We invite you to consider submitting an abstract for the 2025 Aquatic Sciences Meeting (Taking the Aquatic Pulse) to be held in Charlotte, North Carolina from 26-31 March 2025 for our session (SS36). See details below.
The deadline for abstract submission is Midnight, Central Standard Time (USA) (11:59 p.m.) on 21 October 2024. So, mark your calendars. We look forward to your participation and to learning more about the exciting research happening on the coast to boundary current continuum.
You can go straight to the abstract submission instructions page using the following link:
https://www.aslo.org/charlotte-2025/abstract-preparation-guide
SS36 Coast-to-boundary current systems and the ecological, biogeochemical, and physical processes within
Christian Briseño-Avena, University of North Carolina Wilmington (brisenoavenac@uncw.edu)
Matthew McLean, University of North Carolina Wilmington (mcleanm@uncw.edu)
Winifred Johnson, University of North Carolina Wilmington (johnsonwm@uncw.edu)
Bradley Tolar, University of North Carolina Wilmington (tolarb@uncw.edu)
Coastal and shelf ecosystems are the most productive regions of the world’s oceans. Broad, shallow shelf ecosystems like those in the west Atlantic basin also interact with ocean boundary currents, creating conditions that play important roles in biogeochemical cycles. Here we seek to “take the pulse” of shelf systems in the context of shifting boundary currents with predicted environmental change, which requires a baseline understanding of current status and concerted efforts across multiple disciplines. This session welcomes research on coast-to-boundary current processes encompassing physical, chemical, biological, and biogeochemical studies of cross-shelf systems, particularly in areas that intersect western boundary currents (e.g., Gulf Stream, Kuroshio, East Australia, Brazil). We seek to showcase research from process studies, time-series, computational modeling, or other ecosystem assessments that address questions aimed at understanding the function within any region across this coast to boundary current continuum at all levels of ecological organization, from genes to ecosystems. Interdisciplinary studies that integrate multiple ecosystem processes are particularly encouraged. Our goal for this session is to bring together the community of scientists across the globe focused on these comprehensive regional studies to combine efforts and enhance collaborative and comparative opportunities across our datasets.