EP31A:
Basin- to Global-Scale Ocean Transport, Connectivity, and Dispersal: Interdisciplinary Connections III


Session ID#: 37923

Session Description:
Physical transport of water masses over basin to global scales exerts control on processes as varied as global overturning circulation and the dispersal and ecological connectivity of marine species. In addition, anthropogenic structures in both the coastal and open ocean influence ecological processes through the alteration of habitats, shifts in biodiversity or productivity and may modify physical and biological connectivity. Use of drifters, natural or artificial tagging, field observations of propagules dispersal and genetic analyses, combined with bio-physical modelling, including Lagrangian numerical studies, have provided new insights in both physical and biological applications. However, much uncertainty remains: pathways of water masses important to global ocean dynamics, details of biological interactions with multi-scale currents, natural variability and climate change effects, implications for biogeography and resilience of marine populations, how the addition of man-made structures affect those interactions. To facilitate cross-disciplinary exchanges, we solicit abstracts which aim at: unravelling complex transport pathways of water masses, exploring 3-dimensional transport, upwelling and redistribution of passive tracers, evaluating dispersal for species spanning microbial organisms to top predators, studying demographic and genetic connectivity, revealing seascape boundaries and biological patchiness, as well as understanding the impacts of anthropogenic constructions on the structure of marine populations.
Primary Chair:  Cheryl S Harrison, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, School of Earth, Environmental and Marine Science, Port Isabel, TX, United States; University of Colorado at Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-chairs:  Susan Zaleski, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Department of Interior, Camarillo, CA, United States, James R. Watson, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States and Vincent Rossi, CNRS-MIO, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Marseille, France
Moderators:  Vincent Rossi, CNRS-MIO, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Marseille, France, James R. Watson, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, Cheryl S Harrison, University of Colorado at Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States; University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, School of Earth, Environmental and Marine Science, Port Isabel, TX, United States and Elliott L. Hazen, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Environmental Research Division, Monterey, CA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  James R. Watson, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
Index Terms:

4512 Currents [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4858 Population dynamics and ecology [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • F - Fisheries
  • ME - Marine Ecosystems
  • OM - Ocean Modeling
  • PL - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Larger

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Geography of the World’s Oceans Explains Patterns of Planktonic Diversity  (302153)
James Roger Watson, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
"Large-scale ocean connectivity and planktonic body size" (308407)
Ernesto Villarino1, James Roger Watson2, Bror F Jonsson3, Marta Estrada4, Cozar Andres5, Susana Agustí6, Eugenio Fraile-Nuez7, Carlos M Duarte6, Xabier Irigoien8, Leire Citores8, Guillem Chust8, Naiara Rodriguez-Ezpeleta8, Jon Corell8, Jose Cuesta9, Josep Maria Gasol10, Axayacatl Molina-Ramirez11, Jose Luis Acuña11, Silvia G Acinas10, Caterina R Giner10, Ramon Massana10, Guillem Salazar10, Ramiro Logares12, Massimo Ciro Pernice10, Pilar Olivar10, Ignacio Gonzalez-Gordillo13 and Elisa Marti13, (1)Fundación AZTI, San Sebastian, Spain, (2)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, (5)Universidad De Cadiz, Spain, (6)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Red Sea Research Center, Thuwal-Jeddah 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia, (7)Spanish Institute of Oceanography, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, (8)Fundación AZTI, Sukarrieta, Spain, (9)CSIC, Spain, (10)ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, (11)Universidad de Oviedo, Spain, (12)Institut de Ciencies del Mar, ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, (13)Universidad de Cadiz, Spain
The “calm before the spawn”: the ultimate cue of coral spawning across the Coral Triangle? (322669)
Diane M Thompson, Boston University, Earth & Environment, Boston, MA, United States, J A Kleypas, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Robert van Woesik, Florida Institute of Technology, Biological Sciences, Melbourne, FL, United States
Ecological implications of thermal stress and larval connectivity in the Coral Triangle (313082)
Lisa Celine McManus1,2, Vítor V Vasconcelos3, Fernando P Santos4, Simon Levin1, Diane M Thompson5, J A Kleypas6, Frederic S Castruccio6, Enrique N Curchitser2 and James Roger Watson7, (1)Princeton University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Rutgers University, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (3)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, (5)Boston University, Earth & Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (6)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
Both Physical and Biological Processes Influence Atlantic Sargassum Dispersal, Transport, and Distributions (317632)
Maureen T Brooks, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States and Victoria Coles, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States
Pushing the climate envelope: temporally-aligned spatial connectivity and biogeographic boundary of Calanus finmarchicus (318248)
Rubao Ji, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology Department, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Jeffrey A Runge, Univ of ME-Gulf of ME Rsrc Ins, Portland, ME, United States, Zhixuan Feng, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Changsheng Chen, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, United States and Nicholas Record, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States
Characterizing optimal nesting sites for loggerhead turtles using a global high-resolution model (323855)
Cheryl S Harrison1,2, Nathan F Putman3, Qingfeng Li4, Jessica Y. Luo5 and Matthew C Long5, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, School of Earth, Environmental and Marine Science, Port Isabel, TX, United States, (3)LGL Ecological Research Associates, Inc., Bryan, TX, United States, (4)Laramie High, Laramie, WY, United States, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, CO, United States
“Seals travel with a fair wind”: The influence of marine winds on the migration of newly-weaned northern fur seal pups (323643)
Noel Pelland1, Jeremy Sterling1, Devin Johnson1 and Mary-Anne Lea2, (1)NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Marine Mammal Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Role of Eddies and Filaments in the Offshore Transport of Organic Carbon in the Canary Upwelling System: a Modeling Study (306376)
Elisa Lovecchio, ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS), Zurich, Switzerland, Nicolas Gruber, Center for Climate Systems Modeling, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Matthias Munnich, ETH Zurich, Environmental Physics, Switzerland

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