From 26 to 29 November 2013 the Marine Sciences Institute hosted the I Symposium on Integrating New Advances in Oceanography and Marine Biology Mediterranean (MEDOCEAN) with the aim to address the latest scientific advances related to marine science in the Mediterranean, especially from a dynamic perspective and with an outlook into future changes.
From 26 to 29 November 2013 the Marine Sciences Institute hosted the I Symposium on Integrating New Advances in Oceanography and Marine Biology Mediterranean (MEDOCEAN) with the aim to address the latest scientific advances related to marine science in the Mediterranean, especially from a dynamic perspective and with an outlook into future changes.
The symposium, organized under the auspices of international programs such as IMBER (Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem research), SOLAS (Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study) and LOICZ (Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone), has covered topics as diverse as a) understanding the peculiarities of the Mediterranean in limiting and in driving its fertilization, b) the transfer and transformations of organic matter through microbial food webs and up to higher trophic levels, c) how current trends in river run-off and groundwater, acifidication, temperature, oxigen, erosion, atmospheric deposition and storminess affect ocean processes, d) new advances in understanding geological hazards, water masses, sedimentation, mixing and cascading and their biogeochemical implications, e) the human dimension of the management of coastal areas and marine protected areas, shifts in the diversity and biogeography of organisms including fisheries and population outbursts of societal concern.
The congress was attended by 79 researchers from 8 countries.
More information on the symposium website: www.icm.csic.es/bio/medocean