Topic 6 Symposium 2026

Sep 30, 2026, 9:00 AM → Oct 1, 2026, 4:15 PM Europe/Berlin

8A-002 - Hörsaal Ostufer / Lecture Hall East (GEOMAR - Standort Ostufer / GEOMAR - East Shore)

Anja Engel, Frauke Pescheck, Beate Slaby (GEOMAR)

Topic 6 symposium

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Wed, September 30

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Arrival and registration: Topic 6 Symposium 2026

Foyer

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Welcome: Anja Engel and Katja Matthes

Convener: Anja Engel

10:30 AM → 11:30 AM Marine Ecosystem Futures: Biodiversity & Society: Part I

Convener: Meren (HIFMB)

10:30 AM From customary tenure to capital: connecting ocean, water and fisher peoples’ territorial struggles to global production networks, land politics and agrarian change

Speaker: Paula Satizábal (HIFMB)

10:45 AM For oblique engagement with tipping points: diversifying perspectives for governing a changing Earth

Speaker: Cameron Byron (HIFMB)

11:00 AM Antarctic soundscapes

Speaker: Ilse van Opzeeland (AWI)

11:15 AM Microbial seasonal succession in the Arctic surface ocean: a dance on a tightrope

Speaker: Xi Chen (HIFMB)

11:30 AM → 12:00 PM Coffee

12:00 PM → 1:00 PM Adaptation in Marine Organisms: Part I

10 + 5 min talks

Convener: Sylke Wohlrab (AWI)

12:00 PM Patterns of epigenetic variation in Caribbean reef-building corals

Speaker: Kim de Luca (HIFMB)

12:15 PM Synteny-aware microbial pangenomes reveal blueprints of genomic variation

Speaker: Alexander Henoch (HIFMB)

12:30 PM Biochemical Capacities and Limits of Benthic Marine Invertebrates in the Arctic

Speaker: Reinhard Saborowski (AWI)

12:45 PM Unravelling deep pelagic predator prey interactions: a multi census approach

Speaker: Henk-Jan Hoving (GEOMAR)

1:00 PM → 1:15 PM Group picture

1:15 PM → 2:15 PM Lunch

2:15 PM → 3:15 PM Marine Carbon & Element Cycles Ahead: Part I

10 + 5 min talks

Convener: Tom Browning (GEOMAR)

2:15 PM Biologically processed carbon drives the annual marine carbon sink over centuries after CO2 emissions cease

Speaker: Wolfgang Koeve (GEOMAR)

2:30 PM Global patterns of particle size-depth distribution in the mesopelagic

Speaker: Bianca Thobor (GEOMAR)

2:45 PM Cold storage: Efficient trapping of iron in Greenland’s fjords

Speaker: Yaqing Ruan (GEOMAR)

3:00 PM Microbial metalloenzymes shape biogeochemical nutrient cycles

Speaker: Viktoria Steck (GEOMAR)

3:15 PM → 3:45 PM Flash talks for posters: Part I

25 x 1 minute

3:45 PM → 5:15 PM Poster Session: Part I

with coffee

5:15 PM → 6:15 PM Ocean Pressures & Policy: Part I

10 + 5 min talks

Convener: Lars Gutow (AWI)

5:15 PM Impacts of MSP in the German EEZ

Speaker: Maysa Ito (GEOMAR)

5:30 PM Deep sea mining, sediment plume and impact on benthic megafauna

Speaker: Iason Gazis (GEOMAR)

5:45 PM Overview of EU Projects about Marine Munition

Speaker: Jens Greinert (GEOMAR)

6:00 PM Munition in the Sea. Status from different European perspectives

Speaker: Daniela Henkel (GEOMAR)

6:15 PM → 8:15 PM Symposium dinner buffet-style

Thu, October 1

9:00 AM → 9:45 AM Marine Ecosystem Futures: Biodiversity & Society: Part II

Convener: Meren (HIFMB)

9:00 AM Long-Term Satellite Observations (1998–2025) Reveal Changing Phytoplankton Community Structure and Phenology in the Fram Strait

Speaker: Hongyan Xi (AWI)

9:15 AM SEAKEY - a new identification key for the seaweeds of the German coasts

Speaker: Svenja Heesch (GEOMAR)

9:30 AM New findings on the CAO ecosystem and implications for policy and management

Speaker: Hauke Flores (AWI)

9:45 AM → 10:15 AM Flash talks for posters: Part II

25 x 1 minute

10:15 AM → 11:30 AM Poster Session: Part II

with coffee

11:30 AM → 12:15 PM Adaptation in Marine Organisms: Part II

10 + 5 min talks

Convener: Daniela Storch (AWI)

11:30 AM Heat adaptation of Fucus meadows from molecules to ecosystems

Speaker: Daniela Liesner (GEOMAR)

11:45 AM Results overview from the MOSAiC Ecosystem Team

Speaker: Clara Hoppe (AWI)

12:00 PM Functional Motifs in Food Webs and Networks

Speaker: Melanie Habermann (HIFMB)

12:15 PM → 1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM → 1:45 PM Marine Carbon & Element Cycles Ahead: Part II

10 + 5 min talks

Convener: Tom Browning (GEOMAR)

1:00 PM Leveraging metagenomic data for genome-resolved inference of microbial metabolic interactions at scale

Speaker: Iva Veseli (HIFMB)

1:15 PM Seasonality and Mineral Type Shape Phytoplankton Responses to Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement in Temperate Waters - A Mesocosm Study

Speaker: Juliane Tammen (GEOMAR)

1:30 PM When microbes meet rocks: microbial responses to enhanced benthic weathering in coastal sediments

Speaker: Stefanie Böhnke-Brandt (GEOMAR)

1:45 PM → 2:15 PM Coffee

2:15 PM → 3:00 PM Ocean Pressures & Policy: Part II

10 + 5 min talks

Convener: Gunnar Gerdts (AWI)

2:15 PM Light pollution can influence growth in macroalgae and epiphytes

Speaker: Mark Lenz (GEOMAR)

2:30 PM Studies on the effects of (micro)plastics and alternative materials

Speaker: Lars Gutow (AWI)

2:45 PM AI MareExplore: Utilizing AI for marine enzyme discovery to address human-made grand challenges

Speaker: Erik Borchert (GEOMAR)

3:00 PM → 3:45 PM From Topic 6 to Topic C

3:45 PM → 4:00 PM Wrap-up and Farewell

Convener: Anja Engel