Monday, August 3, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Grand Pavillion I, Hyatt
COS 11 - Marine Systems: Intertidal and Reefs
1:30 PMCOS 11-1Spatiotemporal development of physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of stormwater plumes in Santa Monica Bay, California
Alina A. Corcoran, University of California, Los Angeles, Kristen Reifel, University of Southern California, Rebecca F. Shipe, University of California, Los Angeles
1:50 PMCOS 11-2Regional oceanography, rather than local interactions, is more important to rocky intertidal community formation at the meta-ecosystem scale
Sally D. Hacker, Oregon State University, Bruce A Menge, Oregon State University, Francis Chan, Oregon State University, Karina J. Nielsen, Sonoma State University
2:10 PMCOS 11-3Factors mediating the distribution of Suaeda linearis in Georgia coastal marshes
Hongyu Guo, University of Houston, Christine Ewers, University of Houston, Steven Pennings, University of Houston
2:30 PMCOS 11-4Disturbance in a habitat-forming species: Implications of geoduck aquaculture for a meadow of intertidal eelgrass
Micah Horwith, University of Washington
2:50 PMCOS 11-5Rocky benches are important thermal refuges for intertidal organisms
Joanna R. Bernhardt, Brown University, Keryn B. Gedan, Brown University, Heather M. Leslie, Brown University, Mark D. Bertness, Brown University
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 11-6Outgrowing the enemy: Modeling size dependent competition and settlement refuges in competition between coral and crustose coralline algae
Kate E. Buenau, University of California Santa Barbara, Nichole N. Price, Scripps Institution of Oceonography, Roger Nisbet, University of California
3:40 PMCOS 11-7Recovery dynamics in the rocky intertidal:  The interactive effects of geographic variation in recruitment and species interactions across taxa with differing life history characteristics
Letitia Conway-Cranos, University of California at Santa Cruz
4:00 PMCOS 11-8CANCELLED - A rapid estimation method for assessing reef habitat provided by sponges and octocorals on shallow and deep water reefs
Deborah L. Santavy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, William S. Fisher, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Robert L. Quarles, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Lee A. Courtney, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
4:20 PMCOS 11-9Drivers of local variation in pacific oyster growth (Crassostrea gigas): food limitation or tidal circulation?
Elizabeth Wheat, University of Washington, Jennifer L. Ruesink, University of Washington
4:40 PMCOS 11-10First report of Phoronis ovalis (Phoronida) from Africa and its effect on shellfish hosts
Alan C. Trimble, University of Washington, Jennifer L. Ruesink, University of Washington

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