Dear colleagues, I am writing to announce a special conference session that I am co-organizing for the ASLO 2019 Aquatic Sciences Meeting. The title of our session is “Ecological Applications of Earth System Models and Regional Climate Models.” The full session description is provided below. We are seeking abstracts describing innovative research on any aspect of our conference session’s theme.
The ASLO 2019 Aquatic Science Meeting will take place in San Juan, Puerto between February 23- March 2, 2019. More information about this conference available at: https://aslo.org/sanjuan2019/main. Abstract submission for this conference will open soon. October 15, 2018 is the final deadline for submitting an abstract. Best wishes, Rebecca Asch Assistant Professor of Fisheries Biology East Carolina University SS36 ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS OF EARTH SYSTEM MODELS AND REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS Rebecca Asch, East Carolina University (asch...@ecu.edu) Darren Pilcher, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (darren.pilc...@noaa.gov) Sara Rivero-Calle, University of North Carolina - Wilmington (riverocal...@uncw.edu) Johnna Holding, Aarhus University (joh...@bios.au.dk) Earth system models (ESMs) and regional climate models (RCMs) are increasingly utilized by aquatic ecologists to study global environmental change. Over the last decade, these models have greatly enhanced their ability to simulate regional-scale ecosystems by incorporating additional biogeochemical processes and plankton functional groups, increasing their spatial resolution allowing for greater examination of mesoscale processes, and improving their capacity to assimilate data from observing systems. In this session, we invite abstracts that utilize ESMs and RCMs to examine fundamental processes that influence ecosystem function and structure, physical-biological coupling mechanisms, and the ecological impacts of climate change. Presentations addressing either marine or freshwater ecosystems are welcome. We are particularly interested in research showcasing ecologically relevant results from models that will be incorporated into the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. Experimental, mesocosm, and observational studies whose results can inform model development and parameterization are also germane. Research topics pertinent to this session include, but are not limited to: climate change impacts on organismal abundance, species range, phenology, and community structure; ecological impacts of extreme events; adaptation and acclimation to changing conditions; ecological forecasts; end-to-end ecosystem models; larval dispersal and population connectivity, and; regime shifts and interannual-to-decadal variability in ecosystem structure.
