Opening

Registration - Victoria Clayton (BIO Main Entrance, from Oct 02, 2007 08:00 AM to Oct 02, 2007 10:00 AM)

 

Meet & greet for chairs and speakers. Facilitator: Richard Eisner (BIO Cafeteria, from Oct 02, 2007 08:15 AM to Oct 02, 2007 08:50 AM)

Presenters are to identify themselves to their session chairs before the start of each session for further instructions. Facilitators will be identified in the registration material and will be posted on the conference webiste.

Call to Order Day 1 - Facilitator: Richard Eisner (Bio Auditorium, from Oct 02, 2007 08:50 AM to Oct 02, 2007 09:05 AM)

 

Opening - Dr. Thomas W. Sephton (Bio Auditorium, from Oct 02, 2007 09:05 AM to Oct 02, 2007 09:15 AM)

Associate Director of Science, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

Welcome - Dr. Fred Grassle (Bio Auditorium, from Oct 02, 2007 09:15 AM to Oct 02, 2007 09:30 AM)

Director of the Institute of Coastal and Marine Sciences, Rutgers University, State University of New Jersy.

Keynote - Dr. Ron O'Dor (Bio Auditorium, from Oct 02, 2007 09:30 AM to Oct 02, 2007 10:00 AM)

Chief Scientist of the Census of Marine Life

Continuity- Dr. Edward Vanden Berghe and Dr. Mark Costello (Bio Auditorium, from Oct 02, 2007 10:00 AM to Oct 02, 2007 10:10 AM)

Main organizers of the 2004 OBI conference in Hamburg and lead authors of the conference proceedings.