SCOR WG 126 on Role of Viruses in Marine Ecosystems

Co-Chairs: Markus Weinbauer (France) and Steven Wilhelm (USA)

	Full Members	Associate Members
	Gunnar Bratbak (Norway)	Feng Chen (USA)
	Corina Brussaard (Netherlands)	Roberto Danovaro (Italy)
	Dolores Mehnert (Brazil)	Yoanna Eissler (Chile)
	Mathias Middelboe (Denmark)	Jed Fuhrman (USA)
	Keizo Nagasaki (Japan)	Sonia Gianesella (Brazil)
	Curtis Suttle (Canada)	Gerhard Herndl (Netherlands)
	Willie Wilson (UK)	Nianzhi Jiao (China-Beijing)
	Eric Wommack (USA)	Nicholas Mann (UK)
		Télesphore Sime-Ngando (France)
		John Paul (USA)
		Declan Schroeder (UK)
		Grieg Steward (USA)
		Dolors Vaqué (Spain)

Sponsors: SCOR, U.S. National Science Foundation

Date Approved: September 2004

Terms of Reference

Summarize past results on virus-meditated mortality of algae and prokaryotes and the impact on oceanic carbon and nutrient cycling.
Coordinate data collection to assess the role of viruses in different water masses.
Assess the methodological limitations of the techniques available for quantifying the virus-mediated mortality of microorganisms (eukaryotes and prokaryotes) and their impact on carbon and nutrient cycling, and make recommendations for the best available approaches to study viruses and viral processes in the sea.
Establish and maintain a Web site as forum that can be used by the "viral community" for exchange of data and ideas and future plans.
Convene an International Symposium that could include a published proceeding such as a special issue of Limnology and Oceanography or Deep-Sea Research.
Write a "definitive" textbook on Methods in Marine Virology.

Meetings:
#1: 20 June 2005

Santiago de Compostela, Spain

#2: 1-3 June 2006

Victoria, B.C., Canada

#3: 7-12 May 2007

Bergen, Norway

Newark, Delaware, USA

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