Dear Colleagues, The call for proposals for symposia, workshops, and focus groups is now open for the 2nd International Marine Conservation Congress, /Making Marine Science Matter/, which will be held from 14-18 May 2011 at the Victoria Convention Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The deadline for proposals is 31 August 2010. You can find the proposal guidelines at http://www.conbio.org/imcc. For additional information contact the program committee at IMCCprogram@gmail.com. Sincerely, The IMCC2 Program Committee and Laura-Joan Feyrer, Local IMCC Secretariat