THURSDAY, june 5
PLENARY SPEAKER: Edwin Hernandez
CLIMATE CHANGE, POLLUTION & OCEANOGRAPHY
Florida Keys Water Quality and Climate Monitoring to inform Lower Keys Reef Restoration
9:00AM
Assessing the Impact of Ocean Warming and Deoxygenation on Fisheries Species in the Wider Caribbean
9:15AM
THE EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE AND DISSOVLED OXYGEN ON MARINE SPONGE FILTRATION IN THE FLORIDA KEYS
9:30AM
Tracking long-term change in Caribbean coral reef water quality using historical data
9:45AM
Runaway climate across the Wider Caribbean and Eastern Tropical Pacific in the Anthropocene: Threats to coral reef conservation, restoration, and social-ecological resilience
10:00AM
CLIMATE CHANGE, POLLUTION & OCEANOGRAPHY
Assessing circulation patterns of microplastic pollution in Biscayne Bay using the BBLAST Model
10:45AM
Proper taxonomic resolution indicates low habitat quality that compromises resilience of Florida’s Coral Reefs
11:00AM
Toxicity of Arsenate and Arsenite to Acropora cervicornis and Orbicella faveolata
11:15AM
Coral Reef Acidification Lower (CoRAL) Keys: SeapHOx deployment to monitor long-term seafloor pH
Space Sourced Debris Poses Danger to the Caribbean
CORAL REEF ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION: MICROBIOLOGY AND DISEASE
Investigating the global distribution of a dinoflagellate-infecting virus, dinoRNAV, in stony corals
1:30PM
Octocoral microbiome: towards an understanding of octocoral-bacteria interactions on Florida’s coral reef
1:45PM
Species-Specific Filtration Capacities of Common Inshore Caribbean Sponges: Implications for Targeted Restoration Efforts
2:00PM
Biogeography of cryptic genetic lineages of the Great Star Coral (Montastraea cavernosa) across the Caribbean Sea
2:15PM
Coral Disease Treatment Options & Program Development
2:30PM
Fish parasitic gnathiid isopod species: Morphology, Genetics and Distribution within the Caribbean Region
matt nicholson
2:45PM
CORAL REEF ECOLOGY & CONSERVATION: MICROBIOLOGY & DISEASE
Long-term monitoring in a highly urbanized reef system captures a stony coral tissue loss disease outbreak with limited recovery
Sarah e. leinbach (cancelled)
3:30PM
The Double Threat: Evaluating the Impact of Coral Bleaching and SCTLD on Pseudodiploria strigosa Populations in Puerto Rico
3:45PM
Prevalence of Diseases in Scleractinian Corals of the Southern Caribbean of Costa Rica
4:00PM
Restoration for Resilience: Bringing Back Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Susceptible Species
4:15PM
Investigating the link between bleaching and disease amongst massive coral populations within the U.S. Virgin Islands
4:30PM
Impacts of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) on the coral microbiome in La Parguera, Puerto Rico
JOYCE GOMEZ SAMOT🎓
4:45PM
Characterization of early colonizing bacteria in marine biofilms from three different habitats in La Parguera, Puerto Rico
Testing Antibiotic Paste Dosages and Application Efficacy to Treat Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease in the U.S. Virgin Islands
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