GEOTRACES Mediterranean Planning Workshop

Workshop Programme

Final draft

Presenters' names are in italics if more than one author.
Links on talk titles lead to available files (pdf) of the talks.

Day 1 - Monday, 4th October 2010

WelcomeTalks
 

Welcome
08:30 Registration
09:00 Welcome to Nice and the Workshop (L Coppola)
09:05 Workshop logistics (L Coppola)
 

Introduction to the GEOTRACES programme and the goals of the Workshop
09:10 The international GEOTRACES programme (C Jeandel)
09:30 Data management during GEOTRACES (MP Torre)
09:35 The goals of the workshop (AK Hannides)
 

The Mediterranean Sea: a GEOTRACES cross-thematic overview (plenary session - keynote speeches) Chair: AK Hannides
09:40 Mediterranean hydrography: circulation and its variability, strait exchange, and water formation (M Gacic, G Civitarese, and GE Borzelli)
10:00 Submarine Groundwater Discharge: Contributions to GEOTRACES (J Scholten, J Garcia-Orellana, and P Masqué)
10:20 How TEI can help us to better constrain some processes in the Mediterranean Sea (C Jeandel, G Sarthou, K Tachikawa, E Sternberg, M Roy-Barman, P van Beek, F Lacan, L Coppola)
10:40

Coffee break
11:10 Trace metal cycling in a miniature ocean – changes since EROS 2000? (L-E Heimbürger, C Migon, D Cossa, N Mihalopoulos, J Sonke, C Jeandel, and B Thibodeau)
11:30 Proxies calibration issues in the Mediterranean (M-A Sicre)
11:50 Introduction to the SOLAS programme and SOLAS-GEOTRACES cooperation in the Mediterranean (D Wallace)
12:10 Saharan dust deposition in the Mediterranean Sea and its impact on biogeochemical cycles (C Guieu)
12:30

Lunch break
14:00 Biogeochemistry in the Mediterranean: from the oligotrophic to the ultraoligotrophic (K Leblanc)
14:20 Western and Eastern Mediterranean: similarities and contrasts (M Krom)
14:40 Interaction between GEOTRACES and GO-SHIP in the Mediterranean Sea: report on a GO-SHIP Med-section in 2011 (T Tanhua)
15:00 An introduction to the European project on Mediterranean Acidification in a changing climate (MedSeA) (P Ziveri, the MedSeA consortium)
 

Mediterranean GEOTRACES: key parameters, tracers, processes, and sites (plenary session - advocacy talks) Chair: AK Hannides
15:20 Tracers for redox environments: GEOTRACES in the Black Sea (J Murray)
15:35 GEOTRACES deep section from Mediterranean Outflow in East Atlantic across the Mediterranean onboard RV PELAGIA in 2013 or 2014 (H de Baar, M Rijkenberg, L Gerringa, K Timmermans, V Schoemann, P Laan, J de Jong)
15:50

Coffee break - GROUP PHOTO
16:30 The existing observatories platforms useful for GEOTRACES in the Mediterranean Sea (L Coppola, P Raimbault, R Lampitt, K Larkin, V Cardin, G Petihakis)
16:45 Formation of basin-wide bottom nepheloid layers in the western Mediterranean after major dense shelf water cascading events (J Martin, P Puig, X Durrieu de Madron, K Schroeder, J Salat, JL López-Jurado, GP Gasparini, A Palanques, M Emelianov, AP Karageorgis, A Theocharis)
17:00 Sampling and analysis for atmospheric deposition: results from the US GEOTRACES Intercalibration Experiments (W Landing, A Milne, P Morton)
17:15 Particle cycling/circulation/margin interactions in the distribution of particle-reactive tracers (M Roy-Barman)
17:30

Day 1 General discussion and conclusions (plenary session) Chair: C Jeandel
18:30

End of Day 1
18:45

Cocktail ice-breaker
 

Day 2 - Tuesday, 5th October 2010
BreakoutsessionsMassenaBreakoutsessionsPresident
09:00

Parallel break-out sessions A and B: topics and tasks (plenary discussion)
09:15

Parallel break-out sessions A
 

I. TEI fluxes and processes at ocean interfaces

Chair: C Jeandel
Rapporteur: P Masqué

Characterization of surface active
substances in the natural sea surface microlayers of the coastal Middle
Adriatic stations (S Frka Milosavljević)

Radium isotopes, seawater circulation and water ages in the Mediterranean coast of Northern Israel (Y Weinstein, Y Shalem, Y Yechieli, B Burnett, P Swarzenski, B Herut)

Early diagenesis and benthic fluxes in Adriatic and Ionian Sea (F Spagnoli, G Batholini, P Girdano)

II. TEI as proxies for past change


Chair: M-A Sicre
Rapporteur: M-A Sicre

Neodymium isotopes in biogenic carbonates from the Mediterranean Sea: reliable archives of water mass circulation (P Montagna, S Goldstein, M Taviani, N Frank)

Biogeochemical changes following the damming of the Nile: is the South Levantine shelf still under changing conditions? (B Herut, A Almogi-Labin)

10:30

Coffee break
11:15 Parallel break-out sessions A (continued): report-writing
11:45

Parallel break-out sessions B
 

III. TEI and particle cycles
Chair: L Coppola
Rapporteur: S Jacquet

Potential use of Si isotopes to trace silicon biogeochemical (paleo)cycle in the Mediterranean (D Cardinal)

The significance of atmospheric inputs of dissolved and particulate trace metals
to the Eastern Mediterranean seawater (Z Markaki, N Mihalopoulos) [ poster presented by C Theodosi ]

IV. TEI and models

Chair: J-C Dutay
Rapporteur: M Gacic

Trace element modelling with the NEMO (MED12)/PISCES model (J-C Dutay)

Atmospheric and marine controls on the Non-Redfield N/P ratio in the Cretan Sea - a 1-D modeling study (S Christodoulaki, K Tsiaras, G Petihakis, N Mihalopoulos, M Kanakidou, G Triantafyllou)
13:00

Lunch break
14:30 Parallel break-out sessions B (continued): report–writing
 

Reports of break-out sessions A and B and discussion (plenary session)
15:00 I. TEI fluxes and processes at ocean interfaces
15:20 II. TEI as proxies for past change
15:40 III. TEI and particle cycles
16:00 IV. TEI and models
16:20

Coffee break
 

The ideal Mediterranean GEOTRACES section (plenary session)
Chairs: P Masqué and L Coppola
Rapporteur: AK Hannides

17:00 Introduction
17:10 Section proposals – logistics presentations – discussion
  Optimization of relevant data collection to understand trace element and isotope cycling/distribution in the Mediterranean Sea (M Rijkenberg, HJW de Baar)
18:00

End of Day 2
 

Day 3 - Wednesday, 6th October 2010
Lunch breakTalks 2
09:00

Parallel break-out sessions C: topics and tasks (plenary discussion)
09:10

Parallel break-out sessions C
 

V. Mediterranean GEOTRACES section


Chair: P Masqué
Rapporteur: AK Hannides

Revisiting the mercury cycle in the Mediterranean waters – coupling speciation and stable isotopic composition approaches (D Cossa, L-E Heimbürger, JE Sonke, C Lamborg, N Pirrone)

TEI's in the Aegean Sea: Baseline Information (C Zeri, H Kaberi)

Levantine GEOTRACES sections (AK Hannides)

VI. Western and Eastern Mediterranean process study/studies

Chair: C Guieu
Rapporteur: T Wagener

Trace elements in different marine sediment fractions of the Gulf of Tunis: central Mediterranean Sea (N Zaaboub, W Oueslati, S Abdeljaoued, FJ Huertas, A López-Galindo)

Distribution of redox-sensitive trace elements in the water column and sediments of seawater lake (Rogoznica lake, Croatia) an unique anoxic environment on the Adriatic coast (I Ciglenečki, N Mikac, E Bura-Nakić)

Long-term fluctuation of organic matter in the Northern Adriatic Sea: possible indicator of global changes (V Vojvodić, B Ćosović, J Dautović) [ talk given by I Ciglenečki ]
11:00

Coffee break
11:30 Parallel break-out sessions C (continued)
12:30

Lunch break
14:00 Parallel break-out sessions C (continued): report-writing
 

Reports of break-out sessions C and discussion (plenary session)
14:30 V. Mediterranean GEOTRACES section
15:30 VI. Western and Eastern Mediterranean process study/studies
16:30

Coffee break
 

Future steps (plenary discussion)
17:00 GEOTRACES Workshop Report & Mediterranean implementation plan
17:10 Funding efforts
17:40 Next meeting(s), etc… (the programme will be further elaborated)
18:30

End of workshop

 

Instructions to speakers

Instructions to keynote speakers:

Duration: 10 minutes (maximum 12), to allow for 10 minutes of questions and discussion
Number of slides: 10-12 recommended (not more than 15)
Content: The presenters of these keynote speeches should discuss their topics with the view of contributing to the implementation of the GEOTRACES science plan in the Mediterranean. Attention should be paid to the fact that a west-east transect will be conducted that will “chart” trace element concentrations, speciation, and physical form. A historical perspective should also be presented, including past and future changes, distinguishing – where appropriate – between natural and anthropogenic change. Finally, presenters should conclude their talks by proposing a strategy in order to answer the questions they will raise during their talks.

Instructions to advocacy talk speakers:

Duration: 5 minutes (maximum 7), to allow for 10 minutes of questions and discussion
Number of slides: 3-5 recommended (not more than 7)
Content: The presenters of these advocacy talks should make their argument immediately, about how their proposition contributes to the implementation of the GEOTRACES science plan in the region. One or two key slides should be adequate to drive the point home. If there is any auxiliary information or data supporting the argument, they should not be shown and discussed during the presentation but could be available in additional slides that could be used during the question and discussion session after the presentation.

Instructions to break-out session speakers:

Please see instructions to advocacy talk speakers above.

 

 

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