Dear all,
The MARES Consortium and EuroMarine Network are pleased to announce that the Call for Abstracts for the Mares Conference on Marine Ecosystems Health and Conservation 2016 has been extended until the 9th October 2015.
The abstract submission deadline has been extended for the reason that authors now have the option to publish accepted abstracts in the Open Access Mares Conference 2016 Collection via the publisher PeerJ ‘Collections’.
All accepted abstracts can be published in the PeerJ PrePrints (a preprint server incurring no cost) in the Mares Conference on Marine Ecosystems Health and Conservation 2016 Collection. We also invite full length journal articles of accepted abstracts to be submitted for publication in PeerJ (the peer-reviewed journal), with the best 10 oral presentations and 10 posters being subsidised for the publication costs of the first author.
The second Mares Conference on Marine Ecosystems Health and Conservation will be held from the 1st to 5th February 2016 in Olhão, Portugal. Throughout the conference scientific sessions and exhibitions six thematic subjects will be explored, with the following keynote speakers presenting on each theme:
· Future oceans: temperature changes - hypoxia – acidification - Professor Jean-Pierre Gattuso
· Understanding biodiversity effects on the functioning of marine ecosystems - Professor Steve Widdicombe
· Biological invasions - Professor Anna Occhipinti Ambrogi
· Natural resources: overexploitation, fisheries and aquaculture - Dr Jake Rice
· Ocean noise pollution - René Dekeling
· Habitat loss, urban development, coastal infrastructures and marine spatial planning - Dr Tundi Agardy
Further details on the conference themes, keynote speakers, programme and training workshops can be found at www.maresconference.eu or visit www.facebook.com/maresconference.
We look forward to seeing you in Olhão.
Kind regards,
On behalf of the organising committee,
Dr. Tim Deprez
Dr. Pierre-Francois Baisnée
Dr. Rick Officer
Prof. Dr. Marina Cunha
Prof. Dr. Adelino Canario
Prof. Dr. Karim Erzini
Katherine Brownlie
Mares Conference Coordination Office
Ghent University
Marine Biology Research Group
Krijgslaan 281/S8
B-9000 Gent, Belgium
Phone: +32 9 264 85 26
