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:

Deriving and Validating Ocean Color Retrievals from Landsat 8’s Operational Land Imager (OLI) in Coastal Waters near Coral Reefs (302750)
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
An updated high-resolution global mass coral bleaching database (312254)
Simon D Donner, Alex Tso and Gregory JM Rickbeil, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Light-Use-Efficiency of Reef Corals and Algae and its Implication for Remote Sensing (313195)
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
Multi-decadal shifts in community metabolism of a Lizard Island, GBR reef flat associated with press and pulse disturbances (313545)
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
Bio-Optical Inversion Modelling of Nearshore Waters in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) (313622)
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
Using Simulated Hyperspectral Data to Identify the Practical Limits of Discrimination of Coral Reef Benthic Composition. (316039)
Tom William Bell, Gregory Okin and Kyle C Cavanaugh, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Validation of Landsat 8 images using hyperspectral reflectance field data to address water quality and coral reef health in the U.S. Virgin Islands (323531)
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
CORAL REEF AIRBORNE LABORATORY: STATUS AND INITIAL RESULTS (323923)
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
Coral Mortality Induced by the 2015–2016 El-Niño in Indonesia: the Effect of Rapid Sea Level Fall (326539)
Eghbert Elvan Ampou, Organization Not Listed, Jembrana, Indonesia

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