GLOBEC Canada Session at CMOS

Special GLOBEC Canada Session at CMOS 1998

A special session on "Climate Variability Influences on Shelf and Associated Ecosystems" is being organized by GLOBEC Canada as part of the 32nd Annual Congress of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. The congress will be held at the Holiday Inn, Dartmouth, N.S. on 1-4 June 1998. The theme of the congress is "Atmosphere-Ocean Climate Variability". Other special sessions include WOCE/CLIVAR and JGOFS research.

The convenor of the GLOBEC special session is Brian Petrie of BIO. Papers are solicited on all aspects of the GLOBEC Canada program, as well as from other research related to the GLOBEC themes of:

climate and ecosystem influences on Pacific fish stocks;
environmental influences of Calanus populations in the NW Atlantic; and
environmental and plankton influences on fish populations on the Scotian Shelf and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Further information on the CMOS Congress and abstract submission procedure can be found at the conference web site:

http://www.phys.ocean.dal.ca/CMOS/

Please note that the deadline for receipt of abstracts is 6 February 1998.

GLOBEC Canada investigators are strongly urged to use this opportunity to present early results of their GLOBEC research to the wider Canadian scientific community. In addition to submission of their abstract to the Scientific Program Committee (see above), authors are requested to send a copy of their abstract to the session convenor (Brian Petrie) at:

petrieb@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca, or Bedford Institute of Oceanography, P.O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, N.S. B2Y 4A2 (phone 902-426-3809; fax 902-426-7827).

An open evening meeting will also be held during the CMOS Congress to seek and discuss ideas for focal themes for a possible second phase of GLOBEC Canada. The date and time of this meeting will be posted on the GLOBEC Canada and CMOS Congress homepages.