2011 SCOR Executive Committee Meeting
12-15 September 2011
Tieteiden talo, Kirkkokatu 6

Helsinki, Finland

Materials for Meeting

• Call for Working Group Proposals

• Registration

• Logistical Information

  • Transportation to Helsinki

  • Meeting Locations (see map)

    • SCOR Meeting (Sept. 12-15) - Tieteiden talo, Kirkkokatu 6

    • Baltic Sea, Our Sea (Sept. 14) - University of Helsinki main building, Fabianinkatu 33

  • Social Events

  • Program for Baltic Sea, Our Sea

• Block Agenda

• Proposals for New Working Groups

  1. Proposal for a SCOR Working Group to Investigate Physical and Biological Determinants of Population Connectivity: Are Perceived Temperate-Tropical Differences Real?

  2. Proposal for a SCOR Working Group: Organic Ligands – A Key Control on Trace Metal Biogeochemistry in the Ocean

     • Letter of Support from GEOTRACES (added 3 August)

  3. Proposal for a SCOR Working Group on Deep-sea biodiversity Patterns of the South Atlantic Ocean

  4. Proposal for a SCOR Working Group on Common Challenges in Establishing Ocean Observatories (notation of chairs added on 2 May)

  5. Proposal for a SCOR Working Group on Subterranean Estuaries

  6. Proposal for a SCOR Working Group on Patterns of rocky shore dynamics in coastal ecosystems: comparative analysis

  7. Proposal for a SCOR Working Group on Biogeochemical Exchange Processes at the Sea-Ice Interfaces (BEPSII) (proposed WG membership changed on 6 July)

     • Letter of Support from OASIS (added 6 July)

     • Letter of Support from SCAR (added 6 July)

     • Letter of Support from SOLAS (added 14 July)

  8. Proposal for a SCOR working group on Understanding the global impacts and implications of range-shifting species in marine systems (country affiliations of proposed members added on 29 April)

• Call for Review of WG Proposals