E14A:
Impacts of Multiple Stressors in Coastal Ecosystems on Organism Health II Posters


Session ID#: 28613

Session Description:
Organisms inhabiting coastal ecosystems are subject to a myriad of natural and anthropogenic stressors, such as variations in temperature and salinity, chemicals present in run-off or effluents, and the increased presence of invasive species. These coupled stressors can be additive, synergistic, or antagonistic at the individual and population levels. Organism-level responses are thus difficult to predict using traditional experimental approaches designed to evaluate single stressor variables. For example, major abiotic stressors such as hypoxia can enhance the effects of pollutant exposure. Understanding the interactions that occur between abiotic parameters, anthropogenic stressors, and responses at different levels of biological organization is critical for physiologists, ecologists, and toxicologists to project species resilience in the Anthropocene. Presentations addressing these challenges in marine and estuarine organisms across taxa are welcome. Studies can address responses at the molecular, organismal, or population scale in vertebrates or invertebrates. Examples of endpoints range from changes in growth or reproductive health to behavior and biochemical responses such as protein levels or gene expression. Pollutants or other environmental stressors should be considered in the context of conditions induced by global climate change, such as CO2-acidification, hypoxia, increased temperature, varied salinity, or species interactions due to range shifts or invasive species.
Primary Chair:  Susanne Marie Brander, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Co-chairs:  Richard Connon, Nann Fangue and Anne Todgham, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Moderators:  Susanne Marie Brander1, Richard Connon2, Nann Fangue2 and Anne Todgham2, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States(2)University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Susanne Marie Brander, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4235 Estuarine processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4251 Marine pollution [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • CD - Coastal Dynamics
  • F - Fisheries
  • OC - Ocean Change: Acidification and Hypoxia

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Interactive Effects of Temperature and Low Oxygen on the Vertical Distribution of Copepod Eggs and Nauplii in Coastal Seas (306775)
Michael Roman1, Catherine Fitzgerald2 and James J Pierson2, (1)United States, (2)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States
Natural Corals of Opportunity as a Restoration Technique (307101)
Constance R Sartor, NOAA Honolulu, Sarasota, FL, United States; New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL, United States and Matthew Parry, NOAA, HI, United States
Modeling Seagrass Habitat Vulnerability to Climate Change (309357)
Cara Scalpone, Pitzer College, Keck Science Department, Claremont, CA, United States; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, U.S. Geological Survey Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Neil K Ganju, Department of the Interior Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, Jessie C. Jarvis, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, United States, Jeremy M Testa, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, MD, United States and Jim Vasslides, Barnegat Bay Partnership, NJ, United States
Impact of increased salinity on the Zooplankton Community in the northwestern Arabian Gulf. (309796)
Faiza Yousef Al-Yamani, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Khaldya, Kuwait, Rakhesh Madhusoodhanan, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Resesrch, Ecosystem based Management of Marine Resources Program Environment and Life Sciences Research Center, Salmiya, Kuwait and Turki Fahad Al-Said, Ecosystem Based Managment of Marine Resources Program-Environment and Life Sciences Research Center, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait, Salmiya, Kuwait
Synthesis and Cellular Distribution of the Neurotoxin β-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) By Three Cyanobacterial Species Under Varying Environmental Conditions (315011)
Madeline Hummel1, Rachel Mcmahon2, H. Rodger Harvey1 and Margaret R Mulholland3, (1)Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States, (2)Old Dominion University, Ocean Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Norfolk, VA, United States, (3)Old Dominion University, Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Norfolk, VA, United States
Harmful algal bloom dynamics in a large coastal estuary ecosystem. (318308)
James Michael Sullivan1, Malcolm McFarland1 and Dennis Hanisak2, (1)Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Fort Pierce, FL, United States, (2)Florida Atlantic University, Marine Biomedical & Biotechnology Research, Boca Raton, FL, United States
Behavioral effects of carbaryl and temperature on salt-marsh killifish Fundulus heteroclitus (319885)
Andrew Allen Shirley, University of North Georgia, Mt. Airy, GA, United States, Kendall Maze, University of North Georgia, Dahlonega, GA, United States and Nancy Dalman, University of North Georgia, GA, United States
Biomagnification of Hg in a tropical estuary of Todos os Santos Bay, Bahia, Brazil (320756)
Taiana Guimarães Araujo, UNEB Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Departamento de Ciências Humanas e Tecnologias - DCHT XXIV, Xique-Xique, Brazil, Carlos Eduardo Rezende, UENF State University of Northern of Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Krishna Das, Université de Liège, Liege, Belgium and Vanessa Hatje, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Química Analítica - CIENAM, Salvador, Brazil
Response of Zooplankton to Human-Induced Rapid Environmental Change (HIREC) in Lake Erie (322399)
Joshua P. Stone, Stuart A. Ludsin, James M. Hood II and Elizabeth A. Marschall, Aquatic Ecology Laboratory, Ohio State University, Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, Columbus, OH, United States
Method Development for Assessing Trophic Transfer of Domoic Acid from Pseudo-Nitzschia Spp. to Acartia Tonsa (322511)
Israel Marquez Jr, University of South Alabama, Marine Sciences, Mobile, AL, United States, Jeffrey W Krause, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL, United States and Ann Abraham, Food and Drug Administration, Division of Seafood Science and Technology, Dauphin Island, AL, United States
Evaluating life history, habitat and contaminant risk factors to fish health in an urban river (322555)
Joel C Hoffman1, Patricia Mazik2 and Vicki Blazer2, (1)US EPA, Mid-Continent Ecology Division Laboratory, Duluth, MN, United States, (2)USGS West Virginia Cooperative Research Unit, WV, United States
Determination of Chemicals of Concern by Association with Likelihood Based Evidence for Biological Impairment (323378)
Kenia Whitehead, Integral Consulting Inc., Olympia, WA, United States and Dreas Nielsen, Integral Consulting Inc., WA, United States
Effect of Hypoxia on DNA Methylation during Early Embryonic Development of Atlantic Killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) (325047)
Veronica Olivia De Pascuale1,2 and Neel Aluru2, (1)Oberlin College, Biology, Oberlin, OH, United States, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology, Woods Hole, MA, United States

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