Workshops
Schedule
The workshop will be held at the Faculty of Science, University of Split, Sky bar (top floor)
MONDAY 27th October 2024
Student workshop & project dissemination
MORNING SESSION
09:30 – 10:00 Introduction, daily work plan
10:00 – 11:00 Hands-on session (with coffee and snacks)
Analysing the Keeling Curve
Marin Vojković
11:00 – 12:00 Hands-on session (with coffee and snacks)
Introduction to R: PAR time-series analysis
Antonija Matek
12:00 – 12:30 Coffee break
12:30 – 13:30 Hands-on session (with coffee and snacks)
piCurve: an R package for modelling photosynthesis–irradiance curves
Mohammad Amirian
13:30 – 14:30 Hands-on session (with coffee and snacks)
Building a simple primary production model
Marija Bačeković Koloper
13:30 – 14:00 Student feedback, wrap up
ATTENDEES:
Antonija Matek, Marin Vojković, Žarko Kovač, Marija Bačeković Koloper, Mohammad Amirian, students
TUESDAY 28th October 2024
Primary production models
MORNING SESSION
8:30 – 9:00 Introduction, key questions, daily work plan
9:00 – 9:30 Lecture
History of primary production models
Žarko Kovač (Faculty of Science, Split, CRO)
9:30 – 10:00 Lecture
A new parametrization of photoinhibition for phytoplankton
Mohammad Amirian (Dalhouise University, CAN)
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 11:00 Lecture
Primary production of surface and subsurface phytoplankton communities across the Atlantic Ocean
Robert Brewin (University of Exeter, UK)
11:00 - 12:00 Discussion and planning
12:00 – 12:30 Setup for hands on sessions
LUNCH
12:30 - 14:00
AFTERNOON SESSION
14:00 - 16:00 Parallel hands-on sessions (with coffee and snacks)
1. IOCCG Primary Production working group meeting
2. Gap filling hackathon 1st part
3. Open collaboration
16:00 - 16:30 Reporting, discussion and writing
16:30 - 18:00 Collaborative work (optional)
KEY QUESTIONS
1. What are the key challenges in primary production parametrization?
2. How significant is photoinhibition in global calculations?
3. What is the effect of Jensen's inequality on primary production calculations?
4. Is there room for the application of stochastic primary production models?
5. Is the time ripe to write a review paper on the history of primary production models?
ATTENDEES:
Žarko Kovač, Shubha Sathyendranath, Heather Bouman, Robert Brrewin, Mohammad Amirian, Andrew Irwin, Bror Jonsson, Zrinka Ljubešić, Frano Matić, Marin Vojković, Leon Ćatipović, Marija Bačeković Koloper
WEDNESDAY 29th October 2024
Model data comparisons and parameter estimation
MORNING SESSION
8:30 – 9:00 Introduction, key questions, daily work plan
9:00 – 9:30 Lecture
Existing global datasets of photosynthesis parameters
Heather Bouman (University of Oxford, UK)
9:30 – 10:00 Lecture
A new global dataset of photosynthesis parameters
Marija Bačeković Koloper (Faculty of Science, Split, CRO)
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 12:30 Parallel hands-on sessions (with coffee and snacks)
1. Photosynthesis parameters datasets 1st part
2. Gap filling hackathon 2nd part
3. Open collaboration
LUNCH
12:30 - 14:00
AFTERNOON SESSION
14:00 - 15:00 Parallel hands-on sessions (with coffee and snacks)
1. Photosynthesis parameters datasets 2nd part
2. Gap filling hackathon 3rd part
3. Open collaboration
4. Meeting with the Head of the Doctoral Study of Biophysics
15:00 – 15:30 Lecture
How can we predict primary production in ‘atypical' situations?
Bror Jonsson (University of New Hampshire, USA)
15:30 – 16:00 Lecture
Bayesian approaches to photosynthesis parameters estimation
Jean Paul Mattern (Univeristy of California, USA)
16:00 - 16:30 Reporting, discussion and writing
16:30 - 18:00 Collaborative work (optional)
KEY QUESTIONS
1. What are the available datasets to test primary production models?
2. Can AI tools be used to circumvent the need for explicit parametrizations of primary production?
3. What is the best method to estimate uncertainty of photosynthesis parameters?
4. How is the photosynthesis parameters uncertainty translated to watercolumn production estimates?
5. Is the time ripe to write a review paper on primary production datasets?
ATTENDEES:
Žarko Kovač, Shubha Sathyendranath, Heather Bouman, Robert Brrewin, Mohammad Amirian, Andrew Irwin, Bror Jonsson, Zrinka Ljubešić, Frano Matić, Marin Vojković, Leon Ćatipović, Marija Bačeković Koloper, Živana Ninčević Gladan, Sanda Skejić
THURSDAY 30th October 2024
Primary production in the context of climate change
MORNING SESSION
8:30 – 9:00 Introduction, key questions, daily work plan
9:00 – 9:30 Lecture
Tipping points and rapid changes in marine ecosystems
Shubha Sathyendranath (Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK)
9:30 – 10:00 Lecture
Vertical phytoplankton dynamics in a stratified ocean
Qi Zheng (University of Exeter, UK)
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00 Lecture
Phytoplankton community response to small scale physical processes
Zrinka Ljubešić (University of Zagreb, CRO)
11:00 – 11:30
Spatio-temporal variability of primary production at Lastovo Island during summer
Anotnija Matek (University of Zagreb, CRO)
11:30 - 12:30 Data sharing discussion 1st part
LUNCH
12:30 - 14:00
AFTERNOON SESSION
14:00 - 16:00 Parallel hands-on sessions (with coffee and snacks)
1. Data sharing discussion 2nd part
2. Gap filling hackathon 5th part
3. Open collaboration
16:00 - 16:30 Reporting, discussion and writing
16:30 - 18:00 Collaborative work (optional)
KEY QUESTIONS
1. What are the key challenges in predicting decadal scale changes in primary production?
2. How important is mesoscale variability for long term forecasts?
3. How much energy is there at smaller spatial scales and are they well resolved?
4. What are measurement challenges associated with high frequency processes?
5. Do we need higher sampling resolution in the vertical?
ATTENDEES:
Žarko Kovač, Shubha Sathyendranath, Heather Bouman, Robert Brrewin, Mohammad Amirian, Andrew Irwin, Bror Jonsson, Zrinka Ljubešić, Frano Matić, Marin Vojković, Leon Ćatipović, Marija Bačeković Koloper, Živana Ninčević Gladan, Sanda Skejić
FRIDAY 31th October 2024
Collaborative work
MORNING SESSION
8:30 – 9:00 Introduction, daily work plan
9:00 – 12:30 Parallel hands-on sessions (with coffee and snacks)
1. Collaborative work on manuscripts
2. Collaborative work on models and data sets
LUNCH
12:30 - 14:00
AFTERNOON SESSION
14:00 - 14:30 Reporting, discussion and writing
14:30 - 15:00 Wrap up
