Programme

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30 June — 6 July, 2019

1st Day

2nd Day

09:00 — 09:10

Opening ceremony

09:10 — 09:20

Group photo

09:20 — 10:40

Self introduction by students

10:40 — 11:00

Break

11:00 — 12:20

Lecture 1. Overview/motivation for studying climate change effects on marine ecosystems (Susanne Menden-Deuer)

12:20 — 14:00

Lunch

14:00 — 15:30

Lecture 2. Patterns and controls of phytoplankton community structure in the contemporary ocean (Michael Landry)

15:30 — 17:00

Lecture 3. The epipelagic marine nitrogen cycle and New Production (Michael Stukel)

17:00 — 18:30

Lecture 4. Major nutrient cycles in a warming and acidifying ocean (David Hutchins)

18:30 — 20:00

Welcome party

3rd Day

09:00 — 10:40

Lecture 5. Microbial food web dynamics and carbon flows (Landry)

10:40 — 12:20

Lecture 6. Metabolic Theory of Ecology and its application in plankton dynamics (Bingzhang Chen)

12:20 — 14:00

Lunch

14:00 — 15:30

Lecture 7. Data-based analyses of food web fluxes with inverse models (Stukel)

15:30 — 17:00

Group interaction - students select instructor(s) to work with * Hands-on tutorial on food web flux modeling (Stukel)

17:00 — 18:30

Lecture 8. The role of intra-specific variability in driving plankton distributions and diversity (Menden-Deuer)

18:30 — 20:00

Dinner

4th Day

09:00 — 10:40

Lecture 9. Ocean trace metal biogeochemistry in a changing world (Hutchins)

10:40 — 12:20

Lecture 10. Introduction to numerical modeling in R and Fortran (Chen)

12:20 — 14:00

Lunch

14:00 — 15:30

Group interaction – continuing student-instructor interactions * Hands-on tutorial on numerical modeling (Chen)

15:30 — 20:30

Poster session

5th Day

09:00 — 10:40

Lecture 11. The biological pump: Sinking particles, diel vertical migration and subduction (Stukel)

10:40 — 12:20

Lecture 12. When temperature is and is not the master trait (Menden-Deuer)

12:20 — 14:00

Lunch

14:00 — 15:30

Lecture 13. Challenges and opportunities for modeling plankton dynamics in a changing environment (Chen)

15:30 — 18:30

Free Time (Lab Tour, further discussions with instructors)

18:30 — 20:00

Dinner

6th Day

09:00 — 10:40

Lecture 14. Harmful algal blooms and global change (Hutchins)

10:40 — 12:20

Lecture 15. Food web impacts on higher level consumers in a changing ocean (Landry)

12:20 — 14:00

Lunch

14:00 — 16:00

Student-Instructor interactions

16:00 — 19:00

Best poster award ceremony and course evaluation and opinion sharing

19:00 — 20:30

Closing banquet

7th Day

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