Wednesday 16th May
- 1200 - 1330 Arrival registration and lunch
- 1330 - 1345 Prof. Laurence Mee: Welcome to SAMS
- 1345 - 1415 Dr Paul Tett: Introduction to Sea Loch Systems
Microbial Processes (Chair: Dr Keith Davidson, SAMS)
- 1415 - 1450 Robin Raine (Keynote speaker): Harmful algal blooms in fjords and coastal bays
- 1450 - 1515 Elisa Capuzzo: Development and application of simple models for deriving annual primary production of Northern Irish sea loughs
- 1515 - 1535 Coffee
- 1535 - 1600 Lisa Eckford-Soper: The dynamics of toxic and non toxic strains of the harmful dinoflagellate Alexandrium tamarense from Scottish Waters
- 1600 - 1635 Prof Yoshihiro Shiraiwa (Invited Speaker): Mechanisms for photosynthetic carbon fixation and metabolisms toward lipid biosynthesis and intracellular calcification by coccolithophorids
- 1635 - 1700 Eileen Bresnan: Seasonality and composition of the plankton community in Loch Ewe, a sea loch on the west coast of Scotland
- 1700 - 1725 Richard Gowen/Paul Tett: Nutrient enrichment and harmful algal blooms: Do hydrodynamic processes matter?
Thursday 17th May
Microbial Processes continued
- 0900 - 0925 Greg Moschonas: The Phytoplankton Community on the West Coast of Scotland: A Detailed Analysis for Loch Creran and the Lynn of Lorne, with an Introduction to the Role of Dissolved Organic Nitrogen.
- 0925 - 0950 Paul Tett: Changes in the microplankton of Loch Creran
Ecology, Ecosystem and Benthic Studies (Chair: Prof Martin Wilkinson, Heriot-Watt University)
- 0950 - 1015 Heidi Burdett: Seasonal cycling of DMSP in a Scottish maerl bed
- 1015 - 1040 Mike Burrows: Wave fetch, tidal flow, and ocean colour as influences on subtidal rock communities
- 1040 - 1105 Matt Gubbins: The recovery of dogwhelk populations in Sullom Voe from the effects of tri-butyl tin antifouling paints
- 1105 - 1120 Coffee
Palaeoceanography (Chair: Prof Axel Miller, SAMS)
- 1120 - 1145 Bill Austin: Scottish sealochs as sediment archives of climate change
- 1145 - 1210 Georgina King: Optically stimulated luminescence dating of late-Holocene marine sediments from Loch Sunart, Scotland, UK
- 1210 - 1235 John Howe: Submarine geomorphology and glacial history of the Sea of the Hebrides, UK
- 1235 - 1345 Lunch and Poster Session and/or
- 1235 - 1345 ECSA AGM (all members welcome - in Sir John Murray Building Room 1&2)
Physical Processes: Observations and Modelling (Chair: Prof Mark Inall, SAMS)
- 1345- 1410 Mark Inall: A Box Model of the Seasonal Exchange and Mixing in Regions of Restricted Exchange: Application to Two Contrasting Scottish Inlets
- 1410 - 1435 Andy Dale: Fresh bores in Loch Linnhe
- 1435 - 1500 Matt Toberman: Horizontal evolution of tidally modulated buoyant plumes as observed with an AUV based microstructure profiler
- 1500 - 1520 Coffee
Management Policy and Communities (Chair: Dr Branka Valcic, SAMS)
- 1520 - 1545 Jane Dodd: The Scottish Marine Protected Areas project and sea lochs
- 1545 - 1610 Laurence Mee: A Decision Space Analysis for rational governance of marine systems
- 1610 - 1640 Donald McLusky: Where is the Clyde estuary?
- 1640 - 1700 Networking at posters
1900 Thursday evening: Conference dinner at The Waterfront Restaurant in Oban
Friday 18th May
- 0905 - 0925 Iain Ridgway: Environmental and biomedical applications of long lived bivalves
Aquaculture and the Environment (Chair: Prof Axel Miller, SAMS)
- 0930 - 0955 Tom Wilding: Changes in the benthos associated with mussel farming on the west-coast of Scotland
- 0955 - 1020 Berit Rabe: Modelling sea lice dispersal in Loch Linnhe
- 1020 - 1040 Coffee
- 1040 - 1105 Trevor Telfer: Modelling the potential for and limitations to expansion of IMTA at Scottish salmon farms: Development of production and visual impact models
- 1105 - 1130 Michele Stanley: Does seaweed have a role in aquaculture?
- 1130 - 1155 Matt Gubbins: Mytilus trossulus in Loch Etive: Control and management of a nuisance aquaculture species in a Scottish sea loch
- 1155 - 1205 Axel Miller (ECSA) Farewell and close of meeting
- 1205 Lunch and depart
