Organization

The Ecopath 40 Years Conference is being made possible by:

Conveners: 

Sheila Heymans & Villy Christensen

Organizing & Scientific Committee

• Ekin Akoglu, Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

• Jacob Bentley,  Natural England, UK

• Villy Christensen, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada 

• Gideon Gal, Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research, Israel

• Sheila Heymans, European Marine Board, Belgium

• Simone Libralato, OGS, Italy

• Leigh McGaughey, River Institute, Canada

• Kim de Mutsert, University of Southern Mississippi, USA

• Steven Pint/Gert Everaert, VLIZ, Belgium

• Lynne Shannon, University of Cape Town, South Africa

• Jeroen Steenbeek, Ecopath International Initiative, Barcelona, Spain 

• Kieran Tierney, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, University of Glasgow, UK

• Howard Townsend, NOAA, USA

• Sebastian Villasante, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Logistic coordinators 

• Ana Rodriguez (EMB, Belgium)

• Jana van Elslander (EMB, Belgium)

• Ángel Muniz Piniella (EMB, Belgium)

• Steven Pint (VLIZ, Belgium)

Course instructors

• Organizer: Villy Christensen

• Santiago de la Puente

• Meghan Efford

• Kristy Lewis

• Simone Libralato

• Kim de Mutsert

• Natalia Serpetti

• Jeroen Steenbeek 

• Kieran Tierney

• Maciej Tomczak

• Howard Townsend

• Sebastian Villasante

• Jacob Bentley

• Harald Warmelink

Volunteers

• List to be added

Facilities

• Jana van Elslander (EMB, Belgium)