On September 18th, 2003, the new IFAA bureau was chosen.
On May 9th, the "Fossil and Modern Algae" webring was transferred from Portland Communications to a server of the University of Kansas at Lawrence.
On May 6th, the PETRALGA (PErmian & TRiassic ALGAe) Project started again on a server of the University of Western Cape.
On February 20th, we corrected a broken link to the 'pdf' file corresponding to the 2nd circular.
The 8th International Symposium will be held in Granada (Spain) next September. The second circular was posted on February 7th. The 'pdf' file (341KB) can be downloaded from here.
The brand new "Friends of the Algae - Newsletter" is online since January 21st. This new issue (numbered 12 and dated "Spring 2003") is currently available in the form of an 'html' file.