Organising Committee:

Aaron Micallef

Julian Evans

Monica-Giona Bucci

Timothy Le Bas

Scientific Committee:

• Aaron Micallef, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, USA
• Alex Cardoso Bastos, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Brazil
• Benjamin Misiuk, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
• Federica Foglini, Istituto di Scienze Marine, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-ISMAR), Italy
• H. Gary Greene, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, San Jose State University, USA
• Hayley Cawthra, Council for Geoscience & Nelson Mandela University, South Africa
• Julian Evans, University of Malta, Malta
• Khaira Ismail, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia
• Marc Roche, Continental Shelf Service, FPS Économie, Belgium
• Mary Young, Deakin University, Australia
• Rodolphe Devillers, Institut de recherche pour le développement, La Réunion, France
• Sally Watson, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research & University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Tim Le Bas, National Oceanography Centre, United Kingdom
• Vincent Lecours, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada

Student evaluation committee:

• Vincent Lecours, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (chair)
• Tereza Araújo, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
• Lilja Bjarnadóttir, Geological Survey of Norway, Norway
• Łukasz Janowski, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
• Myriam Lacharité, University of Tasmania, Australia
• Pedro Menandro, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil
• Pavlína Podholová, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Belgium
• Peter Porskamp, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Heather Stewart, Kelpie Geoscience, United Kingdom