2020 ESSAS Annual Science Meeting - Linking past and present marine ecosystems to inform future fisheries and aquaculture

IMBeR´s ESSAS Regional Programme will hold its 2020 Annual Science Meeting at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan from 1–3 June 2020

ESSAS´s goal is to compare, quantify and predict the impact of climate variability on the productivity and sustainability of Subarctic and Arctic marine ecosystems. The theme of the 2020 meeting is Linking past and present marine ecosystems to inform future fisheries and aquaculture. This builds on a Belmont Forum-funded project that examined the resilience and adaptive capacity of Arctic and Subarctic marine systems, and aims to gain greater understanding of the mechanisms by which climate change will affect aquaculture and capture fisheries, how these changes will affect resource-dependent communities, and how management can foster resilience in these systems.

Registration and abstract submission are now open. We invite you to submit abstracts that address these themes to help inform our understanding of future changes affecting fisheries and aquaculture in high-latitude marine ecosystems. We welcome contributions from a diverse fields, including paleoecology, contemporary ecology and the social sciences. In an effort to reduce our carbon footprint, we will also accept presentations delivered via a video conference system if you cannot come to Sapporo.

There is an optional excursion to the “UPOPOY National Ainu Museum and Park” on 5 June. If you would like to go, please sign up for it when you register.

Deadline for abstract submission: 7 February, 2020

Deadline for online registration: 30 April 2020

Registration fee: Students: 2,500 JPY for students, Others: 5,000 JPY

More information and registration and abstract submission at: ESSAS ASM