Day 1 - Monday Nov. 10, 2008

8:30-8:45

Opening Session / Welcome

Julie Hall

8:45-9:30

Plenary E2E: Ontogenetic vertical migrating copepod Neocalanus: Pivotal role linking the end-to-end food web in the subarctic North Pacific

Hiroaki Saito

Plenary Meso: A Zone of Transition: The Mysteries of the Mesopelagic

Richard Lampitt

10:15-10:45

Coffee Break

10:45-11:30

Plenary Bathy: Linking the Surface Ocean to the Deep Sea: Lessons from Station Aloha

Dave Karl

Introduction to Bathypelagic Workshop
BIOGEOCHEMISTRY SESSION (Chairs: Dan Repeta & Lihini Aluwihare)

Production of bio-refractory fluorescent dissolved organic matter in the deep ocean

Youhei Yamashita

12:30-13:30

Lunch Buffet

13:30-16:00

Export of Dissolved Organic Carbon to Deep Ocean Sinks (seeking to understand DOC in the deep ocean carbon cycle) / Not yet available

Dennis Hansell

An overview of DOM cycling and composition in the deep ocean

Dan Repeta

In Search Of The Radiocarbon Distribution In DOC

Lihini Aluwihare

Marine dissolved organic carbon (DOC) serial-oxidations, radiocarbon, and biogeochemical implications

Steve Beaupré

16:00-16:30

Coffee Break

Ice Breaker

Day 2 - Tuesday Nov. 11, 2008

8:30-10:30

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY SESSION - Continued (Chairs: Dan Repeta & Lihini Aluwihare)

Modeling Processes in the Bathypelagic

Adrian Burd

Marine polymer dynamics and gel formation in seawater

Pedro Verdugo

Eukaryotic microbes of the deep sea

Alexander Bochdansky

Discussion on Biogeochemistry

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-12:30

MICROBIAL DYNAMICS SESSION (Chairs: Toshi Nagata & Doug Bartlett)

Bathypelagic carbon cycling: autotrophy versus heterotrophy of the prokaryotic community in the North Atlantic

Gerhard Herndl

Investigating C and N Metabolism in the Planktonic Microbial Community of the Deep Ocean

Roberta Hansman

Evidence of prokaryotic particle-attached way of life in the dark Atlantic Ocean

Federico Baltar

12:30-13:30

Lunch Buffet

13:30-17:00

Deep-Sea Piezophiles: Insights into the Big Squeeze from Genes and Genomes

Doug Bartlett

Pressure effects on mineralization of the organic matter by prokaryotes in meso- and bathypelagic waters of the Ocean

Christian Tamburini

Large-scale variations in full depth distribution of prokaryotes and viruses in the Central Pacific

Toshi Nagata

Advecting aggregates as potential sources of microbes, hydrolytic enzymes, exopolymers and viruses in the bathypelagic zone

Jody Deming

Full-depth profiles of Microzooplankton along the Central Pacific Ocean (!!!POSTER)

Rumi Sohrin

Relationships in cell abundance between Microbial Producer and Predator in Ocean's Interior

Hideki Fukuda

The neglected role of consumers in the deep sea food web

Serena Fonda Umani

Summarize Microbial Dynamics Discussions

17:00-19:00

Joint Poster Session

Day 3 - Wednesday Nov. 12, 2008

8:30-10:00

Discussion session / Preparation of Plenary Presentations

10:00-10:30

Plenary on Data Integration

Raymond Pollard

Coffee Break

11:00-12:30

Plenary Session: Reports from each workshop

Report from the End-to-End Food Web Working Group

Coleen Moloney

Report from the Mesopelagic Working Group

Report from the Bathypelagic working group: Biogeochemical cycling

Dan Repeta

Report from the Bathypelagic working group: Microbial Dynamics

Doug Bartlett

12:30-13:30

Lunch Buffet

13:30-17:00

Break-out session: Identify Uncertainties and Reserach Urgencies / Map Path Forward / Write-up Results

17:00-19:00

Joint Poster Session

Day 4 - Thursday Nov. 13, 2008

8:30-10:30

Break-out session: Discussions and writing

Coffee Break

11:00-12:30

Final Plenary Session

E2E FW workshop Final Report

Bathypelagic workshop Final Report

Closing IMBIZO

Julie Hall

12:30-13:30

Lunch Buffet