The 2007 Annual General Meeting in Glyfada Greece

The second EUR-OCEANS annual meeting was held April 25 – 26 in Glyfada Greece, a big thank you to Ioanna Siokou and Constantin Frangoulis (among others) for organizing the event. Registering for the meeting were over 140 individuals including PI’s, associated scientists and students from many of the member organizations of EUR-OCEANS. Presentations from the various themes and systems were held over the two days as were general discussions regarding current and proposed integration activities.  Below is the final program of events with links to specific sessions and presentations.

Venue: Conference and Training Centre of the National Bank of Greece, Glyfada (Athens), Greece

Wednesday 25 April

09:00-09:30 Welcome and Introduction (Ioanna Siokou, Paul Tréguer, and Louis Legendre)
09:30-10:30 “From ‘Fisheries Oceanography’ towards ‘Ecosystem Oceanography’”, by Philippe Cury (file 23 mb, to be resized)
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Presentations from the EUR-OCEANS scientific Themes by young EUR-OCEANS researchers:

Theme II: “Natural dissolved silicon isotopic signal during EIFEX (European Iron Fertilization Experiment): diatom uptake vs. mixing”, by Anne Julie Cavagna (EUR-OCEANS PhD student, VUB, Belgium)
Theme III: “Individual based simulations of larval fish feeding in turbulent environments”, by Patrizio Mariani (EUR-OCEANS post-doc fellow, DIFRES, Denmark)

12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 EUR-OCEANS Awards ceremony
14:30-16:00 Parallel sessions: EUR-OCEANS Themes (presentations and discussion)

Theme I / WP4 Ecosystems end-to-end and Theme II / WP5 Biogeochemistry (joint session); Chairs: Christian Möllmann and Frede Thingstad

Theme III / WP6 Ecosystem approach to marine resources; Chair: Philippe Cury

16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-18:00 Parallel sessions: EUR-OCEANS Themes (continuation)
21:00 EUR-OCEANS Dinner: Restaurant “Petrino”, Kiprou 60, Glyfada

Thursday 26 April

09:00-10:30 Parallel sessions: EUR-OCEANS Systems (presentations and discussion)

North Atlantic cluster; Chairs: Roger Harris and Svein Sundby
Baltic Sea; Chair: Christian Möllmann
Mediterranean Sea; Chair: Ioanna Siokou and Javier Ruiz
Southern Ocean; Chair: Claire Tancell
Upwelling Systems; Chair: Pierre Fréon

10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Parallel sessions: EUR-OCEANS Systems (continuation)
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Networking and integration activities
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-17:30 General discussion on EUR-OCEANS, and on the concept of European Multi-Site Institute
17:30-18:30 Conclusions and Perspectives (Paul Tréguer and Louis Legendre)
18:30 End of the meeting