Organising Committee

The event is organised by the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries in Split (Croatia) and supported by the Mediterranean Seagrass Association - Seagrass 2000.

Chairs

Dr Ante Zuljevic, Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Split, Croatia.

Dr Giuseppe Di Carlo, Conservation International, USA.

Co-Chairs

Prof. Gerard Pergent, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Corse, Corsica, France.

Dr Maria Cristina Buia, Laboratorio di Ecologia del Benthos, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy.

Ms Yolanda Fernandez Torquemada, Depto. de Ciencias del Mar y Biologia Aplicada

Universidad de Alicante.

Dr Alexandra H. Cunha, Centro de Ciências do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal.

Dr Gabriele Procaccini, Functional and Evolutionary Ecology Laboratory, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy.

Local Committee

Dr Marija Despalatović, BSc Vedran Nikolić, MSc Ivan Cvitković, Dr Boris Antolić, Dr Ivana Grubelić, Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Split, Croatia

Scientific Committee

Dr Javier Romero, Departamento de Ecología, Universidad de Barcelona

Dr Joseph Borg, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Malta

Prof Jeanine Olsen, Department of Marine Benthic Ecology & Evolution, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Dr Thierry Thibaut, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France

Dr Chedly Rais, Okianos, Tunisia

Prof Sven Beer, Department of Plant Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Mr Ghazi Bitar, University of Lebanon, Lebanon

Dr Robert Turk, Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for Nature Conservation, Slovenia

Dr Gloria Peralta González - Universidad de Cádiz, Spain

Dr Sylvie Gobert, University of Liege, Belgium

Dr Teresa Alcoverro, Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes, Spain

Dr Elkalay Khalid, Poly Disciplinary Faculty Safi, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco

Dr Yasser Geneid, National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Egypt

Prof Tatjana Bakran Petricioli, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia