FRIDAY, june 6
PLENARY SPEAKER: Dawn Kernagis & Kirk Krack
EXPLORATION & TECHNOLOGY
HOV Alvin in the Puerto Rico Trench and Mid-Cayman Rise
9:00AM
Mapping and Monitoring Nearshore Civil War Era Shipwrecks using Sonar Techniques
9:15AM
39 years of octocoral change due to catastrophic events and climatic shifts
Christopher D. Wells and Howard R. Lasker
9:30AM
Ocean Gliders in the US Virgin Islands: Capacity Development and Results
9:45AM
Mapping John Creek Hardbottom using sonar techniques: a local reef off Masonboro Island, North Carolina, USA
10AM
EXPLORATION & TECHNOLOGY
Beyond the Y-Maze: Implementation of a Novel Olfactometer for Study of Chemosensory Behavior in Small Aquatic Invertebrates
10:45AM
Integrating 3D-Printing technology into the restoration of degraded coral reef
11:00AM
New forecast metric predicts coral bleaching 6 months in advance
11:15AM
Mapping Seagrass Blue Carbon in Google Earth Engine with multi-spectral imagery in La Parguera, Puerto Rico
SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSES OF THE BIOLOGICAL CONDITION GRADIENT MODEL ON FLORIDA CORAL REEF
Immune expression as a dynamic biomarker for predicting restoration success in the branching coral Acropora cervicornis
Establishing an autonomous underwater vehicle artificial intelligence system for early detection of the invasive octocoral Xenia in USVI
CORAL REEF ECOLOGY & CONSERVATION: BLEACHING
Thermal Tolerance Across Depth-Segregated Orbicella Corals
1:30PM
USVI Acropora palmata under stress: measuring back-to-back bleaching impacts
1:45PM
Eventos de blanqueamiento 2023 y 2024 nuevos retos para el 2025. Bleaching events 2023 and 2024 new challenges for 2025
2:00PM
Beating the heat: the use of shade structures to potentially mitigate coral bleaching
2:15PM
Status of the Acropora palmata population at Buck Island Reef National Monument (St. Croix, USVI) before and after the 2024 bleaching event
2:30PM
A Groovy Experience: The Creation of the First (research assisted) Diploria labyrinthiformis Spawning Hub in the USVI
2:30PM
CORAL REEF ECOLOGY & CONSERVATION: BLEACHING
Coral Resilience and Mortality in the Face of Extreme Marine Heatwaves: Insights from Little Cayman
3:30PM
Predicting acute versus chronic heat stress responses among Florida staghorn corals
3:45PM
Determining if controlled thermal stress ex situ can harden Orbicella annularis and Montastraea cavernosa corals for futures heatwaves post-outplanting
4:00PM
Elucidating mechanisms underlying variation in acroporid bleaching and survival following the 2023 marine heat wave
4:15PM
Temperature stress during previous spawning best explains fecundity variability the following year
4:45PM
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