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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>GEOHAB OPEN SCIENCE MEETING on HABs AND STRATIFICATION<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>UNESCO
Headquarters <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Paris</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place> 5-8 December 2005 <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The
GEOHAB Programme, endorsed by the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research
(SCOR) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, is
an international programme aimed at fostering and promoting co-operative
research directed toward improving the prediction of harmful algal bloom
events.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>GEOHAB
is a programme of international co-operative research on HABs in marine and
brackish waters. The GEOHAB Scientific Goal is to improve prediction of HABs by
determining the ecological and oceanographic mechanisms underlying their
population dynamics, integrating biological, chemical, and physical studies
supported by enhanced observation and modelling systems.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The
GEOHAB Mission is to foster international co-operative research on HABs in
ecosystem types sharing common features, comparing the key species involved and
the oceanographic processes that influence their population dynamics. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Core Research Project: <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span
class=GramE><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>HABs in Stratified Systems Stratification is</span></font></span><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
a major factor encouraging aggregation of harmful algae in coastal and
continental shelf waters. This meeting, the fourth in a series of Open Science
Meetings convened by GEOHAB, is designed to bring experts together from around
the world to review the state of knowledge of the physical and chemical
processes related to stratification, and their interactions with microscopic
algae. As profiling techniques have improved, persistent and spatially coherent
patches have been described at scales smaller than those of standard sampling.
These patches are recurrent in coastal systems and their study is essential to
understand the development of Harmful Algal Blooms. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The
aim of this meeting is to identify the key questions to be addressed during the
next phase of research on comparative stratified ecosystems. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Conference Topics<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>•
Physical processes relevant to stratification • Maintenance of HAB
populations in thin layers • Selection of assemblages by different
turbulent regimes • Changes in small scale physical properties caused by
the phytoplankton community • Implications for sampling, monitoring and
operational oceanography • Detection systems Invitation<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>This
announcement serves as an invitation to the broad scientific community to
participate in the formulation and design of a GEOHAB Core Research Project on
HABs in Stratified Systems. Scientists working in physical, chemical and/or
biological disciplines related to harmful algal research, and on the
development of relevant instrumentation and models are encouraged to
participate. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Deadline Early Registration: 1 November 2005 Deadline for submission of
abstracts is 1 October 2005. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Patrick
Gentien (<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">France</st1:place></st1:country-region>),
Chair<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New";mso-ansi-language:ES'>Percy Donaghay (USA)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New";mso-ansi-language:ES'>Thomas Osborn (USA)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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"Courier New";mso-ansi-language:ES'> (Ireland)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New";mso-ansi-language:ES'>Beatriz Reguera (Spain)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New";mso-ansi-language:ES'>Hidekatsu Yamazaki (Japan)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=DA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New";mso-ansi-language:DA'>Henrik Enevoldsen (IOC) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=DA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b
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lang=DA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ansi-language:
DA;font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Registration at</span></font></b><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=DA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New";mso-ansi-language:DA'> : </span></font><font size=2
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href="https://www.confmanager.com/main.cfm?cid=248"><span lang=DA
style='mso-ansi-language:DA'>https://www.confmanager.com/main.cfm?cid=248</span></a></span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=DA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New";mso-ansi-language:DA'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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