CIAC Conferences
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1995 Vigo (Malacological
Congress)
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1993 Cambridge
(Southern Ocean Cephalopods Symposium)
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Conference report
by Angel Guerra and Angel Gonzalez (conference organisers), November 2009
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Starting with the pre-conference workshops...
Out and about...
The opening of the conference...
Moving to the reception...
At the conference...
Excursions...
Lunch break
Back at the conference...
A glimpse of the Council at work...
Conference dinner
Conference delegates 2006, on the stairs at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart
One of the conference highlights was an invited talk about the first-ever observations of a live giant squid in the wild, by Tsunemi Kubodera and Kyoichi Mori. In recognition of this historic event, Tsunemi Kubodera was presented with various gifts by Clyde Roper, including the "lifelike" model seen below right!
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Other 2006 Conference Highlights
Aside from the serious business, there was of course the conference banquet, featuring the "squid dance" and a didgeridoo-playing competition. [There's a 10Mb .mpg video file linked to the middle image!]
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The 2003 conference proceedings have been published in the Phuket Marine Biological Center Research Bulletin, volume 66 (2005).
Other 2003 Conference Highlights
The Spanish delegates perform "La Macarena"
The conference delegates (and piper) inside King's College quadrangle. Photo supplied by Angel Guerra
The 2000 (Millennium) conference was held at the University of Aberdeen. It was supported by a grant from the European Commission. A particular feature of the conference was the contribution of a series of talks (and ultimately published papers) by a group of Russian and Ukranian scientists, led by the late Kir Nesis.The 2000 conference proceedings were published in the Bulletin of Marine Science, volume 71 (1-2) (2002).
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Other 2000 Conference Highlights
The conference opened with a public leture by Richard Ellis, based on his book "In search of the giant squid", following which a panel of experts convened for a question and answer session. The session also featured a wonderful knitted giant squid contributed by Malcolm and Dot Clarke!
Photo supplied by Angel Guerra
Photo supplied by Angel Guerra
Photos supplied by Angel Guerra
Uwe Piatkowski, Gill Voss, Angel Guerra
Gill Voss and Clyde Roper
Photos supplied by Angel Guerra
