The Sixth International Conference on Serpentine Ecology - June 16 - 23, 2008

The conference will be held on the campus of the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, located on Mount Desert Island on the rocky coast of Maine. The Conference provides an opportunity for the gathering of serpentinophiles from around the world, every 2-4 years, to share and discuss their findings relating to the broad and inter-disciplinary field of serpentine ecology. Participants include botanists, zoologists, ecologists, pedologists, geologists, microbiologists, evolutionary geneticists and conservation biologists. Many attendees work across disciplines to explore the fascinating relationships that exist between extreme habitats and life.  Conference website: http://www.coa.edu/serpentine/