Tentative SCHEDULE Subject to change updates
Tuesday 10 Wednesday 11 Thursday 12
Tuesday 10lenary
8:00-9:00 Registration
9:00-09:15 Welcome and introduction
09:15-09:45 Keynote Ocean Circulation and Climate: Prof Sabrina Speich (ENS, France) and Prof Martin
Visbeck (Geomar, Germany)
09:45-10:15 Keynote The Ocean Observation Physics and Climate panel Bernadette Sloyan (CSIRO, Australia)
10:15-10:45 Invited Agulhas Current, recent advances by Dr Marjolaine Krug (DEFF, South Africa)
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-11:45 Invited Benguela Current, recent advances by Dr Jenny Veitch (SAEON, South Africa).
11:45-12:15 Invited The South Madagascar Upwelling by Dr Juliano Dany Ramanantsoa (Madagascar, NTC)
12:15-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-14:00 Plankton variability around southern Africa by Dr Tarron Lamont (DEFF, South Africa)
14:00-1430 Keynote Operational Oceanography. Dr Pierre Bahurel (Mercator, France)
14:30-1530 Session 1 Ocean, weather and climate, science to the service of society. Convenor: Prof Johnny
Johannessen (NERSC, Norway) and Dr Bjorn Backeberg (NTC, South Africa)
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Session 1 (continued)
17:00-17:30 Discussion/round table on Operational Oceanography in Southern Africa: the way forward.
18:00-19:30 Ice Breaker , Welcome drinks
WEDNESDAY 11
08:30-9:00 Coffee
08:30-09:00 Keynote The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
(2021-2030) by Prof Peter Haugen (IMR, Norway)
09:00-09:30 Scientific Highlights of the Nansen Tutu Center by Bjorn Backeberg and Mathieu Rouault
09:30-10:30 Session 2: Regional Oceanography: Angola Benguela Agulhas Current system and sources
region: Tropical Atlantic, Mozambique Channel and Madagascar Currents
Convenors : Prof Juliet Hermes (SAEON, South Africa), Prof Joke Lübbecke (Geomar,
Germany), Dr Pierrick Penven (IRD, France)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Session 2 (continued)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:45 ATLANTOS and related international programs: round table and presentations. Animated by
Prof Martin Visbeck (Geomar, Germany)
14:45-15:30 Session 3 Marine ecosystem and carbon cycle: change, variability and management
Convenors: Dr Annette Samuelsen (IMR, Norway), Prof Peter Hagen, IMR, Norway, Dr
Tarron Lamont (DEFF, South Africa)
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Session 3 (continued)
17:00-18:00 Poster session
19:30 Conference Banquet
THURSDAY 12
08:30-09:00 Coffee
08:30-09:00 Keynote Ocean Atmosphere Interaction by Prof Noel Keenlyside (UiB, Norway) and Dr Arielle Stela
Imbol Njouado (GEOMAR, Cameroon)
09:00-09:30 Keynote Benguela Nino by Prof Joke Lübbecke (GEOMAR, Germany) and Dr Rodrigue Anicet Imbol
Koungue (GEOMAR, Cameroon)
09:30-10:30 Session 4: Climate variability, weather phenomenon and ocean atmosphere interactions .
Convenors: Prof Babadunde Abiodun (UCT, South Africa), Prof Mathieu Rouault (NTC,
South Africa South Africa, Prof Nils Gunnar Kvamstø (UiB, Norway).
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:15 Session 4 (continued)
12:15-1230 Group photo
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30 Session 5 Southern Ocean, Prince Edwards Islands and Antarctic
Convenor: Prof Isabelle Ansorge (UCT, South Africa)
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:30 Prize giving and final address
1630: 1730 Round table on the way forward.