BES-‐AG Meeting July 2014
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BES-AG Meeting July 2014 – Charles Darwin House, London Information Document A) INFORMATION, CONTACTS AND HELPERS Details of registration, contact points, instructions etc. B) TIMETABLE Mon: Early Career Researchers Workshops; Tue: Horizon-scanning; Wed-Fri: Detrital Dynamics (Sat: “Silfest” – see point E!) C) ORAL ABSTRACTS 100-word abstracts for talks on Tue-Fri, inc. D) POSTERS Details on hardcopy and e-posters E) SOCIAL (Monday – Friday + Saturday) Evening mixers and local pub venue + Saturday “Silfest” at Imperial College’s Silwood Park Campus F) APPENDIX: DOCUMENT FOR DISCUSSION SESSIONS Document produced as a draft, with a view to submission to NERC to direct future strategic funding 1 British Ecological Society Aquatic Ecology Group A) INFORMATION, SESSON CHAIRS, CONTACTS AND HELPERS Please sign in at the registration desk in the morning that you arrive – if you arrive after the desk has closed, ask for one of the helpers in the table below. The people listed below will be helping out as local points of contact at the registration desk and for the evening mixers etc. Name of Helper e-mail contact Mobile number Joe Huddart [email protected] 07969374483 Marie-Claire Danner [email protected] 07835263486 Manon [email protected] 07749246135 Stessy Nepert [email protected] 07858901812 Xueke Lu [email protected] 07598498997 Gavin Williams [email protected] Lydia Bach [email protected] 2 B) TIMETABLE (Monday – Friday) British Ecological Society Aquatic Ecology Group Early Career Researcher Training Day Date: Monday 21st July 2014 Time: 10:00 – 17:30 Location: Charles Darwin House 12 Roger Street London, WC1N 2JU. Tel: 0207 685 2500 10:00-10:45 Arrival/Poster Setup/Refreshments 10:45-11:00 Welcome 11:00-12:30 An Introduction to Quantum GIS How to get Published “This course will introduce you to the The aim of this session is to equip basics of QGIS and show you how to participants with highly valuable extend this functionality to incorporate knowledge and skills useful for more sophisticated tools” publishing. Chris Yesson (Zoological Society of London) Mark Ledger (University of Birmingham) 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:30 Introduction to Analysing Food Web Data Succeeding with Grant Applications using Cheddar This session will provide participants with “We will use worked examples of real food an opportunity to learn what makes a web datasets to illustrate how to use successful grant application, from NERC Cheddar to perform a number of analyses” Large and Standard Grants to BES small grants. Lawrence Hudson (NHM)) Eoin O’Gorman (Imperial College London) Guy Woodward (Imperial College London) Tom Bell (Imperial College London) Jan Geert Hiddink (Bangor University) 15:30-16:00 Coffee 16:00-17:30 How to get started using likelihood to tailor ECR Career Question & Answer Discussion your statistics to biology instead of the session other way around This session allows participants to ask “This workshop aims to provide an panellists questions regarding career introduction to maximum likelihood and its advice usage with R” Tin-Yu Hui (Imperial College London) 17:30 Close 3 BES-AG Meeting July 2014 HORIZON SCANNING (Tuesday) AND DETRITAL DYNAMICS CONFERENCE (Wednesday- Friday, inc.) PROVISIONAL* TIMETABLE FOR TALKS AND POSTERS 1. Tuesday - Horizon-scanning - Aquatic Ecology in the 21st Century* Tuesday: Horizon-Scanning – Aquatic Ecology in the 21st Century 9.00 Welcome from Guy Woodward 9.15 Nessa O’Connor Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and community stability: experimental tests in marine ecosystems 9.50 Cathy Lucas Jellification of the oceans: fact or fiction? 10.15 Mark Gessner The value of mesocosm experiments Break 11.00 Jason Weeks The future of Aquaculture to 2060; addressing global challenges’ 11.25 Tom Webb Planet earth, planet ocean: does ecological theory generalise across aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems? 11.50 John Griffin Predator biodiversity and functioning of aquatic ecosystems 12.15 Paul Somerfield Integrating theoretical and empirical approaches in marine ecosystems to address the grand challenges of the 21st century: the Marine Ecosystems Research Programme Lunch & posters 13.30 Don Jackson Collaborative Research Networks and Citizen Science: Evolving Approaches in Research 13.55 Olivier Dangles Species diversity effects on detrital dynamics: What can we learn from the Tropics? 14.20 Alex Drumbell Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: insights from novel molecular approaches 14.45 Pippa Moore The impacts of climate 4 change for marine biodiversity: a global meta- analysis Break 15.30 Louise Firth Artificial coastal defences: enhancing biodiversity using sensitive design 15.55 Samraat Pawar From individual metabolism to aquatic ecosystem dynamics 16.20 Steve Hawkins Pattern, process and prediction: combining long- term and broadscale observations with experiments and modelling on rocky shores 16.45 Guy Woodward The Blue Planet: Aquatic Ecology in the 21st Century 17.10 Mixer and open discussion Each talk will be 25 mins per slot, inc. questions (question will also be taken in the general discussion in plenary at the end of the day). Session Chairs: Morning (9:30 – 12:25): Lydia Bach; Afternoon (2:30 – 16:15): Pavel Kratina *Speakers: please ensure you give your usb sticks with talks to the respective Chair before the start of your session. Posters will be displayed throughout the meeting, both as hardcopy printed versions (for those who were the first to submit) and also as electronic projected versions (for the remainder). Please note: although we do not anticipate any major changes to this schedule, it is potentially subject to minor revisions, so details may change – please check the BES-AG website regularly in case of alterations. 5 2. Wednesday - Friday: Detrital Dynamics in Aquatic Systems** Detrital dynamics Detrital dynamics Detrital dynamics Day 1: Wednesday Day 2: Thursday Day 3: Friday 9:00 Registration & Coffee Registration & Coffee Registration & Coffee 9:30 Jack Webster Ute Jacob Art Benke 10:05 Christian Mulder Kevin Purdy David Harper 10:40 Tea break 11:15 Claudia Pascoal Jon Grey Fanny Colas 11:50 Brendan McKie Gabriel Yvon-Durocher Mark Trimmer 12:25 Daniel Perkins Murray Thompson Michael Cunliffe 13:00 Lunch + poster sessions 14:30 Andrew Weightman Arturo Elosegi Scott Tiegs 15:05 Eoin O’Gorman Matt O’Callaghan Tom Bell 15:40 Clive Trueman Angela Gurnell Nikolai Friberg 16:15 Discussion sessions + Mixers Session Chairs: Morning (9:30 – 12:25): Eoin O’Gorman; Afternoon (2:30 – 16:15): Helen Bovy Morning (9:30 – 12:25): Murray Thompson; Afternoon (2:30 – 16:15): Marian Pye Morning (9:30 – 12:25): Mike Chadwick; Afternoon (2:30 – 16:15): Felicity Shelley 30 mins per slot, + 5 mins questions (question will also be taken in the general discussion in plenary at the end of each day) **Speakers: please ensure you give your usb sticks with talks to the respective Chair before the start of your session. Please note: although we do not anticipate any major changes to this schedule, it is potentially subject to minor revisions, so details may change – please check the BES-AG website regularly in case of alterations. 6 Monday-Friday Talks: Speakers’ Names, Presentation Titles and Contact Details Horizon scanning day (Tuesday): • Alex Dumbrell, University of Essex, UK ([email protected]) – ‘Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: insights from novel molecular approaches’, http://www.essex.ac.uk/bs/staff/profile.aspx?ID=2130 • Olivier Dangles, Institute for Research and Development, Ecuador ([email protected]) – ‘Species diversity effects on detrital dynamics : What can we learn from the Tropics?’ http://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=YJbBFs0AAAAJ&hl=en • Louise Firth, National University of Ireland, Galway ([email protected]) – ‘Artificial coastal defences: enhancing biodiversity using sensitive design’ http://www.nuigalway.ie/zoology/firth/ • Mark Gessner, IGB Berlin, Germany ([email protected]) - The value of mesocosm experiments • John Griffin, Swansea University, UK ([email protected]) ‘Predator biodiversity and functioning of aquatic ecosystems’ • Steve Hawkins, University of Southampton, UK ([email protected]) – ‘Pattern, process and prediction: combining long-term and broadscale observations with experiments and modelling on rocky shores’ http://www.southampton.ac.uk/oes/research/staff/sh3u09.page • Don Jackson, University of Ottawa, USA ([email protected]) ’Collaborative Research Networks and Citizen Science: Evolving Approaches in Research’ • Cathy Lucas, University of Southampton, UK ([email protected]) – ‘Jellification of the oceans: fact or fiction?’ www.southampton.ac.uk/oes/research/staff/chl1.page • Pippa Moore, Aberystwyth University, UK ([email protected]) - The impacts of climate change for marine biodiversity: a global meta-analysis http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/ibers/staff/pim2/ • Nessa O'Connor, Queens University Belfast, UK ([email protected]) - 'Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and community stability: experimental tests in marine ecosystems' http://www.qub.ac.uk/bb/People/DrNEOConnor/ • Samraat Pawar ([email protected]) ‘From individual metabolism to aquatic ecosystem dynamics’ • Paul Somerfield, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK ([email protected]) - ‘Integrating theoretical and empirical approaches in marine ecosystems to address the grand challenges of the 21st century: the Marine Ecosystems Research Programme’ http://www.pml.ac.uk/about_us/pml_people/paul_somerfield.aspx • Tom Webb, University