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

Welcome, Introductions, plans for the Mesopelagic Workshop

Debbie Steinberg and Hiroaki Saito

Session 1: Mesopelagic POM/DOM distribution, source material, characterization, flux (Chair: Richard Sempéré)

Dissolved organic matter (DOM) distribution and dynamics in the mesopelagic water column Some points for the discussion

Richard Sempéré

Downward POC Flux through the Mesopelagic Zone and the Contribution of Zooplankton

Juan Carlos Miquel

12:30-13:30

Lunch Buffet

13:30-14:30

Discussion

Session 2: Planktonic Food web controls on vertical export, cycling, and composition of POC and DOC (Chair: Debbie Steinberg)

Planktonic food web controls on vertical export, cycling, and composition of POC and DOC in the mesopelagic zone

Debbie Steinberg

Carbon sequestration and zooplankton lunar cycles: Could we be missing a major component of the biological pump?

Santiago Hernandez-Leon

Discussion

16:00-16:30

Coffee Break

Discussion

Ice breaker

Day 2 - Tuesday Nov. 11, 2008

8:30-10:30

Session 4: Regional comparisons of mesopelagic food web structure and biogeochemistry, response to environmental change (Chair: Hiroaki Saito)

Introduction

Mesopelagic: Can we make regional comparisons? & How will we know if there is change? a “provocative talk”

Ken Buesseler

Regional comparisons of mesopelagic foodweb structure and biogeochemistry, response to environmental change

Bernard Quéguiner

Discussion

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-12:30

Mesopelagic workshop break out session:

Session 5: Ecological and biogeochemical approaches to estimating remineralization rates (Chair: Javier Aristegui)

Ecological and biogeochemical approaches to estimating respiration rates in the dark ocean

Javier Aristegui

Enhanced Respiration in Aquatic Suboxic Zones

Wajih Naqvi

12:30-13:30

Lunch Buffet

13:30-15:00

Session 6: Models (Chair: George Jackson)

Mechanistic models in the mesopelagic

George Jackson

Modelling turnover of organic matter in the mesopelagic zone: From the Martin curve to simple trophic models

Tom Anderson

Discussion

Coffee Break

15:30-17:00

Session 7: Methods, new technologies (Chair: Paul Wassmann)

21st Century Technologies for Mesopelagic Ecology

Bruce Robison

Methods and Technology for Biogeochemical Sampling in the Dark Ocean

Thomas Reinthaler

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

13:30-15:00

What should future mesopelagic zone research programmes look like? (Chairs: Debbie Steinberg and Hiroaki Saito)

15:00-15:30

Coffee Break

Mesopelagic workshop break out session / Synthesis

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