NADS 2009 Meeting: A Look Back

	Welcome to the NADS website! The North American Diatom Symposium (NADS) is a biennial meeting normally held at field stations throughout the United States and Canada.
The meeting was first held in 1970 at Cedar Creek in Minnesota. Since that date, the gathering has been hosted at field stations in Florida, Colorado, Manitoba, Kentucky, Alabama, Ohio, Minnesota, Iowa, and Michigan. NADS usually attracts about 100-120 diatomists from North America and around the world. The meeting provides a student friendly atmosphere, ample opportunities to network and socialize, the ever-popular scum run, local field collecting trips, and lively auction of diatom related valuables. NADS is an informal society, that is, there are no formal officers or structure.

This meeting provides the opportunity to catch up with collegues and talk to some of the foremost diatom researchers in an informal atmosphere, often a beautiful field station in North America.

The 20th NADS was held from 23-27 September 2009 at Iowa Lakeside Laboratory near Milford, Iowa and was a huge success. This meeting marked the 39th anniversary of the North American Diatom Symposium. We would like to thank our organizing committee and participants. International participants presented work on all aspects of diatom investigations including climate, biodiversity, evolution, ecology, systematics, biological assessment, nanotechnology and a special celebration of the life of Charles W. Reimer. Plenary speakers included Dr. D. Jewson, University of Ulster and Dr. I. Gebeshuber, University Kebangsaan Malaysia. The detailed final program including a list of participants can be downloaded here. If you have pictures you would like to share with the community or information you want to see posted on the website please email the webmistress.

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2009 Organizing Committee

	Mark Edlund Co-organizer
	Sarah Spaulding Co-organizer
	Sarah Hamsher Webmistress
	Dennis Vander Meer Meeting sponsor, T-shirt designer
	Matt Julius and St. Cloud University Social Events
	Virginia Card Special session on education in diatoms
	Anthony Menicucci NADS Auction
	Lynn Brant and Steve Main Reimer Celebration Dinner Organizers

The 2011 meeting will be held at Flathead Lake Biological Station in Montana in early/mid September. Further details will be posted as they develop. Are you interested in helping out at the 2011 meeting? Please contact Dennis Vander Meer for more details.

Sponsors

Iowa Lakeside Laboratory

Since its foundation, Lakeside's mission has been to provide students an opportunity to gain hands-on experience through field-oriented summer courses and to provide research opportunities for graduate students and faculty. Lakeside is observing its 100th anniversary in 2009.

The University of Iowa

The University of Iowa is a major national research university located in Iowa City in southeast Iowa. Each year, about 29,000 students enroll.

Rhithron Associates, Inc.

Since 1991, the biologists at Rhithron Associates have provided taxonomic services for freshwater invertebrates, diatoms, and non-diatom algae for clients throughout North America.

Fluid Imaging Technologies

Produces the FlowCAM® - a state-of-the-art instrument for the rapid analysis and imaging of microscopic particles and organisms in fluid. The FlowCAM combines the capabilities of flow cytometry, microscopy, and image analysis to help you monitor, analyze and identify particles of interest in your water samples.

Balogh International Inc.

In a nutshell, we act as the middleman between European publishers and their customers in North America. In addition to offering the hundreds of books in our catalog, we will also broker large orders for libraries. If you don't see the book(s) you are looking for in our catalog, please email us and we will try to get it for you - but we will add on our costs, if necessary. While we do not normally charge prices higher than the publisher's, we do occasionally add onto the price if our costs are higher than the price of the book.

Koeltz Scientific Books

If you are interested in academic quality publications on botany and zoology then you've come to the right place.

Lubrecht & Cramer, LTD

Lubrecht & Cramer was started by J.Cramer and Harry Lubrecht in 1975. The purpose was to distribute and publish scientific books. Over the last 27 years we have stocked many titles of interest to the scientist and the non-scientist. Over the years we added Olms publications to the list of publishers. Olms publishes books in many languages and has reprinted many of the
classical volumes that were destroyed during World War Two. We stock many of the English Volumes that deal with Shakespeare, Chaucer and other classical authors. We are adding new categories monthly. We have currently added entomology(insects) from our vast collection of books. We currently have over 10,000 books in stock.

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