Workshop Announcement
Arctic Marine Biodiversity - IPY Cluster Meeting
2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting
Monday, 3 March 2008 - 7:30pm * 9:30pm EST
Room W101, Orange County Convention Center
Orlando, Florida
For further information, please contact:
Bodil Bluhm
E-mail: bluhm [at] ims.uaf.edu
A workshop will be convened on "Arctic Marine Biodiversity" during the
2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting on Monday, 3 March 2008, in Orlando,
Florida. The Ocean Sciences meeting is co-sponsored by the American
Society of Limnology and Oceanography, American Geophysical Union, The
Oceanography Society, and Estuarine Research Federation.
The Arctic Ocean Diversity (ArcOD) Census of Marine Life (CoML) project
is an international collaborative effort to inventory biodiversity in
arctic sea ice, water column, and sea floor from the shallow shelves to
the deep basins. It employs a three-layer approach: compilation of
existing data, taxonomic identification of existing samples, and new
collections focusing on taxonomic and regional gaps. ArcOD was selected
as the cluster lead project for the Arctic Marine Biodiversity by the
International Polar Year (IPY) Joint Committee. The proposal brings
together about 20 projects that focus on Arctic biodiversity questions.
Representatives from many of these, plus other biodiversity-focused
projects, attended the first 1st Arctic Marine Biodiversity IPY Cluster
Meeting in Frankfurt, Germany, to facilitate synergies, identify
overlap, discuss cluster goals and products, and begin to develop a
cluster identity.
Workshop Description:
This 2nd Arctic Marine Biodiversity IPY Cluster Meeting will be held as
an open meeting for researchers interested in Arctic Marine
Biodiversity, including those comprised in the IPY cluster. The primary
goals are to:
- Update the cluster on what progress has been made on tasks over the past year
- Compile highlights from the 2007 Arctic field season with regard to
marine biodiversity research
- Facilitate synergies and identify overlap for the 2008 Arctic field season
For more information on ArcOD and CoML, please go to:
http://www.coml.org/descrip/aobio.htm
The ArcOD proposal, along with a list of those interested in
collaborating, can be viewed at:
http://www.ipy.org/development/eoi/proposal-details.php?id=333
Organizer:
Bodil Bluhm
University of Alaska Fairbanks
E-mail: bluhm [at] ims.uaf.edu
For further information, please go to:
http://www.aslo.org/orlando2008/town_hall.html