SCHEDULE OF EVENTS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2010 1800 WSN STUDENT WORKSHOP (Salon ABC) BECOMING A BETTER BIOLOGICAL BLOGGER: USING THE WEB TO COMMUNICATE SCIENCE TO THE PUBLIC Speakers include: Carol Blanchette, Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara Miriam Goldstein, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD Kristen Marhaver, CARMABI, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD 2030 WSN STUDENT MIXER Point Loma Sports Grill and Pub (2750 Dewey Rd, San Diego, CA) Open to all graduate and undergraduate students; no ticket required. See the student desk for directions. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2010 0855-1200 STUDENT SYMPOSIUM (Salon ABC) HUMAN IMPACTS ON COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS 1200-1300 LUNCH 1300-1745 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS 1830-2030 WSN POSTER SESSION (Salon ABC) 1930-2230 ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT HOUR (AAH) (Salon ABC) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2010 0800-1115 PRESIDENTIAL SYMPOSIUM (Salon ABC) CREATIVITY, CONTROVERSY, AND ECOLOGICAL CANON: A SYMPOSIUM HONORING PETER F. SALE 1115 AWARDING OF LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (by Phil Levin) 1130 AWARDING OF NATURALIST OF THE YEAR (by Phil Levin) 1135 WSN NATURALIST OF THE YEAR (Shara Fisler) 1200-1300 LUNCH 1300-1800 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS 1800-1900 ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING (Roosevelt Room) 1900-2100 PRESIDENTIAL BANQUET (Salon ABC) 2100-0100 WSN AUCTION followed by DANCE (Salon ABC) SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2010 0830-1230 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS 1230-1330 LUNCH 1330-1445 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS 1 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2010 STUDENT SYMPOSIUM (0855-1200) SALON ABC HUMAN IMPACTS ON COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS 0855 INTRODUCTION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS (Megan McKinzie) 0900 Peter Roopnarine California Academy of Sciences MODELING THE ROBUSTNESS AND FRAGILITY OF COASTAL MARINE COMMUNITIES 0930 Lisa Levin Scripps Institution of Oceanography HETEROGENEITY, DIVERSITY, AND THE HUMAN IMPACT ON CONTINENTAL MARGINS 1000 Ted Grosholz Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California Davis ECOSYSTEM IMPACTS OF COASTAL INVASIVE SPECIES 1030 BREAK 1100 Ben Halpern National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis ASSESSING AND MANAGING CUMULATIVE IMPACTS OF HUMAN ACTIVITIES IN MARINE SYSTEMS 1130 PANEL DISCUSSION 1200-1300 LUNCH 2 FRIDAY, NOV 12 1300-1500 † eligible for Best Student Paper Award Time Session 1: Session 2: Session 3: Session 4: SALON A SALON B SALON C ROOSEVELT ROOM Intertidal Ecology I Fisheries Biology I Community Ecology I Plant/Algal Biology Chair: Jen Burnaford Chair: Todd Anderson Chair: Jeremy Long Chair: Matt Edwards 1300 Conway-Cranos, LL Longo, C Salomon, AK † Schuster, MD AN INVESTIGATION OF THE THE ROLE OF INDIVIDUAL BEYOND THE OUTER PHLOROTANNINS AND URCHIN RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF BODY SIZE IN FISH SHORES; COMPARING KELP (STRONGYLOCENTROTUS MECHANISMS DRIVING DIVERSITY PATTERNS – A FOREST DYNAMICS FROM POLYACANTHUS) FEEDING VARIATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN CASE- HAIDA GWAII, BRITISH PREFERENCES IN THE RECOVERY OF MUSSEL STUDY COLUMBIA TO THE ALEUTIAN KELP EUALARIA BEDS CHANNEL ISLANDS, CA FISTULOSA 1315 † Augyte, S Miller, EF † Hensgen, GM Carney, LT A PRELIMINARY FLORISTIC CLIMATE-DRIVEN CHANGES THE EFFECTS OF HABITAT GENETIC AND ANALYSIS OF MARINE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FRAGMENTATION ON THE EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE INTERTIDAL ALGAE FROM COASTAL FISHES, 1972-2009 ABUNDANCE AND FOR A GAMETOPHYTE BANK CAPE MENDOCINO, CA TO DIVERSITY OF SMALL OF MIXED-AGE AND MIXED- CAPE BLANCO, OR NEKTON IN SUBTROPICAL ORIGIN IN A SOUTHERN SEAGRASS MEADOWS CALIFORNIA KELP FOREST 1330 Burnaford, JL † Espasandin, CL † Blake, R Edwards, MS LONG-TERM CHANGES IN EVALUATING ECOSYSTEM DIFFERENCES IN THE CLIMATE CHANGE AND KELP ABUNDANCE OF THE RECOVERY IN A RESTORED CHESAPEAKE BAY, VA FORESTS: BALANCING INTERTIDAL CANOPY- SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EELGRASS (ZOSTERA PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND FORMING KELP ESTUARY BY ACOUSTIC MARINA) COMMUNITY AS A RESPIRATION SACCHARINA SESSILE: MONITORING OF THE FUNCTION OF LOCAL COMMUNITY EFFECTS AND CALIFORNIA HALIBUT SHORELINE DEVELOPMENT. POSSIBLE CAUSES 1345 Ferrier, GA † McKinzie, MK † Segui, LM Lindstrom, SC SENSORY BIOLOGY AND FINE-SCALE HORIZONTAL URCHIN POPULATION NEW, RESURRECTED AND THE ROCKY INTERTIDAL: A AND VERTICAL MOVEMENT REGULATION IN CALIFORNIA REDEFINED SPECIES OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL OF BARRED SAND BASS, KELP FORESTS: USING AN MASTOCARPUS BARNACLE PROTEIN DRIVES PARALABRAX NEBULIFER, INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL (PHYLLOPHORACEAE, ECOLOGICAL WITHIN A KNOWN TO EXAMINE THE ROLE OF RHODOPHYTA) FROM THE INTERACTIONS SPAWNING AGGREGATION PREDATOR BEHAVIOR NORTHEAST PACIFIC 3 1400 Goddard, JH † Pirtle, JL Long, JD † Demes, KW DECLINE IN NUDIBRANCH HABITAT STRUCTURE TRAMPLING EFFECTS ON VARIATION IN ANATOMICAL GASTROPODS FOLLOWING INFLUENCES SURVIVAL AND BARNACLE ABUNDANCE AND MATERIAL PROPERTIES A CLIMATE-RELATED RANGE PREDATOR-PREY AND COVERAGE VARY WITH EXPLAINS DIFFERENCES IN SHIFT OF A LARGE INTERACTIONS OF EARLY ONTOGENY HYDRODYNAMIC PREDATORY AEOLID IN THE JUVENILE RED KING CRAB, PERFORMANCES OF FOLIOSE NE PACIFIC OCEAN PARALITHODES RED MACROALGAE CAMTSCHATICUS (RHODOPHYTA) 1415 † Moulton, OM Thompson, AR † Swanson, SA † Harrer, SL FOUNDATION SPECIES INFLUENCE OF SCALE ON THE UNIQUE BIOLOGY AND NON-DESTRUCTIVE SURFGRASS MORPHOLOGY THE DYNAMICS OF THE ECOLOGY OF THE ECHINOID METHODS FOR PREDICTING AND COASTAL GRADIENTS LARVAL FISH ASSEMBLAGE ECHINOSTREPHUS BENTHIC UNDERSTORY INFLUENCE INVERTEBRATE IN THE SOUTHERN ACICULATUS IN MOOREA, MACROALGAL BIOMASS AND COMMUNITIES ON THE CALIFORNIA BIGHT FRENCH POLYNESIA PRODUCTIVITY OREGON COAST 1430 Pister, B † Westphal, MJ † Darling, ES Rodriguez, GE TWENTY YEARS OF ROCKY GROWTH OF JUVENILE RED ALL STRESSED OUT? PATTERNS OF BIRTH AND INTERTIDAL MONITORING AT KING CRAB PARALITHODES SYNERGIES, RESILIENCE LOSS: WHAT EXPLAINS THE CABRILLO NATIONAL CAMTSCHATICUS IN THE AND COTOLERANCE ON BIOMASS DYNAMICS OF THE MONUMENT: DETECTION LAB AND FIELD EAST AFRICAN CORAL WORLD’S MOST PRODUCTIVE AND ANALYSIS OF LONG REEFS MARINE ORGANISM? TERM TRENDS 1445 † Hutto, SV † Loury, EK † Cameron, CM † Hondolero, DE DIFFERENTIAL DIET OF THE GOPHER THE EFFECTS OF DAMAGE PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT OF ROCKFISH (SEBASTES VARYING IN EXTENT AND CHARACTERISTICS OF KELP POSTELSIA PALMAEFORMIS CARNATUS) INSIDE AND ORIGIN ON THE GROWTH OF FORESTS IN KACHEMAK BAY, ACROSS SUBSTRATE TYPES OUTSIDE OF THE POINT SMALL CORALS ALASKA AND THE POTENTIAL LOBOS STATE MARINE FACILITATIVE EFFECTS OF RESERVE TURFING ALGAE 1500 Break Break Break Break 4 FRIDAY, NOV 12 1530-1745 † eligible for Best Student Paper Award Time Session 1: Session 2: Session 3: Session 4: SALON A SALON B SALON C ROOSEVELT ROOM Invertebrate & Molecular Invasive Species I Community Ecology II Population Biology I Biology Chair: Kevin Britton- Chair: Danielle Zacherl Chair: Ginny Eckert & Chair: Brian Hentschel Simmons Jodi Pirtle 1530 † Goulding, T † Clarke Murray, C † Bryson, S † Ashander THORNY-HEADED WORMS BIOMECHANICS OF FACILITATION BECOMES AQUACULTURE-INDUCED INFECTING MOLE CRABS: A INVASION: INTERSPECIFIC INHIBITION UNDER CHANGES TO DYNAMICS OF COSMOPOLITAN MARINE ADAPTATIONS FOR EXTREMELY STRESSFUL A MIGRATORY HOST AND PARASITE OR CRYPTIC TRANSPORT IN HULL CONDITIONS SPECIALIST PARASITE: A SPECIES COMPLEX? FOULING COMMUNITIES CASE STUDY OF PINK SALMON AND SEA LICE 1545 † Matthews, JA † Wells, EH Weitzman, BP Parnell, E THE EFFECTS OF RAPID AND DIFFERENTIAL THE EFFECTS OF SEA LOW FREQUENCY CLIMATE SIMULATED SUBLETHAL LEARNING FOR AN INVASIVE OTTER RECOLONIZATION FORCING OF GIANT KELP IN PREDATION ON THE IN-SITU CRAB PREDATOR ON TWO ON BENTHIC INTERTIDAL SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GROWTH AND PALP NON-NATIVE SNAILS INVERTEBRATE REGENERATION RATES OF COMMUNITIES IN GLACIER POLYDORA CORNUTA BAY, ALASKA. 1600 † Olivier, TJ Britton-Simmons, K Byrnes, JE † Painter, SM DOWNSTREAM HATCHING DENSITY-DEPENDENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE, STORM THE INFLUENCE OF MIGRATION OF THE RIVER DENSITY-INDEPENDENT FREQUENCY, AND THE POPULATION DENSITY AND SHRIMP MACROBRACHIUM RESPONSES OF A NATIVE FUTURE OF KELP FOREST SEX RATIO ON INDIVIDUAL OHIONE IN THE LOWER HERBIVORE TO A NON- FOOD WEBS SEX CHANGE IN A MISSISSIPPI RIVER SYSTEM NATIVE SEAWEED TEMPERATE REEF FISH, LYTHRYPNUS DALLI 1615 † Conner, SL † Passarelli, B † Gravem, SA † Block, HE INFECTION OF ADULT THE MARINE LIVE BAIT MICROCLIMATE CHANGES SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL MIGRATORY RIVER SHRIMPS TRADE IN CALIFORNIA: A THE STRENGTH OF THE VARIATION IN LARVAL MACROBRACHIUM OHIONE BY PATHWAY FOR THE PREDATOR-PREY TRAITS IN AN ABUNDANT A BRANCHIAL BOPYRID INTRODUCTION OF NON- INTERACTIONS IN ROCKY KELP FOREST FISH, ISOPOD, PROBOPYRUS INDIGENOUS SPECIES? SHORE COMMUNITIES OXYJULIS CALIFORNICA PANDALICOLA 5 1630 † Skillings, DJ † Linnenbrink, JM Reed, D Karl, SA GATEWAYS TO HAWAII – GENETIC DIVERSITY IS WAVE DISTURBANCE MICRO-SPATIAL GENETIC GENETIC POPULATION RECOVERED QUICKLY IN OVERWHELMS BOTTOM-UP AND THERMAL STRUCTURE OF THE NEWLY FOUNDED GOBY AND TOP-DOWN CONTROL ARCHITECTURE OF TROPICAL SEA CUCUMBER POPULATIONS: A PARADIGM IN CALIFORNIA KELP HAWAIIAN CORAL REEFS HOLOTHURIA ATRA FOR BIOLOGICAL INVASION? FORESTS 1645 † Raith, MR † Vogt, SC † Tyburczy, WR † Marhaver, KL PHYLOGENETIC THE CONSUMER’S DILEMMA, TIMING IS EVERYTHING: THE DISTANCE-DEPENDENT RELATIONSHIPS OF NATIVE OR NON-NATIVE EFFECTS OF SPECIES MORTALITY OF JUVENILE OSTREIDAE FROM THE SEAWEEDS? DENSITIES AND SEASONAL CORALS IS MICROBE- GULF OF CALIFORNIA AND PREY RECRUITMENT ON MEDIATED, SPECIES- OUTER BAJA CALIFORNIA PREDATORS IN A WHELK- SPECIFIC AND MAY DRIVE BARNACLE SYSTEM BEHAVIORAL EVOLUTION OF LARVAE 1700 † Cavanaugh, KC SEASONAL TO DECADAL DYNAMICS OF GIANT KELP BIOMASS IN THE SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL 1715 Eberl, R PHYLOGEOGRAPHY