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16th August 2007, 11:08 AM
http://www.aslo.org/orlando2008/
We respectfully invite you to consider submitting an abstract to a special session entitled:
003 Ocean Acidification: Causes and Impacts on Biogeochemical Processes, Biota and Climate for the 2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting to be held March 2-7, 2008, in Orlando, Florida. In order to have your abstract considered for acceptance, you must submit before the abstract deadline of October 2, 2007.
Session Organizers: Victoria J. Fabry, California State University San Marcos, fabry@csusm.edu; William M. Balch, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, bbalch@bigelow.org; Richard A. Feely, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory/NOAA, Richard.A.Feely@noaa.gov
Session Description: Oceanic uptake of anthropogenic CO2 changes seawater chemistry and can have significant impacts on marine biogeochemical processes and organisms. Increasing the amount of dissolved CO2 in oceans decreases the pH and the CaCO3 saturation state of seawater. The pH of surface oceans has dropped by 0.1 units since the industrial revolution and, if fossil fuel combustion continues at present rates, the pH of the world's oceans will probably drop another 0.3 to 0.4 units by 2100. As the world's oceans become more acidic, many calcifying marine organisms will be negatively impacted, which could lead to cascading effects throughout marine food webs. The goal of this session is to discuss recent advances in the field of ocean acidification. All spatial and temporal timescales will be included, from molecular to global and from paleo-environmental studies to models of future impacts. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: (1) effects on nutrient and elemental cycles; (2) estimates of calcification and dissolution at the organism, community and global scales; (3) physiological effects on calcifying and non-calcifying organisms; and (4) feedback mechanisms and decadal to centennial projections of future ocean acidification impacts.
We respectfully invite you to consider submitting an abstract to a special session entitled:
008 Decadal Variations in Ocean Interior Circulation, Water Masses, and Biogeochemistry - Results From The CLIVAR/CO2 Repeat Hydrography Program
for the 2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting to be held March 2-7, 2008, in Orlando, Florida. In order to have your abstract considered for acceptance, you must submit
before the abstract deadline of October 2, 2007.
Session Organizers: Richard A. Feely, Pacific Marine
Environmental Laboratory/NOAA, Richard.A.Feely@noaa.gov;
Lynne Talley, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Ltalley@ucsd.edu; Rik Wanninkhof,
Alantic Oceanographic and Meterorological Laboratory, Rik.Wanninkhof@noaa.gov
Session Description: The U.S. CLIVAR/CO2 Repeat Hydrography Program, begun in 2003, along with similar efforts in many other countries, which occur against the background of the successful completion of the WOCE/JGOFS global surveys in the 1990s, now permits scientists to examine decadal time-scale climate-related variations in the ocean physics, chemistry, and biology in unprecedented detail. One of the major challenges for analyses of these oceanic data is to distinguish between natural variability and long-term trends due to anthropogenic changes. This session invites contributions that approach such variations and changes in multiple ways, including but not limited to, physical, biological, biogeochemical, and carbon cycle perspectives. We encourage submission of abstracts that use of a broad palette of tools, i.e. including observational and modeling approaches. Particular emphasis will be placed on abstracts that address ocean interior changes from an interdisciplinary perspective.
We respectfully invite you to consider submitting an abstract to a special session entitled:
003 Ocean Acidification: Causes and Impacts on Biogeochemical Processes, Biota and Climate for the 2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting to be held March 2-7, 2008, in Orlando, Florida. In order to have your abstract considered for acceptance, you must submit before the abstract deadline of October 2, 2007.
Session Organizers: Victoria J. Fabry, California State University San Marcos, fabry@csusm.edu; William M. Balch, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, bbalch@bigelow.org; Richard A. Feely, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory/NOAA, Richard.A.Feely@noaa.gov
Session Description: Oceanic uptake of anthropogenic CO2 changes seawater chemistry and can have significant impacts on marine biogeochemical processes and organisms. Increasing the amount of dissolved CO2 in oceans decreases the pH and the CaCO3 saturation state of seawater. The pH of surface oceans has dropped by 0.1 units since the industrial revolution and, if fossil fuel combustion continues at present rates, the pH of the world's oceans will probably drop another 0.3 to 0.4 units by 2100. As the world's oceans become more acidic, many calcifying marine organisms will be negatively impacted, which could lead to cascading effects throughout marine food webs. The goal of this session is to discuss recent advances in the field of ocean acidification. All spatial and temporal timescales will be included, from molecular to global and from paleo-environmental studies to models of future impacts. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: (1) effects on nutrient and elemental cycles; (2) estimates of calcification and dissolution at the organism, community and global scales; (3) physiological effects on calcifying and non-calcifying organisms; and (4) feedback mechanisms and decadal to centennial projections of future ocean acidification impacts.
We respectfully invite you to consider submitting an abstract to a special session entitled:
008 Decadal Variations in Ocean Interior Circulation, Water Masses, and Biogeochemistry - Results From The CLIVAR/CO2 Repeat Hydrography Program
for the 2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting to be held March 2-7, 2008, in Orlando, Florida. In order to have your abstract considered for acceptance, you must submit
before the abstract deadline of October 2, 2007.
Session Organizers: Richard A. Feely, Pacific Marine
Environmental Laboratory/NOAA, Richard.A.Feely@noaa.gov;
Lynne Talley, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Ltalley@ucsd.edu; Rik Wanninkhof,
Alantic Oceanographic and Meterorological Laboratory, Rik.Wanninkhof@noaa.gov
Session Description: The U.S. CLIVAR/CO2 Repeat Hydrography Program, begun in 2003, along with similar efforts in many other countries, which occur against the background of the successful completion of the WOCE/JGOFS global surveys in the 1990s, now permits scientists to examine decadal time-scale climate-related variations in the ocean physics, chemistry, and biology in unprecedented detail. One of the major challenges for analyses of these oceanic data is to distinguish between natural variability and long-term trends due to anthropogenic changes. This session invites contributions that approach such variations and changes in multiple ways, including but not limited to, physical, biological, biogeochemical, and carbon cycle perspectives. We encourage submission of abstracts that use of a broad palette of tools, i.e. including observational and modeling approaches. Particular emphasis will be placed on abstracts that address ocean interior changes from an interdisciplinary perspective.