Chairs: Branwen Williams, W.M. Keck Science Department, Claremont, CA, United States, Eleni Anagnostou, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom and Michèle LaVigne, Bowdoin College, Department of Earth and Oceanographic Science, Brunswick, ME, United States
Primary Conveners: Sindia M Sosdian, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24, United Kingdom
Co-conveners: Eleni Anagnostou, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, Branwen Williams, Claremont McKenna-Pitzer-Scripps Colleges, Claremont, CA, United States and Michèle LaVigne, Bowdoin College, Department of Earth and Oceanographic Science, Brunswick, ME, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Michèle LaVigne, Bowdoin College, Department of Earth and Oceanographic Science, Brunswick, ME, United States
Nitrogen Isotopic Composition of Proteinaceous Coral Skeletal Amino Acids Records Change in Source Nitrate to the Euphotic Zone in the Western Tropical Pacific
Branwen Williams1, Benoit Thibodeau2, Yoshito Chikaraishi3, Naohiko Ohkouchi3 and Andrea G Grottoli4, (1)W.M. Keck Science Department, Claremont, CA, United States, (2)Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Literature, Mainz and Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany, (3)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan, (4)Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, United States
The National Deep-Sea Coral and Sponge Database: A Comprehensive Resource for United States Deep-Sea Coral and Sponge Records
Matt Dornback1, Thomas Hourigan2, Peter Etnoyer3, Robert McGuinn3 and Scott L Cross4, (1)NOAA, National Coastal Data Development Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA, Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (3)NOAA, Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research, Charleston, SC, United States, (4)NOAA NESDIS, National Coastal Data Development Center, Charleston, SC, United States
Radiogenic Isotopes As Paleoceanographic Tracers in Deep-Sea Corals: Advances in TIMS Measurements of Pb Isotopes and Application to Southern Ocean Corals
David James Wilson1, Tina van de Flierdt1, Luke J Bridgestock2, Maxence Paul2, Mark Rehkamper2, Laura F Robinson3 and Jess F Adkins4, (1)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (3)University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, (4)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Ba/Ca Reproducibility and Growth Banding in Gulf of Alaska Bamboo Corals
Gabriela Serrato Marks, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, United States, Michèle LaVigne, Bowdoin College, Department of Earth and Oceanographic Science, Brunswick, ME, United States, Tessa M Hill, University California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Wilson Sauthoff, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Thomas P Guilderson, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, E Brendan Roark, Texas A&M University, College Station, CA, United States and Robert B Dunbar, Stanford University, School of Earth Sciences, Los Altos Hills, CA, United States
Multi-Colony Calibrations of Coral Ba/Ca With a Contemporaneous In Situ Seawater Barium Record
Michèle LaVigne, Bowdoin College, Department of Earth and Oceanographic Science, Brunswick, ME, United States, Kathryn A Matthews, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Ocean Science Division, Washington, DC, United States, Andrea G Grottoli, Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, United States; Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, James Palardy, Abt Associates Inc., Environment and Resources Division, Bethesda, MD, United States and Robert M Sherrell, Rutgers Univ, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States; Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, NJ, United States
Reconstruction of Caribbean Sea Surface Temperatures Using the Skeletal Elemental Composition of the Coral Siderastrea Siderea
Sara Fowell1, Gavin L Foster2, Justin B Ries3, Karl Castillo4 and Joe Stewart1, (1)University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, (2)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (3)Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States, (4)UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Decadal Variations in Western Pacific Warm Pool Dynamics as Evidenced by Porites Corals from Chuuk Atoll, Federated States of Micronesia
Jennifer Lynn Massoll1, Amy J Wagner2, David M Anderson3, Chad Lane1, Jin-Kyoung Kim4 and Sang H Lee4, (1)University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, United States, (2)California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States, (3)National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NCDC, World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)KIOST Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Ansan, South Korea
Developing a Forward Model of Encrusting Coralline Algae
Jessica Ng1,2, Branwen Williams2, Diane M Thompson3 and Jochen Halfar4, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)W.M. Keck Science Department, Claremont, CA, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Toronto, Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada
Linkages Between Upwelling and Shell Characteristics of Mytilus californianus: Morphology and Stable Isotope (δ13C, δ18O) Signatures of a Carbonate Archive from the California Current
Jessica D Hosfelt1,2, Tessa M Hill1,2, Ann D Russell1, Jessica Rebecca Bean3,4, Eric Sanford2,5 and Brian Gaylord2,5, (1)University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, (2)Bodega Marine Laboratory, UC Davis, Bodega Bay, CA, United States, (3)Museum of Paleontology, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)University of California Davis, Department of Anthropology, Davis, CA, United States, (5)University of California Davis, Department of Evolution and Ecology, Davis, CA, United States
Deep-water carbonate ion shifts during the last glacial termination in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Katherine A Allen1, Elisabeth L Sikes1, Aurora Elmore2, Baerbel Hoenisch3, Thomas P Guilderson4, Mea S Cook5 and Yair Rosenthal6, (1)Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (2)University of Durham, Department of Geography, Durham, United Kingdom, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)LLNL, Livermore, CA, United States, (5)Williams College, Williamstown, MA, United States, (6)Rutgers Univ, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Sea Surface Temperature Variability During the Past 2000 Years in Santa Barbara Basin, California
Dorothy K Pak, University of California Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Arndt Schimmelmann, Indiana University Bloomington, Geological Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States and Ingrid L Hendy, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Geological Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Planktonic foraminiferal response to ocean acidification in the Santa Barbara Basin over the last century
Emily Osborne1, Michael Bizimis1, Wei-Jun Cai2, Youngchen Wang3, Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez4, Claudia R Benitez-Nelson1, Jessica August Holm1 and Robert Thunell1, (1)University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States, (2)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (3)University of Georgia, Marine Science, Athens, GA, United States, (4)University of California Santa Barbara, Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, Santa Barbara, CA, United States