The Fifth International Marine Debris Conference will take place March 20-25, 2011, in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the United Nations Environment Programme are co-organizers of the conference, the first of its kind in over a decade. This conference will highlight research advances, allow sharing of strategies and best practices to assess, reduce, and prevent the impacts of marine debris, and provide an opportunity for the development of specific bilateral or multi-country strategies. With a variety of tracks, themes, and session types, this conference will build new partnerships, further raise public awareness and support, and inspire follow-up actions that will take us closer to a world free of the impacts of marine debris. For more information and to submit an abstract (Oct 4th Deadline), please visit www.5imdc.org. -- Sarah Opfer Restoration Specialist Great Lakes Marine Debris Regional Coordinator NOAA Marine Debris Program & Great Lakes Habitat Restoration Program F. T. Stone Laboratory The Ohio State University PO Box 119 Put-in-Bay, Ohio 43456 419-285-1845 fax 614-247-6578 OCTOBER-APRIL: 240 W. Lake Street, Unit C Oak Harbor, OH 43449 Phone: 419-898-3631 Fax: 419-898-3232 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.great-lakes.net/lists/glin-announce/attachments/20100914/13ffabee/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 202678 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.great-lakes.net/lists/glin-announce/attachments/20100914/13ffabee/attachment.jpe