The General Assembly 2007 of the European Geosciences Union, will take place on 15-20 April, 2007, in Vienna (Austria).
Full details on the 2007 EGU General Assembly is accessible at http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2007/
and the programme overview at http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2007/annotation.html
As part of the Ocean Section Programme, we are organising the “OS6 - IMBER/SOLAS Special Session”. The session focuses on interactions between biogeochemical cycles and marine food webs, and their regulation by the physical-biochemical processes occurring at the oceanic boundary layer.
This session will include solicited speakers and other contributions both oral and in poster format.
The session aims to bring together current biogeochemical and ecosystem research towards understanding how biogeochemical cycles interact with food web dynamics and how they are linked with the processes occurring at the oceanic surface boundary layer. The session intends to bridge and merge the existing knowledge on the marine biogeochemical and ecosystem disciplines, and to provide new insights on
(i) influence of food web dynamics on biogeochemical cycles (e.g., species biodiversity and species interactions, bioavailability and accumulation of nutrients),
(ii) transformation of organic matter in food webs (e.g., controls of production, transformation and breakdown of organic matter in marine food webs),
(iii) transfer of matter across ocean interfaces (in particular exchange between the atmosphere, continental margins)
using existing observational and modeling studies from different environments such as continental margins, semi-enclosed seas, high latitude and polar regions, tropical and subtropical oligotrophic gyres.
With a clear interdisciplinary perspective, we invite contributions covering a wide range of questions and scales based on observations, remotely sensed data or mathematical models.
Please circulate this to your colleagues who may have interest in this session. We apologize for cross-information.
We look forward to receiving your contribution.
Temel Oguz (oguz@ims.metu.edu.tr) and Véronique Garçon (Veronique.Garcon@cnes.fr) |
