Conference
"Cetaceans, sea turtles and sharks of the Adriatic Sea"

26^th – 28^th October 2006

Hosted by: Acquario di Cattolica – Parco Le Navi

Second Announcement

Dear Colleagues,

whitin the framework of the project ADRIA-Watch "An Observatory of the Great Vertebrates of the Northern Adriatic sea" we have the pleasure to invite you to attend the conference "Cetaceans, sea turtles and sharks of the Adriatic Sea".

 
Program :

October 26^th, Thursday:

-         afternoon: Adria-Watch partners meeting

-         evening: public conference (to be defined)

October 27^th – 28^th, Friday and Saturday:

-         Scientific Conference

-         Guided visit to the Cattolica Aquarium

Scientific Conference

Sessions may include as well:
Conservation and management
Distribution and abundance
Interaction with fisheries
Biology and behaviour
Morphology, molecular biology and genetics

Official languages will be english and italian. Translator italian-english and english-italian will be available.

Registration
Registration to the conference is free of charge.
Registration form can be downloaded here:
http://www.adriawatch.provincia.rimini.it/convegno/registration.doc
and must be sent, as indicated on the form itself, before the 2^nd of October.

Regular registration before deadline gives right to four coffee-breaks and two buffet lunches for free!

Abstract
Abstract form, with instructions fo authors, can be downloaded here:
http://www.adriawatch.provincia.rimini.it/convegno/abstract.doc
and must be sent, as indicated on the form itself, before the 2^nd of October.

Proceedings
Proceedings of the conference will be published in short time. For this we shall need your help as follows: We invite all of the authors to bring directly to the conference their works, on a labeled CD-Rom, already in extended and final version. Text should be in Times 12, picture in jpg format, graphs as Excel files.

For more information visit
http://www.adriawatch.provincia.rimini.it ("conference" button)
or contact

Roberta Bagli <rbagli@lenavi.it>

Marco Affronte <ambientemare@fondazionecetacea.org>

Claudia Berretta <c.berretta@provincia.rimini.it>

Please forward this message to other colleagues who would be interested in this meeting, or let us have their contact details.

Best wishes

The Organizing Committee