📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Seagrass
📍 Country/Region: International
The World Seagrass Association is a global network of scientists and coastal managers committed to research, protection and management of the world’s seagrasses.
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Biology/Ecology
📍 Country/Region: USA
The Western Society of Naturalists is a scientific society with a strong focus on ecology, evolution, natural history, and marine biology. Its membership is primarily concentrated on the west coast of North America, though many members have spread far and wide. The main activity of the society is the annual meeting, held in November. This meeting is a great venue to hear exciting new biological research. The society prides itself on making the meeting accessible to students, with student membership only $5. At the meeting, it is not uncommon for half or more of the talks to be given by graduate students.
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Crustaceans
📍 Country/Region: International
Advancing the study of all aspects of crustacean biology. The Crustacean Society (TCS) achieves its mission by promoting the exchange and dissemination of information throughout the world by:
(1) The Journal of Crustacean Biology (JCB) an SCI journal, with Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Castro, published by the Oxford University Press;
(2) Biannual, international meetings to gather the world's carcinologists for constructive interaction and collaboration, and by supporting other societies, meetings, and conferences that share our mission; (3) annual competitions for fellowship, scholarship, and travel awards for postdocs and both graduate and undergraduate students.
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Marine Mammals; Career Development Support
📍 Country/Region: International
The mission of the international Society for Marine Mammalogy (SMM) is to promote the global advancement of marine mammal science and contribute to its relevance and impact in education, conservation and management.
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Biology/Ecology
📍 Country/Region: International
We are working to ensure that ecological restoration is recognized and utilized as a fundamental component of global conservation, biodiversity and sustainable development programs, and that ecological restoration projects are designed and implemented in a way that provides people with the opportunity to not only repair ecological damage, but also improve the human condition.
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Biology/Ecology; Policy/Governance; Career Development Support
📍 Country/Region: International
The Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) serves as the premier international membership society for professionals, students and non-profits dedicated to advancing the science and practice of conserving biodiversity.
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Marine Mammals
📍 Country/Region: Mexico
Promover el manejo y conservación de los mamíferos marinos, mediante la investigación, programas de manejo, formación de estudiantes y difusión a la sociedad.
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Biology/Ecology; Policy/Governance; Career Development Support
📍 Country/Region: UK
The Royal Society of Biology is a single unified voice for biology: advising Government and influencing policy; advancing education and professional development; supporting our members, and engaging and encouraging public interest in the life sciences. The Society represents a diverse membership of individuals, learned societies and other organisations.
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Biology/Ecology
📍 Country/Region: Belgium
The Royal Belgian Society for Zoology and its Belgian Journal of Zoology continue in a long scientific tradition devoted to the promotion of zoology and to the publication of research in zoology. This tradition goes back to 1863, when the "Société malacologique de Belgique" was founded in Brussels and began to publish the "Annales de la Société malacologique de Belgique". The RBSZ connects zoology researchers throughout Belgium and abroad, providing a network for both, junior and senior members, who benefit through contacts and collaboration.
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Elasmobranchs (Sharks Skates & Rays)
📍 Country/Region: Asia; Oceania
The Oceania Chondricthyan Society (OCS) was founded in 2005 and works to promote and support shark and ray science, conservation and sustainability throughout the Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean regions. The OCS is an international non-profit organisation created ‘To promote and facilitate the advancement of the scientific study of chondrichthyan fishes (sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras), the promotion of education, conservation, and sustainable utilisation of natural resources, and to provide a medium for the exchange of information and ideas among those studying chondrichthyan fishes.’
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Shellfish
📍 Country/Region: USA
Founded in 1908, the National Shellfisheries Association is an international organization of scientists, management officials and members of industry, all concerned with the biology, ecology, production, economics and management of shellfish resources - clams, oysters, mussels, scallops, snails, shrimp, lobsters, crabs, among many other species of importance.
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Birds; Policy/Governance
📍 Country/Region: USA
The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation.
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Elasmobranchs (Sharks Skates & Rays); Diversity & Inclusion
📍 Country/Region: International
We were founded by four Black female shark researchers. We strive to be seen and take up space in a discipline which has been largely inaccessible for women like us. We strive to be positive role models for the next generation. We seek to promote diversity and inclusion in shark science and encourage women of color to push through barriers and contribute knowledge in marine science. Finally, we hope to topple the system that has historically excluded women like us and create an equitable path to shark science. We believe diversity in scientists creates diversity in thought, which leads to innovation.
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology; Geology
🏷️ Topics include: Habitat Mapping; Geoscience
📍 Country/Region: International
GeoHab (Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping) is an international association of marine scientists studying biophysical (i.e., geologic and oceanographic) indicators of benthic habitats and ecosystems as proxies for biological communities and species diversity. The main goals of GeoHab scientists are: to support government spatial marine planning, sustainable ocean management, and decision making; to support and underpin the design of marine protected areas (MPAs); to conduct scientific research programs aimed at generating knowledge of benthic ecosystems and seafloor geology; to conduct living and non-living seabed resource assessments for economic and management purposes, including the design of fishing reserves.
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Biology/Ecology; Policy/Governance
📍 Country/Region: UK
The Marine Biological Association (MBA) is one of the world’s longest-running societies dedicated to promoting research into our oceans and the life they support. Since 1884 we have been providing a unified, clear, independent voice on behalf of the marine biological community and currently have a growing membership in over 40 countries.
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Data Science/Modelling
📍 Country/Region: International
The International Society for Ecological Modelling (ISEM) promotes the international exchange of ideas, scientific results, and other knowledge on application of systems analysis and simulation in ecology and natural resource management. The Society was formed in Denmark in 1978 by the initiative of the professor Sven E. Jorgensen. Today ISEM has following chapters: Africa, Australasia, Europe, North America and Japan. The society sponsors conferences, symposia, and workshops that promote the systems approach to ecological research and teaching, and to the management of natural resources. Its members frequently contribute research articles to the official scientific journal of the Society, Ecological Modelling.
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Biology/Ecology
📍 Country/Region: International
The International Association for Biological Oceanography (IABO) acts under the umbrella of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) of the the International Science Council (ISC). IABO seeks to promote the advancement of knowledge of the biology of the sea by providing opportunities for communication between marine biologists. These opportunities shall include meetings and discussions either during other Assemblies of IUBS or other suitable occasions. IABO also fosters co-operating with organizations and individuals with similar aims and interests.
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Seagrass
📍 Country/Region: Indian Ocean; Pacific Ocean
The Indo-Pacific Seagrass Network (IPSN) aims to build capacity, foster learning exchange and conduct collaborative research on seagrass and their associated fisheries across the Indo-Pacific. The benefit of a research network is that relatively small amounts of work carried out collaboratively by many people have the potential to answer questions relating to patterns and processes that occur on large spatial-temporal scales.
📚 Category: Oceanography; Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Ocean Observations; FAIR Data; Data Science/Modelling
📍 Country/Region: Europe
The European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) is a network of organisations supported by the EU’s integrated maritime policy. These organisations work together to observe the sea, process the data according to international standards and make that information freely available as interoperable data layers and data products. This "collect once and use many times" philosophy benefits all marine data users, including policy makers, scientists, private industry and the public. It has been estimated that such an integrated marine data policy will save at least one billion Euros per year, as well as opening up new opportunities for innovation and growth.
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Cetaceans
📍 Country/Region: Europe
The European Cetacean Society (ECS) was established in January 1987 and aims to promote and advance the scientific studies and conservation efforts of marine mammals and to gather and disseminate information about them to members of the Society and the public at large. The ECS is coordinated by a Council of 11 members and each year organizes an Annual Conference in a European country.