Dear Colleagues,
I invite you to please consider submitting and presenting a poster summarizing your research in areas related to one of my three sessions shown below at the upcoming ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, 26-31 March 2025 in Charlotte, NC (#ASLO25). The abstract submission deadline is Midnight, Central Standard Time (USA) (11:59 pm) on 21 October 2024 (05:59 Greenwich Mean Time). Although this deadline is soon, only a very brief (maximum character count of 1600 including spaces) abstract need be submitted before this deadline. The final poster need not be developed until the time of the conference. Please note that my sessions consider all aquatic systems, including oceans, seas, coastlines, lakes, rivers, estuaries, and groundwater.
Full details can be found at Registration and abstract submission open for the 2025 Aquatic Sciences Meeting - ASLO.
My sessions are:
SS04 - Examining the associations between the blue economy and aquatic ecosystem health
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UN ECA) defines the blue economy as "the sustainable use and conservation of aquatic resources in both marine and freshwater environments. This includes oceans and seas, coastlines and banks, lakes, rivers and groundwater." Recognizing that the deep interconnections among all water systems make it impossible to draw clear dividing lines between lake, river, estuary, and ocean environments, this session adopts this more inclusive definition of the blue economy. The goal of this session is to integrate theories, methods, and perspectives from economics, policy studies, and the aquatic sciences to provide new insights about the blue economy. This session aims to include but is not limited to studies of the interrelationships between past, present, or future states of aquatic ecosystems and blue economy activities, regulations, and policies.
SS05 - Interdisciplinary approaches that consider the social and psychological dimensions of taking the pulse of our aquatic systems
Reflecting upon and making decisions about how today's actions will manifest in tomorrow's environmental outcomes involves social and psychological processes. The goal of this session is to integrate theories, methods, and perspectives from the social sciences in the study of the health of aquatic ecosystems. For example, data are collected, analyzed, and interpreted through lenses that are shaped by social and psychological processes, which also influence decision making. This session aims to include but is not limited to studies about how assessments and decision making related to past, present, or future states of aquatic ecosystems are shaped by implicit theories and biases, perceptions, beliefs, values, attitudes, personality, group behavior, social and personal norms, behavioral intentions, environmental history perspectives, environmental sociology and justice theories, media, ethics, or aesthetics.
SS03 - Evaluating the linkages among corporate water risk assessments and disclosures and financial, social, and natural system outcomes
The mutual dependencies between societies and the corporations embedded therein have driven increasing attention to water-related corporate risks (e.g., risks to assets, supply chains, regulations, insurance, and reputations with diverse stakeholders). The goal of this session is to integrate perspectives from aquatic sciences, business, finance, policy studies, and other disciplines that support the ecosystem of ESG "environmental" data stakeholders to improve understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of existing tools and metrics used to assess and disclose information related to corporate water risks. This session aims to include but is not limited to studies of the extent to which existing datasets and models of past, present, or future states of aquatic ecosystems are already or might in the future be useful in quantifying corporate water risks or the extent to which there are needs for the development of new datasets and models and what those new datasets and models might look like.
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Kurt Wurthmann Ph.D., M.ASCE
Port Saint Lucie FL
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