[Coral-List] "Synergistic Interactions Between Stressors to Coral Reefs" meeting session
Curt Storlazzi
cstorlazzi at usgs.gov
Fri Jul 24 15:06:45 EDT 2009
Dear colleagues:
We would like to draw your attention to a meeting session on:
Synergistic Interactions Between Stressors to Coral Reefs
at the 15th Ocean Sciences Meeting, which will be held 22-26
February, 2010, in Portland, Oregon. The theme of this meeting is,
“From Observation to Prediction in the 21st Century”. Please visit
the conference website for more information: http://www.agu.org/
meetings/os10/index.php
Aim and Scope of this Session, IT04:
Over the past few decades coral reefs worldwide have degraded due to
both natural and anthropogenic environmental factors. Natural
variability in the ocean-atmosphere system (El Nino events, North
Atlantic Oscillation) can cause large-scale changes in storm tracks,
sea-surface height, water temperatures and rainfall. Recent IPCC
projections suggest changes in air and sea surface temperature,
precipitation, CO2, pH, and sea level all will significantly impact
coral reef ecosystems. At the same time, human activities in the
coastal zone (e.g. livestock grazing and coastal development) have
increased the delivery of sediment, nutrients, and contaminants to
coral reef ecosystems. Assessing how these ecosystems function and
identifying the synergistic effects of local versus global stressors
will help us to better manage them as a resource. This session
focuses on advancements in understanding the natural environmental
controls on coral reefs and how these processes have interacted with
anthropogenic stressors to impact these fragile ecosystems.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the influence of,
and interaction between, changes in sea surface temperatures, pH, sea
level, storms, waves, floods, sediment, nutrients, and contaminants
on coral reefs. Summaries of current regional investigations, site-
specific studies, and modeling results are all encouraged.
Co-conveners:
Curt Storlazzi, United States Geological Survey, Pacific Science
Center, Santa Cruz, CA (cstorlazzi at usgs.gov)
Greg Piniak, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Center
for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research, Beaufort, NC
(greg.piniak at noaa.gov)
Kim Yates, United States Geological Survey, Florida Integrated
Science Center, St. Petersburg, FL (kyates at usgs.gov)
Dwight Gledhill, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorologic Laboratory, Silver Spring, MD
(dwight.gledhill at noaa.gov)
To assist the organizing committee in assigning your abstract to our
session, please use the session code: IT04. Abstracts are due by 15
October at http://www.agu.org/meetings/os10/program/index.php.
Registration for the meeting is open until January 20, 2010.
If you know of anyone who might be interested who might not receive
this notice, please feel free to pass it along. We are very excited
about this session, and look forward to your participation. If you
have any questions, please feel free to contact us. We hope to see
you in Portland!
Curt, Greg, Kim, and Dwight
ciao.....
_______________________
Curt Storlazzi, Ph.D.
U.S. Geological Survey
Pacific Science Center
400 Natural Bridges Drive
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(831) 427-4721 phone
(831) 427-4748 fax
Staff web page:
http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/staff/cstorlazzi/
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