Huron, Ohio, USA, May 2024
47th Larval Fish Conference
May 12-16, 2024
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Sawmill Creek Resort

Themes
- Temporal variability in habitat use and spatial distribution of early life stages
- Causes and consequences of variability in larval fish foraging and growth
- Recruitment across a freshwater-to-marine continuum: seeking generality
- Impacts of human-driven environmental changes on early life stages
- Advances in systematics, early life history, and population demographics: tools of the trade
- Aquaculture and mariculture: advancements in egg, larval, and juvenile rearing success
- How it started and how it is going: the value of long-term ichthyoplankton time-series
Scientific Planning Committee
- Stuart Ludsin (Local Organizer), Aquatic Ecology Laboratory, The Ohio State University
- Raul Laiz Carrion, Spanish Institute of Oceanography, Spanish National Research Council
- Audrey Geffen, University of Bergen
- Frank Hernandez, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Tomas Hook, Forestry & National Resources, Purdue University
Keynote Speakers
- A selective review of early life history research on capelin (Mallotus villosus) with some new insights
- Kenneth Frank, Research Scientist (Emeritus), Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and Adjunct Professor, Queen’s University
- Small pelagic fish: from the lab to fisheries management
- Susana Garrido, Senior Researcher, Portuguese Sea and Atmosphere Institute
- Some perspectives on the value of long-term ichthyoplankton surveys
- Edward Rutherford, Research Fishery Biologist, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
Award Winners
- Sally Leonard Richardson Award for Best Student Presentation:
Charlotte Gauthier, Otolith chemistry reveals habitat use by early life stage Atlantic halibut in the Gulf of St. Lawrence - John H.S. Blaxter Award for Best Student Poster:
Imanol Boussion, Size-selective mortality of Yellow Perch in Lake Saint-Pierre during their first winter
Sponsors


Lisbon, Portugal, May 2023
46th Larval Fish Conference
May 11-17, 2023
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Gulbenkian Foundation Headquarters

Themes
- Global change effects on early life stages
- Recent trends in marine larviculture
- Larval trophic ecology
- Integrating and modelling early life history processes and connectivity
- Larval survival and recruitment variability
- Application of “omics” in larval research
Scientific Committee
- Ana M. Faria (Portugal, Local Organizer)
- MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre/ARNET – Aquatic Research Network, ISPA, Instituto Universitario, Lisbon, Portugal
- Susan Garrido (Portugal, Local Organizer)
- IPMA – Instituto Portugues do Mar e da Atmosfera, Lisboa, Portugal
- Alexandra Teodosio (Portugal)
- CCMAR – Center of Marine Sciences, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal
- Ana Machado (Portugal)
- IPMA – Instituto Portugues do Mar e da Atmosfera, Lisboa, Portugal
- Filipe Ribeiro (Portugal)
- MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre/ARNET – Aquatic Research Network, Faculdade de Ciencias de Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- Laura Ribeiro (Portugal)
- IPMA – Portuguese Institute for the Ocean and Atmosphere, EPPO – Aquaculture Research Station, Olhao, Portugal
- Nuria Baylina (Portugal)
- Oceanario de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- Pedro Re (Portugal)
- MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre/ARNET – Aquatic Research Network, Faculdade de Ciencias de Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Plenary Sessions
- How do the temperate pelagic fish larvae recruit to a suitable habitat (i.e. find a home)?
- Maria Alexandra Teodosio, Center of Marine Sciences, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal
- Direct and indirect effects of ocean acidification on herring (Clupea harengus) and cod (Gadus morhuaI) larvae – a comparative approach
- Catriona Clemmesen, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre of Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel Germany
- The shape of things to come: Resiliency of marine fish early life-stages in a changing world
- R. Christopher Chambers, NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Highlands, New Jersey, USA
- Dispersal-relevant behaviour of fish larvae – measuring it, putting it into models and using a dispersal model incorporating behaviour
- Jeff Leis, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- How did we get so far from where we began? Looking back on our team’s research on maternal effects
- Lee A. Fuiman, The University of Texas Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas, Texas, USA
- The importance of prey selectivity for revealing relationships linking prey availability to larval feeding success and survival potential
- Dominique Robert, Institut des sciences de la mer de Rimouski, Universite du Quebec a Rimouski, Canada
Sponsors


San Diego, California, USA, August 2022
45th Larval Fish Conference &
13th International Larval Biology Symposium
August 29 – September 1, 2022
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Themes
- Applications to management and aquaculture
- Behavioral and physical processes influencing transport, settlement and recruitment
- Climate variability & change and other stressors
- Taxonomy and systematics
- Technological advances
Planning Committee
- Noelle Bowlin
- Lanora Vasquez Del Mercado
- Megan Human
- Emily Gardner
- Anne Friere
Keynote Address
- Are ephemeral fine-scale oceanographic features hotspots for ichthyoplankton? Testing the potential of eddies to entrain, sustain and retain larvae
- Iain Suthers, Sydney Institute of Marine Science

Connecticut, USA, June 2021
44th Larval Fish Conference
June 24 – 26, 2021
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Virtual, University of Connecticut

Themes
- Climate change effects
- Commercial & ornamental aquaculture
- Form, function, development
- Larval assemblages
- Recruitment processes
Scientific Steering Committee
- Hannes Baumann, University of Connecticut
- Eric Schultz, University of Connecticut
- Jackie Webb, University of Rhode Island
- Paul Anderson, Coral Reef Aquarium Fisheries Campaign
ELHS Early Career Committee
- Kelsey Swieca
- Lysel Garavelli
- Michael Swat
- Kelia Axler
Keynote Speakers
- Field of dreams: Maximizing the value of ichthyoplankton datasets
- Su Sponaugle, Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University
- Sweat the small stuff: How local conditions can shape the sensitivity to climate change
- Andrea Frommel, University of British Columbia
- Meeting aquaculture needs with research and production
- Judy St. Leger, President & Founder of Rising Tide Conservation
Sponsors


Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 2019
43rd Larval Fish Conference
May 21-24, 2019
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Melia Palma Marina

Themes
- Settlement: Quantification of processes and habitats
- Environmental and anthropogenic effects on early life stages
- ELHS and Predation: From mortality to food web effects
- The behavioral side of ELHS: From individuals to ecosystems
- Improving assessment and management models: Contribution of ELHS research
- Ontogeny, systematics and new technologies
Planning Committee
- Ignacio Catalan (Spain, Local organizer)
- Patricia Reglero (Spain, Local organizer)
- Itziar Alvarez (Spain, Local organizer)
- Pilar Olivar (Spain)
- Su Sponaugle (USA)
- Marta Moyano (Germany)
- Akinori Takasuka (Japan)
- Raul Laiz (Spain)
- Dominique Robert (Canada)
Keynote Address
- Spatial, environmental, and temporal constraints on fish distribution during early life history stages
- Lorenzo Ciannelli, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University
Sponsors


Conferences before 2019
For information on conferences held before 2019, visit the Early Life History Section website.
