DR. DAVID PHILPOTT and DR. WAYNE NESBIT, Education, delivered a paper titled Identifying Learner Diversity within a Context of Culture: Promoting Inclusive Practice in Canada’s North, at the Tenth International Literacy & Education Research Network Conference on Learning, Institute of Education, University of London, London, England, July 15-18, 2003.

DR. GEORGE ROSE, chair of Fisheries Conservation, attended several conferences in Labrador and New Zealand. At the Northern Fisheries Forum, L’Anse-au-Clair, Labrador, Nov. 19-20, he presented a paper titled Cod and Other Northern Fisheries. In New Zealand, at the request of its Ministry of Fisheries, he attended the Deepwater Fishery Assessment Working Group and provided the external peer review for the Orange Roughy survey and stock assessment, and plans for the proposed survey in 2004, Nov. 26, Wellington, New Zealand. He also presented a paper, with co-author and former student Dr. Stephane Gauthier, titled Acoustic-Trawl Survey Methods for Redfishes (Sebastes spp.) off the Grand Bank of Newfoundland, to the Workshop on the Assessment and Management of Deepwater Fisheries, Nov. 27-29, Dunedin, New Zealand, and acted as rapporteur for the session on Technological Innovation at Deep Sea 2003, an international conference on deep sea fisheries sponsored by the UN, FAO, and several national governments, Dec. 1-5, Queensland, New Zealand.