This meeting will focus on deep-sea corals and regulatory aspects of protecting them. Other areas of discussion will include mapping the distribution of deep-sea corals, taxonomic and genetic studies, and the ecology of organisms associated with habitats created by deep-sea corals.  

dates: 26-30 January 2004  
location: Portland, Connecticut, US  
contact: American Geophysical Union (AGU)  
phone: 1-202-777-7333  
fax: 1-202-328-0566  
e-mail: meetinginfo@agu.org  
www: http://www.agu.org/meetings/os04/