• The 14th European Carabidologist Meeting in 2009 will be held in Westerbork Drenthe from the 14th till the 18th of September 2009 and organized by the Foundation WBBS. It willl be a celebration of 'long term monitoring and the use of pitfall traps: carabid beetles as bioindicators of environmental quality. There will of course also be enough time and space to discuss many other ecological, systematical and biogeographical topics. This meeting will mark the 50 year anniversary of long term research in the Dwingelderveld and the 40th anniversary of the first Carabidologist Meeting in Wijster, 1969. We will try to invite as many people as possible that were present at the first meeting but also from the other earlier meetings. A reprint of the proceedings of this first meeting will be considered, when enough interest appears to be. For the post-meeting we are thinking about a weekend trip to the Dutch Waddensea island Schiermonnikoog.

photo: the first European Carabidologist Meeting in 1969 in Wijster, the Netherlands. Organized by our chairman Piet den Boer along with the acclaimed researchers Lindroth and Thiele.

The 14th European Carabidologist Meeting in 2009 will be a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the meetings and of 50 years of long term research and monitoring of carabid beetles in Drenthe, the Netherlands. If you want to be informed about this meeting we can put you on our mailinglist. Please send an e-mail with details to our secretary at: secretariaat@biological-station.com. Visit our website regulary, more information about the meeting will follow.