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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">First announcement<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">IOC UNESCO – ICES – PICES – SCOR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">GEOHAB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">SMHI - University of Gothenburg</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Scientific Symposium on<br>
Harmful Algal Blooms and Climate Change<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gothenburg Sweden 19-22 May 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A Scientific Symposium on climate change effects on the global distribution, frequency and intensity of harmful Algal blooms will be held 19-22 May 2015, at Gothenburg,
Sweden.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The central purpose of this symposium will be to bring together HAB scientists and climate change scientists to ascertain what is known
about climate change and its potential linkages to HABs, to identify the most pressing, achievable research goals over the next decade, and to determine the minimal long term monitoring infrastructure needed to provide the data for global HAB assessment in
the context of climate change.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">About the symposium<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Climate change will significantly affect marine ecosystems, and it is expected that there will be effects on the character, frequency and intensity of Harmful
algal blooms. Examples of the potential drivers of HAB change include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left:7.65pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">warming – changed distribution of HAB species, including range expansion/contraction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ocean acidification – possibly increased total primary production, positive for some HAB-species<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:7.65pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">increased water column stability – increased stratification favour many HAB-species<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">changes in rain fall distribution and dynamics - altered nutrient supply and input of humic substances, both potential drivers for change in the occurrence
of HAB’s<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">+ several other ways<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">However, these anticipated linkages to increases or decreases in HAB impacts remain largely undemonstrated, and it is unlikely that all
potential avenues of affect are known. Presentations at the symposium will include findings from observations, experimental work and modelling.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The symposium will include invited speakers, oral and poster presentations by participants, with concentration on participant-led break-out sessions on specific
topics. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A second announcement with information on registration, abstract submission etc. will be distributed in early 2015. Information on symposium fee and possibilities
for young scientists travel awards also will be part of the second announcement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Prepare for registration and submission of abstracts in early 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SV" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Conveners: Bengt Karlson, Sweden, Mark Wells, USA, Raphael Kudela, USA and Angela Wulff, Sweden, Contact:
<a href="mailto:Bengt.Karlson@smhi.se">Bengt.Karlson@smhi.se</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm"><span lang="SV" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003399"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003399;mso-fareast-language:DA"><img border="0" width="95" height="36" id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image001.gif@01D0192D.ED839270" alt="http://ioc3.unesco.org/ioc-unesco-36px.gif"></span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">Henrik
Enevoldsen</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#993366"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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