2008
Agenda & Abstracts
2008 Sitka – Abstracts & Agenda
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
| Ola Oskarsson | MMT AB, Sweden | Habitat Investigations Within the SEA 1, 4 and 7 Areas of the UK Continental Shelf. Cold Water Reefs and Sponge Habitats |
| Kerry Howell | University of Plymouth, UK | Structural Sponge Communities of the Faroe-Shetland Channel, N.E. Atlantic: Preliminary Observations |
| Malcolm Clark | National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand | Seamounts, Deep-sea Corals, and Fisheries on the High Seas: What Can We Do With Almost No Data? |
| Vaughn Barrie | Geological Survey of Canada | Sponge Reefs in the Georgia and Queen Charlotte Basins, British Columbia, Canada: a widespread, readily mapped and sensitive benthic habitat |
| Evan Edinger | Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada | Geological Basis of Large Gorgonian Coral Habitat in Atlantic Canada |
| Sarah Cook | Archipelago Marine Research Ltd., Canada | Use of Video Classification Techniques to Describe and map Sponge Reef Habitat on the Continental Shelf of British Columbia, Canada |
| Lisa Etherington | NOAA, Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary | Explorations of Cold-water Coral-Habitat Relationships on Cordell Bank, CA Using Submersible Visual Data and Multibeam Sonar Data |
| Jessica Finney | Simon Fraser University, Canada | Predicting Suitable Habitat for Deep-sea Coral Reefs in British Columbia |
| Pål Buhl-Mortensen | Institute of Marine Research, Norway | New Discoveries of Coral Reefs in the Hola Trench Off Norway, Highlighting Challenges in Coral Reef Prediction |
| John Olson | NOAA, NMFS, Alaska | Holy Coral! Is that what I think it is? Adventures in Vague Locations, Extrapolations, and Mis-identification |
| Gary Greene | Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, California | Geology as a Surrogate to Ecology Is this Possible? Examples from Alaska |
| Dan Urban | NOAA Fisheries, Alaska | Modeling Rockfish Distributions Using Hydroacoustics and High Resolution Bathymetry |
| Julia Clemons | NOAA Fisheries, Oregon | Construction of a Habitat Map for Heceta Bank, Oregon, USA for Use in Estimates of Groundfish Assemblages on the Bank |
| Genoveva Mirelis | University of Gothenburg, Sweden | Spatial Patterns of Macrobenthic Communities in a Swedish Fjord as Derived From Opportunistic Video Data |
| Sean Rooney | University of Alaska, Fairbanks | A Multi-Scale Analysis of Demersal Fishes and their Associated Habitats on a Gulf of Alaska Fishing Ground |
| Brian Todd | Geological Survey of Canada | Sea Scallop Habitat in the Gulf of Maine |
| Evan Edinger | Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada | Marine Habitat Mapping in the Gilbert Bay Marine Protected Area, Labrador, Canada |
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
| Chris Goldfinger | Oregon State University | Mapping and Lithologic Interpretation of the Territorial Sea, Oregon |
| Jane Reid | US Geological Survey, Santa Cruz | Surficial Seabed Characteristics of the United States: Focus on Alaska |
| Guy Cochrane | US Geological Survey, Santa Cruz | Sea-Floor Character Maps for the California State Waters Mapping Program |
| Roger Coggan | CEFAS, UK | Mapping Rocky Reefs in the Central English Channel: A Case Study Using Nested Surveys and Broadscale Acoustic Proxies |
| Scott Nichol | Geoscience Australia | Prediction of Australias Benthic Marine Habitat Diversity Using Seascapes: A National Map |
| Anu Reijonen | Geological Survey of Finland | Biological Relevance of Benthic Marine Landscapes and Seabed Topographic Features in the Archipelago Sea (Baltic Sea) Distribution of Seabed Topographic Features in the Archipelago Sea, the Baltic Sea An Approach to Pinpoint Geodiversity Hotspots |
| Anna-Leena Nöjd | Finnish Environmental Institute | Implications for Management Uses |
| Dick Pickrill | Geological Survey of Canada | Implementing Canadas National Marine Mapping Strategy |
| Terje Thorsnes | Norwegian Geological Survey | Seascapes A Framework For Nature Type Classification in the Lofoten-Barents Sea Region, Arctic Norway |
| Jodi Harney | Coastal and Ocean Resources, Inc., Canada | Sitka Sound and Beyond Serving Up 40,000 km of Coastal Habitat Mapping & Imagery |
| John Harper | Coastal and Ocean Resources, Inc., Canada | Revealing Sidneys Bottom Seabed Habitat Mapping for the Community of Sidney, BC |
| Peter Lawton | Fisheries and Oceans Canada | From Rubber Boots to ROVs: Exploring Marine Benthic Habitats Across the Gulf of Maine Biodiversity Discovery Corridor |
| Chris Romsos | Oregon State University | Data Discovery, Access and Distribution Pathways of the Pacific Coast Ocean Observing System (PACOOS): An Ecosystem Observing Tool for the California Current |
| Roland Pesch | University of Vechta, Germany | Design and Implementation of an Open-source-WebGIS for the Sea Floor of the North and the Baltic Sea |
| Cameron McLeay | CARIS USA | Production of Marine Information Overlays (MIOs) for Marine Environmental Protection |
Thursday, 1 May 2008
| Jennifer Reynolds | University of Alaska, Fairbanks | Substrate Mapping of Bogoslof Volcano, Alaska for a Natural Experiment on Invertebrate Colonization |
| Robert Embley | NOAA Pacific Environmental Lab, Oregon | Diverse Habitats on Intraoceanic Island Arc Submarine Volcanoes of the Mariana Arc, Western Pacific |
| Peter Harris | Geoscience Australia | Global Ocean Conservation Priorities for Benthic Ecosystems Identified by GIS Analysis of Multiple Spatial Data Layers |
| Veerle Huvenne | National Oceanographic Centre, UK | Challenges and Rewards of ROV- Based High-Resolution Habitat Mapping in Deep-Sea Canyons Offshore Portugal |
| Kerstin Jerosch | Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany | GIS Based Identification of Chemoautotrophic Communities, Mud Flows and Biogeochemical Habitats at Hakon Mosby Mud Volcano |
| Neil Golding | Joint Nature Conservation Committee, UK | Surveying Deep-Water Habitats on the UK Shelf Edge to Inform MPA Selection |
| Heather Stewart | British Geological Survey | Predicting the Distribution of Annex 1 Reef Habitat Results From the MESH SW Canyons Survey, UK |
| Elaine Baker | University of Sydney, Australia | The Global Seafloor Atlas Project: Seafloor Geomorphology as Benthic Habitat |
| Rebecca Allee | NOAA, Gulf Coast Services Center, Mississippi | Refinement and Application of the Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard |
| Vanessa Lucieer | University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania | Assessing the Robustness of a Morphometric Classification Model to Help Predict Australias Benthic Marine Habitat Diversity |
| Margaret Dolan | Geological Survey of Norway | Spatial Modelling and Multivariate Prediction of Seabed Nature Types in the MAREANO Regional Mapping Programme |
| Jan Ekebom | Metsahallitus Natural Heritage Service, Finland | Identifying Errors That Occur When Applying Drop Video Techniques for Marine Phytobenthos Surveys |
| Edward Gregr | SciTech Environmental Consulting, Canada | An Ecological Classification of Benthic Habitat in Pacific Canadian Shelf Waters |
| Ceri James | British Geological Survey | Characterising Rock from Thin Sediment and its Significance in Mapping Habitat |
| Vladimir Kostylev | Geological Survey of Canada | Assumptions Behind Geological Proxies in Benthic Habitat Mapping |
| Geoffroy Lamarche | National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand | Backscatter Angular Dependence as a Quantitative Tool for Seafloor Substrate Characterization: Application to Cook Strait, New Zealand |
Posters
| David Albert | The Nature Conservancy, Alaska | Integrating terrestrial, freshwater and marine processes in a preliminary classification of coastal ecological units in southeastern Alaska: A hierarchical framework and exploratory analysis |
| Jim Baichtal | Tongass National Forest, Alaska | Paleogeography of the Late Pleistocene and Quaternary Coastlines of Southeast Alaska and Their Potential Archaeological Significance |
| Roger Coggan | CEFAS, UK | Utility of existing single-beam Digital Survey Bathymetry for identifying potential Marine Protected Areas |
| Sarah Cook | Archipelago Marine Research Ltd., Canada | Epifauna and infauna associated with shallow cold seeps and carbonate mounds in Hecate Strait, British Columbia, Canada |
| Jamie Davies | University of Plymouth | Biological communities of the South West approaches (UK) |
| Margaret Dolan | Norwegian Geological Survey | Geology meets biology: mapping and prediction of seabed nature types in the MAREANO regional mapping programme |
| Sophie Green | National Oceanographic Centre, UK | A comparison of the habitat structure and ecology associated with cold water coral reefs at the Mingulay Reef Complex (Outer Hebrides) and the Sula Ridge Reef Complex (Norway) |
| Janine Guinan | Marine Institute, Ireland | Using models to predict deep-sea cold-water coral habitats: case studies from the Irish continental slope |
| Claudio Iacono | Spanish National Research Council | High-resolution acoustic mapping of Mediterranean Deep Coral areas |
| Claudio Iacono | Spanish National Research Council | Application of nonlinear seismics in the study of the seagrasses: the case of Posidonia oceanica (Mediterranean Sea) |
| Lisa Lacko | Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Development of a benthic habitat methodology for establishing Rockfish Conservation Areas (RCAs) in British Columbia |
| Aja Peters-Mason | Marine Conservation Biology Institute, Washington | Estimation of global meiofauna and macrofauna biomass |
| Kim Picard | Geological Survey of Canada | Benthic Habitat Map of the US/Canada transboundary region of Georgia Basin |
| Jodi Pirtle | University of Alaska, Fairbanks | Spatial patterns of nearshore subtidal communities in southeast Alaska linked to habitat and environmental variability |
| Jennifer Stahl | Alaska Department of Fish and Game | Prediction of Suitable Rockfish Habitat |
| Doug Woodby | Alaska Department of Fish and Game | Predictive modeling of coral and sponge distribution in the central Aleutian Islands |
Abstracts