The International Bryozoology Association (IBA) is a professional association with international membership specialising in research of the phylum Bryozoa.
History The International Bryozoology Association was founded in May 1965 in Stockholm, Sweden. The first conference was held in August 1968 in Milan, Italy.
Since then the IBA's conferences have been held every three years in a different city:
1st Conference: 1968, Milan, Italy (Proceedings published 1968Annoscia, E., 1968. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Bryozoa. Atti della Societa di Scienze Naturalia del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano. Vol. 108, Milano.) 2nd Conference: 1971, Durham, UK (Proceedings published 1973Larwood, G.P., 1973. Living and Fossil Bryozoa. Recent Advances in Research. Academic Press, London and New York.) 3rd Conference: 1974, Lyon, France (Proceedings published 1975Pouyet, S., 1975. Bryozoa 1974. Proceedings of the Third Conference. International Bryozoology Association. Documents des Laboratoires de Geologie de la Faculte des Sciences de Lyon, HS 3 (fasc. 1,2). Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon.) 4th Conference: 1977, Woods Hole, MA, US (Proceedings published 1979Larwood, G.P., & Abbott, M.B., 1979. Advances in Bryozoology. Academic Press, London. (The Systematics Association, Special Volume No.13)) 5th Conference: 1980, Durham, UK (Proceedings published 1981Larwood, G.P., & Nielsen, C., 1981. Recent and Fossil Bryozoa. Olsen & Olsen, Fredensborg.) 6th Conference: 1983, Vienna, Austria (Proceedings published 1985Nielsen, C., & Larwood, G.P., 1985. Bryozoa: Ordovician to Recent. Olsen & Olsen, Fredensborg.) 7th Conference: 1986, Bellingham, Washington, US (Proceedings published 1987Ross, J.R.P. 1987. Bryozoa: Present and Past. Western Washington University Press, Bellingham.) 8th Conference: 1989, Paris, France (Proceedings published 1991Bigey, F.P., 1991. Bryozoaires Actuels et Fossiles. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de l'Ouest de la France, Mémoire HS 1, Nantes.) 9th Conference: 1992, Swansea, UK (Proceedings published 1994Hayward, P.J., Ryland, J.S. & Taylor, P.D., 1994. Biology and Palaeobiology of Bryozoans. Olsen & Olsen, Fredensborg.) 10th Conference: 1995, Wellington, New Zealand (proceedings published 1996Gordon, D. P., Smith, A. M., & Grant-Mackie, J. A. (1996). Bryozoans in Space and Time: Proceedings of the 10th International Bryozoology Conference, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, 1995. Niwa.) 11th Conference: 1998, Panama (Proceedings published 2000Herrera Cubilla, A. & Jackson, Jeremy B.C., 2000. 11th International Bryozoology Association Conference. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, R.P.) 12th Conference: 2001, Dublin, Ireland (Proceedings published 2002Wyse Jackson, P.N., Buttler, C.J. Spencer-Jones, M., 2002. Bryozoan Studies 2001. A.A. Balkema Publishers, Lisse, Abingdon, Exton, Tokyo.)
13th Conference: 2004, Concepción, Chile (Proceedings published 2005Moyano G., Hugo I., Cancino, Juan M. Wyse Jackson, 2005. Bryozoan Studies 2004. A.A. Balkema Publishers, Leiden, London, New York, Philadelphia, Singapore.)
14th Conference: 2007, Boone, NC, US (proceedings published 2008Hageman, S. J., Key Jr, M. M., & Winston, J. E. (2008). Bryozoan Studies 2007: Proceedings of the 14th International Bryozoology Association Conference, Boone, North Carolina, July 1–8, 2007.) 15th Conference: 2010, Kiel, Germany (Proceedings published 2012Ernst, A., Schäfer, P., & Scholz, J. (Eds.). (2012). Bryozoan Studies 2010 (Vol. 143). Springer Science & Business Media.) 16th Conference: 2013, Catania, Italy (Proceedings published 2014Rosso, A, Wyse Jackson, P. N. & Porter, J. (Eds.). (2012) Bryozoan Studies 2013: . Bryozoan Studies 2010: Proceedings of the 16th International Bryozoology Association Conference. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali Vol. 94) 17th Conference: 2016, Melbourne, Australia 18th Conference: 2019, Liberec, Czech Republic 19th Conference: 2022, Dublin, Ireland
There are approximately 250 registered members of the IBA from across the world.
YearName of President1965–1968Alan Cheetham1968–1971Nils Spjeldnaes1971–1974Frank J. S. Maturo1974–1977John S. Ryland1977–1980J. D. Soule1980–1983Gilbert P. Larwood1983–19861986–1989Roger J. Cuffey1989–19921995–1998Peter Hayward1998–2001Frank Kenneth (Ken) McKinney2001–2004Dennis P. Gordon2004–2007Paul D. Taylor2007–2010Judith Winston2010–2013Eckart Håkansson2013–2016Patrick Wyse Jackson2016–2019Timothy Wood2019–2022Antonietta Rosso2022–2025Caroline Buttler
References
External links International Bryozoology Association official website