Our next meeting is being held in Plymouth within the beautiful setting of South West England (between 6-9th January 2020). There will be an evening registration and reception at the MBA on the 6 Jan 2020. The steering committee is Clare Widdicombe, Mike Allen, Mahasweta Saha from PML, Colin Brownlee, Clare Ostle, Dan Smale, Gerald Boalch from the MBA and Murray Brown, Lina Rasmusson and Jason Hall-Spencer from Plymouth University. Gregory Beaugrand has agreed to give a keynote: “Responses of phytoplankton to climate in the North Atlantic Ocean: past, present and future”.