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July 26, 2000 Media Advisory Attention all Science, Environment and Business Editors The First Ever Meeting of WorldUs Experts on Deep Sea Corals Scientists from twenty countries will be attending the First International Symposium on Deep Sea Corals to address the science and conservation of deep sea corals. Local and international fishermen, conservationists, artists, and government managers will also be giving presentations and participating in panel discussions. The Symposium is being held in the Weldon Law Building on the Dalhousie Campus from July 30 to August 3. The following events may be of particular interest to the media: Monday 9:00-9:40 Keynote Presentation- Stephen Cairns, Smithsonian Institution, Wash.,D.C. 7:30-10:15 Video Night at Theatre A, Tupper Building, Dal Campus (10 videos) Tuesday 9:00-9:40 Keynote Presentation-Martin Hovland, Statoil, Norway 4:00-5:30 Panel Discussion-Gaps in our Knowledge of Deep Sea Corals Wednesday 9:00-9:40 Keynote Presentation-Andre Freiwald, Universitat Tubingen, Germany 4:00-5:30 Panel Discussion-Minimizing Threats to Deep Sea Corals Thursday 8:45-5:30 Workshop to develop global strategy to protect deep sea corals -30- For more information contact Mark Butler or Susan Gass of EAC at 429-2202 or Martin Willison of Dalhousie University at 494-2966 or http://home.istar.ca/~eac_hfx/symposium/ Come Learn about the Tall Corals -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- The preceding message was posted on Sustainable Maritimes (sust-mar) -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- A word from our technicians ... Many subscribers have limited space for incoming email. Please remember to limit the SIZE of your message. Messages longer than 10K cannot be posted. CCN users cannot read messages written in html, or with other bells and whistles. Please send messages to sust-mar in basic TEXT format. Finally, please respect the privacy of others. Sust-mar messages are seen by a lot of people and are accessible in our archives to anyone in the world. Therefore, if you are forwarding a message that was sent to you, please delete the names of other recipients before forwarding to sust-mar. Similarly, if your message is going to other places, please send sust-mar a separate copy. Our 200+ readers are worth the extra seconds it takes! :)
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