DU Mer et Médias 2024
Présentation
Au 21ème siècle les sociétés humaines réalisent que les piliers qui ont assuré leur développement au cours des siècles précédents sont mis en question. De nombreux paradigmes ont changé. Nos activités ont dérégulé l’équilibre climatique et gravement affecté la biodiversité à l’échelle planétaire, et plus particulièrement celle des mers et océans qui occupent plus de 70% de la surface de la Terre. Désormais, pour anticiper l’avenir dans une perspective de développement durable, il nous faut comprendre le fonctionnement de l’océan et ses interactions avec les autres enveloppes fluides et solides de la planète Terre. Promouvoir la mise en oeuvre d’un tel développement est l’un des enjeux de la décennie de l’océan de l’Organisation des Nations Unies (ONU), réaffirmé lors du One Ocean Summit qui s’est tenu à Brest en février 2022, et dans le cadre de la préparation de la conférence de l’ONU sur les océans qui se tiendra à Nice en juin 2025. Mieux comprendre l’océan et ses interactions avec le climat et les sociétés humaines, est devenu un enjeu essentiel pour les médias, à même de faire émerger ou de relayer des débats et idées structurantes.
C’est pour répondre à ces enjeux que l’UBO, en partenariat avec l’Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme de Lille et le Club de la Presse de Bretagne, propose le Diplôme d’Université (DU) “Mer et Médias”. Celui-ci fait suite aux quatre écoles d’été Mer et Journalisme organisées par ISblue.
Ce DU a pour objectif de partager à destination de journalistes et de professionnels de la communication un état des lieux des connaissances des sciences et technologies marines dans une perspective de développement durable. Articulée autour de temps en présentiel à Brest et de temps en distanciel, la formation a pour objectif de transmettre aux participants un socle de connaissance solide mais aussi de leur permettre de rencontrer des chercheurs et des professionnels de ces thématiques au travers de séances à l’Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer mais aussi de sorties de terrain et d’interventions “hors les murs”. La formation s’organisera ainsi autour de trois principales sessions à Brest : 2 jours en avril 2024 pour lancer la formation, 3 jours en juin et 1 jour à l’automne pour la conclure qui seront entrecoupées d’activités en distanciel.
Objectifs
Aptitudes et compétences
Ce diplôme a pour objectif de former les journalistes et communicants qui souhaitent actualiser ou approfondir leurs connaissances scientifiques des enjeux océaniques actuels et futurs. Plusieurs sous-objectifs sous-tendent la formation :
- Partager les savoirs sur les sciences et technologies marines
- Échanger au travers d‘analyses croisées entre les journalistes/communicants, le milieu académique et les acteurs économiques du secteur maritime
- Construire de l’information, grâce au processus d’acculturation d’un contenu d’experts aux standards « journalistiques ».
Compétences visées
- Acquérir les connaissances de base sur le système océan dans ses dimensions scientifiques (sciences physiques, naturelles, humaines), dont les volets économiques, juridiques, et culturels
- Savoir restituer ces connaissances sous la forme de contenus journalistiques pointus tout en étant accessibles à un large public
- Être capables de comprendre la démarche scientifique dans un contexte d’une évolution permanente des contenus scientifiques.
Sessions en présentiel, lien vers inscription et contacts
Sessions en présentiel à Plouzané :
- Session 1 : les 11 et 12 avril 2024
- Session 2 : du 26 au 28 juin 2024
- Session 3 : novembre 2024
Lien vers le dossier d’inscription
Contacts :
- fc-mer@univ-brest.fr (Virginie RIBAUD et Marina SALAUN)
- +33 2 98 01 80 58
La presse en parle…
DU Mer & Médias à l’IUEM : « Permettre la vulgarisation des recherches sur la mer »
Le Télégramme, article du 27 février 2024
Conference GERLI 2024
Conférence à l’IUEM (PNBI) du 23 au 26 septembre 2024
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Le GERLI
Le Groupe d’Etude et de Recherche en Lipidomique (GERLI) est une société savante avec un bureau et un conseil scientifique.
Elle a été créée en 1978 et fait partie des groupes thématiques de la Société Française de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire (SFBBM) qui compte de nombreux groupes thématiques. Au niveau européen, le GERLI est associé à EURO FED LIPID, fédération européenne pour la science et la technologie des lipides. Le GERLI a été depuis 40 ans un moteur dans l’animation scientifique en organisant chaque année un Congrès, et en stimulant l’intérêt des jeunes scientifiques par l’attribution de Prix de Thèse. Les congrès de Lipidomique, avec des thématiques transversales, depuis les aspects très fondamentaux vers l’implication physiopathologique des molécules lipidiques, ont réuni plus de 2000 personnes depuis 2003. Ceci a permis de constituer un réseau de scientifiques dans le domaine.
Conférence 2024
Bienvenue à la 19e réunion du GERLI sur la lipidomique ! Cet événement très attendu réunira des chercheurs de premier plan pour discuter des dernières avancées dans la compréhension de la structure et des fonctions des lipides chez divers organismes vivant dans des environnements aquatiques et terrestres.
Au cours de la réunion, de nouveaux outils et techniques issus de disciplines telles que la biochimie, la biologie cellulaire, la physiologie, l’écologie, la génomique, la protéomique et la lipidomique seront présentés. Ces approches de pointe permettront d’éclairer des questions cruciales concernant la diversité, les fonctions et le métabolisme des lipides, ainsi que leur valorisation industrielle.
A cette fin, 7 sessions seront proposées, allant de la description de la structure des molécules à la définition de leur rôle dans la physiologie des organismes, jusqu’à leur utilisation pour nourrir les populations. Les sessions porteront également sur les techniques analytiques de préservation et de traçabilité, ainsi que sur les techniques émergentes de fluxomique.
La réunion aura lieu du 23 au 26 septembre 2024 à l’Institut Européen des Sciences de la Mer à Plouzané près de Brest et est organisée conjointement par l’Université de Bretagne Occidentale, l’IRD, le CNRS et l’Ifremer.
L’inscription à l’événement comprend l’accès aux sessions scientifiques, aux déjeuners et au dîner de gala. Le nombre de places étant limité (150 participants), nous vous encourageons à soumettre votre résumé dès que possible afin de garantir votre place.
Conformément à notre engagement en faveur du développement durable, nous ferons tout notre possible pour que le congrès intègre des aspects numériques, une restauration et des transports durables.
Nous attendons avec impatience votre participation et nous réjouissons de vous accueillir à Brest en septembre !
7 sessions
- Session 1 : Structural diversity of lipids from summits to deep sea
- Session 2 : Roles/functions of lipids and derivatives
- Session 3 : Lipid markers in trophic ecology : promises and dead ends
- Session 4: Lipids in their socio-economic context and legal boundaries
- Session 5: Environmental/climatic and supply issues of omega 3
- Session 6: GERLI/SFN: Marine lipids and nutrition
- Session 7 : New progress in lipid methodology
Venez nombreux profiter de la pointe bretonne
La 19e conférence du GERLI aura lieu à L’IUEM, du 23 au 26 septembre 2024. L’IUEM est situé au Technopôle Brest-Iroise à Plouzané, aux portes de la ville de Brest.
Brest est une métropole de 400 000 habitants, zone touristique autant que bassin de vie. De nombreux hôtels allant de 1 à 4 étoiles sont situés dans Brest avec des prix allant de 50 € à 150 € par nuit. Des chambres pour les étudiants sont également disponibles dans le centre de Brest à 10 min en tramway de Brest Arena. La ville et sa périphérie possèdent de nombreux équipements et points d’intérêt attractifs, tels que Océanopolis, les Ateliers des Capucins reliés au centre-ville par le premier téléphérique urbain de France, le Conservatoire botanique National de Brest. La ville a été récemment classée ” Ville d’art et d’histoire “. Innovante et ouverte sur le monde, Brest se distingue des autres villes françaises par ses liens avec le milieu marin, ainsi que par son secteur des sciences et technologies marines de pointe. C’est d’ailleurs du port de Brest que sont partis de grands explorateurs à la découverte de nouveaux mondes : La Pérouse, Kerguelen, Bougainville… Brest a une gare TGV en centre-ville et est doté d’un aéroport international proche du centre-ville, avec un service de navette et de tramway. L’aéroport international de Brest Bretagne propose quelques vols internationaux et un large choix de vols via Paris (Orly ou Charles de Gaulle).
SILICAMICS 4 conference
Deadline for registration and abstract submission: June 15 2024
The SILICAMICS interdisciplinary conferences series was launched in 2015 under initiative of the international Silica Group. These conferences series aim to develop an integrative approach that includes chemistry, biogeochemistry, biochemistry, physiology and genomics to better understand biosilicification and silicifiers in past, contemporary and future oceans. Among the outcomes of the three first SILICAMICS conferences are synthesis articles in Nature Geoscience (2018) and in Biogeosciences (2021) and two special issues of Frontiers in Marine sciences (2019 and 2022) that hosted more than 24 articles. The 4-day SILICAMICS 4 conference, to be held in Brest (France) in October 2024, focuses on:
- Biogeochemical Cycle of Silicon: Processes and Fluxes
- Paleo including the evolution of silicifiers
- Ecology and Biology of marine and terrestrial silicifiers
- Silicification processes and omics
- Siliceous plankton in the Open Ocean: Linking physics and biology
- Polar seas
Built around a “Gordon conferences” format, SILICAMICS 4 will bring together a small group of experts, young researchers and students in a secluded and beautiful location near Brest. The organizing committee has invited top-notch speakers, and the time for discussion and exchange between poster and presentation sessions, as well as working groups, will offer PhD students and young scientists the chance to debate with senior scientists in order to develop their own understanding of science in general, and more specifically of SILICAMICS’ flagship theme, the silicon cycle and the role of silicified organisms in the oceans.
6 sessions, 6 invited speakers
Session 1
Biogeochemical cycle of silicon: processes and fluxes
Session details
Since the end of the previous century, several articles on Si budgets have been published, showing real progress in our understanding of the geochemical and biogeochemical processes that control the Si marine cycle at regional and global scales, and in quantifying the input, output, and biological fluxes at different scales. However, is the marine silica cycle at a steady state, or what are the impacts of global changes on this cycle, are still open questions. In this session, we invite and welcome contributions dealing with processes and Si fluxes that help for a better understanding of the silica cycle at different scales. The invited conference shows how powerful the use of Si isotopes is to understand the surface Earth reactive silica cycle.
Invited speaker : Shaily Rahman| Univ. Colorado Boulder, USA
“Probing mass balance, fluxes, and deep time implications of the surface Earth reactive silica cycle using Si isotopes”
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Session 2
Paleo including the evolution of silicifiers
Session details
In a context of global warming with short meteorological archives (~150 years), reconstructing the dynamics and long-term trends of past climate cycles has never been more relevant. Siliceous microfossils preserve well and offer key information on past environments. Additionally, it is primordial to understand how silicifiers evolved through time for a comprehensive understanding of their systematics and modern ecology. So, in this session we invite and welcome contributions along these lines. The invited conference will show, based on their assemblages, how siliceous microfossils offer a wealth of information essential to unlock key links between climate and ecosystems.
Invited speaker : Giuseppe Cortese| GNS Science, NZ
“Radiolarians and diatoms as sources of past climate and environmental information in the Southern Ocean”
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Session 3
Ecology and biology of marine and terrestrial silicifiers
Session details
As mentioned by the guest speaker: “all plants accumulate silicon”. All plants, but also animals, from protists to mammals! However, the function of silicon is not always well understood, which prevents us from understanding its possible contribution to the success of certain clades and the expansion of specific biomes. In this session we invite and welcome contributions dealing with the ecological role of silicifiers, the biological benefits and mechanisms of silicification and the relationships with ecosystems. The guest speaker will consider the role of Si in plants from a biome (terrestrial, marine and also freshwater) perspective and will underline the main gaps.
Invited speaker : Julia Cooke| The Open University, UK
“Plant silicification by biome”
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Session 4
Silicification processes and omics
Session details
Silicifiers are among the most important living organisms of planet Earth. However, their ability to take up silicic acid and the full processes to precipitate it to build complex silicified architectures remain poorly understood. Diatoms have been the center of attention of bio-silicification studies. The physiology and biochemistry of pelagic diatoms have been extensively studied but many gaps remain regarding the silicification mechanisms and their variations due to environmental changes. Genomics of diatoms and other organisms can help understanding such processes and can be used to formulate new hypotheses and research strategies for explaining the role of different silicifiers in coastal and open ocean ecosystems, and their control of C, N, P, and Si biogeochemical cycles.
In this session we invite and welcome contributions of emerging approaches and other resources that can help us to better understand the silicification processes of all silicifiers. The invited conference will highlight the role of silicon transporter proteins in diatoms.
Invited speaker : Andrew Alverson| Univ. Arkansas, USA
“Gene duplication, shifting selection, and dosage balance of silicon transporter proteins in marine and freshwater diatoms”
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Session 5
Siliceous plankton in the Open Ocean: Linking physics and biology
Session details
Diatoms, which play a key role in the biological carbon pump, are known to thrive in high nutrients – high turbulence systems (cf. coastal upwellings, polar seas, …). In principle, stratified and oligotrophic waters are not favorable for the growth of diatoms. However, it has been shown that episodic blooms of phytoplankton, including diatoms, can occur in specific meso- and sub-mesoscale structures. So far, it has not been possible to link specific dynamical structures to phytoplankton functional types. In this session we invite and welcome contributions that demonstrate the coupling of physics and biology to better understand and model the distribution and production of siliceous plankton in the open ocean. The invited conference gives evidences on how structures with a high degree of coherence in high turbulent kinetic energy and vorticity can sustain high concentrations of diatoms in the sunlit layers.
Invited speaker : Ismaël Hernandez-Carrasco| CSIC, IMEDEA, Spain
“Highly-coherent oceanic structures and their impact on the diatom dynamics”
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Session 6
Polar seas
Session details
In polar environments, diatoms are able to grow in the ice, under the ice, in open waters and at the surface of the sediments. As such, diatoms traditionally dominate the primary production of the polar seas. However, different drivers linked to natural variability and global change already provoke a switch towards non-diatom species such as Phaeocystis or other small flagellates. Moreover, the physiological changes involved in diatoms by global changes suggest potential strong consequences for the future contribution of the high-latitude ecosystems to carbon export and climate mitigation. Moreover, a shift in rhizarian populations is observed related to global warming. With the increasing melting of the glaciers siliceous sponges are sprouting up. This session invites all works trying to understand the actual contribution of silicifiers and their evolution in the fast-changing polar seas. The invited conference will review the major contribution of diatoms in polar environments.
Invited speaker : Karley Campbell | UIT, Norway
“Diatoms in polar seas”
Scientific Committee
- Su Mei Liu (UOC, China)
- Patricia Grasse (Center for Integrative Biodiversity, Leipzig, Germany)
- Manuel Maldonado (CSIC, Spain)
- Jill Sutton (LEMAR-IUEM)
- Aude Leynaert (LEMAR-IUEM)
- Paul Tréguer (LEMAR-IUEM)
- Brivaela Moriceau (LEMAR-IUEM)
- Jeff Krause (Univ South Alabama, USA)
- Xavier Crosta (EPOC, Univ Bordeaux)
- Taniel Danielan (Univ de Lille)
- Tristan Biard (LOG, Wimereux)
- Damien Cardinal (LOCEAN, Sorbonne Université)
- Johann Lavaud (LEMAR-IUEM)
- Fabrice Not (SBR-Sorbonne Univ)
- Matthieu Civel (LEMAR)
- Lucie Cassarino (LEMAR)
- Natalia Llopis-Monferrer (MBARI, California)
- María López Acosta (CSIC IIM, Vigo)
- Dongdong Zhu (OUC, Qingdao)
- Diana Varela (Univ. Victoria, Canada)
Organising committee
- Jill Sutton (LEMAR, UBO)
- Brivaela Moriceau (LEMAR, CNRS)
- Stefan lalonde (Geo-Ocean, CNRS)
- France Floch (Geo-Ocean, UBO)
- Olivier Rouxel (Geo-Ocean, IFREMER)
- Matthieu Civel (LEMAR)
- Lucie Cassarino (LEMAR)
- Paul Tréguer (LEMAR, UBO)
- Aude Leynaert (LEMAR, CNRS)
- Johann Lavaud (LEMAR)
Conference venue
The event will be held in Brittany (France) in Logonna-Daoulas in October 2024 at the “Moulin Mer”seminar center. This facility offers space for sessions and workshops, meals and accommodation, all in one location, including access to educational rooms and sampling sites in marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments. For your spouse, it also provides access to beautiful walks along beaches, forest and activity areas such as volleyball, badminton, sailing and fishing. The site is located between Brest and Quimper (8min from the freeway). The site is located between Brest and Quimper (8 minutes from the expressway). Brest is the nearest city, with a TGV train station and an airport offering some international flights and a wide choice of flights via Paris (Orly or Charles de Gaulle).
Important dates and deadlines
Opening dates for registration and abstract submission : January, 24th 2024
Deadline for abstract submission : June 15th, 2024 (and cover letter for fee exemption)
Deadline for abstract selection : May 15th, 2024
Deadline for registration : June 15th, 2024
Registration
Registration fees (including accommodation and meals):
- students: 450 euros;
- regular participants: 680 euros
Dead-line for registration: June, 15th, 2024
At their arrival at Brest-airport or Brest-railway station the participants are picked up and transported to the SILICAMICS conference hosting place.
Abstract Submission is open
The preliminary deadline for submissions is 15th of June.
Instructions
To submit an Abstract you will need to create an account on https://silicamics4.sciencesconf.org/
Submissions need to include:
- Abstract Title
- Abstract text with a 250 words limit
- name, surname, email-address and affiliation
- selection of a scientific session
o compete for fee exemption, students must submit an abstract in the section “abstract submission” and add a cover letter describing their motivation to participate to Silicamics 4 in the section “supplementary file” (at the end of abstract submission process). You are nevertheless invited to pay the registration fee and will be refunded before the conference.
WGFAST
Conference at IUEM, 9 to 12 april 2024
Inscription and abstract submission deadline : March 15th 2024
The ICES expert group on fisheries acoustics, science and technology (WGFAST) has cutting-edge expertise in all aspects of fish stock assessment and the estimation of indicators essential to pelagic management. It is also developing essential approaches for the ecosystemic approach to environmental knowledge and management, through : the diversity of platforms on which acoustics can be deployed; the range of organisms that can be detected and recognised (zooplankton, micronekton, fish, marine mammals, …); the high resolution of the information, enabling interactions with environmental parameters to be analysed; the non-destructive quality of the approach applicable to protected areas.
It will be structurated by three sessions :
- Acoustic methods to characterize populations, ecosystems, habitat, and behaviour
- Acoustic characterization of marine organisms
- Emerging technologies, methodologies, and protocols
Approaches for monitoring areas where the sea is being industrialised, such as offshore wind farm sites, are warmly welcome.
3 sessions
Session 1
Acoustic characterization of marine organisms
In this session, the main topics cover organisms’ scattering modeling and classification/characterization of organisms from various types of acoustic data (multifrequency, wideband…)
Session 2
Acoustic methods to characterize populations, ecosystems, habitat, and behaviour
In this session, the main topics cover works on various methodologies (acoustic data analysis, statistical & modeling approaches, …) and/or tools (platforms, combined technologies, …) used to study predators/preys and bio-physical interactions at various trophic levels and area scales, topography and bottom type effect on the biology, sampling tools and behaviour effects…
Session 3
Emerging technologies, methodologies, and protocols
In this session, the mains topics cover new platforms (gliders, uncrewed surface vessels…) for collecting acoustic data, methods from non-acoustic fields as complementary sampling for better data interpretation, challenges for new acoustic devices, new applications…
Come and enjoy the western tip of Brittany
The WGFAST conference will be held at IUEM, from April 9 to 12, 2024. IUEM is located at the Technopôle Brest-Iroise in Plouzané, just outside the city of Brest.Transportation will be organized from Brest city center to Plouzané each day for the outward and return journey.
Brest is a metropolis of 400,000 inhabitants, a tourist area as much as a living basin. Numerous hotels ranging from 1 to 4 stars are located in Brest, with prices ranging from €50 to €150 per night. Rooms for students are also available in the center of Brest, a 10-minute streetcar ride from Brest Arena. The city and its outskirts boast many attractive facilities and points of interest, including Océanopolis, the Ateliers des Capucins linked to the city center by France’s first urban cable car, and the Conservatoire Botanique National de Brest. The city was recently classified as a “Ville d’art et d’histoire” (City of Art and History). Innovative and open to the world, Brest stands out from other French cities for its links with the marine environment, as well as its cutting-edge marine science and technology sector. In fact, it was from the port of Brest that great explorers set out to discover new worlds: La Pérouse, Kerguelen, Bougainville… Brest has a TGV station in the city center and an international airport close to the city center, with a shuttle and tramway service. Brest Bretagne international airport offers a number of international flights and a wide choice of flights via Paris (Orly or Charles de Gaulle).
Nereis Park VI
The aim of this event is to bring together the international scientific community of researchers working on the mechanisms of bioturbation in marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments, at all latitudes (polar, tropical, temperate), and taking different time scales into account (from Precambrian to present). This event is in the framework of the international Nereis Park association gathering all scientists working on Bioturbation.
This 6th edition proposes an international thematic school on Bioturbation with conferences and high-level training. It will allow promoting exchanges and giving scientists and students the latest conceptual and technological advances around the bioturbation processes through conferences and posters sessions, small workshops, debates, practical studies. The contributions for this event could be submitted for publications in a special issue on bioturbation.
Early bird registration and payments: April 11- May 7, 2022
Late registration and payments: May 8 – May 27, 2022
5 sessions
Session 1: Bioturbation-ecosystem relationships
Keynote Speaker: Alison Cribb, PhD candidate| University of Southern Carolina, USA
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In this session, the role of bioturbation for ecosystem evolution will be discussed with particular focus on the various ecosystem services provided by bioturbation in terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems in the context of global change. The various effects of bioturbation will be addressed including: sediment erosion, stabilization and drainage, biogeomorphology, contaminants and cysts releasing, oxygenation, bioremediation of polluted sediments and soils, organic matter recycling. Functioning of past and extreme environments (Precambrian, Quaternary caves, mangroves, polar and deep environments, hyper-saline lakes…) could be considered.
Session 2: Integration of bioturbation processes into biodiversity patterns and functions
Keynote Speaker: Pr. Andrew M. Lohrer | NIWA, New Zealand
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The influence of the bioturbation activities on the ecosystems depends on the benthic structural and functional diversity strongly linked to the environmental variables. This session will address the different approaches (i.e., species, functional diversity, biological traits…) used for evaluating the effects of biodiversity on the ecosystems functioning through experimental and field studies. This will be the initial statement for an open forum session based on two questions: How do we integrate the role of individual species characteristics on benthic processes at the community scale? How do we upscale the effects of benthic communities at the ecosystem level?
Session 3: Micro / macro-organisms interactions for the biogeochemical cycles
Keynote Speaker: Pr. Erik Kristensen | University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
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Bioturbation activities modify microbial diversity and processes involved in the sediment organic matter degradation and recycling. The latter have an influence, at larger scales, on biogeochemical fluxes and budgets (carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphore, silica, iron). Organic matter quality (refractory versus labile) and environmental variables drives the benthic microbial processes. This session will focus and on the interactions between the micro-organisms (e.g. procaryotes, cable bacteria, archae, eucaryotes, and co-occurrence networks) and macro-organisms involved in sediment biogeochemistry.
Session 4: New approaches of observation, analysis and modeling for bioturbation studies
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Simone Pennafirme | Univ. Federal do Fluminense, Brazil
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This session will focus on the different tools allowing to deal with ecosystem heterogeneity:
- 1D and 2D optical and infrared sensors to measure micro-heterogeneity of solutes in porewaters (oxygen, manganese, sulfur, CO2, pH…);
- Biogeochemical fluxes at the sediment-water and sediment-air interfaces
- remote sensing to visualize microtopography and benthic diversity at the sediment surface;
- tomography imaging to visualize in 3D biological structures within sediments and soils ;
- mechanistic and stochastic models to simulate biogeochemical processes associated to animals behavior.
We will also consider the potential limitations of these tools and how they can be overcome for specific field study or experimental set up.
Session 5: Scales transfer
Keynote Speaker: Pr. Robert C. Aller | Stony Brook University, USA
En savoir plus
Integrating the outcomes of the conferences and the workshops of the thematic school, this session will focus on downscaling and upscaling (scale transfer) referring to:
- the importance of a specific bioturbation process within diagenetic models,
- the representation of the species or functional traits in the community ;
- the transfer from controlled experiments to in situ studies integrating the ecosystem as a whole;
- extrapolation of results obtained from a local study at ecosystem level taking into account its spatial and temporal variability.
Thematic school objective
This event will offer different and complementary tools in each session (courses and case studies as form as keynote lecture and short talks, respectively, practical works, open forum session, round tables..) to understand the role of bioturbation in the current and past functioning of ecosystems, and to know how to integrate it into ecosystem models, in ecological engineering and ecosystem restoration / management projects. These scientific and educational meetings, by mixing the disciplines, will thus help to build up a network of expertises. This will bring out innovative approaches to answer fundamental and methodological questions. This event is addressed to any scientist (researcher, student, engineers) as well as manager in environmental science.
International scientific committee
Dr. Stefano Cannicci (University of Florence, Italy)
Dr. Suzanne Dufour (Memorial University, Canada)
Dr. Stefan Forster (University of Rostock, Germany)
Dr. Franck Gilbert (CNRS | ECOLAB, France)
Dr. Boris Jansen (Amsterdam University, Netherlands)
Dr. Pascal Jouquet (IRD | iEES, France)
Dr. Florian Mermillod-Blondin (CNRS | LEHNA, France)
Dr. Emma Michaud (CNRS | LEMAR, France)
Dr. Thomas Stieglitz (IRD | CEREGE, France)
Local organizing committee
Dr. Emma Michaud (CNRS | LEMAR)
Dr. Gerard Thouzeau (CNRS | LEMAR)
Dr. Jill Sutton (Brest University | LEMAR)
Adriana Spedicato (Brest University | LEMAR)
Sébastien Hervé (Brest University | IUEM, LEMAR)
Nadine Reniers (CNRS |IUEM)
Nathalie Le Mentec (Brest University | IUEM, LEMAR)
With the support of
Site of the conference and thematic school site – Accommodation
This event will be held in Brittany (France) at Logonna-Daoulas from the 22rd to the 26th of August 2022 at “Moulin Mer”. This facility provides space for sessions and workshops, meals and accommodations, all at one location, including access to educational rooms and to sampling sites in marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments. For your spouse, it also provides access to nice walks along the beaches, forest, and places for activities such as volley ball, badminton, sailing, kayac, paddle and fishing. The site is located between Brest and Quimper (at 8min from the expressway). Brest is the closest city with a train station (TGV) and an airport offering a handful of international flights and many direct flights from Paris (Orly or CDG). Shuttle services will be proposed to reach the conference site.
Registration fees
The registration is for assisting to the whole sessions successively over the week. The event is limited to 70 participants. To participate, fill directly the pre-registration form which includes an abstract submission form (with details on the lay-out of the abstract). Motivations and expectations for the thematic to be discussed, debated or deepened should be added to the pre-registration form (Deadline of submission: March 23, 2022).
The abstracts will be selected by the international scientific committee. Once your abstract selected, you can fill the final registration form which include the payment details. Your registration will be official when payment of the registration fee is received.
The conference fee covers the full price of accommodation, food, coffee breaks, and shuttle services from airport or train station until the conference location. Choose one option from following arrangements (price per person):
Particular case for CNRS staff: Since this event belongs to the thematic schools plan of CNRS during the year 2022, registration is free for the CNRS staff (researchers, engineers, post doctorate). Registration fees and travelling fees could be taken into account by each regional delegation of CNRS. Pre-registration through the abstract submission is however necessary.
For the other participants:
Reduced early registration (April 11- May 7, 2022):
[1] Academic – Single room = 500 € per person
[2] Academic – Shared double room (two beds) = 420 € per person
[3] Student (shared double or triple room, two or three beds) = 370 € per person
Late registration (May 8-May 27, 2022):
[1] Academic – Single room = 650 € per person
[2] Academic – Shared double room (two beds) = 550 € per person
[3] Student (shared double or triple room, two or three beds) = 450 € per person
Closed registration: May 28, 2022
Single rooms are very limited in “Moulin Mer” residence, and in order to accommodate as many participants as possible, most participants will need to share a room. When selecting the “shared room” option, please indicate the name of the participant with whom you’d like as a roommate.
Covid info
Given the evolution of the health situation, we maintain our desire to hold this colloquium face-to-face in order to promote exchanges between all: our reference researchers, our young researchers and our future researchers who are our students.
Complete vaccination scheme will be requested to attend the conference. The conference organizers will provide antigenic auto-tests during the conference. Conferences, the exhibition of posters, workshops, catering, and coffee breaks will be made under conditions according to health rules.
However, if the situation will deteriorate, a bi-modal format will not be considered and you will be notified. The event will be cancelled.
Registration fees will be refundable in light of the Covid context at the time of the conference in August 2022.
For more informations, send email to: nereis@sciencesconf.org
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