1st
NCORE Coral Reef Research Forum
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Group 1: Presentations
1.1.
Global
change and effects on coral reefs: examples from the equatorial eastern
Pacific. (Peter Glynn, MBF)
1.2.
State of the coasts in
the central Bahamas: identifying ecological change and impacts on near
shore reefs. (Sherry
Constantine, DOB)
1.3.
A Status Report on
the Condition of Florida’s Coral Reefs (Diego Lirman, MBF)
1.4.
Is wasp waist
forcing occurring in coral reef ecosystems? (Gary Thomas, MBF)
1.5.
Sustaining
Florida’s Coral Reef Fisheries (Jerald Ault, MBF)
1.6.
US Caribbean Fish
Trap Fishery Costs and Earnings Study (Juan Agar, MAF)
Group 2: Presentations
2.1.
Geologic Structure
and a Delta of Sand Dictated the Location of the Florida Reef Tract (Art
Gleason, MGG)
2.2.
Facies and spatial
relationships in a mixed microbial-algal-coral reef system: Highborne
Cay, Bahamas. (Miriam Andres, MGG)
2.3.
Investigations into
the d15N
and d13C
of POM, Primary Producers and Filter Feeders in the Florida Keys Coral
Reef System. (Kathryn
Lamb, MGG)
2.4.
Nitrogen Isotropic
Ratios in Corals: Pollution or Productivity (Peter Swart, MGG)
2.5.
A Long Term History
of Salinity Changes in the Caribbean Using Stable Isotopes in Coral
Skeletons (Brad Rosenheim, RSMAS)
2.6.
Modeling the
circulation around the Florida Keys Marine Sanctuary and the Tortugas
Ecological Reserve (Villy Kourafalou, MPO)
2.7.
From Basin Scale to
Reef Scale Processes: an Approach to Assess Larval Dispersion Patterns
in the Florida Keys (Jerome Fiechter, AMP)
Group 3: Presentations
3.1.
Ecological
Mechanisms of Coral Reef Resistance in a Tropical Upwelling System (Tyler
Smith, MGG)
3.2.
Disturbance vs.
landscape controls on recruitment dynamics in a Florida coral population
(Mark Vermeij, MGG)
3.3.
SICO: An
agent-based epidemiological model of coral disease (Marilyn Brandt,
MBF)
3.4.
AGRRA database of
acroporids, a tool for deciding on endangered status. (Rodrigo
Garza-Perez, MGG)
3.5.
The other side of
our oceans: Corals from the Cape Verde Islands (Christopher Moses,
MGG)
Group 4: Presentations
4.1.
Western Tropical
Atlantic–Pacific Comparative Studies (Focus “1”: Potential Plasticity of
Locations of Coral Reef Fish Spawning Aggregation Sites) (Andrew
Bakun, MBF)
4.2.
Modelling
Population Connectivity of Coral Reef Fishes Within the Greater
Caribbean (Robert Cowen, MBF)
4.3.
Patterns and
processes influencing larval supply and recruitment of fishes in the
Florida Keys and the Caribbean (Kirsten Grorud-Colvert, MBF)
4.4.
Fish Movement
Relative to Habitat: Implications for Marine Reserve Design (Nicholas
Farmer, MBF)
4.5.
Herbivorous reef
fishes in a changing coral reef system (Michelle Paddack, MBF)
4.6.
Diversity,
demographic population structure and habitat-partitioning of
reef-associated elasmobranchs at a Caribbean oceanic atoll (Glover’s
Reef, Belize) (Elizabeth Babcock, MBF)
4.7.
Tidal and seasonal
effect on larval transport across the SW Florida shelf: the pink shrimp
case (Maria Criales, MBF)
Group 5: Presentations
5.1.
The Twilight
Zone Team:
The University
of Miami's Newest Proposed Research Capability
(Rick
Riera-Gomez, MBF)
5.2.
New Technologies
for Addressing Depth and Scale Limitations of Coral Reef Remote Sensing
(Art Gleason, MGG)
5.3.
Land-Based
Propagation Facility for Ecologically Important Reef Corals: Enhancement
of Nursery Growout via Laboratory Trials (Thomas Capo, MBF)
5.4.
New Integrated
Autonomous Measurement Systems for Coral Reef Monitoring (Rod Zika,
MAC)
5.5.
The Challenge of
Building Forecasting into the New Online Data Navigator for South
Florida (John McManus, MBF)
