With apologies for cross-posting:

Dear colleagues,
we would like to invite you to participate in the mini-symposium on the

CHEMISTRY AT MARINE INTERFACES,
(Submission deadline extended to Monday, July 5, 2010)

which will be held as part of the "Third Biannual International Symposium on The Future Ocean" from Monday, September 13 until Thursday, September 16, 2010 in Kiel, Germany. The conference will include plenary lectures, invited talks, selected oral presentations and poster sessions on surface science, environmental chemistry, and chemical kinetics. Plenary & invited speakers include: Heather C. Allen (Ohio State, US), Barbara d'Anna (CNRS Lyon, France), Franz M. Geiger (Northwestern, US), Roland von Glasow (East Anglia, UK), Michael Grunze (Heidelberg, Germany), Hartmut Herrmann (IfT Leipzig, Germany), Martina Roeselova (Prague, Czech Rep.), Reinhard Zellner (Duisburg-Essen, Germany), and many more from other sessions.

All information is available at: http://www.ozean-der-zukunft.de/symposium/

Registration is open until September 6, 2010. Abstract for talks and/or posters are solicited from experimental as well as numerical modelling or theoretical groups. Submission deadline: Monday, July 5, 2010.

We look forward to receiving your abstracts and seeing you in Kiel in September 2010! Please feel free to forward this invitation to other potentially interested colleagues.

Best regards, the local organizing committee:
Gernot Friedrichs, Friedrich Temps, Doug Wallace

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The sea-surface microlayer consists mostly of organic matter, including surface-active substances such as lipids, glycans, proteinaceous compounds and hydrocarbons and influences the ocean-atmosphere coupling as well as the surface chemistry of sea-borne aqueous aerosols by modulating the physical, chemical and biological processes at the interface. The control over air-sea gas exchange by the microlayer affects radiative forcing and hence climate. Moreover, intense solar irradiation induces unique heterogeneous photochemical transformations. Last but not least, bioadhesion and biofouling constitute additional marine interfacial phenomena that are of major importance for the Future Ocean. Improving our understanding of the underlying processes requires close interaction among experts in a diversity of fields, e.g., surface science, spectroscopy, chemical kinetics, or environmental chemistry, who are invited to an interdisciplinary platform for exchanging latest results and developing novel concepts and ideas. Contributions are solicited from experimental, numerical modelling, and theoretical groups.
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Host: The Kiel Cluster of Excellence "The Future Ocean" - a unique research group in Germany made up of more than 140 scientists from six faculties of the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (CAU), the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR), the Institute for World Economy (IfW) and the Muthesius University of Fine Arts. http://www.ozean-der-zukunft.de/english/

Scientific Steering Committee: Gernot Friedrichs (Kiel, Physical Chemistry), Roland von Glasow (East Anglia, UK, Environmental Sciences), Friedrich Temps (Kiel, Physical Chemistry), Doug Wallace (Kiel, Marine Chemistry), and many more on behalf of the other mini-symposia on "River-mouth Systems", "Recent Breakthroughs in Coral Research", "Sea-level Rise: Past, Present and Future", "The Oceanic CO2 Sink: From the Past into Future", "Tracing Tsunami Impacts On- and Offshore", and "Climate Engineering".

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