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Faculty Progress Report 05-4 July - August 2005
To the Reader: The bimonthly Faculty Progress Report is a statewide service of Florida Sea Grant. It now is distributed by providing the link to its location on our website. This is done to resolve difficulties in receiving attachments by some faculty mailboxes. Each item in the Contents may be opened separately.
CONTENTS
1. Upcoming Sea Grant Opportunities & Deadlines
2. Florida Oceans and Coastal Resources Council Created
3. Gulf of Mexico Alliance Initiated
4. South Florida Program Ecosystem Grants
5. Florida Healthy Beaches Program
6. Positions
7. Meetings
8. Florida Clam Farming Assisted by FSG
9. NOAA's National Estuarine Research Reserve Graduate Fellowship

Contact:
James C. Cato, Directo r	William Seaman, Associate Director

7. Meetings

Carnegie Laboratory Centennial, October 13-15, 2005, Key West, Florida. For more information http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/conference/tortugas/.
Coral Reef Restoration - Scientific Frameworks for Rehabilitation, October 18-19, 2005, Miami, Florida. For more information http://www.tfilearning.com.
BioFlorida Annual Conference, October 24-25, 2005, Delray Beach, Florida. For more information http://bioflorida.com/Annual_Conference.
The 34th United States-Japan Cooperative Program in Natural Resources Aquaculture Panel Meeing, November 6-11, 2005, San Diego, California. For more information.
2005 Floriday Bay and Adjacent Marine Systems Science Conference, December 11-14, 2005, Duck Key, Florida. For more information http://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/floridabay/.
The Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy, January 12-13, 2006, Honolulu, Hawaii. For more information http://www.bio.org/pacrim.
14th International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species, May 14-19, 2006, Key Biscayne, Florida. For more information http://www.icais.org/.
The State of the Gulf of Mexico Summit 2005, November 7-9, 2005, Corpus Christi, Texas. For more information http://stateoftheGulf.org/.
Gulf in Peril: Strategies for Restoring and Preserving Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ecosystems with a Focus on Southwest Florida, June 14-16, 2006, Naples, Florida. For more information http://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/Peril/.