Developing IMBER science in the UK


Outline Programme

Thursday 8 January 2009

0830 Coffee, registration and poster set up
0900 Introduction to IMBER Science Plan and Implementation Strategy - Julie Hall (NIWA, New Zealand)

Interactions between biogeochemical cycles and marine food webs: Transfers of matter across ocean interfaces
Remineralisation in the mesopelagic layer and exchange between the seafloor and water column
Chair Richard Lampitt (NOC, Southampton)
09:30 Christian Tamburini (Centre d'Océanologie de Marseille)
09:50 George Wolff (SOFI/Uni Liverpool)
10:10 Tom Anderson (NOC, Southampton)

Sensitivity to Global Change : Effects of increasing anthropogenic CO2 and temperature
Effects of speciation of carbon, nutrients and trace metals and susceptibility/adaptability of organisms
Chair Steve Widdicombe (PML, Plymouth)
10:30 Hans-Otto Portner (AWI, Germany) Unifying principles in ecosystem effects of ocean warming and acidification
10:50 Toby Tyrrell (NOC, Southampton)
11:10 Ros Rickaby (University of Oxford) Perturbing phytoplankton: past and present

1130 Coffee

Sensitivity to Global Change : Changing supplies of macro- and micronutrients
Effects of change in inputs, distribution and stoichiometry of nutrients, increases in hypoxia & anoxia
Chair Gideon Henderson (GEOTRACES, University Oxford)
12:00 Tim Jickells (SOLAS/NERC/UEA, Norwich) Atmospheric inputs to the oceans
12:20 Maeve Lohan (University of Plymouth) Combined effects of hypoxic and high pCO2 on iron speciation
12:40 Thomas Mock (UEA, Norwich)

13:00 Lunch & posters

Sensitivity to Global Change : End-to-end food webs and biogeochemical cycles
Impacts of harvesting marine resources
Chair Simon Jennings (CEFAS/UEA, Lowestoft/Norwich)
14:30 Mike St John (IMBER/GLOBEC, Germany)
14:50 Mike Heath (FRS, Aberdeen)
15:10 Manuel Barange (GLOBEC/Fish-QUEST, PML, Plymouth)

15:30 Coffee & posters

Responses of society
Relationships between marine biogeochemical cycles, ecosystems and human society
Chair Laurence Mee (SAMS, Oban)
16:00 Tim Daw (UEA)
16:20 Tavis Potts (SAMS, Oban)
16:40 Tim Stojanovic (Cardiff University)
17:00 End

17:30 - 18:30 Wine Reception, Sherwell Foyer

Friday 9 January 2009

09:00 - 11:30 Parallel structured discussion sessions - to propose the key questions to be addressed in the future

Interactions between biogeochemical cycles and marine food webs : Transfers of matter across ocean interfaces
Remineralisation in the mesopelagic layer and exchange between seafloor and water column
Chair Richard Lampitt (NOC, Southampton)

Sensitivity to Global Change : Effects of increasing anthropogenic CO2 and temperature
Effects of speciation of carbon, nutrients and trace metals and susceptibility/adaptability of organisms
Chair Steve Widdicombe (PML, Plymouth)

Responses of society
Relationships between marine biogeochemical cycles, ecosystems and human society
Chair Laurence Mee (SAMS, Oban)

11:30 Coffee & posters

12:00 - 13:30 Parallel structured discussion sessions - to propose the key questions to be addressed in the future
Sensitivity to Global Change : Changing supplies of nutrients
Change in inputs, distribution and stoichiometry of nutrients, increases in hypoxia and anoxia
Chair Gideon Henderson (GEOTRACES, University of Oxford)

Sensitivity to Global Change : End-to-end food webs and biogeochemical cycles
Impacts of harvesting marine resources
Chair Simon Jennings (CEFAS/UEA, Lowestoft/Norwich)

13:30 Lunch & posters

Session chairs report to plenary
14:30 Richard Lampitt
14:50 Steve Widdicombe
15:10 Laurence Mee

15:30 coffee

Session chairs report to plenary
16:00 Gideon Henderson
16:20 Simon Jennings
Summing up and way forward
16:40 Carol Robinson (UEA, Norwich)
17:00 End