[ISSHA] Working Group on Harmful Algal Bloom Dynamics

[Henrik Enevoldsen]

ICES- IOC Working Group on Harmful Algal Bloom Dynamics (WGHABD)

The ICES-IOC Working Group on Harmful Algal Bloom Dynamics [WGHABD] (Chair
J. L. Martin, Canada) will meet in Corsica, France, from 5-8 April 2004 to: 

 

*         collate and assess national reports and update the decadal mapping
of harmful algal events for the IOC-ICES harmful algal database, HAE-DAT, on
a regional, temporal and species basis;

*         review plans for the proposed Workshop on New and Classic
Techniques for the Determination of Numerical Abundance and Biovolume of
HAB-species;

*         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;

*         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;

*         review the report of the Workshop on Real-time Coastal Observing
Systems for Ecosystem Dynamics and Harmful Algal Blooms (CM 2003/C:15);

*         review existing phytoplankton population dynamics models with
particular emphasis on prediction of HAB events;

*         review biological loss processes of selected HAB species;

*         consider the environmental dynamics and impacts of individual
phycotoxins and their metabolites enabled by new analytical technologies;

*         report and discuss new findings;

*         start preparations to summarise the distribution and number of
harmful algal blooms in the North Sea 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 North Sea in 2006.

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 ICES <http://www.ices.dk/reports/occ/1999/>  and IFREMER
<http://www.ifremer.fr/envlit/documentation/dossiers/ciem/aindex.htm> . 

THE WORKING GROUP IS OPEN TO SCIENTISTS FROM ALL IOC MEMBER STATES. PLEASE
CONTACT THE CHAIR OF THE WG, DR JENNIFER MARTIN
<mailto:MARTINjl at MAR.DFO-MPO.GC.CA>   [MartinJL at mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca] IF YOU
ARE INTERESTED.

The IOC HAB Programme may be able to support 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 at bot.ku.dk by 15 February 2004 with a short justification of the
relevance of your participation and a summary of your CV.

WEB SITE is http://ioc.unesco.org/hab/act6.htm

 

Best regards, Henrik

 

Henrik Oksfeldt Enevoldsen

IOC Project Coordinator

 

IOC Science and Communication Centre on Harmful Algae

University of Copenhagen

Oster Farimagsgade 2D

DK-1353 Copenhagen K

 

Tel +45 33 13 44 46

Fax +45 33 13 44 47

 

E-mail: henrike at bot.ku.dk and hab.ioc at unesco.org

 

IOC is the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

 

VISIT THE IOC HAB HOMEPAGE AT  <http://ioc.unesco.org/hab>
http://ioc.unesco.org/hab 

 

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