EP51A:
Ecological Fluid Mechanics: Interactions Among Organisms and Their Fluid Environment II


Session ID#: 37871

Session Description:
The session will be dedicated to reports from studies of interactions among organisms and their fluid environment. The session addresses the role that fluid motion, flow gradients, and chemical stirring play in shaping organism behavior, interactions, recruitment, reproduction, and community structure. Relevant studies span topics of biomechanics, transport and settling, propulsion, and sensory ecology. Themes may include the influence of instantaneous flow patterns, the influence of extreme physical events, the influence of scale on the biological-physical coupling, and biological/ecological advantages mediated by flow and chemical transport. For instance, what can we learn from how organisms balance physical versus biological forcing? We invite studies addressing a broad range of flow regimes spanning creeping, laminar, unsteady, wavy, and turbulent flows.
Primary Chair:  Donald R Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States
Co-Chair:  Brad Gemmell, University of South Florida, Department of Integrative Biology, Tampa, FL, United States
Moderators:  Donald R Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States and Brad Gemmell, University of South Florida, Department of Integrative Biology, Tampa, FL, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Brad Gemmell, University of South Florida, Department of Integrative Biology, Tampa, FL, United States
Index Terms:

4235 Estuarine processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4804 Benthic processes, benthos [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4813 Ecological prediction [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • E - Estuarine Processes
  • ME - Marine Ecosystems

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Oceanic Turbulence from a Planktonic Perspective (306975)
Peter J. S. Franks, Bryce Inman, Jennifer A MacKinnon and Amy Frances Waterhouse, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Phytoplankton response to convective turbulent mixing: a mesocosm experiment (318268)
Russell Nathan Arnott, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom, Danielle Wain, University of Bath, Bath, BA2, United Kingdom and Mehdi Cherif, Umeå University, Institute for Ecology, Environment and Geoscience, Umeå, Sweden
Effects of Currents, Waves, and Biofilms on Motion of Tubeworm Larvae Swimming Above or Below Surfaces (304684)
Mimi A.R. Koehl1, E Perotti2, D Sischo3, T Hata4 and M Hadfield3, (1)Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of Hawaii, HI, United States, (3)Univ. of Hawaii, HI, United States, (4)Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, United States
Turbulence Induces Metabolically Costly Behaviors and Inhibits Food Capture in Oyster Larvae, Causing Net Energy Loss (317086)
Heidi L Fuchs1, Jaclyn A Specht1, Diane K Adams1 and Adam J Christman2, (1)Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (2)University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Microscopic suspension feeders near boundaries: Effects of external water flow (322825)
Rachel E Pepper, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, United States and Mimi A.R. Koehl, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Turning on a dime: Kinematics and hydrodynamics of maneuvering in medusae (312931)
Sean Colin, Roger Williams University, Marine Biology and Environmental Science, Bristol, RI, United States, Jack Costello, Providence College, Biology, Providence, RI, United States, Kelsey Lucas, Harvard University, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Brad Gemmell, University of South Florida, Department of Integrative Biology, Tampa, FL, United States
Underwater Micro PTV & Micro-Scale Flow Around Individual Coral Polyps (326630)
Andrew Mullen1, Amatzia Genin2, Paul L Roberts1 and Jules S Jaffe1, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Inter-university Institute for Marine Sciences, Eilat, Israel
Using numerical simulations to understand the fluid dynamics of collective pulsing behavior in xeniid coral (321194)
Julia Eleonore Samson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Carrboro, NC, United States and Laura Miller, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Mathematics, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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