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Te Arctic Ocean is rapidly accumulating carbon

dioxide resulting in a decline in pH. Marine

ecosystems and biodiversity will change, creating

new economic, social and policy challenges.

Arctic Ocean Acidication

2nd AnnouncementCall for Papers

6-8 May, 2013,Bergen, Norway

I n te r na t iona l Confe r enc e


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International Conference on Arctic Ocean Acidication

Background

Te Arctic Ocean is rapidly accumulating carbon

dioxide owing to perturbations in the global

carbon cycle and particularly to increases inanthropogenic carbon concentrations. Tis is

resulting in a decline in seawater pH, so-called

ocean acidifcation.

Increasing ocean acidication and warming o

the ocean will cause changes in the ecological and

biogeochemical coupling in the Arctic Ocean,

inuencing the Arctic marine ecosystem at all

scales. Ocean acidication is expected to afect

marine ood chains and sh stocks and thus the

commercial, subsistence, and recreational sheries

in the Arctic. Tere is a need or a better under-

standing o the nature and scope o these changes

and o the resilience o the ecosystem to the

changing carbon chemistry o the Arctic Ocean.

In addition, given the importance o the ArcticOcean as a regulator o global climate, there is a

need to understand the implications o the changing

role o the Arctic on the global carbon cycle.

Tese, and related issues, will be addressed at

the International Conerence on Arctic Ocean

Acidifcation, to be held in Bergen, Norway on

6 to 8 May 2013.

Tis conerence will also eature the results o the

new publishedAMAP Arctic Ocean Acidifcation

Assessment.

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Topics to be addressed

Responses o Arctic Ocean to increasing

CO2and related changes in the global

carbon cycle Social and policy challenges

Arctic Ocean acidication and ecological

and biogeochemical coupling

Implications o changing Arctic Ocean

Acidication or northern (commercial

and subsistence) sheries

Future developments


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International Conference on Arctic Ocean Acidication

Programme

Te conerence will include talks by invited keynote speakers, oral presentations selected on

the basis o submitted abstracts, poster presentations and short (3-minute) oral presentations

o selected posters.

Keynote speakers:

Opening o the conerence by Norwegian

Minister o the Environment Brd Vegar

Solhjell

Richard Bellerby, Norwegian Institute or

Water Research

Gretchen Hofmann, Marine Science

Institute, University o Caliornia-

Santa Barbara

Rashid Sumaila, Fisheries Economics

Research Unit, University o British

Columbia

Howard Browman, Norwegian Institute o

Marine Research

Leif G. Anderson, Department o

Chemistry and Molecular Biology,

University o Gothenburg

Ulf Riebesell, GEOMAR Helmholtz

Centre or Ocean Research

Carol urley, Plymouth Marine Laboratory

Sam Dupont, University o Gothenburg

An APECS (Association o Polar Early Career Scientists) special joint session will arrangedas part o the conerence.

Abstracts

Abstracts are invited on the topics to be addressed including the ollowing themes

results rom observational, experimental

and modelling studies o past, present and

uture ocean acidication,

responses o marine organisms and

ecosystem structure, unctioning and

biodiversity,

Abstracts or oral and poster presentation (max. 750 words) should be orwarded to the

Conerence organizers ([email protected]) by25 January 2013. Selection o oral and poster

presentations will take place within one month and speakers and presenters will be inormedo the outcome by 1 March 2013.

A book o abstracts will be produced.

perturbations to biogeochemical cycling

and eedbacks to the climate system, and

the economic, social and policy challenges

o ocean acidication.


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Conference Organisers

Contact Information

AMAP Secretariat

Gaustadallen 21

N-0349 Oslo

Norway

Phone: +47 22 95 83 40

E-mail: [email protected]

www.amap.no

Arctic Monitoring and

Assessment Programme (AMAP)

Institute for Marine Research,

Bergen, Norway (IMR)

Norwegian Institute for

Water Research (NIVA)

Scientic Committee on

Oceanic Research (SCOR)

University of British Columbia,

Canada (UBC)

International Council for the

Exploration of the Sea (ICES)

I n te r na t iona l Confe r enc e

Who should attend?

Scientists, climate scientists, social scientists,

policy- and decision-makers concerned with

environment, sheries and management o marine

ecosystems, stakeholders including northern

residents and indigenous peoples, sheries

organizations, industry, etc.

Conference venue

Hotel Scandic Bergen City,

Hakonsgaten 2, 5015 Bergen, Norway.

Registration, hotel booking and travel

Registration can be done via the conerence

web-site atwww.amap.no/conferences/aoa2013rom early 2013.

At the web-site detailed inormation about hotel

bookings, travel inormation, payment, scientic

programme, social events etc will be uploaded.

Preregistration can be sent to [email protected]

Conference cost

A conerence cost o 200 euros will be charged to

cover social events, lunches, cofee breaks, the

scientic assessment report, book o abstracts, etc.

Some nancial support will be available to assist

participation o young scientists at the conerence.

Website

Detailed programme and updated inormation aboutthe conerence will be uploaded to

www.amap.no/conferences/aoa2013

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