ASPAB 09: 9-12 November 2009, Townsville (no longer in Fiji because of political situation)   Australian Society for Limnology 2009 (ASL09): 28 September – 2 October 2009, Alice Springs   9th International Phycological Congress (IPC9): 2-8 August 2009, Tokyo Japan   7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Algal Biotechnology 1-4 December 2009, New Delhi, India   20th International Seaweed Symposium: 22-26 February 2010, Ensenada Mexico   2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting: 22-26 February 2010, Portland, Oregon, USA   American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Summer Meeting (with North American Benthological Society) 6-11 June 2010, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA   13th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology 22-27 August 2010, Seattle, USA   14th International Conference on Harmful Algae: 1-5 November 2010, Crete, Greece