Conference
Overview
Dates: November 28 - 29, 2022
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 16:00
Location: Colin MacLean Hall, Centre for Ocean Ventures & Entrepreneurship (COVE)
Organizers: Fisheries & Oceans Canada, Ocean Frontier Institute & Dalhousie University
Agenda
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
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