2011 SCOR Annual Meeting

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 Group
  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

Background Book for Meeting

Annotated Agenda and Participants List (added 17 August)
Tab 1 – Opening Session (0.08 MB;  added 27 July)
Tab 2 – Working Group Reports and Proposals (11.7 MB; added 3 August)
Tab 3 – Large-Scale Ocean Research Projects (3.0 MB; added 12 July)

• National Reports on SOLAS research (15.7 MB; added 12 July)

Tab 4 – Ocean Carbon and Other Activities (1.6 MB; added 14 July)
Tab 5 – Capacity-Building Activities (0.56 MB; added 27 July)
Tab 6 – Relations with Intergovernmental Organizations (0.05 MB; added 23 July)

• Report from ICES (added 8 August)

Tab 7 – Relations with Non-governmental Organizations (1.6 MB; added 3 August)

• Report from IAMAS (added 23 August)

Tab 8 – Organization and Finance (0.03 MB; added 28 July)
Tab 9 – SCOR-Related Meetings (0.02 MB; added 28 July)

Minutes

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