1997 2-7 March: Gordon Research Conference on Sea Ice Ecology, Ventura, California, USA. Contact: Stephen F. Ackley, Chairman GRC on Sea Ice Ecology Cold Regions Res. and Engr. Lab., 72 Lyme Rd., Hanover, NH 03755 USA. (FAX: 603-646-4644; Internet: sackley@crrel.usace.army.mil; Website: http://www.grc.uri.edu/progra~1/seaice.htm) 19-21 March: ICES Symposium on ÒThe temporal variability of Plankton and Their Physico-Chemical EnvironmentÓ, Kiel, Germany. Contact: ICES Secretariat, ICES, Palagade2-4, DK-1261 Kopenhagen K, Denmark (Phone: +45-33-154-225; FAX: +45-33-934-215; Internet: ices.info@ices.dk; Website: http://www.ices.dk/symposia/tv_sym.htm) 1-4 April: The Oceanography SocietyÕs (TOS) Scientific Meeting: Ocean Interfaces, Seattle, Washington, USA. Contact: Judi Rhodes, The Oceanography Society, 4052 Timber Ridge Drive, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA 23455 (Phone: 757-464-0131; FAX: 757-464-1759; Internet: jrhodes@ccpo.odu.edu; Website: http://www.tos.org/seattle_1997.html) 10-11 April: U.S. GLOBEC Scientific Steering Committee meeting, Boulder, CO, 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@violet.berkeley.edu) 17-22 April: ICES/NASCO Symposium on Interaction of Salmon Culture and Wild Stocks of Atlantic Salmon: The Scientific and Management Issues, Bath, UK. Contact: L. P. Hansen, Norway (FAX: +47 73 91 54 33; Internet: lars.petter.hansen@nina.nina.no; Website: http://www.ices.dk/symposia/sa_sym.htm) 22-24 April: Fourth North Pacific Rim Fisheries Conference; Tokyo, Japan. Contact: Steve Cowper, US Co-Chair, North Pacific Rim Fisheries Conference, ACIB, UAA, 3211 Providence Drive, BEB 203, Anchorage, Alaska 99508, USA (Phone: 907-786-4300; FAX: 907-786-4319) 3-5 June: FMU Symposium: Fisheries Management under Uncertainty, Objectives and uncertainties in fisheries management with emphasis on three north Atlantic ecosystems., Bergen, Norway. Contact: FMU Symposium, Department of Fisheries and Marine Biology, Univ. of Bergen, Department of Fisheries and Marine Biology, Bergen Scientific Center, N-5020 Bergen, Norway (Phone: +47-55-584-456/or 400; FAX: +47-55-584-450; Internet: FMUsymp@ifm.uib.no; Website: http://www.ifm.uib.no/ANNET/FMU_SYMP/default.htm) 9-14 June: Symposium on Comparison of Enclosed and Semi-Enclosed Marine Systems: biological, physical and geochemical features and processes and responses to altered environmental conditions, Mariehamn, Aland, Finland. Contact: Ea Maria Blomqvist, BMB/ECSA -97, Huso Biological Station, Fin-22220, Emkarby, Aland, Finland (Phone: +358-(0)18-37221; FAX: +358-(0)18-37244; Internet: eric.bonsdorff@abo.fi or blomkvist@abo.fi) 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) 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@violet.berkeley.edu) 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) 1998 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)