Ocean Optics XXII, Portland, Maine

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Pequeños Pelágicos en California - Un vídeo de la Scripps Institution

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Ocean Science Meeting 2014

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Fish and Wildlife Conference, Missouri, USA

Themes:

Invasive Plants Species (symposium)

Midwest partners in amphibian and Reptile Conservation (symposium)

Grazing for Conservation (symposium)

Advancing Bird Conservation

Detection, Habitat Use and Control of Asian carp (symposium)

Customer-Centric Outreach. It's not about you, it's not about me, and it's not even about us (symposium)

Fisheries

Wildlife

Amphibians and Herps

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2012 MPA CONFERENCE, San Francisco

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6th International Conference on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration, USA

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Fishing and the Environment

The Relative Importance of Fishing and the Environment

in the Regulation of Fish Population Abundance

June 26-28 2012

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2012 Ocean Sciences Meeting

20-24 February 2012
Salt Lake City · Utah · USA

This joint meeting is an international gathering of more than 4,000 attendees and is being sponsored by The Oceanography Society, the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography and the American Geophysical Union. 

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2012 Ocean Sciences Meeting, USA

2012 Ocean Sciences Meeting

20-24 February 2012
Salt Lake City · Utah · USA

This joint meeting is an international gathering of more than 4,000 attendees and is being sponsored by The Oceanography Society, the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography and the American Geophysical Union.


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Twelfth International Conference on Estuarine and Coastal Modeling

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Global Summit on Coastal Seas

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Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, USA

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Ocean Ecologies and their Physical Habitats in a Changing Climate

The goal of the workshop is to bring together biologists studying ocean and polar ecologies; oceanographers, biogeochemists, and climate scientists studying the changing physical habitats; and mathematicians with ecological and physical expertise. The two-way feedback interactions between ocean ecological systems and their physical environments have the potential to dramatically impact both marine biodiversity, and the planetary response to the changing atmosphere. The types of mathematics used to model ecological and physical processes are typically quite different. One of the exciting aspects of this workshop, and a reason to run it at MBI, is that we anticipate interesting new mathematical challenges arising from combining these different approaches to focus on modeling the feedback interactions between the ecological and physical systems.
The workshop will focus on two main themes:

1. Polar and sea ice ecologies
2. Phytoplankton and the carbon cycle

These themes are particularly timely in that the impact of climate change on these systems has been quite pronounced. Moreover, these areas are further tied together through the interplay of a wide range of the length scales involved, from microscopic to many kilometers over oceanic regions. As with all aspects of mathematics and climate change, this is an emerging area, and part of the reason for running the workshop is to help identify the mathematical challenges and opportunities the emerging topics present.

Scientific Advisory Board

• Steven Ackley, Department of Earth & Environmental Science, University of Texas @San Antonio
• Stephen Ellner, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
• Amala Mahadevan, Department of Earth Sciences, Boston University
• Emily Shuckburgh, British Antarctic Survey
• Walker Smith, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary
• David Thomas, School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, UK

Accepted Speakers

• Dorian Abbot (Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago)
• Stephen Ackley (Earth & Environmental Science, University of Texas at San Antonio)
• Robert Armstrong (School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University)
• Bruno Delille (Astrophysics, Geophysics, and Oceanography, University of Liege)
• Arjen Doelman (Mathematisch Instituut, Leiden University)
• Ken Golden (Mathematics, University of Utah)
• Alan Hastings (Environmental Science and Policy, University of California)
• Keith Lindsay (Climate and Global Dynamics, National Center for Atmospheric Research)
• Nicole Lovenduski (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado)
• Irina Marinov (Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania)
• Peter Molnar (Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Alberta)
• Emily Shuckburgh (Natural Environmental Research Council, British Antarctic Survey)
• Walker Smith (Virginia Institute of Marine Science, The College of William and Mary)
• Cornelius Sullivan (Biological Sciences, University of Southern California)
• David Thomas (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University)
• Jean-Louis Tison (Earth and Environmental Sciences, Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
• Martin Vancoppenolle (Georges Lemaitre Centre for Earth and Climate Research, Universite Catholique de Louvain)
• Ariane Verdy (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles)
• Patricia Yager (Marine Sciences, University of Georgia)
• Antonios Zagaris (Applied Analysis & Mathematical Physics, University of Twente)

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31st Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation

 

San Diego, California, USA, 12 - 15 April 2011
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Responding to the Global Water Crisis. May - USA

Program Committee Special Sessions:

Water Crisis: Biodiversity

Sustaining Freshwater Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Global Patterns, Processes, and Planning

The United Nations declared 2010 “International Year of Biodiversity” and the Convention on Biological Diversity has reconfigured its 2010 targets to reduce loss rates of biodiversity by 2020. What are the biodiversity targets in freshwater ecosystems, which have the highest threat of species losses? We need to be able to make stronger predictions of the patterns and consequences of declines and changes in biodiversity, specifically functional diversity, in global fresh waters. Freshwater ecosystems provide a variety of services (e.g., clean drinking water, nutrient processing, fisheries) that are maintained by the functioning of species. Global environmental changes are particularly threatening to freshwater organisms because of the direct effects of climate on water temperature and water scarcity, as well as the human demands of ecosystem services. Therefore, maintaining functional diversity likely ensures resilience of freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem services to global environmental changes. However, balancing the freshwater needs of humans and the environment will likely require targeting specific ecosystem services and the freshwater functional diversity required to maintain them.

This session will address the global threats to freshwater functional diversity and ecosystem services, and investigate targets and planned implementation to establish freshwater sustainability. Talks can range from theoretical to applied, empirical to synthetic, as well as perspective talks that forecast patterns and processes related to global change effects on freshwater biodiversity, ecosystem services, and the sustainability of both. International talks, interdisciplinary talks, and participation from junior and senior scientists is encouraged.

Organizer: John Kominoski (jkominoski@gmail.com)

 

Water Crisis: Ecosystem Services

Ecosystem Service Concepts in the Management of Freshwater Habitats

Recognizing and quantifying ecosystem services can help managers justify and allocate public funding for conservation, restoration, and preservation of freshwater systems. Ecosystem benefits integrates the public’s values in decision-making. Accounting for the ecosystem benefits of a management alternative or scenario (e.g., the environmental benefits per dollar spent) fosters more reliable prioritization among of restoration, remediation, conservation, or other management alternatives. The ecosystems services provided by aquatic systems are increasingly the motivation for and subject of ecological and socioeconomic research. In this session, we hope to feature presentations that address some of the key questions related to this expanding discipline including “what ecosystem services and human benefits do freshwaters provide?”, “what are the ecological functions that underlie ecosystem services (or benefits) and how should we quantify them?”, “how should we assign value to services?”, and “what research directions should we pursue?” Our goal for the session is to include presentations on the conceptual aspects of ecosystem services, on research that includes empirical measurements leading to estimation of benefits, on ecosystem valuation, and case studies where ecosystem service concepts have influenced decision-making. We encourage submissions from any geographic region dealing with ecosystem services provided by streams, rivers, lakes, wetlands, brackish and freshwater estuaries, ephemeral waters, or groundwater.

Organizers: David Bolgrien (bolgrien.dave@epa.gov), Ted Angradi (angradi.theodore@epa.gov)

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21th North American Diatom Symposium, September

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11th National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment: Our Changing Oceans on January 19-21, 2011

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