ME21B:
Modeling and Observing the Physical-Biological Interactions that Organize the Spatiotemporal Distribution of Biomass in Marine Ecosystems I


Session ID#: 11317

Session Description:
The session invites a broad range of interdisciplinary papers addressing physical-biological interactions, aiming for an improved and more holistic understanding of marine ecosystems. Recently, new instruments and satellite technology have revealed unprecedented detail in the distributions of a wide variety of marine organisms, at both micro and large scales. For example, a microstructure profiler equipped with a new laser fluorescence probe resolves the highly intermittent organization of phytoplankton into millimeter-scale aggregates and larger-scale thin layers. At much larger scales, satellite observations processed by sophisticated algorithms capture phytoplankton community structure and cell size distributions. Physical oceanographic features, such as oceanic currents, jets, eddies, etc. also influence distributions and dispersal pathways of organisms, such as larval and adult fish, and other marine organisms. These patterns of organization impact our understanding of how organisms interact with the environment and with each other. Diverse tools are required to make comprehensive observations across the relevant spatio-temporal scales, and integrated bio-physical models are needed to understand and realistically represent the impact of physical-biological interactions. It is therefore important to bring together researchers working at the interface of their disciplines to encourage new multi-scale collaborative studies of marine ecosystems.
Primary Chair:  Natalia Sidorovskaia, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, USA
Chairs:  Irina Rypina, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Sherwood Lan Smith, JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan, Agostino Merico, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Bremen, Germany and Joanna Gyory, Tulane University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, New Orleans, LA, United States
Moderators:  Natalia Sidorovskaia, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States, Sherwood Lan Smith, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, RCGC, Kanagawa, Japan and Joanna Gyory, Tulane University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, New Orleans, LA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Natalia Sidorovskaia, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States and Joanna Gyory, Tulane University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, New Orleans, LA, United States
Index Terms:

4255 Numerical modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4273 Physical and biogeochemical interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4855 Phytoplankton [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

ME21B-02
Biophysical Modeling of Cross-Shore Plankton Transport (88155)
Atsushi Fujimura, University of Guam, Marine Laboratory, Mangilao Village, Guam, Ad Reniers, Delft University of Technology, Hydrolic Engineering, Delft, Netherlands, Claire B Paris, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, Alan Shanks, University of Oregon, Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, Coos Bay, OR, United States, Jamie MacMahan, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States and Steven Morgan, University of California Davis, Bodega Marine Laboratory, Bodega Bay, CA, United States
ME21B-03
Plastic and evolutionary responses of plankton to environmental change are influenced by drift in ocean currents (91221)
Martina Doblin, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Australia, Erik van Sebille, Imperial College London, Grantham Institute, London, SW7, United Kingdom and UTS COAST lab
ME21B-04
Lagrangian Flow Network: a new tool to evaluate connectivity and understand the structural complexity of marine populations (92131)
Vincent Rossi1, Mélodie Dubois2,3, Enrico Ser-Giacomi3, Pedro Monroy3, Cristobal Lopez3 and Emilio Hernandez-Garcia3, (1)CNRS-MIO, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Marseille, France, (2)CRIOBE, USR 3278, EPHE-CNRS-UPVD, 58 Av. Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan, France, (3)IFISC Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
ME21B-05
At the confluence of western boundary currents: A 3D Biophysical Nutrient-Zooplankton-Phytoplankton-Detritus (NPZD) Model for the Benham Rise (88565)
Matthew Delos Reyes Poral1, Aletta T Yniguez1, Cesar Villanoy2 and Jonathan Ray Rueda Abat3, (1)Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines, (2)Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines, Metro Manila, Philippines, (3)The Marine Science Institute, Quezon City, Philippines
ME21B-06
The Influence of Individual Variability on Zooplankton Population Dynamics under Different Environmental Conditions (89933)
Rujia Bi and Hui Liu, Texas A&M University, Marine Biology, Galveston, TX, United States
ME21B-07
Seasonal and Inter-annual Variability in Modeled Larval Dispersal and Population Connectivity of Blue Crabs (Callinectes sapidus) in the Northern Gulf of Mexico (89959)
Joanna Gyory1, Benjamin Jones2, Dong S Ko3 and Caz Taylor1, (1)Tulane University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, New Orleans, LA, United States, (2)MIT-WHOI Joint Program, Biological Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)NRL Code 7322, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
ME21B-08
Decoupling of Environmental Conditions, Primary, and Secondary Producers within Cold Regimes in the Southeastern Bering Sea: Insights from a Mooring Time-series and Ship-based Studies (88811)
Beth A Stauffer, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Department of Biology, Lafayette, LA, United States, Jennifer L Miksis-Olds, Applied Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, United States and Joaquim I Goes, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
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