Dear Friends and Colleagues all over the world,

 

The 36^th annual conference of the European Association of Aquatic Mammals (EAAM) is scheduled to be from 7^th to 10^th of March 2008. The beautiful Animal Park Kolmarden in Sweden will be our host for this conference.

 

The EAAM is an organization of people interested in marine mammals in human care, in a zoological environment or in the wild, and includes veterinarians, biologists, zoo and marine park directors and managers, trainers (husbandry professionals), researchers, students and other persons who devote a significant amount of time to the welfare of marine mammals through research, medical care, training, education, conservation, management and related activities.

 

During the conference you can present the results of your work with marine mammals by means of a fifteen minute presentation or by a poster presentation. All topics related to marine mammal science and husbandry will be acceptable: Conservation, Education, Medicine, Practical aspects of husbandry, et cetera. For the 36^th Symposium, EAAM would like to encourage student presentations and therefore the EAAM student committee will sponsoring with the registration fee for 12 students with accepted abstracts. As every year there is an award for the best student presentation too. The deadline for abstract submission is the 4 of January 2008. An electronic abstract submission form is available on the conference website.

 

 

Details on the conference program, the location, the workshop, guest speakers, hotel reservations, registration and transportation are available on the conference website:

www.kolmarden.com    and then you chose the EAAM section.

 

For all your further questions please contact: Lotta Nilsson at [log in to unmask]

 

Looking very much forward to see you all in Kolmarden, Sweden next spring!

 

Birgitta MERCERA

President-elect of EAAM

 

 

Birgitta Mercera

Responsable Delphinarium

PARC ASTERIX

BP 8

60128 Plailly, FRANCE

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