ARCTOS Colloquium – Macroalgae of high latitudes

Happy New Year!

We would like to invite you all to the first ARCTOS Colloquium/Workshop of 2021 (on Zoom) focusing on: Macroalgae of high latitudes. Thanks to Bodil Bluhm, Marcus Molis, Paul Renaud, Sanna Matson, and Haakon Hop for initiating and organizing! Contact ARCTOS@bfe.uit.no if you would like to attend.

PROGRAM
Tuesday, Jan 19

12:00 Bodil Bluhm: Welcome and introduction

Session topic: Changing seaweed distributions and habitats
12:10 Haakon Hop: ’’Vertical shifts in macroalgal distributions in Kongsfjorden over time
12:30 Dorte Krause-Jensen: ‘Changing seaweed along Greenland’s coasts and beyond and Blue Carbon perspectives’
12:50 Hartvig Christie: ‘The disappearance and reappearance of kelp along Norwegian coasts’
13:10 Break
13:25 Amalia Keck Al-Habahbeh: ‘Macroalgal-invertebrate dynamics in two Svalbard fjords over almost 40 years’
13:45 Topic discussion

Session Topic: Growth and stressors of seaweeds
14:15 Kai Bischof: ‘Ecophysiology of high latitude seaweeds in winter’
14:35 Break
14:50 Sanna Matsson: ‘Growth, quality and biofouling of Saccharina latissima in a latitudinal context’
15:10 Anna Metaxas: ‘Ecology of biofouling of seaweeds’
15:30 Topic discussion
16:00 End

Wednesday, Jan 20

Session topic: Seaweeds in the food web
12:00 Paul Renaud: ‘Fate of seaweeds: uptake into the food web in an Arctic fjord’
12:20 Torstein Pedersen: ‘Tracking the fate of kelp in northern Norway’
12:40 Marcus Molis: ’Seaweeds and invertebrates interactions’
13:00 Margarita Novoa-Garrido: ‘Seaweeds in the human food web’
13:20 Break
13:35 Topic discussion
14:05 Research needs and direction, status, gaps: Discuss opinion or perspectives note, draft outline
15:30 End