AGELESS workshop – Blue Ocean Biodiversity

“Human-made climate change is not confined by national borders. The open ocean, which, for the most part, lies beyond national jurisdiction, is just as severely impacted by climate change as are nationally regulated coastal waters.”

Goal: Leveraging long-term planktonic diversity data to develop a framework to assess and protect biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction

Therefore:

  • An interdisciplinary workshop in Erlangen as part of work package 4 within the AGELESS project.
  • A multidisciplinary scientific workshop in order to transfer the paleontological patterns to the current blue ocean problem.

The workshop is intended to bring together the staff of the AGELESS consortium with external experts and to achieve a maximum of know-how. Experts from the established BioDeepTime consortium and other experts will be brought together with the AGELESS working groups, whereby AGELESS is particularly looking for expertise on the large paleo-plankton databases and on time series analyses.

The objectives of the workshop are:

  1. the creation of a common knowledge base and language;
  2. team building within AGELESS;
  3. further development of the further development of the range of methods for bridging time scales for biodiversity changes and;
  4. strategies to translate the results into climate-smart in climate-smart marine protected areas.

Participating BioDeepTime 1 & 2 members: Wolfgang Kiessling and Adam Kocsis (FAU), Marina Costa Rillo (Oldenburg / FAU), Pincelli Hull (Yale, USA), Adam Tomasovych (Bratislava, SK), Lukas Jonkers (Bremen)

AGELESS is funded by the BMFTR (former BMBF) and a joined initiative by: