The AES Issues Forum occurs immediately before the Recirculating Aquaculture conference and is also held at The Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center. Gregory Boardman (Past AES President) and George Flick are hosting this "Members Only" Issues Forum. The forum is designed specifically for AES members to gather and discuss advances and current issues in the field of aquacultural engineering.

Registrations received before July 16 will be $300 and can be submitted on-line or by using the form in the brochure.  Those who are not members of AES can participate in the forum by simply joining AES and paying the $30 AES membership fee (also on the registration form). After July 16, registration will go up to $350 per person. Please contact Greg Boardman by phone at (540) 231-1376, or e-mail: gboard@vt.edu for more information about the 2010 AES Issues Forum.

ICRA topics are still developing. We encourage those who may be interested in the ICRA to save the date. Those who wish to submit potential ICRA topics should email Terry Rakestraw at aqua@vt.edu., Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center, Roanoke, Virginia.

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You are invited to participate in the sixth International Symposium on Aquatic Animal Health (ISAAH-6), September 5-9, 2010 in Tampa, Florida, USA. The symposium will address present practices and new initiatives in aquatic animal health focusing on infectious diseases, wild stock, aquaculture development, planning and emergency response systems, interaction of diseases between wild and farmed stocks, and outcomes of physical, chemical and biological environmental stress. http://aquaticpath.epi.ufl.edu/isaah6/

Tacoma, Washington.  At the beautiful Hotel Murano.  http://www.hotelmuranotacoma.com/

The 29th Annual West Coast Oyster Shucking Championship and Washington State Seafood Festival October 2nd and 3rd, 2010.

Mason County Fairgrounds - Shelton, Washington, Shelton Skookum Rotary Club Foundation. OysterFest is held annually on the first full weekend in October. The gates are open to the public from 10am to 6pm each day.

We are pleased to announce Vibrios in the Environment 2010, a conference to be held at the fabulous Beau Rivage Resort in Biloxi, Mississippi, in the heart of the U.S. Gulf Coast 7-12 November 2010. Please visit the Vibrios in the Environment 2010 website at http://joss.ucar.edu/vibrios_2010/index.html to view more meeting details, as well as to register for this exciting event.

Please feel free to pass this announcement on to your vibrio associates not included on this announcement as well as to others who may be interested in the conference. And, please contact Melanie Whitmire at UCAR (whitmire@ucar.edu) or the steering committee members if you are interested in further information as it becomes available, would like to present your ideas, or be added to our Vibrios in the Environment 2010 email listserve.

Vibrios in the Environment 2010 Steering Committee
Dr. Rita R. Colwell, University of Maryland, United States, rcolwell_at_umiacs.umd.edu
Dr. Angelo DePaola, US Food and Drug Administration, angelo.depaola_at_fda.hhs.gov
Dr. D. Jay Grimes, University of Southern Mississippi, United States, jay.grimes_at_usm.edu
Dr. Carmen Amaro, University of Valencia, Spain, carmen.amaro_at_uv.es
Dr. Murielle Lafaye, CNES, France, murielle.lafaye_at_cnes.fr
Dr. G. Balakrish (“Krish”) Nair, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, India, gbnair_2000_at_yahoo.com
Dr. Mitsuaki (“Buchi”) Nishibuchi, Kyoto University, Japan, nisibuti_at_cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Dr. James D. Oliver, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States, jdoliver_at_uncc.edu
Dr. Carla Pruzzo, University of Genoa, Italy, carla.pruzzo_at_unige.it
Dr. Joon Haeng Rhee, Chonnam National University, Korea, jhrhee_at_chonnam.chonnam.ac.kr
Dr. Irma N. G. Rivera, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, igrivera_at_usp.br
Dr. Mark S. Strom, NOAA Fisheries, Washington State, United States, mark.strom_at_noaa.gov
Dr. Jörg Szarzynski, United Nations, Germany, joerg.szarzynski_at_unoosa.org
Dr. Juli Trtanj, NOAA, Washington, D.C., United States, juli.trtanj_at_noaa.gov
Dr. Anita C. Wright, University of Florida, United States, acw_at_ufl.edu
Dr. Joy Guillemot, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland, guillemotj_at_whoi.int
Dr. Diane McDougald, University of New South Wales, Australia, d.mcdougald_at_unsw.edu.au

We are pleased to announce Vibrios in the Environment 2010, a conference to be held at the fabulous Beau Rivage Resort in Biloxi, Mississippi, in the heart of the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Proposed Session Headings:
•    Ecology of Vibrios
•    Human Disease
•    Non-human Disease
•    Integrated coastal water quality and seafood safety management
•    Epidemiology and Socioeconomics

We will soon open a website with more details and plan to have a portal where you can contribute ideas and suggestions.

Please contact Brian Jackson at UCAR (bjackson@ucar.edu) or the steering committee members if you are interested in further information as it becomes available, would like to present your ideas, or be added to our Vibrios in the Environment 2010 email listserve.

Restore America's Estuaries is pleased to announce the Call for Dedicated Sessions, Presentations, and Posters for the 5th National Conference on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration--Preparing for Climate Change: Science, Practice, and Policy.   

This is the only national conference that focuses exclusively on coastal habitat restoration, and we invite you to be a part of it!  The Conference Program will address all aspects of coastal and estuarine habitat restoration, in all habitats, at all scales, and all regions.  Every facet of restoration will be affected by climate change. Because of its power to effect change, restoration can be a key element on an adaptive or mitigating strategy in facing climate change that cuts across all disciplines. As such, the topic of climate change will be interwoven throughout the Conference and will serve as a unifying element. 

The Conference will be held November 13-17, 2010, at the Galveston Island Convention Center, Galveston, Texas.  The deadline for all proposals is March 2, 2010.  For more information and to submit a proposal, visit: http://program.estuaries.org. 

NACE, a gathering of aquaculturists from Maine to West Virginia, will be held at the Radisson Hotel, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1-3 December  2010.  A complete program covering a wide variety of aquaculture topics is currently under development. To provide a truly meaningful and timely program we are inviting all aquaculturists to participate in the program.