Monday, june 2
Plenary Speaker: Forest Rower
CORAL REEF ECOLOGY: RESILIENCE & RESTORATION
Growth rate and survivorship of two Caribbean coral species in in-situ and ex-situ nursery settings
9:00AM
Unlocking Porites porites Growth Potential: Testing Nursery Rearing Techniques and Fragment Size for Coral Restoration
9:15AM
Optimizing light spectrum to upscale grow-out of coral recruits for restoration
9:30AM
Brick by brick: The efficacy and efficiency of keeping corals alive through disease intervention
9:45AM
Exploring Thermal Preconditioning as a Strategy for Reef Restoration in the Caribbean
10:00AM
CORAL REEF ECOLOGY & CONSERVATION: RESTORATION
Assessing the Effects of Predation and Disease on Natural and Outplanted Acropora cervicornis colonies in southeast Florida
Hope E. Wilson (Cancelled)
10:45AM
Demographic Performance of Local vs. Introduced Acropora cervicornis Outplants
11:00AM
Impacts of fireworm (Hermodice carunculata) population dynamics on a restored coral reef with variable topographic complexity: Implications for upscaling coral restoration.
11:15AM
Optimizing coral reef restoration: A GIS-based site selection for coral nurseries in Kish Island, the Persian Gulf
11:30AM
Assessing survivorship rates of elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) nubbins in a nursery and their donor colony populations in Barbados in the face of extreme climate change-induced events
11:45AM
[Concurrent] CORAL REEF ECOLOGY & CONSERVATION: RESTORATION
Lessons learned for improving Acropora cervicornis coral outplant survivorship and growth from multiple long-term studies in southeast Florida
1:30PM
Unraveling Coral Source and Location Effects on Reef Resilience
1:45PM
Corals Across Habitats: Understanding coral survival in non-reef habitats
Ninon Martinez🎓
2:00PM
Baseline mapping of the largest known patches of Yellow Finger Coral, Madracis auretenra, in Florida amidst SCTLD endemism and environmental stress
2:15PM
Dendrogyra cylindrus Rescue on the Southwest and Northeast Coasts of Puerto Rico: A Collaborative Effort
Miguel FIGUEROLA
2:30PM
Biobanking Caribbean-Atlantic Corals in the Turks and Caicos Islands
2:45PM
[Concurrent] FISHERIES SCIENCE, AQUACULTURE & MANAGEMENT
A risk analysis and spatial bioeconomic approach for assessing stock recovery of highly density dependent sedentary fisheries
1:30PM
Impacts of Reef Degradation on Commercial Fisheries
1:45PM
Stock Status of Traditional and Recreational Fishery Species in The Bahamas
2:00PM
Determination of distance away and depth of transmitters relative to a vertical acoustic telemetry array in the open ocean
2:15PM
FISHSCAPE and Non-cryptic Fish Community Structure Assessed with BRUVs Across the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary-USA Seascape
2:30PM
Community-Based Queen Conch Hatcheries in Every Caribbean Country
2:45PM
[Concurrent] CORAL REEF ECOLOGY & CONSERVATION: RESTORATION
Co-designing a future for Caribbean reefs: recommendations for the implementation of advanced coral restoration strategies
3:30PM
Scaling Up Coral Restoration through Sexual Reproduction
3:45PM
Caribbean Reef Project: Advancing Coral Reef Restoration Through Ecosystem-Based Approaches
The Coral Restoration Consortium: Facilitating a global community of practice dedicated to advancing coral restoration efforts.
4:15PM
Evaluating Ecological and Shoreline Resilience of Peanut Island: Impacts of Breakwaters on Coral Reefs and Sedimentation
Coral Restoration in the Anthropocene: Benthic Monitoring of Coral Outplants in the Turks & Caicos Islands
Starting a large-scale restoration program in the USVI during the 2024 bleaching event ‚ initiation, mitigation, and recovery steps
Identify and widen bottlenecks in the asexual restoration of endangered Orbicella boulder corals
Coral larval connectivity model for the Insular Caribbean and applications to restoration
The effect of coral species diversity on the growth, survivorship, and predation of Acropora palmata outplants
Integrating Keystone Herbivory and Coral Microfragmentation for Resilient Reef Restoration in La Parguera Natural Reserve, Puerto Rico
[Concurrent] FISHERIES SCIENCE, AQUACULTURE & MANAGEMENT
Behavior and morphology changes due to grow out methodology of Diadema antillarum
3:30PM
Evaluating the Environmental Impact of Near-Shore Sargassum Aquafarms
3:45PM
Species specific fish behavior while visiting anemone shrimp cleaning stations
4:00PM
Hot-spot cluster analysis of large parrotfish in the Florida Reef Tract to inform reef restoration
4:15PM
Seasonality of Fishes on a High-Latitude Reef and its Influence on Spearfishing Catch and Activity
Enhancing Marine Biodiversity: Ecological Monitoring of Artificial Reefs in Puerto Rico
COMBINA: Advancing Cross-Border Science and Management of Non-Indigenous Species in Marine Ecosystems Across the Caribbean Region and the Americas
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