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Circum-Antarctic polychaete workshop SOAP |
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The long awaited and planned circum-Antarctic polychaete workshop SOAP will take place from 8-12 March in Woods Hole, MA (USA). Applications will be viewed after 31 December 2009. Apply now!
SOAP (Southern Ocean Annelid Project) Workshop on circum-Antarctic Polychaetes A one-week workshop dealing with circum-Antarctic polychaetes will be held from 8 to 12 March 2010 at the Swope Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA. The goal is to compare material from selected families from the Weddell Sea and Ross Sea to determine whether polychaetes have circumpolar distributions or are endemic to one of the two areas. Additionally, younger scientists are invited to expand their knowledge and to seek help from experienced taxonomists. There will be four or five invited speakers and a maximum of ten other participants. The speakers that agreed to participate so far are: Adrian Glover (spionids), Stacy Doner (cirratulids), Jim Blake (several smaller families), Ruth Barnich (scale worms) and, hopefully, Maria Cristina Gambi (sabellids). The workshop will be rather structured to ensure tangible outcomes as requested by the funding projects. Any data from the workshop will be submitted to SCAR/MarBIN. Photos, sketches and preliminary descriptions of new species will be submitted to polychaetes.info which is a repository for working species among other things. Participants will be selected by the SOAP organising committee, consisting of Brigitte Ebbe, Maria Cristina Gambi, Myriam Schüller, and Kerstin Kroeger. Please submit a short message to
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, stating your affiliation, area of taxonomic interest/expertise and any material that you might be able to bring along. Your message should reach the address no later than 31 December. Funding of this workshop is by the Census of Marine Life projects CAML and CeDAMar and by ENSR in Woods Hole. Additional funds from the German Science Foundation will be applied for, and some other funding may come along, so everybody can participate with all expenses paid. We are looking forward to your applications!
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