PC52A:
Implications of Global Climate Change on the Health of Coral Reef Ecosystems I


Session ID#: 9640

Session Description:
Coral reefs are some of the most diverse and valuable ecosystems in the world. Vital for maintaining ecological balance in coastal tropical environments, they also stand as the foundation for enormous cultural and economic resources. However, the increasing threat of global climate change and the continued degradation of coral reefs around the world is an alarming call for action towards the identification of implications of temperature stress and subsequent rehabilitation of these vital marine environments. Recent bleaching events throughout the Pacific Ocean and subsequent coral reef studies lend greater insight into how these ecosystems cope with warming oceans and what shifts in ecosystem structure can be expected. In this session, focus will be dedicated towards elucidating shifts in coral reef ecology, changes in molecular biomarkers of stress, zooxanthellae clade variation, and physiological and molecular changes during heat stress, which will allow for greater insight into anticipating and addressing coral reef environmental changes.
Primary Chair:  James Murphy, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, Honolulu, HI, United States
Chairs:  Narrissa Spies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Biology, Honolulu, HI, United States, Federica Ragazzola, University of Porstmouth, Institute of Marine Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Portsmouth, United Kingdom, Sophie J McCoy, Plymouth Marine Laboratory,, Plymouth, PL1, United Kingdom, Plymouth, United Kingdom and Chiara Lombardi, Marine and Sustainable Development Unit ENEA, Marine Ecology Laboratory, Pozzuolo di Lerici, Italy
Moderators:  James Murphy, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, Honolulu, HI, United States and Sophie J McCoy, Plymouth Marine Laboratory,, Plymouth, PL1, United Kingdom, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Narrissa Spies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Biology, Honolulu, HI, United States and Chiara Lombardi, Marine and Sustainable Development Unit ENEA, Marine Ecology Laboratory, Pozzuolo di Lerici, Italy
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4220 Coral reef systems [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
9355 Pacific Ocean [GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • HI - Human Use and Impacts
  • ME - Marine Ecosystems
  • TE - Tropical and Equatorial Environments
  • O - Other

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

PC52A-01
A Crucial Time for Reefs: Climate Change, El Niño, and the 2014-16 Global Bleaching Event (88268)
C. Mark Eakin1, Gang Liu2, Erick Francis Geiger1, Scott F Heron3, William J Skirving3, Jacqueline L De La Cour4, Alan E Strong5, Kyle Tirak6 and Tim Burgess3, (1)NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Coral Reef Watch, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NOAA, Coral Reef Watch, Townsville, QLD, Australia, (4)NOAA Coral Reef Watch-UMD_CICS, College Park, MD, United States, (5)NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (6)Global Science & Technology, Inc., Greenbelt, MD, United States
PC52A-02
Bioconstructor Guild Analysis to Assess Maldivian Reefs Following Ocean Warming and Coral Bleaching (88373)
Carlo Nike Bianchi, Carla Morri and Monica Montefalcone, University of Genoa, DiSTAV, Genova, Italy
PC52A-03
Differential thermal response within inshore vs. offshore congeneric scleractinian coral species in Palau. (92005)
Kenneth David Hoadley1, Allison Lewis2, Drew Wham2, Daniel Tye Pettay1, Dustin Kemp3, Mark Warner1 and Todd Lajeunesse2, (1)University of Delaware, Marine Science and Policy, Lewes, DE, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University, (3)University of Georgia
PC52A-04
Does body type really matter? Relating climate change, coral morphology and resiliency (90600)
Miranda Camp1,2, Karsten A Shein3, Kristi Foster1 and James Cass Hendee4, (1)Central Caribbean Marine Institute, Little Cayman, Cayman Islands, (2)Stetson University, Biology, DeLand, FL, United States, (3)NOAA, National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC, United States, (4)NOAA, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, FL, United States
PC52A-05
Environmentally driven transcriptional regulation in a table top coral: the response to a midday low tide (92524)
Lupita Ruiz-Jones, Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station and Stephen Palumbi, Stanford University
PC54B-2259
Influence of Temperature and Nutrients on Coral Community Structure on Lagoonal Reefs in Belize (88732)
Justin Baumann1, Joseph Edward Townsend1, Travis Courtney1,2, Hannah Aichelman1, Sarah W Davies1 and Karl Castillo1, (1)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Marine Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (2)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
PC52A-08
Functional Traits and Community Assembly in Deep-Sea Octocorals Along a Depth Gradient in the Northern Gulf of Mexico (92502)
Carlos Gomez, Temple University, Biology Department, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Andrea Quattrini, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Erik E Cordes, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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