Day 1: Tuesday 27th August 2013
9.00-9.30 Coffee and Registration
9.30-9.35 Opening by Prof David Paterson – MASTS Executive Director
9.35-10.05 Invited Keynote Speaker in memoriam of Prof Carlo Heip: Dr Tasman Crowe, University College Dublin – “Impacts of multiple stressors on marine organisms and ecosystems: experimental tests in the lab and the field”10.05-11.00: MRT Leader and Forum Convenor Highlights
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.30 MASTS Science Session (Chair: Dr John Baxter)
- Sam Anson (Marine Scotland): The contribution of socio-economics to marine science.
- Amy Scott-Murray (Aberdeen) Communicating marine science in the 21st century.
- Dr Colin Macleod (GIS in Ecology) Species Distribution Modelling (SDM) In The Marine Environment: Simple In Theory, Complex In Practice.
- Niels Jobsvogt (Aberdeen) The economic value of protecting biodiversity in the Scottish deep-sea.
- Dr Sandra Brookes (MASTS Visiting Fellow) Reproductive ecology of the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa from Mingulay Reef, Scotland.
12.30-12.45 Question time for Science Session 1
12.45-2.00 Buffet Lunch, Networking opportunities and E-poster Session
| Screen 1 | Screen 2 | Screen 3 | Screen 4 | Screen 5 | Screen 6 | Screen 7 | |
| 1.35-1.50 |
Andrew Guerin |
Jenny Wright |
Suzanne van Osch |
Marlene Lorgen |
Fiona Mcintyre |
Alan MacDonald |
Caitriona McInerney |
2.00-3.45 Special Sessions
| Auditorium | Carnegie B Room |
Carnegie A Room |
| Improving the sustainability of aquaculture production |
The Future of Deep-Water Research | Firth of Clyde Community Project |
| Session Champion: Prof Brendan McAndrew (Sustainable Aquaculture Forum Convenor) | Session Champion: Dr Bhavani Narayanaswamy (Deep Sea Forum Convenor) | Session Champion: Prof Mike Heath (MASTS Professor and Fisheries Science Forum Steering Group Member) |
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An assessment of tissue tropism of Salmonid alphavirus infection in Atlantic salmon Salmo salar Tharangani Herath (Stirling) |
The North Atlantic Ocean and Climate Observing System Dr Stuart Cunningham (SAMS) |
The MASTS Fisheries Forum has endorsed a proposal to develop a Community Project focussing on the Firth of Clyde marine ecosystem. If you are a researcher at any level actively engaged in marine research in the Clyde, come along to a round table discussion. Everyone who attends this session will be asked to present approx. 2 minutes (no powerpoint slides) stating who they are and what research they are doing. A Marine Scotland representative will outline what they see as the rersearch needs. This will be followed by a discussion about how the existing research can be linked up, what the gaps are, and what research proposals might be viable. Please register your interest with: Mike Heath:m.heath@strath.ac.uk |
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Managing connections: modelling spread of sea lice between aquaculture sites. Dr Thom Adams (SAMS) |
Ocean basin-scale deep-sea research: the case study of cold-water coral ecosystem history and connectivity. Prof Murray Roberts (HW) |
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Salmotrip: towards a more sustainable salmon industry. Dr Herve Miguad (Stirling) |
Ecological adaptations and commensal evolution of the Polynoidae (Polychaeta) in the Southwest Indian Ocean Ridge. Dr Natalia Serpetti (SAMS) |
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Characterizing signaling pathways linking growth to other physiological systems in farmed salmonid fish. Dr Dan MacQueen (Aberdeen) |
The need for biodiversity indicators in the UK deep-sea environment. Laura Robson (JNCC) |
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Alternative feeds for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) using novel plant-based meals and oils to replace fishmeal & fish oil. Prof Douglas Tocher (Stirling) |
Interdisciplinary studies in the modern deep sea: Are we there yet? Dr Robert Turnewitsch(SAMS) |
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Society and Seaweed, can sustainable aquaculture meet the challenges of food security, climate change and the energy gap, or are we asking too much? Dr Adam Hughes (SAMS) |
Open discussion (25 mins) | |
| Open discussion (15 mins) |
3.45-4.30 Coffee with E-poster session 2
| Screen 1 | Screen 2 | Screen 3 | Screen 4 | Screen 5 | Screen 6 | Screen 7 | |
| 3.55-4.10 | Joanna Wilson | Nilantha Jayasuriya | Lauren Biermann | Mark Braceland | Fani Lamprianidou | Ian Gardiner |
Joly Ghanawi |
| 4.10-4.25 | Vanessa Trijoulet | Nabiel Salama | Eileen Bresnan | Fiona Ware |
Aiden Hunter |
Anna Kintner |
Thom Linley |
4.30-5.45 MASTS Science Session (Chair: TBC)
- Dr Natalie Hicks (SAMS) Oxygen dynamics of coastal sediments under ocean acidification and elevated temperature regimes
- Dr Angus Cameron (Strathclyde) Dynamic food webs in a changing world: A trait-based modelling approach for describing shifting species composition within functional groups in response to changing temperatures.
- Dr Seb Hennige (Heriot Watt) The Mingulay Coral Reef Complex and Ocean Acidification: from Individuals to Ecosystem.
- Dr David Morris (Strathclyde) Identifying how climate change will impact on fisheries: Global sensitivity analysis of a North Sea ecosystem model.
- Prof Laurence Mee (SAMS): Designer seas: The realities of the Ecosystem Approach.
- Dr Douglas Speirs (Strathclyde) Drivers and controls in trophic cascades.
5.45-6.00 Question time for Science Session
6.00-6.10 Day One Closing Remarks (Prof David Paterson)
6.10-7.30 Networking (Bar will be open)
7.30-late ASM Conference Dinner and Ceilidh
Day 2: Wednesday 28th August 2013
9.00-9.30 Invited Keynote Speaker: Dr David Mills (CEFAS)
9.30-10.30 MASTS Science Session (Chair: Dr Stuart Cunningham).
- Dr Bee Berx (MSS) Is the Transport of Atlantic Water in the Faroe Shetland Channel changing? – A summary of 20 years of observations.
- Yi Ming Lai (Strathclyde) Nutrient Budget for Loch Linnhe.
- Dr Sarah Hughes (MSS) New observations in the East Shetland Atlantic Inflow,
seasonal patterns of variability in transport from the North Atlantic to the North Sea. - Dr John Howe (SAMS) The bathymetry and geomorphology of the Firth of Lorn – the
INIS Hydro survey. - Ina Lefering (Strathclyde) Quantitative absorption determination for natural waters and
associated measurement uncertainties
10.30-10.45 Question time for Science Session
10.45-11.30 Coffee, Networking opportunities & E-poster session 3
| Screen 1 | Screen 2 | Screen 3 | Screen 4 | Screen 5 | Screen 6 | Screen 7 | |
| 11.10-11.25 | Armin Sturm |
Chris McCaig |
Maria Quaggiotto | Brian Quinn |
Vanessa Trijoulet | John Soje |
Murray Roberts |
11.30-1.15 Special Sessions
| Auditorium | Carnegie B Room |
Carnegie A Room |
| Interdisciplinary insights into coastal zone management | Numerical Hydrodynamic Modelling | Biofouling and renewable energy structure – is there really an issue? |
| Session Champion: Prof Nick Hanley (Coastal Zone Forum Convenor) |
Session Champion: Prof David Dritschel (Dynamics & Properties of Marine Steering Group Member) | Session Champion: Dr Michele Stanley(Marine Energy Forum and Sustainable Aquaculture Forum Steering Group Member) |
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Identifying & Valuing Cultural Ecosystem Services: An Application to Marine Food Webs. Corinne Baulcomb (SRUC) |
A new computational framework for the accurate modelling of tracer advection. Prof David Dritschel (St Andrews) |
The sticky problem of biofouling on renewable energy structures? Dr Michele Stanley (SAMS) |
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Coastal erosion in Scotland: Susceptibility and Vulnerability. James Fitton (Glasgow) |
Lagrangian perspectives on an energetic tidal system – using drifters to validate a hdrodynamic model. Dr Andrew Dale(SAMS) |
Environmental characteristics will shape off-shore biofouling communities: Are there any engineering concerns? Adrian MacLeod (SRSL) |
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Developing and Testing Approaches for Marine Spatial Planning: the case of aquaculture. Lauren McWhinnie (Heriot Watt) |
Uncertainties in the evaluation of wave energy resources using a modeling approach. Dr Philippe Gleizon(ERI) |
Larval dispersal and population connectivity: implications for offshore renewable energy structures. Raeanne Miller (SAMS) |
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New Approaches to Biodiversity Conservation: Opportunities and Challenges. Prof Colin Reid (Dundee) |
A nested 3D hydrodynamic model of Mingulay Reef Complex. Dr Juan Moreno Navas (Heriot Watt) |
Benthic productivity on artificial structures and marine renewable energy devices. Sally Rouse (SAMS and HW) |
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Open discussion (20 mins) |
Study of the Clyde Sea Tidal Circulation using FVCOM. Alessandro Sabatino (Strathclyde) |
Biofouling and renewable energy structures: is there really an issue?: Lessons from the mussel-farming industry. Dr Tom Wilding (SAMS) |
| Open discussion (25 mins) | Open discussion (25 mins) |
1.15-2.15 Buffet Lunch and Networking opportunities
2.15-3.15 MASTS Science Session (Chair: Dr Karen Diele).
- Toyonobu Fujii (Aberdeen) Spatial and temporal variation in utilisation of an obsolete offshore platform by fishes in the North Sea.
- Dr Amaya Albalat (Stirling/Glasgow) Unravelling the physiological impact of
trawling on Norway lobsters (Nephrops norvegicus): From vigour index to shot-gut proteomics. - Dr Paul Fernandes (Aberdeen) Reversal of fish stock decline in the North East Atlantic.
- Prof Mike Heath (Strathclyde) Ecosystem consequences of a ban on fishery discards.
- Dr Farhan R. Khan (Heriot Watt) A biodynamic modelling approach to determining the
bioavailability of the metal constituents of nanoparticles to an estuarine snail.
3.15-3.30 Question time for Science Session
3.30-4.30 Coffee with E-poster session 4
| Screen 1 | Screen 2 | Screen 3 | Screen 4 | Screen 5 | Screen 6 | Screen 7 | |
| 3.40-3.55 |
Heather Ritchie |
Haydn Thompson |
Enrico Pirotta | Hassien Alnashiri | Anica Beuerbach | Angela Boag |
Kirsty Brown |
| 3.55-4.10 | Lilian Lieber | Robert Wilson | Nienke van Geel | Catherine Mitchell | Iain Hannah | Tony Gutierrez | Penelope Donohue |
| 4.10-4.25 | Charlotte Hopkins |
Barbara Harvie |
Timothy Stojanovic | Susan Gallon | Mark Inall | Christina Kelly | Marta M-Silva |
4.30-5.45 MASTS Science Session
- Carole Shellcock (SAMS) Gene regulation linked to neutral lipid production in
the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. - Silje-Kristin Jensen (St Andrews) Spatial and temporal exposure of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) to toxins from harmful algae in Scotland.
- Prof Frithjof Kuepper (Aberdeen) Iodide in kelp: an inorganic antioxidant in life impacting atmospheric chemistry.
- Virginia Echavarri (Heriot Watt) Effects of silver nanoparticles on the functioning of estuarine bacterial communities.
- Dr David McKee (Strathclyde) Impact of measurement uncertainties on determination of chlorophyll-specific absorption coefficient for marine phytoplankton.
- Majed Al-Shaeri (Heriot Watt) Ecotoxicological implications of the interactions between single-walled carbon nanotubes with metals.
5.45-6.00 Question time for Science Session
6.00-6.15 Conference Closing Remarks & Prize Giving (Prof David Paterson)
6.30-7.30 Networking (Bar will be open)
Day 3: Thursday 29th August 2013
This third day of the MASTS ASM is for associated meetings, seminars, training sessions and workshops.
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Carnegie A |
10-12noon: Aquatic Food security – Scotland’s role for a global market |
12.30pm-4.30pm: Role of genomics in aquaculture development |
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Carnegie B |
9am-12.30pm: Marine predators and high energy environments: challenges and solutions to understanding behaviour and ecology | 1.30-4.30pm: Remotely Piloted Aircraft Platforms for Marine Research: Past Successes and Future Plans. |
| Wardlaw |
9.30am-4pm: Micro-plastic litter in the marine |
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Bruce A |
9am-12.30pm: Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of marine connectivity and its applications to MPA network design and fisheries management |
1.30-4.30pm: Researching Scottish Elasmobranchs – Opportunity for a combined approach? |
| Auditorium |
10am-4pm: To remove or not to remove? The challenge posed |
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