Session Announcement and Call for Papers
Ecosystem in Sea Ice Influenced Areas
2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting
2-7 March 2008
Orlando, Florida
Abstract Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 2 October 2007
For further information, please go to:
http://aslo.org/meetings/orlando2008/
Papers are invited for Session 040: "Ecosystem in Sea Ice Influenced
Areas" being convened at the 2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting on 2-7 March
2008 in Orlando, Florida. The meeting is co-sponsored by the American
Society of Limnology and Oceanography, American Geophysical Union, The
Oceanography Society, and Estuarine Research Federation.
Session Description:
Polar and sub-polar marine ecosystems are experiencing rapid changes
under polar-amplified global climate warming. A changing sea ice cover
can dramatically alter light availability, water temperature and
salinity, water column stability, circulation, timing and magnitude of
primary and second production, carbon, DMS and nutrients cycling, etc.
It is essential to understand how resilient the marine ecosystem is to
the changing sea ice cover and the threshold of these changes that can
cause a major marine ecosystem shift. All topics addressing the above
mentioned issues are encouraged in this session. The session will focus
on observations and modeling studies of the marine ecosystem in
seasonally and perennially ice-covered areas. Topics include research on
primary and second production, carbon, and DMS and nutrients cycles in
sea ice, water column under sea ice, and after ice retreat. Any study of
the broad influences of changing sea ice-associated ecosystem on
fisheries, marine mammal, and human dimensions is also welcome.
Organizers:
Meibing Jin
University of Alaska Fairbanks
E-mail: mjin [at] iarc.uaf.edu
Clara Deal
University of Alaska Fairbanks
E-mail: Deal [at] iarc.uaf.edu
Sang H. Lee
Korea Polar Research Institute
E-mail: sanglee [at] kopri.re.kr
For further information and to submit an abstract, please go to:
http://aslo.org/meetings/orlando2008/