By the 31st January deadline for receipt of applications for this year’s International Society for Reef Studies Graduate Fellowships, 24 applications had been received. If there are any applicants who have not received an acknowledgement by email they should contact

The following members have been elected to the available officer’s posts: TREASURER: Erinn Muller, Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, Florida, USA (emuller@mote.org) RECORDING SECRETARY: Elizabeth Drenkard, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, California, USA (liz.drenkard@gmail.com) The following members have been elected

The latest edition of REEF ENCOUNTER (No. 44 December 2016) has been published. It can be downloaded here (by both members and non-members) as either a high resolution (suitable for printing) or a low resolution (suitable for viewing on screen)

The Proceedings of 13th International Coral Reef Symposium, sponsored by the Society and held in Honolulu, Hawaii, from 19th-24th June (2016) have now been published on-line, with individual papers available for download from the Conferences Section of this website. The

The Society’s Conservation Committee has produced a briefing document on the current crisis affecting the coral reefs of the South China Sea as a result of competing territorial claims and the subsequent intensification of a wide range of reef related

The Society is now calling for nominations for the honors and awards that are offered to members on an annual basis in appreciation of their work or scholarship . These are: A Young Scientist Award (awarded to a scientist under

Issue 4 of Volume 35 of the Society’s Journal CORAL REEFS is now available online via the members login. Papers in this issue include: Genetic tools link long-term demographic and life-history traits of anemonefish to their anemone hosts (Océane C.

Elections are now due for two officers’ positions, Treasurer and Recording (Minutes) Secretary, and also for six members (half) of the Society’s Council. Nominations for these positions should now be sent by email to the current corresponding secretary (rupert.ormond.mci@gmail.com) by

A new ISRS student committee is being formed, to represent the interests of graduate and undergraduate students, as well as other recent student members who have not yet found employment. The committee is being convened by Sandra Schleier at University

Best Presentations: Judy Lowe, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reefs, Australia Megan Morikawa, Stanford University, USA Michael Studivan, Florida Atlantic University Harbour Branch, USA John Whitney, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii Best Posters: Maarten de Brauwer, Curtin University,