Postponement of the main symposium
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the ‘Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces’ (GTWS) conference Local Organising and Science Committees have decided to:
- Hold a half day (~ 3 hours), online ‘Bite-size GTWS science event’ on the 19th May, 2021.
- Delay the full ‘in person’ symposium until May 2022 (options of joining remotely will also be made available).
"Bite-size" online event
Wednesday 19 May 2021
13:00 - 16:00 BST
This will be free of charge. Those who previously registered for the GTWS symposium will automatically be sent the programme and link. New participants are also very welcome to take part but will be required to register (for free) via Eventbrite.
The bite-size event will feature:
Flagship presentation by Bernd Jähne (University of Heidelberg) - From Lab to Field – A Novel Approach to Unravel the Mysteries of Air-Sea Gas Exchange.
Presentation about the UNESCO/UN carbon roadmap and opportunities by Rik Wanninkhof (US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
4 ‘Taster Talks’ from the 2022 Keynotes:
- Lucy Carpenter (University of York) - The role of chemistry in air-sea fluxes
- Christa Marandino (GEOMAR, Kiel) - Gas transfer in the open oceans
- Sally McIntyre (University of California) - Freshwater gas exchange: from reservoirs to flooded forests, from the Amazon to the Arctic
- David Woolf (Heriot Watt University) - The peculiar characteristics of air-water gas transfer across a broken surface
Early Career Speakers:
- Sophia Brumer (Ifremer, France)
- Lucía Gutiérrez-Loza (Uppsala University, Sweden)
An opportunity to mingle online with other attendees.
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Postponed 2021 main GTWS symposium (now taking place in May 2022)
The main 8th International Symposium was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and is now scheduled to take place at Plymouth Marine Laboratory in 2022.
If you have already paid for your registration, we are able to transfer this to the 2022 symposium. All existing student registrations will be honoured (including where attendees have completed their studies before May 2022). We will keep on record all the abstracts that have been submitted previously, and authors will also be able to update or replace their original submissions if they so choose.
If you need to recover your registration fee, or wish to contact the Local Organising Committee for further questions, please email GTWS2020@pml.ac.uk.
About the main GTWS symposium
The Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces (GTWS) meeting occurs every 5 years and brings together approximately 150 scientists from countries all over the world. This topic is globally-important - the most widely-known example of air-water gas transfer is the ocean’s uptake of ~30% of the atmospheric carbon dioxide resulting from fossil fuel burning. The ocean’s absorption of carbon dioxide has slowed the impact of anthropogenic climate change, but is also causing ocean acidification and negatively impacting the marine ecosystem.
Plymouth is a global centre of excellence for the marine sector, with a cluster of specialist marine businesses linked to a strong advanced manufacturing sector and world-class research expertise.
The focus is on the physicochemical and biogeochemical processes that govern atmosphere-water gas exchange and fluxes, which include turbulence, shear, breaking waves, bubbles and natural and anthropogenic surfactants. Biological and chemical processes within the microlayer can also impact on gas fluxes. Many of these mechanisms also govern the exchange of heat and momentum and thus the conference is attended by many in the community studying a wide range of processes that occur across gas-water boundaries or within the near-surface layers close to those boundaries. The scope of the conference covers all domains where atmosphere and water meet, which include but are not limited to, fresh water, estuarine, mountain, glacial, marine (coastal and open ocean) and polar regions.
Topics include: field observations, laboratory and numerical studies, near-surface processes, biological effects including surfactants, the micro-layer, remote sensing, global scale processes and many more.
Contact
For any enquiries relating to this event please email: GTWS2020@pml.ac.uk or call Plymouth Marine Laboratory on +44 (0)1752 633 100
Event administrator
Geri Browne
Science Support Administrator
Plymouth Marine Laboratory