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GreenSeas Summer School: 27th Jan – 3rd Feb 2013 GreenSeas Summer School: Global plankton data: ecosystems, monitoring and modelling in an era of global warming University of Capetown/ Africa House, Capetown, South Africa Funding provided through European Union. Please quote grant number 265294 in all work associated with associated with material / outputs from this summer school. Climate change is arguably the greatest challenge facing mankind in the twenty-first century. The inherent processes, feedback mechanisms and interactions, can have unprecedented and dramatic impacts on marine ecology. Phytoplankton is a key component of the marine ecosystem, fixing atmospheric carbon and providing the primary food source for the zooplankton, together forming the base of the oceanic food chain. It is thus necessary to advance our quantitative knowledge of how planktonic marine ecosystems, will respond to environmental and climate change. During the GreenSeas Summer School students will learn how to employ a combination of observation data, environmental indicators and numerical simulations to obtain an integrated, cross-disciplinary, globalin-scope understanding of global planktonic ecosystems and their role in a global information service, of further importance for assessment of environmental pressures and risks, including tensions and conflicts related to the depletion of natural resources. In particular the summer school will include:. Processes and dynamics of planktonic ecosystems Sampling and analysis techniques Analysis of in situ data and data management Advanced statistical data and time series analysis Remote sensing techniques and environmental indicators Ocean modelling and data assimilation Integrated use of in situ, remote sensing data and simulations involving theoretical lectures, practical exercises and computational case studies. The summer school is primarily aimed at PhD students late in their term and early career researchers. Summer school student : pre course preparation On the evening of 28th Jan 19:00 we will hold an oral e-poster session and supper / bar at All Africa House. Can each student prepare three slides in the format attached that gives a) Student background, b) current & recent personal research back ground & c) research question(s) to ask / explore during the summer school. Each student will have a 5 minute presentation slot to present this material to the summer school students and lecturers on the evening of 28th Jan. Please contact Kjetil Lygre ([email protected]) for summer school organization aspects and John Bruun ([email protected]) for academic program information. Summer School lecturers Marie-Fanny Racault is an Earth Observation scientist at PML. Her background is in marine biology. During her PhD, she established the phenology of phytoplankton in the global oceans and investigated its inter-annual and long-term variability in relation with climatic mode of variability. Marie’s research interests include interannual/long-term variation in phytoplankton and its impact on the global carbon cycle; influence of climate processes on the lower trophic level; development and implementation of ecological indicators of the pelagic ecosystem; marine science-policy integration and use of remote-sensing observations in support of responsible stewardships of the world oceans. During the summer school, she will be lecturing on remote sensing observations and indicators of pelagic ecosystems. [email protected] Trevor Platt is an oceanographer with many years' experience studying the structure and function of the pelagic ecosystem. His other interests include international marine science coordination and capacity building. His recent research has dealt with the application of data from visible spectral radiometry (remotelysensed ocean colour) to problems in biological oceanography and fisheries. Ingrid Angel-Benavides is an oceanographer at the Institute of Oceanography of the Federal University of Rio Grande (Brazil). She has experience in ocean color remote sensing, in situ bio-optical measurements and validation of satellite products. Her current research is focused on the influence of mesoscale eddies on phytoplankton dynamics. Howard Waldron (PhD) is Senior Lecturer with interests in physico-biological oceanography, phytoplankton nutrient dynamics,15Nitrogen uptake and regeneration, carbon sequestration and water quality analyses. He is affiliated with the research programmes Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT), Southern Ocean Biogeochemistry, Education and Research, Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observatory, GreenSeas Research Programme – Climate change; Estuarine N and P dynamics; Benguela Ecosystems – Shelf edge exchange processes, [email protected] Richard Bellerby is a Senior Researcher and Research Coordinator at the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) and adjunct professor at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Uni Research, University of Bergen. His research is on marine elemental cycling using relationships and combined feedbacks from the physical environment (CO2 gas exchange, transport, water mass transformations) with those of biogeochemical (marine stoichiometry, redox) and of biological nature (planktonic systems, energy flow). Through this combined approach it is possible to begin to understand how marine systems will evolve and influence global carbon biogeochemical cycling and thus climate. His approach is to use interpretations of the natural ocean system from ocean going expeditions, in situ observation platforms, ocean models and global datasets; deliberate perturbation experiments, taking the natural ocean out of its contemporary framework, regional coupled physical-chemical-ecosystem and global ocean models. [email protected] John Bruun is an Environmental Statistician and Modelling Scientist at Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML). John is the overall academic coordinator for the summer school. John holds a strategic role at PML that builds platform of statistical science in our multi-disciplinary marine research work setting. His research interests cover applications of linear & non-linear time series methods in the natural sciences, identifying long & short term climate trends and drivers of the plankton ecosystem, quantifying risk through extreme value probabilities and quantifying value in global socio-economic settings. John has a 20 year career with an PhD in Theoretical Physics (Lancaster University) analysing the statistical properties of disordered systems. He has substantial experience -over ten years- of developing, lecturing and applying statistical time series methods in the Environment Sciences research based at Lancaster University. For a further decade - John has been a Global based manager in a commercial Global FMCG team setting, providing critical value analyses of long & short term trends based on large time series data sets. A key theme in John's experience is the development of sound model system identification methods / algorithms that provide practical and robust applied solutions to the tasks at hand. These methods useful to both evaluate scenarios linked to value and Socio-economic impacts and future climate driven changes in the environmental & marine sciences. During the GreenSeas summer school John will explain & demonstrate-with worked case studies-how we utilise our cross-disciplinary knowledge effectively through using appropriate statistical tools so we advance our understanding of how the Atlantic planktonic ecosystem will respond to environmental and climate change. [email protected] Marcello Vichi holds a PhD in Marine Ecology and Biogeochemistry and has more than 10 years experience in marine ecosystem modelling in several regional seas (Adriatic, Baltic, North Sea), in the Mediterranean and in the global ocean. He is a researcher at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, working at the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Changes (CMCC). He has been participating to several European and Italian research projects dealing with ocean biogeochemical modelling. He is one of the developers of the Biogeochemical Flux Model (htpp://bfm.cmcc.it), and of the CMCC Earth System Model. His research interests embrace numerical modelling of coupled physical/biogeochemical processes in the global ocean, climate change impacts on marine ecosystems and process studies of biogeochemical interactions in coastal and shelf seas. [email protected] Shubha Sathyendranath (a guest lecturer) is an internationally recognized scientist with outstanding track record in Ocean Colour research activities. She has coordinated large-scale Ocean Colour research projects for more than 10 years, and is currently scientific leader of the ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative Project. Her research interests include ocean colour modelling, spectral characteristics of light penetration underwater, bio-optical properties of phytoplankton, modelling primary production, bio-geochemical cycles in the sea, climate change, biological-physical interactions in the marine system, ecological provinces in the sea, ecological indicators and phytoplantkon functional types. 19:00 + Meet & Greet Coctail evening, All Africa House Sun 27th Jan Mon 28th Jan Practical : Numerical modelling Lunch Lecture : continued Lunch Coffee Break analysis tools 19:00 Poster Session + supper / bar , All Africa House 19:00 Coach to Waterfront & return 23:00 (to/from All Africa House). Students own time. Lecture: Theory, application and Lecture : Earth Observation Fundamentals of ocean colour, assessment of ocean optics and time series - what we biogeochemical models can learn (inc guest speakers) Coffee Break Lunch Student team & Case Study allocation for Part II of Summerschool Practical: Earth observation Coffee Break Practical: Earth observation Wed 30th Jan 20:00 Lamb spit barbecue, All Africa House Lecture : Time Series Analysis Afternoon coach tour to Simons & data analysis methods Town & Boulders penguin colony. Practical : statistical data Coffee Break Coffee Break Practical : (In-situ) ocean acidification and climate change scenarios with focus on relevance for plankton Practical : Numerical modelling Tue 29th Jan Lecture : Carbon biogeochemistry & Plankton Fundamentals of In-situ plankton measurement collection). Green Seas intro (inc data base Students own time. Walk into Rondebosch (pubs & restaurants) Student Team Analysis work on case study: analysis time Coffee Break Student Team Analysis work on case study : analysis Lunch Analysis Q&A opportunity with GreenSeas Workshop (over coffee) Student Team Analysis work on case study : data extraction / exploritory analysis Student Team Analysis work on case study : establish hypothesis to investigate Thur 31st Jan 19:00 Smart/casual dinner & party (summer school students & staff), UCT Club 5pm: 2-page case study report deadline. To include a 1 minute verbal team summary of finding & recommendations. Student Team Analysis work on case study : assess feedback, extend analysis to include feedback. Progress reports (verbal). Pizzas and bar, UCT Club. Coffee Break Student Team Analysis work on case study : extend analysis / 2 page report write-up. Lunch Student Team Analysis work on case study : extend analysis / 2 page report write-up. Analysis Q&A opportunity with remaining GreenSeas reseachers Student Team Analysis work on case study : extend analysis / 2 page report write-up. GreenSeas staff available to advise during day. Sat 2nd Feb Coffee Break Student team work-in progress analysis presentations (15 min each) to GreenSeas workshop Lunch Student Team Analysis work on case study : analysis & 15 min presentation prep. Analysis Q&A opportunity with GreenSeas Workshop (over coffee) Student Team Analysis work on case study : analysis & 15 min presentation prep. Fri 1st Feb Summer School Lecture, Practical & Social Activity Programme :