Welcome to the annual meeting in the Norwegian Association of Marine Scientists (NHF)!
Venue: Solstrand Hotell, Os utanfor Bergen
Dates: 22-24 November 2021
Practical information:
Upload your oral presentation in this form: https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=11663182 – select your presentation and upload your file, one day in advance. Make sure the presentation fits the 12 minutes time slot and allow time for questions (3 min).
Posters must be in the A1 or A0 format. We have no print service, so bring the printed poster.
How to get there: Use the Skyss web page or app to find the best route to Osøyro, Bjørnafjorden. From the airport: Take the tram to Nestun, change to bus 600 to Osøyro. From Bergen bus station, bus number 600 leaves every 10 or 15 minutes to Osøyro. From the bus station in Osøyro, there is a nice 1,5 km walk along the sea to the hotel, passing by Steinneset and Solstrandsfjøra.
Link to collection of songs – Norsk havforskerforening
Program Havforskermøtet 2021:
Link to all abstracts: https://www.havforsk.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/all_abstracts_NHF_2021-2.pdf
Links to case documents and annual report for the annual meeting:
https://www.havforsk.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Arsmelding-NHF-2020.docx
https://www.havforsk.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Sakliste-arsmote-NHF-2021.docx
| Monday 22 | |
| 1700 1800 | Annual meeting Norsk havforskerforening. (In Norwegian) Opening discussion: Models or data – how do we best see the ocean? Morten D. Skogen (HI): Are models better than observations? Tom Langbehn (UiB): Models and observations combined Moderator: Anders F Opdal, UiB |
| 2000 | Dinner |
| Tuesday 23 | |
| 0900 | Observation technology in modern ocean science. What is state of the art in ocean observation technology? What news do technology bring to the table about organisms in the ocean? Tonje Sørdalen (Universitetet i Agder): Monitoring coastal fishes with computer vision Nils Olav Handegard (HI): Observing fish and plankton with acoustics Kasper Hancke – (NIVA): Mapping coastal habitats with drones SeaBee Keno Ferter (HI): Tagging bluefin tuna Moderator: Natalya Gallo, UiB |
| 1045-11 | Break |
| 1100-1300 | Presentations 11:05 Knut Wiik Vollset: Tracking sea trout, cod, wrasse, salmon and sharks around Bergen 11:20 Terje Thorsnes: Mareano på store dyp i Norskehavet 11:35 Yalei Li: Quantifying blue carbon beach deposits using high-resolution UAV imagery 11:50 Hartvig Christie: Benthic mesocosms, a tool to understand complex ecological processes in the coastal zone 12:05 Sünnje L. Basedow: The use of optics and acoustics on gliders and satellites to understand the Lofoten-Vesterålen Marine Ecosystem 12:20 Emilie Hernes Vereide: Impacts of airgun blasts used in seismic surveys on mortality and growth in the copepod Acartia tonsa 12:35 Jonas Thormar: Marine basemaps in the coastal zone – the Fjøløy pilot study of remote sensing-methods for shallow coastal habitat mapping 12:50 Trygve Olav Fossum: Autonom optisk kartlegging av havbunn – Erfaringer fra kartlegging sjav Store Lungegårdsvann |
| 1305-1400 | Lunch |
| 1400-1520 | Presentations 14:05 Anders Frugård Opdal: Behavioural plasticity offset thermal drivers of spawning phenology in cod 14:20 Geir Ottersen: Hva spiser torsken – modellstudier på torskens diett og næringsnettet i Barentshavet 14:35 Marta Moyano: The role of food limitation and increased temperature in the recent recruitment failure of North Sea herring 14:50 Maria Grigoratou: Hot and hungry: a trait-based theoretical approach to the direct and indirect effects of heatwaves on plankton communities. 15:05 Josefin Titelman: Parasite disease in coastal zooplankton. |
| 1530-17 | Poster session The HypOnFjordFish project – effects of oxygen loss on fish in West Norwegian fjords. Anne Gro Vea Salvanes. Temperature tolerance and distribution of the invasive non-indigenous red algae Agarophyton vermiculophyllum in seagrass meadows in Norway. Ingvild Sundal Joys. ScandiFish: A metabarcoding reference database for Scandinavian fish based on MiFish primers. Eivind Stensrud. eDNA as a monitoring tool for the invasive Neogobius melanostomus. Lars Martin Myhre. Deep-sea community responses to deoxygenation and reoxygenation in a western Norwegian fjord. Natalya D. Gallo. A potential laboratory approach to expose animals to pressure drops that occur around a seismic airgun. Karen de Jong. Correlation between underwater light attenuation and dissolved oxygen. Martine Røysted Solås. Validation of a species-specific eDNA-based test system for detecting non-indigenous American lobster Homarus americanus. Maud Ødegaard Sundt |
| 1930 | Dinner |
| Wednesday 24 | |
| 0900 | Genetic methods. What is state-of-the-art in population genetics, genome sequencing, eDNA and metabarcoding? Can we expect a revolution? Torild Johansen (HI) Can we separate populations with genetics? Sissel Jentoft (UiO). Uncovering ecology and evolution of marine fishes using genome sequencing Kim Præbel (UiT) What can eDNA and meta-barkoding tell us? Moderator: Lise Øvreås, UiB |
| 1045-1100 | Break |
| 1100-1300 | Presentations 11:05 Anders Goksøyr: dCOD 1.0: decoding Ocean Health through a systems toxicology approach 11:20 Gaute W. Seljestad: A cleaner break: Genetic divergence between geographic groups and sympatric phenotypes revealed in ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta) 11:35 Knut Sivertsen: Populasjonsdynamikk og livshistorie hos kråkeboller Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis i tareskog og nedbeitede områder langs norskekysten og Svalbard 11:50 Kristina Øie Kvile: The unknown copepod link between kelp forests, the pelagic ecosystem and deep-sea carbon sequestration 12:05 Miriam Brandt: Metabarcode data for marine biomonitoring – bridging the gap between science and management 12:20 Andreas Altenburger: Limits to the cellular control of sequestered cryptophyte prey in the marine ciliate Mesodinium rubrum 12:35 Erwann Legrand: Effect of sea lice chemotherapeutant hydrogen peroxide on the photosynthetic characteristics and bleaching of the coralline alga Lithothamnion soriferum |
| 1300-1400 | Lunch |
| 1400-1500 | Presentations 14:05 Anna Nikolopoulos: Hydrography and circulation in northern Norwegian fjords 14:20 Haakon Hop: The Arctic melt-down with loss of sea ice-associated species 14:35 Setting sail for the future – Statsraad Lehmkuhl’s One Ocean Expedition Katja Enberg |
| 1500 | Programme ends |