ED11A:
ASLO Multicultural Program Student Symposium for Undergraduate and Beginning Graduate Students I


Session ID#: 11344

Session Description:
This session is sponsored by the ASLO Multicultural Program. It provides undergraduate and beginning graduate students an opportunity to present their work in an oral session with a friendly and supportive audience. Any student attending the conference who has not before presented in the student symposium or in a regular oral session may submit their abstract for this session. Thus the session is open to all students that meet this criterion, regardless of their affiliation with the Multicultural Program. We look forward to a diverse mix of students from all backgrounds and interests.
Primary Chair:  Benjamin Cuker, Hampton University, Marine and Environmental Science, Hampton, VA, United States
Chairs:  Deidre Michelle Gibson, Hampton University, Marine and Environmental Science, Hampton, VA, United States and Benjamin Cuker, Hampton University, Marine and Environmental Science, Hampton, VA, United States
Moderators:  Benjamin Cuker, Hampton University, Marine and Environmental Science, Hampton, VA, United States and Deidre Michelle Gibson, Hampton University, Marine and Environmental Science, Hampton, VA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Benjamin Cuker, Hampton University, Marine and Environmental Science, Hampton, VA, United States and Deidre Michelle Gibson, Hampton University, Marine and Environmental Science, Hampton, VA, United States
Index Terms:

0810 Post-secondary education [EDUCATION]
0855 Diversity [EDUCATION]
6630 Workforce [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Using ATTO dyes to probe bacterial interactions with the marine diatom Pseudo-nitzschia. (90357)
Sanjin Mehic, University of California Santa Cruz, Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Marilou Sison-Mangus, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Herbivory and competition limit the expansion of the macroalga Turbinaria ornata to shallow zones on a fringing reef in the South Pacific (93949)
Samuel Degregori1, Christina Williams2, Paul H Barber3, Shayna Sura3 and Peggy Fong3, (1)California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, United States, (2)Hampton University, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)University of California, Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Identifying Genes Involved in the Iron Metabolism Pathway Through Transcriptomic Analysis (90578)
Daven Khana, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
Nutrients, high light, and shallow depths favor the expansion of the brown macroalgae Turbinaria ornata in the coral reefs of Mo'orea, French Polynesia (93942)
Jonathan Rogers1, Guadalupe Cordoba2, Manuel Nieves3, Paul H Barber4, Peggy Fong4 and Shayna Sura4, (1)Hampton University, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)St. Mary's University, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)University of Puerto Rico, Marine Biology, PR, United States, (4)University of California, Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Effects of Shading on Environmental Parameters, Population Dynamics and Copper Tolerance in the Marine Copepod Tigriopus californicus (92472)
Yaamini Venkataraman, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Assessing Long-Term Seagrass Changes by Integrating a High-Spatial Resolution Image, Historical Aerial Photography and Field Data (93902)
Mariana Leon-Perez1, William J Hernandez1 and Roy Armstrong2, (1)University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Department of Marine Sciences, Mayaguez, PR, United States, (2)University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Marine Sciences, Mayaguez, PR, United States
ORGANIC CARBON LOADING IN TROPICAL NEAR-SHORE ECOSYSTEMS: THE ROLE OF MANGROVE LAGOONS AND CHANNELS IN COASTAL OCEAN ACIDIFICATION (93940)
Erick GarcĂ­a, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR, United States and Julio M Morell, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System, Mayaguez, PR, United States
Effects of Wood Pollution on Pore-Water Sulfide Levels and Eelgrass Germination (89256)
Chesley Ekelem, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States