21-23 June 2010, Hawaii, USA. The Programme focussed on Intoxications, Biodiversity and Biogeography including biogeographical species distribution, global analyses/data sets, methodology for sampling to abundance and distribution, methodology for taxonomic identification; Ecological Factors such as methodology for evaluation/comparison of habitats, anthropogenic forces and/or stimuli, bottom-up and/or top-down control, controls such as nutrients and grazing, relationships with macroalgae and/or substrates, and effects of toxins on marine foodwebs; Adaptive Strategies including physiological characteristics and life cycle traits; Phylogenetic Characteristics; and Modelling. 

A group of Editors will over the coming months synthezise the outcome of the Open Science Meeting with the veiw to developing and publishing a science plan for research on benthic HABs.         

Detailed information here. Contact: Dr. Paul Bienfang ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )