| Session Details | |
| Section | BG - Biogeosciences |
| Session Title | Physical and Biogeochemical Processes in the East Asian Marginal Seas |
| Main Convener | Prof. Jing Zhang (University of Toyama, Japan) |
| Co-convener(s) | Prof. Takeshi Matsuno (Kyushu University, Japan) Prof. Joji Ishizaka (Nagoya University, Japan) Dr. Jae Hak Lee (Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Korea, South) Prof. Meixun Zhao (Ocean University of China, China) Prof. Selvaraj Kandasamy (State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, China) Dr. S. W. A. Naqvi (National Institute of Oceanography, India) Prof. Kyung-Hoon Shin (Hanyang University, Korea, South) Dr. Dalin Shi (Xiamen University, China) Dr. Punyasloke Bhadury (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, India) |
| Session Description | There is a pressing need to understand mechanisms of biogeochemical and physical forcing on marine ecosystems in order to protect the marine ecosystems in the marginal seas of East Asia. Accomplishing this requires inter alia understanding the details of the relation between the biological productivity-community structure and various nutrient sources/transport processes across the shelf. Further, marginal seas such as the East China Sea (ECS) and the Yellow Sea (YS) are also important in biogeochemical studies because they provide a pathway for material transport between land and open ocean, in addition to their own sources and sinks and associated fluxes along this pathway. This session will provide an interdisciplinary forum to discuss current broad scientific inquiries on physical and biogeochemical processes and ecosystems covering the East Asian Marginal Seas, particularly the ECS and the YS connecting to the western North Pacific. Abstracts should focus on process studies and modeling, covering topics such as formation processes and behavior of hypoxic and nutrient-rich water; spatial and temporal variations in the primary production-community structure such as mechanism and formation of sub-surface chlorophyll maxima; possible origins of nutrients/micronutrients in the subsurface water from shelf edge to the outer shelf; turbulent mixing processes controlling vertical structure of various components, etc. We expect this session to facilitate joint-investigations and cooperation of the Asian regional marine biogeochemical and ocean/environmental sciences community. |