Dear Colleagues- We are pleased to announce a session on "Basin to global scale ocean transport, connectivity, and dispersal" at AGU Ocean Sciences 2018 in Portland, OR, USA (11-16 Feb, 2018). Abstract deadline is 6th Sept. Please distribute to your students and colleagues. We look forward to seeing you in Portland!
*More information*: https://agu.confex.com/agu/os18/preliminaryview.cgi/Session28707 Physical transport of water masses over basin to global scales exerts control on processes as varied as global overturning circulation to the dispersal and ecological connectivity of endangered species. Use of observational floats, drifters, and tagging, combined with Lagrangian numerical studies, have provided new insights in both physical and biological applications. We solicit abstracts exploring pathways of ocean currents and organisms within them to facilitate cross-disciplinary exchange. For example: transport drives production of deep and intermediate water masses, upwelling drives ventilation and nutrient delivery, dispersal is an important life history strategy for species spanning microbial organisms to top predators, physical transport and mixing can interact with organism behavior to exert a strong control on dispersal, demographic and genetic connectivity, seascape boundaries and biological patchiness. However, much uncertainty remains: in the pathways of water masses important to global ocean dynamics, in the details of the biological interactions with these currents, natural variability and climate change effects on these processes, with implications for biogeography and resilience of marine populations. Here we welcome modeling and observational studies of water transport, connectivity, and biological dispersal at the basin to global scale, as well as studies defining new metrics and providing theoretical insights. *Chairs*: Cheryl S Harrison, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA; James R. Watson, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, OR, USA; Elliott L. Hazen, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Environmental Research Division, Monterey, CA, United States; Vincent Rossi, IFISC Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems, Palma de Mallorca, Spain ---- James Watson Assistant Professor, Oregon State University http://jrwatson.ceoas.oregonstate.edu
