Microbial Community Responses to Ocean Deoxygenation

Convene a practical workshop in Saanich Inlet, a seasonally anoxic fjord off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, to ground-truth common standards for process rate and molecular measurements and identify model ecosystems for future cross-scale comparative analyses.

Convene a meeting at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde, Germany to codify standards of best practice, and compose a white paper describing said standards and opportunities.

Sponsor a workshop at the marine lab of the University of Concepcion, Chile, to disseminate the best practices described in the white paper, and to provide hands-on experience to international participants, and local students and scientists, with those practices.

Convene a meeting at the National Institute of Oceanography in Goa, India, engaging local students and scientists in the project. The goal of this meeting is to compile a peer-reviewed monograph, which will be published as an electronic book in an open-access journal such as Frontiers or PLoS to ensure both visibility and long-term access.

February 2014, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

14-18 July 2014, Saanich Inlet and Vancouver, BC, Canada

30 August-3 September 2015, Warnemunde, Germany

2-5 December 2016, Goa, India

Final Symposium: Flyer and Schedule of Sessions