To our fellow researchers investigating the dynamics of cyanobacteria blooms: Please consider submitting an abstract to present your work to a special session we are co-chairing at the upcoming ASLO Summer Meeting, to be held in Victoria, BC, Canada from June 10-15, 2018. Our session is titled “Freshwater CyanoHABs: Beyond Eutrophication” and is described in detail below. We are interested in submissions from a wide range of investigators, representing a diversity of habitats, experimental and analytical approaches, with a focus on the interactive effects of biotic and abiotic factors that influence cyanobacteria blooms in the context of increasing eutrophication. The deadline for abstract submission to the ASLO Summer Meeting in 2018 is Friday February 23. Information about how to submit abstracts may be found here: https://aslo.org/victoria2018/submission-overview SS78: Freshwater CyanoHABs: Beyond eutrophication
Gretchen Rollwagen-Bollens, Washington State University, USA ([email protected]) Anas Ghadouani, University of Western Australia ([email protected]) The frequency and magnitude of harmful cyanobacteria blooms (cyanoHABs) in freshwater ecosystems have increased over the past 50 years, and are expected to accelerate under future climate change. In the past decade, many investigators have examined the factors that influence freshwater cyanoHABs, particularly the role of eutrophication. And several reviews published between 2008 and 2013 highlight the potential significance of other drivers of cyanoHABs, such as temperature, mixing, and CO2 concentration, that may be interacting with increased nutrient availability to produce more intense blooms (e.g. Hudnell et al. 2008, O'Neil et al. 2012, Merel et al. 2013). In this session we invite submissions from investigators who are testing the interactive effects among these factors and in the context of changes in nutrient quantity and quality, thus going "beyond eutrophication" to examine how cyanoHABs develop in freshwater, how they become so intense and potentially toxic, and how these patterns vary across spatial and temporal scales. We encourage submissions from those with field observations, experimental programs, and modeling results from a range of latitudes and hemispheres. We particularly encourage submissions from scientists working in regions currently under-studied and/or under-reported in the cyanobacteria bloom literature (e.g. eastern Europe, Africa, and South America). Keywords: Climate Change, Cyanobacteria, Ecology, Eutrophication, Microbial, Nutrients, Phytoplankton, Plankton, Toxicology, Trophic, Zooplankton We hope to see you at the meeting in June! Gretchen Rollwagen-Bollens Associate Professor School of the Environment School of Biological Sciences Washington State University, USA Anas Ghadouani Professor Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering CRC for Water Sensitive Cities University of Western Australia
