Calendar of Past Events 2006

by Robin — last modified 2007-12-05 02:16

January-April
- South American and Caribbean protocol workshop was held in Caracas Venezuela in January.
- The 2006 field season has started for the European seas Drs Lisandro Beneditti-Cecchi and Iacaopo Bertocci sampled the Calafuria site on the coast of Italy in March and hosted an all EU Seas NaGISA workshop in April. The European Region has expanded to include an initiative in Crete, Greece lead by Dr. Chirstos Avanitidis and Prof. A. Eleftheriou from the Institute of Marine Biology and Genetics (IMBG/HCMR), new map of the EU region.
May-August
- Announcement of the History of the Nearshore Program Open Call for Proposals.
- The Indian Ocean Region had its first regional meeting and protocol workshop in Mombassa Kenya in June.
- WPac NaGISA has hired an interim secretary Ms. Tanaka to assist Dr. Shirayama with the activities of the western Pacific region and help out with the growing workload of international headquarters. WestPac and has kicked off this years community activities by having the local high school participate in a joint sampling initiative in Kisennuma Sendai Japan.
- NaGISA newsletter vol. 2 was published.
September-December
- Experimental design and data analysis course entitled 'Detecting changes in biodiversity' was held in Pisa Italy.
- NaGISA held its first scientific symposium in Kobe Japan October 15-18, 2006. The conference had three primary goals: To facilitate the interaction of nearshore benthic ecologists and taxonomists; To strengthen the connection between NaGISA and complementary projects; To present research and results from the NaGISA project. Reports and Comments from NaGISA First World Congress. The 4^th NaGISA SSG Meeting was held afterwards.
- The History of the Near Shore - a joint initiative between NaGISA and HMAP (Historical Marine Animal Populations) is attempting to identify specific local sites on which historical (pre 1980) records of biodiversity are available and to resample them under the auspices of the NaGISA project. An open call for proposals has been issued and all interested parties are encouraged to contact HNS directly.
- The Marine Gastropoda and Polyplacophora workshop was held in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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