The quantitative population ecology of zooplankton with emphasis on zooplankton small - scale distribution and abundance, organic matter transport into the deep - sea, the biology of Gulf Stream Rings, zooplankton associated with deep - sea hydrothermal vents, dynamics of populations on Georges Bank and on the continental shelf
region of the
Western Antarctic Peninsula, acoustical determination of zooplankton biomass, abundance, and size, and the
census of holozooplankton biodiversity in the worlds oceans.
The symposium also heard about the Yawuru Knowledge and Wellbeing Project from the Kimberley
region of
Western Australia, another initiative to emerge from cultural flaws in ABS national
census data.