Meeting Photos [2009-11-16]

Meeting Programme-Final Version [2009-10-11]

Meeting Abstract-Final Version [2009-10-11]

The GEOHAB Programme, endorsed by SCOR and IOC of UNESCO, is an international programme aimed at fostering and promoting co-operative researches in marine and brackish waters directed toward improving the prediction of harmful algal bloom events.

The GEOHAB Scientific Goal is to improve prediction of HABs by determining the ecological and oceanographic mechanisms underlying their population dynamics, integrating biological, chemical, and physical studies supported by enhanced observation and modelling systems.

The GEOHAB Mission is to foster international co-operative research on HABs in ecosystem types sharing common features, comparing the key species involved and the oceanographic processes that influence their population dynamics. Eutrophication is recognized as one of the factors contributing to the increasing proliferation of harmful algal blooms in coastal areas worldwide. After the first Open Science Meeting on “HABs in eutrophic systems” held in Baltimore in 2005, the second OSM meeting is designed to bring experts together from around the world to review the state-of-the-art knowledge on eutrophication and HABs, and to take steps in designing the next phase researches to address this critical global issue.