This spring, Dr. Ibeun was awarded A Fellow of the Fisheries Society of Nigeria as recognization of his extensive activities with fisheries information and libraries in Nigeria. He has been the lead advocate for making Nigerian Fisheries literature internationally visible. Congratulations, Moses, for this well- deserved recognition.
Janet Webster & Jean Collins
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At the 22nd PLC Conference (June 2 – 6, 2008) in Edmonton, AB, Canada the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany was selected as the site for the next PLC Conference in June 2010.
The Colloquy meets biennially at venues by tradition alternating between Europe and North America.
Marcel Brannemann (AWI)
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More information about PLC: http://arcticcentre.ulapland.fi/polarweb/plc/
More information about AWI: 
http://www.awi.de/en/
More information about Bremerhaven:
Credits: BIS Touristik Bremerhaven, Germany
http://www.bremerhaven-touristik.de/bremerhaven-tourism/index_eng.html
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Bula IAMSLIC Members!
Registration for the conference in Fiji is now open.
The conference web site is located at:Â Â http://www.iamslic.org/?section=180
Click on Registration in the left column to reach the registration page.
Be sure to make your hotel reservations early to take advantage of
the terrific prices that the local arrangements team have negotiated for you.
Images of the conference merchandise may be viewed from the
conference web site by clicking on “Conference Merchandise” in the
left column. There are T-shirts for both men and women (exact
size/dimensions can be found within the registration form) and there
are also 3 choices for sulus, a type of sarong.
A first draft of the program has been posted. We will shortly
announce a second call for additional papers and posters.
Do not hesitate to contact me if you have questions!
Liz Winiarz
IAMSLIC Conference Convener 2008
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To our IAMSLIC Membership:
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I have been tasked as Chair of the Nominating Committee for IAMSLIC, to come up with at least two nominees willing to run for the office of President of IAMSLIC. This is really a four year commitment:
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Duties of the IAMSLIC President:
Junior President-Elect (2009): Voting member of Executive Board and
responsible for coordinating Executive board web page updates with the
web committee. Â Â This meeting will be held in Belgium
President-Elect (2010): Voting member of Executive Board and
conference convener. This meeting will occur in Latin America.
President (2011): Runs Executive Board and business meetings,
manages IAMSLIC committee appointments and oversees IAMSLIC business.
Acts as grant administration for IAMSLIC grant cycles. Â Â This meeting will be held in Africa
Past-President (2012): Serves on the Executive Board in a
non-voting advisory capacity and may chair the Bylaws Committee. This meeting will likely be held in the U.S.A.
The IAMSLIC bylaws allow for a conference registration waiver for the
year the candidate serves as President and a minimal amount of travel
support for IAMSLIC elected officers, but candidates should also have
the support (programmatically and hopefully financially as well) of
their institution when they commit to run and we do ask for written
acceptance from candidates who have agreed to stand for office.
We would love to hear from you either to nominate yourself, or with the names of candidates you think would make a good President and be willing to serve. Our Committee members are:
Natalie Wiest <wiestn@tamug.edu> <mailto:wiestn@tamug.edu>, Chair
(SAIL-2009)
Marcel Brannemann <Marcel.Brannemann@awi.de>
<mailto:Marcel.Brannemann@awi.de> (Euraslic- 2010)
Andrea Cristiani <acris@fvet.edu.uy> <mailto:acris@fvet.edu.uy> (Latin
America- 2009)
Ann Devenish <adevenish@whoi.edu> <mailto:adevenish@whoi.edu>
(Unaffiliated 2009)
Meredith Hepburn <Meredith.Hepburn@csiro.au
<mailto:Meredith.Hepburn@csiro.au> (PIRG- 2010)
Pam Olson < Pamela.Olson@dfo-mpo.gc.ca > <mailto: Pamela.Olson@dfo-mpo.gc.ca >
(Cyamus- 2009)
Amady Sow <tijouceddo@yahoo.fr> <mailto:tijouceddo@yahoo.fr>
(Afriamslic- 2010)
Thank you!
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Natalie
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Natalie Wiest
Chair, IAMSLIC Nominating Committee
Jack K. Williams Library
Texas A&M University at Galveston, U.S.A.
(409)740-4567Â Â Â Â Â Â Â fax:Â (409)740-4702
I wanted to make sure you were all aware of a new book (citation below). I bring it to your attention since it has been labelled as “popular works” which means it might not show up on your radar for book selection. I am also giving the link to the NHBS description of the book since I think it does a good job describing the books contents and audience level.
Joe Wible
http://www.nhbs.com/title.php?tefno=157624
Author: Denny, Mark, 1951-
Title: How the ocean works : an introduction to oceanography
/ Mark Denny.
Imprint: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.
Physical Description: xviii, 320 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ;
26 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject (LC): Oceanography–Popular works.
Local misc.: MONORECUnit/29 May 2008/ejh
ISBN: 0691126461(hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 069112647X (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780691126463 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780691126470 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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For those who have not noticed, Oxford University Press now gives us the right to publish postprints in our repositories (earlier only preprints!) – admittedly with a 12 months embargo. Read more on the Sherpa webpages at   http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
Brit Skotheim
Scientists have recently detected criss-crossing patterns of currents throughout the world’s oceans that roughly parallel the Equator. The findings present the the most detailed picture of ocean currents to date. For more information, please see the following articles:
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The Status of Coral Reef Ecosystems of the United States and Pacific Freely Associated States is published every three years and features the most comprehensive and up-to-date data on the status of coral reefs stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to remote areas of the Pacific. The next edition is set for release in July 2008.
The State of the Reef report is free to the public and available in both print and electronic versions. It’s an excellent resource and I would like to broaden our distribution list to include more libraries and information centers across the U.S.
To see the PDFs of the 2005 report, please visit
http://ccma.nos.noaa.gov/ecosystems/coralreef/coral_report_2005/
______________________________________________
Alicia Clarke, Science Writer
Contractor to NOAA’s Biogeography Branch
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
1305 East West Highway, (SSMC4/9258), N/SCI-1
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: 301.713.3028 x189
Fax: 301.713.4384
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The latest edition of “Waypointâ€, the Australian Institute of Marine Science’s quarterly on-line newsletter, is ready for navigation.
Key coordinates to visit include:
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IAMSLIC Newsletter co-editors Megan Gee and Jackie Wolstenholme need to take a break from their editor duties. Megan and Jackie– thank you again for all you have done to keep IAMSLIC well informed!
For many years the IAMSLIC newsletter was printed and mailed to members. In recent years we have posted the newsletter electronically. Given that our editors must step down the Executive Board has decided this would be a good time to experiment with the next evolutionary step and begin sharing our news via a blog. At 107 issues we will put the Newsletter on hiatus. We will miss Jackie and Megan as our co-editors but look forward to hearing from them via the blog!
As you will see, we have started with seven categories into which you can post: announcements, committee news, executive board news, president’s updates, interesting sites, regional group activities and
uncategorized.
Visit the IAMSLIC News & Events Blog at http://www.iamslic.org/blog/ or via the News & Events link under Publications on the IAMSLIC home page.
To post to the blog you should log in with the IAMSLIC username/password, choose the category, create and sign your post. Note—please do not copy and paste text from Word into the blog as this causes problems. If you want to edit your text offline before posting use a text editor such as Notepad or WordPad.
We have already posted a number of news items to the blog so please visit and read the news about grant cycles, the Nominating Committee and Site Selection Committees. And, post some news of your own!
A blog posting (but not subsequent comments) will generate an email that goes to the IAMSLIC discussion list. So, for regular installments of IAMSLIC news we encourage all members to join the IAMSLIC discussion
list and visit the blog to see any follow-up comments. See the Discussion List web page for hints on subscribing and managing IAMSLIC email: http://www.iamslic.org/index.php?section=22
Many thanks to Web Committee members Steve Watkins and Sally Taylor for creating the blog on our behalf!
Regards,
Barb Butler (IAMSLIC President 2007-8)
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