ECOBE – CLIMAR - ADAPT Norway GLOBEC Annual Meeting at Norlandia Marsteinen Hotel, Sotra 15 – 16 February 2005 Tuesday 15 February 2005 09:00 Check in and coffee 09:15 Welcome by Svein Sundby Session 1. Forcing from the large scale - the influence of the basin-scale physics (chair: Ken Drinkwater) 09:25 Paul Budgell: ROMS model for the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans 09:45 Svein Sundby: New interpretations of the Great Salinity Anomalies - the implications for the marine ecosystem 10:00 Helge Drange: "Observed and modelled fluctuations in the Barents Sea climate system, present and future". Session 2. The physical setting of the Nordic Seas (chair: Ken Drinkwater) 10.15 Lars Asplin, Randi Ingvaldsen, Roald Sætre and Harald Loeng: General aspects of the Southern Barents Sea circulation 10:30 Harald Yndestad: The cause and the effect of the 18.6 yr nodal tide in the Barents Sea 10:45 Bjørg Risebrobakken and Trond Dokken: A paleo perspective on the Barents Sea climatic development, preliminary results. 11:00 Coffee 11:20 Kjell Arne Mork: Mesoscale gyres in the northern Norwegian Sea 11:30 Frode Vikebø, Svein Sundby, Bjørn Ådlandsvik and Odd Helge Otterå: Impacts of a reduced THC on growth, distribution and recruitment of ArctoNorwegian cod Session 3. Phytoplankton production (chair: Ken Drinkwater) 11:45 Magnar Hagebø and Francisco Rey: Nutrients distribution in the Norwegian Sea. Nitrate consumption as a "proxy" for new production 12:00 Morten Skogen: Interannual variability of the Norwegian Sea primary production Session 4. Zooplankton processes, production and distributions (chair: Webjørn Melle) 12:15 Bjørnar Ellertsen: Calanus in Vestfjorden - distributions and transport pattern 12:30 Erling K. Stenevik, Cecilie B. Aarnes, Webjørn Melle and Bjørnar Ellertsen: Egg production of Calanus finmarchicus in the Norwegian Sea 12:45 Kjetil Myrlid Aasen and Webjørn Melle: Seasonal cycles of Zooplankton: interannual and oceanographic variability in the Norwegian Sea 13:00 Geir Huse: Modelling inflow of Calanus finmarchicus to the Barents Sea 13:15 Lunch Session 5. Special discussion (Introduction by Morten Skogen and Geir Huse) 14:15 Integration of models for phytoplankton and zooplankton 15:00 Coffee Session 6. GLOBEC (chair: Webjørn Melle) 15:30 Cisco Werner: GLOBEC International – Status and development of the Programme 15:45 Manuel Barange: GLOBEC International Programme Office 16:00 Geir Ottersen: ICES/GLOBEC Cod and Climate Change Programme - recent activities and plans for the future 16:15 Ken Drinkwater: ESSAS - the new regional GLOBEC Programme 16:30 Short Break Session 7. Predator-prey interactions zooplankton-fish (chair: Webjørn Melle) 16:45 Øyvind Fiksen: Vertical distribution of copepods under multiple predators 17:00 Stein Kaartvedt, Anders Røstad, Øyvind Fiksen, Webjørn Melle, Thomas Torgersen, Mari Tiseth Breien and Thor A. Klevjer: Piscivores patrol krill schools 17:15 Geir Huse: Adapting the life history of Calanus finmarchicus under different predator regimes by artificial evolution 17:30 Thomas Torgersen, Øyvind Fiksen and Geir Huse: Feeding- mortality- and advective loss rates of Calanus finmarchicus in the Norwegian Sea 17:45 Cecilie Broms Årnes and Webjørn Melle: Distribution and seasonal cycle of Calanus finmarchicus in the Norwegian Sea and the feeding migration of Norwegian spring spawning herring 1800 Webjørn Melle, Jens Chr. Holst, Kjell Arne Mork : Climate, zooplanktonproduction and herring feeding 1815 End of day 19:30 Dinner Wednesday 16 February 2005 Session 7 continued: Predator-prey interactions zooplankton-fish 09:00 Øystein Varpe: Herring and Calanus interactions, a PhD study in ADAPT 09:15 Cecilie Broms Årnes and Webjørn Melle: Prey-specific gastric evacuation of Norwegian spring spawning herring 09:30 Esben Olsen: Distribution of NSSH in the Norwegian Sea in relation to zooplankton biomass and hydrography Session 8. Special lecture 09:45 Tore Johannessen: Synergism - positive predator-prey relationship - evidence for an important ecological and evolutionary principle 10:15 Coffee Session 9. Fish population structure - coastal cod versus skrei (chair: Øyvind Fiksen) 10:45 Erling K. Stenevik and Svein Sundby: Buoyancy of eggs of Norwegian coastal cod from four locations along the coast 11:00 Frode Vikebø, Svein Sundby and Bjørn Ådlandsvik: Drift patterns of eggs from Coastal and Arcto-Norwegian cod: adaptive egg buoyancy Session 10. Reproduction in cod (chair: Øyvind Fiksen) 11:15 Svein Sundby and Odd Nakken: Spatial shifts in spawning habitats of ArctoNorwegian cod induced by climate change 11:30 Christian Jørgensen: A model of life history evolution in cod 11:45 Olav S. Kjesbu, Richard Nash, Anders Thorsen, Merete Fonn and Maria Krüger-Johnsen: Egg production to recruitment in cod and herring 12:00 Lunch Session 11. Basic fish larval processes and modeling (chair: Øyvind Fiksen) 13:00 Hans Pecseli: Concentrations and concentration fluctuations in a turbulent environment 13:15 Jan Erik Stiansen and Svein Sundby: Swell-induced turbulence and feeding conditions of cod larvae 13:30 Trond Kristiansen: Larval cod in ponds: model validation and the role of habitat selection 13:45 Frode Vikebø, Svein Sundby and Bjørn Ådlandsvik: The combined effect of temperature, advection and dispersal on distribution of larval and pelagic juvenile cod Session 12. Special discussion (Introduction by Geir Huse and Cisco Werner) 14:00 Integration of models for zooplankton and larval fish 14:45 Coffee 15:15 Summing up and questions 16:00 End of meeting