Genomic approaches

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Antarctic Integrated and System Science Workshop
Brad Buckley, Portland State University
Global Climate Change

• Climate Science
• Modeling
• Monitoring

Genomic approaches to organismal biology

• Organismal Biology
• Multi-level studies
• Genomics
• Bioinformatics

• Bioinformatics
• Genomic analyses
• Database management
• Public database deposits

Responses to environmental stress/change

• Ecology
• Food web dynamics
• Habitat degradation
• Migration
• Biogeographic changes

• Oceanography
• Sea ice dynamics
• SST
• Sea floor topography
• Currents

Ecological impact assessments
Policy decisions
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Antarctic Integrated and System Science Workshop
Brad Buckley, Portland State University
Specific recommendations for systems level
studies
1) Using the peninsula LTER as a model, apply
similar approaches to other key taxa. Build
cross-disciplinary understanding of how
climate change will impact organisms, food web
dynamics, and species distributions patterns.
Link climate modeling and oceanography
with the life sciences to inform policy on the
effects of global warming.
2) In keeping with a stated goal of the IPY,
continue to develop new genomics- based
tools to investigate organismal responses to
climate change and to elucidate the basic
evolutionary and ecological processes at work in
polar regions. Coincident with this
effort, establish novel bioinformatics approaches
and make broad datasets publicly available
through online databases
3) Where possible, link Antarctic and Arctic
studies into integrated polar science
4) Generate communal sample depositories similar
to ice core libraries