Seminar: How is Biological Production in the Ocean Really Controlled?

Dr Bror Jonsson

Department of Geosciences, Princeton University

How is Biological Production in the Ocean Really Controlled?

Monday, 12 May 2014 at 1pm

ABSTRACT

Studies of biological processes in the ocean tends to focus on specific domains in time and space to address individual scientific questions, but it remains a challenge to merge results from different studies into an unified framework. My presentation suggest a new approach to bridge different scales by exploring how properties such as chlorophyll or Net Community Production (NCP) are distributed in time and space and to what extent changes in phytoplankton biomass is episodic or more uniform. The results give us the ability to better quantify how  biological processes are distributed in space and time and the influence by physical forcings.

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MA-RE SANCOR Seminars in May

All seminars are held at 1pm in the UCT Oceanography Seminar Room.

 

Date	Speaker	Topic
12 May	Dr Bror Jonsson Department of Geosciences, Princeton University	How is Biological Production in the Ocean Really Controlled?
19 May	Dr Mariette Wheeler University of Cape Town and Department of Environmental Affairs	Effect of human disturbance on the behavioural responses and offspring survival of grey-headed albatrosses Thalassarche chrysostoma at Subantarctic Marion Island
23 May	Dr Mark Jury Physics Department, University of Puerto Rico	A compendium of 2011+ research highlights from Mark Jury
26 May	Assoc Prof Mafaniso Hara Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape	Efficacy of rights-based management of small pelagic fish within an ecosystems approach to fisheries in South Africa