Summary

Thank you for coming to Venice

• The organization of the Eurolag 9 conference says thank you for coming to Venice and hopes you had a pleasant and fruitful stay

Participants

• There were 140 registered participants • 74 presentations

• 41 posters

• We had quite a good gender balance• 68 female

• 71 male

• rest unknown

The participants

The next conference

• The next Eurolag conference will be held in 2022

• We already have contacted some institutions in Poland (Gdansk) to see if they would be willing to host the next conference. We will still have to better clarify the details which will be circulated once we have a confirmation.

• In case Poland accepts to hold the conference, it will be in May/June

Special Issues

• We are trying to organize special issues in some journals:• ECSS

• Journal of Nature Conservation

• water

• We will inform you about the possibility of publishing your research that you have presented in the conference

Student grants

• 6 grants from Murray foundation have been given to students coming from North Africa and from the Russian Federation (500 Euro each)

Boskachev Ruslan

Domnina Anastasiia

El Mahrad Badr

Elyaagoubi Soukaina

Hamza Hadjer

Zakirov Ruslan

Student grants

• 10 grants from Murray foundation were also given to students from Europe (restitution of the registration fee)

Alessandri Jacopo

Baltranaite Egle

Deville Diego

Kondrat Vitalijus

Sakurova Ilona

Urbis Arvydas

Maicu Francesco

Schroeder Anna

Brunetta Riccardo

Caccianiga Celestina

Student prizes

• ECSA was offering a prize of 100 Euro for the best student presentation and poster each• Best presentation: Davide Tognin

• Best poster: Yari Tomio

Special student grants

• The Murray foundation has made available two grants (up to 2500 euros in total) to students attending the Symposium, who the scientific committee feel have made a significant contribution to the understanding of lagoon processes

• The object of these grants is to allow the students to attend a training course or participate in a research project in a laboratory other than where he or she is studying

• They should also present their studies in the next Eurolag conference

Special student grant 1

• Ruslan Boskachev et al.: An Option For Reversed Flows In The System Of Interconnected Lagoons By Example Of The Estuarine-lagoon System Of The Vistula Lagoon – Pregolya River –Curonian Lagoon (The Baltic Sea) (1250 Euro)

Special student grant 2

• Júlio Guazzelli Gonzalez et al.: Trophic ecology of juvenile jacks in contrasted estuaries of northeastern Brazilian coast (1250 Euro)

The winner of the Murray Prize

A special thanks to the keynote speakers

Acknowledgements

• The personnel of the Scuola Grande di San Marco

• The local organizing team• Ismar team (Debora, Francesca, Irene)• Corila team (Caterina, Barbara)• Arzanà team (Eleonora, Luisa, Giorgia, Laura, Giovanni)• IT team (Pierpaolo, Rudy, Daniele, Luca)

• The Murray foundation and ECSA for sponsoring

• The European Research Infrastructures that are present at the conference with a keynote talk and a booth:

LifeWatch ERIC, DANUBIUS-RI, eLTER RI, EMBRC-ERIC