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

Session: End-to-End food webs: background, concepts and issues
(Chair: Mike Roman / Rapporteur: Bob Cowen)

Bridging gaps by weavingmarine food webs from end to end

Complexity, Food Web Theory and Marine Ecosystem Models: Recognising and Embracing Complexity

Mike St John

12:30-13:30

Lunch Buffet

13:30-14:00

Spatial and temporal operation of food webs: scales of interaction in oceanic ecosystems

Eugene Murphy

Reconciling Concepts in Biological Oceanography In the Context of End-to-End Trophic Webs

Dian Gifford

14:00-14:15

E2E workshop plenary discussion: What is an end-to-end food web?

Session: Key issues in end-to-end food web analyses
(Chair: Coleen Moloney / Rapporteur: Astrid Jarre)

14:15-16:00

Breakaway sessions: What are the key issues to consider in E2E food web analyses? (groups of 3-5 people to prepare one slide)

16:00-16:30

Coffee Break

Day 2 - Tuesday Nov. 11, 2008

8:30-10:30

Session: End-to-End operation of regional ecosystems
(Chair: Michio Kishi / Rapporteur: Mike St John)

Synthesis of Southern Ocean Food Webs

Eileen Hofmann

Effects of climate-driven changes on North-Central Adriatic food webs:an End-to-End approach

Simone Libralato

Ecological Control of Subtropical Nutrient Concentrations

Stephanie Dutkiewicz

End-to-end controls in the Black Sea A coupled plankton-anchovy population dynamics model of the Black Sea

Baris Salihoglu

E2E workshop Plenary discussion - Common features and major differences in regional food webs

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-12:30

Session: Modelling approaches to develop end-to-end food web analysis
(Chair: Jing Zhang / Rapporteur: Eugene Murphy)

NEMO-PISCES-APECOSM (NPA), an integrated numerical model for studying 3D coupling betwen circulation, biogeochemistry and ecosystems

Olivier Maury

Applications of the NEMURO.FISH model

Michio Kishi

Integration of physical, biogeochemical, and ecological processes in food-web end-to-end models

Cosimo Solidoro
(speaker: Simone Libralato)

Qualitative ways to approach complex problems in marine ecosystems

Astrid Jarre

E2E workshop plenary discussion - Modelling approaches for end-to-end food web: difficulties and way forward

12:30-13:30

Lunch Buffet

13:30-17:00

Session: Field programmes, observations and experimentation for end-to-end food web analyses
(Chair: Olivier Maury / Rapporteur: Roger Harris)

Trophic Cascades, Omnivory and Ecological Stoichiometry

Hans Dam

Zooplankton studies in the context of E2E objectives

François Carlotti

Response of ocean phytoplankton ecology to climate change over the 21st Century

Irina Marinov

E2E workshop Plenary discussion - How might end-to-end food web approaches be incorporated into field programmes, observations and experiments?

Breakaway sessions - Recommendations for linking biogeochemsitry and food webs: the way forward in models, experiments and field programmes

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

13:30-14:30

E2E workshop plenary discussion - Report-backs and discussion from the breakaway groups

E2E workshop plenary discussion - Linking biogeochemistry and food webs: the way forward in models, experiments and field programs.

16:30-17:00

E2E workshop break out session for synthesis / writing

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

Mesopelagic workshop Final Report

Bathypelagic workshop Final Report

Closing IMBIZO

Julie Hall

12:30-13:30

Lunch Buffet