February, 2000 
SCAMIT Newsletter 
Vol. 18, No.10 
unevenly by the participating groups may 
require ‘drop back’ modification to a higher 
taxonomic level within the combined dataset. 
Disagreements in lower level taxonomy within 
these groups then become moot. 
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES 
All three of the following notices were 
originally posted to the CrustL listserver. They 
are reprinted here although the orthography has 
been modified in some cases and some 
information not considered essential was 
deleted. 
Second Announcement - Xth International 
Colloquium on Amphipoda, Heraklion, Crete, 
Greece, April 16-21,2000. 
Although the pre-registration and abstract 
deadline for the upcoming Xth International 
Colloquium on Amphipoda in Crete, Greece 
(16-21 April 2000) has passed, registrations 
will continue to be accepted. For additional 
information on the meeting including author 
instructions, excursion information, etc. please 
visit the Institute of Marine Biology of Crete 
website 
http: //www.imbc .gr/whats_new/index.html 
Please contact either Wanda Plaiti 
(wanda@imbc.gr) or Adam Baldinger 
(abaldinger@oeb.harvard.edu) with questions. 
Also, please note the Amphipod Homepage 
http://www.odu.edu/~jrhl00f/amphome/ 
message.htm 
First Announcement - Fifth International 
Crustacean Congress and ‘Summer’ 2001 
meeting of The Crustacean Society, 9-13 July 
2001. University of Melbourne. The website is 
now open for registration of expressions of 
interest. 
http://www.unihouse.org.au/ICC5/index.htm 
For those of you with limited access to the web 
here is a summary of the contents: 
A week has been scheduled for the meeting, 
enough time to share ideas, meet colleagues 
and explore parts of Melbourne. The Congress 
will incorporate the annual ‘Summer’ meeting 
of The Crustacean Society. I urge you to think 
early about coming to Australia. It may be on 
the other side of the Earth from you and 
although flights are frequent many cheap fares 
go early. 
Between now and July 2001 the Congress 
website will be updated at frequent intervals. I 
invite you to register an interest in the 
congress. 
Program - The committee already has offers of 
special symposia but more are possible. These 
have been mooted so far: 
The Third Crustacean Larval Conference 
(convenor Paul Clark, pfc@nhm.ac.uk) 
Symposium on the systematics and biology of 
the Anomura (Rafael Lemaitre, 
lemaitre.rafael@nmnh.si.edu, and Christopher 
C. Tudge, tudge.Christopher@nmnh.si.edu - 
convenors) 
Copepods as colonizers and invaders (convenor 
Geoff Boxshall, g.boxshall@nhm.ac.uk) 
Ecotoxicology of crustaceans (convenor 
Malcolm Jones, M.Jones@plymouth.ac.uk) 
The impact of fishing on communities 
(convenor Les Watling, 
watling @ maine .maine .edu) 
Burrowing crustaceans (convenor Fiona Bird, 
f.bird@zoo.latrobe.edu.au) 
Biology of crustacean symbioses (convenor 
Peter Castro, pcastro@csupomona.edu) 
The unity of the Peracarida (convenor Buz 
Wilson, buzw@amsg.austmus.gov.au) 
Molecular systematics and taxonomy 
(convenor Chris Austin, 
cherax @ deakin .edu .au) 
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