Young Cephalopod Researchers Group A dynamic network to connect individual efforts of early career researchers into cephalopod science.

CRESPI ABRIL, AUGUSTO CÉSAR; LUIS RIGOBERTO ROSAS; SILVIA LOURENÇO; STEFANIE KELLER; FELIPE BRICEÑO

México D.F.

Congreso; Mollusca 2014: encuentro de las américas; 2014

Universidad Autónoma de México

The Young Cephalopod Researchers (YCR) group aims to improve communication between early career cephalopod scientists, establishing a network and the enhanced collaboration between researchers, and focuses on keeping the members updated on integrated cephalopod research an international level. This platform is led by an interdisciplinary group of young people involved in marine research and working in population ecology, molecular ecology, biological oceanography, physiology, modeling, fisheries, ecotoxicology, environmental pollution and climate change related to cephalopod species. In this context the members of the YCR group want to contribute with further knowledge or fields where cephalopod species are involved and also collaborating and proposing new projects with international participation. The main objectives of particular YCR members vary according to the key species and their distribution in the ocean but the YCR community is conducting research that has some direct connection with climate change, looking for effects of environmental variables in cephalopods. As a result of these initiatives, YCR group has increased the number of members to sixteen people, started cooperation between Argentina and Spain and plans new strategies to affront the development of cephalopod populations under realistic future ocean scenarios and the results were presented in the World Congress of Malacology (2013, Azores, Portugal). Also, in the framework of YCR a special session of cephalopods was conducted in YOUMARES4 (2013, Oldenburg, Germany). Up to the date, YCR members were present in two international meetings showing results of cooperation studies between researchers from different countries. The aim of this proposal is to present some of these results and to invite early career researchers to join us in this initiative and unified projects that help us to understand the cephalopod science better.