Ocean Drilling Consortium workshop
http://www.iodp.org/ODC
Deadline for application for participation in the workshop: Wednesday, May 7, 2008.

To develop a proposal for an Ocean Drilling Consortium that would address research challenges common to the academic community and industry, it was proposed at a recent meeting attended by academic and industry representatives that a workshop be held in June 2008. This workshop is planned for June 15-17 at Rice University in Houston, Texas, USA. Support for the workshop will be provided by several energy companies.

UMI 2008:
Marine Minerals: Technological Solutions and Environmental Challenges
The 38th Annual Conference of the Underwater Mining Institute
November 17-22, 2008, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA
http://www.underwatermining.org/
Abstract submission deadline: May 30, 2008.

SCOR 50th Anniversary Symposium
20-21 October 2008
Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
For details and registration: https://www.confmanager.com/main.cfm?cid=1285
For program: http://www.scor-int.org/2008GM/SCOR_50th_Anniversary.htm

7th International Symposium for Subsurface Microbiology
16-21 November 2008, Shizuoka, Japan
http://www.issm2008.com/
Abstract submission deadline: 16 June 2008.

The application of molecular approaches to the study of subsurface microbial ecology has been most encouraging in the past decade. As would naturally be expected - the deeper we delve the more diverse the discoveries.