| Time |
Description | Location |
| Friday, 11 March 2005:
Pre-Workshop Meeting of the Steering Committee & Participants'
Registration |
| 1700 - 1900 |
Meeting Registration | Hotel Cabin Lobby |
| 1800 - 1930 | Review plans for the
Workshop and make last minute adjustments to schedule | | |
Workshop
on the impact of basin-scale oceanographic
and climate-related processes
on the dynamics of plankton and fish populations in
the North Atlantic Ocean: analysis, integration, synthesis, and modeling of N
Atlantic data sets. |
| Saturday, 12 March 2005: Workshop Begins |
| 0800-0900 |
Meeting Registration |
Hotel Cabin Top Floor
Meeting Room |
| 0900-0915 |
Introduction and Welcome to
the BASIN workshop (Peter Wiebe)
Speaker: Olafur S. Astthorsson, Deputy Director, MRI
Logistical Information
|
Hotel Cabin Top Floor
Meeting Room |
| 0915-1000 |
Workshop Rationale,
Objectives, and Structure
Introduction of Working Group Leaders/Rapporteurs
Discussion and Assignment to Working Groups (Peter Wiebe)
|
| 1000-1045 |
Plenary Speaker #1 (Dougie
Speirs - “Mechanisms relating ocean-scale distribution of Calanus finmarchicus
to environmental and hydrographic heterogeneity”) (ppt)
|
|
1045-1115
|
Coffee Break
|
|
1115-1200
|
Plenary Speaker
#2 (Jim Hurrell – “Climate
variability and basin-scale forcing over the North Atlantic”)
(ppt)
|
Hotel Cabin Top Floor
Meeting Room |
|
|
1200-1230
|
Discussion of
the Morning Talks
|
|
1230-1330
|
Lunch
|
|
|
1330-1415
|
Plenary Speaker
#3 (Gregory Beaugrand – “Basin
scale biological changes and climate impacts”)
(ppt)
|
Hotel Cabin Top
Floor Meeting Room
|
1415-1600
Groups can take
a break as desired. Coffee/Tea available.
|
Assembly of
First Three Working Groups to address:
I(a, b, c) What are the key basin-scale
hypotheses?
Can we link
hypotheses across the open ocean to the shelves?
1) To
understand basin scale variability, do we need to connect trophic levels,
from autotrophs to heterotrophs?
2) What
organisms offer the best opportunity to explore our hypotheses?
How many species must be included as
target organisms? Try to draw our hypothetical food web, life history chart.
3) How do we
include fish in our basin-scale hypothesis? Fish are not just a predatory
boundary condition for zooplankton
What are the key processes (biological, behavioral and physical)
linking variability in zooplankton and fish populations?
4) What are the
key physical and biological links between the open ocean and the continental
shelves?
5) Can we take
advantage of, or recommend, long term sustained observational and modeling
components as put forth by GOOS, GODAE, CLIVAR and related programs?
6) Can we make
long-range predictions of target organisms production and distribution?
|
Group Ia:
Cabin/IMR
M. Heath, Lead
P. Pepin,
Rappor.
Group Ib: Cabin/IMR
E. Head, Lead
K. Tande,
Rappor.
Group Ic:
Cabin/IMR
G. Beaugrand,
Lead
B. deYoung,
Rappor.
|
|
1600-1730
|
Plenary Session
Reports by each
Working Group Leader
Discussion
|
Hotel Cabin Top Floor
Meeting Room
|
| 1800-
|
Reception and
Dinner
|
Blue Lagoon
|
|
Sunday, 13
March 2005: |
|
0900-0915
|
Opening Remarks
and Charge for the Day
|
Hotel Cabin Top Floor
Meeting Room
|
|
0915-1000
|
Plenary Speaker
#4 (Dennis McGillicuddy
“Physical/biological modeling at basin-scales”)
(ppt)
|
|
1000-1045
|
Plenary Speaker
#5 (Svein Sundby - "Dynamics of the Subpolar Gyre and
physical/biological interactions")
(ppt)
|
|
1045-1115
|
Coffee Break
|
|
1115-1200
|
Plenary Speaker
#6 (Dale Haidvogel “Nested
Physical biological modeling basins to shelves”)
(ppt)
|
| 1200-1215
|
Discussion of
the Morning Talks
|
|
1215-1330
|
Lunch
|
|
|
1330-1600
|
Assembly of
First Three Working Groups to address:
Working group II Data issues:
1) Review what
data exist: physical, biological and ecosystem, model output (e.g.
atmospheric and oceanic hindcast runs)
2) How should
data be shared and managed (database questions)?
3) Determine
what data recovery might be useful.
4) Do data
resolve climate time-scales?
5) What new
data should be collected?
6) What are the
key features in the data that we would like to model and represent?
7) Are the
models realistic enough to simulate data dynamics?
Working Group III Model issues:
1) Are present
models adequate? Biological, physical and ecosystem.
2) Can we reach
the climate time-scale?
3) How do we
share and inter-calibrate models?
4) What
techniques of modeling must be developed or applied (e.g. assimilation)?
5) What new
models must be developed? Biological, physical and ecosystem.
6) Can the
models link the shelf to the open ocean?
7) Are the data
adequate for implementation and testing of models?
Working Group IV Basin Scale Ecosystem
management:
1) What are the
potential applications of basin-scale integration?
2) Can we offer
long range predictions of zooplankton and fish production?
3) Are the
models and the data presently adequate?
4) What are the
key steps to improve the data and models to make them effective?
|
Hotel Cabin Top Floor
Meeting Room
Cabin/IMR
B. Planque Lead
K. Drinkwater,
Rapp.
Cabin/IMR
A. Vezina, Lead
C. Werner,
Rappor.
Cabin/IMR
M. Fogarty,
Lead
S. Sundby,
Rappor.
|
1600-1730
1600-1615
1615-1730
|
Plenary Session
European Network of
Excellence EUR-OCEANS (Paul Trequer)
Reports by each
Working Group Leader
Discussion
|
Hotel Cabin Top Floor
Meeting Room
|
|
1800 -
|
Dinner On The
Town
|
|
|
Evening |
Working Groups
Continue Deliberations
|
Cabin/IMR
|
|
Monday, 14
March 2005:
|
|
0900-0915
|
Opening Remarks
and Charge for the Day
|
Hotel Cabin Top Floor
Meeting Room
|
|
0915-1215
|
Working Groups
Continue Deliberations and draft reports
|
Cabin/IMR
|
|
1215-1330
|
Lunch
|
|
|
1330-1630
|
Working Groups
Continue Deliberations and draft reports
|
Cabin/IMR
|
|
1630-1730
|
Summary Reports
by Working Group Leaders
|
Hotel Cabin Top Floor
Meeting Room
|
|
1800-
|
Group Dinner
Hosted by MRI
|
|
Tuesday, 15
March 2005: Post-Workshop
Meeting of the Steering Committee
|
|
0900-1200
|
Steering
Committee and Working Group Leaders/
Rapporteurs compile reports
|
Hotel Cabin Top Floor
Meeting Room
|
|
1200-1300
|
Lunch
|
|
|
1300-1700
|
Report writing
continues
|
Hotel Cabin Top Floor
Meeting Room
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