The 7th AEHMS conference will gather international experts in the fields of ecotoxicology, ecology, limnology, oceanography, conservation, restoration, modeling and mathematics and socio-economics. This will enable participants to exchange their views and experience on tools, criteria and strategies towards an integrated assessment of aquatic ecosystem health.

We hope the conference will be a focal point for the new century, in exploring the challenges raised in the fields we need to address: integrated concepts of aquatic ecosystem health, research and management, resilience and sustainability, and environmental management strategies at national and international levels.

Mohiuddin MUNAWAR, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences
Fisheries & Oceans Canada
President:Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management Society (AEHMS)
Chief Editor:Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management (AEHM)

Institut LUMIÈRE
		INSTITUT LUMIÈRE 25, rue du Premier-Film 69008 LYON The 1,425 Lumière "scenes" remind us how important yet neglected their work is. Even today we are impressed by the creative potential of the Lumière brothers and their cameramen-technicians who in 1896 went out across the world in search of images.
		And we can only be amazed by " Leaving the Lumière Factory", the first film using the Cinematograph, the first time men filmed each other and, it could be said, the first true communication of men, such was the impact of this new language born with the invention of moving pictures. This momentous occasion took place in Lyon, on March 19, 1895, in what is now known as the Rue du Premier Film.
		This first film opened the way for the development of cinema. The curiosity, inventiveness and determination of two men culminated in scientific achievement and launched the adventurous history of moving pictures. The impact of this event was universal and remains so to this day.