Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Albuquerque 2001

The Scientific Program

The scientific program for the 2001 Aquatic Sciences meeting included plenary lectures, special and contributed sessions for oral presentations, poster sessions, and workshops. Each of these was organized around the meeting theme of making connections. Abstracts of papers presented as part of the ASLO 2001 Aquatic Sciences scientific program are now archived on the ASLO web site, and can be viewed by clicking here. You may also search the 2001 Aquatic Sciences abstracts using a convenient form.

The Theme of the Meeting:
Making Connections in the 21st Century

As limnology and oceanography enter the twenty-first century, there is increasing focus on and need for making connections within and among environmental systems, spatial and temporal scales, disciplinary approaches and between science and society at local, regional and international levels. The scientific program for the Albuquerque meeting was organized around four sub-themes:

• Environmental Connections: Special and contributed sessions focused on processes and fluxes across interfaces such as air-water, river-ocean, sediment-water, and benthic-pelagic. Dr. Bo Barker Jorgensen from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology presented a plenary lecture that addressed environmental connections in the aquatic sciences.
  
  
• Spatial and Temporal Connections: Both special and contributed sessions examined processes, patterns and predictions that occur across levels of biological organization, from individuals to ecosystems, and at various spatial and temporal scales. Dr. Mary Power from the University of California at Berkeley provided a focal point for these connections in her plenary lecture.
  
  
• Disciplinary Connections: Connections among and between traditional limnological and oceanographic disciplines formed the focus for special and contributed sessions, with the goal of developing dialogue and fostering the collaboration and innovation necessary to pursue solutions to existing and future challenges. Dr. Mimi A. R. Koehl, University of California at Berkeley, addressed the importance of disciplinary connections in her plenary lecture.
  
  
• Science and Society Connections: Factors that affect aquatic environments, how these impacts are assessed, their consequences for environmental quality, resources and health, and the transfer of this information for the benefit of society formed the bases for both contributed and special sessions. Dr. David Schindler from the University of Alberta delivered a plenary session addressing important connections between science and society.