ASLO Special Symposia
In 1970, the membership decided to initiate and sponsor symposia dealing with "relevant" or controversial issues in aquatic ecology, to provide an open forum for the exchange of basic information and to foster communication between academe, state, and federal agencies, and industry. The first symposium in the series was held in 1971, and addressed the "limiting nutrient controversy" over whether carbon or phosphate limits algal production. Since then, special symposia have been organized to address a variety of issues of broad interest.
ASLO has also been pleased to provide webspace and advertising support for meetings of the DIALOG (Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Limnology and Oceanography) and DISCCRS (Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change Research) programs (C. Susan Weiler, Director).
1971 Feb. 11-12: W. K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan
Nutrients and Eutrophication: The Limiting Nutrient Controversy
1986 Nov. 3-5: New York, New York
Middle Atlantic Continental Shelf and the New York Bight
1991 Feb. 22-24: San Marcos, California
What Controls Phytoplankton Production in Nutrient-Rich Areas of the Open Sea?
1994 Oct. 24-26: Leesburg, Virginia
Freshwater Ecosystems and Climate Change in North America: A Regional Approach
2002 December: Boulder, Colorado
Emerging Research Questions for Limnology: The Study of Inland Waters
DIALOG and DIACES Symposia
DIALOG '94 December 13-17, 1994 Bermuda Biological Station for Research
DIALOG II October 12-17, 1997 Bermuda Biological Station for Research
DIALOG III October 16-23, 1999 Bermuda Biological Station for Research
DIALOG IV October 14-19, 2001 Bermuda Biological Station for Research
DIACES October 28-November 2, 2002 Copamarina Resort, Puerto Rico. Sponsored by ERF-Estuarine Research Federation
DISCCRS March 10-15, 2003 Copamarina Resort, Puerto Rico
DIALOG V October 19-25, 2003 Bermuda Biological Station for Research
DIALOG VI October 30-November 6, 2004 Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, Alabama
DIALOG VII December 3-10, 2005 Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, Alabama
DISCCRS II March 26-April 2, 2006 Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California
DISCCRS III September 8-15, 2007 Hawaii Island
DIALOG VIII 2007 or 2008, date and location TBA. (contingent on funding)