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Abstracts from the 6Th North American Echinoderm Conference Jim Nestler Walla Walla University Gulf of Mexico Science Volume 29 Article 7 Number 2 Number 2 2011 Abstracts From the 6th North American Echinoderm Conference Jim Nestler Walla Walla University DOI: 10.18785/goms.2902.07 Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/goms Recommended Citation Nestler, J. 2011. Abstracts From the 6th North American Echinoderm Conference. Gulf of Mexico Science 29 (2). Retrieved from https://aquila.usm.edu/goms/vol29/iss2/7 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Gulf of Mexico Science by an authorized editor of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Nestler: Abstracts From the 6th North American Echinoderm Conference ABSTRACT TABLE OF CONTENTS In alphabetical order by first author’s last name PAGE NUMBER AUTHORS TITLE ADDRESS 138 M. F. Barker ACTIVITY OF PATIRIELLA REGULARIS Portobello Marine Laboratory, AND MERIDIASTRA MORTENSENI IN University of Otago, PO Box 8, LOWERED SALINITY Portobello 9048, Dunedin, New Zealand 138 I. Bosch STUDIES OF A SYMBIOTIC (IB, ES) Department of Biology, State E. St. James ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SUB- University of New York, Geneseo NY W. B. Jaeckle CUTICULAR BACTERIA AND SEA 14454 USA; (WBJ) Department of STAR LARVAE THAT ARE WIDELY Biology, Illinois Wesleyan University, DISTRIBUTED IN THE SARGASSO Bloomington, IL 61702, USA SEA AND THE GULF STREAM 138 M. I. Brogger GROWTH IN THE FIELD IN (MIB, PEP) Laboratorio de Ecosistemas P. E. Penchaszadeh OPHIOPLOCUS JANUARII Costeros, Museo Argentino de Ciencias (OPHIUROIDEA) USING CHEMICAL Naturales, Av. A´ ngel Gallardo 470, TAGGING Buenos Aires, Argentina 139 C. J. Brothers VISCERAL REGENERATION BY THE (CJB,JRN) Department of Biological J. R. Nestler UPTAKE OF DISSOLVED ORGANIC Sciences, Walla Walla University, R. W. Lee MATERIAL IN THE SEA CUCUMBER College Place WA 99324 USA; (RWL) PARASTICHOPUS CALIFORNICUS School of Biological Sciences, Washington State Univesity, Pullman WA 99164 USA 139 C. Burns PALEOECHINODERMATOLOGY 101: Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology, R. Mooi TERTIARY ECHINODERMS OF THE California Academy of Sciences, 55 PACIFIC NORTHWEST Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco CA 94118 USA 139 R. C. Challener REDUCED GROWTH UNDER (RCC, JBM) Department of Biological J. B. McClintock CONDITIONS OF NEAR-FUTURE Sciences, University of Alabama at OCEAN ACIDIFICATION IN THE Birmingham, Birmingham AL 35294, ECOLOGICALLY IMPORTANT USA SEA URCHIN LYTECHINUS VARIEGATES 140 T. Chen MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF THE (TC, MCB) Department of Mechanical M. C. Boyce TILED AND ACTUATING Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of C. Ortiz EXOSKELETON OF THE HELMET Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, URCHIN, COLOBOCENTROTUS Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; (CO) ATRATUS Department of Material Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 140 M. P. Cortes LUIDIA LAWRENCEI Department of Biology, University of H.-M. Chung (ECHINODERMATA: ASTEROIDEA): West Florida, Pensacola FL 32514, USA C. M. Pomory TO BE, OR NOT TO BE, THAT IS THE QUESTION 141 H. M. Croce FORMATION AND GROWTH OF Department of Biological Sciences, R. L. Turner VERTEBRAE IN BRITTLE STARS: Florida Institute of Technology, DO OSSICLES EVER FUSE? Melbourne, FL 32901 E 2011 by the Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium of Alabama Published by The Aquila Digital Community, 2011 1 Gulf of Mexico Science, Vol. 29 [2011], No. 2, Art. 7 132 GULF OF MEXICO SCIENCE, 2011, VOL. 29(2) PAGE NUMBER AUTHORS TITLE ADDRESS 141 H. M. Croce CONCURRENT GROWTH AND (HMC, RLT) Department of Biological R. L. Turner DIFFERENTIATION OF Sciences, Florida Institute of REGENERATING ARMS IN Technology, Melbourne, FL 32901, USA BRITTLESTARS 141 C. J. DeMauro RIGHTING BEHAVIOR IN INTACT (CJD, PCD) Department of Biology, P. C. Daniel AND AUTOTOMIZED SEA STARS Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY (ASTERIAS FORBESI) 11549, USA 142 J. F. Dynowski FLUID DYNAMICAL ANALYSIS OF (JFD, AR-N) State Museum of Natural J. H. Nebelsick RECENT AND FOSSIL CRINOID History Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, D-70191 A. Roth-Nebelsick SUSPENSION FEEDING MECHANISMS Stuttgart, Germany; (JFD, JHN) Department of Geosciences, Eberhard Karls University of Tu¨bingen, Ho¨lderlinstraße 12, D-72074 Tu¨bingen, Germany 142 T. A. Ebert REPRODUCTIVE CHANGES OF (TAE) Dept. Zoology, Oregon State J. C. Herna´ndez STRONGYLOCENTROTUS PURPURATUS University, Corvallis, OR, USA; (JCH) M. P. Russell ALONG THE NORTH AMERICAN Dpto. Biologı´a Animal (Ciencias COAST: OCEAN CONDITIONS AND Marinas), Univ. de La Laguna, BOTTOM-UP MODIFICATIONS Tenerife, Islas Canarias; (MPR) Dept. Biology, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, 19085-1699 USA 142 D. J. Eernisse ED RICKETTS, WALTER FISHER, Department of Biological Science, AND A FORGOTTEN ACCOUNT OF California State University Fullerton, THE SEA OF CORTEZ Fullerton, CA 92834-6850 USA SEASTARS 143 J.-P. Friedrich ANALYZING INTRASPECIFIC (JPF) State Museum of Natural History J. H. Nebelsick VARIATIONS OF JURASSIC Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, D-70191 ECHINOIDS Stuttgart, Germany; (JPF, JHN) Institute of Geoscience, University of Tu¨bingen, Sigwartstrasse 10, D-72076 Tu¨bingen, Germany 143 A. Gale RESOLVING CONFLICT BETWEEN School of Earth and Environmental MOLECULAR AND MORPHOLOGICAL Sciences, University of Portsmouth, EVIDENCE FOR NEOASTEROID Burnaby Building, Burnaby Road, PHYLOGENY Portsmouth PO1 3QL,United Kingdom 144 J. Hodin BROADENING YOUR ‘‘BROADER (JH, PM, DE) Stanford University, P. Miller IMPACTS’’: A PROPOSAL TO THE Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, D. Epel ECHINODERM RESEARCH CA, USA; (JH) Department of Biology, COMMUNITY University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA 144 F. H. C. Hotchkiss OBSERVATIONS ON ONYCHASTER (FHCH) Marine and Paleobiological A. Glass MEEK & WORTHEN, 1868 Research Institute, PO Box 1016, (OPHIUROIDEA: ONYCHASTERIDAE) Vineyard Haven MA 02568, USA; (AG) (FAMENNIAN - VISEAN AGE) Earth and Ocean Sciences, Duke University, Durham NC 27708, USA 144 F. H. C. Hotchkiss AN ARM-STUMP SPECIMEN OF (FHCH) Marine and Paleobiological J. K. Keesing ARCHASTER ANGULATUS MU¨ LLER & Research Institute, PO Box 1016, TROSCHEL, 1842 (ECHINODERMATA: Vineyard Haven MA 02568, USA; (JKK) ASTEROIDEA) CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Private Bag 5, Wembley WA 6913 Australia https://aquila.usm.edu/goms/vol29/iss2/7 2 DOI: 10.18785/goms.2902.07 Nestler: Abstracts From the 6th North American Echinoderm Conference ABSTRACTS 133 PAGE NUMBER AUTHORS TITLE ADDRESS 145 A. W. Hunter THE PALAEOECOLOGY OF A NEW (AWH)DepartmentofGeoscienceand N. Landman HYDROCARBON SEEP MOUND Petroleum Engineering, Petronas N. Larson DWELLING SEA LILY (CRINOIDEA, University of Technology, Bandar Seri T. Oji ECHINODERMATA) FROM THE Iskandar, 31750 Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia; UPPER CRETACEOUS (CAMPANIAN) (AWH)GeoscienceCentre-Museum, TEPEE BUTTES, SOUTH DAKOTA, Georg-August University of Go¨ttingen, UNITED STATES Goldschmidtstraße. 1-5, 37077 Go¨ttingen, Germany; (NL) American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024-5192 USA; (NL) Black Hills Institute, 117 Main Street, Hill City, SD 57745 USA; (TO) Nagoya University Museum, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan 145 W. B. Jaeckle THE ANUS AS A SECOND MOUTH: (WBJ) Department of Biology, Illinois R. R. Strathmann ANAL SUSPENSION FEEDING BY AN Wesleyan University, Bloomington IL ORAL DEPOSIT FEEDING SEA 61702, USA;(RRS) Friday Harbor CUCUMBER Laboratories, University of Washington, 620 University Road, Friday Harbor WA 98250, USA 146 K. E. Kaack SALINITY EFFECTS ON ARM Department of Biology, University of C. M. Pomory REGENERATION IN LUIDIA West Florida, Pensacola FL 32514, USA CLATHRATA (ECHINODERMATA: ASTEROIDEA) 146 A. Kroh FOSSIL BRITTLE STARS FROM (AK) Natural History Museum Vienna, B. Thuy THE PARATETHYS (MIOCENE, Department of Geology & EUROPE) – STATE OF THE ART Palaeontology, Burgring 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria; (BT) Geoscience Institute, University of Go¨ttingen, Department of Geobiology, Goldschmidtstrasse 3, 37077 Go¨ttingen, Germany 146 M. W. Langdon FACTORS INFLUENCING THE (MWL,MvK) School of Biological M. van Keulen DISTRIBUTION AND POPULATION Sciences and Biotechnology, Murdoch E. I. Paling OF THE GRAZING URCHIN University, South Street, Murdoch, WA, ECHINOMETRA MATHAEI WITHIN 6150, Australia; (EIP) Sinclair Knight THE NINGALOO MARINE PARK Merz, 263 Adelaide Terrace, Perth, WA 6001, Australia 147 J. M. Lawrence SYMMETRY OF THE RAYS OF LUIDIA (JML, GT) Department of Integrative C. M. Pomory CLATHRATA (ECHINODERMATA: Biology, University of South Florida, G. Trowbridge ASTEROIDEA) Tampa FL 33620, USA; (CMP) Department of Biology, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL 32514 USA 147 E. M. Lopes MORPHOLOGICAL COMPARISON Department of Invertebrates, Museu C. R. R. Ventura AND GAMETIC COMPATIBILITY Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio AMONG COLOR MORPHS OF de Janeiro; Quinta da Boa Vista, s/n PARACENTROTUS GAIMARDI Sa˜o Cristo´va˜o, Rio de Janeiro, 2094-040 (ECHINODERMATA: ECHINOIDEA) Brazil 148 T. J. Loveday ASSOCIATION OF A FISH PARASITE, (TJL, JRN) Department of Biological J. R. Nestler URONEMA MARINUM,WITHTHESEA Sciences, Walla Walla University, H. J. Small STAR LEPTASTERIAS SPP. College Place WA 99324, USA; (HJS) Department of Environmental and Aquatic Animal Health, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point VA 23062, USA Published by The Aquila Digital Community, 2011 3 Gulf of Mexico Science, Vol. 29 [2011], No. 2, Art. 7 134 GULF OF MEXICO SCIENCE,
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