Graphic Artist Bas Kohler, Sessions Preview (S1, S8, S18)
Alistair Hobday (Plenary S1, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Australia)
Ocean extremes: Marine heatwaves and marine ecosystems
Fan Wang (Plenary S8, Institute of Oceanology, CAS, Qingdao, China)
Facing the future and sustainability through connecting the coastal and open oceans: Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Severino G. Salmo III (Plenary S18, Department of Environmental Science, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines; Visiting Foreign Researcher at the Tropical Biosphere Research Centre of the University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan)
Blue carbon ecosystems: Conservation and policy needs for an effective climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies
Anne B. Hollowed (2018-ECCWO Scientific Steering Committee, Chair)
Symposium Closing
Graphic Artist Bas Kohler, Sessions Preview (S2, S17, S11, S17)
Lisa Goddard (S2 Plenary, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, USA)
Ten-years out: Navigating the information gap between El Niño and climate change
Andreas Oschlies (S7 Plenary, Marine Biogeochemical Modelling, GEOMAR and the University of Kiel, Germany)
Sensitivity of the Eastern Tropical South Pacific oxygen minimum zone to climate change
Stephen Widdicombe (S11 Plenary, Marine Ecology and Biodiversity, Plymouth Marine Lab, UK)
How do we put all the pieces together to appreciate the bigger picture?
Iddya Karunasagar (S17 Plenary, Nitte University, Mangalore, India)
Climate change, harmful algal blooms and health risks in one health context
Graphic Artist Bas Kohler, Publication Announcement, Sessions Preview (S4, S10, S14, S14)
Dimitri Gutierrez (Plenary S4, Peruvian Marine Research Institute (IMARPE))
Climate variability and ocean deoxygenation over continental margins associated to the Peru-Chile and other
upwelling systems: Insights from proxy records
Gretta Pecl (Plenary S10, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), Centre for Marine Socioecology (CMS) Tasmania, Australia)
Addressing key questions for climate-driven species redistribution requires integration of ecology,
conservation and social science
Merle Sowman (Plenary S14, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa)
Community vulnerability assessments to inform coastal adaptation planning: Insights from Southern Africa
Prateep Kumar Nayak (Plenary S15, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada)
Vulnerable yet viable: Fisheries and aquaculture amidst global change processes
Sessions Preview (S1, S3, S12, S13)
"IOC - Ocean Decade" by Dr. Vladimir Ryabinin (Executive Secretary, IOC-UNESCO)
Graphic Artist Bas Kohler
Naomi Harada (S3 Plenary, Research and Development Center for Global Change (RCGC), Japan Agency for
Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC));
Sentinel studies of ocean acidification in pelagic (the western North Pacific and Arctic Ocean) and Japanese coasts
Eric Galbraith (S12 Plenary, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Getting the big picture in focus: Assessing climate and human factors with global human-ecosystem models
Sarah Cooley (S13 Plenary, Ocean Conservancy, Washington DC, USA):
How can we use imperfect knowledge to inform management of ecosystems facing multiple drivers?
Opening Welcome: Dr. Jason Link
RDML Timothy Gallaudet (Keynote Speaker)
(Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and
Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, USA)
Philippe Cousteau (Keynote Speaker)
(Filmmaker, Explorer, Advocate, CA, USA)