First Nereis Park Conference 2004
Bioturbation: The Ever Changing Seafloor

November 7-9, 2004
Vacanciel "La Calanque"
Carry-Le-Rouet, France

TALK SCHEDULE
Saturday 6
9:30 - 19:30
Arrival and Check-in
 
20:30
Dinner
 
Sunday 7
7:30 - 8:30
Breakfast
 
9:30 - 10:00
Introduction talk: Franck Gilbert
 
10:00 - 12:30
Session A: Bioirrigation and solute transport
 
Chair: Jean-Christophe Poggiale
 
Invited speaker: Carla Koretsky, Department of Geosciences, Western Michigan University, USA
Incorporating complementary ecological and chemical information into bioirrigation models
Coffee break
Invited speaker: Erik Kristensen, Institute of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Degradation of organic matter in irrigated burrows – what do we know?
Filip Meysman, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, NIOO-KNAW, The Netherlands
A new modelling approach to burrow ventilation in sandy sediments: a case study of Arenicola marina bio-irrigation
12:30
Lunch and photo group of participants
 
16:30 - 18:30
Session A: Bioirrigation and solute transport (end)
 
Coffee break
Anthony D'Andrea, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, USA
Density-dependent impacts of burrowing shrimp on benthic fluxes in Yaquina Bay, Oregon (USA): Applicability for estuarine scale models
Frank Wenzhöfer, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany
Microdistribution and total exchanges of O2 in coastal sediments: How does faunal activity influence benthic consumption rates?
Session B: Movement of particles in the bioturbated zone
 
Chair: Gaston Desrosiers and Georges Stora
Invited speaker: Magali Gérino, Laboratoire d'Ecologie des Hydrosystèmes, Université Paul Sabatier, , France
Local and non local biological particle transports in relation with functional diversity of the benthic communities
18:30 - 19:00
Poster session
19:00-20:30
Cocktail and Dinner
 
20:30 - 21:30
Invited plenary talk
 
Bernard P. Boudreau, Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Canada
Quantitative and qualitative models for bioturbation: past, present and future perspectives
21:30 - 23:00
Open bar
Monday 8
7:30 - 8:30
Breakfast
 
9:30 - 12:00
Session B: Movement of particles in the bioturbated zone
 
Yoko Furukawa, Naval Research Laboratory, Seafloor Sciences Branch, Stennis Space Center, USA
Particle movement in bioturbated microcosms revealed by computed tomography (CT)
Stefan Forster, Baltic Sea Research Institute, Germany
Species-specific effects of Hydrobia spp, Marenzelleria viridis, Corophium volutator on bioturbation and phosphate flux from the sediment
Coffee break
Nils Volkenborn, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany
Ecosystem engineering in marine benthos by the lugworm Arenicola marina: shifting from diffusive to permeable sediment characteristics
12:30
Lunch
 
16:30 - 18:30
Session B: Movement of particles in the bioturbated zone (end)
 
Coffee break
Lois Nickell, Scottish Association for Marine Science, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, UK
Organism responses to chemical cues present in phytodetritus
Session C: Bioturbation and elemental cycling
 
Chair: Stefan Hulth
Invited speaker: Lawrence M. Mayer, Darling Marine Center, University of Maine, USA
Food measurements and bioturbation
Peter Stief, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany
Small-scale bioturbation/bioirrigation by midge larvae in freshwater sediments: implications for the benthic N-cycle
18:30 - 19:30
Poster session
19:30
Dinner
 
20:30 - 21:30
Invited plenary talk
 
Martin Solan, Ocean Laboratory and Centre For Ecology, University of Aberdeen, UK
Laboratory and in-situ instrumentation and detection systems for bioturbation: past, present and future perspectives
21:30 - 23:00
Open bar
Tuesday 9
7:30 - 8:30
Breakfast
 
9:30 - 12:00
Session C: Bioturbation and elemental cycling (end)
 
Greg Cowie, The Grant Institute of Earth Sciences, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, UK
In situ and shipboard tracer incubation studies of benthic communities and carbon cycling across the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone
Coffee break
David T. Welsh, School of Environmental and Applied Sciences, Griffith University Gold Coast Campus, Australia
Influence of bioturbation on metabolism, nutrient fluxes and nitrate reduction processes in organic matter loaded, bivalve farmed sediments
Bjorn Sundby, ISMER, UQAR and McGill University, Canada
Root induced cycling of lead in salt marsh sediments
12:30
Lunch
 
14:00 - 19:00
Trip to Marseille
 
19:30
Dinner
 
20:30 - 21:30
Invited plenary talk
 
Robert C. Aller, MSRC, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Bioturbation and element cycling in surface deposits: past, present and future perspectives
21:30 - 23:00
End of conference talk: Franck Gilbert and Open bar
Wednesday 10
7:30 - 8:30
Breakfast
 
9:00
Depart