Dear Friends and Colleagues, Plans are well underway for the inaugural Midwater Science and Engineering Community Conference (MidSEC) announced in September. The conference website can now be found at MidSEC.info. We envision this meeting a bit different than your typical conference (check out the draft schedule ) with many opportunities to interact in this beautiful and cozy setting. We hope to have a large component of engineers involved and to spend some time strategizing as a group to advance and fund our field. Also on the website, you will find a link to join the MidSEC list serv that we have launched to connect all of us interested in midwater research, technology and conservation. We hope the list serv will be a useful tool for the community to announce opportunities, share new publications, ask questions, find collaborations, and become more connected, strategic, and unified. Please join us on the list and share your midwater related news and questions. Please help us get the word out by forwarding this to anyone you know who is interested in midwater science and engineering. We hope to see you in Sweden next June, Karen -- Karen Osborn Research Zoologist/Curator of Polychaetes, Peracarids and Plankton Department of Invertebrate Zoology w 202.633.3668 osbornk@si.edu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4226-9257 Mail: Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, MRC-163 P.O. Box 37012, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 USA Courier Address: Smithsonian Institution, MR 0163, Natural History, West Loading Dock, 10th and Constitution Ave NW, Washington, D.C. 20560 ** Due to my schedule, you may get an email outside of your normal working hours. Please do not feel that you need to respond outside of your normal working hours. ** "Osborn, Karen" (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)