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Trench Connection: International Symposium on the Deepest Environment on Earth
| Registration Free! All is welcome! Abstract deadline extend one more month, to September 20, 2010. |
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| date: | 10th November 2010 to 13th November 2010 |
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Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba 277-8564, JAPAN The Nippon Foundation 1-2-2 Akasaka, Minato-ku Tokyo 107-8404, JAPAN |
In association with the Japan-UK HADEEP (Hadal Environmental Science/Education Program) Project funded by the Nippon Foundation, Japan.
The hadal zone is comprised primarily of ocean trenches and represents the deepest marine habitat on Earth (6000-10,000m) accounting for the bottom 45% of the total ocean depth range. The trenches exhibit a unique deep-sea setting characterised by extreme pressures, complex topography and disjunctive geographic isolation, where diverse and enigmatic assemblages of fauna are known to inhabit. As a result of the technical challenges associated with extreme hydrostatic pressure and remoteness from the surface, the hadal trenches remain the most poorly understood marine environments. Whilst many national and international campaigns are in place to catalogue marine species and understand marine ecosystems, the hadal zone is almost always overlooked. Marine policy and conservation efforts rely heavily on knowledge of ecosystem function and thus the roles of biodiversity, hydrology and geology therein. Despite being perhaps the most remote environment from our own, the faunal communities are not exempt to human perturbation and effects of a changing climate. Our current lack of understanding prohibits any possibility of applying effective long-term management or policy to these deep ecosystems. Modern marine science is no longer limited by the technological challenges of the past and now has the opportunity to explore and investigate the deepest parts of the ocean as we have the shallowest.
This symposium aims to bring together, for the first time, the international scientific community to present and discuss our current understanding of trench environments and provide opportunities to meet and identify future opportunities. This event is not exclusive to those already working in hadal science but is open to anyone who wishes to do so or have a vested interest in any relevant issues (e.g. technology, physical/biological processes, conservation/management strategies, etc) which shed light on the broader role of hadal trenches.