Session Announcement and Call for Papers
Synthesis of Coupled Physical-ecosystem Dynamics and Linkages to
Environmental Forcing On Event to Climate Scales
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 052: "Synthesis of Coupled
Physical-ecosystem Dynamics and Linkages to Environmental Forcing On
Event to Climate Scales" 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:
Understanding biological-physical interactions controlling marine
ecosystem dynamics has been the focus of multidisciplinary research
programs undertaken during the past two decades in a variety of regions,
such as the North Atlantic, North Pacific, and Southern Ocean.
Observational and modeling results from these regions and others have
provided new understanding of the processes that control marine
population variability within and between the study regions. The purpose
of this session is to provide a forum for the presentation of synthetic
results arising from studies of coupled physical-biological systems with
the goal of highlighting differences and similarities in different
oceanic systems. Papers that address the following are especially
relevant to the session: 1) Linkages between climate-scale phenomena and
regional physical and biological variability; 2) Modeling and
observational studies of processes that affect coupled
physical-biological systems (e.g., topographic controls, mesoscale
variability, turbulent mixing); 3) Event-scale, seasonal, inter-annual,
and longer-term changes in population structure in relation to
variability in the physical environment; 4) Comparison of the structure
and dynamics of lower food-web and zooplankton and fish populations
within and between the regions and ocean basins; and 5) Connections
between trophic levels. Observational and modeling studies that
integrate biological and physical processes and make connections to the
climate system are particularly encouraged.
Organizers:
Enrique Curchitser
Rutgers University
E-mail: enrique [at] marine.rutgers.edu
Hal Batchelder
Oregon State University
E-mail: hbatchelder [at] coas.oregonstate.edu
Eileen E. Hofmann
Old Dominion University
E-mail: hofmann [at] ccpo.odu.edu
Cabell Davis
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
E-mail: cdavis [at] whoi.edu
For further information and to submit an abstract, please go to:
http://aslo.org/meetings/orlando2008/