August 2000: Nereis Park web page launched

18^th April 2001: Statement of the "Original 41" members

March 2002: some of us met at the Benthic Dynamics Conference at Aberdeen

17th May 2002: Nereis Park registered as non profit making association Read the statutes

9th September 2002: Nereis Park web domain activated

6th-9th November 2004: First Nereis Park Conference "Bioturbation: The Ever Changing Seafloor" in Carry-le-Rouet (France) - Pdf version of the conference book

May 2006: Death of Gaston Desrosiers

June 2006: call for volunteers for the organization of the Second Nereis Park Conference

Summer 2006: among the different volunteers (thanks to them), Filip Meysman and Jack Middelburg (NIOO, The Netherlands) were selected to organize the Second Nereis Park Experiment 2008.

September 2006: preparation of the First Nereis Park Experiment for Spring 2007

Spring 2007: the First Nereis Park Experiment started

November 2007: 10 000 visits to the Nereis Park website

August 23-27 2008: the Second Nereis Park Conference: "Bioturbation: An update on Darwin’s last idea" in Renesse (The Netherlands). For more information go to the conference website: http://www.bioturbation.be/ - Pdf version of the conference program. Thanks to Filip and Jack.

September 2008: we struk the iron when is was hot: call for volunteers for the organization of the Third Nereis Park Conference in 2011.

January 2009: Nereis Park Newsletter #0 published .

January 2009: The Third Nereis Park Conference will be organized by the Göteborg University group and held at the Kristineberg Marine Station (Sweden) in August 2011.