Western Society of Naturalists Meeting Program Tacoma, WA Nov. 13-16, 2014 1 Western Society of Naturalists Treasurer President ~ 2014 ~ Andrew Brooks Steven Morgan Dept of Ecology, Evolution Bodega Marine Laboratory, Website and Marine Biology UC Davis www.wsn-online.org UC Santa Barbara P.O. Box 247 Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Bodega, CA 94923 Secretariat [email protected] [email protected] Michael Graham Scott Hamilton Member-at-Large Diana Steller President-Elect Phil Levin Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Northwest Fisheries Science Gretchen Hofmann 8272 Moss Landing Rd Center Dept. Ecology, Evolution, & Moss Landing, CA 95039 Conservation Biology Division Marine Biology Seattle, WA 98112 Corey Garza UC Santa Barbara [email protected] CSU Monterey Bay Santa Barbara, CA 93106 [email protected] Seaside, CA 93955 [email protected] 95TH ANNUAL MEETING NOVEMBER 13-16, 2014 IN TACOMA, WASHINGTON Registration and Information Welcome! The registration desk will be open Thurs 1600-2000, Fri-Sat 0730-1800, and Sun 0800-1000. Registration packets will be available at the registration table for those members who have pre-registered. Those who have not pre-registered but wish to attend the meeting can pay for membership and registration (with a $20 late fee) at the registration table. Unfortunately, banquet tickets cannot be sold at the meeting because the hotel requires final counts of attendees well in advance. The Attitude Adjustment Hour (AAH) is included in the registration price, so you will only need to show your badge for admittance. WSN t-shirts and other merchandise can be purchased or picked up at the WSN Student Committee table. A partial list of restaurants near the Murano Hotel can be found at the end of the program. Continuing This Year! In addition to all the traditional WSN special events (see the schedule!), the dance immediately following the auction on Saturday night (so probably starting ~11 pm) is back by popular demand! The Student Committee will provide music. A cash bar will be available from 10 PM – 12 AM, and the dance floor will be open until midnight. Thanks to Student Travel Fund Donors We'd like to thank all of you who made donations to the Student Travel Fund when you registered; those funds are greatly appreciated by our many student members. Thanks to all! 2 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014 2030 BENEATH THE WAVES FILM FESTIVAL and MIXER (Pavilion AGD) Open to all WSN Members FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2014 0820-1200 STUDENT SYMPOSIUM (Pavilion AGD) CONSERVATION IN THE ANTRHOPOCENE: BALANCING NATURE AND HUMAN NEEDS 1200-1300 LUNCH 1300-1800 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS (Pavilion A, B, C, D, E, F) 1830-2200 WSN POSTER SESSION (Venice Ballroom) 1900-2200 ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT HOUR (AAH) (Venice Ballroom) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2014 0820-1115 PRESIDENTIAL SYMPOSIUM (Pavilion AGD) CHALLENGES BOUNDING TRADITIONAL MARINE ECOLOGY 1115 AWARDING OF LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (by Corey Garza) 1130 AWARDING OF NATURALIST OF THE YEAR AWARD (by Mark Carr) 1135 WSN NATURALIST OF THE YEAR (Steve Lonhart) 1200-1300 LUNCH 1300-1800 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS (Pavilion A, B, C, D, E, F) 1830-1930 ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING (Pavilion C) 2000-2200 PRESIDENTIAL BANQUET (Pavilion AGD) 2200-2300 WSN AUCTION (Pavilion AGD) SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2014 0930-1130 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS (Pavilion A, B, C, D, E, F) 1200-1250 PLENARY SPEAKER (Pavilion AGD) Dr. Daniel Pauly 1250-1300 BEST STUDENT PAPER/POSTER AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENT 1300-1400 COWBOY BBQ LUNCH (Rotunda, Pavilion CF) 3 Hotel Floorplan 4 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014 BENEATH THE WAVES FILM FESTIVAL and MIXER (2030-2230) PAVILION AGD The Beneath the Waves Film Festival aims to encourage, inspire, and educate scientists, advocates, and the general public to produce and promote open-access, engaging marine-issue documentaries. Our goal is to facilitate widespread science communication by bringing together marine films from around the world for open discussion, while also providing hands-on educational opportunities for researchers interested in film and media outreach. www.beneaththewavesfilmfest.org 2030 FIRST SESSION Shadow Reef (5 min., Elke Specker) Stress Physiology of Sharks in Fishing (4 min., Christine Shepard) Sponges of the Caribbean: What ecological factors affect them most (3 min., Joseph Pawlik) Ecosystem Science: Facing Tradeoffs in Ocean Managament (4 min., Phil Levin) Oceans: A Silent World (8 min., Marta Bolgan) Postcard from the Oregon Coast (6 min., Trip Jennings) A Tale of Two Urchins (3 min., Sofia Castello y Tickell & colleagues) Harbor Heroes: Little Oysters in the Big Apple (10 min., Jaclyn Yeary) 2115 Intermission (15 min) 2130 SECOND SESSION The Immigrant (3 min., Omar Malik & colleagues) Plate Tectonics (8 min., Dorota Szuta & Christine Mann) Pinto Abalone Restoration (2 min., Paul Hillman) The Reef (10 min., Jessica Hamel) Harbor Seal Monitoring in Puget Sound (4 min., Paul Hillman & Tata Smithee) Two Fish (8 min., Sarah Curry) Michael and the Peppermints (8 min., Michael Crandall & Chelsey Crandall) 5 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2014 STUDENT SYMPOSIUM (0820-1200) PAVILION AGD CONSERVATION IN THE ANTRHOPOCENE: BALANCING NATURE AND HUMAN NEEDS 0820 INTRODUCTION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS (Jenn Burt) 0830 Michael Soulé, University of California, Santa Cruz THE ANTHROPOCENE: ARE KEYSTONE SPECIES DOOMED? 0900 Patrick Christie, University of Washington TOWARD A NEW PARADIGM OF OCEAN SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE: EVOLUTION (AND RESISTANCE) 0930 Katie Arkema, The Natural Capital Project, Stanford University SCIENCE IN THE SERVICE OF PEOPLE AND NATURE 1000 BREAK 1030 Peter Kareiva, The Nature Conservancy NATURAL HISTORY AND CONSERVATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY 1100-1200 PANEL DISCUSSION 1200-1300 LUNCH 6 FRIDAY, NOV 14 1300-1530 † eligible for Best Student Paper Award Time Session 1: PAVILION Session 2: Session 3: Session 4: Session 5: Session 6: A PAVILION B PAVILION C PAVILION D PAVILION E PAVILION F Community Ecology I Dispersal & Intertidal Ecology I Conservation & Recruitment I Restoration I Evolutionary Biology I Fisheries Ecology I Chair: O'Connor, MI Chair: Shanks, A Chair: Tissot, B. Chair: Samhouri, J. Chair: terHorst, CP Chair: Caselle, J. 1300 † Anderson, KM † Howard, B Johnson, AM † Lyles, JM † Larson, WA † Tanner, RL FUTURE LEVELS OF LARVAL DISTRIBUTION SEA STAR WASTING A SOCIAL AND SIGNALS OF CORRELATING CO2 AND TEMP IMPACT OF INVASIVE EUROPEAN ALONG THE OREGON ECOLOGICAL HETEROGENOUS SECONDARY AN ALGAL-HERBIVORE GREEN CRAB IN COAST: TIME COURSE EXAMINATION OF SELECTION AT AN MHC PRODUCTIVITY AND INTERACTION VIA BARKLEY SOUND, OF THE EPIDEMIC PUGET SOUND MARINE LOCUS IN HABITAT COMPOSITION CHANGES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA PROTECTED AREAS: GEOGRAPHICALLY OF EELGRASS BEDS IN HERBIVORE DO THEY WORK? PROXIMATE ECOTYPES A SOUTHERN POPULATION SIZE OF SOCKEYE SALMON CALIFORNIA MPA 1315 † Brown, NE † McQuinn, LL † Sullivan, JM Andrews, KS † Hargarten, HL † Barnett, LAK ECOLOGICAL MUSSEL RECRUITMENT A CLOSER LOOK AT SEA ESA-LISTED ROCKFISH ECOLOGICAL MARINE RESERVES RESPONSES TO AND STAR WASTING IN PUGET SOUND, WA: DIVERGENCE CAN ENHANCE ASCIDIAN INVASION THERMOTOLERANCE SYNDROME: COOPERATIVE BETWEEN PHENOTYPIC ECOLOGICAL AND OCEAN ACROSS AN UPWELLING OBSERVATIONS AT RESEARCH TO HELP MORPHS OF GIANT RESILIENCE ACIDIFICATION BY CYCLE SMALL SIZE CLASSES MANAGE THESE KELP MARINE FOLUING AND POTENTIAL FOR POPULATIONS COMMUNITIES RECOVERY 1330 Comeau, S † Satterthwaite, EV Tissot, BN Rice, JA † Pettersen, AK Donovan, MK COMPARATIVE SURFZONE SEA STAR WASTING BUILDING THE DOES METABOLISM HUMAN IMPACTS ON RESPONSE OF CORAL CHARACTERISTICS DISEASE IN NORTHERN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCALE WITH CORAL REEF FISHES REEF COMMUNITIES APPEAR TO DRIVE A CALIFORNIA PUGET SOUND OFFSPRING SIZE? ACROSS FISHERIES FROM FRENCH DIRECT RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT POLYNESIA & HAWAII B/W REPRODUCTION & BOUNDARIES IN HAWAII TO OCEAN RECRUITMENT IN AN ACIDIFICATION INTERTIDAL CRAB 1345 † Evensen, NR Shanks, AL Miner, CM Samhouri, JF † Salas, E † Carvalho, PG EFFECTS OF OCEAN LATITUDINAL VARIATION DOCUMENTING THE ORDERED RE- TELL ME A RAD STORY: EFFECTIVENESS OF ACIDIFICATION ON IN BARNACLE IMPACTS OF SEA STAR ASSEMBLY IN MARINE THE POPULATION PERIODICALLY COMPETITIVE POPULATIONS DEPENDS WASTING SYNDROME ECOSYSTEMS CONNECTIVITY OF A HARVESTED INTERACTIONS AMONG ON SURFZONE THROUGH LONG TERM DAMSELFISH IN THE CLOSURES IN MEETING CORALS IN A CHARACTERISTICS SURVEYS AND CITIZEN INDOPACIFIC FISHERIES AND SIMULATED CORAL RATHER THAN SCIENCE MONITORING CULTURAL OBJECTIVES COMMUNITY UPWELLING 1400 † Chu, JWF † McCollum, BA † Cerny-Chipman, EB Lowell, NC Therkildsen, N † Stevens, JM IN SITU OXYGEN LIMITS THE EFFECT OF CAN SUB-DOMINANT THE USE OF “BEST GENOMIC SIGNATURES MARINE SPATIAL AND THE COLLAPSE OF RECRUITMENT DENSITY PREDATORS AVAILABLE SCIENCE” OF SELECTION IN A PLANNING MAKES EPIBENTHIC ON THE SURVIVAL OF COMPENSATE FOR THE BY REGULATORY CLASSIC FISHERIES ROOM FOR OFFSHORE COMMUNITY JUVENILE GIANT KELP LOSS OF PISASTER AGENCIES UNDER THE EXPERIMENT AQUACULTURE IN A STRUCTURE FROM (MACROCYSTIS OCHRACEUS AFTER SEA ENDANGERED SPECIES CROWDED COASTAL SHOALING HYPOXIA PYRIFERA) STAR WASTING? ACT ZONE 7 1415 † Vaughan, MLH † Wheeler, SG † Moritsch, MM Buenau, KE Kirk, NL Poe, MR PREDATOR-PREY REGIONAL COAST-SCALE USING BIOMASS HETEROSIS AND SUBSISTENCE FISHING INTERACTIONS IN A PRODUCTIVITY ENVIRONMENTAL AND MODELS TO IDENTIFY CORRESPONDING IN A 21ST CENTURY HIGH CO2 OCEAN PREDICTS INDIVIDUAL ANTHROPOGENIC SITES FOR DIFFERENTIAL GENE CAPITALIST SOCIETY? GROWTH AND FACTORS ASSOCIATED RESTORATION OF EXPRESSION IN EXAMINING COMMUNITY