B24A:
The Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON): Building Partnerships Toward a Better Understanding of Life in the Sea II Posters


Session ID#: 27835

Session Description:
Marine biodiversity and ecosystem processes remain major frontiers in ocean observing. Yet, implementing operational and sustained programs that observe biodiversity is increasingly critical to understanding changing patterns of biodiversity given myriad stressors and changing ecosystems, and to determining the impacts on dependent ecosystem services. The Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) is a global initiative to observe and characterize changes in marine biodiversity and ecosystem function. This session seeks presentations of successful examples of comparative, collaborative research across habitats, latitudes, basins, and time. MBON invites existing networks of scientists, ocean observing practitioners, resource managers, and end-users to showcase these examples to build a broader community of practice. We seek presentations about use of standardized measurements, novel approaches, and sustained data collection to tackle issues of global change along environmental and anthropogenic gradients and put local observations in regional and global contexts. Presentations that explore steps to link observations of biodiversity with ocean observing systems in a sustainable manner are also invited. The session is an opportunity to identify additional partnerships among groups that seek to understand life in the sea and the broader impacts of changes in marine ecosystems, including those that are societally relevant. The information will help further develop the MBON in the context of international programs, including the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), and the Group on Earth Observations (GEO).
Primary Chair:  Gabrielle Canonico, U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Co-chairs:  Abigail Benson, USGS Central Region Offices Denver, Denver, CO, United States, J. Emmett Duffy, Smithsonian Institution, Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, Washington, DC, United States and Frank E Muller-Karger, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, IMaRS, St Petersburg, FL, United States
Moderators:  J. Emmett Duffy, Smithsonian Institution, Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, Washington, DC, United States and Abigail Benson, USGS Central Region Offices Denver, Denver, CO, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Frank E Muller-Karger, University of South Florida, IMaRS, St Petersburg, FL, United States
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4262 Ocean observing systems [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • EP - Ecology and Physical Interactions
  • ES - Ecology and Social Interactions
  • OD - Ocean Data Management

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Listen up! Harnessing passive acoustic recorders to monitor boat activity trends in U.S. Virgin Island coral reefs (302973)
Jason Phanliem Dinh1,2, T Aran Mooney2 and Justin Joseph Suca3, (1)Duke University, Bel Air, MD, United States, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology Department, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Dynamic Change in the Composition of Photosynthetic Picoeukaryotes during Spring Season Observed from the Research Platform in the East China Sea (315926)
Jae Hoon Noh1, Dong Han Choi1, Sung Min An1, Jin Yong Jeong2 and Charity M. Lee3, (1)KIOST Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Marine Ecosystem Research Division, Ansan Kyunggido, South Korea, (2)KIOST Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Operational Oceanography Research Center, Ansan Kyunggido, South Korea, (3)KIOST Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Ocean Policy Institute, Ansan Kyunggido, South Korea
THE POLE-TO-POLE MBON NETWORK OF THE AMERICAS: A REGIONAL COLLABORATION TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF ACIDIFICATION ON LIFE IN THE SEA (318113)
Yrene Margarita Astor, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, College of Marine Science. Institute of Marine Remote Sensing IMaRS, St Petersburg, FL, United States, Enrique Montes, University of South Florida, St Petersburg, FL, United States, Frank E Muller-Karger, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, Patricia Miloslavich, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Australia, Gabrielle Canonico, U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Sergio Cerdeira-Estrada, National Commission for Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO), Ciudad DE México, Mexico, Elva Escobar-Briones, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia, Mexico City, Mexico, Eduardo Klein, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela and Emmett Duffy, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, The Tenenbaum Marine Observatories Network, Edgewater, MD, United States
Deep-Sea Corals of the Southeast U.S.: Insights from NOAA’s National Database of Deep-Sea Coral & Sponges (320317)
Thomas F. Hourigan, NOAA, Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Robert McGuinn, JHT Incorporated, NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Marine Spatial Ecology Division, Charleston, SC, United States, Peter John Etnoyer, NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Marine Spatial Ecology Division, Charleston, SC, United States, Daniel Wagner, NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, via Cherokee Nation Strategic Programs, Charleston, SC, United States, Matthew D Poti, NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Marine Spatial Ecology Division, Silver Spring, MD, United States and Heather M Coleman, NOAA Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Enhancing Understanding of Aquatic Animal Movement through Bioacoustic Observations and Regional Network Support: Lessons from the Mid Atlantic Acoustic Telemetry Observation System and Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System (320667)
Kevin Schabow1, Nicole Trenholm1,2, Byron Kilbourne3, Matthew Ogburn4, Bill Woodward5, Peter Moore6 and William Douglas Wilson7, (1)NOAA Habitat Conservation, Annapolis, MD, United States, (2)Earth Resources Technology Inc., Annapolis, MD, United States, (3)NOAA Habitat Conservation, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (4)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, Edgewater, MD, United States, (5)NOAA/IOOS, United States, (6)MARACOOS, United States, (7)Caribbean Wind LLC, Baltimore, MD, United States
Octopods of the Deep Reefs off Curacao (321776)
Abigail Pratt, Humboldt State University, Biological Sciences, Arcata, CA, United States; Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Invertebrate Zoology, Washington, DC, United States, Michael Vecchione, NOAA NMFS National Systematics Lab, DC, United States and Carole Baldwin, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, United States
Patterns and Drivers of Demersal Reef Fish Biodiversity in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary from 1999 - 2016 (323369)
Megan Hepner1, Frank E Muller-Karger1, Benjamin Best2, Kathryn Shulzitski3, Steve Gittings4 and Chris Stallings1, (1)University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, (2)EcoQuants, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Miami, FL, United States, (4)NOAA National Ocean Service, National Marine Sanctuaries, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Citizen Scientists as Vessels for Acoustic Telemetry (325876)
Michelle L. Edwards, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, Rochester, NY, United States, Nicole Trenholm, Ocean Research Project, Annapolis, MD, United States and Matthew Ogburn, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, Edgewater, MD, United States

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