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WSN Short Program 2013 4 Western Society of Naturalists Meeting Program Oxnard, CA Nov. 7-10, 2013 1 Western Society of Naturalists Treasurer President ~ 2013 ~ Andrew Brooks Michael Graham Dept of Ecology, Evolution and Moss Landing Marine Labs Website Marine Biology 8272 Moss Landing Rd www.wsn-online.org UC Santa Barbara Moss Landing, CA 95039 Santa Barbara, CA 93106 [email protected] Secretariat [email protected] Michael Graham Scott Hamilton President-Elect Member-at-Large Diana Steller Sean Anderson Steven Morgan Moss Landing Marine Laboratories CSU Channel Islands Bodega Marine Laboratory 8272 Moss Landing Rd One University Drive P.O Box 247 Moss Landing, CA 95039 Camarillo, CA 93012 Bodega, Bay, CA 94923 Corey Garza [email protected] [email protected] CSU Monterey Bay Seaside, CA 93955 [email protected] 94TH ANNUAL MEETING NOVEMBER 7-10, 2013 IN OXNARD, CALIFORNIA Registration and Information Welcome! The registration desk will be open Thurs 1800-2000, 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. The poster session is split into two evenings; the student poster competition on Friday night and the general poster session will be combined with the AHH on Saturday night. A partial list of restaurants near the Embassy Suites Mandalay Bay Hotel & Resort in Oxnard can be found at the end of the program. 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 7, 2013 1900 WSN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING (Colony) 2030 BENEATH THE WAVES FILM FESTIVAL AND MIXER (Mandalay Ballroom) Open to all WSN Members FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2013 0845-1200 STUDENT SYMPOSIUM (Mandalay Ballroom) SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS IN THE POLICY ARENA 1200-1300 LUNCH 1300-1730 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS (Mandalay ABC, Embassy 1 & 2) 1900-2100 WSN STUDENT POSTER COMPETITION (Embassy Ballroom) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2013 0820-1115 PRESIDENTIAL SYMPOSIUM (Mandalay Ballroom) PARADIGMS LOST AND FOUND: THE UTLITY OF EMERGING CONCEPTS IN THE FIELDS OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 1115 AWARDING OF LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (by Trevor Rivers) 1120 WSN LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (Jim Morin) 1130 AWARDING OF NATURALIST OF THE YEAR AWARD (by Bonnie Becker) 1135 WSN NATURALIST OF THE YEAR (Dan Richards) 1200-1300 LUNCH 1300-1730 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS (Mandalay ABC) 1930-2230 ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT HOUR (AAH) + GENERAL POSTER SESSION (Mandalay Ballroom) SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2013 0900-1000 PLENARY SPEAKER (Mandalay Ballroom) THE VALUE OF LONG TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH (Dan Reed) 1030-1230 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS (Mandalay ABC, Embassy 1 & 2) 1230-1330 LUNCH 1330-1530 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS (Mandalay ABC, Embassy 1 & 2) 1600-1700 ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING (Embassy 1) 1730-2000 PRESIDENTIAL BANQUET (Mandalay Ballroom) 2000-2300 WSN AUCTION (Mandalay Ballroom) 3 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2013 BENEATH THE WAVES FILM FESTIVAL AND MIXER (2030-2230) MANDALAY BALLROOM www.beneaththewavesfilmfest.org DESCRIPTION: WSN is proud to host the 2013 Beneath the Waves Film Festival. We will be screening a series of short documentaries related to marine issues that are sure to educate, inspire, and amaze! A cash bar will be available. 2030 FIRST SESSION Coastguards (4 min., Austin Gallagher) Corals in Crisis (5 min., Cortland Brennan) People of the Coral Triangle (12 min., James Morgan) Fish Meat (2 min., Sarah Curry) Mikono Ya Wavuvi (9 min., Austin Humphries) Tasmania's Disappearing Giant Kelp Forests (4 min., Rebecca Ramaley) Gloop (4 min., Gaby Bastyra & Joe Churchman) Plight of the North Atlantic Right Whale (9 min., Jeff Mittelstadt) Whale Fall: After Life of a Whale (5 min., Sharon Shattuck) SeaHarmony (2 min., Monika LaPlante) 2130 INTERMISSION 2145 SECOND SESSION SAIL: Want to be a Marine Biologist? (5 min., Michael Gil) Understanding the Giant Pacific Octopus (5 min., Paul Hillman) Don't Bite the Hand that Feeds (4 min., Christine Shephard) Tagged, You're It (4 min., Michael Jordan) Improving Mangrove Management to Protect the Ocean's Tropical Nurseries (2 min., Virginia Shutte) Sponge Science (2 min., Matt Amick) Saving North Carolina's Reefs (10 min., Michelle Brodeur) In the Grass, On the Reef (5 min., Rob Diaz de Villegas) Trophic Cascade of the Purple Marsh Crab (5 min., Stephanie Yin) 4 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2013 STUDENT SYMPOSIUM (0845-1200) MANDALAY BALLROOM SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS IN THE POLICY ARENA 0845 WELCOME REMARKS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS (Michael Graham) 0855 INTRODUCTION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS (Lynn Lee) 0900 Skyli McAffee, California Ocean Science Trust HOW TO BE USEFUL? LESSONS FROM THE INTERSECTION OF SCIENCE AND DECISION-MAKING 0935 Jack Kittinger, Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University ENGAGING COMMUNITIES IN PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH TO SUPPORT CORAL REEF STEWARDSHIP IN THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS 1010 BREAK 1030 Jeremy Jackson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography SCIENCE, POLICY, AND THE FUTURE OF CARIBBEAN CORAL REEFS 1105 Phil Levin, NOAA NMFS Northwest Fisheries Science Center SCIENCE, STUPIDITY, AND SMOOTHIES: BLENDING UP PALATABLE POLICY IN THE REAL WORLD 1140 PANEL DISCUSSION 1200-1300 LUNCH 5 FRIDAY, NOV 8 1300-1500 † eligible for Best Student Paper Award Time Session 1: Session 2: Session 3: Session 4: Session 5: MANDALAY A MANDALAY B MANDALAY C EMBASSY 1 EMBASSY 2 Community Ecology I Conservation and Dispersal and Plant/Algal Biology I Invasive Species I Chair: Anderson, T Restoration I Recruitment I Chair: Edwards, M Chair: Lonhart, S Chair: Pondella, D Chair: Yund, P 1300 Cramer, KL Witting, DA † Rasmuson, LK Edwards, MS † Davis, ACD HISTORICAL CHANGE IN THE MONTROSE IN SITU OBSERVATIONS PERSISTENCE OF EFFECTS OF HABITAT ON CARIBBEAN REEF FISH SETTLEMENTS OF SWIMMING ALTERNATE STATE THE FORAGING RANGE AND CORAL RESTORATION ORIENTATION AND SPEED BOUNDARIES IN THE AND BEHAVIOR OF COMMUNITIES PROGRAMS SUBTIDAL OF DUNGENESS CRAB COASTAL MARINE INVASIVE RED LIONFISH REEF RESTORATION ON MEGALOPAE ECOSYSTEM OF THE (PTEROIS VOLITANS) IN PALOS VERDES SHELF ALEUTIAN ARCHIPELAGO. THE BAHAMAS 1315 † Shantz AA Engel, J † Fernandez, RG † Bell, TW † Tuttle, LJ WHEN THE SH*T HITS THE NAVIGATING THE CRAB MEGALOPAE PRIMARY CONTROLS ON COMPARATIVE PARASITE (SEA)FAN: IMPACTS OF COASTAL COMMISSION SETTLLEMENT AND GIANT KELP BIOMASS COMMUNITIES OF FISH-DERIVED NUTRIENTS PERMITTING PROCESS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONS IN THROUGHOUT INVASIVE RED LIONFISH ON CORAL REEF PAST, CURRENT, AND THE WATER COLUMN CALIFORNIA (PTEROIS VOLITANS) AND COMMUNITIES FUTURE ARTIFICIAL REEF NATIVE FISHES ON PROJECTS ATLANTIC CORAL REEFS 1330 † Swanson, SA Adreani, MS † Lindsley AJ † Howard, AC Smith, JR RAPID MORTALITY OF FECUNDITY, SPAWNING THE JUVENILE ROCKFISH EFFECTS OF TIDAL ZONE VARIATION IN MULTIPLE SPECIES OF FREQUENCY, AND OF YAQUINA BAY, TEMPERATURE ON THE EFFECTS OF THE SEA URCHINS IN MOOREA, PRODUCTIVITY OF OREGON SEXUAL COMPETITION IN NON-NATIVE RED ALGA FRENCH POLYNESIA: TEMPERATE REEF FISH; A KELPS CAULACANTHUS INITIAL IMPACTS ON THE COMPARISON OF USTULATUS ON NATIVE CORAL REEF COMMUNITY NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL ROCKY INTERTIDAL REEFS COMMUNITIES 1345 † Evensen, NR Steele, MA Wheeler, SG † Rinehart, SA † Ward, PK ALTERED COMPETITIVE GROWTH AND TISSUE VALIDATING A METHOD OVERWINTERING DEFINING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PRODUCTION OF OF OTOLITH STRATEGIES OF ULVA ENVIRONMENTAL CUES CORALS IN A HIGH pCO2 TEMPERATE REEF FISHES MICROCHEMISTRY SPP. IN NARRAGANSETT OF THE RED ALGAE ENVIRONMENT ON ARTIFICIAL VERSUS ANALYSIS TO IDENTIFY BAY, RI PRIONITIS SPP. THAT NATURAL REEFS WATER-MASS INDUCE LARVAL ASSOCIATIONS OF SETTLEMENT OF THE LARVAL FISH IN AN INVASIVE BRYOZOAN UPWELLING REGION WATERSIPORA SPP. 6 1400 † Valentino, LM Schroeter, S † Wren, JLK † Kram, SL † Kollars, NM EFFECTS OF OCEAN THE WHEELER NORTH MODELING AND GROUND- RESPONSE OF CALCIFIED EVIDENCE FOR A ACIDIFICATION ON REEF AS A TEST CASE TRUTHING THE REEF FISH AND NON-CALCIFIED CONTEXT-DEPENDENT BIOEROSION OF FOR THE PRODUCTION LARVAL POOL AROUND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MUTUALISM BETWEEN A BURROWING BIVALVES IN VS. ATTRACTION THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SEAWEEDS TO NON-NATIVE SEAWEED MOOREA, FRENCH HYPOTHESIS FOR REEF INCREASED CO2 AND AND A NATIVE POLYNESIA FISH TEMPERATURE DECORATOR POLYCHAETE 1415 Adam, TC Reed, D Morgan, SG Elsberry, LA Willette, DA PHYLOGENETIC HISTORY PRODUCTION NOT DIFFERENTIAL THE REGIONAL AND AHEAD OF THE SPREAD: DRIVES NICHE ATTRACTION ACCOUNTS TRANSPORT ACROSS THE SEASONAL RESPONSE OF AN EARLY WARNING COMPLEMENTARITY IN FOR HIGH MACROALGAL SURF ZONE OF A HIGH INTERTIDAL ALGA SYSTEM TO PREDICT THE CARIBBEAN BIOMASS AT WHEELER REFLECTIVE AND TO LOW TIDE CONDITIONS INTRODUCTION AND PARROTFISHES NORTH REEF DISSIPATIVE SHORES AS IMPACT OF INVASIVE A DETERMINANT OF SPECIES BEFORE THEY LARVAL SUPPLY ARRIVE 1430 † Jones, E Ford, T Yund, PO † Newcomb, LA † Crafton, RE THE RELATIVE STRENGTH PALOS VERDES KELP CONSTRAINTS ON LARVAL MECHANICAL DISTRIBUTION MODELING OF
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