The Response of Pteropods to Ocean Acidification and Climate Change

The international pteropod workshop will take place at the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge between 1st and 3rd of June 2015, prior to the open meeting "Ocean acidification: what's it all about?" that will be held at the Royal Society, London on 4 and 5 June, providing outcomes of the UKOA and BIOACID research programmes.

Confirmed Plenary speakers:

• Steve Comeau, Post-doctoral position, Department of Biology, California State University
• Nina Bednarsek, NRC Post-doctoral Fellow, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

Provisional goals:

Objectives

• To identify "tipping points" of severe impact on pteropod populations.
• To establish a network of high-quality pteropod data.
• To generate an international agreement on methods for using pteropods in OA monitoring
• To draw-up future strategy for the pteropod research

Major outputs

• A methods article on best-practice in pteropod research
• A horizon-scanning article considering future research on OA sentinel taxa
• An open-access database with a dedicated web-page and data-visualization interfaces

A limited number of travelling fellowship will be offered to support the participation of PhD students and junior researchers who otherwise in raising funds (deadline for application 15 April 2015).

Deadline for contribution: 30 April 2015

For information/registration/funding opportunity visit the workshop link above.