The 2016 Alaska Marine Science Symposium begins on Monday, January 25. The morning session will feature the Communicating Ocean Sciences workshop. The daily agenda is available online. The official opening plenary takes place Monday afternoon and includes invited keynote addresses. Poster sessions will take place on Monday and Tuesday evenings, 6:00pm to 8:30pm. Many partner organizations host workshops in the evenings and on Friday, January 29.
The symposium is organized by region: Arctic Ocean (Tuesday, January 26th), Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands (Wednesday, January 27th), and Gulf of Alaska (Thursday, January 28th). Within each geographical region, talks are presented on on a variety of reserach themes including: climate and oceanography, lower trophic levels, fishes and fish habitats, seabirds, mammals, humans, ecosystem perspectives.
See the AMSS website for much more information!