2351988 Seminar on Red Tides and Mortality of Marine Organisms in the Caribbean. July 2-9,
Cumaná, Venezuela
1990 – International Phytoplankton Identification Course, APC5 June 7-28. Casa Micchola, Ischia
(Naples) Italy. Faculty/organizer
1996 – 1st Gulf States Harmful Algae Taxonomy Workshop – June 7-14, FWC St. Petersburg
Florida (with participants from Mexico)
1998 – International Phytoplankton Identification Course APC6, 10-30 May. Vico Equense,
(Naples) Italy.
2007 - 2nd Gulf States Harmful Algae Taxonomy Workshop – FWC St. Petersburg Florida (with
participants from Mexico
2000 Course on HAB identification – University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Faculty.
2000 – Advanced Phytoplankton Course APC7, May 8-28, Zoological Station A. Dohrn, Naples,
Italy
2005 - Advanced Phytoplankton Course APC8 International Phytoplankton Course, May 4-15,
Zoological Station, A. Dohrn, Naples, Italy
2008 – 2nd Gulf States Regional Harmful Algae Taxonomy Workshop, Jun XXX South Padre
Island, Texas (sponsored by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission. (participants from Mexico
included).
2009 - Advanced Phytoplankton Course 9th International Phytoplankton Course, May 10-29,
Naples, Italy
2009 - Invited speaker and visiting scientist to the Lagoon Ecology Program, Jun 22, University of
Sassari, Sardinia, (Italy).
2009 – 3rd Gulf States Regional Harmful Algae Taxonomy Workshop, St Petersburg, FL
2009 – 1st International Phytoplankton Identification Course, 6-17 July, Marine Biological
Association Laboratory, Plymouth, UK.
2009 - Course/workshop on the detection, Identification and Quantification of Harmful Algal
Blooms and other species of phytoplankton in the coastal waters of the Gulf of Mexico., Nov. 30 –
Dec. , Campeche, Mexico, Sponsored by US EPA Gulf of Mexico Program.
2010 – Binational Mexico-USA Course/Workshop on Taxonomy of Harmful Algal Bloom. Dec 7-
11. Tabasco, Mexico. Sponsored by US EPA Gulf of Mexico Program.
2011 – Binational Mexico-USA Course/Workshop on Taxonomy of Harmful Algal Bloom, Feb. 7-
11, Merida Mexico. Sponsored by US EPA Gulf of Mexico Program.
2011 – Binational Mexico-USA Course/Workshop on Taxonomy of Harmful Algal Bloom, Feb. 14-
18. Chetumal, Mexico. Sponsored by US EPA Gulf of Mexico Program.
2011 – Algal Culturing Techniques Course, Jun. 6-11 National Culture Collection of Marine
Phytoplankton, Bigelow, Maine (Participants from US, Canada, India, Korea).
2011 - 4th Gulf States Regional Harmful Algae Taxonomy Workshop, Dec. 12-16. Keys Marine
Lab, Layton Key, FL
2012 - Algal Culturing Techniques Course, Jun 10-16. National Center for Marine Algae and
Microbiota (formerly CCMP), Bigelow, Maine.
2012 – 2nd International Phytoplankton Identification Course, July 1-14, Marine Biological
Association Laboratory, Plymouth, UK
2012 – International Workshop on Taxonomy of Lagoonal Phytoplankton, Oct. 8-17, 2012.
University of Salento, Lecchi, Italy.
2012 – Advanced Phytoplankton Course APC10, Nov 12-23, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
2013 – Algal Culturing Techniques, June 3-14. National Culture Collection of Marine Phytoplankton
(NCMA) Bigelow, Maine.