Next Wednesday, June 1 at 11:00 a.m. at ECIMAT, David Wethey and Sarah Woodin, doctors and professors from the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina, will present the conference entitled “Forecasting and hindcasting clam mortality in Galicia“.
Both speakers have a long history of studying climate change and its effects on the abundance, distribution, population dynamics and behavior of marine organisms, research funded by NASA and the US National Science Foundation.
The conference will focus on the research work that David Wethey and Sarah Woodin have been carrying out over the last few years in collaboration with Elsa Vázquez and Celia Olabarría from the Coastal Ecology group at the University of Vigo under the MARISCO project (“Scallop banks in Galicia: risk prevention caused by extreme events on commercially important species”). This project combines field and laboratory experiments with meteorological and oceanographic models from Meteogalicia in order to predict the mortality and sublethal effects of low salinity events and heat waves on commercial clam populations in the shellfish banks of Galicia. The project is supported by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (State R&D&I Program Oriented to the Challenges of Society) and the collaboration of the Universities of Santiago de Compostela and A Coruña, the University of South Carolina, the Ministry of the Sea and three confraternities of the province -Redondela, Bueu and Cambados-.
This talk is part of the 6th edition of the Café con Sal Program (see full program), so like every day there will be time for questions and debates and coffee and snacks for all attendees.
See David Wethey and Sarah Woodin presentation poster.
We are waiting for you at ECIMAT.
