Reefs for the Future - Nova Southeastern University

11:30 Julie SCOPELITIS*, Serge ANDREFOUET, Stuart PHINN, Pascale CHABANET, Odile NAIM, Terry DONE
Coral Reef Habitat Responses to Disturbance Events in Time: A Remote Sensing Approach
11:45 David PALANDRO*, Melanie PETERS, Luke MCEACHRON, Michael CALLAHAN, Jim BURD
Combining the Benefits of Satellite and in Situ Data to Determine Location and Benthic Cover of Patch
Reefs in the Florida Keys
12:00 Chris ROELFSEMA*, Stuart PHINN
Calibration and Validation of Coral Reef Benthic Community Maps from High-Spatial Resolution Satellite
12:15 Joaquin R GARZA-PEREZ*, Eugene C RANKEY, Robert N GINSBURG, Stacy L REEDER, Sean A GUIDRY,
Humberto GUARIN
Spatial Prediction of Reef Bathymetry and Geomorphology Using High-Resolution Satellite Imagery
3:30 Gwilym ROWLANDS*, Sam PURKIS, Bernhard RIEGL, Philip RENAUD
CASI Mapping of the Farasan Islands (Saudi Arabia): Ecosystem Processes in an Atypical Red Sea Setting
3:45 Sarah HAMYLTON*, Tom SPENCER
An Investigation of Seagrass Patterns at Alphonse Atoll, Seychelles: Linking Structure to Function in Marine
Landscapes
4:00 Halina KOBRYN*, Nicole PINNEL, Thomas HEEGE, Lynnath BECKLEY, Matt HARVEY, Suzanne LONG
Mapping the Habitats and Biodiversity of Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia Using Hyperspectral Imagery
4:15 James GOODMAN*, Miguel VELEZ-REYES, Samuel ROSARIO, Shawn HUNT, Fernando GILBES
Development of a Field Test Environment for the Validation of Coastal Remote Sensing Algorithms: Enrique
Reef, Puerto Rico
4:30 Eric HOCHBERG*, Marlin ATKINSON
Remote Sensing of Coral Reef Biogeochemistry Based on Optical Absorptance and Light-Use Efficiency
4:45 Alan LIM*, Peter MUMBY, John HEDLEY, Chris ROELFSEMA, Ellsworth LEDREW
An Investigation Into the Effects of Coral Cover, Colony Size-Frequency Distribution and Clustering on the
Classification Accuracy of Simulated Reef Images
5:00 Ben STOBART*, Nigel DOWNING, Raymond BUCKLEY, Kristian TELEKI
Comparison of in Situ Temperature Data from the Southern Seychelles with SST Data: Can Satellite Data
Alone Be Used to Predict Coral Bleaching Events?
5:15 Kenneth CASEY*, Elizabeth SELIG, John BRUNO
New Ecological Insights from a 21-Year Coral Reef Temperature Anomaly Database
5:30 William SKIRVING*, Roberto IGLESIAS-PREITO, Susana ENRIQUEZ, Tyler CHRISTENSEN, John HEDLEY, Mark EAKIN,
Ove HOEGH-GULDBERG, Sophie DOVE, Scott HERON, Peter MUMBY, Alan STRONG, Gang LIU, Jessica MORGAN,
Dwight GLEDHILL
A Methodology for Using Satellite-Based Temperature and Light Measurements for Predicting Coral
Bleaching Severity and Mortality
5:45 Scott F. HERON*, William J. SKIRVING, Gang LIU, Tyler R.L. CHRISTENSEN, C. Mark EAKIN, Jessica A. MORGAN,
Dwight K. GLEDHILL, Alan E. STRONG
Producing a Satellite SST Climatology – How Long Is a Piece of String?
July 8 (Tue) 10:00–6:00 Room - 304
10:00 Charles FINKL*, Jeffrey ANDREWS, William ROBERTSON, Beth FORREST
Fore-And Back-Reef Environments Interpreted from Airborne Laser Bathymetry: Northern Extension of the
Florida Reef Tract Offshore SE Florida
10:15 John BROCK*, Monica PALASEANU-LOVEJOY, Nayegandhi AMAR, C. Wayne WRIGHT
Integrated Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing of the Terrace Structure of the Shallow Dry Tortugas Coral Reef
Ecosystem
10:30 Samuel PURKIS*, Kevin KOHLER, Bernhard RIEGL
The View from Above - Are Reefs Fractal Because of Neutral-Random Construction?
10:45 Jennifer WOZENCRAFT*, Christopher MACON, Grady TUELL, Joong Yong PARK
Coastal Zone Classification Using Data Fusion Between Lidar and Hyperspectral Data
11:00 Timothy BATTISTA*, Bryan COSTA
A Comparative Assessment of LiDAR and Multibeam Sonar to Characterize Coral Reef Ecosystem
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