Workshops

photoclim project

Tentative schedule

published4 Aug 2025

MONDAY 27th October 2024

Student workshop & project dissemination

 

MORNING SESSION

09:30 – 10:00 Introduction, daily work plan

10:00 – 10:30 Lecture

PHOTOCLIM project presentation

Žarko Kovač

10:30 – 11:30 Hands-on session (with coffee and snacks)

Building a simple bio-optical model of primary production

Žarko Kovač

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 – 13:00 Hands-on session (with coffee and snacks) 

Testing the primary production model on a global dataset

Marija Bačeković Koloper

13:00 – 13:30 Student feedback, wrap up

 

ATTENDEES:

Žarko Kovač, Marija Bačeković Koloper, Leon Ćatipović, 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 (Faculy of Science, Split, CRO)

9:30 – 10:00 Lecture

A new parametrization of photoinhibiton 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 – 11:30  Lecture  

TBD

Andrew Irwin (Dalhouise University, CAN)

11:30 - 12:00 Discussion

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. Photosynthesis parameters hackaton 1st part

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

TBD

 

ATTENDEES:

TBD

 

 

 

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 Lecture

Bayesian approaches to photosynthesis parameters estimation

Jean Paul Mattern (Univeristy of California, USA)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 Parallel hands-on sessions (with coffee and snacks)

1. Photosynthesis parameters hackaton 2nd part

2. Gap filling hackathon 2nd part

3. Open collaboration

 

LUNCH

12:30 - 14:00  

 

AFTERNOON SESSION

14:00 - 16:00 Parallel hands-on sessions (with coffee and snacks)

1. Photosynthesis parameters hackaton 3rd part

2. Gap filling hackathon 3rd part

3. Open collaboration

16:00 - 16:30 Reporting, discussion and writing

16:30 - 18:00 Collaborative work (optional)

 

KEY QUESTIONS

TBD

 

ATTENDEES:

TBD

 

 

 

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 Lecture 

Primary production from the standpoint of the social cost of carbon 

Davor Mance (University of Rijeka, UK)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 Parallel hands-on sessions (with coffee and snacks)

1. Photosynthesis parameters hackaton 4th part

2. Gap filling hackathon 4th part

3. Open collaboration

 

LUNCH

12:30 - 14:00  

 

AFTERNOON SESSION

14:00 - 16:00 Parallel hands-on sessions (with coffee and snacks)

1. Photosynthesis parameters hackaton 5th 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)

 

DINNER

19:00 TBD

 

KEY QUESTIONS

TBD

 

ATTENDEES:

TBD

 

 

 

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