ED12A:
ASLO Multicultural Program Student Symposium for Undergraduate and Beginning Graduate Students II


Session ID#: 11517

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:

An Analysis of Sea Turtle Demographics along Maryland Shores, 1990-2015 (89196)
Courtney Rhoades1, Cindy Driscoll2, Amanda Weschler2 and Maurice Crawford1, (1)University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Department of Natural Sciences, Princess Anne, MD, United States, (2)Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Oxford, MD, United States
Rhythmic Larval Release in the Crab Dyspanopeus sayi: Entrainment by Light:Dark and Temperature Cycles (93126)
Kevin Sanchez, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, United States
Early Life-Stage Responses of a Eurythemal Estuarine Fish, Mummichog (Fundulus hetereoclitus) to Fixed and Fluctuating Thermal Regimes (89027)
Justin Shaifer, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, United States
Developmental Effects of Ocean Acidification Conditions and Elevated Temperature on Homarus Americanus Larvae (92521)
Halley Mcveigh, Warren Wilson College, NC, United States and Jesica Davis Waller, University of Maine, School of Marine Sciences, Walpole, ME, United States
Bacterioplankton Populations within the Oxygen Minimum Zone of the Sargasso Sea (89317)
Gabriel Schuler, Saint Francis University, Biology, Loretto, PA, United States; Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, Bermuda, Rachel Jane Parsons, Bermuda Institute for Ocean Sciences, BIOS, St. George's, Bermuda and Rodney J Johnson, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, St.George's, Bermuda
The Effects of Ocean Acidification on Predator-Prey Interactions between Mya arenaria and Callinectes sapidus (89925)
Katherine Longmire1, Cassandra Glaspie2 and Rochelle Seitz2, (1)College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, United States, (2)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Biological Sciences, Gloucester Point, VA, United States
Mixotrophy in the Winter Bloom-forming Heterocapsa rotundata: Quantifying Grazing Rates Using Two Methodologies (89954)
Alison Aceves1, James J Pierson2 and Nicole Millette2, (1)California State University Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, United States, (2)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States
The effect of visible light stress on chemical signaling in two life stages of Emiliania huxleyi (90299)
Luis Valentin-Alvarado1, Elizabeth Cooney2, Kelley Bright2 and Suzanne Strom2, (1)University of Puerto Rico at Humacao, Biology, Humacao, PR, United States, (2)Shannon Point Marine Ctr, Anacortes, WA, United States