As part of our kick-off meeting for the NFR-funded project MACROCOP, we’d love for you to join us for an open seminar on the fascinating world of shore ecosystems. We’ll explore the diverse life that surrounds us when one takes a dip in the ocean. Our speakers will share their insights and expertise on various aspects of the shore ecosystem and the molecular and imaging techniques we use to study it.
We hope to see you there! We’ll be providing coffee and cookies to keep you energized throughout the event. You can also join by Zoom.
Program
09:15-09:30 Introduction to the MACROCOP project (The hidden role of copepods in coastal macroalgae for marine ecosystem functioning) - Jan Heuschele (UIO)
09:30-09:45 Intertidal rockweed communities in Norway - distribution, function and threats - Trine Bekkby (NIVA)
09:45-10:00 Drivers of abundance in intertidal macroalgae: waves, climate and water quality - Michael T. Burrows (Scottish Association for Marine Science - SAMS)
10:00-10:15 What you step on when you go to the beach - small animals that live between the sand grains - Gritta Veit Köhler (German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research, Senckenberg am Meer)
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-11:00 The possible copepod link between macroalgae, the pelagic ecosystem and deep-sea carbon sequestration - Kristina Kvile (NIVA)
11:00-11:15 The hunt for the missing copepod: - Species inventories of Marine copepods in Norway. - Tone Falkenhaug (IMR)
11:15-11:30 The PR2 ribosomal sequence databases - Daniel Vaulot (UiO, University of Sorbonne)
11:30-11:45 PlanktoScope : Affordable Modular Quantitative Imaging Platform for Citizen Oceanography - Thibaut Pollina & Jérémy Szymczak (Fairscope.com)