International Conference on Shellfish Restoration

ICSR'10

Charleston, SC  USA  November 17-20, 2010

 25 Years of International Shellfish Restoration: Looking Back, Moving Forward

ICSR’10 will be held once again in historic Charleston, South Carolina. The theme of this year’s conference will focus on the progress made in shellfish restoration over the past 25 years, since the first ICSR held in 1986, and how these efforts have shaped the role for shellfish restoration for the future. This retrospective-prospective approach will provide an opportunity for resource managers, shellfish farmers, community activists, historians, and anthropologists to exchange ideas and information which will enhance our ability to restore molluscan shellfish populations, improve water quality, and protect the environmental health of our critically important estuarine and coastal ecosystems.

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5th National Conference and Expo on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration

November 13-17, 2010   Galveston, Texas

Preparing for Climate Change: Science, Practice, and Policy

We invite you to be a part of the only national conference that focuses exclusively on coastal habitat restoration. The Conference will bring timely national attention to the challenges and opportunities for restoration and will bring together a unique blend of people who are involved in policy, science, strategy, business, and on-the-ground restoration. All aspects of restoration will be featured and discussed.

For more information, click here or visit www.estuaries.org/conference.

Sclerochronology is the study of physical and chemical variations in the accretionary hard tissues of organisms, and the temporal context in which they formed. Sclerochronology focuses primarily upon growth patterns reflecting annual, monthly, fortnightly, tidal, daily, and sub-daily increments of time entrained by a host of environmental and astronomical pacemakers. Familiar examples include yearly banding in reef coral skeletons or daily and annual growth increments and lines in mollusk shells. Sclerochronology is analogous to dendrochronology, the study of annual rings in trees, and equally seeks to deduce organismal life history traits as well as to reconstruct records of environmental and climatic change through time and space.

Anyone working on or interested in the formation and interpretation of growth increments in accretionary hard parts of invertebrate and vertebrate organisms, their geochemistry and crystal fabrics or the underlying processes of biomineralization, should attend this conference. Come to Mainz, share your thoughts and help to bring this fast-developing field forward

To find out more about the conference, please click here.

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