2016 AAUS Diving for Science Symposium

Registration is now open for the 2016 AAUS Scientific Diving Symposium, hosted by The University of Rhode Island, Narragansett Bay campus from September 20-24th. We welcome diving scientists, students, diving safety officers and anyone with an interest in diving science to participate in this event.

There will also be shark, wreck and shore diving available Monday through Thursday. For complete workshop details, pricing, lodging, local information, and to register, please visit www.aaus.org/annual_symposium.

Call for Abstracts

AAUS is now accepting abstract submissions for the 2016 AAUS Diving for Science Symposium. This year AAUS will accept short abstracts (less than 800 words), extended abstracts (800-1200 words) or full manuscripts. Abstracts should be submitted electronically to aaus@disl.org by June 17, 2016. Please put "2016 AAUS symposium abstract" followed by your name in the message line to facilitate tracking. Notification on the disposition of submitted abstracts will be returned to the first author electronically by July 15. The deadline for final abstract/manuscript submission is August 5 to allow the published proceedings to be available at the fall meeting. No presentation will be allowed unless the final abstract or manuscript has been cleared for publication in the proceedings. All submissions MUST use the template, which includes formatting instructions. Templates can be found at www.aaus.org/annual_symposium