THE SHARK TRUST ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2000
The Programme
Friday 7th - Sunday 9th April 2000
The Blue Planet Aquarium,
Cheshire Oaks, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire
CH65 9LF
Friday
7 April 2000
18.30
Doors open for an evening reception, light finger
buffet, tour of the aquarium, aquatheatre, diver
presentation and shark feed.
19.30-20.30 Public
talk: "Great White!" by
white shark researcher Peter Pyle, California
21.30 Aquarium
closes.
Saturday
8 April 2000
09.00 Doors
open for registration and morning coffee in the
foyer
10.00-10.10 Welcome
to first technical session (for scientific papers)
10.10-10.35 Jim
Ellis. Life History of the lesser spotted dogfish
Scyliorhinus caniculata
10.35-11.00 Andrew
Gill. Distribution of electroreceptors in Hammerhead
sharks
11.00-11.10 Short
break and welcome to Saturday's general interest
session (for families)
11.10-11.40 Colin
Speedie. Basking sharks in Cornwall.
11.40-12.10 Moonyeen
Alava. Progress with whale shark conservation in
the Philippines.
12.10-12.40 Clive
James. The Shark Trust: a future perspective.
12.40-14.00
Lunch and 'Meet the Experts' session for visitors
to the main aquarium (1.15 to 2.00pm) Peter
Pyle (Great White), Colin Speedie (Basking sharks),
Sarah Fowler (Sharks, Skates and Rays), Rolf Williams
– compere.>
14.00-14.30
Sonja Fordham. Campaigning for spiny dogfish
conservation in the USA.
14.30-14.55 Juan
Romero. Elasmobranch species program
14.55-15.20 Matthew
Kane. Scottish Sharks.
15.20-15.40 Douglas
Herdson. Did you know?
15.40-16.00 Daniel
Waind. Bimini: Boats, Bull sharks and BBQ's
16.00-16.30 General
interest session ends. Tea served.
16.30-16.40 Welcome
to student presentations.
16.40-17.00 Marina
Wilkins. Effects of human interaction on the behaviour
of captive Raja clavata.
17.00-17.20 Linda
Lee – The evolution of the reproduction form of
chondrichthyes
17.20-17.40 Charlott
Stenburg. Life history of the piked dogfish Squalus
acanthias in Swedish waters
19.30
for 20.00 Shark Trust banquet at the Aquarium.
Participants leave by 10.30.
Sunday
9 April 2000
09.00 Doors
open for registration and morning coffee in the
foyer
10.00-10.10 Welcome
to second technical session (for scientific papers)
10.10-10.35 Gareth
Spence. A thorny problem with rays.
10.35-11.05 David
Sims. Synthesis of basking shark research results
to date.
11.05-11.15 Short
break and welcome to Sunday's general interest session
(for families)
11.15-11.45 Richard
Chambers. Sharks on film – are we really changing
the perception?
11.45-12.15
Ian Fergusson. Fergusson, I.K., L.J.V. Compagno,
K.J. Graham, F. Fakhoury, W. Noshie and W. Noshie.
Biology and behaviour of the smalltooth sandtiger
Odontaspis ferox with comparative subsurface
observations from the Mediterranean Sea and Pacific
Ocean.
12.15-12.40 Kevin
Hughes. Sharks at the Blue Planet Aquarium: the
first year.
12.40-14.00
Lunch and 'Meet the Experts' session for visitors
to the main aquarium (1.15pm-2.00pm) Ian Fergusson
(Great White), David Simms (Basking shark), Douglas
Herdson (Sharks, Skates and Rays) – Clive James
– compere.
14.00-14.25 Sarah
Fowler. Promoting international shark conservation
14.25-14.50 Rolf
Williams. Shark Art.
14.50-15.05 Jeremy
Stafford-Deitsch. Diving with bull sharks in the
Bahamas.
15.05-15.40 General
interest session ends. Tea served.
15.40-15.50 Welcome
to third technical session (for scientific papers)
15.50-16.15 Gilles
Cuny. Freshwater hybodont sharks from the cretaceous
of Thailand.
16.15-16.45 Peter
Pyle, S.D. Anderson, A. Boustany and B. Block. Satellite
tagging white sharks at the Farallon Islands, California.
16.45-17.00 Everyone.
Was last summer’s Cornish sighting a Great White?
17.00 Meeting
closes
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