ME11A:
Advances in Interdisciplinary Research to Understand and Sustain Coastal and Marine Ecosystems I
Session ID#: 11292
Session Description:
The complex challenges facing our oceans and coasts extend beyond the bounds of individual disciplines. Ocean sciences are interdisciplinary by nature, and studies spanning physical oceanography, biogeochemistry, biology, and ecology are common. However, understanding how climate change, water quality, fishing, and conservation decisions affect coastal and marine ecosystems requires integrating natural sciences with an understanding of how human actions influence and respond to changes in the ocean. Building the scientific base for decisions related to resource management and sustainability requires studies that span disciplines and that focus on interactions and feedbacks within and between human and natural systems.
This session will bring together scientists working at disciplinary interfaces to evaluate how changes in one or multiple components of coastal and marine ecosystems affect ecosystem conditions, resource productivity, and human uses or benefits. We are particularly interested in contributions that focus on linkages and feedbacks between physical, ecological, and social-economic factors across multiple scales to understand complex issues facing marine ecosystems, such as climate change, fisheries sustainability, and water quality. In addition, how scientific information is communicated and integrated into decision-making processes shapes its use in management, governance and policy settings, and we encourage contributions that address outreach and policy topics.
Primary Chair: Katherine Mills, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, ME, United States
Chairs: Andrew J Pershing, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, ME, United States, Steven A Murawski, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, David Lindo-Atichati, City University of New York, Dept. of Engineering Science & Physics, New York, NY, United States, Steven James Bograd, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Environmental Research Division, Monterey, CA, United States, Yanyun Liu, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States and Barbara Muhling, University of California - Santa Cruz, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, San Diego, CA, United States
Moderators: Katherine Mills, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, ME, United States and Steven James Bograd, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Environmental Research Division, Monterey, CA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison: Barbara Muhling, University of California - Santa Cruz, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, San Diego, CA, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Marine and Human Systems: Addressing Multiple Scales and Multiple Stressors (91643)
Eileen E Hofmann1, Alida Bundy2, Ratana Chuenpagdee3, Lisa Maddison4 and Einar Svendsen4, (1)Old Dominion University, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Norfolk, VA, United States, (2)Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada, (3)Memorial University, St. John's, NF, Canada, (4)Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway
Sustaining coupled social-ecological marine systems in Mexico's Gulf of California region (87787)
Heather Leslie, University of Maine, Darling Marine Center & School of Marine Sciences, Walpole, ME, United States
OysterFutures: Integrating Stakeholder Objectives with Natural System Models to Promote Sustainable Natural Resource Policy (93361)
Elizabeth W North1, Jeff Blair2, Jeffrey C Cornwell3, Amy E Freitag4, Rasika K Gawde1, Troy W Hartley5, Raleigh R Hood6, Robert M Jones2, Thomas J Miller7, Jane E Thomas8, Lisa A Wainger7 and Michael J Wilberg7, (1)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States, (2)Florida State University, FCRC Concensus Center, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (3)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States, (4)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, (5)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Virginia Sea Grant College Program, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, (6)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States, (7)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, MD, United States, (8)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Integration Application Network, Cambridge, MD, United States
Integrating Climate Science, Marine Ecology, and Fisheries Economics to Predict the Effects of Climate Change on New England lobster Fisheries (92670)
Arnault Le Bris1, Andrew J Pershing1, Daniel S Holland2, Katherine Mills1 and Chin-Hwa Jenny Sun1, (1)Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, ME, United States, (2)Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA
Coupling Recruitment Forecasts with Economics in the Gulf of Maine's American Lobster Fishery (91931)
Noah Oppenheim1, Richard Wahle2, Damian C Brady3, Alexa Dayton4 and Chin-Hwa Jenny Sun4, (1)University of Maine, (2)University of Maine, ME, United States, (3)University of Maine, School of Marine Sciences, Walpole, ME, United States, (4)Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, ME, United States
How Are Fishing Patterns and Fishing Communities Responding to Climate Change? A Test Case from the Northwest Atlantic (87578)
Talia Young, Rutgers University, Graduate Program in Ecology & Evolution, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, Emma Fuller, Princeton University, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton, NJ, United States, Kaycee Coleman, United States Fish & Wildlife Service, Mikaela Provost, University of California - Davis, Graduate Group in Ecology, Davis, CA, Malin L. Pinsky, Rutgers University, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, New Brunswick, NJ, United States and Kevin St. Martin, Rutgers University, Geography Department, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
