Thursday, June 20th

Registration
8:30 am to 9:00 am

Thursday:     A mix of talks from all of the Topics

Moderators: Arthur Mariano, University of Miami (Morning) and Andrew Poje, City University of New York (CUNY) (Afternoon)

Morning Session: ThM1
9:00 am to 10:20 am

9:00 am	ThM11	Coastal submesoscale structures and variability from drifters and HF radar in the Ligurian Sea (Mediterranean)     Maristella Berta, Lorenzo Corgnati, Marcello G. Magaldi, Annalisa Griffa, Carlo Mantovani, Pierre-Marie Poulain, Paolo Oddo
9:20 am	ThM12	Mass exchange of Atlantic Water with the Lofoten Basin derived from high-resolution Lagrangian simulations and Eulerian models     Johannes S. Dugstad, Inga Monika Koszalka, Knut-Frode Dagestad, Ilker Fer, Pål Erik Isachsen, Joseph Henry LaCasce
9:40 am	ThM13	Anisotropy in Coastal Ocean Relative Dispersion Observations     Carter Ohlmann, Leonel Romero, Enric Pallàs-Sanz, Paula Pérez-Brunius
10:00 am	ThM14	Circulation over the Inner-Shelf off the South Padre Island, Texas, USA.     Enric Pallàs-Sanz, Leonel Romero, Carter Ohlmann

Short Break
10:20 am to 11:00 am
Short Break (40 minutes), refreshments will be served.

Morning Session: ThM2
11:00 am to 12:20 pm

11:00 am	ThM21	Estimates of kinematic properties variability at the submesoscales from surface drifter measurements in the Gulf of Mexico     Maristella Berta, Annalisa Griffa, Helga Huntley, Andrew Poje, Tamay Ozgokmen
11:20 am	ThM22	Lagrangian stability of the Malvinas Current     Francisco J. Beron-Vera
11:40 am	ThM23	Preferential sampling of elastic inertial chains in the ocean     Francisco J. Beron-Vera
12:00 pm	ThM24	A review on recent applications of the FSLE technique to Lagrangian dispersion studies in the Ocean     Guglielmo Lacorata, Raffaele Corrado, Federico Falcini, Rosalia Santoleri, Enrico Zambianchi

Lunch Break
12:20 pm to 2:00 pm (1 hr 40 min)

Afternoon Session: ThA3
2:00 pm to 3:20 pm

2:00 pm	ThA31	Comparison of relative dispersion metrics in the inner shelf and continental slope of the western Gulf of Mexico     Paula Pérez-Brunius, and multiple co-authors
2:20 pm	ThA32	Relative dispersion in quasi-geostrophic models of upper-ocean turbulence     Stefano Berti, Alexis Foussard, Guillaume Lapeyre, Xavier Perrot
2:40 pm	ThA33	Lagrangian approaches to the analysis of cross-isopycnal tracer mixing     Jared Penney, Yves Morel, Peter Haynes, Francis Auclair, Cyril Nguyen
3:00 pm	ThA34	Robust extraction of coherent regions in ocean flow from sparse, scattered, and incomplete trajectory data using transfer operators and the dynamic Laplacian     Gary Froyland

Short Break
3:20 pm to 4:00 pm
Short Break (40 minutes), refreshments will be served.

Afternoon Session: ThA4
4:00 pm to 5:20 pm

4:00 pm	ThA41	The LTRANS-Zlev open-source Lagrangian ocean particle-tracking model: implementation and applications     Celia Laurent, Cosimo Solidoro, Stefano Querin, Donata Melaku Canu
4:20 pm	ThA42	Lagrangian organization of phytoplankton assemblages     Clément Haëck, Marina Lévy, Roy El Hourany, Francesco d'Ovidio, Inès Mangolte
4:40 pm	ThA43	Use of Lagrangian dispersion models to estimate distributions of plastic marine litter, observations planning and environmental risks assessment.     Carlo Brandini, Bartolomeo Doronzo, Maria Fattorini, Massimo Perna, Stefano Taddei, Letizia Costanza, Chiara Lapucci
5:00 pm	ThA44	Effect of Lagrangian flow properties on the distribution and composition of phytoplankton     Ismael Hernández-Carrasco, Alejandro Orfila, Vincent Rossi, Eva Alou, Veronique Garçon