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Call for Abstracts: IMBIZO 5: Marine biosphere research for a sustainable ocean

The Integrated Marine Biosphere Research (IMBeR) is calling abstracts for its fifth IMBIZO: Marine biosphere research for a sustainable ocean: Linking ecosystems, future states and resource management, which is partly sponsored by APN.

The meeting will consist of three concurrent but interacting workshops, with joint plenary and poster sessions:

  1. Critical constraints on future projections of marine systems (co-Chairs: Laurent Bopp and Eric Galbraith)
  2. Metabolic diversity and evolution in marine biogeochemical cycling and ocean ecosystem processes (co-Chairs: Gerhard Herndl and Tatiana Rynearson)
  3. Management Strategy Evaluation: Achieving transparency in natural resource management by quantitatively bridging social and natural science uncertainties (co-Chairs: Ingrid van Putten and Cisco Werner)

Early career scientists/ researchers from developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region are particularly invited to submit the abstract to the IMBIZO 5 under APN’s sponsorship.

When

02 – 05 October 2017

Where

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA

Abstract submission deadline

31 May 2017

For more information: IMBIZO 5 Flyer / IMBIZO 5 Website