Information - OS4 Open Session on the Biogeochemistry of the Oceanic Carbon Cycle (co-listed in BG)
Event Information
Attempts to predict the future global environment depend on a comprehensive understanding of how plankton biodiversity and biogeochemical cycling in the oceans affects the climate system, and of how changes in climate influence the structure and functional properties of oceanic ecosystems. Intensive ecological and biogeochemical field studies have been undertaken during the last 10-15 years including lagrangian process studies, eulerian time-series stations, meridional transects and purposeful nutrient fertilizations. These field studies have been interpreted with the aid of a hierarchy of mathematical models which describe the contextual physical processes supplying the requisite organic and inorganic nutrients and the ecosytem structure and function facilitating the production, transformation, sequestration and air/sea exchange of carbon. This session invites contributions related to observations, experimental manipulations, predictive analyses and modelling studies of the biological, chemical, physical and geological processes involved in the oceanic carbon cycle and the interactions between them.
Preliminary List of Solicited Speakers
Prof. Richard Geider, University of Essex, UK
Nutrient limitation of photosynthesis, nitrogen fixation and phytoplankton composition in the North Atlantic.
Prof. Reiner Schlitzer, Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany
Co-Sponsorship
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