See below for an announcement regarding a very interesting biological workshop on Antarctic ecosystems, from Marie Sabacka.
Cheers
TJ
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TJ Young
PhD Student, University of Cambridge
President, UK Polar Network
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We would like to invite you to a workshop titled: Glacier ecology and biogeochemistry in Antarctica: processes, fluxes and linkages to ice marginal ecosystems that will be held at the University of Northumbria on May 27-28, 2015. The workshop is organised as part of the output for a NERC-funded project entitled "Productivity and Biogeochemistry of terrestrial Ice-bound ecosystems of the Maritime Antarctic." More info about the project can be found here: www.ecoantarctica.group.shef.ac.uk.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together interdisciplinary Antarctic research expertise to discuss the fate of nutrients that have accumulated in Antarctic snow and glacier ice. We also wish to discuss the in-situ and "downstream" processes that govern the export and potential impact of nutrients to ice marginal ecosystems such as the oceans. Emphasis will be given to the relevant processes during the first day of the workshop, leading to a presentation of the key tools for quantifying cryospheric change, biogeochemical fluxes and Antarctic ecosystem response in the second. Thereafter, we will identify crucial research needs and strategies for the next ten years.
The workshop will be a great opportunity for young researchers to hear about and discuss opportunities for collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey, National Oceanography Centre Southampton and the University of Northumbria. If you would like to attend, please let us know (draft schedule attached).
Dates: Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 May 2015, 9 am – 6 pm
Location: A002 (LT) and Rutherford Hall, University of Northumbria, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 8SE
Project website: http://www.ecoantarctica.group.shef.ac.uk
With best wishes
David Pearce and Marie Sabacka
Contact emails:
marie.sabacka@bristol.ac.uk
david.pearce@northumbria.ac.uk
