94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)

Monday, August 3, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Grand Pavillion I, Hyatt

Presider:

Deborah L. Santavy, U.S. EPA

1:30 PM

COS 11-1

Spatiotemporal development of physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of stormwater plumes in Santa Monica Bay, California
Alina A. Corcoran, New Mexico State University; Kristen Reifel, University of Southern California; Rebecca F. Shipe, University of California, Los Angeles

1:50 PM

COS 11-2

Regional 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 PM

COS 11-3

Factors 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 PM

COS 11-4

Disturbance in a habitat-forming species: Implications of geoduck aquaculture for a meadow of intertidal eelgrass
Micah Horwith, University of Washington

2:50 PM

COS 11-5

Rocky benches are important thermal refuges for intertidal organisms
Joanna R. Bernhardt, University of British Columbia; Keryn B. Gedan, Brown University; Heather M. Leslie, Brown University; Mark D. Bertness, Brown University

3:10 PM

COS 11-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 11-6

Outgrowing the enemy: Modeling size dependent competition and settlement refuges in competition between coral and crustose coralline algae
Kate E. Buenau, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Nichole N. Price, Scripps Institution of Oceonography; Roger Nisbet, University of California

3:40 PM

COS 11-7

Recovery 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 PM

COS 11-8

CANCELLED - A rapid estimation method for assessing reef habitat provided by sponges and octocorals on shallow and deep water reefs
Deborah L. Santavy, U.S. EPA; 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 PM

COS 11-9

Drivers 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 PM

COS 11-10

First 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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COS 11 - Marine Systems: Intertidal and Reefs