Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry



OB001
Approaches to study marine oxygen deficient zones from macro to micro scales
Primary Chair:  Annie Bourbonnais, University of South Carolina, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment, Columbia, SC, United States
Co-chairs:  Andreas Haas, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Marine Microbiology & Biogeochemistry, Den Burg, Netherlands, Mark A Altabet, Univ Massachusetts Darmouth, New Bedford, MA, United States and Brett Walker, University of Ottawa, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Annie Bourbonnais, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, United States


OB002
Benthic controls on the marine silica cycle: continental margins to open ocean
Primary Chair:  Shaily Rahman, University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
Co-chairs:  Claudia Ehlert, University of Oldenburg, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Oldenburg, Germany and Jeffrey W Krause, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Shaily Rahman, University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States


OB003
Bentho-Pelagic Interactions from Coastal to Deep Ocean Environments
Primary Chair:  Natalya Gallo, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, Marine Biology Research Division, La Jolla, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Amanda Nicole Netburn, NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Silver Spring, United States, Jeffrey Drazen, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States and Anela Choy, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, Integrative Oceanography Division, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Natalya Gallo, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, Marine Biology Research Division, La Jolla, CA, United States


OB004
Beyond just discovery in the ocean’s midwater: novel and mechanistic approaches to understanding meso- and bathypelagic ecosystems
Primary Chair:  Joel Llopiz, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Co-chairs:  Annette Govindarajan1, Christopher Bassett2 and Peter H Wiebe1, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States(2)Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Joel Llopiz, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States


OB005
Biogeochemistry in the BGC-Argo era: from process studies to ecosystem forecasts
Primary Chair:  Paolo Lazzari, National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS), Trieste, Italy
Co-chairs:  Katja Fennel, Dalhousie University, Department of Oceanography, Halifax, NS, Canada, Giorgio Dall'Olmo, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom and Alexandre Mignot, Mercator Océan International, Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France
Primary Liaison:  Paolo Lazzari, National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS), Trieste, Italy


OB006
Biological hotspots in the deep sea: natural variability and adaptation to changing oceans
Primary Chair:  Furu Mienis, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands
Co-chairs:  Hans Tore Rapp, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Andrew J Davies, University of Rhode Island, Bangor, United Kingdom and Jasper M De Goeij, University of Amsterdam, Freshwater and marine ecology, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Primary Liaison:  Furu Mienis, NIOZ, Den Burg, Netherlands


OB007
Complexity, Connectivity and Change in Southern Ocean Food Webs
Primary Chair:  Nadine Johnston, NERC British Antarctic Survey, Ecosystems, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Co-chairs:  Andrea M Pinones, Instituto de Ciencias Marinas y Limnológicas, Valdivia, Chile, Eugene John Murphy, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Eileen E Hofmann, Old Dominion University, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Norfolk, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Nadine Johnston, NERC British Antarctic Survey, Ecosystems, Cambridge, United Kingdom


OB008
Effect of warming on biological, ecological and biogeochemical ocean processes: responses from organismal to ecosystem scales
Primary Chair:  Susanne Menden-Deuer, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States
Co-chairs:  Gabriel Yvon-Durocher, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom and Hongbin Liu, HKUST, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Primary Liaison:  Bingzhang Chen, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom


OB009
Energy metabolism and calcification in marine organisms: mechanisms and responses to environmental stress
Primary Chair:  Frank Melzner, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Marine Ecology, Kiel, Germany
Co-Chair:  Martin Tresguerres, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Frank Melzner, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Marine Ecology, Kiel, Germany


OB010
Feedbacks of the biological pump to atmosphere in past, present and future changing climates
Primary Chair:  Wolfgang Koeve, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Co-chairs:  Raffaele Bernardello, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Climate prediction, Barcelona, Spain, Samar Khatiwala, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom and C Mark Moore, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Wolfgang Koeve, GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany


OB011
From the twilight zone to the troposphere: ocean optics applications to biogeochemical cycling in and through the surface ocean
Primary Chair:  Norman B Nelson, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Jason Graff, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Margaret L Estapa, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, United States and Ivona Cetinic, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Norman B Nelson, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States


OB012
Functional diversity and the present and future of marine biogeochemical cycles
Primary Chair:  Federico Baltar, University of Vienna, Dept. of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Vienna, Austria
Co-chairs:  Kristin Bergauer, Helmhotz Centre of Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany and Gerhard J Herndl, University of Vienna, Dept. of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Vienna, Austria
Primary Liaison:  Federico Baltar, University of Vienna, Dept. of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Vienna, Austria


OB013
Life, material transport and element cycling in the hadal realm
Primary Chair:  Ronnie N Glud, University of Southern Denmark, Department of Biology, Odense, Denmark
Co-chairs:  Frank Wenzhofer, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, HGF-MPG Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Bremerhaven, Germany, Matthias Zabel, Univ Bremen, Bremen, Germany and Doug Bartlett, University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ronnie N Glud, University of Southern Denmark, Department of Biology, Odense, Denmark


OB014
Linking microbial, isotope, micro-nutrient, and other approaches to understand carbon and nutrient cycling in the ocean
Primary Chair:  Patrick A Rafter, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Alexis Pasulka, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Department of Biological Sciences, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States, Robert T Letscher, University of New Hampshire, Earth Sciences, Durham, NH, United States and Katherine Dawson, Caltech MC 100-23, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Patrick A Rafter, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States


OB015
Linking the biology, geochemistry, and circulation of the Gulf of Mexico
Primary Chair:  Angela N Knapp, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Co-chairs:  Alan M Shiller, University of Southern Mississippi, Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, Heather M Benway, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., Woods Hole, MA, United States and Juan Carlos Herguera, Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Ensenada, Mexico
Primary Liaison:  Angela N Knapp, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States


OB016
Marine deoxygenation in a changing climate: drivers, detection, and ecosystem impacts
Primary Chair:  Jerry Tjiputra, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
Co-chairs:  Yohei Takano, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, Zouhair Lachkar, New York University in Abu Dhabi, Center for Prototype Climate Modeling (CPCM), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and Daoxun Sun, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yohei Takano, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany


OB017
Marine Sediments: Fluxes, Fauna, and Forecasting
Primary Chair:  Heili Lowman, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Co-Chair:  Tina Treude, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States; University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Heili Lowman, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, Santa Barbara, CA, United States


OB018
Marine snow and associated small-scale processes with large-scale implications
Primary Chair:  Jennifer C. Prairie, University of San Diego, Environmental and Ocean Sciences, San Diego, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Uta Passow, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Kai Ziervogel, University of New Hampshire, Ocean Process Analysis Laboratory, Durham, NH, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jennifer C. Prairie, University of San Diego, Environmental and Ocean Sciences, San Diego, CA, United States


OB019
New insights on net community production and biogenic carbon export in the Southern Ocean
Primary Chair:  Lionel Arteaga, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Co-chairs:  Haidi Chen, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Seth M Bushinsky, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Marine Sciences Building, Honolulu, HI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lionel Arteaga, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States


OB020
New Tools and Approaches to Constrain the Marine Nitrogen Cycle: From the Surface to the Sediments
Primary Chair:  Christopher J Somes, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Co-chairs:  Mar Benavides, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Marseille, France, Angela Landolfi, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany and Carolin R. Löscher, Univ Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Primary Liaison:  Christopher J Somes, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany


OB021
Ocean Memory: enabling adaptation, evolution, and sustainability in a changing world.
Primary Chair:  Samantha Benton Joye, University of Georgia, Department of Marine Sciences, Athens, GA, United States
Co-Chair:  Jody W. Deming, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Samantha Benton Joye, Univ Georgia, Department of Marine Sciences, Athens, GA, United States


OB022
Planktonic calcifiers: what can we learn about past, present, and future oceans?
Primary Chair:  Rosie L Oakes, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Co-chairs:  Patricia S Thibodeau, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary, Gloucester Point, VA, United States and Amy E Maas, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, St. George's, Bermuda
Primary Liaison:  Rosie L Oakes, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States


OB023
Plankton on the move: variable and changing biogeography in the past, present, and future
Primary Chair:  Natalie M Freeman, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Kristen M. Krumhardt, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Cara Nissen, Environmental Physics, Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; ETH Zurich, Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, Zurich, Switzerland
Primary Liaison:  Natalie M Freeman, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States


OB024
Quantifying Carbon Export Pathways in the Global Ocean
Primary Chair:  David Siegel, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Deborah K Steinberg, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Biological Sciences, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, Ivona Cetinic, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Stephanie Henson, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  David Siegel, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States


OB025
Seafloor Cold Seepage: Interactions and Effects of Hydrocarbon Emission and Methane Hydrates on the Geological and Biological Environments
Primary Chair:  Davide Oppo, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States
Co-chairs:  Samantha Benton Joye, University of Georgia, Department of Marine Sciences, Athens, GA, United States, Tamara Baumberger, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway and Amanda W Demopoulos, US Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Gainesville, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Davide Oppo, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States


OB026
Seasonal Cycles of Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems Under a Changing Climate
Primary Chair:  Keith B Rodgers, IBS Center for Climate Physics, Busan, South Korea
Co-chairs:  Jorg Schwinger, NORCE Climate, Bergen, Norway and Andrea J Fassbender, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Peter Landschuetzer, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany


OB027
Structure, function and biogeochemical role of plankton communities in the nutrient limited open ocean
Primary Chair:  Tatiana A Rynearson, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States
Co-chairs:  Adam Martiny, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, Bethany D. Jenkins, University of Rhode Island, Cell and Molecular Biology, Kingstown, RI, United States and Robert T Letscher, University of New Hampshire, Earth Sciences, Durham, NH, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tatiana A Rynearson, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States


OB028
The role of cell size and plankton community structure as drivers of ocean metabolism
Primary Chair:  Angelicque E White, University of Hawaii, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States
Co-Chair:  Laurie W Juranek, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
Primary Liaison:  Angelicque E White, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States


OB029
The role of plankton physiology and ecology for ocean biogeochemistry
Primary Chair:  Friederike Prowe, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Co-chairs:  Judith Hauck, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research, Marine Biogeoscoences, Bremerhaven, Germany and Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Friederike Prowe, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany


OB030
Towards BioGeoSCAPES: Exploring molecular drivers of ocean metabolism and biogeochemistry
Primary Chair:  Benjamin S Twining, Bigelow Lab for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States
Co-chairs:  Erin Marie Bertrand, Dalhousie University, Department of Biology, Halifax, NS, Canada, Martha Gledhill, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany and Naomi Marcil Levine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Benjamin S Twining, Bigelow Lab for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States


OB031
Understanding structure and function of benthic meiofaunal communities across ocean basin scales
Primary Chair:  Punyasloke Bhadury, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for Climate and Environmental Studies, Mohanpur, West Bengal, India
Co-chairs:  Jeroen Ingels, Florida State University, FSU Coastal and Marine Laboratory, St Teresa, FL, United States and Anwesha Ghosh, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Department of Biological Sciences, Kolkata, India
Primary Liaison:  Punyasloke Bhadury, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for Climate and Environmental Studies, Mohanpur, West Bengal, India


OB032
Understanding the evolution of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: The role of climate and upwelling pattern
Primary Chair:  Onema Adojoh, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri, United States
Co-Chair:  Walaa Awad, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research, Madison, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Walaa Awad, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research, Madison, WA, United States


AI007
The Biogeochemistry of the Upper Ocean and Air-Sea Exchange Processes
Primary Chair:  Andrew S Wozniak, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Lewes, DE, United States
Co-chairs:  Mariana Ribas Ribas, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Wilhelmshaven, Germany, Amanda A Frossard, University of Georgia, Department of Chemistry, Athens, GA, United States and Mohd Talib Latif, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, School of Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bangi, Malaysia
Primary Liaison:  Andrew S Wozniak, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Lewes, DE, United States


CP002
Carbon Accumulation and Its Long-term Stability in Blue Carbon Ecosystems
Primary Chair:  Judith Z Drexler, USGS California Water Science Center, Sacramento, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  James W Fourqurean, Florida International Univ, Miami, FL, United States and Ken Krauss, U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Lafayette, LA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Judith Z Drexler, U.S. Geological Survey, Sacramento, CA, United States


CP009
Interdisciplinary Approaches for Understanding Coastal Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemical Processes and Budgets
Primary Chair:  Holger Brix, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Institute for Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany
Co-Chair:  Raymond Najjar, The Pennsylvania State University, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Holger Brix, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Institute for Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany


CP010
Methane Emissions from Coastal and Ocean Environments
Primary Chair:  Judith Andrea Rosentreter, Southern Cross University, Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry, Lismore, NSW, Australia
Co-Chair:  Bradley Eyre, Southern Cross University, Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry, Lismore, NSW, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Judith Andrea Rosentreter, Southern Cross University, Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry, Lismore, NSW, Australia


CP017
The Transformation and Fate of Carbon at the Land-Ocean Interface and Beyond
Primary Chair:  Michael Seidel, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
Co-chairs:  Nicholas Ward, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Whitney Marine Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Sairah Malkin, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States and Patricia M Medeiros, University of Georgia, Department of Marine Sciences, Athens, GA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Michael Seidel, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany


CT001
Biogeochemical cycles in oxygen minimum zones: mechanisms, drivers, and change
Primary Chair:  David Janssen, University of Bern, Institute of Geological Sciences & Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, Bern, Switzerland
Co-chairs:  Daniele Bianchi, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Thomas S Weber, University of Rochester, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rochester, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  David Janssen, University of Bern, Institute of Geological Sciences & Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, Bern, Switzerland


CT002
Biogeochemistry of DOM and DOM-Microbe Interactions
Primary Chair:  Sasha Wagner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Troy, NY, United States
Co-chairs:  Sinikka Lennartz, University of Oldenburg, ICBM-MPI Bridging Group for Marine Geochemistry, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Oldenburg, Germany, Bryndan Paige Durham, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States and Helena Osterholz, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Sasha Wagner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Troy, NY, United States


CT003
Chemical Speciation and Biogeochemistry in a Changing Ocean
Primary Chair:  David R Turner, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Co-chairs:  Veronique Oldham, University of Delaware, College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, Lewes, DE, United States, Sylvia Sander, IAEA, Monaco-Ville, Monaco and Emily R Estes, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  David R Turner, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden


CT004
Controls on Trace Metal Biogeochemistry and Physicochemical Speciation in Seawater
Primary Chair:  Hannah Whitby, IUEM Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, LEMAR, Plouzané, France
Co-chairs:  Randelle M Bundy, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, Jessica N Fitzsimmons, Texas A & M University, Department of Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States and Andrea Koschinsky, Jacobs University Bremen, Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, Bremen, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Hannah Whitby, IUEM Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, LEMAR, Plouzané, France


CT005
Gases as Tracers of Ocean Biogeochemical and Physical Processes
Primary Chair:  Roberta Claire Hamme, University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada
Co-Chair:  David T Ho, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Roberta Claire Hamme, University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada


CT007
Production and cycling of organosulfur and volatile organic carbon compounds: where is the field now and how do we move forward?
Primary Chair:  Naomi Marcil Levine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  David J Kieber, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Department of Chemistry, Syracuse, NY, United States, Patricia Matrai, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States and Rafel Simo, Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC, Departament de Biologia Marina i Oceanografia, Barcelona, Spain
Primary Liaison:  Naomi Marcil Levine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States


CT008
Revealing Biogeochemical Processes on Basin Scales through Ocean Transects
Primary Chair:  Gregory A Cutter, Old Dominion University, Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Norfolk, VA, United States
Co-chairs:  Phoebe J Lam, University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Karen L Casciotti, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, United States and Rob Middag, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, and Utrecht University, OCS, Den Burg, Netherlands
Primary Liaison:  Gregory A Cutter, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States


CT009
Significance of Photochemistry in Marine Biogeochemical Cycles
Primary Chair:  Heather E Reader, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, NL, Canada
Co-chairs:  William L Miller, University of Georgia, Marine Science, Athens, GA, United States, David J Kieber, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Department of Chemistry, Syracuse, NY, United States and Yuting Zhu, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Heather E Reader, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, NL, Canada


CT011
Understanding Rare Earth Element (REE) distributions and isotopic ratios and the mechanisms behind their use as tracers of (paleo)oceanic processes
Primary Chair:  Brian A Haley, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
Co-chairs:  Torben Stichel, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, Johan Schijf, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, MD, United States and Vanessa Hatje, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Química Analítica - CIENAM, Salvador, Brazil
Primary Liaison:  Torben Stichel, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany


HE003
Ecosystem structure and processes in a changing Arctic
Primary Chair:  Seth L Danielson, University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Co-chairs:  Lee Cooper, Univ MD Center Enviro Science, Solomons, MD, United States, Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, MD, United States and Katrin Iken, University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Primary Liaison:  Seth L Danielson, UAF, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States


HE004
Effects of Ice Loss on Marine Biogeochemistry and Biodiversity
Primary Chair:  Ilka Peeken, Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Polar Biological Oceanography, Bremerhaven, Germany
Co-chairs:  Anne Helene Tandberg SR, University Museum of Bergen, Department of Natural History, Bergen, Norway and Maria Vernet, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Integrative Oceanography Division, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Katrin Linse, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM


HE006
Mechanisms for Variability, Circulation, and Transformation of Water Masses in the Southern Ocean
Primary Chair:  Annie Foppert, Centre for Southern Hemisphere Oceans Research, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Australia, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Co-chairs:  Edward Doddridge, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Dafydd Gwyn Evans, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom and Madeleine K Youngs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Annie Foppert, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States


IS001
Active optics to sense marine productivity throughout the world's coasts and oceans
Primary Chair:  David J Suggett, University of Technology Sydney, Climate Change Cluster, Sydney, Australia
Co-chairs:  Greg Silsbe, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, United States, Maxim Y Gorbunov, Rutgers University, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States and Jacco Kromkamp, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Estuarine & Delta Systems (EDS), Yerseke, Netherlands
Primary Liaison:  David J Suggett, University of Technology Sydney, Climate Change Cluster, Sydney, Australia


IS003
Autonomous observing systems for macronutrients and bioactive trace metals in coastal and open ocean settings: present status, challenges and emerging technologies
Primary Chair:  Maxime Grand, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Andrew R Bowie, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, Agathe Laes-Huon, IFREMER, REM/RDT/LDCM, Plouzané, France and Alexander Beaton, National Oceanography Centre, Ocean Technology and Engineering Group, Southampton, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Maxime Grand, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, United States


IS005
Development and application of acoustical remote sensing methods to measure ocean parameters and processes
Primary Chair:  John Anthony Colosi, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Timothy F Duda, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Andone C Lavery, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Thomas C Weber, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Mechanical Engineering, Durham, NH, United States
Primary Liaison:  Megan S Ballard, Applied Research Laboratories at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States


IS007
From catchments to open ocean: advances in remote sensing for monitoring water quality, food security, ecosystems and change.
Primary Chair:  Lauren Biermann, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Earth Observation Science and Applications, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Co-chairs:  Chris Banks, National Oceanography Center, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Wesley Moses, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States and Kevin Ross Turpie, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, Baltimore, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Chris Banks, National Oceanography Center, Liverpool, United Kingdom


IS009
Innovation in In-Situ Instrumentation, Sensors, and Observation Networks to Advance High-Resolution Data Collection and Biogeochemical Insight in Marine Ecosystems
Primary Chair:  Amy V Mueller, Northeastern University, Civil & Env Engineering / Marine & Env Science, Boston, MA, United States
Co-chairs:  Aleck Zhaohui Wang, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Brian T Glazer, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Anna PM Michel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, Woods Hole, MA, United States


IS010
Into the Deep: New insights into integrated ocean mapping and habitat characterizations of the North Atlantic and Eastern Pacific basins
Primary Chair:  Ashley Chappell, NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Co-chairs:  Caitlin Adams1, Jeremy Potter2 and Kasey Lynn Cantwell1, (1)NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States(2)Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Department of the Interior, Camarillo, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ashley Chappell, NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States


IS011
Moving beyond technology: how quantitative image-based methods help reveal ocean ecology
Primary Chair:  Fabien Lombard, University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI -LOV, Laboratoire de Villefranche sur Mer, Paris, France; Sorbonne University, Laboratoire d'Oceanographie de Villefranche sur Mer, Villefranche Sur Mer, France
Co-chairs:  Mark D Ohman, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States and Heidi M Sosik, Dalhousie University, Department of Oceanography, Halifax, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Fabien Lombard, University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI -LOV, Laboratoire de Villefranche sur Mer, Paris, France


IS013
Operational Satellite Oceanography
Primary Chair:  Christopher Brown, NOAA, NESDIS, College Park, MD, United States
Co-chairs:  Paul M DiGiacomo1, Veronica P Lance1 and François Montagner2, (1)NOAA, NESDIS, College Park, MD, United States(2)EUMETSAT, Remote Sensing and Products Division, Darmstadt, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Christopher Brown, NOAA, NESDIS, College Park, MD, United States


IS014
Power in Partnerships: Innovative Collaborations between Ocean Scientists and Ocean Industry
Primary Chair:  Gwen Nero, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Janet Sprintall, Univ California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States and Neil Louis Trenaman, Ocean Aero, San Diego, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Gwen Nero, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States


IS016
Sustained Ocean Observing: From Events to Assessing Long-term Ecosystem Patterns
Primary Chair:  Michael W Lomas, Bigelow Lab for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States
Co-chairs:  Richard K Dewey, Univ. of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, John H Trowbridge, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Damian Grundle, Bermuda Institute for Ocean Science, St. Georges, Bermuda
Primary Liaison:  Michael W Lomas, Bigelow Lab for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States


IS017
The Tropical Pacific Observing System: Meeting the needs of researchers and stakeholders
Primary Chair:  Shelby Brunner, NOAA Ocean and Atmospheric Research, Ocean Observing and Monitoring Division, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Co-chairs:  Meghan F Cronin, NOAA PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States, Janet Sprintall, Univ California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States and Adrienne J Sutton, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Shelby Brunner, NOAA Ocean and Atmospheric Research, Ocean Observing and Monitoring Division, Silver Spring, MD, United States


ME003
Biologging Ecology and Oceanography: Integrative approaches to animal-bourne observations in a changing ocean
Primary Chair:  T Aran Mooney, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Co-chairs:  Kenneth Alex Shorter, University of Michigan, Mechanical Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Amy Kukulya, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lauran Brewster, Florida Atlantic University, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Inst., Fort Pierce, FL, United States


ME005
Ecology & Biogeochemistry of Macroalgae
Primary Chair:  Anna James, University of California at Santa Barbara, Marine Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Robert J. Miller, University of California, Marine Science Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Christie Yorke, Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science, Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Tom William Bell, University of California, Santa Barbara, Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tom William Bell, University of California, Santa Barbara, Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States


ME006
Ecosystem Impacts and Ecosystem Services of Aquaculture
Primary Chair:  Janet Kubler, California State University, Northridge, Biology, Northridge, CA, United States
Co-Chair:  Charles Yarish, University of Connecticut, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Stamford, CT, United States
Primary Liaison:  Janet Kubler, California State University at Northridge, Biology, Northridge, CA, United States


ME007
Exploring and Characterizing Deep and Coastal Ocean Soundscapes
Primary Chair:  Adrienne Copeland, NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Co-chairs:  Robert P Dziak, NOAA, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Newport, WA, United States, Ana Sirovic, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, TX, United States and Delwayne R Bohnenstiehl, North Carolina State Univ., Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, NC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Adrienne Copeland, NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States


ME010
Impacts of ecological interactions on marine ecosystem dynamics and biodiversity: New insights from theory, models, and field measurements
Primary Chair:  Clifton Brock Woodson, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
Co-chairs:  Bingzhang Chen, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom and Vittoria Roncalli, University of Barcelona, Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, Facultat de Biologia, IRBio, Barcelona, Spain
Primary Liaison:  Steven Yitzchak Litvin, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States


ME015
Using satellite remote sensing and in situ data to evaluate marine biodiversity and ecosystems
Primary Chair:  Maury Gordon Estes Jr, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Co-chairs:  William W Turner, NASA Headquarters, Washington DC, DC, United States, Gabrielle Canonico, U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System, Silver Spring, MD, United States and Frank E Muller-Karger, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, IMaRS, St Petersburg, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Maury Gordon Estes Jr, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States


MG003
Oceanography Beyond Earth: A Frontier in Ocean Sciences
Primary Chair:  Christopher R German, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Co-chairs:  Alison E Murray, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Alyssa Rhoden, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States and Britney E Schmidt, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Christopher R German, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States


MM002
Fungi in the Marine Environment
Primary Chair:  Xuefeng Peng, University of California Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Brandon Hassett, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway and Gaetan Burgaud, University of Brest, LUBEM (Laboratory of Biodiversity and Microbial Ecology), Plouzané, France
Primary Liaison:  Xuefeng Peng, University of California Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States


MM003
Living on the edge:Ecotones as aquatic transition zones for microbial communities
Primary Chair:  Sergio Morales, University of Otago, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dunedin, New Zealand
Co-Chair:  Federico Baltar, University of Vienna, Dept. of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Vienna, Austria
Primary Liaison:  Sergio Morales, University of Otago, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dunedin, New Zealand


MM005
Microbial Genomics to Improve Predictive Understanding of Disturbance in the Global Ocean System
Primary Chair:  Joel E Kostka, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States
Co-chairs:  Samantha B Joye, University of Georgia, Department of Marine Sciences, Athens, GA, United States, Casey RJ Hubert, University of Calgary, Biological Sciences, Calgary, AB, Canada and Rita R Colwell, University of Maryland College Park, Centre for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Joel E Kostka, Do Not Wish to Give out, Atlanta, GA, United States


MM006
The microbial phosphorus cycle
Primary Chair:  Solange Duhamel, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Co-Chair:  Julia Diaz, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Solange Duhamel, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States


OB002
Benthic controls on the marine silica cycle: continental margins to open ocean
Primary Chair:  Shaily Rahman, University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
Co-chairs:  Claudia Ehlert, University of Oldenburg, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Oldenburg, Germany and Jeffrey W Krause, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Shaily Rahman, University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States


OB007
Complexity, Connectivity and Change in Southern Ocean Food Webs
Primary Chair:  Nadine Johnston, NERC British Antarctic Survey, Ecosystems, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Co-chairs:  Andrea M Pinones, Instituto de Ciencias Marinas y Limnológicas, Valdivia, Chile, Eugene John Murphy, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Eileen E Hofmann, Old Dominion University, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Norfolk, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Nadine Johnston, NERC British Antarctic Survey, Ecosystems, Cambridge, United Kingdom


OB012
Functional diversity and the present and future of marine biogeochemical cycles
Primary Chair:  Federico Baltar, University of Vienna, Dept. of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Vienna, Austria
Co-chairs:  Kristin Bergauer, Helmhotz Centre of Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany and Gerhard J Herndl, University of Vienna, Dept. of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Vienna, Austria
Primary Liaison:  Federico Baltar, University of Vienna, Dept. of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Vienna, Austria


OB020
New Tools and Approaches to Constrain the Marine Nitrogen Cycle: From the Surface to the Sediments
Primary Chair:  Christopher J Somes, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Co-chairs:  Mar Benavides, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Marseille, France, Angela Landolfi, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany and Carolin R. Löscher, Univ Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Primary Liaison:  Christopher J Somes, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany


OB031
Understanding structure and function of benthic meiofaunal communities across ocean basin scales
Primary Chair:  Punyasloke Bhadury, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for Climate and Environmental Studies, Mohanpur, West Bengal, India
Co-chairs:  Jeroen Ingels, Florida State University, FSU Coastal and Marine Laboratory, St Teresa, FL, United States and Anwesha Ghosh, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Department of Biological Sciences, Kolkata, India
Primary Liaison:  Punyasloke Bhadury, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for Climate and Environmental Studies, Mohanpur, West Bengal, India


OC001
Chemical and Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification in the Pacific Ocean
Primary Chair:  Richard A Feely, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Ocean Climate Research Division, Seattle, WA, United States
Co-Chair:  Nina Bednarsek, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, Costa Mesa, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Nina Bednarsek, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, Costa Mesa, CA, United States


OC002
Interactions of Ocean Acidification and Harmful Algal Blooms
Primary Chair:  Elizabeth J Turner, NOAA Durham, Durham, NH, United States
Co-chairs:  Erica Hudson Ombres, NOAA, OAR Ocean Acidification Program, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Frances Quay Dortch, NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Competitive Research Program, Silver Spring, MD, United States and Marc Suddleson, NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Elizabeth J Turner, NOAA, National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Durham, NH, United States


OC003
Interdisciplinary approaches for understanding the biological consequences of global ocean change
Primary Chair:  Emily Bethana Rivest, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Biological Sciences, Gloucester Point, VA, United States
Co-chairs:  David A Hutchins1, Catherine V Davis2 and Naomi Marcil Levine1, (1)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States(2)UC Davis, Petaluma, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Emily Bethana Rivest, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Biological Sciences, Gloucester Point, VA, United States


OC004
Ocean-based solutions to address local-to-global human impacts
Primary Chair:  Lydia Kapsenberg, CSIC Institute of Marine Sciences, Barcelona, Spain
Co-chairs:  David Koweek, Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, CA, United States, Faycal Kessouri, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Christina Frieder, University of California Irvine, Irvine, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lydia Kapsenberg, CSIC Institute of Marine Sciences, Barcelona, Spain


OC006
The Evolving Ocean Carbon Sink: Processes and Impacts
Primary Chair:  Galen A McKinley, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
Co-Chair:  Nicole S Lovenduski, University of Colorado, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Galen A McKinley, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States


OD005
Creating Data Synchronicity Across Ocean Microbiome Research
Primary Chair:  Elisha M Wood-Charlson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Co-Chair:  Bonnie L Hurwitz, University of Arizona, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Elisha M Wood-Charlson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States


OD006
Data Science for Modern Oceanography: Statistics, Machine Learning, Visualization, and More
Primary Chair:  Alison R Gray, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States
Co-chairs:  Mikael Kuusela, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Pittsburgh, PA, United States and Donata Giglio, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alison R Gray, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States


OD008
Measurement to Manuscript: Innovative Approaches to Biogeochemical Data Management
Primary Chair:  Eugene F Burger, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States
Co-chairs:  Stephen C Diggs, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States; Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Kevin O'Brien, NOAA/PMEL/UW, Seattle, WA, United States and Danie Kinkade, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Eugene F Burger, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States


OD009
New information systems tools for implementing autonomous multi-source, multi-point observing systems
Primary Chair:  Ian G Brosnan, NASA Ames Research Center, Earth Science Division, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Wu-Jung Lee, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Acoustics Department, Seattle, WA, United States, Laura Rogers, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Robert Heitsenrether, NOAA Chesapeake, Chesapeake, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ian G Brosnan, NASA Ames Research Center, Earth Science Division, Moffett Field, CA, United States


OM001
Advances in Coupled Physical-Biogeochemical Modeling: Continental Shelves, Estuaries and the Coastal Ocean
Primary Chair:  Laura Bianucci, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Sidney, BC, Canada
Co-Chair:  Jeremy M Testa, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Laura Bianucci, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Sidney, BC, Canada


OM002
Advances in Coupled Physical-Biogeochemical Modeling: Regional to Global Scales
Primary Chair:  Jessica Y Luo, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
Co-chairs:  Kristen M. Krumhardt, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Fanny M Monteiro, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom and Charlotte Laufkötter, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Primary Liaison:  Jessica Y Luo, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States


PC006
High-Resolution, Geochemical Proxies of Global Change: Progress, Problems, and Utility
Primary Chair:  Nina Whitney, Iowa State University, Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, IA, United States
Co-chairs:  Madelyn Mette, Uni Research Climate, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway, David P Gillikin, Union College, Schenectady, NY, United States and Alan D Wanamaker, Iowa State University, Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, IA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Nina Whitney, Iowa State University, Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, IA, United States


PC012
Water-mass analyses and transformation for ocean physics, biogeochemistry and climate studies.
Primary Chair:  Sjoerd Groeskamp, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands
Co-chairs:  Emily Newsom, University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom, Daniele Iudicone, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy and Ivana Cerovecki, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sjoerd Groeskamp, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands


PI002
Cross-shore Fluxes in Ocean Boundary Currents: Biogeochemical and Ecological Consequences
Primary Chair:  Mark D Ohman, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Francesco d'Ovidio, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Paris, France, Michael R Stukel, Florida State University, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States and Julie E Keister, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mark D Ohman, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States


PI006
(Sub)mesoscale physical/biogeochemical interactions
Primary Chair:  Peter Gaube, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Co-chairs:  Daniel B Whitt, NCAR, CO, United States, Jessica Y. Luo, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, CO, United States and Alice Della Penna, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Peter Gaube, Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington, Air-Sea Interaction and Remote Sensing, Seattle, WA, United States


PL003
Climate variability, ocean dynamics and biogeochemical cycles in the Indian Ocean
Primary Chair:  Lei Zhang, University of Colorado Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-chairs:  Weiqing Han, University of Colorado Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Raleigh R Hood, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States and Jeremy David Wiggert, The University of Southern Mississippi, Division of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lei Zhang, University of Colorado Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States


PS002
Defining the New Frontiers of Ocean Mixing Research
Primary Chair:  Toshiyuki Hibiya, University of Tokyo, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
Co-Chair:  Naomi Harada, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology, Yokosuka, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Toshiyuki Hibiya, Univ Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan


PS010
Turbulent mixing of the ocean surface boundary layer: Observation, Simulation, and Parameterization
Primary Chair:  Ivan B. Savelyev, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
Co-chairs:  Gregory LeClaire Wagner, MIT, Cambridge, United States, Leah Johnson, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States and Qing Li, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States; Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ivan B. Savelyev, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States


PS011
Vertical Transport: Pathways from the Surface to the Interior
Primary Chair:  Dhruv Balwada, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NEW YORK, NY, United States
Co-chairs:  Amala Mahadevan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Julius Johannes Marian Busecke, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States and Daniel L Rudnick, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Daniel L Rudnick, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States


SI013
The Ocean and Carbon Dioxide: Duplicating Hydrothermal Vents and Other Ocean Systems to Manufacture Complex Hydrocarbons from Industrial CO2 Emissions
Primary Chair:  Gaurav Rajen, Green Fire Technologies LLC, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Co-Chair:  Gautam Thor, Consultant, San Diego, United States
Primary Liaison:  Gaurav Rajen, Green Fire Technologies LLC, Albuquerque, NM, United States


T001
A Moveable Feast: The Role of Microbes in the Response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico
Primary Presenter:  Joel E Kostka, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States


T002
An online Best Practices Guide for conducting ocean global change biology multiple driver experiments
Primary Presenter:  David A Hutchins, University of Southern California, Marine and Environmental Biology, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Co-Presenter:  Sinead Collins, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom


T008
Establishing Active Fluorescence as a Primary Productivity Metric for the worlds coasts and oceans
Primary Presenter:  David J Suggett, University of Technology Sydney, Climate Change Cluster, Sydney, Australia
Co-Presenter:  Philippe Daniel Tortell, University of British Columbia, EOAS, Vancouver, BC, Canada


T013
Oceanic carbon sequestration - the role of the Particle Injection Pumps
Primary Presenter:  Philip W. Boyd, University of Tasmania, Biogeochemistry, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Co-Presenter:  Thomas S Weber, University of Rochester, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rochester, NY, United States


T016
Plankton measurements now
Primary Presenter:  Emmanuel Boss, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States
Co-presenters:  Anya M Waite, Ocean Frontier Institute, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada and Fabien Lombard, University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI -LOV, Laboratoire de Villefranche sur Mer, Paris, France


T017
Submarine, overland and aerial assault: a tutorial on acidification and carbonate system variability in coastal waters.
Primary Presenter:  Joseph Salisbury II, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States


T020
What Sets the Marine Nitrogen Inventory?
Primary Presenter:  Angela Landolfi, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany