OB43B:
Linking the Biology, Geochemistry, and Circulation of the Gulf of Mexico III
Session ID#: 93583
Session Description:
The Gulf of Mexico is a small, dynamic marginal sea that supports a broad range of oceanographic environments, including eutrophic coastal systems, oligotrophic open ocean waters, hydrocarbon-impacted waters and sediments, and shelf waters that are susceptible to frequent harmful algal blooms. Large atmospheric, riverine, and submarine groundwater fluxes strongly influence the biogeochemistry of near-shore and open ocean waters, yielding a high degree of spatial and temporal variability. Several recent studies have focused on characterizing the biogeochemistry of the Gulf of Mexico using a range of interdisciplinary approaches. Following on a successful 2018 OSM Town Hall led by GEOTRACES and OCB, this session will bring together interested investigators to highlight new results from the Gulf and identify potential areas of common interest and collaborative opportunities to help inform future planning in GEOTRACES, OCB, and other relevant programs. We invite contributions that characterize the variability in the biology, geochemistry, and/or physical oceanography of the Gulf of Mexico, and especially the linkages between them. Suggested contributions may include, but are not limited to descriptions of water column and benthic geochemical distributions, biogeochemical rate measurements, characterizations of molecular ecology, geochemical fluxes, and descriptions of circulation that impact Gulf biogeochemical dynamics.
Co-Sponsor(s):
Primary Chair: Angela N Knapp, Florida State University, Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Co-chairs: Alan M Shiller, University of Southern Mississippi, Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, Heather M Benway, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., Woods Hole, United States and Juan Carlos Herguera, Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico
Primary Liaison: Angela N Knapp, Florida State University, Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Moderators: Alan M Shiller, University of Southern Mississippi, Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States and Juan Carlos Herguera, Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico
Student Paper Review Liaison: Heather M Benway, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., Woods Hole, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Spatio-temporal Patterns of Chlorophyll-a in a Wide and Low-relief Shelf Sea of the Gulf of Mexico: Insights of Inter-annual Climatic Forcing on the Phytoplankton Biomass Varying Behavior (652206)
Israel Medina1, Miguel Cahuich Lopez2, Ana Aguilar3, Giuliana Cruz3, Myriam Juárez1, Ismael Marino-Tapia4, Jorge Herrera-Silveira5 and Cecilia Enriquez6, (1)CINVESTAV-IPN, Recursos del Mar - Primary production Laboratory, Merida, YC, Mexico, (2)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center/Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies, University of Maryland, and NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, United States, (3)CINVESTAV-IPN, YC, Mexico, (4)Center for Research and Advanced Studies, Marine Resources Department, Merida, YC, Mexico, (5)Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados, Unidad Merida, Merida, Yucatan, YC, Mexico, (6)Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Ciencias, Sisal, YC, Mexico
Phytoplankton dynamics in the Gulf of Mexico: A satellite perspective (656022)
Greg Silsbe1, Nazanin Chaichitehrani1 and Victoria Coles2, (1)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, United States, (2)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States
Phytoplankton community (size fraction and pigment composition) response to environmental drivers in the river-dominated estuarine-coastal systems of the northern Gulf of Mexico from Sentinel-3 OLCI ocean color observations (644008)
Bingqing Liu1, Eurico J. D'Sa2, Kanchan Maiti3, Victor H Rivera-Monroy2 and Z. George Xue4, (1)The Water Institute of the Gulf, Baton Rouge, United States, (2)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (3)Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (4)Louisiana State University, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
The influences of winds on Karenia brevis bloom characteristics along the shoreline of southwest coast of Florida (643377)
Yizhen Li, NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Richard P Stumpf, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Silver Spring, United States and Michelle C Tomlinson, NOAA, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Silver Spring, United States
Connectivity and Larval Dispersal Pathways of Panulirus argus in the Gulf of Mexico: A Numerical Study (653162)
Julio Antonio Lara Hernández1, Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo2, Patricia Briones-Fourzán3 and Laura Sanvicente Añorve1, (1)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, DF, Mexico, (2)Centro de Ciencias de la Atmosfera, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Grupo de Interacción Océano-Atmósfera, Mexico City, DF, Mexico, (3)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, QR, Mexico
Phytoplankton nutrient uptake, size structure and biomass distribution in the spawning region of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna in the oligotrophic Gulf of Mexico (653908)
Natalie Yingling1, Thomas Bryce Kelly2, Taylor Shropshire1, Karen E Selph3, Michael R Landry4, Angela N Knapp5, Sven Alexander Kranz6 and Michael R Stukel7, (1)Florida State University, Tallahassee, United States, (2)Florida State University, Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, United States, (3)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States, (4)Scripps Inst Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (5)Florida State University, Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (6)Rice University, Department of Biosciences, Houston, United States, (7)Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Distribution of yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) in the southern Gulf of Mexico based on ecological niche models and pop-up satellite archival tags. (655866)
Zurisaday Ramírez-Mendoza1, Oscar Sosa-Nishizaki2, Arturo Fajardo-Yamamoto1, Alfonsina Eugenia Romo-Curiel1, María Concepción García-Aguilar1 and Mario Rafael Ramírez-León3, (1)Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Department of Biological Oceanography, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, (2)CICESE, Biological Oceanography, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, (3)Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Biological Oceanography, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico
