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13th Biennial Challenger Conference for Marine Science8th -11th September 2008 |
The scientific programme highlights the following themes:
through oral and poster presentations.
Keynote speakers:
Eric Achterberg
Michael Bender
Harry Bryden
Gary Carvalho
Keith Haines
Thomas Stocker
Doug Wallace
Richard Wood
Events include:
Provisional programme (subject to change)
Monday 8th September |
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Welcome address 9.00-9.10 |
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Ocean, atmosphere and biogeochemical cycling |
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Today's presentations in this theme are in celebration of the career of Chair: Liliane Merlivat 10.00-10.05 10.05-10.20 Uematsu M., Takeda S. - The Western Pacific air-sea interaction study (W-PASS) project in Japan. |
Observing and modelling the oceans. Chair: Elaine McDonagh 10.05-10.20 Hill A.E., Brown J., Fernard L., Holt J., Horsburgh K.J., Proctor R., Raine R., Turrell W.R. - The thermohaline circulation of shallow tidal seas |
Coffee 11.00 – 11.30 |
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Ocean, atmosphere and biogeochemical cycling Chair: Claire Hughes 11.30-11.50 Session leader Upstill-Goddard R., Nightingale P., Salter M. - DOGEE: The UKSOLAS Deep Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment. |
Observing and modelling the oceans. Chair: Emily Venables 11.30-11.50 Session leader Huthnance J.M., Karunarathna H. Lane A., Manning A.J., Norton P., Reeve D.E., Soulsby R.L., Spearman J., Townend I.H., Wright A. - Development of estuary morphology models |
Lunch 13.05-14.00 |
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Posters 14.00 – 15.30 |
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Tea 15.30-16.00 |
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Ocean, atmosphere and biogeochemical cycling Chair: Angela Hatton 16.00-16.20 Session leader Plane J.M.C., Mahajan A.S., Oetjen H., Gomez Martim J-C., Saunders R.W. - Halogen chemistry in the marine boundary layer. |
Observing and modelling the oceans. Chair: Helen Johnson 16.00-16.20 Session leader Inall M.E., Griffiths, C.R. - Layered Isopycnal Intrusions from a Sloping Boundary |
20.00 – 23.00 Welcome reception with “Mad Ed’s Hot Five” Jazz band |
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Tuesday 9th September |
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Housekeeping 9.00-9.05 |
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Biological, physical and chemical processes and interactions. Michael Bender, Nicolas Cassar, and Rachel Stanley, Jan Kaiser. Chair: Ruth Parker 10.00-10.15 Copley J., Mahto T., Herrington S. - Variability of shell microgrowth in mussels from deep-sea chemosynthetic environments |
The oceans in past and future climate change. Chair: Anna Kaczmarska 10.00-10.15 Grist J.P., Marsh R., Josey S.A. - The relationship between the north Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and the surface-forced overturning stream function |
Coffee 11.00 – 11.30 |
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Biological, physical and chemical processes and interactions. Chair: Cathy Lucas 11.30-11.50 Session leader Tyrrell T., Schneider B., Findlay H., Charalampopoulou A., Merico A., Skjelvan I., Bellerby R. - How will ocean acidification affect coccolithophores?: the picture from in-situ observations. |
The oceans in past and future climate change. Chair: Sam Lavender 11.30-11.50 Session leader Gould W.J., Turton J., King B. - The Argo float array an opening of a new era in ocean observations |
Lunch 13.05-14.00 |
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14.00 – 15.00 Workshop 1: Advances during IPY and future challenges for early career scientists. |
14.00 -15.00 Workshop 2: Can we really forecast the ocean ? |
Tea 15.00-15.30 |
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15.30 – 16.30 Workshop 3: Why We Need a Marine Science Strategy |
15.30 -16.30 Workshop 4: Communicating research and education at the European level: The role of the EFMS. |
Challenger medallist. Professor John Simpson 16.30-17.30 |
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Challenger AGM 17.30-18.30 |
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Public Lecture and reception 20.00-23.00: |
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Wednesday 10th September |
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Housekeeping 9.00-9.05 |
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Observing and modelling the oceans. Chair: Eleanor Howlett |
Biological, physical and chemical processes and interactions. Chair: Anna Hickman |
Coffee 11.00 – 11.30 |
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Observing and modelling the oceans. Chair: Jenny Brown 11.30-11.50 Session leader Baines P.G. - Seasonal and interannual patterns of global variability of oceanic chlorophyll |
Biological, physical and chemical processes and interactions. Chair: Ursula Witte 11.30-11.50 Session leader Bibby T.S., Chen M. - Microbial Bio-markers of oceanic ecosystems |
Excursions |
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Thursday 11th September |
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Housekeeping 9.00-9.05 |
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The oceans in past and future climate change. Chair: Agatha De Boer 10.00-10.15 Knorr G., Lohmann G., Prange M., Barker S., Laeapple T. - |
Oceans atmosphere and biogeochemical cycling. E. Achterberg Chair: Manuela Martino 10.00-10.15 Jickells T.D., Lesworth T., Baker A. - Atmospheric fixed nitrogen inputs to the Atlantic Ocean |
Coffee 11.00 – 11.30 |
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The oceans in past and future climate change. Chair: Karen Heywood 11.30-11.50 Session leader McCave I.N., Pugh R.S. Hillenbrand C-D., Kuhn G., Maher B.A., Anderson R.F. - A chronological "Rosetta Stone" for Quaternary sediments from the Southern Ocean: Ice-core dust -- magnetic correlations. |
Oceans atmosphere and biogeochemical cycling. Chair: Claire Mahaffey 11.30-11.50 Session leader Moore C.M., Mills M., Acterberg E., Geider R., La Roche J., Lucas M., Rijkenberg M., Suggett D., Ussher S., Woodward M. - The influence of iron supply on the coupling of nitrogen to phosphorous in the Atlantic Ocean |
Lunch 13.05-14.00 |
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14.00 – 15.30 Posters |
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Tea 15.30 - 16.00 |
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The oceans in past and future climate change. Chair: Ros Rickaby 16.00-16.20 Session leader Heywood K.J., Thompson A.F., Mackensen A., Fahrbach E. - Changes in the dense water outflow from the Weddell Sea. |
Oceans atmosphere and biogeochemical cycling. Chair: Ute Schuster 16.00-16.20 Session leader Merlivat L., Boutin J. Mesoscale and diel to monthly variability of CO2 and carbon fluxes at the ocean surface in the northeastern Atlantic and in the Southern Ocean from Carioca drifter measurements : new in situ estimates of biological carbon production rates |
Conference dinner 19.00 until late with entertainment by the “Mersey Beatles”. |
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Abrahamsen E.P., Meredith M.P., |
Freshwater composition of the Laptev Sea continental shelf |
Aispure, G. |
Copepod Limnocalanus macrurus vertical feeding ecology in the Gulf of Riga (Baltic Sea) |
Aksenov Y., Bacon S., Coward A.C. |
The North Atlantic inflow into the Arctic Ocean: A high-resolution model study. |
Aksenov Y., Bacon S., Coward A.C. and Holliday P.N. |
Polar outflow from the Arctic Ocean: A high resolution model study |
Amoudry L. |
Learnings from a two-phase sheet flow model for morphological and sediment transport modelling |
Bauer A., Waniek J.J. |
The Azores Front: a biogeochemical characterization over an 8 year period |
Brewin |
An analysis of bio-optical techniques for detecting phytoplankton functional types from space and their potential influence in our understanding of CO2 fluxes |
Brown J.M., Souza A.J., Wolf J., Proctor R. |
Storm surge modelling in the Irish Sea. |
Butler P.G., Scourse J.D., |
History of the marine radiocarbon reservoir and the oceanic 13C Suess effect shown in a 487-year cross dated shell based sclerochronology for Irish Sea waters |
Callaghan A., deLeeuw G., Cohen L. |
Oceanic Whitecaps : Measurements made in the North Atlantic in summer 2006 |
Caruana A., Malin G., Turner S., Steinke M. |
DMS and DMSP production by dinoflagellates - is the plastid type the key? |
Chance R., Hamilton J.F. Carpenter L.J. |
The use of liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry to characterise marine organic matter |
Davis C., Mahaffey C., Wolff G., Sharples J. |
Is dissolved organic phosphorus an important source of phosphorus in the coastal ocean and shelf seas? |
Close S.E., Naviera Garabato A., |
Southern Ocean variability from seal-mounted sensors and Argo floats |
Cottier F., Berge J., Last K., Johnsen G. |
Zooplankton vertical migration in the Arctic - sunlight, moonlight or the aurora? |
Cottier F., Inall M. Falk-Petersen S., |
Investigating Arctic Shelf Processes: 7 Years of physical and biogeochemical marine observations in Svalbard (A UK-Nordic Cooperation) |
Creanor D.E., Cunningham A. |
A Spectral Matching Approach to Optical Remote Sensing in Shelf Seas |
Cunliffe M., Harrison E., Salter M., |
The SOLAS BERGEN Mesocosm Experiment: sea surface microlayer dynamics during a phytoplankton bloom. |
Damerell G. |
Diapycnal Mixing in Shag Rocks Passage |
Davidson K., Pete R., Chapelle A., |
Forecasting the Initiation of Hamrful Algal Blooms |
Devez A., Schroeder D., Gladhill M., |
Interactions between metals and the Emiliania huxleyi viral infection strategy |
Foden J.M., Devlin M.J., Mills D.K., |
Disturbingly undesirable macroalgae? |
Foden J.M., Rogers S.I., Jones A.P. |
Protecting our seas: measuring human pressures and impacts on our marine environment |
Gontikaki, E., Mayor D.J., Witte U. |
Degradation of organic matter by a subartic deep-sea community: A pulse-chase experiment with 13C-labelled phytodetritus |
Green M.J.A., Simpson J.H., |
The structure of turbulence in shelf seas from an Autosub perspective |
Hall P., Jones J.E., Davies A.M. |
Tides and Surges in the Irish Sea |
Hall S. |
Krill biomass distribution around the Antarctic Peninsula and its determining factors |
Hanley K.E., Belcher S.E. |
A global perspective of ocean waves and the air-sea momentum flux |
Hardman-Mountford N.J., |
Technological and collaborative developments required for operational monitoring of the ocean carbon cycle. |
Hardman-Mountford, N.J., |
An objective methodology for the classification of ecological pattern into biomes and provinces for the pelagic ocean |
Harle J., Holt J., Proctor R., |
Modelling the Global Coastal Ocean |
Harrison E., Upstill-Goddard R., |
The SOLAS BERGEN Mesocosm Experiment 2008: the role of the sea surface microlayer in air-sea gas exchange |
Hibbert |
Atmosphere-Ocean Coupling in Southern Ocean Sea-Level Records |
Hill P.G., Zubkov M.V., Purdie D.A. |
Microbial response to aeolian nutrient enrichment in the north eastern subtropical Atlantic. |
Howlett E.R., Howarth J., Rippeth T. |
The buoyancy-mixing competition in Liverpool Bay |
Jones M.R., Kettle J., Hughes C., |
Is the surface microlayer of natural waters enriched in dissolved trace metals? |
Kennedy H., Rickaby R., |
Formation and distribution of ikaite crystals in Antarctic sediments. |
Kristov V., Jones S.E., Mikkelsen O., Howarth M.J |
Analysis of SPM patterns using multivariate statistics and entropy analysis: case study of Liverpool Bay |
Kerrison P., Suggett D., |
Impacts of ocean acidification on benthic primary producers: Lessons from a cold CO2 vent site |
Kuhlbrodt T. |
How wind-driven upwelling in the Southern Ocean might change in the 21st century |
Ladakis M., Triantafyllaki S., |
Study of the capability of the filamentous cyanobacteria in binding Cd and Pb in cultures |
Lauderdale J., Naveira Garabato A., |
The Role of the Southern Ocean in Glacial-Interglacial CO2 Change |
Lekouara M., Robinson I., |
Seasonal and inter-annual Sea Surface Temperature variability as an indicator for climate change |
Libertinova J., Kennedy H., |
Stable carbon and oxygen isotopic composition of vent mussel shells as indicators of environmental conditions during growth |
Lowe D., Langmead O., |
Modelling the effects of human lifestyles on the environment of the Baltic Sea |
Lucas C. |
Analysis of long-term changes in the mesozooplankton community at the porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP) site |
McCann D., Davies A., Bell P. |
Dune tracking in the Dee with X-band radar: a new remote sensing technique for quantifying bedload transport. |
McCarthy G.D., Mcdonagh E.L., |
Decadal and Interannual Variability of properties around 30oS in the South Atlantic |
McLean L.M., King B.A. |
Determining ocean correlation scales using Argo float data |
Meredith P.M., Young E.F., |
High-resolution modelling of the shelf and open ocean adjacent to South Georgia, Southern Ocean |
Mogg A., Green D., Hart M., |
DMSO and Bacterial Associates |
Morris P.J. |
Assessing the influence of biominerals, opal and calcite, on the photic zone flux of organic carbon |
Muhammed |
Surface and near surface circulation in the central equatorial Atlantic. |
Nye A., Dalziel S.B. |
Scattering of internal gravity waves at rough topography |
Nye A., Heywood K.J., |
Signature and effects of a standing eddy on the Antarctic Peninsula |
Painter S., Pidcock R., |
A Low Power Ultra Violet Spectrophotometer on a Towed Platform for High Resolution Measurement of Nitrate Concentrations within Open Ocean Mesoscale Features |
Painting S.J., Mills D.K., |
Light, turbidity and phytoplankton biomass and growth in six English estuaries |
Parker J.A., Foden D. |
North Sea storm surge: 8-9th November 2007 |
Patey M., Rijkenberg M., |
Trace metal and nutrient solubility in dust collected at the Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory |
Polton J., MacKinnin J., Smith J., Tejada-Martinez A. |
Rapid generation of high-frequency internal waves beneath a wind and wave forced oceanic surface mixed-layer |
Postlethwaite C.F., |
The effects of tides on dense water formation in Arctic shelf seas. |
Prytherch J., Yelland M.J., |
Measurement and parameterisation of the air-sea CO2 flux in high winds |
Robins P.E. |
The Internal Tide of the Gareloch; a Scottish Fjord |
Robinson A., Wyatt L., |
The impact of the Burbo and North Hoyle offshore wind farms on the availability and quality of the Liverpool Bay HF WERA radar |
Rowan A.K., Wilson S.T., |
Gaseous Copepods and their potential impact on climate |
Rutkiewicz M.B., |
The role of internal waves and turbulence in the Meridional Overturning Circulation of the Southern Ocean |
Salami T. |
Interractions between atmosphere, ecosystem and marine environment in Nigeria. |
Salter M.E., Mann P.J., |
Wavelength optimised fluorescence as a proxy for surfactant activity |
Salter M.E., Nightingale P., |
DOGEE-SOLAS: Technical aspects of creating an artificial surfactant slick |
Schuster U., Brown P., |
The changing dynamics of the subtropical north Atlantic anthropogenic carbon sink. |
Schuster U & CARBOCEAN team. |
Variability of North Atlantic sea surface pCO2 and air-sea fluxes |
Sharples J., Moore M., |
Why do fish like the shelf edge? |
Shelley R.U., Lohan M.C., |
Total dissolved Fe(III) and Co(II) concentrations in bioassays for the determination of trace metal limitation of microbial processes in the tropical North Atlantic using Flow Injection Chemiluminescence |
Sherwin T., Hughes S., |
Monthly variations in the surface circulation of the Faroe-Shetland Channel |
Shiravani G. |
Diffraction of water waves with arrays of vertical cylinders |
Statham P.J., Mowlem M., |
New sensors for studies of ocean biogeochemistry |
Steigenberger S., Croot P.L. |
Identifying the Processes controlling the Distribution of H2O2 in surface waters along a meridional transect in the Eastern Atlantic |
Stinchcombe M.C., Poulton A., |
The uptake of silica in the Icelandic Basin |
Tetley M.J., |
A comparative analysis of presence-only ecological niche modelling techniques used to predict minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) habitat suitability |
Thompson A.F. |
Baroclinic Eddy Fluxes in Quasi-Geostrophic Turbulence with Simple Topography |
Thorpe S.E., |
Coupled biological-physical modelling of the life cycle of Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba |
Torres-Valdes S., |
Changes in the physical and chemical structure of the Arctic Ocean |
Triantafyllaki S., |
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the waters of a Greek coastal area affected by anthropogenic activities |
van der Molen J., |
Scenarios of eutrophication status in the North Sea: investigations with an ecosystem model |
van der Molen J., |
A 50 year hindcast of ecosystem dynamics in the North Sea |
Vautravers M.J., |
Abrupt changes in planktonic foraminifera fauna in the South Atlantic during the last deglaciation |
Venables H.J., |
Phytoplankton and light in the Southern Ocean: learning from High Nutrient High Chlorophyll areas |
Waters J., Wyatt L., |
A study of partitioning when applied to a comparison of model, radar and buoy ocean wave directional spectra |
Wells N., Ivenchenko V.O., |
Heat and salt content in the North Atlantic from 1999 to 2007 |
While J., Haines K., |
Physical data assimilation in a global ocean biological model |
Wilkinson J., Preston M. |
Chiral marine pollutants: Significance of adsorption reactions at mineral surfaces |
Woodward M., Kitidis V. |
Basin and fine scale distributions and processes of Ammonium. |
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NERC marine facilities programme and the disciplinary user groups |
Xylouri A., Krom M.D., |
Impact of simulated cloud processed Mali soil to the solubility of iron and manganese in seawater |
Zetsche E-M., Lumsdon D.G., Witte U. |
Temporal variation in sediment permeability changes the metabolic functioning of estuarine sands. |
Zuo, H., Naveira Garabato A., |
An isopycnic model study of the circulation of Sub-Antartic Mode Water throughout the global ocean |