International Conference on

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Announcement: 

Within the first two weeks of April 1997 an International Conference on the 
Biology of  Coastal Environments wil be held in Bahrain.  The meeting will 
provide a borad forum for marine biologists and related scientists from all 
over the world to communicate and discuss many aspects of coastal 
environments from diatoms to fishes, including mangroves, coral reefs, and 
fisheries, as well as related applied and basic research.   


TITLE: International Conference on Biology of Coastal Environments 

Organizer: 

        Dr. Jameel Abbas 
        Chairman, Organising Committee 
         Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Bahrain. 
        P.O.Box 32038 - 
        State of Bahrain 

Date: April 1997 

Contact: 

Telephone: 681234/688316 
Fax: 682582 

Plenary Speakers include: 

Pirazzoli, France 
Round, UK 
Krahn, USA 
Morioka, Japan 
Crawford, UK 
Popp, Austria 

Session topics:  Aquaculture/Fisheries, coral reefs, intertidal, mangroves, 
pollution, supralittoral 

Additional information available including a call for abstracts to be  
available in February 1996.