The second meeting of SCOR WG134 and the ASLO Emerging Issues Wrokshop on the Microbial Carbon Pump in the Ocean (February 19-20, 2011 San Juan, Puerto Rico)
The MCP was selected by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) as an Emerging Issue for the 2011Aquatic Science Meeting. The second meeting of the SCOR WG134, led by Nianzhi Jiao and Farooq Azam, in conjunction with ASLO Emerging Issues Workshop on the MCP was held in Puerto Rico during February 19-20,2011. Forty scientists (including the working group members) and students,from 12 countries, attended the workshop.
Focusing on the theme of “Microbial Carbon Pump: A multidisciplinary focus on origins, cycling and storage of DOM in the ocean”, the special session 55 of ASLO aquatic science meeting was convened by Gerhard Kattner (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany), Nianzhi Jiao (State Key Lab for Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, China), Farooq Azam (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA) and Steven Wilhelm (University of Tennessee, USA) and joined by about 40 scientists from 12 countries, including China, USA, UK, Germany, France, Canada, Spain, Austria , Czech Republic, Brazil, Japan and India.
The special session was divided into multiple sessions where poster and oral presentations commenced. There were 13 different posters representing related research on microbiology, oceanography and the microbial carbon pump. The oral presentations started from Nianzhi Jiao about the MCP– A mechanism for long-term carbon storage in the ocean. Prof. Jiao showed a movie with commentary to explain the scientific issues about MCP. The movie was created as a response to ASLO's movie festival on Feb. 13th. Plenary lectures were given during the whole day. There were 21 presentations by multiple experts including WG134 members as well as Farooq Azam, Ronald Benner, Gerhard Herndl, Gerhard Katter, Álvarez-Salgado Xosé Antón, Markus Weinbauer, Chen-Tung Arthur Chen, Michal Koblizek, and Nagappa Ramaiah.
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