Reception, Poster Session, and Dinner for Young Scientists

MBL Swope Center   

Local Host: Michael Berumen, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Session Chair: Wolfgang Fennel, Baltic Sea Research Institute

Welcome and Introductory Comments

Susan Avery, Director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution\

Bjørn Sundby, SCOR President (University of Quebec and McGill University, Canada)

Remarks from ICSU - Peter Liss, Professor, University of East Anglia

SCOR's legacy in interdisciplinary Ocean Science

Elizabeth Gross (former SCOR Executive Director) and George Hemmen (former SCOR Exec. Secretary)

Panel #1 on Future Scientific Tracks:  Proposed future actions deriving from ongoing SCOR Working Group activities

Session Chair: Shirley Pomponi, Director, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Inst. and Chair, Ocean Studies Board

1. Moving Towards  ‘Ecosystem Oceanography’ for the Ecosystem Approach To Fisheries—Philippe Cury (Centre de Recherche Halieutiqu Méditerranéenne et Tropicale)

2. Ocean variability, productivity and sediment record—Karin Lochte (Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar und Meeresforschung)

3. New developments on marine viruses—Corina Brussaard (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research)

4. Integrating past and recent time scales of ocean dynamics—Jean Lynch-Stieglitz (Georgia Institute of Technology)

5. Organic carbon in sediments/chemistry and hypoxia—Jack Middleburg (Netherlands Institute of Ecology)

6. Deep ocean-shelf exchange—John Johnson (University of East Anglia)

1:45 p.m. 

Session Chair: Robert Nigmatulin, Director, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology

Keynote address #1- Ocean variability - Martin Visbeck (Leibniz-Institut fuer Meereswissenschaften)

3:15 p.m.        

Session Chair: Laurent Labeyrie, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de  l'Environnement, CNRS

Keynote address #2 - Dangerous Ocean Acidification - Andy Ridgwell (University of Bristol)

Panel #2 on Future Scientific Tracks  

What are the big science issues SCOR programs see for the next decades?

Session Chair:  Victor Gallardo, Universidad de Concepción, Chile

1. JGOFS and Beyond: Long-Term, Large-Scale, High-Resolution – Hugh Ducklow (Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA

2. Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (IMBER) project – Julie Hall (National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, New Zealand)

3. Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) – Doug Wallace (Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften, Germany)

4. GEOTRACES project – Gideon Henderson (Oxford University)

5. Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC) project – Ian Perry (Fisheries & Oceans Canada)

6. Global Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (GEOHAB) project – Raphael Kudela (University of California, Santa Cruz)

1:30 p.m.      

Session Chair: Peter Burkill, Director, Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science

Keynote Speaker #3: Genomics and Ocean Observatories—Chris Scholin (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)

Final panel presentation and round-table discussion

Session Chair:  Robert Duce, Texas A&M University

1. Capacity building and participation of developing countries in SCOR activities – Venu Ittekkot (University of Bremen)

2. Cooperation with other organizations - Javier Valladares (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission)

3. View of the SCOR President on the future of multidisciplinary ocean research and the role of SCOR in the next decades - Bjørn Sundby

4:30 p.m.    

Meeting ends