Call for Papers and Posters

This year the 84th Annual ACRS Conference will be held in Darwin for the first time. This is a particularly exciting time in Darwin as it hosts the Charles Darwin 200 Program. This celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin will include a three day symposium titled Charles Darwin: Shaping our Science, Society & Future from 22nd – 24th September which will be followed by Darwin 200: Evolution and Biodiversity from 25th – 28th September.

The Darwin 200 symposium is a cluster of conferences: the Australian Entomological Society’s 40th AGM & Scientific Conference / Society of Australian Systematic Biologists / 9th Invertebrate Biodiversity & Conservation / and the Australian Coral Reef Society’s 84th Annual Conference.

A common plenary day will be held on Friday 25th September with invited keynote speakers presenting talks with an evolutionary theme. This will be followed by the ACRS Conference from Saturday 26th to Sunday 27th September.

The ACRS Conference is part of the Darwin 200 symposium and will include a number of exciting keynote speakers and a series of thematic sessions and workshops from contributed papers and posters.

We now invite submission of abstracts for the conference. The following are suggested themes but abstracts on any coral reef topic will be welcomed.

• Coral reefs – evolution and biogeography
• Climate change and extreme weather events – dealing with floods and storms
• Fish populations in a changing world
• Fisheries management
• Coral bleaching and photophysiology
• Coral disease
• Ocean acidification
• Vertebrates on reefs
• Lessons from coral reefs of the past
• Seabirds, present and future
• Symbiosis on reefs
• Algal communities and their physiology
  

These should be no more than 400 words and submitted electronically to ACRS@cms.uq.edu.au with the word Abstract in the Subject. Please use 12 point Arial for abstracts with the title and author details in bold and left justified. Abstracts should not include tables, figures, bullet points or paragraphs. Please state whether you would prefer to present a talk or a poster, bearing in mind that some requests for oral papers will result in a poster being offered. Please direct enquiries to ACRS@cms.uq.edu.au or by telephone to 07 3365 3307.

DEADLINES: Please submit abstracts by 15 June 2009. No abstracts will be accepted after this date.

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