1997 24-28 August: The 127th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, Monterey Convention Center, Monterey, California, USA. Contact: Paul Brouha, AFS; 5410 Grosvenor Lane, Suite 110, Bethesda, MD 20814-2199, USA (Phone: 301-897-8616; FAX: 301-897-8096; Internet: main@fisheries.org; Website: http://www.esd.ornl.gov/societies/AFS/) 31 August-19 September: The Summit of the Sea, St. JohnÕs, New-Foundland, Canada. Contact: Dave Finn, Summit of the Sea John Cabot 500th Anniversary Corporation, P.O. Box 1997, 1 Crosbie Place, St. JohnÕs, Newfoundland, Canada A1C 5R4 (Phone: 709-579-1997; FAX: 709-579-2067 Internet: david_finn@porthole.entnet.nf.ca; Website: http://www.newcomm.net/cabot500/summit/) 8-11 September: First International Symposium on Stock Enhancement and Sea Ranching, Bergen, Norway. Contact: PUSH, Bontelabo 2, N-5003 Bergen, Norway (FAX: +47-55-317395; Internet: borthen@telepost.no; Website: http://www.imr.no/sear/hav97.html) 16-19 September: 44th Annual Eastern Pacific Ocean Conference (EPOC), Stanford Sierra Camp, Fallen Leaf Lake, CA, USA. Contact: Jeff Paduan, Meeting Chairperson, Code OC/Pd, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 93943 (Phone: 408-656-3350; FAX: 408-656-2712; Internet: paduan@nps.navy.mil) or Bill Peterson, EPOC Secretary, NMFS, Hatfield Marine Science Center, 2030 S. Marine Science Dr., Newport, OR (Phone: 541-867-0201; FAX: 541-867-0389; Internet: bpeterso@sable.hmsc.orst.edu) 22-24 September: ICES International Symposium: The Role of Physical and Biological Processes in the Dynamics of Marine Populations, Baltimore, MD, USA. Contact: ICES Secretariat, ICES, Palaegade 2-4, DK-1261, Copenhagen, Denmark (Phone: +45 33 15 42 25; FAX: +45 33 93 42 15; Internet: ices.info@ices.dk; Website: http://www.ices.dk/symposia/rp_symp.htm) 25 September - 3 October: ICES Annual Science Conference, The John Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Contact: ICES Secretariat, ICES Palagade 2-4, DK-1261 Copenhagen, Denmark (Phone: +45 33 15 42 25; FAX: +43 33 93 42 15; Internet: ices.info@ices.dk; Website: http://www.ices.dk) 6-9 October: OCEANS'97 MTS/IEEE. Halifax World Trade and Convention Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Contact: IEEE Travel and Conference Management Service, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331 USA. (Phone: (in USA) +800-810-4333, (outside USA) +908-562-5598 (collect); FAX: +908-981-1203; Internet: publications@sirius.ns.ca) 8-11 October: International Symposium on Fisheries Stock Assessment Models for the 21st Century: Combining Multiple Information Sources, 15th Lowell Wakefield Symposium, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Contact: Brenda Baxter, Alaska Sea Grant College Program (Phone: 907-474-6701; FAX: 907-474-6285; Internet: fnbrb@aurora.alaska.edu) 9-10 October: U.S. GLOBEC Scientific Steering Committee meeting, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Contact: H. Batchelder, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140 (Phone: 510-642-7452; FAX 510-643-1142; Internet: halbatch@socrates.berkeley.edu) 10-13 October: 3rd LOICZ Open Science Meeting on Global Change Science in the Coastal Zone, Leeuwenhorst Conference Centre, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands. Contact: LOICZ Core Project Office, Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, P.O. Box 59,1790 AB Den Burg, Texel The Netherlands; (Phone: +31-222-369404; FAX:+31-222-369430; Internet: loicz@nioz.nl; Website: http://www.nioz.nl/loicz/) or Julie Hall, NIWAR, Ecosystems, P.O.Box 11-115, Hamilton, New Zealand. (FAX: +64-7-856-0151; Internet: hall@hamilton.niwa.cri.nz) 17-26 October: PICES 6th Annual Meeting, Pusan, Korea. Contact: PICES Secretariat, c/o Inst. of Ocean Sciences, P.O. Box 6000, Sidney BC, Canada V8L 4B2 (Phone: 604-363-6366; FAX: 604-363-6827; Internet: pices@ios.bc.ca; Website: http://pices.ios.bc.ca) 27-31 October: NPAFC 5th Annual Meeting, Victoria BC, Canada. Contact: North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission, 6640 Northwest Marine Drive, Vancouver BC, Canada V6T 1X2 (Phone: 604-228-1128; FAX: 604-228-1135) 28-30 October: California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) Annual Meeting , Lake Arrowhead, California USA. Contact: Mary Olivarria or George Hemingway, MLRG, Scripps Inst. of Oceanogr., La Jolla, CA, USA 92093-0227 (Phone: 619-534-4236/2868; FAX: 619-534-6500; Internet: molivarria@ucsd.edu or ghemingway@ucsd.edu; Website: http://www-mlrg.ucsd.edu/calcofi/ccinfo.html). Symposium on squid organized by California Dept. of Fish & Game, plus contributed papers. 15-18 December: 1997 World Conference on Natural Resource Modelling, Spatial and Temporal Dynamics for Management of Natural Resource Systems, Hobart, Australia. Contact: Conference Secretary, Tanya Fisher (Phone: +61 3 6232 5482; FAX: +61 3 6232 5199; Internet: rma@marine.csiro.au; Website: http://www.cqs.washington.edu/~gordie/rma.html) 1998 9-13 February: 1998 Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA. Contact: AGU Meetings Department, 1998 Ocean Sciences Meeting, 2000 Florida Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20009 (Phone: 202-462-6900 (in D.C. or outside N.America) or 1-800-966-2481 (toll-free in N. America); FAX: 202-328-0566; Internet: meetinginfo@kosmos.agu.org; Website: http://www.agu.org/meetings) 17-20 March: First Open Science Meeting of GLOBEC International, Paris, FR. Contact: Dr. Roger Harris, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, Plymouth PL1 3DH, England (Phone: +44-1752-633 400, FAX: +44-1752-633 101, Internet: r.harris@pml.ac.uk) 16-17 April: U.S. GLOBEC Scientific Steering Committee meeting, Washington, DC, USA. Contact: H. Batchelder, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140 (Phone: 510-642-7452; FAX 510-643-1142; Internet: halbatch@socrates.berkeley.edu)