[Coral-List] meeting session: Physical Processes on Coral Reefs and Their Role in Reef Dynamics
Curt Storlazzi
cstorlazzi at usgs.gov
Wed Oct 7 20:17:45 EDT 2009
Dear colleagues:
We would like to draw your attention to a meeting session on:
Physical Processes on Coral Reefs and Their Role in Reef Dynamics
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
We are really excited and honored to have four wonderful keynote
speakers start off our session:
Kristen Davis (WHOI), James Falter (Univ. Western Australia), Amatzia
Genin (Hebrew Univ.), and Mark Merrifield (Univ. Hawaii)
Aim and Scope of this Session, PO11:
This session is devoted to our understanding of physical and
hydrodynamic processes in coral reef systems and their role in the
biogeochemical dynamics, ecology, and health of coral reefs. Papers
are invited that deal with the physical and biological zonation of
reefs, and the boundary zones/layers, that exist in coral reef
systems due to reef topography, roughness, tides, waves, wind,
thermohaline, and other environmental forcing. We are especially
interested in transport processes on reefs and their role in ecology
and sediment dynamics. Presentations are welcome that concern small
and large scale processes and their control of water flow,
turbulence, diffusion, zonation, and patchiness in reefs. Summaries
of current regional investigations, site-specific studies, and
modeling results are all encouraged.
Abstract Deadline: 15 October at 23:59 EDT
Please submit your abstract to Session PO11 via the web form: http://
www.agu.org/meetings/os10/
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!
Clifford J. Hearn, Working Science Consultancies, St Petersburg, FL
(clifford_hearn at yahoo.com)
Stephen G. Monismith, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
(monismith at stanford.edu)
Curt Storlazzi, US Geological Survey, Pacific Science Center, Santa
Cruz, CA (cstorlazzi at usgs.gov)
ciao.....
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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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