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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>ICES- IOC Working Group on Harmful
Algal Bloom Dynamics (WGHABD)</span></font></b></p>
<p class=ResolutionHead style='page-break-after:auto'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>The <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>ICES-IOC Working Group on Harmful Algal Bloom Dynamics</span></b>
[WGHABD] (Chair J. L. Martin, </span></font><span lang=EN-GB>Canada</span><span
lang=EN-GB>) will meet in </span><span lang=EN-GB>Corsica</span><span
lang=EN-GB>, </span><span lang=EN-GB>France</span><span lang=EN-GB>, from
5-8 April 2004 to: </span></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=ResolutionTOR style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-18.0pt'><font size=2 face=Symbol><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol'>·<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><span lang=EN-GB>collate and assess national
reports and update the decadal ma</span><span lang=EN-GB>pp</span><span
lang=EN-GB>ing of harmful algal events for the IOC-ICES harmful algal database,
HAE-DAT, on a regional, temporal and species basis;</span></p>
<p class=ResolutionTOR style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-18.0pt;page-break-after:auto'><font size=2 face=Symbol><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><span lang=EN-GB>review plans for the proposed
Workshop on New and Classic Techniques for the Determination of Numerical
Abundance and Biovolume of HAB-species;</span></p>
<p class=ResolutionTOR style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-18.0pt;page-break-after:auto'><font size=2 face=Symbol><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><span lang=EN-GB>review progress in computerised
production of decadal maps from country reports, including the revision of
reports already in the database covering the last 10 years;</span></p>
<p class=ResolutionTOR style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-18.0pt;page-break-after:auto'><font size=2 face=Symbol><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><span lang=EN-GB>propose types of analysis that
should be performed using the IOC_ICES HAEDAT dataset and identify problems and
gaps in this dataset that must be rectified before the analyses can be
conducted;</span></p>
<p class=ResolutionTOR style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-18.0pt;page-break-after:auto'><font size=2 face=Symbol><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><span lang=EN-GB>review the report of the Workshop
on Real-time Coastal Observing Systems for Ecosystem Dynamics and Harmful Algal
Blooms (CM 2003/C:15);</span></p>
<p class=ResolutionTOR style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-18.0pt;page-break-after:auto'><font size=2 face=Symbol><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><span lang=EN-GB>review existing phytoplankton
population dynamics models with particular emphasis on prediction of HAB
events;</span></p>
<p class=ResolutionTOR style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-18.0pt;page-break-after:auto'><font size=2 face=Symbol><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><span lang=EN-GB>review biological loss processes
of selected HAB species;</span></p>
<p class=ResolutionTOR style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-18.0pt;page-break-after:auto'><font size=2 face=Symbol><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><span lang=EN-GB>consider the environmental
dynamics and impacts of individual phycotoxins and their metabolites enabled by
new analytical technologies;</span></p>
<p class=ResolutionTOR style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-18.0pt;page-break-after:auto'><font size=2 face=Symbol><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><span lang=EN-GB>report and discuss new findings;</span></p>
<p class=ResolutionTOR style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-18.0pt;page-break-after:auto'><font size=2 face=Symbol><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><span lang=EN-GB>start preparations to summarise
the distribution and number of harmful algal blooms in the </span><span
lang=EN-GB>North Sea</span><span lang=EN-GB> for the period 2000-2004,
and any trends over recent decades in the occurrence of these blooms for input
to the Regional Ecosystem Study Group for the </span><span lang=EN-GB>North Sea</span><span
lang=EN-GB> in 2006.</span></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>An
important task of WGHABD has been to collect up-to-date information about
HAB occurrences in the ICES area. This information maintained as a database , HAE-DAT
(http://ioc.unesco.org/hab/data3.htm#1), and summarized as decadal maps at <font
color=blue><span style='color:blue'><a
href="http://www.ices.dk/reports/occ/1999/">ICES</a></span></font> and <font
color=yellow><span style='color:yellow'><a
href="http://www.ifremer.fr/envlit/documentation/dossiers/ciem/aindex.htm">IFREMER</a></span></font>.
</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>THE
WORKING GROUP IS OPEN TO SCIENTISTS FROM ALL IOC MEMBER STATES. PLEASE CONTACT THE
CHAIR OF THE WG, <a href="mailto:MARTINjl@MAR.DFO-MPO.GC.CA">DR JENNIFER MARTIN</a>
[MartinJL@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca] IF YOU ARE INTERESTED.</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The IOC
HAB Programme may be able to su</span></font>pport the participation to this
working group of scientists from non-ICES countries (ICES is North Atlantic).
If you are a candidate for this, please submit your application to
henrike@bot.ku.dk by 15 February 2004 with a short justification of the
relevance of your participation and a summary of your CV.</p>
<p><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:red'>WEB SITE is </span></font>http://ioc.unesco.org/hab/act6.htm</p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=NO-BOK style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Best regards, Henrik</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=NO-BOK style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Henrik Oksfeldt Enevoldsen</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>IOC Project Coordinator</span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>IOC Science and Communication Centre on Harmful Algae</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>University</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> of </span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Copenhagen</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Oster Farimagsgade 2D</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=NO-BOK style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>DK-1353 Copenhagen K</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=NO-BOK style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Tel +45 33 13 44 46</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=NO-BOK style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Fax +45 33 13 44 47</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>E-mail: henrike@bot.ku.dk and hab.ioc@unesco.org</span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>IOC is the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of
UNESCO</span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>VISIT THE IOC HAB HOMEPAGE AT </span></font><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://ioc.unesco.org/hab"><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:
Arial'>http://ioc.unesco.org/hab</span></font></a></span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
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