Bedford Basin Research & Monitoring Symposium 2022

Welcome: Day 1

• Opening remarks & house keeping - Magda & Lindsay‍
• Ocean Frontier Institute introduction and acknowledgements - Anya Waite‍
• History of Bedford Basin Monitoring Program - Bill Li
• ‍Historical review of bio-optical observation systems deployed in coastal waters of Nova Scotia - John Cullen

Theme 1: Current Conditions & Sampling Initiatives

• Summary of conditions (Dalhousie) - Magda Waclawik
• BBMP: summary of sampling and current conditions - Lindsay Beazley

Theme 2: Biological Oceanography

• Phytoplankton community structure from high-performance liquid chromatography - Emmanuel Devred
• Overview of microbial BB work - Julie LaRoche

• Microplankton dynamics using an imaging flow system - Nicole Smith
• Results from mesocosm work - Hugh MacIntyre
• Living Lab concept and student projects overview - Doug Wallace

Theme 3: Emerging Scientists

• Exploring substrate preference and Nitrogen fixation regulation in a heterotrophic bacterial diazotroph from the Bedford Basin - Sonja Rose
• Bedford Basin Time Series and environmental DNA, a Test Bed for Understanding Temporal Dynamics of Coastal Bacterioplankton Diversity - Shannon Myles
• Measuring the effects of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement on the photochemical efficiency of phytoplankton - Marie Egert
  

• Rapid CTD sampling of Bedford Basin - Ruby Yee
• Quantification of oxygen and nutrient dynamics in Bedford Basin sediment - Subhadeep Rakshit

Welcome: Day 2

• Welcome and objective of the day - Richard & Andrew

Theme 4: Remote Sensing, Modelling & Mapping

• FVCOM model of Bedford Basin: model validation and preliminary results - Yongsheng Wu
• A numerical study of 3D circulation and dissolved Oxygen in Bedford Basin using a nested-grid modelling system - Jinyu Sheng
• BGC model - Arnaud Laurent

• Sub-meter seabed mapping of the Bedford Basin using NRCan’s autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) - Alex Normandeau
• COVE digital harbour and Stella Maris - Bruce McDougall & James Kesten

Theme 5: Chemical Oceanography

• High Temporal Variability in pH and Calcium Carbonate Saturation States at the Bottom of Bedford Basin - Kumiko Azetsu-Scott & Carrie-Ellen Gabriel
• Iodine in Bedford Basin - Qiang Shi
• Oxygen-dependent production of nitrous oxide in Bedford Basin - Doug Wallace
• Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement in Bedford Basin - Will Burt

Open Discussion

• Discussion on Future Plans for Bedford Basin Monitoring & Research
• Closing Remarks for Day 2 & Symposium Conclusion