The Post Conference Symposium on “Saltworks: Preserving Saline Coastal Ecosystems” organized with invited speakers, within the works of the sixth Int. Conference on Environmental Science and Technology (6th CEST), that held on the Greek Island of Samos on September 1st, 1999.
The following scientists from Europe and United States of America were invited to give lectures that covered different aspects of current Solar Saltworks:
- Prof. J. S. Davis, University of Florida, USA
- Prof. P. Sorgeloos, University of Ghent, Belgium
- Mr. B. Moinier, General Secretary of ESPA, France
- Prof. T. L. Crisman, Director of Center for Wetlands, USA
- Dr. J. G. Walmsley, Consultant for Med. Salinas & Seabird Specialist, France
The symposium became the attraction of the 6th CEST, as the participants of the big conference realized that in the case of Solar Saltworks we actually have the successful marriage of an industrial process with the environment! Samos Symposium was the seed from which the three international conferences that followed blossomed.