AH13A:
Coral Reef Calcification in a Changing Ocean: From Microscale Mechanisms to Macroscale Responses III


Session ID#: 11521

Session Description:
Coral reefs support an estimated 500 million people worldwide. Yet anthropogenic CO2 emissions are driving unprecedented changes in the tropical oceans, where the vast majority of shallow water reefs exist. Rapid warming, acidification and declining productivity will have potentially deleterious effects on calcification, the fundamental process of reef building. However, quantitative projections of coral reef futures are limited in part, by gaps in our understanding of the calcification process – from the production of crystals to the building of reefs – and of the response of coral and coral reef calcification to multiple, interactive global change stressors on timescales of days to decades. This session invites contributions from biologists, marine chemists, physical oceanographers, ecologists and geochemists to bring diverse expertise and new perspectives to a subject of global significance. We encourage submissions from field, laboratory, and theoretical studies that offer new insights into the fundamental mechanisms of coral calcification and reef building, and the response of calcification to global change at the cellular, colony and ecosystem scale. Paleoperspectives on calcification responses to past global changes are encouraged as well as papers that offer insights into potential for adaptation.
Primary Chair:  Jessica Carilli, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, United States
Chairs:  Weifu Guo1, Steeve Comeau2, Kirti Ramesh3, Trystan Sanders3, Patrick S Drupp4, Eric Heinen De Carlo5, Laurie Carol Hofmann6 and Marlene Wall7, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., Woods Hole, MA, United States(2)California State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA, United States(3)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany(4)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States(5)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States(6)Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany(7)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Moderators:  Jessica Carilli, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, United States, Weifu Guo, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Patrick S Drupp, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Kirti Ramesh, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany
Index Terms:

1635 Oceans [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4220 Coral reef systems [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4804 Benthic processes, benthos [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • EC - Estuarine and Coastal
  • HI - Human Use and Impacts
  • ME - Marine Ecosystems
  • PC - Past, Present and Future Climate

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

AH13A-01
Net Ecosystem Calcification by a Coral Reef Community under Natural Acidification (93403)
Kathryn Shamberger, Texas A&M University, Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States, Steven J Lentz, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Anne L Cohen, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, MA, United States
AH13A-02
Forereef and backreef corals exhibit different responses to anthropogenic stressors in Belize (91106)
Sara Fowell1, Gavin L Foster2, Karl Castillo3, Justin B Ries4 and Toby Tyrrell2, (1)University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, (2)University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, United Kingdom, (3)UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (4)Northeastern University, Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Nahant, MA, United States
AH13A-03
Net ecosystem calcification and net primary production in two Hawaii back-reef systems (93871)
Serina Kiili, Steve Colbert and Kenda Hart, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, HI
AH13A-04
Changes in coral reef metabolism during the 2015 El Niño in the eastern Pacific (92258)
Wade R McGillis, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Geochemistry, Palisades, NY, United States, Derek Manzello, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, NOAA, Miami, FL, United States, Tyler B Smith, University of the Virgin Islands, Center for Marine and Environmental Studies, St. Thomas, United States, Andrew Baker, University of Miami, RSMAS, Miami, FL, United States, Peggy Fong, University of California, Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Peter Glynn, University of Miami, Key Biscayne, FL, United States, Jennifer Smith, Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Yuichiro Takeshita, Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, CA, United States, Todd R Martz, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Diana Hsueh, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, Chris Langdon, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, Nichole Price, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States and Juan Mate, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama
AH13A-05
Galápagos coral reef persistence after ENSO warming across an acidification gradient (88189)
Derek Manzello1, Ian Enochs2, Andrew Bruckner3, Philip Renaud3, Graham Kolodziej4, David A Budd5, Renee Carlton2 and Peter Glynn2, (1)Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, NOAA, Miami, FL, United States, (2)University of Miami, Key Biscayne, FL, United States, (3)Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, Landover, MD, United States, (4)University of Miami, CIMAS, Key Biscayne, FL, United States, (5)University of Colorado at Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
AH13A-06
Climate-driven variations in thermal forcing across a nearshore reef system during a marine heat wave and its potential impact on coral calcification (90980)
James Falter1,2, Zhenlin Zhang2, Ryan Lowe2,3, Taryn Foster1,2 and Malcolm T McCulloch2,4, (1)ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, Australia, (2)University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia, (3)The University of Western Australia, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, Australia, (4)The University of Western Australia, UWA Oceans Institute, School of Earth Sciences, and ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, Perth, Australia
AH13A-07
Spatial and Temporal Changes in Coral Community Responses to Ocean Warming (93526)
Hannah Barkley, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, WOODS HOLE, MA, United States and Anne L Cohen, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, MA, United States
AH13A-08
Calcification and Reef Building: Lessons from Recent History and The Holocene (93910)
Dennis K Hubbard, Oberlin College, Geology, Oberlin, OH, United States
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