Programme of activities
The summer school is designed to provide participants with high-level teaching activities given by internationally known scientists. The summer school will target PhD students and young post-docs working with biogeochemical cycles and end to end food webs. For each topic shown below, a combination of theoretical courses and practical workshops will be given. The discussion and poster sessions will be organized to stimulate interaction between students and also between students and the lecturers.Student Handbook
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Advance Reading
The following papers and books are suggested advanced reading in preparatin for the summer school. General
Patterns in the ocean: Ocean processes and marine population dynamics. Karl Bansea. School of Oceanography University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-3940, U.S.A.
Biogeochemistry
- Cross-basin differences in particulate organic carbon export and flux attenuation in the subtropical North Atlantic gyre. Helmke, P. Neuer, S. Lomas, M.W. Conte and M. Freudenthal, T. Deep-Sea Research I 57 (2010) 213–227
- Sarmiento and Gruber "Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics", Princeton University Press, 2006 Full draft available here (please note not the final published version)
- Mouriño-Carballido, B. and Neuer, S. (2008). Regional Differences in the Role of Eddy Pumping in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre: Historical Conundrums Revisited. Oceanography Vol. 21, No.2
Fish
Dynamics of Pelagic Fish Distribution and Behaviour: Effects on fisheries and Stock Assessment", Fréon and Misund, Fishing News Books, 1999
Themes of scientific lectures
Lecture series on “Main processes controlling marine food webs”: 1) Fundamentals of food web structure and functioning and biogeochemical cycles: processes and parameterisations
2) Climate-induced controls through
- Temperature > metabolic rates
- stratification> nutrient fluxes > phytoplankton community structure
- ocean acidification
- Habitat modification> transport- optimal vs realized habitats
3) Anthropogenic induced impacts through
- Eutrophication
- Pollution
- Fishing
- Alien invasive species
Lecture series on “Advances in end-to-end food web modelling”
- Coupled physical-biogeochemical models (including optics)
- Plankton functional type models: ecology vs. biogeochemistry, aggregation
- Higher trophic level models and their coupling with lower trophic level models
- Model skill assessments
Lecture series on “The Implications of environmental change for Resource Management’
- The ecosystem approach to management
- Environmental indicators
- Management strategy evaluation tools
