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Congress on Marine Sciences Begins in Cuba       

CUBA, October 26, 2009.  Researchers from more than 30 countries will meet since Monday here as part of the 13 Latin American Congress on Marine Sciences (ColacMarCuba) 2009, to deal with the main scientific issues related to seas and oceans.

  The event, as president of the organizing committee Guillermo Garcia Montero declared, will jointly session with the eighth (Cuban) Congress on Marine Sciences. Both events were sponsored by the National Oceanographic Committee and the Latin America on Marine Sciences Association (ALICMAR).

During the planned four-working days, scientific debates will be carried out in 9 parallel symposiums dedicated to important issues as Cooperation Policies, Human impact on coastal zone and the oceans and Climate Change, natural disasters and sea ecosystems.

More than 800 foreign delegates mainly from Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Venezuela and Argentina attend the Congress, explained Garcia Montero.

Among the visitors is the world-known biologist Sylvia Earle, Professor Roberto Danovaro from Marche Polytechnic University in Italy and Spanish specialist Carlos Duarte, who will deliver the opening lecture named "Global Change: Impact of human activity on the ocean-coast system".

As part of the eighth Cuban Congress the exhibition "50 years of Marine Sciences and Technologies to the service of society", in which the most relevant results of Cuban work on that science area are collected, will also be inaugurated.(Cubaminrex- PL)

 

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