Dear all,
I want to keep your attention for the SCAR XXXIII Biennial Meetings and Open Science Conference session (Auckland, New Zealand, 2014):
"Bio-moorings and sediment cores: combined tools to indentify the role of natural and anthropogenic stressors on the polar marine ecosystem"
A fundamental mechanism for the atmospheric CO2 regulation is the CO2 sequestration efficiency of the biological pump. Understanding how the biological pump is responding to the anthropogenic environmental stressors is a crucial global issue. The combination of bio-mooring (by capturing the seasonality of ice-covered environments) and sediment cores (by describing the amplitude, rate and timing of natural variability in the system) is a powerful approach to distinguish between natural variability and human-induced changes (e.g. global warming and ocean acidification).
This session aims to bring together scientists from different backgrounds with an interest in bio-mooring array (e.g. long term sediment traps and other sensor devices) and sediment cores studies to describe the ecosystem responses to physical, chemical and/or biological change.
This should be a cross-disciplinary session encompassing biogeochemical, biological and paleo-ecology aspects and covering different time periods, from the geological to seasonal scales. Presentations that utilize long-term traps dataset and sediment cores records are encouraged but innovative study utilizing sensors and other sampling mechanisms installed on mooring arrays are also welcomed
Abstracts submission are now open!
Clara Manno
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