TÍTULO: Tara Oceans: Eco-Systems Biology at Planetary Scale

PONENTE: Chris Bowler - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Section, Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS) - Paris (France)

RESUMEN: The ocean is the largest ecosystem on Earth and yet we know very little about it. This is particularly true for the plankton that drift within, even though they form the base of marine food webs and are key players in Earth’s biogeochemical cycles. Ocean plankton are at least as important for the Earth system as the forests on land, but most of them are invisible to the naked eye and thus are largely uncharacterized. To increase our understanding of this underexplored world, a multidisciplinary consortium, Tara Oceans, was formed around the 36m research schooner Tara, which sampled plankton at more than 210 sites and multiple depth layers in all the major oceanic regions during expeditions from 2009-2013 (Karsenti et al. Plos Biol., 2011). This talk will summarize the foundational resources from the project, which collectively represent the largest DNA sequencing effort for the oceans (see Science special issue May 22, 2015 and Cell, Nov 14, 2019), and analyses that illustrate several aspects of the Tara Oceans’ eco-systems biology approach to address microbial contributions to ecological and evolutionary processes. The project provides unique resources for several scientific disciplines that are foundational for mapping ocean biodiversity of a wide range of organisms that are rarely studied together, exploring their interactions, and integrating biology into our physico-chemical understanding of the ocean, as well as for identifying new organisms and genes of biotechnological interest. These resources, and the scientific innovations emerging to understand them, are furthermore critical towards developing baseline ecological context and predictive power needed to track the impact of climate change on the ocean.

CUANDO: 17 de JUNIO a las 12AM (GMT+2: Vigo, Barcelona, Paris)

LINK (CONECTAHA): https://conectaha.csic.es/b/jai-0rf-2zq-dzi

PARA ESTUDIANTES DE PROGRAMA OFICIAL: se podrá solicitar el correspondiente "Certificado de Asistencia" justo al finalizar el seminario a través de un e-mail al responsable de los Seminarios del IMEDEA (alos@imedea.uib-csic.es) incluyendo los siguientes datos: Titulo del Seminario, Ponente, Nombre completo del Estudiante, Programa de Estudios y Universidad. No se atenderán peticiones fuera del plazo.

TÍTULO: Marine sciences supporting policy-making: the example from the Joint Research Centre of the EU Commission

PONENTE: Dr. Diego Macías, Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucía

RESUMEN: Incorporating scientific knowledge into the decision-making process is a fundamental requisite to achieve the goals of the Decade for Marine Sciences and the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN.  Indeed, scientific advice is an integral part of policy making at EU level. Any environmentally significant legislation is evaluated against the scientific evidence in order to maximize its positive impacts and returns to the society. Marine-related legislations (such as the MSFD or the CFP) are no exception so a group of dedicated marine-scientists develop new approaches and keep track of the latest developments in the field at the Joint Research Centre of the EU Commission to help with their implementation. In this talk I will present the Marine Modelling Framework (MMF), a suit of interconnected digital twins that allow simulating the impacts of different policy options on the environmental status of marine ecosystems across Europe. Different examples of the MMF application will be presented and its connections with the policy-making process will be highlighted.

CUANDO: 7 de JULIO a las 12AM

LINK (YOUTUBE LIVE): https://youtu.be/YcKvjYvVjBU

PARA ESTUDIANTES DE PROGRAMA OFICIAL: se podrá solicitar el correspondiente "Certificado de Asistencia" justo al finalizar el seminario a través de un e-mail al responsable de los Seminarios del IMEDEA (alos@imedea.uib-csic.es) incluyendo los siguientes datos: Titulo del Seminario, Ponente, Nombre completo del Estudiante, Programa de Estudios y Universidad. No se atenderán peticiones fuera del plazo.