Another fun website build. It's that time again for the biennial International Pectinid Workshop, this time hosted by my postdoc advisor and my PhD advisor. The workshop is an all volunteer produced event bringing together scallop scientists, scallopers (the guys and gals who go out on a boat for a day -- Maine Day Boat Scallopers and divers -- or a week+ like the scallopers out of Lunenburg, New Bedford Mass., Point Judith RI, Delaware, Virginia and New Jersey mostly, and fishery managers. It is a single session 7 day workshop with one day that is free for Industry (the scallopers) to attend and Industry sets the agenda and topics for that day. It is a great collaboration, and opportunity for scientists to hear first hand from industry the issues, questions and new diseases etc. that they are seeing in wild and aquacultured scallops. Often leads to fishery and management improvements or lines of research partly or wholly funded by industry to address emerging issues. Oh, and "Pectinid" workshop because scallops are in the Pectinida order of salt water clams and the Pectinoidea superfamily in that order, with true scallops, such as Atlantic Sea Scallops and Bay Scallops, being in the Pectinidae family under that.

Anyway - as I said it is also primarily a volunteer effort with limited funds that mostly go to facilities and such. So I end up being paid through another organization (National Shellfisheries Association) for about 2/3rds of my effort which is part of their sponsorship of the event and volunteer about ⅓ of my effort (in trade for sponsorship privileges for InfoBioSys). This is a screenshot of the now live but not ready for form submissions yet (still testing all the response emails, credit card processing and SSL etc) site. Logo, web design and web content all on my plate... fortunately it is also (as far as corporate/orginizational web sites) fairly low key to work on. Far fewer "we need this set of pages and new functionality, that would take a team of 3 people 2+ days to implement, by midnight tonight (Man I DO NOT miss those days!)

Check it out at https://internationalpectinidworkshop2026.com
(No I didn't pick the domain name - and they forgot I own the domain pectinidworkshop.com (which is long enough) expressly for their use from doing a prior (2017) edition of the workshop in Portland Maine. It bounces around every 2 years, last one was in Isle Of Man, UK.