SOLAS Open Science Conference

16-19 November 2009, Barcelona, Spain

Plenary presentations

Name
Affiliation
Country
Title of talk
file
Monday 16th November: Long-lived gases and ocean acidification

Laura Farias*

Universidad de Concepcion Chile Tracking processes cycling greenhouse gases (N2O and CH4) in the eastern South Pacific Region 12 Mb

Frances Hopkins*

Plymouth Marine Laboratory UK Ocean acidification and marine biogenic trace gas production 9 Mb
Urumu Tsunogai Hokkaido University USA Tracing nitrate and nitrous oxide in surface ocean using stable isotopes 9 Mb
Monday 16th November: Advances in gas exchange parametrisation

Rik Wanninkhof

NOAA/AOML USA Quantifying air-sea gas transfer velocities -Do we need more than wind speed? 8 Mb

Christa Marandino

IFM-GEOMAR Germany Measuring open ocean DMS fluxes: A comparison and synthesis of air-sea gas transfer velocity experiments 4 Mb

Brian Ward

NUI, Galway Ireland Toward quantification of upper ocean and lower atmosphere processes for improved determination of air-sea gas fluxes. 29 Mb
Tuesday 17th November: Surface ocean lower atmosphere interactions of the past

Carles Pelejero

ICREA/CSIC Spain Acidification and carbon cycling in the oceans: Clues from the past  

Isabel Cacho**

University of Barcelona Spain Could glacial-interglacial variability in Eastern Equatorial upwelling system contribute to atmospheric CO2 changes? 3 Mb

Rebecca Robinson

University of Rhode Island USA Lessons from the last ice age: High latitude controls on tropical ocean biogeochemistry 5 Mb

Eric Galbraith

McGill University Canada Modeling the impacts of past climate changes on global nutrient distributions 3 Mb
Tuesday 17th November: Aerosols over the ocean

Mitsuo Uematsu

University of Tokyo Japan Distibution and chemical characterisation of marine aerosols over the Pacific Ocean 24 Mb
Trish Quinn NOAA PMEL USA Origins and composition of aerosol in the marine atmosphere 10 Mb

Olga Mayol-Bracero

University of Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Carbonaceous aerosols over the Caribbean region 5 Mb

Ashwini Kumar

Physical Research Laboratory India Mineral and anthropogenic aerosols over the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal 4 Mb
Wednesday 18th November: Advanced techniques for SOLAS
Marcel Kuypers MPI for Marine Microbiology Germany Quantifying microbial activity in the Ocean: From single cells to global fluxes 7 Mb
Oscar Schofield Rutgers University USA Dawn in the age of robotic oceanography: Building an autonomous distributed network for the world's oceans 79 Mb
Mick Follows MIT USA Modelling marine microbes: Physiology, community structure and biogeochemical function 5 Mb
Peter Liss University of East Anglia UK SOLAS and the spectre of geo-engineering 4 Mb
Wednesday 18th November: Ozone and halogens over the ocean

John Plane

University of Leeds UK Halogen chemistry in the marine boundary layer 18 Mb
Sandy Steffen Environment Canada & Universitat Luneberg Canada & Germany Understanding atmospheric mercury in the world of ozone and halogens over the Arctic Ocean
Alfonso Saiz-Lopez CSIC, Toledo Spain Possible climatic impacts of reactive halogens in the tropical marine atmosphere 9 Mb
Thursday 19th November: Nutrient limitation and atmospheric deposition
Cecile Guieu CNRS, Villefranche-sur-Mer France Impact of atmospheric inputs on oligotrophic ecosystems 12 Mb
Gwo-Ching Gong National Taiwan Ocean University Taiwan, China Effect of Asian dust storm on upper ocean biogeochemistry in the nutrient limited Northwest Pacific Ocean 59 Mb
Alex Baker University of East Anglia UK Field observations of nutrient deposition to the Atlantic Ocean 5 Mb
Jordi Dachs IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona Spain Atmosphere ocean exchange of organic matter: Characterisation, fluxes and significance 2 Mb
Thursday 19th November:Genomic and genetic studies of ocean-atmosphere exchanges
Maryann Moran University of Georgia USA Regulation of bacterial DMSP degradation: a functional genomic approach 8 Mb
Rebecca Langlois IFM-GEOMAR Germany Factors influencing the distribution and abundance of diazotrophs: A qPCR approach 6 Mb
Thomas Mock University of East Anglia UK Whole-genome expression profiling of the marine diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana to identify the molecular underpinnings of nutrient limited growth

* The keynote presentation by Ulf Riebesell was cancelled and replaced with a 20 min talk by Frances Hopkins.
** Replaced Daniela Schmidt