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will take place in Victoria, BC 🇨🇦 May 4 - 9, 2025.

03/02/2025

Early bird registration has been extended to February 28th! 💥

📅 Don’t miss out—register today at https://iss25.com/registration/

This is the 25th anniversary of the International Seaweed Symposium, and we’re celebrating with an incredible program featuring:
✅ Over 500 presentations
✅ Hands-on workshops
✅ Engaging social events

🤝 Delegates will connect, collaborate, and explore the latest in seaweed science and innovation!

🌐 Be sure to visit www.iss25.com to learn more about this year’s stunning destination in beautiful Victoria, BC!

🏡 Accommodations: Conference rates are available through the registration site.

📌 Book by February 28, 2025, to take advantage of these exclusive offers.

💬 Tag a colleague or friend who shouldn’t miss this opportunity! Let’s make ISS25 a gathering of global seaweed innovators.

14/01/2025

🌊 Don't miss out!
Early Bird registration for ISS25 closes on January 31!

We’re thrilled to welcome a vibrant diversity of people to Victoria this May for the 25th Anniversary of the International Seaweed Symposium — reflecting the exquisite range of seaweeds found along British Columbia’s coast.

Let’s make this milestone event as remarkable as the ecosystems we’re celebrating!

✨ Register by January 31 for a significant discount: iss25.com/registration

11/01/2025

🕛 One week left to submit your proposal for Industry Night!

invites delegates to participate in the Industry Night Social Event, hosted by Cascadia Seaweed.

This event is designed to showcase innovation, insights, and advancements across the seaweed sector! 🙌🏼

If you’d like to be part of the Industry Night program, please submit a SHORT proposal for 1 of the 10 available 5-minute presentation slots here http://bit.ly/3DNsVnr before January 17.

29/10/2024

🐣 Early bird registration is now open for the 25th Anniversary of the International Seaweed Symposium, taking place May 4 - 9, 2025 in the beautiful coastal capital city, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada!

This conference aims to honour the rich history and connection Indigenous Peoples have had with seaweed for millennia while paying tribute to the innovators of seaweed research who have laid the foundation for advancements in seaweed technology which we continue to build upon today.

Registration fees include lunches, coffee breaks, the welcome reception, access to our exhibitors and sponsors, plenary speakers, poster presentations, experts, and hours of networking opportunities.

Be sure to visit the website www.iss25.com to discover the selection of workshops, tours and social events open to delegates! We encourage you to secure your spot early, as we expect these to fill up quickly!

25/09/2024

ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 29, 2024

The International Seaweed Association (ISA) and the ISS25 National Organizing Committee (NOC) would like to remind you to submit your abstracts for ISS25! Abstract submissions have now been extended to October 29th, 2024

Submissions are welcome from all sectors - academia, associations, industry, nonprofits and the broad community of seaweeds. We will be accepting abstracts (due October 29, 2024) & workshops (due October 8, 2024) on themes including:

✔ Applications
✔ Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Solutions
✔ Ecology
✔ Gastronomy
✔ Indigenous Knowledge
✔ Seaweed Aquaculture
✔ Regulatory Frameworks for Industry and Restoration
✔ Taxonomy, Diversity and Evolution

For the full list of themes and sub-themes of the conference, please visit the ISS25 website!

09/09/2024

Next deadline is right around the corner!

📣 A reminder that the deadline for submitting abstracts and workshops to the International Seaweed Symposium review committee is coming up quickly — October 8, 2024!

Please visit the portal on our website to submit your proposals!

https://iss25.com/call-for-abstracts/

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06/09/2024

📢 Seeking Sponsors!

240 days until sets sail in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada!

If your company is interested in...

✅ making meaningful connections,

✅ learning about the latest science,

✅ receiving maximum exposure, and

✅ influencing the industry,

then now is the time to contact us
to learn more about sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities!

Join our early sponsors, C-WEED MWANI, Acadian Seaplants Maine and AML Oceanographic!

✉ Connect with Mike at [email protected]
or visit www.iss25.com to learn more!

30/08/2024

A reminder that the deadline for submitting abstracts and workshops to the International Seaweed Symposium's program committee is coming up quickly — September 8, 2024!

Please visit the portal on our website to learn more and submit your proposals!

https://iss25.com/call-for-abstracts/

01/08/2024

The last (but certainly not least) of our plenary speakers is Dr. Karen Filbee-Dexter, a marine ecologist studying the drivers and patterns of long-term change in coastal ecosystems. Her research centers on climate-driven changes to kelp forests, including shifts to alternate ecosystem states such as turf reefs and sea urchin barrens, and expansion along some Arctic coasts. She is an expert in the production and export of seaweed detritus, and the role seaweed blue carbon plays in the broader ocean carbon cycle. She has helped develop new restoration approaches for kelp forests using Green Gravel, as well as explored novel methods to fund kelp conservation and restoration. Karen holds a Future Fellowship at the University of Western Australia and works as a researcher at the Institute of Marine Research in Norway. She obtained her PhD from Dalhousie University and is an adjunct professor at Universite Laval in Canada.

We are so excited to hear and learn from each of these speakers in May!

31/07/2024

Our fifth plenary speaker is Dr. Jang K. Kim, a Professor of Marine Science at Incheon National University (INU), Korea. He received his undergraduate degree from INU, and his MSc and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut (UCONN), USA. Dr. Kim has served on various international, national and provincial committees including, UNDP/GEF YSLME Steering Committee, Yellow Sea Peace Forum, Coastal Management Planning Committee of Korea, Coastal Management Council of Incheon, etc. Dr. Kim is also an associate editor/editorial board member of Algae, Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, Phycological Research, Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, and Toxicology and Environmental Health Sciences.

During the past 25 years, his research has focused on interactions between marine algae and their environment. He is most interested in seaweed aquaculture and its applications. Specifically, Dr. Kim has worked on open water and land-based seaweed aquaculture, integrated multi-trophic aquaculture, and blue carbon ecosystem-based carbon dioxide removal. He has also conducted numerous collaborative research projects with international partners in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. He has hosted many knowledge exchange programs between Korea and the US or Europe for seaweed aquaculture and environmentally sustainable aquaculture.

30/07/2024

The next of our plenary speakers is Dr. Catriona L. Hurd, a phycologist with expertise in the physiological responses of seaweeds to environmental drivers including light, temperature, water motion, dissolved inorganic carbon and nutrient supply. Her research currently focusses on the impacts of ocean acidification, ocean warming and marine heat waves on seaweed metabolism, the development of seaweed aquaculture in Australia, and on assessing the role of seaweeds in marine Carbon Dioxide Removal.

29/07/2024

Next up on our list of plenary speakers is Dr. Michael Y. Roleda, a Professor at the Marine Science Institute of the University of the Philippines-Diliman. His passion for tropical seaweed started in the early 1990s cataloguing biodiversity and worked on the biology and biochemistry of an agarophyte. Further graduate study and postdoctoral fellowships in Germany, Sweden, and Scotland enabled him to work on cold-temperate and polar seaweeds and microalgae with emphasis on their physiological responses to global climate change stressors (e.g., UVR, ocean warming and acidification). In 2004, he went bipolar– participated in land-based expeditions to Spitsbergen in the Arctic and King George Island in the Antarctic. His search for a niche brought him to the Southern Ocean in New Zealand and then back to the North Atlantic in Norway, where he started working on the food and feed applications of seaweeds. He came full circle in 2018– back in the Philippines working on the biodiversity of carrageenan-producing eucheumatoids (Kappaphycus spp., Eucheuma denticulatum, and Betaphycus gelatinus), led and improved the in vitro and hatchery gene banks with >200 unique strains undergoing genotypic and phenotypic characterizations, understanding their ecological breath and susceptibility to pest and diseases, and innovating mitigating measures.

28/07/2024

The second of our plenary speakers is Dr. Carolina Camus, an Associate Researcher at the Centro i~mar & Center for Biotechnology and Bioengineering (CeBiB) at the Universidad de Los Lagos, and the Director of the Millennium Nucleus in Marine Agronomy of Seaweed Holobionts (MASH). Carolina is an ecologist and phycologist dedicated to sustainable seaweed production from ecological and agronomic perspectives. Her research is primarily centered around the sustainable aquaculture of macroalgae, using two species of economic and ecological importance as study models (Gracilaria chilensis and Macrocystis pyrifera). She delves into understanding the drivers of macroalgae productivity, managing their complex life cycles, and, recently, incorporating their interactions with associated microbial communities under the concept of the holobiont.

Her career spans academia, the private sector, and communities, allowing her to bridge the gap between knowledge generation and practical application for productive, social, and environmental benefits. This includes her participation in biotechnological projects demonstrating the feasibility of fermenting and producing biofuels from seaweed biomass, pilot projects transferring seaweed cultivation technology to artisanal fishermen, and current evaluations of the ecosystem services provided by cultivating giant kelp.

27/07/2024

Introducing the first of the plenary speakers of ISS25!

Dr. Louis D. Druehl, Professor Emeritus, Simon Fraser University, has taught and conducted kelp-oriented research, since the 1960s. He led the 5-university committee that identified the site for the Bamfield Marine Station. From 1979 to 1984, he directed BC Provincial-funded research leading to the first commercial kelp farm outside of Asia. Since 1985 his SFU students and their students have pioneered DNA-molecular tools in understanding seaweed relationships. His Canadian Kelp Resources, Ltd. conducted kelp productivity studies for GE during the OPEC Crises, offers kelp farming workshop, and works with others on kelp restoration. Over the years, he has worked with Cubans, Russians, Americans, Brazilians on seaweed issues, and offered a UN-sponsored kelp biology course in Chile. Pacific Seaweeds produced with Bridgette Clarkson is a best-seller and award winner. He enjoys the naming of a diatom genus, Druehlago, a kelp species, Saccharina druehlii, and for a short time a kelp genus, Druehlia fistulosa. Presently, he and his wife Rae Hopkins reside in Bamfield where they continue marketing CKR kelp and servicing kelp-interested folks. Hobby-wise Louis is working on his fourth novel, enjoying Phyco-Buddies, and fighting off the ravages of old age.

Over the next few days, we will be posting a little bit about each of the speakers. Stay tuned!

07/06/2024

Happy World Oceans Week
From the team behind the scenes
At the International Seaweed Symposium!

03/05/2024

We are pleased to welcome submissions of abstracts, and proposals for mini-symposia and workshops starting May 5th 2024.

To receive an invitation and details, including information about Student Awards and Grants, please sign up for our email newsletter at www.iss25.com!

22/04/2024

🌎This Earth Day, let's take a moment to appreciate seaweed! These incredible organisms play a crucial role in marine ecosystems and our lives.

Not only do they provide habitat and food for countless marine species, but they also contribute to oxygen production and carbon capture, helping to mitigate climate change. Seaweeds are also valuable resources for food, medicine, and various industrial applications, making them essential for both environmental and economic sustainability.

We invite you to attend the International Seaweed Symposium in Victoria, BC, Canada in 2025. This particular symposium is special as it marks the 25th Anniversary of this triennial event which first took place in Edinburgh, UK in 1952.

At next year's event we aim to ignite innovation by bringing together academics, industry representatives, Indigenous Peoples, and students for an enriching and memorable experience.

The organizing committee is working hard behind the scenes to offer a full and exciting program along with networking opportunities and social events. Visit www.iss25.com and sign up for the newsletter to ensure you receive the most current information.

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Early bird registration has been extended to February 28th! 💥 📅 Don’t miss out—register today at https://iss25.com/registration/ This is the 25th anniversary of the International Seaweed Symposium, and we’re celebrating with an incredible program featuring: ✅ Over 500 presentations ✅ Hands-on workshops ✅ Engaging social events 🤝 Delegates will connect, collaborate, and explore the latest in seaweed science and innovation! 🌐 Be sure to visit www.iss25.com to learn more about this year’s stunning destination in beautiful Victoria, BC! 🏡 Accommodations: Conference rates are available through the registration site. 📌 Book by February 28, 2025, to take advantage of these exclusive offers. 💬 Tag a colleague or friend who shouldn’t miss this opportunity! Let’s make ISS25 a gathering of global seaweed innovators. #ISS25 #SeaweedInnovation #MarineScience #SustainableSeaweed #VictoriaBC #YYJEvent #SeaweedScience #GlobalCollaboration #ScienceConference #ExploreVictoria

🌊 Don't miss out! Early Bird registration for ISS25 closes on January 31! We’re thrilled to welcome a vibrant diversity of people to Victoria this May for the 25th Anniversary of the International Seaweed Symposium — reflecting the exquisite range of seaweeds found along British Columbia’s coast. Let’s make this milestone event as remarkable as the ecosystems we’re celebrating! ✨ Register by January 31 for a significant discount: iss25.com/registration

We are pleased to welcome submissions of abstracts, and proposals for mini-symposia and workshops starting May 5th 2024. To receive an invitation and details, including information about Student Awards and Grants, please sign up for our email newsletter at www.iss25.com!

The International Seaweed Association is pleased to present the 25th anniversary of the International Seaweed Symposium in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and you are invited! Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, is located on the traditional territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees) and Xwsepsum (Esquimalt) and W̱SÁNEĆ Nations (Saanich Peninsula). The theme of our next conference aims to honour and acknowledge the rich history and connection Indigenous Peoples have had with seaweed for millennia while paying tribute to the innovators of seaweed research, who have laid the foundation for advancements in seaweed technology which we continue to build upon today and develop into the future. British Columbia boasts a diverse and extensive array of seaweeds, with approximately 600 species of seaweeds and 30 species of kelp. The unique geography, characterized by mountainous coastlines, fjords, and small islets, combined with the cold, nutrient-rich waters of the Pacific Northwest, create an ideal environment for temperate seaweeds to inhabit and diversify. _____________________ Did you receive the 1st Circular in your inbox today? If not, please sign up for our email newsletter by visiting iss25.com _____________________ #iss25 #TuesdayThoughts #beautifulbritishcolumbia #yyjevents #phycology #seaweed #seaweedsymposium Pacific Seaweed Industry Association Cascadia Seaweed Susan Løvstad Holdt

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