Larry Weaner has been designing, constructing and maintaining meadows for 25 years and is the developer of the seminar series, New Directions in the American Landscape. Training includes EPA-approved procedures for collecting benthic macroinvertebrate samples and for conducting streamside physical habitat assessments. The deadline for applications is 5 p.m. Oct. 29. The event includes free boat rides, a craft show, science and history displays, live music and a parade. The theme of the conference will be estuarine temporal variability, with applications to a variety of topics, including mixing, frontogenisis, salt exchange, and sediment transport.
Papers addressing other topics relevant to estuaries and coastal seas are welcome.
All sessions are plenary and attendance is limited to about 100. The deadline for preregistration and submission of tentative titles of presentations and posters is Sept. 30, 1999. Notice of acceptance will be made Nov. 30. Abstracts are due Feb. 15. Extended abstracts and registration fees are due July 1.