ME33A:
Biological-Physical Interactions at Organismal Scales from Sediments to the Water Column II


Session ID#: 11346

Session Description:
Considerable advancement in understanding the diverse ways that organisms interact with their environment has been made by applying quantitative, mechanistic approaches based on physical principles. This session welcomes a broad range of studies across habitats and taxa including free and attached unicellular organisms to a range of multicellular invertebrates, from the deep sea to the intertidal, and from sediments to the water column that identify limitations in theory or experimental capability and apply new theoretical frameworks or develop novel techniques. We seek reports of mechanistic approaches leading to advances in understanding of feeding, digestion, and locomotion by infaunal and planktonic organisms, animal-sediment interactions, and impacts of fluid dynamics on ecological functions of organisms. Contributions are welcomed from scientists and educators focused on interactions of organisms and environments that highlight novel syntheses or theory, application of other fields to ecological questions, and integration of theory with experiment.
Primary Chair:  Kelly M Dorgan, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL, United States
Chairs:  James E Eckman, California Sea Grant Program, La Jolla, CA, United States, Lee Karp-Boss, University of Maine, School of Marine Sciences, Orono, ME, United States and Lawrence M Mayer, Univ Maine, Walpole, ME, United States
Moderators:  Kelly M Dorgan, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL, United States, James E Eckman, California Sea Grant Program, La Jolla, CA, United States, Lawrence M Mayer, Univ Maine, Walpole, ME, United States and Lee Karp-Boss, University of Maine, School of Marine Sciences, Orono, ME, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Lawrence M Mayer, Univ Maine, Walpole, ME, United States
Index Terms:

4211 Benthic boundary layers [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4273 Physical and biogeochemical interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4804 Benthic processes, benthos [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4855 Phytoplankton [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • MG - Marine Geology & Sedimentology

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

ME33A-01
It takes guts to locate elusive crustacean prey (91697)
Rachel Skye Lasley-Rasher1, Damian C Brady1, Brian E Smith2 and Peter A. Jumars3, (1)University of Maine, School of Marine Sciences, Walpole, ME, United States, (2)NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)University of Maine, School of Marine Sciences, Orono, ME, United States
ME33A-02
Predation Rates of Zooplankton by Fish Quantified with a Novel Acoustic and Optic System (89442)
Amatzia Genin1, Yoav Lindemann1, Paul L Roberts2 and Jules S Jaffe2, (1)The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Inter-university Institute for Marine Sciences, Eilat, Israel, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
ME33A-03
The Effect of Collector Motion on Particle Capture Efficiency (93519)
Josef Daniel Ackerman and Dori Gao, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
ME33A-04
Same same but different - quantifying the importance of intra-specific variability to plankton biodiversity (89734)
Susanne Menden-Deuer, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States and Julie Marie Rowlett, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, Mathematical Sciences, Sweden
ME33A-05
Exploring Phytoplankton Fluid Dynamics using Computational Models. (92332)
Lisa Fauci, Tulane University, Mathematics, New Orleans, LA, United States and Hoa Nguyen, Trinity University, Mathematics, San Antonio, TX, United States
ME33A-06
Brief Exposure to Turbulence Permanently Alters Development of Sand Dollar Larvae (93278)
Matthew C. Ferner1, Jason Hodin2, Gabriel Ng3, Christopher J. Lowe2 and Brian Gaylord3, (1)San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Tiburon, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA, United States, (3)University of California at Davis, Bodega Marine Laboratory and Department of Evolution and Ecology, Bodega Bay, CA, United States
ME33A-07
Swimming in an Unsteady World (87324)
Mimi A.R. Koehl, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
ME33A-08
Elucidating Mechanisms by which Invertebrate Larval Settlement is Affected by Biofilm Ciliates (87176)
Jeff Shimeta1, Matthew G Watson1, Liliana Zalizniak1 and Andrew J Scardino2, (1)RMIT University, School of Applied Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, (2)Defence Science & Technology Organisation, Maritime Division, Melbourne, Australia
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