LAUNCHING OF OCEANIC PLANKTON, CLIMATE AND

LAUNCHINGOFOCEANICPLANKTON,CLIMATEANDDEVELOPMENTPROJECT
TARAOCEANS-FFEM
AllianceFrançaise,946CórdobaAve.,BuenosAires,Argentina
February24th2016
PRESENTATION
The Oceanic Plankton, Climate and Development Project will contribute to a better
management of Marine Research through the TARA OCEANS Scientific Program,
encouragingthedevelopmentofmodelsandindicatorsfortheobservationofbiodiversity
based on the planktonic system. This Program will develop a research partnership
involving at least six countries from the South, establishing links with international
institutionsanddecision-makerscommunities.Theaddedvalueandprojectinnovationlie
inthefactthatnoobservationprogramofmarineecosystemshasalsoextendedmodels
anddatatoincludeplanktonicsystems.
ComponentsoftheProgram:
1)
Science: contribute to strengthening research activities of TARA OCEANS
consortium by completing OCEANOMICS project, and initiate the development of new
models and indicators based on the observation of plankton and its correlations with
marineecosystems.
2)
Capacity building: develop an international program for structuring research on
oceanlifebasedontheexperienceofTARAOCEANS,involvingemerginganddeveloping
countries,toimprovetheircapacitytoparticipateinthisfield.
3)
Governance: make available scientific results to ocean governance multilateral
institutions,suchasCBD,UNFCCC,DOALOS;andNairobi/Noumea/Abidjanconventions.
4)
Awareness: Communicate the importance of marine ecosystems, including areas
beyondnationaljurisdiction,inconnectionwithTARA’sexpeditions.
WORKSHOPAGENDA(closedevent)
10:45
Registration
11:00-11:30
PresentationofFFEMProgram
11:30-12:30
12:30-13:30
13:30-14:30
14:30-16:30
16:30
PresentationofDomainsforpotential
postdocsCollaborativeProjects
“New3Dfluorescenceandquantitative
imagingmethodsforProtists”
“Prokaryotesgenesandgenomes
diversityandtrans-kingdomsymbioses
inanoxicoceans”
“CombiningBioinformaticsand
Oceanographytounderstandbiological
carbonexport”
Discussionon6postdocproposed
topicsoftheglobalProject
Lunch
Discussiononcollaborativemeetingsin
SouthAmericaandEuropeand
recruitmentstrategyproposalby
ContactPoints
Closure
AndreABREU
EricKARSENTI
SebastienCOLIN
StationBiologiquede
Roscoff(SBR)
ShiniSUNAGAWA
EuropeanMolecularBiology
Laboratory,Heidelberg
(EMBL)
LionelGUIDI
Laboratoired’Oceanologie
deVillefranchesurMer
(LOV)
SPOTLIGHTONSCIENCEAGENDA(publicevent)
16:30
Registration
17:00-17:30
Opening
17:30-18:00
Addressby(titleTBC)
18:00-18:30
NewopportunitiesforBiologybasedon
advancesinDNAsequenceand
computationalanalysis
PresentationofTARAComponents
“SCIENCE”
TheTARAOCEANSexpeditionisthefirst
initiative of global study of marine
plankton. The mass of high quality and
highly structured samples and data
collected, will help perform a wide
range of research on global plankton
ecosystem. The approaches range from
microscopic to high-speed imaging,
metabarcoding to metagenomics,
including the physico-chemical context
foreachsampling.
“GOVERNANCE”
Thestudies’aftermathwillproposenew
18:30-19:30
LinoBARAÑAO
MinisterofScience,
TechnologyandProductive
Innovation
FFEMrepresentativeTBC
IainMATTAJ
EMBLGeneralDirector
PaulFLICEK
EMBL-EBI
EricKARSENTI
EMBLTARAOCEANS
AndreABREU
TARAFOUNDATION
19:30-19:40
19:40-20:00
20:00
approaches
for
regional
seas
governance, based on scientific
knowledge and clear indicators. These
new approaches will be put in place
especially in countries members of the
Conventionsforregionalseas.
“DEVELOPMENT”
Alongside scientific capacity building,
the project will develop permanent
governance focus following a “science
topolicy”principle.Thiswillbeachieved
handinhandwithdevelopingcountries’
institutionsinvolvedintheproject.This
dialogue between science and
institutionswillhelpanswertodemands
about food security and development
challenges.
Addressby(titleTBC)
PresentationofPampaAzulProject
Closureandscreeningof“TARA
OCEANS,theSecretWorldofPlankton”
JaniqueETIENNE
FFEM
StephanieTHIEBAULT
INEE-CNRSDirector
TBC