Coral Reefs 9 Springer-Verlag 1984

International Society for Reef Studies Advances in Reef Science

This year the Annual General Meeting will be held at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, USA, during a joint meeting of the Atlantic Reef Committee and the International Society for Reef Studies entitled "Advances in Reef Science". The meeting will be from Friday 26th - Sunday 28th October and there will be two one-day field trips before and after the three day symposium. The programme will include plenary sessions with four invited lectures of general interest, followed by 20 minute technical presentations. Contributed papers and posters on all aspects of reef science and management will be considered for presentation. Topics of special interest will include: Holocene history of reef development Corals under stress Scientific background for managing reef resources Coral reproduction strategies Reef mapping

Reef metabolism Coral reef community ecology For further details and registration forms write to: Atlantic Reef Committee University of Miami Fisher Island Station Miami Beach, Florida 33139 USA Reef Encounter

Newsletter number two should be out by the time you receive this issue of Coral Reefs. Please send any items which you think may interest other Society members to the Newsletter Editor, Brian Rosen, at the Department of Palaeontology, British Museum of Natural History, Cromwell Road, London SW7, UK, for inclusion in Reef Encounter number three. Barbara E. Brown, Secretary