The 30^th Conference of the European Cetacean Society Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the following three keynote speakers for the 2016 Conference:

-       Professor Hal Whitehead of Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, will be giving a talk entitled “Sperm whale societies of the Atlantic and Pacific: why so different?”;

-       Dr. Robin Baird of Cascadia Research Collective, Washington, USA,  will speak on “Oasis in a desert sea: development of island-associated populations of open-ocean odontocetes in the Hawaiian archipelago”; and

-       Dr. Mónica Silva’s keynote talk is entitled “the ecological importance of open waters and oceanic islands for baleen whales”. Monica Silvia is a researcher at Mare and IMAR, Azores.

The conference will take place in Funchal, Madeira, from 14 - 16 March 2016, hosted by the Madeira Whale Museum

The theme of the conference is “Into the Deep: Research and Conservation on Oceanic Marine Mammals”.

For further information on the conference visit: http://europeancetaceansociety.eu/conference/30th-annual-conference-funchal-madeira

The abstracts submission deadline is 23 October 2015 (23:45 CET). The abstracts may be submitted online at ECS Conference page: http://europeancetaceansociety.eu/conference/submit-abstract

Workshops proposals are also welcome.  Workshops will run on 12-13 March. Workshop proposal forms can be downloaded here: http://europeancetaceansociety.eu/conference/workshops-0

and should be sent to ecs2016conference@gmail.com by the 23 October 2015 (23:45 CET)  deadline.

 

Looking forward to meeting you at Madeira in March 2016,

Conference Organising Committee