European Coral Reef Symposium Oxford, 2017 V.2. 1 Contents Welcome Dear Delegates, 3. Welcome Welcome to the European Coral Reef Symposium! 4. Brought to you by We, the Reef Conservaton UK (RCUK) commitee, were invited by the Internatonal Society of Reef Studies to host a European coral reef meetng in 2017 in celebraton of twenty years of RCUK. Almost a 5. ECRS organising commitee year later and over 500 coral reef nerds are descending on a very festve Oxford! 6. ECRS Volunteers The interest in the conference has been overwhelming, it has pulled us out of our traditonal (yet 7. Sustainable conference smaller) home at ZSL London Zoo and into something rather more prestgious. The friendly and relaxed atmosphere of our annual gatherings is at the heart of RCUK and we hope this has travelled with us to 8. The Venues Oxford. 9. Moving between venues We have strived to make ECRS2017 as sustainable, environmentally friendly and family friendly as possible. Please join us on the band wagon by bringing along your refllable water botle and downloading 10. Inside the Examinaton Schools the conference App. 11. Conference venue map We look forward to seeing you all and hope you enjoy three days of sharing science! 12. Our plenary speakers The ECRS/RCUK commitee 13. Informaton for presenters #ECRS2017 [email protected] 14 - 17. The Schedule @ReefConsUK www.reefconservatonuk.co.uk/ecrs 18 - 37. Session line-ups 38 - 40. Workshop informaton 20 years of Reef Conservaton UK (RCUK) 41. Student grants & prizes Founding RCUK commitee Kristan Teleki, Heather Koldewey, Alastair Harborne, Dorie Smith, Jan Smith, Damon Stanwell-Smith, Elizabeth 42 - 45. Posters Wood 46 & 47. Trade Stands Evolving out of the UK commitee for the Internatonal Year of the Reef, RCUK was founded in 1997 and aimed 48. Conference Proceedings to maximize communicaton between coral reef enthusiasts based within the UK, whilst minimizing tme and money required to gather together. The frst RCUK conference was held in 1998 and atracted a great mix of 49. In & around Oxford students, academics and professionals, all who shared an enthusiasm in promotng reef awareness with the frst ever conference programme statng; “We hope this is the beginning of a sustained and contnued efort to ensure that RCUK and the UK reef community maintain an actve role in promotng conservaton, public awareness and educaton about coral reefs” Twenty years later our annual RCUK meetng at the Zoological Society of London has contnued to grow, with last year being our frst sell-out event! Each year fosters a welcoming atmosphere and has developed some great traditons - most notably Guylian chocolate bars and (warm) beers in the aquarium! 2 3 Brought to you by ECRS / RCUK Commitee Reef Conservaton UK (RCUK) is an informal commitee founded in 1997 and made up of coral reef enthusiasts from across the UK (and slightly further afeld) who lend their tme to organising and hostng an annual one-day conference at ZSL London Zoo. Rebecca Short Kirsty Richards Bryan Wilson Zoological Society of London / Zoological Society of London University of Bergen Imperial College London The Internatonal Society for Reef Studies (ISRS) was founded in 1980 and is the principal learned society to which reef scientsts and managers from across the world belong. The main objectve of the Society is to promote the producton and disseminaton of scientfc knowledge and understanding of coral reefs. Catherine Head Robert Yarlet David Curnick As the oldest university in the English-speaking world, Oxford is a unique University of Oxford University of Exeter Zoological Society of London and historic insttuton. Oxford has a distnctve collegiate structure. Students and academics beneft from belonging both to the University, a large, internatonally-renowned insttuton, and to a college or hall, a small, interdisciplinary academic community. The central University is made up of many diferent sectons, including academic and administratve departments, libraries and museums. Founded in 1826, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) is an Dom Andradi-Brown Victoria Jefers Mike Sweet internatonal scientfc, conservaton and educatonal charity whose WWF Blue Ventures University of Derby mission is to promote and achieve the worldwide conservaton of animals and their habitats. Realised through our groundbreaking science and actve conservaton projects in more than 50 countries, and two Zoos, ZSL London Zoo and ZSL Whipsnade Zoo. @ReefConsUK #ECRS2017 4 5 ECRS Volunteers A sustainable conference? What does that look like? Rather than having to plough through a hefy conference programme to fnd the informaton you need, our ECRS volunteers and commitee members will be on hand (and easy to spot) throughout the conference to answer any questons, point you in the right directon or just Conferences. have a chat with! Great for learning, networking and forming new collaboratons. All with the intenton of advancing our felds and generatng innovatve ideas for protectng our oceans and our planet. But atractng an internatonal audience can Joanna Bluemel, CEFAS come at a cost, and at the expense of the environments that we are working hard to protect. As a reef conservaton commitee, we, with the help of our venues and partners, have been trying to make ECRS 2017 as environmentally Steven Carrion friendly as possible, and we’d love you guys to do your bit too! Hannah Gilchrist Catriona Glendinning Bring your own re-usable water botles! Kirste Skinner, ZSL Whipsnade ZSL’s One Less team are here and we’re taking up the challenge to ditch, not just single-use plastc water botles, but Emma Levy, Zoological Society of London single-use plastc all together! Jugs of water will be available during each of the breaks and at lunch tmes and there are water fountains all around the venue, therefore please think ahead and bring along your own reusable and refllable Sophia Castello, University of Oxford water botle. Lucy Jupe, University of Plymouth Christna Hunt, University of Oxford Desperate for that morning cofee on the go? Not to worry! A litle something will be in your conference bag enabling you to carry around your cafeine fx all day, Dan Bayley, University College London / Zoological Society of London just rinse, refll and reuse. Laura Stoltenberg, Southern Cross University Rebekah Trehern, University of Exeter Do you really need to print that? Our full programme will only be available as an e-programme that you can save on your device or view using the Eslam Osman, University of Essex conference App. We will be keeping printng to a minimum - TV screens and signs will keep you up to date with Amy Sing Wong, University of Essex what’s happening when. If you have any questons and can’t access the full programme, we have a team of dedicated volunteers who will be around to help. A BIG thank you goes out to all of our volunteers! Ditch the paper & download the App! We have teamed up with Whova to bring you an all singing, all dancing conference App. Everything from the low-down of presenters within each session, full abstracts and the complete list of delegates will be at your fngertps. Details will be coming to an inbox near you soon! Family friendly conference Charge your phone and burn some calories! We understand that childcare can be a major challenge when atending a conference We have teamed up with Pedal Emporium to promote cycling and sustainability! Have your legs seized up sitng and or symposium. To take on that challenge the ECRS commitee have teamed up with listening to gripping talks all morning? Has the conference App drained all your phone batery? We’ve got you covered. Lemonjelly Childcare (www.lemonjellychildcaresolutons.co.uk) who will provide Don’t worry about bringing your phone charger to ECRS, just your legs! And yes, we have ofset the carbon emited to safe on-site childcare for atendees who have let us know that they will children in get the bikes to Oxford! tow. There are limits on capacity, please contact us prior to bringing along the litle ones. Lets ofset some Carbon! th Two certfed nannies equipped with toys will be based in the Family Room (Room 10) throughout the conference. We have teamed up with the World Land Trust who will be atending ECRS on Thursday 14 to help us ofset our carbon emissions. We will be ofsetng the carbon emissions for the general running of the conference, as well as all The room also provides a quite space for baby feeding. Changing facilites are located opposite Room 8. conference associated travel we’ve done as a commitee. Atendees are also encouraged to ofset their own carbon emissions for their travel to ECRS, and can do so at the World Land Trust stand. Conference Catering To limit our carbon footprint we have opted for a fully vegetarian menu. Our venue caterers are commited to delivering excellent, ethical and local food including; free-range eggs, 100% Fairtrade cofee, wholegrain, wholemeal bread, Fairtrade juices and Red Tractor Certfed suppliers. @ReefConsUK #ECRS2017 6 7 The venues Moving between venues Royal Oak Pub, Museum of Natural History, Somerville College, Woodstock Rd, OX2 6HD Parks Rd, OX1 3PW Conference Venue Woodstock Road, OX2 6HD Student drinks from 7pm, Drinks recepton 6pm, th Conference Dinner 8pm, Tues 12 Wed 13th The University of Oxford’s Grade II listed Examinaton Schools building was designed by Sir Thomas Jackson (1835–1924) Thurs 14th and was completed in 1882, in Clipsham stone. It is one of the largest buildings owned by the University, and as the name suggests, the main purpose of the Schools is for the organisaton and administraton of the university’s examinatons. It also provides a major lecturing facility for the University and is used as a meetng and conference venue outside term tme.