North American Diatom Symposium

NADS 2013 Meeting: August 13-17

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, Wisconsin, 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 22nd NADS will be held from 13-17 August 2013 at the College of the Atlantic in scenic Bar Harbor, Maine. The campus is located on the ocean, adjacent to Acadia National Park. International participants will present work on all aspects of diatom investigations including climate, biodiversity, evolution, ecology, systematics, biological assessment, and nanotechnology. We hope you can join us in Maine for an exciting meeting with beautiful ocean views and, of course, lobster!

 


2013 Organizing Committee

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Jasmine Saros
Co-organizer
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Courtney Wigdahl
Co-organizer
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Sarah Hamsher
Webmistress

 

 

Please contact the co-organizers, Jasmine Saros and Courtney Wigdahl, if you are interested in helping with NADS 2013!

 

 

 

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