Oceanography and ecosystems ​in the North Atlantic: science and operational services

Conveners: Cesar González-Pola (Spain), Francisco J. Campuzano (Portugal), Tomasz Dabrowski​ (Ireland).

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• Sources and causes driving environmental variability in the southern Norwegian Sea: Øystein Skagseth, Hjálmar Hátun, Karin Margretha Larsen, Kjell Arne Mork, Héðinn Valdimarsson.
• A sustained collaborative monitoring network of Scottish coastal waters by scientists and citizens – the Scottish Coastal Observatory (SCObs): Helen Smith, Eileen Bresnan, Pamela Walsham, Margarita Machairopoulou, Jennifer Hindson, Bee Berx, Alison Taylor, William Turrell.
• Dynamics of northern shrimp, Pandalus borealis, reproductive potential in a changing Gulf of Maine: Hsiao-Yun Chang, Yong Chen.
• Modelling larvae of Parapenaeus longirostris: understanding dispersal for an improved stock management: Rita F. T. Pires, Álvaro Peliz, Antonina dos Santos.
• How environmental forcing can synchronize population fluctuations: Lucie Buttay, David A. Vasseur, Antonio Bode, Rafael González-Quirós, Enrique Nogueira.
• Oceanographic flow regime and fish recruitment: reversed circulation in the North Sea coincides with unusually strong sandeel recruitment: Ole Henriksen, Asbjørn Christensen, Sigrun Jónasdóttir, Brian MacKenzie, Kristian Ege Nielsen, Henrik Mosegård, Mikael van Deurs.
• Climate impact on recruitment of main bottom fishes in the Barents Sea during the last 100 years: Sergey P. Melnikov, A.S. Krovnin, G.P. Moury, A.I. Nikitenko.
• From theory to practical “operational fisheries oceanography”, an emerging field for linking species ecology, oceanographic processes and fisheries assessment needs: Álvarez-Berastegui D, Hidalgo M, Reglero P, Balbín R, Barroso L, Mourre B, Hernandez I, Orfila A, Tintoré J.
• CoCliME: Co-development of Climate services for adaptation to changing Marine Ecosystems: Bengt Karlson, C. Cusack, G. Appéré, L. Arneborg, E. Berdalet, A. Cembella, P. Guillotreau, M. Gröger, P. Hess, S. Hefferman, U. John, K. Klemm, V. Le Bihan, R. Lemeé, B. Morineau, L. Naustvoll, B. Siemering, E. Stoica, J. Thomas, M. Travers, J. West, G. Vulturius.
• Modelling climate change effects on Northeast Atlantic albacore habitat: what will future offer to albacore?: Nerea Goikoetxea, Guillem Chust, Leire Ibaibarriaga, Yolanda Sagarminaga, Igor Arregui, Almudena Fontán, Haritz Arrizabalaga, Xabier Irigoien.
• Simulating the effects of climate and management scenarios on Northeast Atlantic mackerel with a mechanistic individual-based model: Rob Boyd, Shovonlal Roy, Richard Sibly, Kieran Hyder, Robert Thorpe, Nicola Walker.
• A 15-year Lagrangian simulation to understand recruitment of the northern stock of European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax (L.)): Luz María García-García, Claire Beraud, Hayley Bannister, Kirsty Bradley, Kieran Hyder.
• More than a century observing ocean climate in the North Sea and Faroe-Shetland Channel: Bee Berx, Lewis Drysdale, Alejandro Gallego, Jennifer Hindson, Helen Smith, William Turrell.
• Nitrogen cycling in the Elbe estuary from a joint 3D-modelling and observational perspective: Johannes Pein, Annika Eisele, Richard Hofmeister, Tina Sanders, Ute Daewel, Kirstin Dähnke, Emil Stanev, Justus Van Beusekom, Joanna Staneva, Corinna Schrum.
• Assessing the ecological connectivity between man-made structures in the North Sea: Kieran Hyder, Johan van der Molen, Alex Callaway, Luz Garcia, Paulette Posen, Nick Taylor, Hannah Tidbury, Paul Whomersley, Serena Wright, Susana Lincoln.
• Use of satellite image products to understand variation in fish growth: sardine and anchovy in the Bay of Biscay: Pierre Petitgas, Francis Gohin, Erwan Duhamel, Mathieu Doray.
• The ICES Report on Ocean Climate, an international effort to track the North Atlantic state: Cesar Gonzalez-Pola.