[Aqualist] Fw: AMSA conference abstracts due 4th March [SEC=OFFICIAL]

[Mardi Mcneil]

Dear colleagues (with apologies for cross-posting),



I would like to draw your attention to a seabed mapping symposium at the 2022 AMSA (Aust. Marine Science Assn.) conference being held in Cairns from August 7-1, and invite you and your collaborators to submit an abstract.

Members of AusSeabed and RPS Australia are co-hosting a session titled “Multi-disciplinary approaches to monitor change and connections through seafloor mapping”



https://www.amsa2022.amsa.asn.au/conference-symposia



If you or your colleagues are involved in any aspect of seabed mapping, technologies, or data (from any discipline) we encourage you to submit an abstract. The conference theme is Change and Connections, and we especially welcome submissions from traditional owners with connections to sea country and practitioners working on cultural heritage submerged landscapes.



https://www.amsa2022.amsa.asn.au/abstracts DEADLINE 4th MARCH



Multi-disciplinary approaches to monitor change and connections through seafloor mapping

Measuring change in marine systems is a challenge when the majority of Australia’s EEZ remains unmapped at high resolution, and the baseline data from which to measure change remains limited. Recent seafloor mapping progress has been achieved through initiatives for collaboration and co-ordination, but there is a need for improved coverage, resolution, and integration of different benthic mapping approaches and perspectives to develop outputs relevant to a wide range of practitioners and stakeholders.



This session invites contributions on any aspect of seafloor mapping using a range of approaches, technologies, uses and limitations on any temporal or spatial scale. Including but not limited to:

·         Habitat mapping on anthropogenic and ecological time scales (e.g., monitoring change and connectivity in benthic communities; changes in geomorphology);

·         Longer-term processes on geological time scales (e.g., coastal evolution, sea level and climate change, shelf and off-shelf connections, tectonics and biogeography);

·         Challenges and solutions to optimise mapping through interpretation of multi-disciplinary data at varying spatial scales and levels of data density;

·         Application of seafloor data and technologies to connect groups such as traditional owners, tourism, citizen science, fisheries, councils, engineering and ports.



We especially welcome contributions led by, or in collaboration with, traditional owners and sea rangers that highlight indigenous perspectives of mapping, cultural connections to sea country through saltwater songlines, or describe sites of submerged archaeology.



It's shaping up to be a really interesting session with an exciting Keynote planned, and we look forward to your involvement. Please circulate to your networks.



Warm regards,
Mardi



Dr Mardi McNeil (she/her)
Marine Geoscientist | Marine and Antarctic Geoscience Section
National Earth & Marine Observations Branch | Place, Space and Communities Division

GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA

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