The Scientific Program
The scientific program includes all normal ASLO
activities and a few more: Plenary talks, Special Sessions with tutorials,
Contributed Sessions, oral and poster presentations, workshops, a
pre- and post-meeting course and post-meeting excursions. ASLO awards
and the Minorities program are also present.
Plenary speakers
Each day starts with a plenary where different aspects of Research
Across Boundaries are presented:
Allan G. Hildrew: Discovering the Habitat Boundaries for Aquatic Insects
Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, United Kingdom
Carlos M. Duarte: Land Use and Coastal Ecosystems
Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados, CSIC-Univ., Palma de
Mallorca, Spain
Mary I. Scranton: The Ocean Oxygen Minimum Layer as a Boundary
State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Tom Fenchel: The Aquatic Sediment: a Multi-Boundary System
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Marten Scheffer: Links Between Empiricism and Modelling
Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands
Special Sessions and Tutorials
A large number of suggestions for Special Sesssions
(SS) were forwarded by ASLO members and condensed to an exciting Program
covering the desired width of the meeting theme: Research Across Boundaries.
About 40 Special Sessions are supplemented with Contributed Sessions
of a more general character. The Program Committee invites Convenors
to introduce each Special Session with a TUTORIAL presentation. A
tutorial is allocated 30 minutes and it is the purpose to present
the session subject in a more comprehensive lecture which 1) identifies
the development of the field in a mini-review, 2) summarizes state-of-the-art,
and 3) identifies important gaps and questions for the future. By
this initiative we hope to make it easier for the non-specialists
to join the sessions and to understand what is going on, to encourage
discussions, and not least to educate and guide the many Ph.D. students
normally attending ASLO meetings. The Convenors invite you to submit
papers for the Special Sessions. Indicate your choice on the Abstract
submission form.
Session topic codes (each link takes you to the session abstract
and session chair information):
SS01 - The interface between theory and field
experiment: getting beyond yes-or-no answers
SS02 - Thermodynamics of aquatic systems
SS03 - Astrolimnology: Measuring the
quality of lakes from heaven
SS04 - Sensor technology for remote interactive
experiments in aquatic environments
SS05 - High resolution pigment distribution
processes and fate
SS06 - Microorganisms in stream systems
SS07 - Sub-aquatic and sub-aerial biofilms-
myth or reality
SS08 - Microbial diversity and community
structure in aquatic environments - regulating mechanisms in different
habitats
SS09 - Bacterioplankton communities in
lakes and oceans - Functional and structural similarities and differences
SS10 - Microbe-particle interactions
in pelagic ecosystems
SS11 - Microbial microscale patchiness:
chemosensory behavior of bacteria
SS12 - The significance and control of
water column respiration in aquatic systems
SS13 - Microbial ecology of the Arctic
Oceans
SS14 - Crossing the membrane boundary
between life and death: The biogeochemistry of lysis and EOC production
by phytoplankton and bacteria
SS15 - Organic matter as a linkage between
terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems
SS16 - Transport and transformation of DOM
from land to sea
SS17 - Approaches to regional monitoring
and assessment of surface water quality
SS18 - Integrating river basins: linking
fluxes between catchments, rivers and estuaries with numerical models
SS19 - Lakes in flood-pulsed environments
SS20 - The role of aquatic macrophytes
in lakes
SS21 - Aquatic species invasions
SS22 - Quantitative links between past
and present - Paleolimnological contributions to contemporary process
studies
SS23 - The recovery of freshwater ecosystems
from acidification: the role of air, land and sediment boundaries
SS24 - Sustainable use and management
of international fresh waters
SS25 - Ecological processes and ecosystems:
functioning towards water purification
SS26 - Role of aquatic colloids in the
speciation, bioavailability and fate of trace elements, nutrients
and contaminants
SS27 - Climate and aquatic systems:
I. Climate change, weather patterns and
aquatic systems
II. Climate variation, regime shifts
and fisheries: lessons from the Atlantic and Pacific
SS30 - What is controlling the distribution
of seagrasses?
SS31 - Influence of primary producers on nutrient
cycling in coastal marine areas
SS32 - Biogeochemical processes in estuaries
SS33 - Coastal embayments as important
land-margin ecosystems: Fate and transformations of reactive nutrients
SS34 - Biochemistry of food quality in
relation to production across pelagic systems
SS35 - Small-scale physical-biological
interactions in the plankton
SS36 - Physical and chemical influence
on the life history of marine and freshwater organisms: The consequence
of environmental change
SS37 - Spatial and temporal scales controlling
plankton dynamics
SS38 - Biological, chemical, physical
and sedimentological interactions in polynyas
SS39 - Benthic filter-feeding and plankton
dynamics- importance of currents and mixing
SS40 - Bioturbation: the water-sediment
interface is under control
SS41 - Chemical ecology of freshwater
and marine benthos
SS42 - The microbial ecology and biogeochemistry
of aquatic sediments
SS43 - Oxic-anoxic boundary phenomena
SS44 - Biogeochemical processes and their
microenvironmental controls at the sediment-water interface.
SS45 - Biogas cycling and emission along
the aquatic continuum: From freshwater to coastal zone
SS46 - The Response of North Atlantic
Shelf Ecosystems to Climate Variability and Change
Contributed Sessions
CS01 - African fresh water systems
CS02 - Methods
CS04 - Aquatic chemistry and ecotoxicology
CS05 - Arctic/Antarctic ecology
CS06 - Benthos and biodiversity
CS10 - Biomanipulation and applied ecology
CS14 - Extreme environments (e.g. saline lakes, high/low temperatures)
CS16 - Microbial food web interactions
CS17 - Optics
CS19 - Phytoplankton ecology (incl.toxic algae)
CS20 - Plankton and nutrient dynamics
CS22 - Stable isotopes
CS23 - Streams
CS26 - UV-radiation and aquatic biota
CS27 - Zooplankton ecology
