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Subject: Second Announcement: The Ocean in a High CO2 World

The Ocean in a High CO2 World
An International Science Symposium, 10-12 May 2004, UNESCO, Paris 2nd Announcement
Early Registration Ends 31 March !
The Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO 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, climate and economic impacts, and climate drivers of the ocean
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 strategies
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 will be presented as posters. A few of the best posters will be selected for submission as articles to the JGR special issue, subject to normal peer-review procedures.
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)

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