P. John D. Lambshead  EMail: pjdl@nhm.ac.uk
Bryan R. Sherwood  EMail: bryan@linnean.demon.co.uk

DAY ONE    17th September

09.45 Registration & coffee

10.30 Welcome -
Vaughan Southgate  VPLS
Vice-President of the Linnean Society of London
The Natural History Museum, London

10.35 Opening Address -
J.  Frederick Grassle
Chief Scientist, Institute of Marine & Coastal Sciences, Rutgers
University

RESEARCH
Chair J. F. Grassle
Rutgers University

10.45 Coastal and deep sea diversity compared
John Gray
University of Oslo

11.30 Deep Water -
Paul  Snelgrove
Associate Chair in Fisheries Conservation, Memorial University of
Newfoundland

12.15 Time Components of Marine Communities
M. A. Buzas
Department of Paleobiology, National Museum for Natural History,
Smithsonian Institution
S. J. Culver
Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, London

01.00 Lunch

ENABLING TECHNOLOGY
Chair  Tegwyn Harris FLS
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Exeter

2.00 Can Biodiversity be Mapped?
R.Foster-Smith, J Davies, I. Sotheran & R. Walton
Dept of Marine Sciences and Coastal Management, Newcastle University

2.30 Use of CAFI and LIDAR for Environmental Monitoring
Nick Holden
The National Center for Environmental Data and Surveillance,
The Environment Agency

3.00 Tea

3.30 Towards offshore GIS
Mike Clark
University of Southampton

4.00 Taxonomy on the Internet
M A Kendal, M C V Austen
Plymouth Marine Laboratories
G L J Paterson, P J Lambshead
Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum, London
C Aryuthaka
Kasetsart University Bangkok

4.30 The BIOMAR Viewer: A virtual encyclopedia
Bernard Picton
Ulster Museum, Northern Ireland UK

5.00 Technology Discussion

6.30 Posters - Reception 

DAY TWO    18th September

RESEARCH
Chair John Gage

09.30 Coral Reefs - (Title to be confirmed)
Rupert Ormond
Department of Biology, University of York

10.15 Megabenthic Diversity: a Bipolar Comparison
A Starmans & Julian Gutt
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven,
Germany

11.00 Coffee

11.30 How much do we really know about
pelagic biodiversity and biogeography?
Annelies Pierrot-Bults
Institute for Systematics and Population Biology, University of
Amsterdam

12.15 The use of genetic markers in understanding
and managing marine biodiversity
Jean-Pierre Feral
Observatoire Oceanologique de Banyuls, France

1.00 Lunch

CONSERVATION
Chair Graham Shimmield

2.00 Measuring and analysing geographical variation in biodiversity
for conservation evaluation
R Vane-Wright FLS
Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum, London

2.30 Longterm variability in diversity of North Sea plankton
A Lindley & S Batten
Sir Alistair Hardy Institute, Plymouth

3.00  Does high biodiversity prevent invasion success of marine
macroalgae?
- The need for an experimental community approach
Annelise Albrect¹ & William Farnham^2
1Department of Biological Sciences, Plymouth University
²Institute of Marine Science, University of Portsmouth

3.30 Tea

4.00 Discussion Issues