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Conference Theme:
The Changing Coastal and Estuarine Environment: A Comparative Approach
Conference Goals:
- Summarize the state of knowledge of six topics of concern within a changing coastal environment. Changes may be the result of local, regional or global impacts of humans.
- Compare the nature of human impacts within temperate South America and those in comparable climates within North America. In this way we can examine common and unique aspects that may provide insights for environmental management.
- Foster future international collaborations.
- Foster broader education of students and young scientists and promote networking among peers and with the geographically larger community.
Comparison focuses on temperate, coastal systems within Southern and Northern Hemispheres and the conference organizers invite you to submit an abstract for an oral or poster presentation for one of the following six specific topics:
- Changing baseline populations
- Land-sea couplings in rapidly changing environments
- Fisheries exploitation
- Impacts of UV on coastal waters
- Acidification of coastal waters
- Warmer climate, increased freshwater use on land and the hydrodynamics of estuaries.
Schedule-at-a-Glance (Preliminary)
Sunday, November 11th
Evening Welcome Reception and Opening Keynote Speaker Dr. Ivan Valiela, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.
Monday November 12th – Wednesday, November 14th
Oral and poster presentations on two topics each day
Plenary speakers:
Nancy Rabalais (Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, DeFelice Marine Center, Chauvin, Louisiana, USA. email: nrabalais@lumcon.edu)
Daniel Conde (Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de La República, Montevideo, Uruguay. email: vladddcc@gmail.com)
Walter Helbling (Instituto de Fotobiología, Playa Union, Argentina. email: whelbling@efpu.org.ar)
Susana Agustí (Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados (IMDEA), Departamento de Recursos Naturales, Islas Baleares, España. email: sagusti@imedea.uib-csic.es)
Robert Twilley (Energy, Coast and Environment Building, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences,Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA. email: rtwilley@lsu.edu)
Marcelo Acha (Universiadad Nacional de Mar del Plata-CONICET, Mar del Plata, Argentina. email: macha@inidep.edu)
Juan Carlos Castilla (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago. email: jcastilla@bio.puc.cl)
Michael Sinclair (Bedford Institute of Oceanography Dartmouth, Nova. Scotia, Canada. email: Michael.Sinclair@dfo-mpo.gc.ca)
Just Cebrian (Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Department of Marine Science, University of South Alabama, AL, USA. Email: jcebrian@disl.org)
Susan Williams (University of California, Davis – Department of Evolution and Ecology, Bodega Marine Laboratory, Bodega Bay, CA, US. Email: slwilliams@ucdavis.edu)
Richard Zimmerman (Bio-Optical Research Group, Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA, USA. email: rzimmerm@odu.edu)
Stephen Widdicombe (Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, The Hoe, Plymouth, UK. email: swi@pml.ac.uk)
Wednesday, November 14th
Closing Keynote Speaker, Dr. Carlos Duarte, Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados - IMDEA, Departamento de Investigación del Cambio Global, Esporales, Islas Baleares, España.