ICES/PICES 6th Zooplankton Production Symposium

Zooplankton species may be target to commercial harvesting such as Antarctic krill and other midwater species. At the same time, a changing environment influences their dynamics. Climate change is profoundly impacting marine ecosystems through changes in zooplankton. A combination of new technologies and techniques, together with classical in situ and laboratory studies, is required to understand changing ecosystems. In response to the need to understand zooplankton dynamics, their sensitivity to change, and the resulting effects on ecosystems, ICES and PICES are holding the 6th International Zooplankton Production Symposium as a forum to discuss zooplankton and their role in the global ecosystem.

​​​​​​Sessions

1. ​Application of optical and acoustical methods in zooplankton studies​
   
2. Response of zooplankton communities to changing ocean climate​
   
3. The diversity and role of macrozooplankton in marine ecosystems​
   
4. Zooplankton diversity in the oceans by integrative morphological and molecular techniques​
   
5. The role of microzooplankton in marine food webs​
   
6. Individual level responses of zooplankton to environmental variability and climate change​
   
7. Zooplankton in high-latitude ecosystems ​
   
8. New technologies and approaches in zooplankton trophic studies​
   

Scientific sessions will include invited and contributed papers.
Abstract submission opens on 1 August 2015.

Posters will be on display during the symposium.

Evening poster sessions will take place on days 2 and 3 where poster presenters are expected to be available to answer questions. 

Day 3 will be dedicated to workshops.

1. Use of zooplankton indicators to charaterize state of pelagic ecosystems​
   
2. ICES/PICES cooperative research initiative: towards a global measurement of zooplankton production​
   
3. Zooplankton as a potential harvestable resource​
   
4. Effects of microplastics on zooplankton​
   
5. Zooplankton as the “to” in end-to-end models​