As promised during the sponge conference, I have now uploaded all sponge proceedings of the main, international sponge conferences onto the World Porifera Database (http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/conference_materials.php ). You can search single papers by author (begins with) or by parts of the citation (contains). I have put "Proceedings of the … International Sponge Conference” in the notes for each paper, so this can be used in searches, too. The abstract books and programs can be found in the WPD conference materials as well, as far as available. If anyone has the abstracts/program of the first two conferences, please let me know, they are still missing.

There are still small bits and pieces that I will add in the near future. I also plan to eventually upload papers from other sponge meetings as well (maybe next year…), so please keep me updated about smaller meetings and special volumes.

A big thanks to people who located and shared some of the more difficult materials (as usual people like Rob, Nicole BE, Philippe, Roberto…), and Bart Vanhoorne from VLIZ for organising everything into easy-access bundles that can be opened by mouse-click.

Dr. Christine Schönberg

School of Earth and Environment

and Oceans Institute at the

Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre, building 453

The University of Western Australia

Fairway Entrance 4

Crawley, WA 6009

Australia

Ph +61-8-94703582

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