Organisers: J Brindley (University of Leeds), M J Fasham (Southampton Oceanography Centre) and J McGlade, (University of Warwick)

Co-sponsored by GLOBEC

Modelling the Role of Zooplankton

in the Marine Food Chain

12 - 17 August 1996, Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK

Monday 12th August

9.00 - 10.30 Registration


10.30 - 11.00 COFFEE


11.00 - 11.30 Welcome and Introduction
John Brindley (U. Leeds) & Jacquie McGlade (U.Warwick)
11.30 - 12.00 The International GLOBEC Programme
Roger Harris (Plymouth Marine Laboratory)
12.10 - 12.30 The GLOBEC Numerical Modelling Working Group
Mike Fasham (Southampton Oceanography Centre)
12.30 - 2.00 LUNCH


2.00 - 2.30 Structured population models for marine zooplankton
Eileen Hofmann (Old Dominion University)
2.30 - 3.00 The effect of age structure on a general plankton ecosystem
Robin Clother (U. Leeds)
3.00 - 3.30 Structured versus unstructured modelling of planktonic populations
Markus Kirkilionis (CWI, Amsterdam)
3.30 - 4.00 TEA


4.00 - 4.30 The swimming of planktonic organisms: should it be taken seriously
John Kessler (U. Arizona)
4.30 - 5.00 Life stage-based model of interacting species of copepods: consequences on the formulation
of grazing and predation in a zooplankton model
Francois Carlotti (Station Zoologique, Villefranche)
5.00 - 5.30 Modelling copepod production in the Irish Sea
Meryl Prestridge (Plymouth Marine Laboratory)
5.45 Wine Reception

Tuesday 13th August

9.00 - 9.30 Fitting models to data using a Bayesian method
Peter Challenor (Southampton Oceanography Centre)
9.30 - 10.00 Modelling JGOFS data using a size-structured ecosystem model
Mike Fasham (Southampton Oceanography Centre)
10.00 - 10.30 An overview of ocean colour remote sensing
Trevor Platt (Bedford Institute of Oceanography)
10.30 - 11.00 COFFEE


11.00 - 11.30 The population dynamics of the toxic dinoflagellate, Alexandrium tamarense
Tim Wyatt (IIM-CSIC, Vigo)
11.30 - 12.00 Modelling plankton productivity and nutrient cycling in the Black Sea: simulations with a
1-D vertically resolved, coupled physical-biochemical model
Temel Oguz (Middle East Technical University)
12.00 - 12.30 The 1995 PRIME Mesocosm experiment: a dimethlysulphide model
Matthew Watts (U. East Anglia)
12.30 - 2.00 LUNCH


2.00 - 2.30 TBA
Geraint Tarling (Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory)
2.30 -3.30 Short Talks/Discussion


3.30 - 4.00 TEA


4.00 - 4.30 Non-linear systems in plankton population dynamics
Hiroshi Miromoto (Nagoya University)
4.30 - 5.00 Chaotic advection in plankton dynamics
Igor Mezic (U.C. Santa Barbara)
5.00 - 5.30 Seasonal cycle of phytoplankton and zooplankton in the
Arabian Sea as simulated by a 3D ecosystem model
Vladimir Ryabchenko (Shirshov Inst., St. Petersburg) & Mike Fasham (SOC)

Wednesday 14th August

9.00 - 9.30 Plankton can cause chaos in fish
Joe Horwood (Fisheries Laboratory, Lowestoft)
9.30 - 10.00 Chaotic behaviour of an ecosystem model under seasonal external forcing and the
possibility of its prediction
Katya Popova (Shirshov Institute, St. Petersburg)
10.00 - 10.30 Oscillatory behaviour in a three component plankton population model
Andrew Edwards (U. Leeds)
10.30 - 11.00 COFFEE


11.00 - 11.30 The North Atlantic Oscillation and year-to year plankton fluctuations
Benjamin Planque (Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science)
11.30 - 12.00 Plankton responses to climatic fluctuations spanning the North Atlantic
Arnold Taylor (Plymouth Marine Laboratory)
12.00 - 12.30 Long-term changes on zooplankton behaviour
Graeme Hays (University College of North Wales)
12.30 - 2.00 LUNCH


2.00 - 5.30 Free Afternoon

Thursday 15th August

9.00 - 9.30 Model sensitivity to zooplankton parameters
Tom Anderson (Southampton Oceanography Centre)
9.30 - 10.00 On the possible effect of convection motion on zooplankton vertical migration
Valko Petrov (Inst. of Mechanics and Biomechanics, Sofia)
10.00 - 10.30 Effect of predation by carnivorous zooplankton in a fish-plankton food chain
Toshiyuki Namba (Osaka Women's University)
10.30 - 11.00 COFFEE


11.00 - 11.30 Effects of mobile fish schools on a model of pattern formation in a plankton
community
A. Medvinsky (Inst. for Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Moscow)
11.30 - 12.00 The interaction of zooplankton vertical migration with a shear flow as a mechanism
for the generation of patchiness
Louise Matthews (U. Leeds)
12.00 - 12.30 Cannibalism in simple P-Z models
Jon Pitchford (U. Leeds)
12.30 - 2.00 LUNCH


2.00 - 3.30 Discussion : How does ocean fluid dynamics affect zooplankton production?


3.30 - 4.00 TEA


4.00 - 5.30 Short Talks/Discussions


7.00 Banquet in Kings College

Friday 16th August

9.00 - 9.30 Plankton dynamics across multiple scales
Jacquie McGlade (U. Warwick)
9.30 - 10.00 On n-dimensional competitive Lotka-Volterra equations
Christopher Zeeman (U. Oxford)
10.00 - 10.30 Simulation of inter-annual variability of plankton populations in a water
column circulating through different climatic regimes
John Woods (Imperial College)
10.30 - 11.00 COFFEE


11.00 - 12.30 Discussion: What can modelling do for GLOBEC?


12.30 - 2.00 LUNCH


2.00 CLOSE

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