Workshops

5th T-MOSAiC Workshop
Microbiomes/Oxygen/Biogeochemical Processes Workshop
Salon 71, Le Hotel 71, 71 Rue St-Pierre, Quebec City, Canada
August 28th - 09:00h

Final Program

Overall aims: to introduce key members of two T-MOSAiC Action Groups; to introduce some of the field sites, concepts, measurements and opportunities for 2020; to discuss activities relative to T-MOSAiC system-level themes and hypotheses

9h00: (Salon 71, Hotel 71, Quebec City): Welcome & Introduction
9h05: T-MOSAiC Action Groups – João Canário (University of Lisbon, Portugal) & Warwick Vincent (Laval University, Canada)
9h15: Biofilm-mat insights from Antarctica – Dale Andersen (SETI Institute, USA)
9h30: Arctic Microbiomes: Opportunities for T-MOSAiC – Anne Jungblut (Natural History Museum, UK; lead chair, Arctic Microbiomes AG)
9h45: Discussion
10h:00: Coffee
10h15: Cryobank opportunities – Roger Bull (Canadian Museum of Nature)
10h30: Cultures – Biofilm-forming & planktonic cyanobacteria - Sylvia Bonilla (ULaval & Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay)
10h40: Cultures – Northern bacterial isolates – Anna Poli (CNR, Italy).
10h50: Implications of the new Tree of Life – Adrien Vigneron (ULaval)
11h00-11h40 (New York/Montreal time) ZOOM
link: https://zoom.us/j/859870657
Meeting ID: 859 870 657
11h00: Ice microbiomes – Birgit Sattler (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
11h10: The polar microbiome database – Alison Murray et al. (Desert Research Institute, USA)
11h20: Cape Bounty Watershed Observatory: Hydrosystems from land to water in the High Arctic – Scott Lamoureux (Queen’s University, Canada)
11h40: Microbial diversity in Arctic siberian ponds and implications for C turnover – Alizée Le Moigne (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
11h50: Permafrost lake viruses – Valérie Langlois (ULaval)
11h55: Carbon and metal processing – Jérôme Comte (INRS, Québec) & João Canário (University of Lisbon)
12h05: Metal studies in northern waters – Martin Pilote (ECC, Canada)

12h15: Lunch

13h15: T-MOSAiC Land-Water Processes Action Group - Warwick Vincent (ULaval) on behalf of Jasmine Saros (University of Maine, USA).
13h20: Cambridge Bay Aquatic Ecosystems 2020 – Milla Rautio (UQAC)
13h25: Bylot Island Aquatic Ecosystems 2020 – Isabelle Laurion (INRS)
13h30: Stuckberry Valley Lake Series 2020 – Dermot Antoniades (ULaval)
13h35: Ward Hunt Lake and vicinity 2020 – Warwick Vincent (ULaval)
13h40: Toolik Lake oxygen-hydrodynamics studies 2020 – Robert Schwefel (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
13h45: Discussion
14h00: (New York/Montreal time) ZOOM
Link: https://zoom.us/j/724385563
Meeting ID: 724 385 563
14h00: T-MOSAiC, Land-Water Processes & Western Greenland – Jasmine Saros (University of Maine, USA; lead chair, Land-Water Processes AG)
14h10: Introduction to oxygen modeling – Raoul Couture (ULaval) & Rachel Pilla (Miami University, USA)
14h20: Hydrodynamic processes relevant to oxygen modeling– Sally MacIntyre (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
14h30: Lake ice and limnology across Alaska – Christopher Arp (University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA).
14h40: Permafrost hydrosystems – Peel Plateau in the Western Canadian Arctic – Suzanne Tank (University of Alberta, Canada)
14h50: Discussion
15h00: Coffee
15h15: The Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring Program (GEM) & Arctic Gas Fluxes Action Group – Marie Frost Arndal (Aarhus University, Denmark)
15h25: Discussion about AG activities.