Activities

The IRGC engages in the following activities:

• Organization of international meetings every four years
• Organization of regional meetings approximately every second year.
• Publication of an annual newsletter (IRGC News, ISSN 1834 6030)
• Publication of books and journal’s special issues on charophytes
• Social media

Forthcoming Meetings

October 5-12, 2024. 8th International Symposium on Extant and Fossil Charophytes, Melbourne, Australia
Contact: Michelle Casanova, mt.casanova{at}federation.edu.au

Past IRGC Symposia

• 1st International Symposium on Extant and Fossil Charophytes, Montpellier 1989
• 2nd International Symposium on Extant and Fossil Charophytes, Madison 1996
• 3rd International Symposium on Extant and Fossil Charophytes, Nanjing 2000
• 4th International Symposium on Extant and Fossil Charophyte, Robertson, Australia 2004
• 5th International Symposium on Extant and Fossil Charophytes, Rostock, Germany 2008
• 6th International Symposium on Extant and Fossil Charophytes, Mendoza, Argentina 2012
• 7th International Symposium on Extant and Fossil Charophytes, Astana, Kazakhstan 2016
• (in 2020, the IRGC Symposium planned to be held in Gammarth, Tunisia, had to be cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic)

 

IRGC Publications

1. 1991. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France, volume 138(1)
2. 1999. Australian Journal of Botany, volume 47(3)
3. 2003. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica, 2003, issue 2
4. 2006. Cryptogamie-Algologie, volume 27 (4)
5. 2010. Charophytes 2(2)
6. 2015. Aquatic Botany, volume 120A

 

Social Media

We have a Facebook group which is open to IRGC members only.