Advances in Antarctic Marine Biology Symposium

该项目将资助参与者参加一个名为“南极海洋生物学进展”的国家研讨会并发表演讲，该研讨会将审查该领域当前和未来的研究方向。这个全天的、全社会范围的研讨会定于2010年1月3日至7日在华盛顿西雅图举行的综合与比较生物学学会（SICB）会议上举行。演讲者将涵盖广泛的主题，强调前沿科学，新技术和未来方向。专题领域将包括，除其他外，最近气候变化对南极海洋多个营养水平的巨大生态影响，海洋无脊椎动物（包括幼虫）和鱼类冷适应的分子和生理方面的进展，化学生态学在构建南极半岛近岸海洋底栖生物群落中的作用，基于新分子方法对海洋无脊椎动物生物地理学和系统发育的新认识。以及使用最近设计的仪器来阐明南极海洋哺乳动物的觅食栖息地。这项提议的更广泛影响还包括在国际期刊《综合与比较生物学》上发表本次研讨会的会议记录。这些论文将为那些对极地海洋生物学进展感兴趣的人提供重要和及时的参考资料。预计此次研讨会将引起广泛的兴趣，预计将有大约1500名与会者参加2010年SICB会议。

The project will support travel for participants to attend and give presentations at a national symposium entitled Advances in Antarctic Marine Biology that will review current and future directions of research in the field. This full day, society-wide symposium is scheduled to take place at the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) meetings on January 3-7, 2010 in Seattle, Washington. The speakers will cover a broad spectrum of topics that emphasize cutting edge science, novel techniques, and future directions. Topical areas will include, among others, the recent dramatic ecological impacts of climate changes across multiple trophic levels in Antarctic seas, advances in molecular and physiological aspects of cold adaptation in marine invertebrates (including larvae) and fish, the role of chemical ecology in structuring nearshore marine benthic communities of the Antarctic Peninsula, new understanding of marine invertebrate biogeography and phylogenetics based on novel molecular approaches, and the use of recently engineered instrumentation to elucidate foraging habitats of Antarctic marine mammals. The broader impacts of this proposal also include publication of the proceedings of this symposium in the international journal Integrative and Comparative Biology. These papers will provide an important and timely reference source for those interested in advances in polar marine biology. The symposium is anticipated to be of broad interest and among the most well attended by the approximately 1500 participants anticipated to attend the 2010 SICB meetings.