The next Aquatic Sciences Meeting will be held in Palma, Spain. We anticipate that the topic “Aquatic Sciences for a Sustainable Future: Nurturing Cooperation” and the location of the meeting will incite researchers from all continents working in all aquatic fields to come over, communicate, interact, and share. While attending the meeting for the stimulating science, one has the opportunity to enjoy the astounding beauty of Mallorca, the larger island of the Balearics archipelago, located about 200 km (~125 miles) off the mainland Spain. The archipelago is bathed by the transparent waters of the Mediterranean Sea, harboring some of the best preserved endemic Posidonia oceanica seagrass meadows (Fig. 1) including those declared as UNESCO World Heritage between Ibiza and Formentera. The small Cabrera Archipelago, off the coast of Mallorca, was the first declared “Sea and Land National Park” in Spain, and shelters a diversity of sea life, including the last Spanish catalogued specimens of the highly endangered pen shell, Pinna nobilis (Fig. 1).

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