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The 2009 CalCOFI Conference will be held at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California, December 7-9.
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Registration

The Coordinator must receive the $200 registration fee by 20 November.

Please be aware ALL attendees need to register for the conference, including symposium speakers.

There are four payment options on the registration form: Check or Money Order (US dollars, made payable to "CalCOFI"), Agency Purchase Order, UCSD Index number, or through PayPal, either by using a credit card or a PayPal account. These are explained in more detail below to help you with your registration. We cannot accept foreign currency or checks from foreign banks.

PAYMENT OPTION INFORMATION

PayPal: Since we cannot accept foreign currency or checks from foreign banks, PayPal is an option that enables our foreign participants to prepay their registration fee. Participants may use a credit card (Visa, MasterCard, AMEX or Discover) or a PayPal account. After submitting your registration form you will be directed to PayPal for this transaction.

Agency Purchase Order: For individual participants please specify agency. For those submitting the purchase order, you can either fax or email.

UCSD Index Number: Specify the index number on the registration form.

Check or Money Order payable in US dollars from a US bank to "CalCOFI": Upon completion of your registration form you will be given the mailing address to mail your check or money order.

Graduate Student: Registration fee reduced to $100.

NOTE: The payment buttons below are only if you have already completed the registration form selecting PayPal as your payment option, but have not yet completed the PayPal payment. Otherwise, please visit the registration form above, which will provide information on payment options and directions.

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Financial Assistance

Limited financial assistance will be available to graduate students. Requests for financial aid will be considered in the order that they are received and requests should be made no later than 9 October to the attention of the Conference Coordinator (John Heine).

Call for Papers

• Verbal Transactions - A limited number of 15 minute contributed verbal transactions (~16) will be accepted, related to the symposium topic or the biology, physics, chemistry, geology, meteorology, politics or economics of the California Current ecosystem, its adjacent waters, and Eastern Boundary Currents. Abstracts of papers for verbal transactions must be received by the Conference Coordinator (John Heine: calcofi_coordinator@coast.ucsd.edu) by 11 September. These abstracts will be reviewed by a selection committee and authors will be notified of the acceptance of their submission by 25 September.
• The Symposium topic and organizer will be announced soon.
• Poster Transactions - It is not anticipated that poster transactions will be limited in number. In order for poster titles to be included in the second announcement, they should be received by the Coordinator by 11 September.

Summary of Important Dates

11 September	Titles and Draft Abstracts of proposed verbal transactions due
11 September	Poster titles due
25 September	Notifications to authors
30 September	Second Announcement
5 October	Room reservation deadline for Asilomar. All rooms must be reserved with the CalCOFI Coordinator by this date. Rooms may only be available after this date if space permits.
9 October	Deadline for financial aid requests
16 October	Final Abstract due for both transactions & posters (in English, in electronic format)
20 November	Registration fees due
7 December	1300 - Opening of the Conference - Status of the California Current and its Fisheries
8 December	0800 - Symposium and contributed papers 1700-1900 Evening poster session
9 December	0800 - Verbal Contributions 1700 Conclusion of CalCOFI Conference

Dress, Climate, and Facilities

In December, the weather can be cool, so appropriate dress should be considered. Dress for conference sessions is casual. We strongly suggest that participants stay onsite at Asilomar. See the Asilomar webpage ( www.visitAsilomar.com ) for room descriptions. The daily room rates per person include 3 meas a day and are as follows:

• Historic: Single $156.46, Double $105.86, Triple / Quad $81.66
• Standard: Single $198.26, Double $121.26, Triple / Quad $91.56

Communications

Conference related communications should be addressed to: