Western Society of Naturalists Meeting Program Seaside, CA Nov. 8-11, 2012 1 Western Society of Naturalists Treasurer President ~ 2012 ~ Andrew Brooks Todd Anderson Dept of Ecology, Evolution and Dept of Biology Website Marine Biology San Diego State University www.wsn-online.org UC Santa Barbara San Diego, CA 92182 Santa Barbara, CA 93106 [email protected] Secretariat [email protected] Michael Graham President-Elect Scott Hamilton Member-at-Large Michael Graham Diana Steller Corey Garza Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Moss Landing Marine Labs Division of Science and 8272 Moss Landing Rd 8272 Moss Landing Rd Environmental Policy Moss Landing, CA 95039 Moss Landing, CA 95039 CSU Monterey Bay [email protected] Corey Garza 100 Campus Center CSU Monterey Bay Seaside, CA 93955 Seaside, CA 93955 [email protected] [email protected] 93ND ANNUAL MEETING NOVEMBER 8-11, 2012 IN SEASIDE, CALIFORNIA Registration and Information Welcome! The registration desk will be open Thurs 1600-2000, Fri-Sat 0730-1800, and Sun 0800-1000. Registration packets will be available at the registration table for those members who have pre-registered. Those who have not pre-registered but wish to attend the meeting can pay for membership and registration (with a $20 late fee) at the registration table. Unfortunately, banquet tickets cannot be sold at the meeting because the hotel requires final counts of attendees well in advance. The Attitude Adjustment Hour (AAH) is included in the registration price, so you will only need to show your badge for admittance. WSN t-shirts and other merchandise can be purchased or picked up at the WSN Student Committee table. A partial list of restaurants near the Embassy Suites, Seaside-Monterey Bay can be found at the end of the program. Continuing This Year! In addition to all the traditional WSN special events (see the schedule!), the dance immediately following the auction on Saturday night (so probably starting ~11 pm) is back by popular demand! The Student Committee will provide music. A cash bar will be available from 10 PM – 12 AM, and the dance floor will be open until 1 AM. Thanks to Student Travel Fund Donors We'd like to thank all of you who made donations to the Student Travel Fund when you registered; those funds are greatly appreciated by our many student members. Thanks to all! 2 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2012 1715 WSN STUDENT WORKSHOP (Center for the Future of the Ocean Conference room, Heritage Harbor, 99 Pacific Street, Monterey); Additional registration required NETWORKING WITH CONFIDENCE! by Elin Kelsey, of Elin Kelsey & Company 2030 WSN STUDENT MIXER London Bridge Pub (256 Figueroa St, Monterey, CA at the Monterey Harbor) Open to all graduate and undergraduate students; no ticket required. See the student desk for directions. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2012 0835-1200 STUDENT SYMPOSIUM (Laguna Grande ABCD) INTEGRATING DATA AND THEORY TO ADVANCE MARINE SCIENCE 1200-1300 LUNCH 1300-1745 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS 1830-2030 WSN POSTER SESSION (Laguna Grande DEFG) 1930-2230 ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT HOUR (AAH) (Laguna Grande ABCD) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2012 0820-1115 PRESIDENTIAL SYMPOSIUM (Laguna Grande ABCD) INTEGRATING APPROACHES EFFECTIVELY IN MARINE ECOLOGY 1115 AWARDING OF LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (by Todd Anderson) 1130 AWARDING OF NATURALISTS OF THE YEAR AWARD (by Todd Anderson) 1135 WSN NATURALISTS OF THE YEAR (Mark Carr and Pete Raimondi) 1200-1300 LUNCH 1300-1730 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS 1800-1900 ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING (Seaside Ballroom 1 and 2) 1930-2100 PRESIDENTIAL BANQUET (Laguna Grande ABCD) 2100-0100 WSN AUCTION followed by DANCE (Laguna Grande ABCD) SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2012 0900-1230 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS 3 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2012 STUDENT SYMPOSIUM (0835-1200) LAGUNA GRANDE ABCD INTEGRATING DATA AND THEORY TO ADVANCE MARINE SCIENCE 0835 INTRODUCTION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS (Max Castorani) 0840 Anne Salomon, Simon Fraser University MERGING DATA AND THEORY IN KELP FOREST ECOSYSTEMS; ILLUMINATING NATURE’S DYNAMIC 0910 Brian Leung, McGill University FORECASTING BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS USING DATA LIMITED MODELS 0940 John Bruno, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill THE USE AND MISUSE OF ECOLOGICAL THEORY IN CORAL REEF MANAGEMENT 1010 BREAK 1030 Leah Gerber, Arizona State University CONSERVATION MARKETS FOR MANAGEMENT OF MARINE MEGAFAUNA – A CASE STUDY FOR WHALING 1100 Stephan Munch, NOAA SWFSC and UC Santa Cruz TOWARDS MODEL-FREE ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT 1130 PANEL DISCUSSION 1200-1300 LUNCH 4 FRIDAY, NOV 9 1300-1500 † eligible for Best Student Paper Award Time Session 1: Session 2: Session 3: Session 4: Session 5: LAGUNA D SEASIDE BALLROOM LAGUNA C LAGUNA A LAGUNA B Intertidal Ecology I Fisheries Ecology I Community Ecology I Invasive Species I Applied Ecology I Chair: E Sanford Chair: BN Tissot Chair: KA Hovel Chair: KE Boyer Chair: MM Foley 1300 †Jensen, MM † Schmidt, KT † Reimer, JN Boyer, KE Ranelletti, ME WHAT FACTORS AFFECT LIFE HISTORY CHANGES DRIFT ALGAE AS AN NOVEL ROLE AND QUASARS TO SEA STARS: THE MAGNITUDE OF IN BLUE ROCKFISH, ECOLOGICAL SUBSIDY ON INTERACTIONS OF AN GIVING TEENS THE INSIDE WAVE IMPACT FORCES? SEBASTES MYSTINUS SANDY SHORES: INTRODUCED AMPHIPOD SCOOP ON WHAT IT SPP., AFTER HEAVY VARIATION ALONG THE IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY TAKES TO BE SCIENTIST FISHING UPWELLING GRADIENT OF EELGRASS BEDS THE OREGON COAST 1315 † Cerny-Chipman, EB † Aalto, EA Hovel, KA † Lewis, JL † Empringham, K TESTING THE IMPACT OF SEPARATING EELGRASS HABITAT LOSS PRESENCE OF A NATIVE MARINE CONSERVATION AN INTERTIDAL WHELK RECRUITMENT AND AND BIODIVERSITY: ISOPOD REDUCES THE IN THE MEDIA: AN AUDIT PREDATOR ACROSS MORTALITY TIME LAGS STRUCTURAL IMPACT OF INVASIVE OF VALUES-BASED ENVIRONMENTAL FOR A DATA-POOR COMPLEXITY MODIFIES AMPHIPOD HERBIVORY CAMPAIGNS IN GRADIENTS PRODUCTION MODEL EFFECTS OF ON EELGRASS NONPROFIT DISTURBANCE ON ORGANIZATIONS EPIFAUNA 1330 † Demes, KW † Barnett, LAK † Briggs, A † Asef, TS Sagarin, RD SHIFTS IN EFFECTS OF CLIMATE SPATIAL SUBSIDIES AND ASSOCIATING OBSERVATION AND MORPHOLOGICAL AND CHANGE AND MPA HABITAT STRUCTURE: GENETICALLY DIVERSE ECOLOGY: BROADENING MECHANICAL TRAITS MANAGEMENT ON THE EFFECTS OF TAMARISK INVADERS THE SCOPE OF SCIENCE COMPENSATE FOR PERSISTENCE AND SEABIRD GUANO ON WITH THEIR IMPACTS IN A TO UNDERSTAND A PERFORMANCE COSTS FISHERY YIELD: THE ROLE ISLAND GECKOS IN THE SALT MARSH ECOSYSTEM COMPLEX WORLD OF REPRODUCTION IN A OF MATERNAL-AGE- TROPICS WAVE-SWEPT SEAWEED DEPENDENT OFFSPRING TRAITS 1345 † Aleman-Zometa, JG † Honey, KT † Coyle, TA † Wells, EH Foley, MM MUSSEL BED INTEGRATING NOVEL INDIRECT EFFECTS OF FLIGHT, BURIAL, ARMOR: HUMAN INFLUENCES ON DISTURBANCE DATA-LIMITED FISHERY SEA OTTERS ON BENTHIC TWO INVASIVE SNAILS CONNECTIVITY PROCESSES AND METHODS WITH MARINE BIODIVERSITY EXHIBIT DIFFERENT NETWORKS IN MARINE MECHANISM PATTERNS RESERVES: RESERVE- ANTIPREDATOR AND FRESHWATER BASED SPAWNING RESPONSES TO THE ECOSYSTEMS POTENTIAL RATIO (SPR) EUROPEAN GREEN CRAB CARCINUS MAENAS 5 1400 † Newcomb, LA † Bond, MH † Hughes, BB † Benkwitt, CE † Cox, CE EFFECTS OF SHORT- FLEXIBILITY IN GUT SIZE SEA OTTERS MEDIATE TWO’S COMPANY, EFFECTIVENESS OF A TERM EXPOSURE TO AND LIFE HISTORY NEGATIVE SIXTEEN’S A CROWD: BAN ON HERBIVOROUS ELEVATED TEMPERATURE DIVERSITY IN A EUTROPHICATION BEHAVIOR OF INVASIVE FISH HARVESTING IN AND pCO2 ON MUSSEL FACULTATIVELY EFFECTS ON SEAGRASS LIONFISH IN GROUPS BELIZE BYSSAL THREAD ANADORMOUS SALMONID THROUGH A MULTI-LEVEL STRENGTH TROPHIC CASCADE 1415 † Rose, JM Tissot, BN † Gruman, C † Tuttle, LJ † Munday, ES THE RELATIVE INFLUENCE SUSTAINABILITY IN THE MAGNITUDE AND DO INVASIVE RED EFFECTS OF OF UPWELLING-DRIVEN MARINE AQUARIUM MECHANISM: CROSS- LIONFISH (PTEROIS COLLECTION, OCEAN ACIDIFICATION ON TRADE SYSTEM EFFECTS OF AN VOLITANS) ALTER TRANSPORT, AND IN SITU GROWTH OF THE INTRODUCED PREDATOR CLEANING MUTUALISMS HOLDING PRACTICES ON CALIFORNIA MUSSEL, IN HAIDA GWAII? ON BAHAMIAN CORAL YELLOW TANG (Z. MYTILUS CALIFORNIANUS REEFS? FLAVESCENS) HEALTH, STRESS, AND LONG-TERM SURVIVAL 1430 † Stokes, JA † Abada-Cardoso, A Menge, BA † Kindinger, TL † McPeek, KC SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL INTERGENERATIONAL DYNAMICS OF COASTAL TO GRAZE, OR NOT TO PATTERNS OF VARIATION IN GENETIC TAGGING WITH META-ECOSYSTEMS: THE GRAZE: IT DEPENDS, IS A UTILIZATION OF GEODUCK SACCHARINA SESSILIS SNPS REVEALS INTERMITTENT LIONFISH THERE? AQUACULTURE SITES BY MORPHOTYPES: REPRODUCTIVE UPWELLING HYPOTHESIS PACIFIC STAGHORN EVIDENCE SUPPORTING PATTERNS AND AND A TEST IN ROCKY SCULPIN IN PUGET THE ROLE OF BULLAE IN HERITABILITY OF SPAWN INTERTIDAL REGIONS SOUND, WASHINGTON AMELIORATING TIMING IN STEELHEAD EMERSION 1445 Crandall, ED Dayton, PK † Carter, AL † Keeling, BE COALESCENT AND PERSPECTIVES OF 100 INVASION AND QUANTIFYING THE BIOPHYSICAL MODELS OF YEARS OF SPONGE SUCCESSION OF THE MAGNITUDE OF PACIFIC STEPPING-STONE GENE ECOLOGY AT MCMURDO CORALLIMORPH HERRING (CLUPEA FLOW IN NERITID SNAILS SOUND, ANTARCTICA RHODACTIS HOWESII AT PALLASI) EGG LOSS PALMYRA ATOLL FOLLOWING ANNUAL SPAWN EVENTS 1500 Break Break Break Break Break 6 FRIDAY, NOV 9 1530-1730 † eligible for Best Student Paper Award Time Session 6: Session 7: Session 8: Session 9: Session 10: LAGUNA D SEASIDE BALLROOM LAGUNA C LAGUNA A LAGUNA B Intertidal Ecology II Ecosystem Assessment Community Ecology II Evolutionary Biology I Conservation and Chair: B Helmuth Chair: KJ Nielsen Chair: BI Ruttenberg Chair: EE Sotka Restoration I Chair: L Gerber 1530 † Lorda, J Deza, AA Schiel, DR Hultgren, KM Logan, CA THE EFFECTS OF SHORE ASSESSING BIRD CATACLYSMIC ECOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGICALLY