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SCOR/LOICZ WG 132 on

Land-based Nutrient Pollution and the Relationship to Harmful Algal Blooms in Coastal Marine Systems

 

Co-Chairs: Patricia Glibert (USA) and Lex Bouwman (Netherlands)

 

 

Full Members
 Adnan Al-Azri (Oman)

J. Icarus Allen (UK)

Hans Dürr (The Netherlands)

Paul Harrison (China-Beijing)

Jorge A. Herrera-Silveira (Mexico)

Sandor Mulsow (Chile)

Sybil Seitzinger (USA)

Mingjiang Zhou (China-Beijing)

 

Associate Members  
Suzanne Bricker (USA)

Richard Gowen (UK)

Gustaf Hallegraeff (Australia)

Grant Pitcher (South Africa)

Vera Trainer (USA)

 

 

Financial Sponsors: LOICZ, Institute of Oceanology/Chinese Academy of Sciences

Date Approved: August 2007

Terms of Reference

  1. Integrate the existing IOC-HAB database and nutrient loading databases into a compatible GIS format.

  2. Advance the development of a GIS coastal typology database.

  3. Interrogate the above databases for relationships between HAB species, nutrient loading/forms/ratios, and coastal typology and develop broad relationships between nutrient loading and distributions of specific HABs. 

  4. Explore possible changes in HAB occurrences in the future (year 2030), using the relationships developed above (3.) and global nutrient export patterns under the Millennium Assessment scenarios for 2030.

  5. Publish the results of these analyses in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Papers will be developed on 1) the global perspective, including the next generation of global nutrient and HAB maps; 2) regional highlights; and 3) individual case studies.  We will also develop  articles for the GEOHAB newsletter and for the GEOHAB and Global News websites, and a graphic-rich report (under the GEOHAB umbrella) that will be targeted for management.

Meetings:

    #1: 28-31 July 2008
     Geesthacht, Germany

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