ME24C:
Remote Sensing of Coral Reef Ecosystems I Posters


Session ID#: 28702

Session Description:
Coral reefs provide key ecosystem goods and services, but are also sensitive ecosystems easily affected by both local and global perturbations. While many field studies provide crucial information and knowledge on coral reef structure and function at molecule to community scales, airborne and satellite remote sensing techniques are the only way to study reefs at the scale of the whole ecosystem. Until recently, most remote sensors were not very well suited to study coral reefs because of limitations associated with their broad bands and limited spatial resolution. A new generation of sensors are now available allowing remote sensing applications to go beyond the classic bathymetry estimates or habitat mapping. The aim of this session is to bring together scientists working on new remote sensing applications and methods for coral reef studies, such as NASA’s COral Reef Airborne Laboratory (CORAL) mission and NASA’s HyspIRI Hawaii campaign. In particular, we welcome investigations that use recent instruments or have developed new approaches to study coral reefs at the ecosystem level.
Primary Chair:  Eric J Hochberg, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, St.George's, GE, Bermuda
Co-Chair:  Eric J Hochberg, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, St.George's, GE, Bermuda
Moderators:  Michelle M Gierach, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Steven G Ackleson, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., DC, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Stacy Peltier, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, St. George, Bermuda
Index Terms:

4220 Coral reef systems [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4275 Remote sensing and electromagnetic processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • CD - Coastal Dynamics
  • IS - Ocean Observatories, Instrumentation and Sensing Technologies

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Joel P Scott1,2, Lachlan Ian William McKinna1,2 and Jeremy Werdell1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Science Applications International Corporation, McLean, VA, United States
Simon D Donner, Alex Tso and Gregory JM Rickbeil, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Yvonne Sawall, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, St. George's, NULL, Bermuda, Eric J Hochberg, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, St.George's, GE, Bermuda and Ashley Miller, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), Bremen, Germany
Chiara Pisapia1, Sam Ginther2, Eric J Hochberg3 and Robert Carpenter2, (1)California State University of Northridge, Biology, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)California State University of Northridge, CA, United States, (3)Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, St.George's, GE, Bermuda
David Flanagan1, K. Adem Ali1, Marilyn Brandt2, Joseph D. Ortiz3 and Tyler B Smith2, (1)College of Charleston, Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Charleston, SC, United States, (2)University of the Virgin Islands, Center for Marine and Environmental Studies, St. Thomas, United States, (3)Kent State University, Department of Geology, Kent, OH, United States
Tom William Bell, Gregory Okin and Kyle C Cavanaugh, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Hannah Lynn Schlaerth1, Dulcinea Avouris1, David Flanagan2, Marilyn Brandt3, Tyler B Smith3, K. Adem Ali2 and Joseph D. Ortiz1, (1)Kent State University, Department of Geology, Kent, OH, United States, (2)College of Charleston, Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Charleston, SC, United States, (3)University of the Virgin Islands, Center for Marine and Environmental Studies, St. Thomas, United States
Eric J Hochberg, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, St.George's, GE, Bermuda and Michelle M Gierach, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Eghbert Elvan Ampou, Organization Not Listed, Jembrana, Indonesia

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