Trends, Reflections, Evolution, and Visions in Ocean Research

Day 1 – Wednesday, 9 August 2023

Registration

Inaugural Session, Co-chairs: John Field and Andréa de Lima Oliveira

Welcome

By Icarus Allen

Logistics, Health and Safety

By Suzanne Hawkins

Background and introduction

By Thomas Jackson

Opening Keynote: The Ocean as a Common Weal

By Nick Owens

Trevor’s contributions to science and capacity building: A Chilean perspective

By Osvaldo Ulloa

Trevor’s contributions to science and capacity
building: An Indian perspective

By Grinson George

Break

Oral Session 1: Physical and biological interactions, Co-chairs: Mauricio A. Noernberg and Ranith R. Pillai

Working with Trevor (Invited Talk)

By Žarko Kovač

Investigating the Impact of Climate Change on Phytoplankton Phenology in the Tropical Indian Ocean

By Aditi Modi

Primary-productivity in Upwelling Systems (PRIMUS)

By Steve Groom

Variability of Sea Surface Temperature related to Chlorophyll-a in Simeulue Island Coastal Waters, West Sumatra Sea

By Nazli Raudhati

Coupling between hydrography and bio-optical constituents in a shallow optically complex region using ten years of in-situ data

By Arjun Adhikari

Lunch

Oral Session 2: Marine Optics & Ocean Colour, Co-chairs: Jongkuk Choi and Priscila Kienteca Lange

Status of in situ and satellite observations in Latin America (Invited Talk)

By Ana Ines Dogliotti

Optical properties of a shallow coral reef environment in French Polynesia

By Pirta Palola

Beyond biomass: the optics of phytoplankton photophysiology

By Lisl Lain

Capturing the seasonal to decadal variations of primary production from satellite ocean color measurements

By Zhongping Lee / Shaoling Shang

Uncertainties in ocean colour remote sensing – How metrology can help

By Frédéric Mélin

Break

NETWORKING SESSION 1

What worked well in capacity building and how to sustain it?

Leads: Vivian Lutz, Margareth Kyewalyanga, Sophie Carler

Details to be announced

Online Guitar Concert, Celso Leal and Students

Ice breaker and Poster Session 1, Details TBA

Day 2 – Thursday, 10 August 2023

Oral Session 3: Marine Optics & Ocean Colour, Co-chairs: tbc

Ocean Reflections: Over 50 years of scientific excellence in marine science (Invited Talk)

By Heather A. Bouman

Characterizing the spatial and temporal dynamics of phytoplankton phenology in the British Columbia and Southeast Alaska coastal oceans using satellite ocean colour data

By Sejal Pramlall

Coupling ecological concepts with an ocean-colour model: Parametrisation and forward modelling

By Xuerong Sun

Assessment of Chlorophyll-a Remote Sensing Algorithms based on Sentinel-3B data in the eastern Algerian Coast (SW Mediterranean Sea)

By Khadidja Wissal Abdallah

Utilizing Satellite-Derived Bathymetry of turbid water coral reefs to improve hydrodynamic models of Southern Singapore

By Yochi Okta Andrawina

Break

Oral Session 4: Physiological ecology of marine phytoplankton, Co-chairs: : Vivian Montecino and Franck Ghomsi

Trends and trajectories of phytoplankton primary production and bloom phenology in the Southern Ocean

By Thomas Ryan-Keogh

Bio-optical properties of dinoflagellate blooms from Todos Santos Bay (Baja California, México)

By Adriana Gonzalez

Interannual variability of carbon and nutrient subduction in the Southern Ocean

By Essowe Panassa

Metabarcoding application to Planktonic Time-Series analysis

By Hannah Lloyd-Hartley

Driver of phytoplankton community dynamics in tropical coastal habitat

By Samiul Huda

Lunch

Session 5: Water Quality and human health, Co-chairs: Seunghyun Son and Safin I P

Exploiting technological advances to develop resilience of coastal communities to extreme
weather events (Invited Talk)

By Nandini Menon

Microbial pollution in a tropical lake and the incidence of acute diarrheal diseases

By Anas Abdulaziz

Assessing water quality and hydrodynamics in the central coast of Bangladesh: a Delft3D modelling approach

By Eurida Liyana

Lab on a mini-Secchi disk

By Bob Brewin

Water quality and health risk assessments of illegal gold mining-impacted estuaries in Ghana

By Charles Abimbola Faseyi

Break

NETWORKING SESSION 2

UN-SDGs related to water

Leads: Stefano Ferretti (Invited), Milton Kampel, Gemma Kulk

Poster Session 2

Details to be announced

Symposium Dinner

Rockfish

Day 3 – Friday, 11 August 2023

Oral Session 6: Size and ecosystem structure of aquatic communities, Co-chairs: Vanda Brotas and Rodrigo Hernández-Moresino

Pelagic size spectra: history, limitations, and some diverse applications (Invited Talk)

By Angus Atkinson

Integration of socio-ecological data for MPA zoning: An example from the south-east coast of Bangladesh

By Subrata Sarker

Machine Learning techniques for forecasting the effect of Climate Change and Anthropogenic pressures on Coastal wetlands (Ichkeul Lake, Ramsar Site)

By Sabrine Sahbani

Satellite-guided individual based modelling for spatial distribution of fish: Atlantic mackerel as an example

By Shovonlal Roy

Pelagic respiration and biomass size spectra in the Humboldt Current System

By Renato Quiñones

Break

NETWORKING SESSION 3:

Wrap up: Lessons learned and way forward

Leads: Shubha Sathyendranath, Raisha Lovindeer, Sophie Seeyave

Details to be announced

Lunch

Trevor Platt Science Foundation Annual Meeting (TPSF members only)