale science
■Crossing the Australia-New Zealand divide – research across the world’s two largest EEZs
■Ningaloo – the benefits of a multi-disciplinary approach
■Plankton – the foundation of marine food webs within biogeographic zones
■Integrating remote sensing and GIS into marine science
while it is all marine stuff there may be some interesting info come out of it on the future of aquaculture and maricultire
might have to be if we run out of fish