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From July - September 2010 Howard Browman and Anne Berit Skiftesvik will be on sabbatical at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada Maurice Lamontagne Institute in Mont-Joli, Québec (working with Stéphane Plourde) and at the University of Maine's Gulf of Maine Research Institute (working with Jeffrey Runge). We will be developing a pan-Atlantic collaboration on climate-change-related effects on the relative abundance of the Calanus species complex and how this might affect the early life stages of fish larvae that feed upon their nauplii.


From 2 November - 11 December 2009 Howard Browman and Anne Berit Skiftesvik were on sabbatical at the University of Hong Kong's School of Biological Sciences and Swire Institute of Marine Science. We delivered a series of lectures on marine ecology and aquaculture and worked on the effect of ocean acidification on the larvae of marine organisms with V. Thiyagarajan.




The Proceedings of the 2008 Larval Fish Conference - Advances in early life history study of fish, Edited by Catriona Clemmesen, Arne M. Malzahn, Myron A. Peck and Dietrich Schnack - has been published as a special volume of Scientia Marina. Click HERE to download the papers.


Howard Browman has been appointed as ICES's representative on the Scientific Steering Committee of the conference “Ecosystems 2010: Global progress on ecosystem-based fisheries management”, which is the 26th Lowell Wakefield Fisheries Symposium to be held in November 2010 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Howard Browman will present the keynote lecture, entitled "The ecosystem approach to managing aquatic resources has alot to do with management but little to do with ecology or ecosystems".


Seafood Summit 2010: Challenging Assumptions in a Changing World will be held 31 January - 2 February in Paris, France.


The 8^th International Sealice Conference will be held 9 - 12 May 2010 in Victoria, Canada.


The 5^th Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands will be held 3-7 May 2010 in Paris, France. The main themes of the conference are: ensuring survival, preserving life, and improving governance. Click on the link for more information.  


The Workshop on understanding and quantifying mortality in pelagic, early life stages of marine organisms (WKMOR) will be held 22 - 24 March 2010 in Aberdeen, Scotland.


The 34^th Annual Larval Fish Conference will be held 30 May - 3 June 2010 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.


The 9^th International Larval Biology Symposium will be held 23-27 August 2010 in Wellington, New Zealand. 


In June 2009, the Research Council of Norway released a report entitled: "The fish larva: a transitional life form, the foundation for aquaculture and fisheries." Howard Browman was one of the contributors. Click HERE to download a copy. 





On 22 July 2009, Ted Turner and the Turner Foundation visited Austevoll Research Station. Anne Berit Skiftesvik presented her work on intensive culture techniques for ballan wrasse, a cleaner fish that is used to control salmon lice infestations on salmon farms. This is a Research Council of Norway industry project sponsored by VILLA Organic.




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