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Subject: From Mark Dowell: Ocean Sciences 2006: (OS073) Ecological and Biogeochemical Provinces of the Ocean

I would like to draw your attention to the special session on "Ecological and Biogeochemical Provinces of the Ocean" planned for the upcoming AGU/ASLO/TOS Ocean Sciences Meeting being held 20-24 February 2006 in Honolulu, Hawaii: Abstracts must be submitted by October 20 at http://www.agu.org/ meetings/os06/.

OS073: Ecological and Biogeochemical Provinces of the Ocean
Conveners: Mark Dowell Joint Research Centre, European Commission IES, TP 272 Ispra, VA, ITA I-21020 +39-0332-789095 mark.dowell@jrc.it

Trevor Platt Bedford Institute of Oceanography Dartmouth, NS, CAN B2Y 4A2 tplatt@dal.ca
Description: The concept of oceanic provinces has existed for almost a century. Whether real or only conceptual, provinces provide a useful framework for understanding the mechanisms controlling biological, physical and chemical processes and their interactions. Criteria have been established for defining provinces based on physical forcings, availability of light and nutrients, complexity of the marine food web, and bio-optical properties. In general, such classification systems reflect the heterogeneous nature of the ocean environment, and the effort of scientists to comprehend the whole system by understanding its homogeneous components. In this session presentations are solicited which document the state of the art in research on defining oceanic province distribution as well as those that address applications of ocean provinces to applications in the fields of ecology, biogeochemistry and climate change research.
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> Mark Dowell Ph.D.
> Inland and Marine Waters Unit
> CEC Joint Research Centre,
> TP 272, I-21020 Ispra, Italy
> Tel: +39-0332-789095
> http://marine.jrc.cec.eu.int > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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