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AERS News

Frank Reilly
Reillygroup@msn.com
http://www.vims.edu/aers/

Fall Meeting Schedule
This year's fall meeting will be hosted by Saint Mary's College of Maryland. Bob Paul and Chris Tanner are coordinating the local arrangements. AERS has a new program chair beginning with this meeting. Frank Parker of VIMS will assume the mantle from Janet Nestlerode. Thanks to Janet for her many years of tireless service.

The meeting will follow our normal plan with a beverage consumption event and board meeting on Thursday evening October 10, presentations, poster session, business meeting, and banquet on Friday October 11, and presentations on Saturday morning October 12. Our banquet (weather and budget permitting) will be a dinner cruise on the historic Saint Mary's River (If the weather or the budget don't cooperate, its weenies and beer in Bob Paul's garage.) We really are in a bit of a budget crunch, so, to help the conference planners we need you to preregister for the meeting.

For more information and to preregister, please see the AERS web site: http://www.vims.edu/aers/.

Preconference Zostera Planting Workshop
There will be a preconference workshop on eelgrass restoration techniques. The half-day workshop will focus on culture and planting methods for eelgrass, Zostera marina. Chris Tanner from St. Mary's College will describe methods for growing eelgrass from seeds under controlled culture conditions and will give a tour of culture facilities that he has set up at the Piney Point Aquaculture Center, a Maryland Department of Natural Resources facility used primarily for the culture of oysters, and the Chesapeake Bay Field Laboratory on St. Georges Island.

The site visit will be followed by a discussion led by Ryan Davis of Exponent, Inc., on eelgrass planting methods. Participants in the workshop will help plant eelgrass grown in culture using the TERFSTM (Transplanting Eelgrass Remotely with Frame Systems) method, which does not require getting into the water. There is an additional cost for attending the workshop, and preregistration is required. See the AERS web site for further details and for preregistration information.

AERSian Accomplishments
AERS has a new dean in it midst. Iris Anderson of VIMS has been appointed as Dean of Graduate Studies for a three-year term that began July 1. Two AERS members have published books recently. Melbourne R. Carriker of the University of Delaware, published Vista Nieve. It is a biographical account of two American pioneering families (his paternal and maternal grandparents) and their adventures in South Americas Highlands. Kent Z. Mountford released a book Closed Sea - Manasquan to the Mullica, a History of Barnegat Bay. It is an environmental history of the Barnegat Bay region of New Jersey.

AERS News
The AERS News is the official publication of AERS, and all members should be receiving it. If you are a dues-paying (this part is important) member of AERS, and have not gotten the most recent issue with meeting information for our fall meeting in Saint Mary's, please contact the co-editors Frank and Pat Reilly at Reillygroup@msn.comto update your mailing information.

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ECSA News

Jim Wilson
jwilson@tcd.ie
www.ecsa.ac.uk

ECSA Nominations
Please forward nominations for ECSA Council to the Secretary, Mike Elliott. ECSA depends on the efforts of its Council to keep things progressing, so all offers of help and assistance are gratefully received. In particular ECSA is in need of more correspondents for ECSA Bulletin. Anyone who feels like writing an irregular column of local news/views/polemics please contact the editor.
ECSA now has a standard pack of publicity material that can be brought or sent to meetings. If you would like to publicize the Association at a meeting or just generally please contact the secretary.

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
If you haven't seen a copy the ECSA journal Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, you can take a look at http://www.academicpress.com/ecss. ECSS is also available for no charge at http://www.idealibrary.com. At this address all guest users can freely search and browse the abstracts of ECSS. Full access is available at the same address, but subscription is required. By common agreement Academic Press has made full access available in many developing countries.

Academic Press and ECSS are developing their electronic publishing capability. For instance, it is possible to incorporate model simulations or video in an electronic online version where hard copy has to make do with a couple of selected illustrations. If any readers have ideas or thoughts on this, or are considering organizing a meeting or workshop where such techniques would be particularly appropriate, please contact the senior publishing editor, Dr. Frank Cynar (fcynar@acad.com).

EurOcean
EurOcean, a new European center for information on marine science and technology, opened in Lisbon earlier this year. The new center provides an impetus to creating a European marine policy and also to contribute to the development of a marine European research area..

Specifically, EurOcean plans to facilitate cooperation between European organizations involved in marine science and technology, to compile information on new trends in marine research and technology and to implement an operational online system to identify sources of information.

The first project EurOcean has taken on is to establish an Internet portal for marine science and technology, which will provide information on areas related to marine research. In addition, an agreement has been reached whereby EurOcean will maintain the Intergovernmental oceanographic commission's regional portal for Europe. For further information, go to http://www.eurocean.org.

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GERS News

Mark S. Peterson
mark.peterson@usm.edu

The spring GERS meeting will be held at The University of Texas Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas. The meeting will be held 17-19 April 2003, and will likely start with a social on Thursday evening, presentations on Friday. Depending on response, additional presentations or a field trip will be held on Saturday. Port Aransas is a beach resort town with an abundance of great restaurants, pubs, and beaches, so bring your appetites and beach togs.

Cheap housing will be available in UT dorms ($16 night/person or $21 night/person with linens). A reduced rate will also be available at the Best Western in Port Aransas for those wanting less spartan accommodations. The meeting will feature student presentation awards and the chance to win travel funds to the ERF conference in Seattle to be held 14-18 September 2003. A call for abstracts will be published in January 2003.

Chris Onuf, President-Elect, once again has also agreed to attend the ERF Board meeting in Seattle, WA in October on behalf of GERS as Mark Peterson will be on a academic exchange in Mexico.

GERS Information Preferences
We are continuing to accumulate e-mail addresses for the membership. Over 85% of the members responding to our request in the GERS newsletter opted for electronic format, but we want to make sure your information arrives as you prefer to receive it. Please let us know whether you wish eo receive the newsletter electronically or prefer to get your newsletters and meeting announcements via regular mail.
Please remember to visit the GERS web site to keep us informed of any changes in your address, especially your e-mail (http://www.gers.org/UpdateContact.htm).

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NEERS News

Marshall Pregnall
pregnall@vassar.edu
http://www.neers.org

Fall Meeting in Long Island
The fall 2002 NEERS meeting will be held jointly with the biennial Long Island Sound Research Conference, October 24-26. We will be meeting at the Avery Point Campus of the University of Connecticut in Groton. The campus is located at the water's edge with a commanding view of Long Island Sound, The Race, and Fishers Island. Although the conference will be held entirely on the Avery Point campus, there are other reasons to visit southeastern Connecticut, including historic Mystic (with its Mystic Seaport museum) and two world-class casinos: Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods.

All day Thursday and part of Friday will feature oral presentations relating to Long Island Sound and its watershed. Friday afternoon and Saturday morning will have contributed papers and posters, and as always we anticipate strong contributions from our students.

NEERS offers three student awards for best presentations of undergraduate and graduate talks, plus posters, and we have several student travel awards available as well. This will be an election year for NEERS, so plan to attend our business meeting late Friday afternoon. A tour of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy is being planned for Saturday October 26.
For more information, contact NEERS Program Chairman and Local Organizer, Patricia Kremer, Department of Marine Sciences, 1080 Shennecossett Road, Groton, CT 06340 (860)405-9140, and see our website (http://www.neers.org).

Former NEERS President Published
NEERS also would like to congratulate our past-president and still-active NEERS and ERF member Sandy Macfarlane on the publication of her first book, Rowing Forward Looking Back: Shellfish and the Tides of Change at the Elbow of Cape Cod. Sandy recounts her quarter century working for the Town of Orleans, Massachusetts, initially as the first-ever shellfish biologist for a Massachusetts town, eventually as its conservation administrator.

Sandy's work and her book cover the range from basic to applied research, application of both knowledge and absence of knowledge in management decisions, the progressive scientific and public awareness of the consequences of coastal development and population growth, and of the oft-surprising combinations of people who seek to restore and improve our coastal resources for the future.

For more information or to order a book, contact the Friends of Pleasant Bay at P.O. Box 845, South Orleans, MA 02662 or at their web site, www.fopb.org.
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PERS News

Brett Dumbauld
dumbabrd@willapabay.org

Spring 2003 Meeting
Our highly successful spring meeting in Portland, Oregon, was covered in the last newsletter, but for those of you who want more detail and/or just want a great update on PERS, check out the latest PERS newsletter that Rick Reynolds put together at our web site!! (http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~gilberj/pers.html). Thanks Rick for such a stellar effort!

Also of note, our 2003 spring meeting will be held at the same venue and jointly with the Georgia Basin/Puget Sound Research Conference taking place at the Westin Bayshore Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia, from March 31- April 3, 2003.

The PERS meeting will take place with joint PSGB/PERS sessions on Thursday, April 3, and separate PERS sessions on Friday, April 4. We expect to hold a social on Wednesday evening and have our banquet on Thursday evening April 3.

A call for abstracts and fact sheet for the PSGB meeting can be found at the Puget Sound Action team web site (http://www.wa.gov/puget_sound). More information on the PERS portion of the meeting and a second call for abstracts will go out to PERS members at a later date, but we encourage those of you interested to submit an abstract now for the Thursday joint PSGB/PERS sessions.

West Coast Seagrass Colloquium
For you west coast seagrass enthusiasts, Walt Nelson (Branch Chief , Coastal Ecology Branch Chief, U.S. EPA) and Doug Bulthuis (Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve) are planning a West Coast Seagrass Colloquiam to be held on November 14, 15 in Newport, Oregon. For further information, contact Walt at (541)867-4041, Nelson.Walt@epamail.epa.gov.

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SEERS News

Marie DeLorenzo
marie.delorenzo@noaa.gov
http://links.baruch.sc.edu/seers/index.htm

Coastal Carolina University at Conway Hosts Fall Meeting
The fall 2002 meeting of the Southeastern Estuarine Research Society will be held October 17-19 in Conway, SC. The meeting is being hosted by the Department of Marine Science at Coastal Carolina University (CCU) and Dr. Keith Walters. In addition to a great line-up of platform and poster presentations, the fall meeting will include a special session on biocomplexity sponsored by the ERF Biocomplexity Initiative, a Friday evening banquet held at Ripley's Aquarium, and a Saturday field trip to Waites Island-1,062 acres of undeveloped barrier island and upland habitats near Little River and the site of CCU's future marine lab.
Questions or comments about the Conway meeting should be directed to SEERS program chair, Marie DeLorenzo, (843)762-8515, marie.delorenzo@noaa.gov. Local arrangements are being handled by Keith Walters, (843)349-2477, kwalt@coastal.edu.

SEERS Travel Awards
SEERS is offering up to five travel awards of $100 each to qualifying students attending the meeting at Coastal Carolina University. To qualify for a student travel award, students must:

· be enrolled at a college or university for the fall 2002 semester
· be a SEERS member in good standing for 2002
· be registered for the fall 2002 SEERS meeting
· have submitted an abstract for presentation (oral or poster) at the meeting

Please contact Carla Curran at (912) 691-7434 or curranc@savstate.edu for more information.

SEERS Website
Check out the new and improved SEERS web site at http://links.baruch.sc.edu/seers/index.htm.
The SEERS site provides information and links about the fall and spring meetings, information for prospective members, and the new SEERS student page. Any questions, suggestions or information for the web site should be directed to Geno Olmi (Geno.Olmi@noaa.gov).

SEERS People
Congratulations to SEERS student representative Susan White (University of Georgia) for creating a terrific student page on the SEERS web site. A lot of great information for students including recent events, outreach activities, funding sources, career opportunities and graduate and undergraduate interests are provided. If you have questions, suggestions or information for the SEERS Student Page, please contact Susan at snwhite@arches.uga.edu.

Upcoming Regional Meetings
Of interest to SEERS members is the Harmful Algal Bloom meeting, October 21-25, Florida. The Southeast Coastal Ocean Science Conference will be held on January 27-29, 2003, at the Francis Marion Hotel, Charleston, SC.