Recently, with the financial support from IOC/WESTPAC Sub-Commission and the Asian Natural Environmental Science Center, the University of Tokyo, Japan, IOC/WESTPAC-HAB workshop on “Future HAB research and study” and IOC/WESTPAC-TMO and HAB joint training workshop on “Immunological method for detection of domoic acid in plankton and shellfish” were held at the Institute of Oceanography in Nha Trang, Viet Nam.

As the email address of the Institute of Oceanography haiduong@dng.vnn.vn has been in unstable operation, you are respectedly informed that one new email address is added for more convenient communication mail@vnio.org.vn.

The Conference: "MARINE BIODIVERSITY OF EAST ASIAN SEAS: STATUS, CHALLENGES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT" to be held jointly by the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change  Research (APN), Institute of Oceanography, Vietnam Academy of Science  and Technology, and A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology,  Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in  Nhatrang City,  Vietnam in December this year. Please, find attached the First Circular file here: announc_workshop.pdf.