Registration open: XIth International Larval Biology Symposium, Honolulu, HI

Registration for the XIth International Larval Biology Symposium, Aug. 10-13 in Honolulu, Hawaii, is now open!   Please see www.larvalbiology2017.org to register, reserve a room at the conference hotel, and preview program and symposium information. 

Register by June 1 to receive a reduced early registration fee.  The deadline for talk or poster submission is June 15. We hope to see you in August! 

Posted on May 17, 2017 .

Neuheimer Lab @ ASLO 2017 Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI

Posted on February 26, 2017 .

31st Wakefield Symposium on high-latitude fish and fisheries, Anchorage, AK

The 31st Wakefield Symposium on the Impacts of a Changing Environment on the Dynamics of High-latitude Fish and Fisheries is now accepting abstracts.  The symposium will be held from 9-12 May 2017 in Anchorage, Alaska.

Symposium topic areas are:

  • Environmental impacts on subarctic and arctic ecosystems: species-specific responses
  • Environmental impacts on subarctic and arctic ecosystems: community structure, biodiversity, energy flow, and trophodynamics
  • Physiological effects of ocean acidification, oxygen limitation, and temperature stress on high-latitude fish and shellfish
  • Incorporating environmental effects and accounting for changing life history traits in the assessment and management of fish populations
  • Evaluating management strategies under projected environmental changes
  • Coping with environmental variability and climate change: perspectives from coastal communities

More info on session descriptions and invited speakers is available here.  Hope to see you in Anchorage in May!

Posted on November 15, 2016 .

Submit an abstract: 2017 ASLO Meeting - Bridging the eco-evolutionary gap

We invite you to submit an abstract to 

Session 044 - Bridging the eco-evolutionary gap: Plastic and adaptive responses to climate change

at the 2017 ASLO Aquatic Science Meeting in Honolulu (Hawaii; 26 Feb – 03 Mar).

Abstracts are due 14 October 2016.  

Here's a description of the session:

Climate change is affecting ecological processes and biogeochemical cycles of marine environments. Species respond to climate change through both phenotypic plasticity and microevolutionary adaptations. For example, across many trophic levels, species quickly respond to change is by shifting their distribution in space (e.g. population distribution) or time (e.g. reproductive events). However, there are limits to these types of responses, imposed by the presence of the limiting requirements of different critical stages in a species? life history. These limitations are linked to a species? life history strategy, with further response of the species beyond this point moving from phenotypic plasticity to genetic adaptation. There is unfortunately a chasm between phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary adaptations in the literature of marine species response to climate change. In this session we invite studies on species? response to environmental change, using both niche-based (e.g., climate-envelope models) and genetic (e.g., evolutionary models) approaches. Through this theme session we intend to develop awareness among scientists and build capacity to merge these two realities by including more evolutionary thinking in niche-based approaches and more ecological thinking in studies of species evolutionary processes. This understanding is necessary as we develop models to project species adaptability to future climate scenarios.

Posted on October 10, 2016 .

Neuheimer Lab MSc defence - Congrats Chantel!

On 15 July 2016, lab member Chantel Chang successfully defended her Oceanography MSc thesis entitled "The Influence of Biophysical Factors on the Connectivity of Holoplanktonic Copepods".  It was a wonderful celebration of all Chantel's hard work and excellent contributions to our lab and department.  Congratulations Chantel!

Before! - photo by J. Wong-Ala

Before! - photo by J. Wong-Ala

Thesis cake! - Photo by J. Wong-Ala

Thesis cake! - Photo by J. Wong-Ala

Jenn & Chantel, MSc - photo by J. Wong-Ala

Jenn & Chantel, MSc - photo by J. Wong-Ala

Anna & Chantel, MSc.

Anna & Chantel, MSc.

Posted on July 17, 2016 .

New Article: Adult and offspring size in the ocean data paper

Our data paper, Adult and offspring size in the ocean: A database of size metrics and conversion factors, is posted as an Accepted Article over at Ecology.  The database contains adult and offspring size estimates (and associated conversion factors) for marine species covering >17 orders of magnitude in body mass.  The work is a collaboration with the Centre for Ocean Life and accompanies our papers:

Andersen, K.H., T. Berge, R.J. Gonçalves, M. Hartvig, J. Heuschele, S. Hylander, N.S. Jacobsen, C. Lindemann, E.A. Martens, A.B. Neuheimer*, K. Olsson, A. Palacz, F. Prowe, J. Sainmont, S.J. Traving, A.W. Visser, N. Wadhwa, and T. Kiørboe. 2016. Characteristic Sizes of Life in the Oceans, from Bacteria to Whales. Annual Review of Marine Science. 8:3.1-3.25. (pdf)

Neuheimer, A.B.*, M. Hartvig, J. Heuschele, S. Hylander, T. Kiørboe, K.H. Olsson, J. Sainmont, and K.H. Andersen. 2015. Adult and offspring size in the ocean over 17 orders of magnitude follows two life history strategies. Ecology 96:3303–3311. (link, pdf)




Posted on March 10, 2016 .