Fried egg jellyfish swarms - photo by Alan Deidun
The 5th International Jellyfish Bloom Symposium, the largest global aggregation of experts on jellyfish and other gelatinous plankton, was held between 30 May and 3 June at the Barcelona Aquarium, Spain, seeing the participation of almost two hundred contributors hailing from all the world’s continents.
Topics covered at the Symposium ranged from the drivers of jellyfish blooms worldwide, to their mitigation and monitoring, as well as to the potential utilisation of jellyfish biomass for different uses (food resource, as a source of bioactive compounds), the issue of alien jellyfish species and the fine-tuning of citizen science campaigns involving jellyfish species.
The 5th International Jellyfish Bloom Symposium, the largest global aggregation of experts on jellyfish and other gelatinous plankton, was held between 30 May and 3 June at the Barcelona Aquarium, Spain, seeing the participation of almost two hundred contributors hailing from all the world’s continents.
Topics covered at the Symposium ranged from the drivers of jellyfish blooms worldwide, to their mitigation and monitoring, as well as to the potential utilisation of jellyfish biomass for different uses (food resource, as a source of bioactive compounds), the issue of alien jellyfish species and the fine-tuning of citizen science campaigns involving jellyfish species.
Prof. Alan Deidun, from the Department of Geosciences, coordinator of the Spot the Jellyfish campaign, participated actively in the Symposium, delivering two presentations on the jellyfish dispersion model and on the population dynamics and genetics of the Mediterranean box jellyfish (Carybdea marsupialis), and acting as co-author on a total of eight abstracts presented at the same Symposium. Selected papers presented at the same Symposium will be published in the coming months in a special edition of a peer-reviewed journal.
Further information about the Symposium can be gleaned from www.jellyfishbloom2016.com.