Workshop themes:

All about Plankton Functional Types (PFT)
Strategies for the future: Role of zooplankton
Strategies for the future: Stability and adaptation

Working groups to develop or pursue common actions on:

1. Filling the gaps (missing rates and biomasses, and how to get them)
2. MAREMIP (the MARine Ecosystem Model Intercomparison Project)
3. Zooplankton inter-comparison

Agenda

Wednesday 22nd October:

9.00-10.30
Welcoming comments:
Chair: Colin Prentice

• Welcome (Louis Legendre)
• Why are we here, what we have done, what comes now (Corinne Le Quéré)
• Statement by all participants

• PFT dominance under variable climatic conditions (Séverine Alvain, 15 min)
• Contribution of phytoplankton blooms to export production (Marie Racault, 15 min)

10.30-11.00 Break

11.00-13.00 All about Plankton Functional Types (continue)
Chair: Laurent Bopp

• PFT Biomass from HPLC (Jill Peloquin, 15 min)
• Carbon-to-chlorophyll ratio and growth rate of phytoplankton (Shubha Sathyendranath and Trevor Platt, 15 min)
• Effect of temperature on diatoms growth rates (Sophie Chollet, 15 min)
• PlankTOM10 overview and the Eurocean's PFT database (Corinne Le Quéré, 15 min)

13.00-15.00 Lunch

15.00-16.30 All about Plankton Functional Types (continued)
Chair: Richard Rivkin

• MAREMIP results (Meike Vogt, 15 min)
• MAREMIP results (Taketo Hashioka, 15 min)
• C4MIP follow-up (Laurent Bopp, 15 min)

16.30-17.00 Break

17.00-18.00 Strategies for the future: role of zooplankton
Chair: Richard Rivkin

• Optimal foraging (Rob Armstrong, 20-30 min)

20.00 Group dinner at the restaurant La Grignotiere, 3 rue du Poilu

Thursday 23 Oct:

9.00-10.30 All about Plankton Functional Types (continue)
Chair: Christine Klaas

• Role of Micro-zooplankton (Sévrine Sailley, 15 min)
• Heterotrophic plankton in a warming world (Róisín Moriarty, 15 min)

10.30-11.00 Break

11.00-13.00 Strategies for the future (continued): Stability and adaptation
Chair: Christine Klaas

• Update on the MIT model (Dutkiewicz, 20-30 min)
• Controls of stability in terrestrial ecosystems (Anje Neutel, 20-30 min)
• A marine mechanistic model of modular complexity (m⁴c): Lyapunov stability at steady state (Sergio Vallina, 15 min)

13.00-15.00 Lunch

15.00-16.30 Strategies for the future (continued): Stability and adaptation
Chair: Dieter Wolf-Gladrow

• Adapting communities in global setting (Jorn Bruggeman, 20-30 min)
• Towards an adaptive model of plankton and DOM in the global ocean (Markus Pahlow, 20-30 min)

16.30-17.00 Break

17.00-18.00 Strategies for the future (continued): Stability and adaptation
Chair: Dieter Wolf-Gladrow

• The effect of increased structural complexity on predictability in a pelagic ecosystem model (Mark Baird, 20-30 min)

Friday 24th October:

9.00-10.30 All about rates and processes :
Chair: Trevor Platt

• Modelling oxidative stress in phytoplankton cell (Luca Polimene, 15 min)
• Light-Fe co-limitation: acclimation vs succession (Erik Buitenhuis, 15 min)

10.30-11.00 Break

11.00-13.00 Working groups to develop or pursue common actions

• Filling the gaps (chair: Shubha, Erik and Richard)
• Strategies for the future (chair: Dieter)
• MAREMIP (chair: Meike)

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-16.00 Closing session
Chair: Trevor Platt and Corinne Le Quéré

• Presentation by working group chairs and discussions
• Filling the gaps, immediate steps (Erik, Shubha)
• Future of PlankTOM (12, 16, 30, more?) (Corinne)
• Summary conclusions and actions (Corinne Le Quéré)

There will be a registration fee of 90 Euro to cover lunches, one meeting dinner, and breaks.

Location

The workshop will take place at the "salle Géodynamique", in the Observatoire Océanologique of Villefranche-sur-Mer. The Observatoire by the sea, at the extreme west of the city of Villefranche, after the "Port de la Darse". This is a 20 minutes walk from the train station of Villefranche. There is no easy way to get to Villefranche from the Nice airport (15 km), so please take a taxi either directly from the airport (about 65 Euro) or from Nice city center (about 25 Euro). Please co-ordinate to share taxis if you can.

We can meet at the Hotel de la Darse at 8.45 on the first morning if you do not know where the meeting room is.

Hotel

Participants will be located in one of the two hotels below. People with children should ask to be at Hotel de la Darse.

1. Hotel de la Darse, 32 Avenue du Général de Gaulle, 06230 Villefranche sur Mer.
   Tel: +33 (0)4 93 01 72 54, Fax: +33 (0)4 93 01 84 37. This hotel is located right at the entry of the Observatoire Océanologique of Villefranche-sur-Mer, where the workshop will take place. Breakfast will be served at the hotel.
   See here for Darse Hotel bookings
2. Hotel Provençal, 4, avenue du Maréchal Joffre, 06230 Villefranche sur Mer.
   Tel: +33 (0)4 93 76 53 53, Fax: +33 (0)4 93 76 53 54. The hotel is located on the west side of downtown Villefranche. Breakfast will be served at the hotel.
   See here for Provencal Hotel bookings

Participant list

Green Ocean Consotrium: I. Colin Prentice (land modelling) Corinne Le Quéré (carbon cycle modelling) Olivier Aumont (ecosystem modelling) Laurent Bopp (carbon cycle-climate modelling) Erik Buitenhuis (ecosystem modelling) Richard Geider (ecosystem theory) Christine Klaas (micro zooplankton and ballast effect) Sandy Harrison (global database analysis and paleo climate) Louis Legendre (ecosystem structure) Trevor Platt (general ecosystem and biogeochemistry) Richard Rivkin (bacteria and micro-zooplankton) Shubha Sathyendranath (PFT by satellite and light-physiology) Dieter Wolf-Gladrow (theoretical modelling) Scientists, students and post-docs working on the development of global ecosystem models (or the required data): Séverine Alvain (satellite PFT) Sophie Chollet Taketo Hashioka (DGOM) Roisin Moriarty Marie Racault Sévrine Sailley Lan Smith Nick Stephens Sergio Vallina Meike Vogt Others: Rob Armstrong Stephanie Dutkiewicz Michelle Hale Anje Neutel Jill Peloquin Mark Baird Jorn Bruggeman Markus Pahlow Luca Polimene Serena Esposito Sandra Martinez Elvira Pulido-Villena Cannot attend: Icarus Allen Yasuhiro Yamanaka (DGOM) Oliver Ross Sarah Cornell Bablu Sinha Marie-Pierre Gosselin John Raven Shovonlal Roy Andy Watson

Expense claim forms

Expense claim form for participants paid by the central Euroceans budget

Mail this form and original receipts to: Clare Enright,
The British Antarctic Survey
High Cross, Madingley Road
Cambridge CB3 0ET,
United Kingdom

Expense claim form for participants paid by Quest
Mail this form and original receipts (including meals) to: Miss Julie Shackleford
QUEST, Department of Earth Sciences
University of Bristol
Wills Memorial Building
Queens Road
Bristol BS8 1RJ
United Kingdom

Expense claim form for participants paid by MARQuest
Mail this form and original receipts (including meals) to:
James Fishwick
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Prospect Place
The Hoe
Plymouth
PL1 3DH
United Kingdom