COFFEE
9.30-9.40 Markku Viitasalo (Finnish Institute of Marine Research): Opening of the seminar
Chair: Jonna Engström-Öst
9.40-10.30 Bas Ibelings (The Netherlands Institute of Ecology): “On squash balls and scums: the problems with blue-green algae”
10.30-10.50 Harri Kankaanpää (Finnish Institute of Marine Research): ”State-of-the-art and current gaps in Baltic cyanobacteria / cyanotoxin research"
10.50-11.10 Pauliina Uronen (Finnish Environment Institute): “DSP toxins in Baltic Dinophysis”
LUNCH
Chair: Eveliina Lindén
12.30-12.50 Cecilia Lundberg (Åbo Akademi University): “Eutrophication patterns in the Baltic Sea seen from small to large scale perspectives”
12.50-13.10 Marko Reinikainen (Tvärminne Zoological Station, University of Helsinki): “Possible implications of changing nutrient regimes in the Baltic Sea for the spring phytoplankton bloom and copepod production”
13.10-13.30 Marja Järvenpää (University of Helsinki): "Everybody can get lucky when mating in fog - the sand goby mating system breaks down under algal turbidity"
13.30-13.50 Marja Koski (Danish Fisheries Research Institute): “Aggregate colonization and degradation by pelagic harpacticoids”
COFFEE
Chair: Maiju Lehtiniemi
14.20-14.40 Elena Gorokhova (Stockholm University): “A combined methodological approach to understand trophic interactions between Cercopagis pengoi and zooplanktivores”
14.40-15.00 Ari Laine (Finnish Institute of Marine Research): “Macrozoobenthos long-term change in the northern Baltic Sea: influence of invasive species introduction”
The seminar will be held on the Kumpula University Campus at the Finnish Institute of Marine Research, in Auditorium Aura, Dynamicum (address: Erik Palménin aukio 1, 00561 Helsinki).
Please register your participation to Marja Stenius (marja.stenius@fimr.fi) by latest on January 19.
