B23A:
Deep-Sea Ecosystems: Natural Dynamics and Adaptation to Climate and Anthropogenic Change II Posters


Session ID#: 10302

Session Description:
Recent explorations have revealed widespread and diverse ecosystems in the deep-sea. These spectacular deep-sea ecosystems support high species biodiversity, biomass or both. Furthermore, they provide goods and services that are vital for the health and wellbeing of our planet. Different habitats have formed in relation to topography, oceanography (e.g. currents), water chemistry, seafloor substrate and food availability. Ecosystems such as cold-water coral reefs and hydrothermal vents not only support huge diversity of life, but are also vulnerable to impacts of human activities and climate change.  Natural dynamics, distribution, interconnections and adaptation of these ecosystems to anthropogenic change are critical to understanding ecosystem functioning through time and to make predictions about the future. This session will investigate ecosystems in specific areas of the oceans, including seamounts, cold-seeps, submarine canyons and continental slopes. Presenters are invited from different fields studying biogeographic patterns, biodiversity, biogeochemistry, oceanography and paleo-climatological characteristics of these fragile ecosystems.
Primary Convener:  Furu Mienis, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands
Conveners:  Brendan Roark, Texas A&M University, Department of Geography, Texas, TX, United States and Nancy Prouty, USGS, Santa Cruz, United States
Chairs:  Peter John Etnoyer, NOAA Charleston, Charleston, SC, United States and Nancy Prouty, USGS, Santa Cruz, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Furu Mienis, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands

Cross-Listed:
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
  • PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Index Terms:

0410 Biodiversity [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0429 Climate dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0460 Marine systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0473 Paleoclimatology and paleoceanography [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Using Cold-water Coral Mini-mounds as Analogue for Giant Mound Growth: Assessment of Environmental Drivers and Anthropogenic Impact (78383)
Tim Collart, Ghent University, Geology & Soil Science, Ghent, Belgium, Heather Ann Stewart, British Geological Survey - BGS, Marine Geology and Operations, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Kerry Howell, Plymouth University, Marine Ecology and Biology Research Centre, Plymouth, United Kingdom, Jean-François Bourillet, IFREMER, Plouzané, France, Estefanía Llave, IGME, Madrid, Spain, Dominique Blamart, LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, Furu Mienis, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands and David Van Rooij, Ghent University, Geology & Soil Science, Gent, Belgium
How cold-water coral mounds modify their physical environment and therefore influence reef development (64385)
Furu Mienis1, Gerard Duineveld1, Marc Lavaleye1, Hans van Haren1, Christian Mohn2 and Frederic Cyr1, (1)Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands, (2)Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus C, Denmark
NOAA's efforts to map extent, health and condition of deep sea corals and sponges and their habitat on the banks and island slopes of Southern California (62981)
Peter John Etnoyer1, Enrique Salgado2, Kevin Stierhoff3, Leslie Wickes4, Stephanie E. Nehasil5, Laura Kracker6, Andy Lauermann7, Dirk David Rosen7 and Chris Caldow8, (1)NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Marine Spatial Ecology Division, Charleston, SC, United States, (2)CSS, Inc. under contract to NOAA, Orlando, United States, (3)NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Advanced Survey Technologies Group, La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)NOAA Affiliate, JHT, Inc., National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Charleston, SC, United States, (5)NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Marine Mammal and Turtle Division, La Jolla, CA, United States, (6)NOAA Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (7)Marine Applied Research and Education, Richmond, CA, United States, (8)NOAA National Ocean Service, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Exploring deep sea habitats for baseline characterization using NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer (78944)
Lindsay McKenna Gray1, Kasey Lynn Cantwell2, Brian RC Kennedy3, Meme Lobecker4, Derek Sowers5 and Kelley Elliott3, (1)NOAA Office of Exploration and Research (ERT, Inc.), Durham, NH, United States, (2)NOAA Ocean Exploration, Silver Spring, United States, (3)NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (4)NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, Durham, United States
Demersal Fish Assemblages on Seamounts and Other Rugged Features in Deep Waters of the Greater and Lesser Antilles (80890)
Andrea Quattrini, Smithsonian Institution, Invertebrate Zoology, Washington, DC, United States; Cherokee Nation Technology Solutions, Contracted to US Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Gainesville, FL, United States, Jason D Chaytor, US Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Science Center Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Amanda W Demopoulos, Department of the Interior Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
Exploring the Eastern United States Continental Shelf with the NOAA Cooperative Institute for Ocean Exploration, Research, and Technology (81530)
Deborah Glickson, Florida Atlantic University, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Boca Raton, FL, United States and Shirley A. Pomponi, Florida Atlantic University, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Fort Pierce, FL, United States
Earth-System Scales of Biodiversity Variability in Shallow Continental Margin Seafloor Ecosystems (67490)
Sarah E Myhre, University of Washington, Future of Ice Initiative and the School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States; University of Washington Seattle, Seattle, WA, UNITED STATES, Sarah M White, University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Tessa M Hill, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States and James Kennett, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Validating Annual Growth Bands of Deep-Sea Black Corals and Calculating Ocean Reservoir Ages in the Gulf of Mexico (75543)
E Brendan Roark1, M. Leslye Mohon2, Nancy Prouty3, Renald N Guillemette2, Stewart Fallon4 and Steve W Ross5, (1)Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, United States, (2)Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (3)USGS, Santa Cruz, United States, (4)The Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, Australia, (5)University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Center for Marine Science, Wilmington, NC, United States
Deep-sea coral record of human impact on watershed quality in the Mississippi River Basin (76093)
Nancy Prouty1, Brendan Roark2, Alan Koenig3, Fabian C Batista4, Benjamin David Kocar5, David S Selby6, Matthew D McCarthy4, Furu Mienis7, Steve W Ross8 and Amanda W Demopoulos9, (1)USGS, Santa Cruz, United States, (2)Texas A&M University, Department of Geography, Texas, TX, United States, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States, (4)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (5)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (6)Durham University, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom, (7)Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands, (8)University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Center for Marine Science, Wilmington, NC, United States, (9)Department of the Interior Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
A high resolution paleo-record of export production using deep-sea coral stable isotope values from a unique HNLC zone on the California Margin (83573)
Zoe Wright, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Laser Ablation Trace Element Analysis of Modern and Fossil Desmophyllum dianthus from Norfolk and Baltimore Canyons in Mid-Atlantic Ocean (80058)
Mackenzie Schoemann, Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, Brendan Roark, Texas A&M University, Department of Geography, Texas, TX, United States, Stewart Fallon, The Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, Australia, Stephen Eggins, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Leslie Kinsley, The Australian National University, Acton, Australia and Nancy Prouty, USGS, Santa Cruz, United States
Cultivation and diversity of fungi buried in the Baltic Sea sediments (77932)
Nan Xiao, Kochi Core Center, Kochi, Japan

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