ME14C:
Big Data in Marine Ecology: Advances and Applications Posters


Session ID#: 9320

Session Description:
In recent decades, the rise of computing technologies and methods for high-throughput sampling have been both a response to and a generator of emergent biological and ecological questions. These technologies have helped to connect local and global scales of investigation in many fields including marine connectivity, evolutionary ecology, pelagic food-web interactions, and responses of marine biota to climate change. Accordingly, biologists are increasingly facing issues associated with “Big Data”: higher volumes (the scale of data in bytes or data points), velocities (the rate at which data arrives), and variety (the different types, or sources of data), while verifying its veracity (issues of data quality). This session will examine 1) outstanding scientific questions and processes that necessitate the acquisition of large datasets, 2) the power of big data in ecological inferences, 3) new methods for the visualization and analysis of large datasets in ecological applications, and 4) novel and interdisciplinary methods of data collection and processing (e.g. citizen science, crowd-sourcing, competitions, etc). We intend for this session to be cross-cutting, and thus invite submissions from many fields, including imaging, acoustics, (meta)genomics, modeling, and eco-informatics.
Primary Chair:  Jessica Y Luo, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Marine Biology and Fisheries, Miami, FL, United States
Chairs:  Stephen J Giovannoni1, Jesse Zaneveld1 and Francis Chan2, (1)Oregon State University, Department of Microbiology, Corvallis, OR, United States(2)Oregon State University, Department of Integrative Biology, Corvallis, OR, United States
Moderators:  Jessica Y Luo1, Jesse Zaneveld2, Francis Chan3 and Stephen J Giovannoni2, (1)University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Marine Biology and Fisheries, Miami, FL, United States(2)Oregon State University, Department of Microbiology, Corvallis, OR, United States(3)Oregon State University, Department of Integrative Biology, Corvallis, OR, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Jesse Zaneveld, Oregon State University, Department of Microbiology, Corvallis, OR, United States
Index Terms:

1920 Emerging informatics technologies [INFORMATICS]
1994 Visualization and portrayal [INFORMATICS]
4813 Ecological prediction [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • IS - Instrumentation & Sensing Technologies
  • MM - Microbiology and Molecular Biology
  • OD - Ocean Observing and Data Management
  • PP - Phytoplankton and Primary Production

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
ME14C-0618
Tara Oceans' approach and new challenges in studying the ocean microbiome at global scale (89657)
Shinichi Sunagawa1, Luis Pedro Coelho2, Samuel Chaffron3, Chris Bowler4, Patrick Winker5, Eric Karsenti2, Jeroen Raes3, Silvia G Acinas6 and Peer Bork2, (1)ETH Zürich, Biology, Zürich, Switzerland, (2)European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, (3)Rega Institute, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Leuven, Belgium, (4)Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Paris, France, (5)CEA–Institut de Génomique, GENOSCOPE, Evry, France, France, (6)Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM)-CSIC, Department of Marine Biology and Oceanography, Barcelona, Spain
 
ME14C-0619
Investigation of Antarctic Marine Metazoan Biodiversity Through Metagenomic Analysis of Environmental DNA (89945)
Dominique A. Cowart1, CH Christina Cheng1 and Katherine Murphy2, (1)University of Illinois, Department of Animal Biology, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)Northwestern University, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Chicago, IL, United States
 
ME14C-0620
COMPARATIVE TRANSCRIPTOMICS TO IDENTIFY NOVEL GENES AND PATHWAYS IN DINOFLAGELLATES (90403)
Darcie Ryan, Texas A & M University, Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States
 
ME14C-0621
Connecting the dots in the Gulf of the Farallones: linking physical ocean conditions and nutrients to the ecological success of planktivorous predators (90810)
Ryan Jason Hartnett1, Jaime Jahncke2, Frances Wilkerson3, Karina Johanne Nielsen4 and Nadav Nur2, (1)Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, San Francisco State University, Marine Science, Tiburon, CA, United States, (2)Point Blue Conservation Science, Petaluma, CA, United States, (3)San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, United States, (4)Romberg Tiburon Center, Tiburon, CA, United States
 
ME14C-0622
dataMares – An online platform for the fast, effective dissemination of science (92540)
Octavio Aburto-Oropeza1, Marcia Moreno-Báez1, Alfredo Giron-Nava1, Raquel Lopez-Sagástegui1, Andrew Frederick Johnson1 and Catalina Lopez-Sagástegui2, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Marine Biology Research Division, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)University of Riverside, CA
 
ME14C-0623
Mining big data sets of plankton images: a zero-shot learning approach to retrieve labels without training data (92599)
Eric Coughlin Orenstein1, Pedro Maravilha Morgado2, Emily Peacock3, Anya M Waite3 and Jules S Jaffe1, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)University of California San Diego, Electrical and Computer Engineering, San Diego, CA, United States, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
ME14C-0624
Acquisition, processing, and visualization of big data as applied to robust multivariate impact models (92966)
Kelly Rose1, Lucy Romeo2, Jennifer R Bauer3, Dorothy Dick2, Jake Nelson2, Amoret Bunn4, Kate E. Buenau4 and Andre M Coleman5, (1)National Energy Technology Lab, Geology-Geospatial Team, Albany, OR, United States, (2)National Energy Technology Lab, Albany, OR, United States, (3)AECOM, NETL, Albany, OR, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Earth Systems Science Division, Richland, WA, United States, (5)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Energy and Environment Directorate, Richland, WA, United States
 
ME14C-0625
A Tale of Two Crowds (93216)
Kelly Lynn Robinson1, Jessica Y Luo2, Cedric Guigand2, Su Sponaugle3 and Robert Cowen1, (1)Oregon State University, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport, OR, United States, (2)University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Marine Biology and Fisheries, Miami, FL, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Department of Integrative Biology, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
ME14C-0626
An Ecometric Study of Recent Microfossils using High-throughput Imaging (93433)
Leanne E Elder, Pincelli M Hull, Allison Y Hsiang and Sara Kahanamoku, Yale University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, New Haven, CT, United States
 
ME14C-0627
IMOS: How seals are changing the way we monitor the Southern Ocean (93800)
Robert Harcourt1, Clive McMahon2, Ian Jonsen1, Simon Goldsworthy3, Mark Hindell4, Xavier Hoenner5, Michelle Thums6 and Integrated Marine Observing System Animal Tagging and Monitoring Facility, (1)Macquarie University, Biological Sciences, Sydney, Australia, (2)Sydney Insititute for Marine Scince, Sydney, Australia, (3)SARDI, Aquatic Sciences, Adelaide, Australia, (4)Marine Predator Unit, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 129, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia, (5)University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, (6)Australian Institute of Marine Science, Perth, Australia
 
ME14C-0628
Big Data Approaches To Coral-Microbe Symbiosis (93820)
Jesse Zaneveld1, F Joseph Pollock2, Ryan McMinds1, Styles Smith2, Jerome Patrice Payet3, Bishoy Hanna2, Rory Welsh1, Amelia Foster1, Aki Ohdera2, Andrew A Shantz4, Deron E Burkepile5, Jeffrey A Maynard6, Monica Medina2 and Rebecca Vega Thurber1, (1)Oregon State University, Department of Microbiology, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Penn State University, Department of Biology, University Park, PA, United States, (3)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Covrallis, OR, United States, (4)Florida International University, Department of Biological Sciences, North Miami, FL, United States, (5)University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (6)SymbioSeas and Marine Applied Research Center, Wilmington, NC, NC, United States
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