Call for Session Abstracts
Ocean Sciences Meeting 2018
11-16 February
Portland, Oregon
Abstract submission deadline:
11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, Wednesday, 6 September 2017
For further information about the meeting and abstract submission, go to:
http://osm.agu.org/2018/
The American Geophysical Union (AGU), the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), and the Oceanography Society are currently accepting abstract submissions for the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting. The meeting will be held 11-16 February 2018 in Portland, Oregon.
Conveners of the following session invite abstract submissions:
SESSION 28168: The Distributed Biological Observatory: An Expanding Change Detection Array in the Marine Arctic
Session Chairs: Jacqueline Grebmeier and Sue Moore.
Arctic marginal seas are undergoing historically unprecedented reductions in sea ice volume and extent, concomitant with increasing ocean temperatures. It is uncertain how the marine ecosystem is responding to these sea ice thinning trends and alterations in the timing of seasonal sea ice retreat and formation. The scope of these possible changes include primary production, planktonic and benthic biomass, migration patterns of upper trophic level consumers, and overall biogeochemical cycling. In order to systematically track biological responses to sea ice loss and associated environmental changes, an international consortium of scientists have developed the "Distributed Biological Observatory" (DBO), which integrates biological measurements at multiple trophic levels with physical oceanographic sampling from ships, satellites and moorings. The DBO initially focused on five biological "hotspot" regions distributed along a latitudinal gradient extending from the northern Bering Sea through the Chukchi Sea; subsequently, three DBO regions were added in the Beaufort Sea. An Atlantic-DBO, comprised of five transect lines, is now being developed in the northern Barents Sea and Fram Strait, and DBO lines have been proposed for Baffin Bay. This session will provide a forum to present recent multi-disciplinary scientific findings associated with physical forcing and ecosystem response detected through the DBO change detection array in the Pacific Arctic.
For more information and to submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/os18/preliminaryview.cgi/Session28168
For questions, please contact:
Jackie Grebmeier
Email: jgrebmei [at] umces.edu
Sue Moore
Email: sue.moore [at] noaa.gov