Reefs for the Future - Nova Southeastern University

Mini-Symposium Oral Presentations
The following section is organized by Mini-Symposium topics 1 - 26. Each Mini-Symposium is listed in numeric
order, followed by the presentation date(s) and session room. Under each presentation day the oral presenters, coauthors,
presentation title and presentation time are noted.
1. Lessons From the Past
2. Biotic Response to Ancient Environmental
Change in Indo-Pacific
Coral Reefs
3. Calcification and Coral Reefs - Past
and Future
4. Coral Reef Organisms as Recorders
of Local and Global Environmental
Change
5. Functional Biology of Corals and
Coral Symbiosis: Molecular Biology,
Cell Biology and Physiology
6. Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics
of Coral-Reef Organisms
7. Diseases on Coral Reefs
8. Coral Microbial Interactions
9. Chemical Ecology on Coral Reefs
1. Lessons From the Past
10. Ecological Processes on Today’s
Reef Ecosystems
11. From Molecules to Moonbeams:
How is Reproductive Timing Regulated
in Coral Reef Organisms?
12. Reef Resilience
13. Evolution and Conservation of
Coral Reef Ecosystems
14. Reef Connectivity
15. Hydrodynamics of Coral-Reef Systems
16. Ecosystem Assessment of Coral
Reefs - New Technologies and Approaches
Co-Chairs: D. Hubbard, W. Ramirez; D. Hubbard, E.A. Shinn, W. Ramirez;
D. Hubbard, L. Greer, C. Sherman, G. Stanley
July 9 (Wed) 10:00–6:00 Room - 113/114
10:00 Christopher F. D’ELIA*, Abbie Rae HARRIS
The R/V Alpha Helix Symbios Expedition: A Retrospective Analysis of a Milestone in Coral Reef Research
10:15 Randolph BURKE*, Walter ADEY
Caribbean Coral Reef Communities in the 1970’s: An Ecosystem Baseline Data Set for Assessing Current
Regional Reef Health
10:30 Halard LESCINSKY*, Benjamin TITUS, Avinash MINHAS, Dennis HUBBARD
Estimating Live Coral Cover in Fossil Reefs: a Microboring Approach
10:45 Katie CRAMER*
Historical Changes in Coral Communities Along a Gradient of Land Use in Bocas Del Toro, Panama
11:00 Joyce MILLER*, Jamison GOVE
The Effects of Geology, Oceanography and Anthropogenic Activities on the Coral Reef Ecosystems of the
Pacific Remote Island Areas
11:15 Suzanne E PALMER*, Chris T PERRY, Scott G SMITHERS
Long-Term Records of Reef Growth Under Terrigenoclastic Sediment Influence: Paluma Shoals, Central
Great Barrier Reef, Australia
11:30 Virginia GARRISON*, Susan GENUALDI, William FOREMAN, Michael MAJEWSKI, Azad MOHAMMED,
Staci SIMONICH
Persistent Organic Pollutants and Trace Metals Associated with African Dust – Is There a Threat to Coral
Reefs?
11:45 Matthew A. KOSNIK*, Quan HUA, Darrell S. KAUFMAN, Raphael A. WÜST
Bioturbation, Taphonomic Bias and Time-Averaging in Tropical Molluscan Death Assemblages: Differential
Shell Half-Lives in Great Barrier Reef Sediment
12:00 Brian BECK*, Sean CONNOLLY, John PANDOLFI
Coral Community Change Over a Cyclone Disturbance Gradient During the Quaternary in the Solomon
Islands
11 th International Coral Reef Symposium ■ Reefs for the Future
17. Emerging Techniques in Remote
Sensing and Geospatial Analysis
18. Reef Status and Trends
19. Biogeochemical Cycles in Coral
Reef Environments
20. Modeling Concepts and Processes
on Coral Reefs
21. Social-ecological Systems
22. Coral Reef Associated Fisheries
23. Reef Management
24. Reef Restoration
25. Climate Change
26. Biodiversity and Diversification of
Reef Organisms
*Designates Presenting Author
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