The 72nd Annual Northeast Fish & Wildlife Conference, USA

The 72nd Annual Northeast Fish & Wildlife Conference, "Thinking Outside: Taking Risks for Better Conservation," will be held April 3-5, 2016 in Annapolis, Maryland at the Westin. The event is co-hosted by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the Delaware Division of Fish & Wildlife.

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Conservation Asia 2016, Singapore

The SCB and ATBC are the two largest non-profit international professional organizations devoted to the conservation of biodiversity, with >10,000 members worldwide. This is the first time that SCB Asia-Pacific and ATBC Asia regional chapters will jointly host a meeting. Conservation Asia 2016 will attract up to 500 delegates from up to 80 countries. Participants will be conservation managers, agribusiness and extractive industry leaders, policy makers, conservation scientists and students from the academic, business, NGO and government communities.

The conference theme of "sustainable landscapes for people, business and biodiversity" reflects the complexity of environmental challenges facing the Asian region. Over the past 30 years, Asia has experienced spectacular increases in economic growth and human wellbeing, sustained in part through resource extraction and crop expansion. One consequence of this has been high rates of deforestation, habitat degradation, pollution, and species extinctions across Asia. This conference will be an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to engage in scientific discourse over some of the most urgent (and contentious) environmental and conservation issues facing Asia, including (but not limited to) environment-industry trade-offs; public-private approaches to the sustainable management of natural capital; environmental markets and innovative conservation financing; urban ecology; communicating conservation science; the illegal wildlife trade; and the human dimension of conservation.

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North American Congress for Conservation Biology, USA

The 3rd Biennial Congress will highlight the importance of integrating successful communication strategies into our work. In order to move from research to action, we must communicate across boundaries to encourage and empower diverse communities working to sustain the Earth's biological and cultural diversity, and to implement the policy changes that make this possible. The Congress will play an important role in advancing science and stimulating conservation action through effective dialogue and far-reaching engagement. This Congress in North America is critical to our success as conservation professionals. Please stay tuned as we update web content to reflect the upcoming conference.

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Super saturated methane complicates porewater collection

                 

Super saturated methane complicates porewater collection from Seagrass Lab on Vimeo.

A revised global estimate of dissolved iron fluxes from marine sediments

This is also an important paper recently published on Iron-flows through marine sediments.

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Denitrification, Anammox, and N2 Production in Marine Sediments

Interesting and recently published paper on Nitrogen-cycling in marine sediments!


Denitrification, Anammox, and N2 Production in Marine Sediments


Annual Review of Marine ScienceVol. 7: 403-423 (Volume publication date January 2015)DOI: 10.1146/annurev-marine-010213-135040Allan H. DevolSchool of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-5351; email: devol@u.washington.edu

Abstract: Fixed nitrogen limits primary productivity in many parts of the global ocean, and it consequently plays a role in controlling the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere. The concentration of fixed nitrogen is determined by the balance between two processes: the fixation of nitrogen gas into organic forms by diazotrophs, and the reconversion of fixed nitrogen to nitrogen gas by denitrifying organisms. However, current sedimentary denitrification rates are poorly constrained, especially in permeable sediments, which cover the majority of the continental margin. Also, anammox has recently been shown to be an additional pathway for the loss of fixed nitrogen in sediments. This article briefly reviews sedimentary fixed nitrogen loss by sedimentary denitrification and anammox, including in sediments in contact with oxygen-deficient zones. A simple extrapolation of existing rate measurements to the global sedimentary denitrification rate yields a value smaller than many existing measurement-based estimates but still larger than the rate of water column denitrification.

You can visit Annual Reviews WebSite for more information

Marine Sediment Monitoring

A video of a few years ago, but is very interesting ...

15th International Echinoderm Conference, Playa del Carmen Mexico - May 25th to 29th, 2015.

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Marine bottoms, Canary Islands

V. MAR DE CANARIAS from Rafa Herrero Massieu on Vimeo.

Regional Climate Change

Day 1: Keynote--Regional climate change on top of already high climate variability from CNS/CSPO at Arizona State Univ. on Vimeo.

The Physics of Surfing

The Physics of Surfing from Nick Colombini on Vimeo.

8th International Conference on Remediation and Management of Contamined Sediments

Conference Highlights

Monday, January 12

·         10 Short Courses

·         Exhibits open, Welcome Reception, Group 1 Poster Display

·         Plenary Session, with feature speaker Anthony C. Janetos (Boston University), “The National Climate Change Assessment: Climate Change Impacts in the United States and Beyond.”

Tuesday-Thursday, January 13-15

·         Nearly 500 platform talks and poster presentations scheduled in 51 breakout sessions 

·         4 panel discussions

·         70+ exhibitors

·         Student Mixer

·         Multiple networking opportunities: daily continental breakfasts, lunches, and poster receptions.

·         Closing Roundtable Forum—“The Billion-Dollar Question: Can Urban Master Planning Help Resolve the Cost/Benefit Impasse at Large Contaminated Sediment Sites?”

See the Daily Schedule for a quick, 2-page overview of the sessions and panels scheduled each day. The Technical Program lists the title, authors, and scheduled speaker for each presentation and the scope and panelists for each panel.

The technical program was developed after an extensive, multi-level review by the Program Committee and the session chairs of more than 500 abstracts received in response to the Call for Abstracts.

 

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[Off Topic] -- 10 Compromisos por una Pesca Responsable y Sostenible

Excelente iniciativa, y fuerza de opinión, para promover el buen manejo y explotación de recursos marinos en Perú

Sin embargo, agrego lo siguiente (desde otra perspectiva):

 

Sedimentation

Michael McIntyre: Tea leaves, the ozone hole and 'gyroscopic pumping'

Mike Hall: How to determine climate history from cores of deep sea sediment