Climate Variability and Sub-Arctic Marine Ecosystems
Background	Programme	Dates & venue	SSC
Abstracts	Presentations	Posters	Publication

Symposium schedule

The symposium was a combination of plenary sessions in the mornings and parallel sessions in the afternoons.

Keynote speakers will provided 40-minute introductions and challenges to selected topics and contributed papers were 20 minutes in length. Posters were displayed throughout the meeting, and sufficient time was provided for discussion with authors.

Workshops on BEST and ESSAS were held on the first and last days of the symposium, respectively.

Scientific Programme

The symposium’s scientific objective was to present current knowledge of the effects of seasonal to multi-decadal climate variability on the structure and function of Sub-Arctic marine ecosystems. Papers were invited, particularly interdisciplinary or comparative ones, on the following topics:

• large-scale climate forcing on the physical oceanography of Sub-Arctic seas
• physical and biological factors structuring Sub-Arctic ecosystems (e.g., nutrient availability, sea ice, low temperatures, low species diversity, etc.)
• the transfer of energy and material through subarctic food webs, from primary producers through zooplankton and benthic fauna to fish, seabirds, marine mammals and fisheries
• recent changes in subarctic ecosystems, time scales of variation and possible causes
• inter-comparisons between Sub-Arctic marine ecosystems.