Monday, October 6, 2008
0800 – 1710 Registration Open
1000 Exhibits Open
0830 opening remarks & Transfer of Speaking Bell - ESA Representative, Paula Bontempi, TOS Representative
Invited talks 1 & 2
Chairperson: TBA
0900 – 0945 Donaghay, Percy - Evolution of Profiling Systems for Understanding the Characteristics, Distributions, Dynamics and Impacts of Thin Plankton Layers in Stratified Waters
0945 – 1030 Hedley, John - Modelling the interaction of light with 3-dimensional structures underwater
10:30-1100 Break
Coastal and Oceanic optical properties
Chairperson: André Morel
1100 – 1120 Bricaud, Annick - A LIGHT ABSORPTION BUDGET FOR SOUTH PACIFIC WATERS
1120 – 1140 Vellucci, Vincenzo - ABSORPTION PROPERTIES OF PARTICULATE MATTER IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA
1140 – 1200 Berthon, Jean-François - ARE THE
1200 – 1220 Dall'Olmo , Giorgio - PARTICULATE BACKSCATTERING AND BEAM-ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS IN THE EQUATORIAL PACIFIC
1220 – 1400 Lunch Break
Coastal and Oceanic optical measurements I
Chairperson: Heidi Sosik
1400 – 1420 Boss, Emmanuel - MASS NORMALIZED OPTICAL PROPERTIES. WHY ARE THEY SO CONSTANT?
1420 – 1440 Gilerson , Alexander - IMPROVED FLUORESCENCE MODELING AND RETRIEVAL IN COASTAL ZONES
1440 – 1500 Craig, Susanne E - THE EFFECTS OF PHYSICAL FORCING ON STIMULATED CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE REVEALS THE INFLUENCE OF OCEAN INTERIOR PROCESSES ON THE QUANTUM YIELD OF SUN-INDUCED CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE
1500 – 1520 Zhang, Xiaodong - RETRIEVE SIZE AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF INDIVIDUAL PARTICLE POPULATIONS FROM THE VOLUME SCATTERING FUNCTION
1520 – 1540 McKee, David - DETERMINING THE ROLE OF MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTIES IN OBSERVED VARIABILITY IN THE BACKSCATTERING RATIO
15:40 – 16:10 Break
Coastal and Oceanic optical measurements II
Chairperson: Barney Balch
1610 – 1630 Roesler, Collin S. - PHYTOPLANKTON DYNAMICS IN THE GULF OF MAINE: SECRETS REVEALED BY SEVEN YEARS OF HOURLY OPTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON A MOORED ARRAY
1630 – 1650 Roettgers, Ruediger - LIGHT ABSORPTION BY NATURAL AQUATIC PARTICLES IN THE NEAR-INFRARED (700 - 900 NM) SPECTRAL REGION
1650 – 1710 Hargreaves, Bruce R. - AN IMPROVED T-R SYSTEM FOR FILTERPAD MEASUREMENT OF PHYTOPLANKTON SPECTRAL ABSORPTION
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Invited talk 3
Chairperson: Marc Bouvet
0830 – 0915 Barciela, Rosa - The use of ocean color data assimilation in global ocean circulation models
Optical Remote Sensing
Chairperson: Curt Davis
0915 – 0935 Arnone, Robert - EXTENDING THE SATELLITE SURFACE OPTICS TO DERIVE THE 3D OPTICAL FIELD BY DEFINING THE UNCERTAINTY OF PHYSICAL OPTICAL RELATIONSHIPS
0935 – 0955 Besiktepe , Sukru Turan - DYNAMICAL INTERPOLATION OF THE OCEAN COLOR IMAGES USING COUPLED PHYSICAL, BIOLOGICAL AND OPTICAL MODEL
0955 - 1015 Fearns, Peter - COMBINING HYPERSPECTRAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE USING PROBABILISTIC METHODS TO PRODUCE SHALLOW WATER HABITAT MAPS
1015 – 1045 Break
Phytoplankton Functional Types
Chairperson: Aurea Ciotti
1045 – 1105 Moulin, Cyril - COMPARISON OF GLOBAL PFT DISTRIBUTIONS OBTAINED WITH VARIOUS EXISTING ALGORITHMS
1105 – 1125 Hirata, Takafumi - OPTICAL APPROACH TO DERIVE PHYTOPLANKTON SIZE CLASSES USING OCEAN COLOUR REMOTE SENSING
1125 – 1145 Devred, Emmanuel - DERIVATION OF PHYTOPLANKTON CELL SIZE FROM OCEAN COLOUR RADIOMETRY: APPLICATION TO MERIS DATA
1145 – 1205 Bracher, Astrid - GLOBAL OBSERVATION OF DIFFERENT PHYTOPLANKTON GROUPS USING PHYTODOAS WITH SCIAMACHY DATA
1205h – 1400h LUNCH
Invited talk 4
Chairperson: Rosalia Santoleri
1400 – 1445 Ribera d’Alcala’, Maurizio - EXPLOITING REMOTE SENSING TO BETTER CONSTRAIN MEDITERRANEAN BIOGEOCHEMICAL DYNAMICS
Primary Productivity I
Chairperson: Robert R. Bidigare
1445 – 1505 Cullen, John - ON THE USE OF OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS TO CONSTRAIN MODELS OF MARINE PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY AND PARTICLE DYNAMICS
1505 – 1525 Hill, Victoria - THE INFLUENCE OF SEA ICE ON ARCTIC OCEAN MARINE PRIMARY PRODUCTION: REGIONAL RESPONSES.
1525 – 1545 Schwarz, Jill - PRIMARY PRODUCTION IN THE SUBTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE: COMPARISON OF IN-SITU MEASUREMENT METHODS AND REMOTE ESTIMATES
1545h - 1615h Break
Primary Productivity II
Chairperson:
1615 – 1635 Lutz, Vivian - VARIABILITY IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF CHLOROPHYLL-A AND PRIMARY PRODUCTION IN THE ARGENTINE SEA USING FIELD AND SATELLITE ESTIMATIONS
1635 – 1655 S- Comeau Adam J. - VARIATIONS OF PHOTOACCLIMATION RELATED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
1655 – 1715 Babin, Marcel - LIGHT-DRIVEN CARBON FLUXES IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN: THE BALANCE BETWEEN PHOTO-OXIDATION AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE
1730h – 1930h Poster Session
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Invited Talks 5 & 6
Chairperson: Heidi Dierssen
0830 – 0915 Watson, John - Underwater Holography and its Application to Monitoring of Marine Organisms
0915 – 1000 Cummings, Molly - SENSORY ECOLOGY OF KELP FOREST FISHES OR (WHAT CAN WE LEARN ABOUT VISUAL DETECTION BY STUDYING EVOLUTION)
1000-1030 Break
New Techniques
Chairperson: Charles Mazel
1030 – 1050 Chowdhary, Jacek - MATCHING THE TOTAL AND POLARIZED WATERLEAVING RADIANCE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MULTIANGLE AND MULTISPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING MEASUREMENT CAPABILITIES OF THE 2009 NASA/GLORY MISSION
1050 – 1110 Harmel, Tristan - EXPLOITATION OF MULTIANGULAR AND POLARIMETRIC REMOTELY SENSED DATA FROM SPACE FOR OCEAN COLOR RETRIEVAL IN OPEN OCEAN WATERS
1110 – 1130 Stamnes, Knut - OPTIMIZATION OF
1130 – 1150 Schoonmaker, Jon - MARINE MAMMAL OBSERVATIONS USING MULTI-CHANNEL IMAGING SYSTEM
1150 – 1210 Agrawal, Yogi - LISST-BACK OBSERVATIONS OF NEAR-PI SCATTERING: STUDIES ON CONTRAST BETWEEN MONO-DISPERSE SPHERES AND RANDOM SHAPED GRAINS
1210 – 1400 Lunch Break
Coastal Optical Measurements I
Chairperson:
1400 – 1420 Doxaran, David P. - SPECTRAL VARIATIONS OF PARTICULATE LIGHT SCATTERING IN COASTAL WATERS, FROM THE VISIBLE TO THE NEAR-INFRARED
1420 – 1440 Doron, Maéva - SPECTRAL VARIATIONS IN THE
1440 – 1500 Cunningham, Alex - OPTICAL EFFECTS OF TIDAL STIRRING IN A SEASONALLY STRATIFIED
1500 – 1520 Milligan, Timothy G. - SEDIMENT, STRESS, AND THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF A BOTTOM NEPHELOID LAYER
1520 – 1550 Break
Coastal Optical Measurements II
Chairperson: Arnold Dekker
1550 – 1610 Schroeder, Thomas - REMOTE SENSING OF APPARENT AND INHERENT OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF TASMANIAN COASTAL WATERS: APPLICATION TO MODIS DATA
1610 – 1630 Brown, Ian C. - ESTIMATING SHELF SEAWATER COMPOSITION BY INVERSION OF AC9 INHERENT OPTICAL PROPERTY MEASUREMENTS
1630 – 1650 Brando, Vittorio E. - SATELLITE RETRIEVAL OF CHLOROPHYLL CDOM AND NAP IN OPTICALLY COMPLEX WATERS USING A SEMI-ANALYTICAL INVERSION BASED ON SPECIFIC INHERENT OPTICAL PROPERTIES. A CASE STUDY FOR
1650 – 1710 Heege, Thomas - RETRIEVAL OF WATER CONSTITUENTS FROM MULTIPLE EARTH OBSERVATION SENSORS IN THE
1710 – 1730 Clementson, Lesley A. - VARIABILITY IN THE LIGHT ABSORPTION CHARACTERISTICS OF TWO CONTRASTING AUSTRALIAN COASTAL REGIONS
1730h - 1900h Poster Session
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Bio-optics and Biogeochemistry I
Chairperson: TBA
0830 – 1850 Behrenfeld, Michael - GLOBAL ANALYSIS OF PHYTOPLANKTON PHYSIOLOGY USING SATELLITE CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE
1850 – 1910 Maritorena, Stéphane - THE GSM BIO-OPTICAL MODEL: ACHIEVEMENTS AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
1910 – 1930 D'Ortenzio, Fabrizio - SEASONALITY OF SURFACE CHLOROPHYLL CONCENTRATION: A PROXY TO CHARACTERIZE PHYTOPLANKTON TROPHIC REGIMES
1930 – 1950 Martinez, Elodie - COVARIABILITY OF CHLOROPHYLL AND SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE AT GLOBAL AND DECADAL SCALES
0950 – 1020 Break
Bio-optics and Biogeochemistry II
Chairperson: Amanda Whitmire
1020 – 1040 Duforet-Gaurier, Lucile - LONG-TERM GLOBAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE PARTICULATE BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENT AND PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE GLOBPHY PROJECT
1040 – 1100 Brown, Catherine - SECOND ORDER VARIABILITY IN SATELLITE OCEAN COLOR: THE ROLE OF NON-ALGAL MATTER AND BACKSCATTERING
1100 – 1120 Watson, Gregg - IMPROVING OCEAN COLOR DATA PRODUCTS USING A PURELY EMPIRICAL APPROACH: REDUCING THE REQUIREMENT FOR RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION ACCURACY
1120 – 1140 Brajard, Julien - ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION OF MERIS DATA OVER CASE 2 WATERS
1140 1200 Hamre, Børge - FAST AND ACCURATE RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOL AND MARINE PARAMETERS FOR COASTAL WATERS
1200h – 1330h Lunch Break
Bio-optics and Biogeochemistry III
Chairperson: Carlos Del Castillo
1330 – 1350 Wang, Menghua - DETECTION OF ICE AND ICE-WATER MIXING PIXELS FOR THE MODIS OCEAN COLOR DATA PROCESSING
1350 – 1410 Koponen, Sampsa - DEVELOPMENT OF MERIS LAKE WATER ALGORITHMS: VALIDATION RESULTS
1410 – 1430 Melin, Frederic - THE COMPARISON OF NORMALIZED WATER LEAVING RADIANCES FROM SEAWIFS AND MODIS CONTRIBUTES TO DEFINING THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF THEIR UNCERTAINTIES.
1430 – 1450 Moore, Timothy: BLENDING DISCRETE BIO-OPTICAL ALGORITHMS - A UNIFIED APPROACH TOWARDS REDUCING ERROR IN CHLOROPHYLL RETRIEVALS
1450 – 1510 Ruddick, Kevin - REMOTE SENSING OF SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER IN TURBID WATERS: STATE OF THE ART AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES
1510 – 1530 Dowell, Mark - THE IDENTIFICATION OF OPTICALLY DISTINCT WATER TYPES AT GLOBAL AND REGIONAL SCALES: IMPLICATIONS FOR ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION
1530 – 1730 Poster Session
1900 – 2200 Awards Banquet
2030 Introduction of Guest Speaker - Marlon Lewis - Guest Dinner Speaker: Charles Falco
Friday, October 10, 2008
Invited Talks 7 & 8
Chairperson: Ronald Zaneveld
0830 – 0915 Højerslev, Niels Kristian - Wet marine optics in the past before NIMBUS-7/CZCS 1978 – a historical review
0915 – 1000 Claustre, Hervé - BIO-OPTICAL PROFILING FLOATS AND GLIDERS AS NEW OBSERVATIONAL TOOLS
State of the Art and Before
Chairperson: Victor S. Kuwahara
1000 – 1020 Wernand, Marcel - DIAPHANOUS: OR DAYS OF FLY FISHING IN A SHORT CONVERSATION. WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE HABITS OF WHITE SUBMERSIBLE OBJECT OPERATORS BELONGING TO THE GENUS CAPTAIN OR SCIENTIST
1020 – 1040 Trees, Charles C. - EVALUATION OF A SUBMERGED REMOTE SENSING (SRS) TECHNIQUE
1040-1110 Break
Observational Systems
Chairperson: Eleanora Zege
1110 – 1130 Lavender, Samantha - GLOBCOLOUR: A EUROPEAN SERVICE FOR OCEAN COLOUR SUPPORTING GLOBAL CARBON-CYCLE RESEARCH AND OPERATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY.
1130 – 1150 Eleveld, Marieke A. - ASSIMILATION OF REMOTELY SENSED OBSERVATIONS IN A SEDIMENT TRANSPORT MODEL
1150 – 1210 Perry, Mary Jane - OPTICAL OBSERVATIONS OF LARGE DIATOMS AND SINKING PARTICLES DURING THE NORTH ATLANTIC SPRING BLOOM MADE FROM SEAGLIDERS, FLOATS, AND A SHIP
1210 – 1230 Werdell, Jeremy - REMOTE SENSING OF INHERENT OPTICAL PROPERTIES: UNCERTAINTIES AND SATELLITE APPLICATIONS (RESULTS FROM A WORKSHOP, 3-4 OCT 2008, BARGA, ITALY)
1230 - 1400 Closing remarks
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