Climate Variability and Sub-Arctic Marine Ecosystems


GLOBEC Symposium

Thursday 19 May
Session 5 Climate change and the structure of ecosystems: the potential for trophic cascades (Chair: Erica Head)
08:30 Invited speaker: Eugene Murphy
09:00 Contributed talk: Sarah Gaichas (USA, Bering)
09:20 Contributed talk: E Logerwell (USA, Gulf of Alaska)
09:40 Contributed talk: Einar Svendsen (Norway, Nordic Seas)
10:00 Contributed talk: FJ Saucier (Canada, Hudson Bay)
10:20 Break
Session 6 Recent changes in ecosystem structure or function (Chair: Ian Perry)
10:50 Invited speaker: Keith Brander
11:10 Contributed talk: Kazuaki Tadokoro (Japan, Oyashio)
11:30 Contributed talk: Phyllis Stabeno (USA, Bering)
11:50 Contributed talk: Jacqueline Grebmeier (USA, Bering)
12:10 Contributed talk: Michel Starr (Canada, NW Atlantic)
12:30 Lunch
Session 7 Implications of climate-forced change for management and social institutions (Chair: Rosemary Ommer)
14:00 Invited speaker: Larry Hamilton
14:20 Contributed talk: Larry Merculieff (USA, climate change and Arctic communities)
14:40 Contributed talk: Igor Krupnik (USA, ice, walrus and men)
15:00 Contributed talk: Holly Dolan (Canada, Coasts under Stress)
15:20 Contributed talk: MS Murray (USA, Human and ecosystem health, Gulf of Alaska)
15:40 Break
16:10 Brief reports from the Chairs of disciplinary sessions
(one overhead with no more than 3 bullets)
16:30 Panel led discussion "On what should we focus if we are to understand and predict the effects of climate change on Sub-Arctic Marine Ecosystems? Panel members: Dick Beamish (Chair, Canada), Egil Sakshaug (Norway), Anne Hollowed (USA), Mickle Flint (Russia)
17:30 Summary of symposium: Victor Smetacek (Germany)
18:00 Closing of symposium: George Hunt and Ken Drinkwater
18:00-19:00 Registration for ESSAS Workshop