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2019 ANNUAL MEETING CSUN: SCHEDULE at a GLANCE Main Events: CSU Northridge, University Student Union (USU) East 2019 ANNUAL MEETING CSUN: SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE Main Events: CSU Northridge, University Student Union (USU) East FRIDAY May 4, 2018 Symposium Symposium Time Tujunga Room Altadena Room 8:20-9:40 Desert Sciences *Rocky Reefs 9:40-9:55 Break 9:55-10:55 Desert Sciences Rocky Reefs 10:55-11:15 Break SCAS President’s Address & Awards Presentation 11:15-11:45 Location: Lake View Terrace Room Plenary Speaker: Dr. Don Prothero 11:45-12:45 Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future Location: Lake View Terrace Room 12:45-2:00 Lunch Symposium Contributed Papers Contributed Papers Contributed Papers Time Tujunga Room Altadena Room Van Nuys Room Panorama City Ecosystems, Habitats & 2:00-3:15 Terrestrial Ecology Parasitology Physiology Climate Change 3:15-3:35 Break Ecosystems, Habitats & 3:35-5:05 Terrestrial Ecology Parasitology Community Ecology Climate Change Poster Session 5:15-7:30 Location: Orange Grove Bistro *Rocky Reefs Symposium starts at 8:40 AM 1 Friday, May 3, 2019 Plenary Speaker REALITY CHECK: HOW SCIENCE DENIERS THREATEN OUR FUTURE Professor Donald R. Prothero, Ph.D.* Modern civilization and even human survival would not be possible without significant advances in science and medicine, yet even in the most developed countries there are people who deny the evidence of science when it conflicts with their religious or political agendas. Modern science deniers often have the same psychological factors and motivations, and typically employ the same tactics to deny reality, often using "the Holocaust Denier's playbook". In this lecture, we will examine some of the most serious forms of science denialism, from climate deniers to creationists to anti-vaxxers, why they resist the discoveries of science yet embrace the latest technology and medicine, and what it means for our future. *Professor Prothero is a geologist, paleontologist and author with a research focus on mammalian paleontology and magnetostratigraphy. He has authored and edited more than 30 books and over 250 scientific papers, including five geology textbooks. For 27 years he was a member of the faculty at Occidental College, and he previously taught at California Institute of Technology, Knox College, Vassar College and Columbia University where he led many undergraduate paleontological and geological field trips. Dr. Prothero is currently a research associate in vertebrate paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. 2 SYMPOSIA SESSIONS: 8:20 – 9:40 AM FRIDAY, MAY 3 8:20 – 9:40 AM Symposium Symposium Tujunga Room Altadena Room Time Desert Sciences Rocky Reefs Chair: D. Sandquist Chair: M. Adreani CSU Desert Studies Consortium CSU Northridge Sandquist D, CSU Desert Studies 8:20 Consortium. An introduction to the Desert Studies Consortium 1. Knott, J. CSU Fullerton. Historic 7. Allen, L. CSU Northridge. The song of 8:40 erosion patterns and replicate photography Stereolepis in death valley and the Mojave Desert 2. Hibbs, B. CSU Los Angeles. Time series 8. Estrada, A. CSU Northridge. Abalone 9:00 data resolves issues of imported water (Haliotis spp.) recruitment at Santa recharge in Coachella Valley, California Catalina Island 3. Holk, G. CSU Long Beach. The 9. Claisse, J. CSU Pomona. Fish petrologic and hydrothermal evolution of assemblages and reproductive output 9:20 the coastal batholith of Peru: insights from potential around California oil and gas oxygen isotopes platforms and natural reefs 9:40 Break 3 SYMPOSIA SESSIONS: 9:55 AM – 12:45 PM FRIDAY, MAY 3 9:55 AM – 12:45 PM Symposium Symposium Tujunga Room Altadena Room Time Desert Sciences Rocky Reefs Chair: D. Sandquist Chair: M. Adreani CSU Desert Studies Consortium CSU Northridge 4. Melchiorre, E. CSU San Bernardino. 10. Nava, E. CSU Northridge. The effects Determination of drought resiliency for of marine protected areas on fish foraging endangered fish habitat using behavior 9:55 undergraduate experiential field learning, CSU Desert Studies Center, Zzyzx, California 5. § Mills, C. Claremont Graduate 11. Steele, M. CSU Northridge. Rapid University. A vascular flora of the Nopah response of kelp bass Paralabrax 10:15 Range, Inyo County, California clathratus size to changes in fishing regulations 6. Yoder, J. CSU Northridge. Learning 12. §, £ Scafidi, K. CSU Northridge. The and coevolution in plant-pollinator effects of an invasive alga Sargassum 10:35 mutualism horneri on the trophic dynamics of temperate rocky reefs 10:55 Break SCAS President’s Address & Awards Presentation 11:15 Location: Lake View Terrace Room Plenary Speaker: Dr. Don Prothero 11:45 Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future Location: Lake View Terrace Room 12:45 Lunch Break Symbols denote student award categories: § for SCAS and £ for AIFRB 4 ORAL PRESENTATIONS: 2:00 – 3:15 PM Friday, May 3 2:00 – 3:15 PM Symposium Contributed Papers Contributed Papers Contributed Papers Tujunga Room Altadena Room Van Nuys Room Panorama City Time Terrestrial Ecology Parasitology Ecosystems, Habitats & Physiology Climate Change Chair: E. Questad Chair: R. Hechinger Chair: A. Bull Chair: TBA Cal Poly Pomona UC San Diego, SIO UC Santa Barbara, MSI 13. Meyer, W. Pomona 24. §, † Cuevas, E. 32. Steele, C. CSU 43. Pandori, L. UC College. Introduction to CSU Long Beach. Channel Islands. Irvine. Risky business: the emerging Southern Quantifying Increased organic vulnerability of California extracellular tachyzoite carbon inputs to California mussels to undergraduate survival and invasion- Southern California warming varies across 2:00 terrestrial ecological capability under a wide beaches following the life stages and habitats research network range of environmental 2017 Thomas and 2018 conditions in the human Woolsey fires parasite, Toxoplasma gondii 14. Martinez, D. CSU 25. §, † Nguyen, K. 33. Vo, K. CSU Long 44. §, £ Pouv, A. CSU Fullerton. CSU Fullerton. Beach. Effects of Long Beach. Using the Consumption of free- Characterization of mammalian aposematic aerobic enzyme, citrate roaming cats by coyotes TbtMscS, a pattern and color synthase, to infer 2:15 in Southern California mechanosensitive contrast variation on biogeographic dispersal channel in predator avoidance potential and Trypanosoma brucei learning physiological state in echinoid larvae 15. Yamauchi, J. CSU 26. §, † Gomez, D. 34. Chabot, C.L. CSU 45. §, £ Rutledge, K. Northridge. How does CSU Fullerton. New Northridge. Functional UC Los Angeles. ontogeny affect changes cysteine protease diversity of permafrost Killing them softly: 2:30 in the gut microbiome inhibitors with effect communities distributed ontogeny of jaw of the American against Trypanosoma across space and time mechanics and stiffness bullfrog? cruzi in mollusk-feeding freshwater stingrays 16. Lewis-Smith, B. 27. §, † Hernandez, R. 35. § Britt, G. Loyola 46. §, £ Ellis, K. CSU Occidental College. UC San Diego, SIO. Marymount University. Long Beach. The The flight of the bumble Commencing evasive Plant bioaccumulation effects of larval bee: tracking species maneuvers: California analysis of heavy culturing density on 2:45 distribution declines killifish move, dart, and metals in Southern development and across Southern scratch more during California bioswale physiology of the California trematode parasite echinoid echinoderm, exposure and attack Dendraster excentricus 17. Burke, C. CSU 28. Mora, A. UC 36. Gelpi, C. Catalina 47. § Brisson, C. CSU Fullerton. Bait-station Riverside. Evidence for Marine Society. First Northridge. Interactions use by non-target a love potion parasite: results from the between bacteria and 3:00 wildlife as a route of trematode parasites Catalina dynamic ocean coral microalgal exposure of urban increase male fiddler chemistry program symbionts carnivores to crab sexual display rodenticides rates Symbols denote student award categories: § for SCAS, £ for AIFRB and † for SCSP 5 ORAL PRESENTATIONS: 3:35 – 5:05 PM Friday, May 3 3:35 – 5:05 PM Symposium Contributed Papers Contributed Papers Contributed Papers Tujunga Room Altadena Room Van Nuys Room Panorama City Ecosystems, Habitats & Time Terrestrial Ecology Parasitology Climate Change Community Ecology Chair: E. Questad Chair: R. Hechinger Chair: A. Bull Chair: E. Reed Cal Poly Pomona UC San Diego, SIO UC Santa Barbara, MSI E Read & Associates 18. § Singh, M. Scripps 29. Appy, R. Cabrillo 37. Wallingford, P. UC 48. Spies, B. UC Los College. Role of soil Marine Aquarium. Irvine. Impacts of Angeles. Status, habitat microbial communities Transmission of the Mexacanthina lugubris, impacts, and in Artemisia californica nematode the dark unicorn in metapopulation reestablishment Vasorhabdochona Southern California management of the 3:35 cablei (Rhabdoconidae) intertidal communities tidewater goby from the longjaw Eucyclogobius mudsucker Gillichthys newberryi: a federally mirabilis endangered California coastal endemic 19. Davies, C. 30. Buth, D. UC Los 38. § Haas, A. CSU 49. Obaza, A. Paua Occidental College. Angeles. Acquisition of Long Beach. Modeling Marine Research The importance of macroparasites by effects of ocean Group. Spatial California buckwheat young-of-the-year acidification on distribution and fish 3:50 Eriogonum arrow gobies predator-prey dynamics community structure of fasciculatum as a Clevelandia ios in the rocky intertidal open coast eelgrass resource for native bees zone Zostera spp. in Southern California 20. § Jolly, A. CSU Los 31. Hopper, J. USC. 39. § Martinez, S. & 50. §, £ Jarvis, G. CSU Angeles. Plasticity to Beyond parasites in Tafoya, D. CSU Northridge. Evaluating drought of the leaf food
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