1998 International Year of the Ocean
Activities & Events - Conferences
Conference Information

International Conference on Coastal Ocean and Semi-Enclosed Seas: Circulation & Ecology Modeling & Monitoring, 8-12 September 1998, Moscow, Russia

Background

There has been rapid progress in understanding the circulation and ecology of coastal oceans and semi-enclosed seas due to recent advances in observing systems, numerical models, computer power, and process studies. However, the growing societal concern with marine resources, environmental quality, and climate variability is demanding more quantitative knowledge than is likely to be available without a "quantum leap" in predictive understanding. Hence, on the occasion of the International Year of the Ocean (IYO), it is appropriate to seek an international exchange of information germane to the scientific design of activities (e.g. regional GOOS) for operational marine environmental information generation.

Goal

Establish the present level of knowledge in modeling and monitoring the circulation and ecology of the coastal ocean end semi-enclosed seas in order to provide an improved scientific basis for the development of joint research projects and future operational products.

Objectives

• review recent progress in modeling and monitoring the circulation and ecology of the coastal ocean and semi-enclosed seas;

• identify promising strategies for future studies, monitoring networks, and data assimilation based on mathematical, physical, and ecological principles;

• foster cooperative, international research on the circulation and ecology of the coastal ocean and semi-enclosed seas based on numerical models that are well validated by observations.

Sponsorship is anticipated from European Union, American, Japanese, and Russian sources. The conference will be held in a modern building of the Institute of Numerical Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

Contributions will consist of forty (ca. 10 from each of the following: FSU, Europe, Asia, and USA) invited lectures and numerous short oral presentations with posters. The conference will have the form of a plenary session (i.e. no parallel sessions); the posters will be set up in a nearby room for the entire conference and ample time and space will be scheduled for viewing posters. The conference is planned to have the equivalent of four days of lectures and posters, a mid-conference half-day excursion, and a final, forward-looking plenary discussion.

More information

Professor Vladimir V. Zhmur
P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
Russian Academy of Sciences
Tel: (095) 129-1963
Fax: (095) 124-5983
E-mail: zhmur@tiki.sio.rssi.ru