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First Announcement- The Ocean in a High CO2 World
The
Ocean in a High CO2 World
An International Science Symposium
May 10 -12, 2004
UNESCO, Paris, France
The
Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) and the Intergovernmental
Oceanographic Commission (IOC) are convening an open symposium on
The Ocean in a High-CO2 World on 10-12 May 2004 in Paris, France.
The symposium will address the biological and biogeochemical consequences
of increasing atmospheric and oceanic CO2 levels, and possible strategies
for mitigating such increases. The symposium will include plenary
presentations, discussion sessions on research priorities, and a
poster session. Papers from the symposium will be published in a
special issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans and
research priorities will be published separately for the benefit
of ocean scientists and research program managers worldwide.
Full details of the symposium are available at: http://ioc.unesco.org/iocweb/co2panel/HighOceanCO2.htm
The
Program for the Symposium will feature:
Overviews
of atmospheric CO2 projections and climate drivers of the ocean
Effects of CO2 enrichment on ocean chemistry
Overviews of proposed sequestration strategies for the ocean
Short and long-term effects of CO2 enrichment on organisms and ecosystems
Effects and effectiveness of carbon sequestration techniques
Summaries of the implications of the high-CO2 world for ocean chemistry
and biology and how the research community could respond
Two open discussion sessions to identify research and observation
priorities and approaches
Contributions
to the Symposium are solicited on topics that include, but are not
limited to:
Effects
of anthropogenic CO2 increase on ocean chemistry
Effects of anthropogenic CO2 increase on ocean biology
Effects of purposeful CO2 enrichment on ocean chemistry
Effects of purposeful CO2 enrichment on ocean biology
Mitigation techniques: methods, efficiencies, unknowns
Observational field programs
Modelling projects
Organizations, programs, or scientific activities related to scientific
or technical aspects of ocean carbon science
All
contributed papers to the symposium will be presented as posters.
For
details, registration information, and abstract submission, please
visit: http://ioc.unesco.org/iocweb/co2panel/HighOceanCO2.htm or
contact Ed Urban (scor@jhu.edu) or Maria Hood (m.hood@unesco.org).
International
Planning Committee Members:
Phil
Boyd (New Zealand)
Peter Brewer (USA)
Ralph Cicerone (Chair, USA)
Peter Haugan (Norway)
Jim McWilliams (USA)
Liliane Merlivat (France)
Takashi Ohsumi (Japan)
James Orr (Vice-Chair, France)
Silvio Pantoja (Chile)
Hans-Otto Poertner (Germany)
Symposium
Coordinators :
Ed Urban, Executive Director, SCOR
Maria Hood, Program Specialist, Oceans and Climate, IOC
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