Hot Topics

We are interested as much in the process (how to model a given issue?) and challenges (what can models aspire to?) as the results (what are the predicted impacts?).

Improving models
• Revisiting the physiological basis of microbial models
• Missing models, what are the gaps (mixotrophy, benthos, meso-pelagic)
• Addressing biodiversity based functionality and resilience
• Consequences of behavioural responses

New approaches
• Adaptive models – spatial and evolutionary responses
• Parameterising complexity in large scale models

Linking trophic levels, biomes and concepts
• Coast to Ocean, interfacing coastal, shelf and oceanic systems
• Linking physics to fish, approaches for E2E models
• Interfacing with socio-economic models

Prediction
• Challenges for predictive models (operational and climate scales)
• Quantifying local and regional implications of global change
• Synergistic and secondary impacts of multiple environmental changes

Knowledge exchange
• Redesigning observational and experimental approaches from a model perspective
• Understanding model skill and communicating model uncertainty to end users
• Models to inform policy and management

This list is for guidance only and is not meant to be exclusive. All relevant and interesting submissions will be considered.