Programme
53th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics | 16-20 May 2022
Monday, May 16th 2022
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| 8:00 - 09:00 |
Registration | |
| 9:00 - 9:10 |
Pr Pierre Wolper, Rector of the Liège University | Opening of the colloquium |
| 9:10 - 9:20 |
Marilaure Grégoire - Andreas Oschlies (co-chairs of GO2NE) | Welcome |
| 9:20 - 9:50 |
Hans Ottö Portner | Questions and approaches around ocean oxygen: a physiologist's view |
Ecosystem services, Translating Science to policy and management |
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| Conveners | Kirsten Isensee, IOC-UNESCO |
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| 9:50 - 10:10 |
Vladimir Ryabinin (Executive secretary - IOC of UNESCO ). | Ocean Science for Sustainability |
| 10:10 - 10:20 |
Andreas Oschlies | Global Ocean Oxygen Decade |
| 10:20 - 10:35 | Lisa Levin | Mainstreaming oxygen in international ocean management and conservation |
| 10:35 - 10:50 | Denise Breitburg | Multiple stressors: an important framework for equity in identifying socio-environmental problems and solutions |
| 10:50 - 11:15 | Coffe break | |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | William Cheung (Keynote) | Addressing ocean deoxygenation to secure desirable and sustainable ocean futures |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Erica M. Ferrer | Aquatic Deoxygenation as a 10th "Planetary Boundary" |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Sarah Piehl | Seasonal oxygen depletion as an indicator for coastal water quality in the western Baltic Sea |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Marilaure Grégoire | A Global Ocean Oxygen Database and Atlas for Assessing and Predicting Deoxygenation and Ocean Health in the Open and Coastal Ocean |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | Sandra Ketelhake (intro) , and the two winning teams Ziphius and PacificO2. | Oxygen Data Exploitation-Quality control and integration in data bases. Winners of the GO2DAT Hachathon organized by GO2NE in the frame of GOOD |
| 12:45 - 14:15 | LUNCH | |
| 13:00 - 13:45 | Copernicus Marine training session 1: accessing Sentinel-3 marine data from EUMETSAT | |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Kyle Hinson | Probabilistic projections of watershed climate impacts on hypoxia in Chesapeake Bay, United States |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Elizabeth Duskey | Evaluating potential lost yield of Eastern Baltic cod (Gadus morhua) due to deoxygenation |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Panel Discussion: Science to policy | |
| Moderator | Lisa Levin, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA | |
| Panelists | Sheila Heymans, Director of the European Marine Board Thorsten Kiefer, Executive Director at JPI Ocean Sigi Gruber, Active Senior Advisor for the European Commission Iryna Makarenko, General Secretary of the Black Sea Commission, Ukraine. Julie Pullen, Council and Executive Committee of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), USA Andreea Strachinescu, Head of Unit Maritime Innovation, Marine Knowledge and Investment in the Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries |
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Deoxygenation and Ocean Life |
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| Conveners | Denise Breitburg, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, USA Mike Roman, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, USA |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | Jodie Rummer (Keynote) | Sharks and their relatives in the changing oceans – where are we and where do we need to go? |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Anne Gro Vea Salvanes | Why and how can west Norwegian sill fjords be useful natural infrastructures for investigating consequences of ocean deoxygenation? |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Gudrun De Boeck | Pacific spiny dogfish, Squalus suckleyi, show a good tolerance for hypoxia but need long recovery times. |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | Coffe break | |
| 16:45 - 17:15 | Andrew Altieri (Keynote) | Patterns of coral reef resilience in response to ocean deoxygenation |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | Noelle Lucey | Climate warming erodes tropical reef habitat through frequency and intensity of episodic hypoxia |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | Brad Seibel | Hypoxia and hypoxia tolerance: How do we define and measure them? |
| 17:45 - 18:00 | Emma Pontes | Critical Oxygen Partial Pressure (PO2 crit) determination of the scleractinian coral Acropora cervicornis |
| 18:00 - 18:15 | Lillian McCormick | Visual impairment is an important sublethal effect of deoxygenation |
| 18:15 - 18:30 | Kenneth Rose | Quantifying Responses of Fish and Fisheries to Hypoxia: Examples, Challenges, and Strategy |
| 18:30 | Ice Breaker Party | |
Tuesday, May 17th 2022
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Deoxygenation and Ocean Life |
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| 9:00 - 9:15 | Marisa Vedor | Physiological constraints of vertical behaviour of two oceanic top predators in the eastern tropical Atlantic oxygen minimum zone |
| 9:15 - 9:30 | Folco Giomi | Supersaturation: the neglected half of natural oxygen fluctuations |
| 9:30 - 9:45 | Natalya Gallo | Mesopelagic and demersal community responses to rapid deoxygenation and reoxygenation in a western Norwegian fjord |
How the past can inform the future? |
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| Conveners | Anne-Christine Da Silva, University of Liege, Belgium Nathalie Fagel, University of Liege, Belgium Dimitri Guiterez, Institute of the Sea of Peru, Peru Moriaki Yasuhara, University of Hong Kong, China |
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| 9:45 - 10:15 | Babette Hoogakker (Keynote) | Fate of ocean oxygenation in a warming world |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Coffe break | |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Moriaki Yasuhara | Shallow marine ecosystem collapse and recovery during the Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Tim De Backer | Metal induced malformations during OAE’s: the case of the Silurian Lau Event |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | K. Mareike Paul | Sedimentary trace metals: improving proxies for deoxygenation in coastal European seas |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Niels Van Helmond | Trace metals and their use as redox proxy in Arabian Sea |
| 11:45 - 13:45 | LUNCH Mentoring “My future in science: opportunities and strength”, HEC | |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | Inda Brinkmann | Coastal benthic foraminiferal Mn/Ca as low - oxygen proxy |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Constance Choquel | Morphological variations of calcite microfossils based on synchrotron - based microtomography data reveal the last 200 years of environmental changes in the Baltic Sea |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Lélia Matos | Exploring cold - water coral chromium isotopes as a proxy of intermediate water oxygenation state |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Michiel Arts | Astronomical modulation of oxygenation conditions during the Telychian (Silurian) recorded in the Sommerodde - 1 core from Bornholm Denmark. |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Vyacheslav Khon | Effect of the Pliocene Panama Seaway closure on the tropical Pacific oxygen minimum zone from model simulations |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Catherine Davis | Deglacial shoaling of the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Oxygen Minimum Zone |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Dimitri Gutiérrez | Eutrophization variability in Paracas Bay (Peru coast, 14° S): a recent sedimentary record |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Johannes Pein | Stratification, sedimentation and hypoxia in the costal environment: Model - based assessment and implications for management |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Coffe break | |
Microbial Communities and their controls on biogeochemical feedbacks and interactions |
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| Conveners | Sean Crowe, University of British Columbia, Canada | |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | Don Canfield (Keynote) | The Oxygen in Oxygen Minimum Zones |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Yu Han | Transcriptomic evidences for microbial carbon and nitrogen cycles in the deoxygenated seawaters of Bohai Sea |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | Julia Huggins | DNRA dominates NOx - reduction in a persistently anoxic fiord: Saanich Inlet, British Columbia |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | Emilio Garcia - Robledo | Aerobic processes in anoxic waters: nitrite oxidation coupled to photosynthesis in the Secondary Chlorophyll Maximum of oceanic OMZ |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | Emily Zakem | Stable coexistence of aerobic and anaerobic microbial metabolisms in anoxic zones |
| 17:45 - 18:00 | Peter Kraal | Microbial drivers of past and present benthic - pelagic nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in the Benguela upwelling system |
| 18:00 - 18:15 | Geetha Plakal | Microbial Communities and their controls on biogeochemical feedbacks and interactions Land and Soil Remediation Project 2022 |
| 18:30 | POSTERS - Cheese and wine reception (Professors room - first floor) | |
Wednesday, May 18th 2022
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Deoxygenation and co-stressors: understanding, monitoring and mitigating deoxygenation in the context of multiple stressors |
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| Conveners | Minhan Dai, Xiamen University, China Grant Pitcher, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, South Africa |
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| 9:00 - 9:30 | Sam Dupont (Keynote) | What do we (really) need to know to address multiple ocean stressors ? |
| 9:30 - 9:45 | Fusi Marco | Including natural oxygen and pH fluctuations and predictability in benthic marine organisms' sensitivity to climate change |
| 9:45 - 10:00 | Anne Morée | Global impacts of compound warming and low O2 extremes on marine species over the 21st century |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Yeray Santana - Falcon | Irreversible loss in marine ecosystem habitability after a temperature overshoot informed by the ecophysiological demand in oxygen |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Karin Limburg | Fishes as mobile monitors of hypoxia exposure and incipient acidification in the Baltic Sea |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Michael Roman | Interactive effects of increasing temperature and decreasing oxygen on coastal zooplankton |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffe break | |
Deoxygenation: observing and modelling |
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| Conveners | Véronique Garçon, co-Chair of IOCCP SSG and of the BGC-GOOS panel, CNRS, LEGOS, France Marilaure Grégoire, Co-chair of GO2NE, University of Liège, Fresh and Oceanic Unit of Research (FOCUS), Belgium |
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| 11:15 - 11:45 | Dariia Atamanchu (Keynote) | The ocean is losing its breath: Insights from the sustained observations in the deep water formation region |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Daniele Bianchi | Characteristics, drivers and consequences of hypoxia along the US West Coast shelf: from climatic trends to local-scale variability |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Zouhair Lachkar | The Arabian Sea Oxygen Minimum Zone: Variability, Recent Trends, and Vulnerability to Future Climate Change |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Salman Tariq | Long term trends in chlorophyll-a and sea surface salinity in Arabian sea and their association with aerosol nutrients |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH | |
| 13:00 - 13:45 | Copernicus Marine training session 2: available tools for working with Sentinel-3 marine data | |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Akash S | Investigating the deoxygenation variability and evolution of Oxygen Minimum Zone in the Arabian Sea in the last two decades |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Alexandra Marki | The improved oxygen deficiency index (ODI) for forecasting oxygen deficiency zones in seasonally stratified coastal seas - InfoWas-Project |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Liam Fernand | Optimizing observation networks to detect oxygen depletion zones predicted by ecosystem models |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Haichao Guo | Oxygen utilisation rate underestimates true respiration rate |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Anne Daniel | Assessment of coastal water quality by continuous monitoring of bottom dissolved oxygen concentration with a low-cost instrumentation |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Eike Köhn | Strong Habitat Compression by Extreme Shoaling Events of Hypoxic Waters in the Eastern Pacific |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Lars Umlauf | Modeling hydrodynamic control of sediment-water fluxes |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Kai Logemann | Consistent global modelling of low oxygen environments in marine and coastal waters using the unstructured grid model ICON-Coast |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffe break | |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Abdoul Wahab Tall | Modelling the dissolved oxygen cycle: oxygen budget and Lagrangian analyses on the Senegalese shelf |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Cristina Schultz | Using model outputs to understand oxygen variability and inform Argo sampling strategies in the California Current System |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | Evgeniy Yakushev | Fish farms emissions impact on oxygen depletion in a Norwegian fjord: observations and modeling |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | Subhadeep Rakshit | Quantifying oxygen dynamics in a seasonally hypoxic fjord using a coupled benthic-pelagic model |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | Andrew Babbin | A High-Resolution Atlas of the Eastern Tropical Pacific Oxygen Deficient Zones |
| 17:45 - 18:15 | Panel Discussion: Citizen Science | |
| Moderator | Véronique Garçon, Co-Chair of IOCCP SSG and of the BGC-GOOS panel, CNRS, LEGOS, France | |
| Marilaure Grégoire, Co-chair of GO2NE, University of Liège, Fresh and Oceanic Unit of Research (FOCUS), Belgium | ||
| Panelists | Dariia Atamanchuk, Dalhousie University, Canada Eric Dupont, Ekkopol and Ponant Stefan Raimund, Scientific Advisor at The Ocean Race Fabien Roquet, University of Gothenburg, Sweden |
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| 19:30 | Diner de Gala, Hôtel Selys, 19h30 | |
Thursday, May 19th 2022
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Deoxygenation, water quality and the climate system: understanding processes and feedbacks and developing actionable indicators |
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| Conveners | Nancy Rabalais, Louisiana State University, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, USA Caroline Slomp, Marine Biogeochemistry, Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
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| 9:00 - 9:30 | Jeremy Testa (Keynote) | Dissolved oxygen as a keystone molecule in coastal ecosystems |
| 9:30 - 9:45 | Nour E. Boukortt | Oxygen deficits in macrotidal estuaries: the role of benthic geochemical fluxes. |
| 9:45 - 10:00 | Olga Zygadlowska | Methane removal in the sediment and water column of a seasonally hypoxic eutrophic marine basin |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Christopher Somes | Anthropogenic controls on marine nitrogen and iron biogeochemical feedbacks and their contribution to expanding oxygen minimum zones |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Mona Norbisrath | Carbon and oxygen coupling in the Hamburg port (Elbe Estuary, Germany) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffe break | |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Cleuza Trevisan | Phosphate fluxes between water column in anoxic sediments from a tropical hypersaline lagoon |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Michael J Beman | Rapid oxygen minimum zone shoaling and simultaneous phytoplankton blooms driven by tropical cyclones |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Robin Klomp | Dynamics of dissolved manganese (III) in sediments of a seasonally anoxic coastal marine basin (Lake Grevelingen) |
Open ocean and coastal deoxygenation: assessing variability and trends |
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| Conveners | Francisco Chavez, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, USA Hernan Garcia, Managing Director at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), USA |
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| 11:45 - 12:15 | Takamitsu Ito (Keynote) | An estimate of the global dissolved oxygen trend for the last 50 years |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Benedict Blackledge | Characterising the physical drivers of decadal and inter-annual variability of oceanic oxygen |
| 13:00 - 13:45 | Panel Discussion: Diversity and Equity in STEMS | |
| Moderator | Kirsten Isensee, Program Specialist at IOC-UNESCO | |
| Panelists | Claudia Jesus-Rydin, senior program officer at the ERC, Geotechnical Engineer Jodie Rummer, Marine Biology at James Cook University and Research Associate at the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies Maciej Telszewski, Director of the International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project Meutia Safira Fakhraini, an MSc Student in Marine Environment & Resources (MER+) Erasmus Mundus Sarah Wolf, PhD candidate in the Department of Microbiology at Oregon State University, USA |
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| 14:00 - 14:15 | Pablo Trucco - Pignata | Mixed layer oxygen budget in the SE Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean: biological and physical controls from autonomous platform observations. |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Elisa Lovecchio | Meso and submesoscale oxygen variability in the northern Benguela Upwelling System from glider data |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Paula C. Pardo | Dissolved oxygen decrease in the NW Iberian coastal upwelling system (NE Atlantic) favoured by the weakening of the meridional overturning circulation |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Natalya Evans | Natural variability and expansion of the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Oxygen Deficient Zone and its teleconnections to the California Current System |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Hernan Garcia | Dissolved oxygen content and trends in the global ocean based on blended O2 climatologies |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Ariel Pezner | Global coral reefs will experience moderate to severe hypoxia before the end of the century |
| 15:45 - 18:00 | Social event | visit of the Legia brewery |
Friday, May 20th 2022
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Deoxygenation: understanding causes and attributing changes |
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| Conveners | Ivonne Montes, Geophysical Institute of Peru Andreas Oschlies, co-chair of GO2NE, GEOMAR and the University of Kiel, Germany |
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| 9:00 - 9:30 | Laure Resplandy (Keynote) | Climate control on oxygen minimum zone expansion and coastal hypoxia |
| 9:30 - 9:45 | Damodar Shenoy | Inter-annual and decadal variability of dissolved oxygen off the west coast of India: Results from a time-series study |
| 9:45 - 10:00 | Parvathi Vallivattathillam | Evolution of Arabian sea oxygen minimum zone under climate change: Insights from a modeling approach |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Grant Pitcher | Aquaculture and the local depletion of oxygen - a case study from Saldanha Bay, South Africa |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Esther Portela | Global oxygen subduction and meridional transport: mean state, upper-ocean trends, and drivers |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffe break | |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Peter Holtermann | The role of advection for the ventilation of the hypoxic deep water of the Baltic Sea |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Pearse Buchanan | The Regional Importance of Oxygen Demand and Supply for Historical Ocean Oxygen Trends |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Julia Getzlaff | How does the mesopelagic ecosystem impact oxygen? - First insights from an earth system model |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Panel Discussion: Panel Interactions with media | |
| Moderator | Jodie Rummer, Marine Biology at James Cook University and Research Associate at the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies | |
| Panelists | Jessica Camille Aguirre, writer whose work focuses on climate change and extremes Elsa Coudrec, Senior Science and Tech Editor Melissa Lyne, all-round communication specialist with two decades of experience connecting scientists with media and other public audiences |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Boris Dewitte (Keynote) | ENSO-induced OMZ variability in the South Eastern Pacific |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Allison Hogikyan | The effect of 'dry gets drier, wet gets wetter' on ocean deoxygenation |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Ole Pinner | The role of boundary mixing for diapycnal oxygen fluxes in a stratified marine system |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Yassir Eddebbar | Slowdown of ocean deoxygenation by aerosols over the 20th Century |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Nicolai von Oppeln - Bronikowski | Exploring the influence of eddies on oxygen in the Labrador Sea |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Mathilde Jutras | Temporal variations in the causes of oxygen decline in the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary: from local eutrophication to regional ocean circulation |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Giovanni galli | Intra-scenario variability of trends and controls of near-bed oxygen concentration on the Northwest European Continental Shelf |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffe break | |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Ivan Pérez-Santos | Recent deoxygenation of subsurface waters of Patagonian fjords connected to the Equatorial dynamics |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Sabine Mecking | Linking northeastern North Pacific oxygen changes to upstream surface outcrop variations |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | Mathieu Poupon | Pacific decadal oscillation influences the extension of the tropical Oxygen Minimum Zone and obscures the impacts of anthropogenic changes |
| 17:15 -17:30 | Feedback from the young generation (master and bachelor) | |
| 17:30 -17:35 | Closing : Marilaure Grégoire, Co-chair of GO2NE, University of Liège, Fresh and Oceanic Unit of Research (FOCUS), Belgium | |
updated on 5/12/22
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