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| Modeling and Synthesis of Southern Ocean Natural Iron Fertilization Workshop
June 27-29, 2011
Clark Laboratory 507, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Sunday June 26
18:00-21:00 Icebreaker, Matt Charette's House, 11 Gregory Lane, Falmouth MA 02540, 508-540-0005 (Light supper will be served)
Transportation will be provided from the Sands of Time Hotel
Shuttle will depart at 6 p.m., will circle several times to get everyone, driver’s cell phone is 508-962-6815 if you arrive late and need a ride.
Monday June 27
7:30 Continental Breakfast
(Hang Posters)
8:30 Introductory Remarks and Announcements
Meng Zhou, University of Massachusetts (USA)
8:45 Plenary Session 1. Overview of Process Studies and Modeling
Chair: Matt Charette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (USA)
8:45 Ocean Iron Fertilization
Hein de Baar, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (Netherlands)
9:15 Overview of the KEOPS Natural Iron Fertilization Study
Stephane Blain, Laboratoire d’Océanographie Microbienne (France)
9:45 Overview of the CROZEX Natural Iron Fertilization Study
Richard Sanders, National Oceanography Centre (UK)
10:15 Break
10:45 Overview of the Southern Scotia Sea Natural Iron Fertilization Study
Meng Zhou, University of Massachusetts (USA)
11:15 Insights into the Spatio-temporal Variability in Natural Iron Fertilization
Alessandro Tagliabue, University of Cape Town (South Africa)
11:45 FeCycle II: Quantifying the Cycling of Fe and C During a Spring Diatom Bloom
Ben Twining, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (USA)
12:15 Lunch
13:30 Plenary Session 2. Physical Oceanographic Processes
Chair: Meng Zhou, University of Massachusetts (USA)
13:30 Physical Processes Governing Natural Iron Fertilization in the Southern Drake Passage
Sarah Gille, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (USA)
13:50 Roles of Iron and Light in Limiting Phytoplankton in Island Blooms and the Wider Southern Ocean
Hugh Venables, British Antarctic Survey (UK)
14:10 The Role of Ocean Mixing in Southern Ocean Iron-fueled Phytoplankton Blooms:
Insight from Radium Isotopes
Matt Charette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (USA)
14:30 Plenary Session 3. Chemical Distributions and Fluxes
Chair: Rob Sherrell, Rutgers University (USA)
14:30 Potential Role of Particulate Forms of Fe in Island Fertilization in the Southern Ocean
Peter Statham, University of Southampton (UK)
14:50 Natural Iron Fertilization around Elephant Island: Sources and Systematics of the Added Fe
Chris Measures, University of Hawaii (USA)
15:10 Export Flux Dynamics during Natural Iron Fertilization: A Synthesis
Paul Morris, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (USA)
15:30 Break
16:00 Plenary Session 4. Biological Response
Chair: Karen Selph, University of Hawaii (USA)
16:00 Natural Iron Fertilization above the Kerguelen Plateau (Southern Ocean): Impact on Carbon Remineralization by the Microbial Food Web
Ingrid Obernosterer, Laboratoire d’Océanographie Microbienne (France)
16:20 Natural Iron Fertilisation: Extrapolating the General from the Specific?
Mark Moore, National Oceanography Centre (UK)
16:40 Natural vs. Artificial Pelagic Iron Fertilizations and the Structure of Planktonic Communities in High Nutrients Environments of the Southern Ocean
Bernard Queguiner, Laboratoire d'Oceanographie Physique et Biogeochimique (France)
17:00-19:00 Reception and Poster Session (with hors d’oeuvre and drinks sponsored by WHOI Director’s Office)
Tuesday June 28
8:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 Plenary: Organization and Charge of Disciplinary Working Groups
Richard Sanders, National Oceanography Centre (UK)
(suggestion Biology, Chemistry, Physics)
9:30 Disciplinary Working Group Discussions: Iron Sources and Sinks
10:15 Break
10:45 Disciplinary Working Group Discussions: Food Web Impacts
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Plenary: Disciplinary Working Group Reports by Working Group Chairs:
Role of Particulate Iron
Process Study Design
15:00 Break
15:30 Plenary: Organization and Charge of Interdisciplinary Working Groups
Meng Zhou, University of Massachusetts (USA)
16:00 Interdisciplinary Working Group Discussions
17:00 2-minute Student Introductions and Poster Session (continued)
Borrione
Bundy
Marina
Seguret
18:00-21:00 Conference dinner (Co-sponsored by WHOI Director’s Office)
Fenno Patio or inside Buttery in case of rain
Wednesday June 29
8:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 Plenary: Interdisciplinary Working Group Reports by Working Group Chairs Beyond the Southern Ocean
Sequestration Efficiency
10:30 Break
11:00 Plenary: Closing remarks
Matt Charette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (USA)
11:30 Take-away lunch
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