Meetings 1998-1999

Asian Conference on Water and Wastewater Management
Tehran, I.R.Iran
2-4 March 1998
Address: P.O.Box 14185-448
Tehran, I.R.Iran.

Conservation, Captive Care, and Propagation of Freshwater Mussels - A Symposium
68 March 1998,
Columbus, Ohio (Holiday Inn Worthington)
Hosted by the Columbus Zoo. For information contact:
Dr. Richard Tankersley
Dept. Biological Sciences
University of Maryland Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Drive,
Baltimore, MD 21250, USA

Man and River Systems, The Functioning of River Systems at the Basin Scale
25-27 March 1998
Paris, France
Contact: Mme F. Bourgain
E-mail: bourgain@paris.enpc.fr
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 58 28 22,
Fax: +33 (0)1 44 58 28 30

46th Annual Meeting of the North American Benthological Society (NABS)
25 June 1998
University of Prince Edward Island, PEI, Canada.
Extensive NABS meeting information, including First Call for Papers, Instructions (and deadline) for Abstract Submission, Plenary Session, Special Sessions and Workshops, Student Awards, 1998 Programme Committee, and Local Arrangements, is available at http://www.upei.ca/~nabs98/.

Sixth Symposium on Enchytraeidae [Annelida, Oligochaeta]
34 July 1998
Haus Ohrbeck, Osnabrück, Germany.
For information contact:
Rüdiger M. Schmelz and Rut Collado
Univertität Osnabrück, FB5, Systematic Zoology,
D49069 Osnabrück, Germany.
Tel: +49 05419692859
FAX: +49 05419692870
E-mail: schmelz@cipfb5.biologie.uniosnabrueck.de

Tropical Fish Biology - FSBI Annual Symposium
13-16 July 1998
Southampton, UK
Contact:
Dr George F. Turner
School of Biological Sciences,
University of Southampton,
Basset Cresent East, Southampton,
SO16 7PX, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)1703 594 394
Fax: +44 (0)1703 59426/ 594793
E-mail: GFT@SOTON.AC.UK

4th International Crustacean Congress
20-24 July 1998
Amsterdam
More information: http://www.uva.nl/uva/aktueel/congres/ or write to:
ICC4,p/a ISP/UvA, attn. W. van Zijl
P.O.Box 94766, 1090 GT Amsterdam
The Netherlands
E-mail: zijl@bio.uva.nl

Sixth International Polychaete Conference
27 August 1998
Curitiba, Brazil.
Web Site: http://muse.bio.cornell.edu/~worms/brazil.html

Shallow Lakes `98: Trophic Interactions in Shallow Freshwater and Brackish Lakes
3-8 August 1998
Berlin, Germany
Contact: Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries,
Mueggelseedamm 260
12562 Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49 30-64 19 05 11
Fax: +49 30-64 19 05 23
E-mail: walz@igb-berlin.de

XXVII SIL Congress
9-15 August 1998
Dublin, Ireland
http://nis.rtctallaght.ie/conferences/sil98.home/sil98.html

6th European Congress of Entomology
23-29 August 1998
Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
The 6th European Congress of Entomology will be hosted by the Institute of Entomology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, the University of South Bohemia, and the Czech Entomological Society. The programme will include 12 days of plenary lectures, 34 days of offered papers and posters arranged in specialist symposia, and a oneday excursion. All entomologists are invited, and it is particularly hoped that as many as possible will offer contributions based on recent original research. the registration fee is expected to be $USD 200.00, with a 50% reduction for students.
Contact: Dr. Tomas Soldan
Institute of Entomology
Academy of Sciences
31 Branisovska, 370 05 Ceske Budejovice, CZECH REPUBLIC
Telephone: +42 38 40822
FAX: +42 38 43625
E-mail: soldan@entu.cas.cz

Aquatic Plants - 10th International Symposium of the European Weed Research Society
22-25 September 1998
Lisbon, Portugal
Contact: Prof. Teresa Ferreira
Forestry Department
Instituto Superior de Agronomia
Tapada da Ajuda
P-1399 Lisboa, Portugal
E-mail: terferreira@mail.telepac.pt

7th International Symposium on the Ecology of Fluvial Fishes
10-13 May 1999
University of Lodz, Poland
Convener: Tadeusz Penczak
Dept. of Ecology & Vertebrate Zoology
University of Lodz
12/16 Banacha St., 90-237 Lodz
penczak@biol.uni.lodz.pl
glowack@biol.uni.lodz.pl
Tel: +48 42 781 1364
Fax: +48 42 783 958

47th Annual Meeting of the North American Benthological Society (NABS)
25-28 May 1999
Duluth, Minnesota

This list was compiled with the help of Mark Wetzel (mjwetzel@uiuc.edu) who, as you can see, is a benthologist and interested in worms! I am most grateful for his help.

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