OXYGEN MINIMUM SYSTEMS IN THE OCEAN: DISTRIBUTION, DIVERSITY AND DYNAMICS

OCTOBER 24 – 26, 2006

HOTEL EL ARAUCANO, CONCEPCION

CHILE

Confirmed Invited Speakers

Yrene M. Astor

Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales,

Estación de Investigaciones Marinas, Venezuela

Seasonal variability in the hydrochemical structure of the suboxic waters at the Cariaco Time-series station

 

Kenneth W. Bruland

University of California , Santa Cruz , USA

A review of the chemistries of redox sensitive elements within suboxic zones of oxygen minimum systems

http://oceansci.ucsc.edu/faculty/bruland.html

   

Tage Dalsgaard

National Environmental Research Institute, Denmark

Nitrogen cycling in suboxic water columns

http://www2.dmu.dk/1_Om_DMU/2_medarbejdere/cv/employee2_NH.asp?PersonID=TDA

   

Rubén Escribano

FONDAP-COPAS Center, Universidad de Concepción, Chile

Zooplankton interactions with the oxygen minimum zone in the eastern South Pacific

http://copas.udec.cl/eng/copas/personnel/cv_researcher_personal.php?getby=id&value=9

 

Víctor A. Gallardo

FONDAP-COPAS Center, Universidad de Concepción, Chile

The sediment microorganisms under the Oxygen Minimum Zone, present day analogs of Precambrian Oceans?

http://copas.udec.cl/eng/copas/personnel/cv_researcher_personal.php?getby=id&value=13

 

Raja S. Ganeshram

School of GeoSciences , University of Edinburgh , Scotland , United Kingdom

Paleoceanography of oceanic oxygen deficient zones

http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/people/person.html?indv=462

 

Humberto González

FONDAP-COPAS Center, Universidad de Concepción, Chile

Downward fluxes of particulate organic matter in coastal and oceanic areas off Chile : the role of the OMZ and functional groups of the plankton

http://copas.udec.cl/eng/copas/personnel/cv_researcher_personal.php?getby=id&value=11

 

Dimitri Gutiérrez

Instituto del Mar del Perú, IMARPE, Perú

Oxygen deficiency, sedimentary environments and benthic communities in the Peruvian upper continental margin  

 

Richard J. Matear

CSIRO Division of Marine Research, Hobart , Australia

New global warming projections of changes in dissolved oxygen concentrations in low oxygen regions of the oceans

http://www.marine.csiro.au/~matear/

 

Syed Wajih Ahmad Naqvi

National Institute of Oceanography , India

Oxygen deficiency in the North Indian Ocean

http://www.nio.org/jsp/ResearchersDisplay.jsp?pubkey=Naqvi,%20S.W.A .

 

Temel Oguz

Middle East Technical University , Turkey

Mechanisms controlling the Suboxic Layer of the Black Sea: Observations and Modeling

http://www.ims.metu.edu.tr/cv/oguz/main.html

 

Silvio Pantoja

FONDAP-COPAS Center, Universidad de Concepción, Chile

Biogeochemistry of the OMZ off Chile

http://copas.udec.cl/eng/copas/personnel/cv_researcher_personal.php?getby=id&value=6

 

Renato Quiñones

FONDAP-COPAS Center, Universidad de Concepción, Chile

Living in the oxygen minimum zone: a metabolic perspective

http://copas.udec.cl/eng/copas/personnel/cv_researcher_personal.php?getby=id&value=4

 

Nancy N. Rabalais

Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium , Louisiana , USA

Oxygen Depletion in the Gulf of Mexico Adjacent to the Mississippi River

http://www.lumcon.edu/research/faculty/faculty.asp?name=nrabalais

 

Wolfgang Schneider

FONDAP-COPAS Center, Universidad de Concepción, Chile

Vertical and horizontal extension of the oxygen minimum zone in the eastern South Pacific Ocean

http://copas.udec.cl/eng/copas/personnel/cv_researcher_personal.php?getby=id&value=14

 

Mary I. Scranton

Stony Brook University , New York , USA

The biogeochemistry of the suboxic and anoxic zones in the Cariaco Basin

http://www.msrc.sunysb.edu/people/scranton.htm

 

Osvaldo Ulloa

FONDAP-COPAS Center, Universidad de Concepción, Chile

Microbial communities and their biogeochemical role in the water column of the oxygen minimum zone in the eastern South Pacific

http://copas.udec.cl/eng/copas/personnel/cv_researcher_personal.php?getby=id&value=7

 

Workshop Coordinator : Dr. Víctor A. Gallardo ( vagallar@udec.cl;vgallardo@coreocean.org )

Coordinator at large : Dr. John W. Farrington, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, Mass. , USA

 

 

English is the official language of the Workshop

Contact : Mónica Sorondo: monicaso@vtr.net ;

monica.sorondo@gmail.com

Links : http://www.cona.cl/scor/oms.htm
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