[ISSHA] GEOHAB Open Science Mtg Announcement

[Enevoldsen, Henrik]

GEOHAB OPEN SCIENCE MEETING on HABs AND STRATIFICATION
 
UNESCO Headquarters Paris, France 5-8 December 2005 
 
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.
 
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.
 
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. 
 
Core Research Project: 
 
HABs in Stratified Systems Stratification is 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. 
 
The aim of this meeting is to identify the key questions to be addressed
during the next phase of research on comparative stratified ecosystems. 
 
Conference Topics
 
* 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
 
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. 
 
Deadline Early Registration: 1 November 2005 Deadline for submission of
abstracts is 1 October 2005. 
 
Planning Committee 
 
Patrick Gentien (France), Chair
Percy Donaghay (USA)
Thomas Osborn (USA)
Robin Raine (Ireland)
Beatriz Reguera (Spain)
Hidekatsu Yamazaki (Japan)
Henrik Enevoldsen (IOC) 
 
Registration at : https://www.confmanager.com/main.cfm?cid=248
<https://www.confmanager.com/main.cfm?cid=248> 
 
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