Call for Session and Workshop Themes

Convenors:Luis Valdes (IOC)

Manuel Barange (ICES)

Jacquelynne King (PICES)

Alex Turra (U San Paulo)

Scientific Steering Committee:

John Gunn (Australia)

Yunne-Jai Shin (S. Africa)

Nicholas Bates (Bermuda) 

Maria deFatimaBorges (Portugal)

Silvana Birchenough (UK)

Brian MacKenzie (Demmark)

 Shoshiro Minobe (Japan)

Angelica Pena (Canada)

Fangli Qiao (China)  

Effects of Climate Change on the World’s Oceans

3rd International SymposiumMarch 23-27, 2015

Santos, Brazil bring together experts from different disciplines to exchange

observations, results, models and ideas on the impacts of climate change on the world’s oceans

two previous symposia each attracted over 400 scientists from over 45 countries, making the effort truly global in scale

combine paper Sessions and Workshops to provide a forum for topics on a global-scale and with regional comparisons

Effects of Climate Change on the World’s Oceans

Session and Workshop proposals by Sept 18, 2013: sea level rise, changes in thermo-haline ocean

circulation, acidification, oligotrophy of temperate seas, changes in species abundance, distribution and phenology, loss of biodiversity

PICES’ members of Scientific Steering Committee: Angelica Peña (angelica.pena@dfo-mpo.gc.ca) Shoshiro Minobe

(minobe@mail.sci.hokudai.ac.jp) Fangli Qiao (qiaofl@fio.org.cn)

Session and Workshop Proposals from ICES

1. Present evidence of climate change in marine ecosystems

2. Global and Regional projections of Climate Change impacts

3. Long term chemical changes: Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia

4. Climate Change impacts on human societies: vulnerability and adaptation strategies

5. Climate Change and food security

6. Long-term observation and monitoring networks of CC

7. Long-term assessments to understand climate driven changes and variability in marine ecosystems: new techniques, drawbacks and future applications

8. Physico-chemical effects of Ocean acidification

9. Linking Climate Change to Marine Management Objectives

10. Taking a long-term view: the use of historical data to understand the impact of climate change on marine fish, fisheries, and ecosystems

11. Consequences of Ocean acidification for commercial fish and shellfish species (to be considered as a Workshop)

12. Public understanding of climate change impacts: from science to policy

13. Climate change impacts on re-organisation and re-location of food webs

14. Climate change in the seasonal domain: impacts on the phenology of marine ecosystems and their consequences

15. Marine biodiversity

16. Role of subsurface ocean

17. Regional impacts of climate change

18. Physiological impacts of climate change

19. Model inter comparisons across regions

20. Mitigation

21. Risk assessment of adaptation options

22. Predictive skills

23. Economics of climate change

24. Ecosystem Science & Management tools in preparation for AR6