9:00 - 9:45

Aula Magna left hall

Keynote

Simon ThrushCumulative stressors reduced the self-regulating capacity of coastal ecosystems and increase the risk of crossing tipping points

9:45 - 10:45

Aula Magna left hall

Plenary talks

Helle Ploug: CO2 and inorganic nitrogen fluxes associated to diatoms and cyanobacteria in the Baltic Sea

Emma Undeman: Characterizing the urban chemical mixture: an inventory of micropollutants in wastewater released in the Baltic Sea catchment

Urmas Lips: High-frequency automated observing systems to meet the monitoring and assessment needs in the Baltic Baltic Sea

Charlotte Angove: Plant traits and ecosystem processes in the northern Baltic Sea

10:45 - 11:15

Aula Magna floor 5

Coffee break

11:15 - 12:45

Parallell sessions

Session 1: Change and Impacts of External Forcing
Session 2: Coastal Seascapes and Dynamics
Session 3A: Fluxes and transport

Session 1

Aula Magna left hall

Session chair: Karin Limburg

Elinor Andrén: Paleoecological trends and synchronicity between the open and coastal Baltic Proper

Aikaterini Glykou: Seal exploitation in the Baltic Sea during the mid- and late Holocene

Anne Soerensen: The impact of climate change and other anthropogenic pressures on mercury in the Baltic Sea

Jonas Gunnarsson: Sediment remediation in situ with reactive sorbents, a cost-effective and sustainable technique to counteract polluted sediments in the Baltic Sea

Caroline Raymond: Do benthic community composition and ecological indices respond to contaminant concentrations in sediment?

Kristina Enders: Tracing microplastics in aquatic environments based on sediment analogies

Session 2

Aula Magna right hall

Session chair: Francisco Nascimento

Eva Ehrnsten: Biomass and carbon processing of benthic fauna in response to organic matter supply – a modelling study from the coastal Baltic Sea

Charlotte Berkström: Knowledge gaps in connectivity and ecological coherence of MPA networks in the Baltic Sea

Karine Gagnon: Can co-restoring seagrass and bivalves increase restoration success and revitalise coastal biodiversity and ecosystem services

Johanna Gammal: Spatial variability in benthic macrofauna communities and associated ecosystem functions across coastal habitats

Aarno Kotilainen: Threatened habitat types in the Baltic Sea

Lena Kautsky: Monitoring and restoring fucoids in the Baltic Sea – a synthesis and knowledge gaps

Session 3A

De Geer lecture hall

Session chair: Karol Kulinski

Eero Asmala: Accumulation of recalcitrant autochthonous organic matter in eutrophic coastal environment

Erik Gustafsson: Future acidification of the Baltic Sea – a sensitivity study

Martti Honkanen: Diurnal cycle of the carbon dioxide in the Baltic Sea

Erik Jacobs: Enhanced surface concentrations and air-sea fluxes of methane and carbon dioxide in the Baltic Sea caused by coastal upwelling

Nadezhda Berezina: Effect of benthic animals on the phosphorus flux at the sediment-water interface in the eastern Gulf of Finland

Claudia Morys: Trait-based insights in typical bioturbation patterns

12:45 - 14:00

Aula Magna floor 5

Lunch

14:00 - 15:00

Parallell sessions

Session 1: Change and Impacts of External Forcing
Session 2: Coastal Seascapes and Dynamics
Session 3A: Fluxes and transport

Session 1

Aula Magna left hall

Session chair: Emma Undeman

Clare Bradshaw: Effects of bottom trawling on benthic sedimentary processes and seafloor integrity

Max Lindmark: Warming alters the effect of fishing on the size spectra of an exploited temperate food web

Karin Limburg: Through the heads of fishes: Consequences of Baltic Sea hypoxia exposure in cod and flounder revealed by otolith chemistry

Yvette Heimbrand: Canaries in the Baltic Sea “Coal Mine”: Fish earstones indicate changing environment

Session 2

Aula Magna right hall

Session chair: Johan Eklöf

Ingrida Purina: Biological values behind the Ecosystem services

Ida Maria Bonnevie: Assessing synergies and conflicts between marine human activities in close spatial-temporal proximity

Laura Uusitalo: Fuzzy cognitive mapping of Baltic Archipelago Sea food webs reveal no cliqued views of the system structure between stakeholder groups

Elina Kari: Measurements of light transfer through sea ice in the northern Baltic Sea

Session 3A

De Geer lecture hall

Session chair: Markus Meier

Anders Stigebrandt: Prediction of the eutrophication of the Baltic proper in the period 2020–2050

Kevin Vikström: Environmental management of oxygen; a new perspective using baseline respiration as a concept

Per Hall: Particle shuttling and oxidation efficiency of organic carbon – In situ sediment observations in contrasting brackish marine environments

Lucas Porz: Fine-grained sediment dynamics driven by dense bottom currents in the South-West Baltic Sea: Combination of oceanographic and geological data with numerical modelling

15:00 - 15:30

Aula Magna floor 5

Coffee break

15:30 - 16:30

Parallell sessions

Session 1: Change and Impacts of External Forcing
Session 2: Coastal Seascapes and Dynamics
Session 3B: Baltic Sea Ecosystem Structure and Functioning

Session 1

Aula Magna left hall

Session chair: Michelle McCrackin

Linda Kumblad & Emil Rydin: Regaining good ecological status in a eutrophied coastal bay of the Baltic Sea

Guillaume Vigouroux: Dominant hydro-climatic effects on eutrophication management efficiency in a Swedish coastal bay

Nils Hedberg: Mussel farming – a measure against eutrophication in the Baltic Sea?

Bärbel Müller-Karulis: Legacy nutrients in the Baltic Sea drainage basin – how long will past inputs affect nutrient loads?

Session 2

Aula Magna right hall

Session chair: Hans Burchard

Elina Miettunen: Evaluating transports and water renewal in the Archipelago Sea

Nadezhda Kudryavtseva: Non-stationary modeling reveals strong connection between extreme water level changes and NAO along the Baltic Sea coast

Nicole Delpeche-Ellmann: Hidden secrets of transverse coastal upwelling jets revealed using a synergy of data in the Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea

Jani Särkkä: Sea level extremes simulated from atmospheric reanalyses in the Baltic Sea

Session 3B

De Geer lecture hall

Session Chair: Monika Winder

Maciej Tomczak: State, structure and regulatory drivers in a Large Marine Ecosystem: the Central Baltic Sea case

Susa Niiranen: Climate change challenges food web stability in the Baltic Sea

Ulf Bergström: Death comes in many shapes - factors regulating populations of coastal predatory fish

Yosr Ammar: Emergence of novelty in the Anthropocene: the Baltic Sea case

18:45 - approx. 21

Stockholm City Hall

Congress dinner

City of Stockholm cordially invites all congress delegates to a reception in the famous City Hall. Starts at 19.00 sharp. Bring your Invitation card (recieved at registration).