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Symposia
3: Linking
ecological processes and environmental impacts across scales: Coastal ecology
and energy development in the
Caspian Sea
and
Gulf of Mexico
Endorsed
by the ESA International Affairs Section
Monday,
August 8, 8 AM - 11:30 AM,
Meeting Room 517c, Level 5, Palais des congrès de
Montréal
Organizers:
Sandy Tartkowski (slt2@cornell.edu),
Tom Butler, Vladimir Bashkin
Description: Coastal
regions, such as the
Caspian Sea
and the
Gulf of Mexico
face a multitude of serious environmental challenges, including energy
development, overfishing, and invasive species. The largest oil discovery in the
past 30 years was found in the
North
Caspian Sea
, home to the endemic Caspian
Seal and source of more than 90% of the world’s caviar. Coastal ecology is
organized by the cross-scale interactions of climate and geology, fluctuating
population dynamics, and local to global anthropogenic impacts, but there is
considerable disagreement concerning the relative importance of local and global
controls on ecological processes. This symposium will bring together leading
scientists from the Former Soviet Union, Iran,
Europe
,
and
North America
to compare hotly debated aspects of coastal ecology relevant to energy
development in the
Caspian Sea
and the
Gulf of Mexico
,
including changing freshwater, nutrient and pollutant inputs, status of sturgeon
and seals, and impacts of Mnemiopsis leidyi.
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