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Research on Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB) first emerged as a discipline in its own right at the First International Conference on Toxic Dinoflagellate Blooms which was held in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1974. Of major concern at that time was the massive 1972 New England red tide caused by the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium (Gonyaulax) tamarense. This successful meeting was followed by two further International Conferences on Toxic Dinoflagellate Blooms held in Miami, Florida, in 1978 and in St Andrews, Canada, in 1985, respectively. The First International Symposium on Red Tides in 1987 at Takamatsu, Japan broadened its scope to include bloom events caused by other algal groups (notably raphidophytes), and this tradition was followed with the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eight International Conferences on Toxic Marine Phytoplankton held in Lund, Sweden,in 1989, Newport, USA,in 1991, Nantes, France,in 1993 Sendai, Japan in 1995, and Vigo, Spain, in 1997. This is the Ninth International Conference in this series, and the first time this meeting will be held in the Southern Hemisphere. For more information, please contact the conference secretariat:
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