MeiofaunaBrasil: 3 years!

Today we are celebrating 3 years of Meiofauna Brasil on air...

Maybe some of you can remember that in the begining was all in Portuguese, than with 6 months we've decided to translate everything to English.

In the second year of Meiofauna Brasil we migrated for the new format of Blogger which have new resources including the possibility of marking our posts with keywords. We also started to send periodical updatings for a selected e-mail list (based on the adresses in THIRIMCO). If somebody wants to be included just contact us in our e-mail: meiofaunablogspot@gmail.com

In the third year we changed our layout for this new beautiful blue version (very well done by Priscila). We also reorganized the links and added a new research resource using Google which makes the looking for specific subjects quiet easier than before.

Furthermore we created profiles on Twitter (http://twitter.com/meiofaunabrasil) and Orkut (http://www.orkut.com.br/Main#Profile.aspx?origin=is&uid=7313733478867360227 (it is necessary to be joined)!

What we really expect is to spread more an more the Meiofauna Brasil website and "popularize" our fascinating animals!

We know that there is still much to improve and specially concern the need of keeping it more updated. Sometimes it is a quite difficult task with all our activities but we will continue...

We also would like to use the opportunity to ask our dear visitors to give their suggestions and help us sending news about meiofauna. So, feel free to send us your comments and sugestions!

MEIOFAUNA BRASIL IS FOR YOU… COMENT ON AND CONTRIBUTE TO MAKE IT ALWAYS BETTER!

Thanks for all meiobenthologists and lovers of these fantastic animals!

SETAC Europe 20th Annual Meeting - IMPORTANT DEADLINES

The SETAC Europe Annual Meeting is Europe's biggest meeting on environmental toxicology and chemistry with more than 1500 presentations in parallel platform sessions and poster sessions, participants scientific speakers from academia, business and government and a blend of scientists and practioners, researchers and regulators all in attendance.

further info here

Rotifera XIII: Meeting Possibilities

The XIII International Rotifer Symposium (Rotifera XIII) will be in 2012.

For the next meeting in 2012 proposals should be made. The prospective candidates willing to organise this meeting should download an information and question file. Expressions of interests should be submitted immediately to Linda May. Full proposals with answers to the questions should be submitted by end of August 2010 to Linda May.

Download Information and question file to Rotifera XIII can be found here.

You also can see already a proposal for India by Prof. Sharma in the same page.

ONTA 2009 Meeting: Abstracts online!

The abstracts of the 2nd International Congress of Tropical Nematology (40th ONTA and 28th SBN Meetings) are available now online on ONTA's page.

You can read them here.

Symposium Antarctic-South American Interactions

The international symposium on ‘Antarctic-South American Interactions in the Marine Environment’ aims to provide a forum where the scientific community will have the chance to debate this issue, besides gathering results from both continents in their latest academic efforts.

The symposium expects the attendance of scientific and non-scientific delegates with diverse background, including undergraduate and graduate students, post-graduates, researchers, general public, and government representatives.

The symposium will happen in Rio de janeiro (Brazil) and the deadline for registration is next 15th October!

More information here.

BOOK: Analytical Measurements in Aquatic Environments

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Product Description

Even a cursory perusal of any analytical journal will demonstrate the increasing important of trace and ultra-trace analysis. And as instrumentation continues to develop, the definition of the term trace element will undoubtedly continue to change. Covering the composition and underlying properties of freshwater and marine systems, Analytical Measurements in Aquatic Environments provides the basis for understanding both. It discusses all aspects of analytical protocols from the handling of representative samples to the metrological evaluation of specific steps and whole procedures.

Ecotoxicological considerations and the effort to achieve an increasingly accurate description of the state of the environment challenge analytical chemists who need to determine increasingly lower concentrations of various analytes in samples that have complex and even non-homogenous matrices. The newly coined expression analytics emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of available methods for obtaining information about material systems, with many methods that exceed the strict definition of analytical chemistry. Drawing on the disciplines of chemistry, physics, computer science, electronics, material science, and chemometrics, this book provides in depth information on the most important problems in analytics of samples from aquatic ecosystems.

SEARCH INSIDE THIS BOOK

KINORHYNCH ON YOU TUBE

10th International Polychaete Conference: pre-registration deadline!

Just a quick reminder:

The deadline for pre-registration to participate in the 10th International Polychaete Conference – is next 30 September. You can see all information about the conference on the website here.

FourtIMCo: Pre-registration deadline!

The deadline for pre-registration to participate in the 14th International Meiofauna Conference – FourtIMCo – is next 30 September. You can see all information about the conference on the website here.

The conference will be hosted by Ghent University, Belgium, from July 12th – 16th 2010.

Copepod Larvae Hatching - YOU TUBE