RS24A:
The Red Sea: A Laboratory for Ocean Processes in a Changing World II Posters


Session ID#: 28428

Session Description:
The Red Sea, a semi-enclosed basin, is among the saltiest and warmest seas on the planet. Its latitudinal range spans 20 degrees and depths are in excess of 2800 meters. Due to the shallow sill at its opening to the Indian Ocean, the deep waters are unusually warm (~21C at 2.8 km depth) and vertical stratification in the water column is remarkably weak. Significant latitudinal gradients of temperature, salinity, and nutrients and coastal-open sea gradients from coastal mangroves, seagrasses, and coral reefs to open sea, oligotrophic environments exist within the basin. These unique characteristics and its size make it an opportune laboratory for studying a range of processes extending from coastal habitats, ocean biology and biogeochemistry, physical dynamics across a spectrum of scales, and climate impacts.

A recent surge in Red Sea research has greatly expanded our understanding of this environment. This session invites researchers across a range of disciplines to discuss our expanding understanding of Red Sea processes and their significance to understanding globally important processes including air-sea interaction, mesoscale, submesoscale and small scale processes, coastal-open sea exchanges, biological/physical coupling, biogeochemical processes, coastal habitat response to extreme conditions, and the global context and implications of these processes.

Primary Chair:  Burton H Jones, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Biological and Environmental Sciences & Engineering Division, Red Sea Research Center, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Co-chairs:  Stephen G Monismith, Stanford University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, Amatzia Genin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Inter-university Institute for Marine Sciences, Eilat, Israel and Riyad S Manasrah, University of Jordan, Marine Sciences, Aqaba, Jordan
Moderators:  Amatzia Genin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Inter-university Institute for Marine Sciences, Eilat, Israel, Stephen G Monismith, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Burton H Jones, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Stephen G Monismith, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4223 Descriptive and regional oceanography [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4273 Physical and biogeochemical interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • B - Biodiversity
  • BN - Biogeochemistry and Nutrients
  • CD - Coastal Dynamics
  • PS - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Monitoring and Modeling the Impact of Offshore Aquaculture on Ambient Water Quality in the Red Sea (303710)
Aislinn Dunne, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Red Sea Research Center, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, Burton H Jones, KAUST- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Red Sea Research Center, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia and Dale Adolph Kiefer, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Spatio-temporal UV-B Attenuation Patterns in the Red Sea (303782)
Sebastian Overmans, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Red Sea Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and Susana Agustí, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Red Sea Research Center, Thuwal-Jeddah 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
Red Sea heterotrophic prokaryotes show stability across environmental gradients (304863)
Tamara Megan Huete-Stauffer, Najwa Al-Otaibi, Mohd Ikram Ansari, Maria Lluch Calleja, Susana Carvalho, Snjezana Ivetic, Benjamin Kurten, Eman Sabbagh, Luis Silva, Burton H Jones and Xose Anxelu Moran, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Red Sea Research Center, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Seasonal Dynamics of Productivity in the Southern Red Sea using Satellite Measurements (305170)
Jamin Rader, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States; SOARS, Boulder, CO, United States and Kristopher B Karnauskas, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Compilation of a 100m bathymetric grid around the Arabian Plate; Red Sea, Arabian and Oman Seas, Persian Gulf, and northern Indian Ocean (307645)
Shahar Levenson, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel and John K Hall, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
Seasons and Mesoscale Processes Determine New and Regeneration Production in the Red Sea (309725)
Benjamin Kurten1, Michael Morando2, Troy Gunderson2, Ulrich Struck3, Burton H Jones4 and Douglas G Capone2, (1)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Biological and Environmental Sciences & Engineering Division, Red Sea Research Center, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, (2)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Museum of Natural History, Berlin, Germany, (4)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Pigment-based phytoplankton community biodiversities in two contrasted regions: the northern and southern Red Sea (310363)
Mustapha Ouhssain1, Malika Kheireddine2 and Burton H Jones2, (1)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, (2)KAUST- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Red Sea Research Center, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Bacterioplankton growth and physiological characterization in different Red Sea shallow ecosystems (310930)
Luis Silva1, Maria Lluch Calleja1, Snjezana Ivetic1, Mohd Ikram Ansari1, Miguel Viegas2 and Xose Anxelu Moran2, (1)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Red Sea Research Center, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, (2)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Evidence from molluscan death assemblages for historic widespread loss of seagrass communities in the tropical Gulf of Eilat, Red Sea (316258)
Yael Edelman-Furstenberg, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, Susan M Kidwell, Univ Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, Ehud Gilad, Geological Survey of Israel; Tel Aviv University, Israel and Yehuda Benayahu, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Red Sea Modelling and Forecasting System (320301)
Hari Prasad Dasari1, Peng Zhan2, Georgios Krokos1, Habib Toye Mahamadou Kele3, Sabique Langodan1, Yesubabu Viswanadhapalli4, Daquan Guo1, Samuel Kortas5, Fengchao Yao6 and Hoteit Ibrahim1, (1)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, (2)Earth Sciences and Engineering Program, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, (3)KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, (4)National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Department of Space, Tirupati, India, (5)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, (6)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Red Sea Research Center, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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