The Council of the Society is pleased to announce that the inaugural ISRS Coral Reef Conservation Award is awarded to: Dr. Rodney (Rod) V. Salm (Senior Advisor Emeritus, The Nature Conservancy, Kailua, Hawaii, USA) in recognition of a career-long record

Following the receipt of nominations earlier in the year, the Council of the Society has approved the award of the following honors: Eminence-in-Science Award: two awards to Professor Rolf P. M. Bak (Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands)

The webpages for the 14th International Coral Reef Symposium – ICRS 2020 – to be held in Bremen, Germany, over 5th-10th July, 2020, are now active and can be accessed HERE. Earlybird registration does not open until July 2019, but

ISRS and Springer are pleased to announce that the latest issue of the Society’s academic journal, Coral Reefs (Volume 37 Number 1) is now available on-line. A list of contents is available here: CORAL REEFS contents Volume 37 Number 1.

To mark both its concern for the dramatic global decline in the health of coral reefs and the third International Year of the Reef (IYOR-2018) the International Society for Reef Studies is pleased to announce the inauguration of a new

This is a call for applications for the Six Graduate Fellowships in Reef Ecosystems that ISRS intends to award for 2018, including three reserved for applicants from developing countries. The fellowships are small research grants (currently of US $2,500 each)

The ISRS sponsored awards for the best student presentations at the recent European Coral Reef Symposium in Oxford have been awarded to the following four students, for their talks on the subjects indicated. Laura Stoltenberg (Australia), School of Environmental Science

The European Coral Reef Symposium held in Oxford (England, UK) over 13th-15th December was, according to all the feedback received, a great success. Congratulatioons to RCUK and its organising committee on such a well-organised and enjoyable meeting. There were some

The full programme for the Oxford European Coral Reef Symposium (13th-15th December) is also now available and can be downloaded here – ECRS2017 E-programme ver2

“help recognize the work of your ISRS colleagues!” The ISRS awards committee calls for members assistance in nominating deserving fellow members for the following annual awards and honors: Young Scientist Award Mid-Career Scientist Award Eminence in Research Award World Reef