The International Bryozoology Association (IBA) is a professional association with international membership specialising in research of the phylum Bryozoa. [1]
The International Bryozoology Association was founded in May 1965 in Stockholm, Sweden. The first conference was held in August 1968 in Milan, Italy. [2]
Since then the IBA's conferences have been held every three years in a different city:
There are approximately 250 registered members of the IBA from across the world.
Year | Name of President |
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1965–1968 | Alan Cheetham |
1968–1971 | Nils Spjeldnaes |
1971–1974 | Frank J. S. Maturo |
1974–1977 | John S. Ryland |
1977–1980 | J. D. Soule |
1980–1983 | Gilbert P. Larwood |
1983–1986 | |
1986–1989 | Roger J. Cuffey |
1989–1992 | |
1995–1998 | Peter Hayward |
1998–2001 | Frank Kenneth (Ken) McKinney |
2001–2004 | Dennis P. Gordon |
2004–2007 | Paul D. Taylor |
2007–2010 | Judith Winston |
2010–2013 | Eckart Håkansson |
2013–2016 | Patrick Wyse Jackson |
2016–2019 | Timothy Wood |
2019–2022 | Antonietta Rosso |
2022–2025 | Caroline Buttler |
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