Dear All, The 2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting will actually be held between 21-26 February. I apologize for the typo in my last message and for the confusion this might have caused to you.
Best regards, Weifu On Sep 16, 2015, at 2:11 PM, Weifu Guo <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Please consider submitting an abstract to our session “Coral Reef > Calcification in a Changing Ocean: from Microscale Mechanisms to Macroscale > Responses”, at the upcoming 2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting (21-26 January, New > Orleans, USA). We particularly invite contributions from ecologists that > bring new perspectives to this subject. The abstract deadline is Wednesday, > Sept. 23. > > https://agu.confex.com/agu/os16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session9619 > > AH004: Coral Reef Calcification in a Changing Ocean: from Microscale > Mechanisms to Macroscale Responses > Session ID: 9619 > Session Description: The reefs support an estimated 500 million people > worldwide. Yet anthropogenic CO2 emissions are driving unprecedented changes > in the tropical oceans, where the vast majority of shallow water reefs exist. > Rapid warming, acidification and declining productivity will have potentially > deleterious effects on calcification, the fundamental process of reef > building. However, quantitative projections of coral reef futures are limited > in part, by gaps in our understanding of the calcification process – from the > production of crystals to the building of reefs – and of the response of > coral and coral reef calcification to multiple, interactive global change > stressors on timescales of days to decades. This session invites > contributions from biologists, marine chemists, physical oceanographers, > ecologists and geochemists to bring diverse expertise and new perspectives to > a subject of global significance. We encourage submissions from field, > laboratory, and theoretical studies that offer new insights into the > fundamental mechanisms of coral calcification and reef building, and the > response of calcification to global change at the cellular, colony and > ecosystem scale. Paleoperspectives on calcification responses to past global > changes are encouraged as well as papers that offer insights into potential > for adaptation. > > Please feel free to contact us with any questions. We look forward to your > contributions! > > Yours Sincerely, > > Chairs: > Jessica Carilli (University of Massachusetts Boston) > Weifu Guo (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) > Anne Cohen (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) > Steeve Comeau (California State University, Northridge)
