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11th International Deep-Sea Biology Symposium NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY cENTRE, Southampton, UK 9 - 14 July 2006 BOOK OF ABSTRACTS Compiled by: Sven Thatje Paul Tyler Pam talbot tammy horton Lis Maclaren Sarah Murty Nina Rothe david billett 11th International Deep-Sea Biology Symposium National Oceanography Centre, Southampton Southampton Solent University Conference Centre Southampton UK 9 – 14 July 2006 Symposium Organising Committee • Professor Paul Tyler (Chair), NOC DEEPSEAS Group, UK. • Mrs Pam Talbot (Secretary), George Deacon Division, NOC, UK. • Dr David Billett, NOC DEEPSEAS Group, UK. • Dr Sven Thatje, NOC DEEPSEAS Group, UK. • Professor Monty Priede, OceanLab, University of Aberdeen, UK. • Dr Gordon Paterson, The Natural History Museum, London, UK. • Professor George Wolff, University of Liverpool, UK. • Dr Kerry Howell, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, UK. • Dr Alex Rogers, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK. • Dr Eva Ramirez Llodra, NOC DEEPSEAS/CSIC Barcelona, Spain. • Dr Phil Bagley, OceanLab, University of Aberdeen, UK. • Dr Maria Baker, NOC DEEPSEAS Group, UK. • Dr Brian Bett, NOC DEEPSEAS Group, UK. • Dr Jon Copley, NOC DEEPSEAS Group, UK. • Dr Adrian Glover, The Natural History Museum, London, UK. • Professor Andrew Gooday, NOC DEEPSEAS Group, UK. • Dr Lawrence Hawkins, NOC DEEPSEAS Group, UK. • Dr Tammy Horton, NOC DEEPSEAS Group, UK. • Dr Ian Hudson, NOC DEEPSEAS Group, UK. • Dr Alan Hughes, NOC DEEPSEAS Group, UK. • Dr Bhavani Narayanaswamy, Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, UK. • Dr Martin Sheader, NOC DEEPSEAS Group, UK. • Miss Michelle Sterckx, Southampton Solent University Conference Centre, UK. • Dr Ben Wigham, OceanLab, University of Aberdeen, UK. • Supported by the DEEPSEAS post-graduate/doctorate team: Lis Maclaren, Sarah Murty, Nina Rothe, Tania Smith, John Dinley, Chris Hauton, Jon Copley, Hannah Flint, Abigail Pattenden, Emily Dolan, Teresa Madurell, Teresa Amaro, Janne Kaariainen, Daniel Jones, Kate Larkin, Eulogio Soto. Front cover showing images from the BP Kongsberg underwater image competition Cover legend (from left to right; 1-3, upper images, 4-6, lower images) 1. Half a millimeter full of spikes and spines, this deep-sea copepod of the family Stenocopiinae has the gut full of food and detritus agglutinated to the body. We do not know much about the feeding of copepods in the deep sea, but we can correlate their abundance to the primary production 5000m above their head. The animal has been collected in the Guinea Basin, a region where 99% of the species are expected to be new to science (Expedition DIVA 2, RV Meteor, CeDAMar, CoML). The specimen is stained with Rose-Bengal and photographed with a Leica-DMR-microscope. By: Gritta Veit-Köhler and Viola Siegler, Senckenberg Research Institute – DZMB, Germany. 2. A galatheid crab perched on a gorgonian coral, location: Gulf of Mexico. By: Derk Bergquist, University of Florida, USA. 3. Bathykurila guaymasensis (Annelida: Polynoidae) Pettibone, 1989, a species of polychaete that has been recorded from both hydrothermal vents and whale-falls, shown here shortly after being recovered from the remains of a Gray Whale skeleton in the Santa Cruz Basin at 1600m using the ROV Tiburon. The specimen was maintained alive for several hours aboard the ship, and photographed through a microscope. This ventral view of a male shows the large sperm-carrying nephridial papillae. By: Adrian Glover, Natural History Museum. 4. Blackbelly Rosefish (Helicolenus dactylopterus), Gulf of Mexico, Viosca Knoll - depth 500m By: Kirsten Luke, USGS 5. A Stauroteuthis syrtensis specimen. The importance of the images is that they are of specimens that were collected as live, individual and undamaged animals using ROVs and submersibles. All from recent cruises to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge on the GO Sars and to the Gulf of Maine on the Seward Johnson. By: David Shale, Freelance. 6. Venus Flytrap Anemone (Actinosctyphia saginata), Gulf of Mexico, Viosca Knoll - depth 500m. By: Michael Randall, USGS 1 11th International Deep-Sea Biology Symposium National Oceanography Centre, Southampton Southampton Solent University Conference Centre Southampton UK 9 – 14 July 2006 Every three years the international deep-sea biology research community gets together to discuss the latest research, make new plans, meet old friends and make new acquaintances. In 2006 it is the turn of Southampton to host the International Deep-Sea Biology Symposium. Previous conferences have been held in Kristineberg, Sweden (1977), La Jolla, California, USA (1981), Hamburg, Germany (1985), Brest, France (1988), Copenhagen, Denmark (1991), Heraklion, Crete, Greece (1994), Monterey Bay, California, USA (1997), Galway, Ireland (2000) and Coos Bay, Oregon, USA (2003). You may notice this list has only 9 locations. The early history of the Deep-Sea Biology Symposium is a bit murky and several venues, including Copenhagen 1953, may have a claim in starting off the symposium series. The 11th International Deep-Sea Biology Symposium is being hosted by the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) (formerly known as the Southampton Oceanography Centre) and will be held at the Southampton Solent University Conference Centre in the heart of the city. We would like to thank the OceanLab (University of Aberdeen), the Scottish Association for Marine Science, the Natural History Museum, the University of Liverpool, the University of Plymouth, the British Antarctic Survey and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, for additional help. We are grateful for the sponsorship of the International Seabed Authority, BP, Transocean, Kongsberg Maritime, Southampton City Council, ChEss (Chemosynthetic Environments - Census of Marine Life), the Southampton Solent University, and the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. The sponsorship of the Symposium by several commercial companies and by the International Seabed Authority is indicative of the growing interest and importance of deep-sea living and non-living resources. Whether it is deep-sea fishing, the extraction of hydrocarbon reserves, or the future exploitation of mineral and genetic resources, the deep ocean offers many opportunities for wealth creation. This presents a problem, because together with the excitement of developing new resources in frontier areas comes the responsibility of exploiting those resources in a sustainable way, so that we can have riches and a healthy environment not only today but also for our sons, daughters and grandchildren. How do we plan the use of ocean resources sensibly over such a vast area and in a coordinated and regulated way? Most ocean space falls outside the Exclusive Economic Zones of nation states, and even resources within EEZs are linked one to another and with the High Seas. A global vision is needed for ocean management and the key to making a successful plan is knowledge. This Symposium brings together the vast majority of scientists engaged in deep-sea biology research around the World today. The prime aims are to highlight the latest research being carried out and to act as a melting pot for new ideas, hypotheses and strategies. With the growing need for good science in informing international ocean policy a significant part of the Symposium will focus on ocean management issues; how can scientific research inform policy formation and international legislation and what new research must be created to fill in the gaps? Many of the pressing questions in deep-sea biology are large in scale and so early results from the various field projects of the international Census of Marine Life (CoML) programme feature, notably from ChEss (Biogeography of Chemosynthetic Environments), MAR-ECO (Mid Atlantic Ridge Ecosystems), CeDAMar (Census of the Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life), CenSeam (Census of Seamount Biodiversity), COMARGE (Continental Margin Ecosystems on a Worldwide Scale), CAML (Census of Antarctic Marine Life) and ArcOD (Artic Ocean Diversity). We welcome to Southampton and we hope you have a fascinating, informative and social experience. David Billett and Paul Tyler National Oceanography Centre, Southampton July 2006 2 PROGRAMME OF ORAL PRESENTATIONS Sunday 9th July 17.00 Initial welcome and registration begins at National Oceanography Centre, Southampton 18.00 to 20.00 Welcome food and drinks at NOC 22.00 Registration ends Monday 10th July 08.00 Registration continues at Southampton Solent University Conference Centre 08.45 Welcome Setting the scene Chair: Paul Tyler 09.00 Heger A., King N., Wigham B.D., Jamieson A.J., Bagley P.M., Pfannkuche O. & Priede I.G. Profiles of pelagic bioluminescence in the water column over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. 09.20 France S. C., Watling, L. E., Auster P.J., Babb I.G., Moore J.A., Mullineaux L.S., Adkins J.F., Shank T. & Waller R. Observations of deep-water coral communities on the New England and Corner Rise Seamount Chains (Western North Atlantic). 09.40 Schlacher T. A., Schlacher-Hoenlinger M.A., Williams A. & Althaus F. Megabenthos diversity in submarine canyons: aspects of sponge richness and distributions in deep-sea canyons off Tasmania (Australia). 10.00 Erickson K.L. & Van Dover C.L. Inactive sulphide mounds of Manus Basin: the invertebrate community and the potential for chemoautotrophic food web. 10.20 Thistle D., Sedlacek L., Carman K.R., Fleeger J.W., Brewer P.G. & Barry J.P. Simulated sequestration of industrial carbon dioxide at a deep-sea site: effects on species of harpacticoid copepods. 10.40 Coffee and Posters From morphology to modelling