Workshop-Symposia of the International Association for Cyanophyte Research
(IAC)
Founded 1959 by Edith Kann, Austria and Otto Jaag, Switzerland
IAC was started by a small group of phycologists participating at the
14th International Limnological Congress (SIL) in August 1959. Austrian
phycologist, Dr. Edith Kann organized a special boat trip on the lake
Traunsee during the postcongressional excursion. In the midst of a
discussion about the need of coordinated effort in dealing with ecology
and taxonomy of cyanophytes, Prof.Dr. Otto Jaag of EAWAG/ETH Institute
in Zurich, Switzerland invited the group to meet at the then newly
constructed Hydrobiological Laboratory in Kastanienbaum on lake Luzern
as participants of a Symposium-Workshop (Arbeitssymposium). Thus
started a tradition of IAC-symposia that now meet every 3 years in late
July or August hosted by Institutions in different countries.
The first symposia took place in Katanienbaum, Switzerland (1-1960; 2-1961;
3-1963; 4-1966; 5-1969; 6-1972), in Lednice, Czechoslovakia (7-1976);
Kastanienbaum (8-1979, 9-1983), Athens, Greece (10-1986), Ploen, Germany
(11-1989), Sweden (12-1992); Rome, Italy (13-1995), Finnland (14-1998),
Barcelona, Spain (15-2001). The next symposium is planned to be in Luxembourg (16-2004). The history of the first 25 years of IAC, including reports of the first 9 symposia with bibliography was summarized by Kann & Golubic (1985). The proceedings of IAC-symposia are peer-reviewed and traditionally published in
Algological Studies, Supplementa of Archive of Hydrobiology,
E. Schweizerbartsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, D-7000 Stuttgart, Germany.
-------------
Kann, E. & Golubic, S. 1985. 25 years of the International Association
for Cyanophyte research. Algological Studies 38/39, Arch. Hydrobiol.
Suppl. 71: 15-32.
Return to:
Homepage