Tuesday, 4 May 2011

Anna-Leena Downie	Marine Research Centre, Finnish Environment Institute	A fine scale habitat map of a highly heterogeneous shallow archipelago near Tvärminne, Finland
Jørgen O. Leth	Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Copenhagen, Denmark	Acoustic mapping and ground truthing analysis used for the modelling of benthic habitats in the Kattegat, Denmark
Lucyna Kryla-Straszewska	GIS Centre, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland	Pattern analysis of natural and artificial hard bottom substrata in the Polish Marine Area (PMA)
Daria Ryabchuk	A.P. Karpinsky Russian Geological Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia	First results of marine habitat mapping of the Russian part of the Baltic Sea
Genoveva Gonzalez-Mirelis	Department of Marine Ecology at Tjärnö, University of Gothenburg, Sweden	Predicting the distribution of benthic biotopes by conditional inference in the Koster Fjord area (Sweden)
Ida Carlén	AquaBiota Water Research, Stockholm, Sweden	Modelling wrack deposits
Andrius Šiaulys	Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipeda University, Klaipeda, Lithuania	Quantitative assessment of habitat services based on modelling of fish feeding grounds
Aleksej Šaškov	Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipeda University, Lithuania	Catching the moment: data collection, modeling and mapping of herring spawning grounds at the exposed Baltic Sea coast
Martynas Bucas	Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipeda University, Lithuania	Predictive modelling of benthic assemblages: performance of modelling techniques in a Baltic-wide perspective
Kerry L. Howell	Marine Biology and Ecology Research Centre, Marine Institute at the University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK	The use of the Maximum Entropy Model Maxent in biological assemblage mapping
Ruiju Tong	Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany	Multivariate statistical analysis of cold-water coral distributions in relation to seabed topography
Md. Zeenatul Basher	Leigh Marine Laboratory, The University of Auckland, NZ	Geographic distribution of natant decapod shrimps in the Ross Sea, Antarctica
Patricia R. Sutcliffe	The Ecology Centre, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia	Spatial and environmental predictors of species richness in tropical seabed ecosystems
H. Gary Greene	Tombolo/Center for Habitat Studies, Moss Landing Marine Labs, Moss Landing, CA USA	Habitat mapping of the shallow inland Salish Sea – San Juan Archipelago, Pacific Northwest United States
Sebastien O.C. Boulay	University of Waikato, New Zealand	Multibeam echosounder seabed mapping of the Tauranga Bridge Marina, New Zealand
Alex Rattray	Deakin University, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia	Integrating time-series hydroacoustics and video observations for detecting changes in benthic habitats
Terje Thorsnes	Geological Survey of Norway	Mapping cold seep habitats using AUV mounted acoustic and optical devices

Wednesday, 5 May 2011

Bryony Pearce	Marine Ecological Surveys Limited, Bath, UK	Ecological gymnastics – Combining a top-down and bottom-up approach to biotope modelling
José Maria Landim Dominguez	GEO-UFBA – Rua Barão de Jeremoabo, s/n, Campus Universitário de Ondina, Salvador- BA, Brazil	Seascapes of eastern Brazil continental shelf
Vera Van Lanker	Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models (MUMM), Brussels, Belgium	Soft substratum biodiversity hotspots in shallow waters, the role of sediment dynamics and anthropogenic influence?
Martin Isaeus	AquaBiota Water Research, Stockholm, Sweden	Modeling species distributions in GIS for coastal zone management
Duncan Mallace	IVS 3D, Banbury, Oxon, UK	From research to reality: Geocoder’s past, present, and future
Helena Strömberg	MMT, Västra Frölunda, Sweden	How to identify biogenic reefs from statistics of backscatter
Rozaimi Che Hassan	School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia	Angular response supervised classification and image segmentation for benthic biological habitat discrimination
Zhi Huang	Marine and Coastal Environmental Group, Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia	Explore different approaches of processing backscatter angular response curves for seabed mapping
Geoffroy Lamarche	National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, New Zealand	Regional substrate classification of Cook Strait, New Zealand, from textural image analysis of backscatter data
Jerry Wilson	Fugro Pelagos, San Diego, CA, USA	Recent seafloor habitat mapping in Brazil includes bathymetric Lidar reflectance imagery
Sofia Wikström	AquaBiota Water Research, Stockholm, Sweden	Lidar – a remote sensing technique for improving the accuracy of spatial modelling in coastal areas
Ariell Friedman	Australian Centre for Field Robotics, The University of Sydney, Australia	Interpretation of benthic stereo imagery using 2D and 3D features in an active learning framework
Oscar Pizarro	Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia	Better benthic monitoring through machines: Robotics and machine learning supporting repeatable surveys and analysis
Sergej Olenin	Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipeda University, Lithuania	Using underwater video for quantitative coverage assessments: what is the influence of a human error?
Pirjo Yli-Hemminki	Marine Research Centre, Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland	Ferromanganese concretions as microhabitats in the Gulf of Finland
Scott M. Gallager	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA	Defining scale and variability in habitat distribution as a function of biological-geological interactions from optical imagery
Ibon Galparsoro	AZTI-Tecnalia/Marine Research Division, Spain	Process-driven characterization and mapping of sedimentary habitats within the Basque continental shelf (Bay of Biscay)
Alessandra Savini	Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy	Multi-scale mapping of cold-water coral habitats on the Ionian margin (Mediterranean Sea)
Peter T. Harris	Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia	GeoHab Atlas of seafloor geomorphic features and benthic habitats – synthesis and lessons learned

Thursday, 6 May 2011

Jean-François Bourillet	Ifremer-Geosciences Marines, France	Geomorphological classification of cold water coral seabed (Bay of Biscay – NE Atlantic)
Valentina Bracchi	Department of Geological Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy	Study of Maërl facies from southern Italy and relevant acoustic signal from Chirp and side scan sonar
Chris Conway	Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand	Origin and evolution of Macquarie Ridge Complex seamounts
Markus Diesing	CEFAS, Lowestoft, United Kingdom	A new habitat map of the British part of the English Channel
Alan Stevenson	British Geological Survey, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK	Harmonised geological maps of the European seas – the EMODNET-Geology project
Andy Cameron	Joint Nature Conservation Committee, United Kingdom	Advances in broad-scale habitat mapping for the UK and Europe
Johnny Reker	Danish Nature Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark	Development and application of broad scale habitat maps in European waters
Pasi Laihonen	Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland	FINMARINET – a joint effort to combine multiple data sources to produce information on marine habitats
Jørn B. Jensen	Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland,
Copenhagen, Denmark	Geological model as basis for raw material- and habitat mapping, Danish North Sea
Craig J. Brown	Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada	Multiple methods, maps, and management applications: purpose made maps in support of ocean management
Xavier Monteys	Geological Survey of Ireland, Ireland	Large-scale acoustic seabed characterization for Nephrops habitat and other environmental studies in the Porcupine Bank, Ireland
Claudio Lo Iacono	Marine Technology Unit – UTM CSIC, Barcelona, Spain	Geo-acoustic characterization and habitat distribution in the Chella Bank (eastern Alboran Sea – SW Mediterranean)
Jamie S. Davies	Marine Biology and Ecology Research Centre, Marine Institute at the University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK	Can meso-scale geomorphology be used as a surrogate to map benthic assemblages?
Göran Sundblad	AquaBiota Water Research, Stockholm, Sweden	Predictive habitat modelling in support of management: the use of species distribution models for assessing marine protected area networks
P. Soupy Dalyander	U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, USA	Characterizing wave and current stress on the sea floor of the U.S. Atlantic continental margin for coastal and marine spatial planning
Brenton S. Chatfield	Sinclair Knight Merz, Perth, Australia	Predicting the distribution of benthic habitats for environmental impact assessment: examples from industry
Mark Coughlan	School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University College Cork, Ireland	Assessing seabed processes with relevance to offshore renewable energy installation in the Irish Sea

Posters

Zyad Al-Hamdani	Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland	Utilizing physical parameters for predicting shipworm Teredo navalis spreading in the Baltic Sea: the WreckProtect Project
Valérie Bellec	Geological Survey of Norway	Sedimentary processes and habitats on a shallow strandflat bank, Lopphavet, southern Barents Sea
Luis Bentes	Centre of Marine Sciences, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal	Mapping the coastal benthic fauna of south of Portugal using two statistical techniques
Dietmar Bürk	Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Institute of Coastal Research, Germany	Seafloor classification of a gully system offshore the island of Sylt (NW Germany)
Carol J. Cotterill	British Geological Survey, Edinburgh, UK	Using geological datasets to guide predictive bottom-up biotope modelling: an example from the southern North Sea
Darius Daunys	Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipeda University	Mapping of moraine ridges and associated habitats in the eastern Baltic Sea
Silvana D’Angelo	ISPRA – Geological Survey of Italy, Rome, Italy	Marettimo Shelf (Egadi Islands, Italy): a non-tropical carbonate platform from the Mediterranean Sea
Sigrid Elvenes	Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, Norway	Developing a GIS-based method for automated marine landscape classification
Øyvind Fjukmoen	Det Norske Veritas, Høvik, Norway	Sensitivity mapping; setting new standards for marine environmental monitoring in Norway
Rosa Freitas	CESAM & Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Portugal	Benthic habitat mapping: concerns using a combined approach (acoustic, sediment and biological data)
Lucjan Gajewski	Maritime Institute in Gdansk, Poland	Problems of investigating the bottom of large shallow lagoons for the needs of habitat classification – example of the Vistula Lagoon
Matt Green	Marine Ecological Surveys Limited, Bath, UK	Biological highlights from the Regional Environmental Characterisation (REC) Programme
Michelle E. Greenlaw	Fisheries and Oceans Canada, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada	Coastal zone planning: a geophysical classification of inlets to define ecological representation
Brigitte Guillaumont	IFREMER- Environnement Profond, Plouzané, France	Annotating optical images from ROVs or drop-frames in Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems studies
Brigitte Guillaumont	IFREMER- Environnement Profond, Plouzané, France	Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems of the Bay of Biscay (NE Atlantic)
Ola Hallberg	Geological Survey of Sweden, Uppsala, Sweden	Substrate classification from marine geological information
Anu Marii Kaskela	Geological Survey of Finland, Espoo, Finland	Fine-scale information on submarine moraines – Airborne LiDAR survey in the Kvarken Archipelago, the Baltic Sea
Pirkko Kekäläinen	Suomen tutkimussukelluksen ohjausyhdistys ry., Helsinki, Finland	Finnish Scientific Diving Steering Association
Essi Keskinen	Metsähallitus, Natural Heritage Services, Oulu, Finland	Mapping habitats and macrophyte species on extremely shallow and diverse soft bottoms
Dubrava V. Kirievskaya	St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia	Geomorphological map is base of study of biogeosenosis distribution in Troms III Area, the Barents Sea
Aarno Tapio Kotilainen	Geological Survey of Finland, Espoo, Finland	Ferromanganese concretion fields – unknown habitat in the Baltic Sea?
Regina Kramarska	Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute, Branch of Marine Geology, Gdansk, Poland	Mapping of seabed landscapes of Polish EEZ – First step for habitat classification
Claudio Lo Iacono	Marine Technology Unit – UTM CSIC, Barcelona, Spain	An integrated biological-geological approach for the management of renewable marine resources: the COMSOM Project
Jacquomo Monk	School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia	Comparing towed and baited underwater video techniques for assessing temperate marine fishes
Mauro Pietro Negri	Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy	Mollusc associations from a cold-water coral environment (Apulian margin, S Italy)
Mikael v. Numers	Environmental and Marine Biology Åbo Akademi University, Finland	Modelling the potential impact on local fish stocks and habitat use by post-breeding aggregations of foraging Great Cormorants (Phalacrocorax c. sinensis)
Jacques Populus	IFREMER, Plouzané, France	MeshAtlantic: mapping Atlantic area seabed habitats for the better marine management
Karen Robinson	Countryside Council for Wales, Bangor, UK	Modelling and mapping seabed biotopes in the southern Irish Sea
Sonja Salovius-Laurén	Environmental and Marine Biology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku/Åbo, Finland	Nordic network for marine inventories and modeling
Elisabet Sañé	Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (IC-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain	Rhodolith facies distribution on the Pontine Islands shelf
Nelio Augusto Secchin	Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória-ES, Brasil	Seabed mapping in a tropical shelf: The case study of macrohabitats in the Abrolhos Bank, Brazil
Kate Smith	Countryside Council for Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, UK	Mapping spatial natural heritage evidence: identifying opportunities for deployment of marine renewable energy technologies in Wales
Heather Stewart	British Geological Survey, UK	The application of predictive species modelling using multibeam echosounder data, geological interpretation, and biological video observations to map the distribution of vulnerable marine ecosystems
Fernando Tempera	University of the Azores, Horta, Azores, Portugal	Deep-sea biotope diversity: an illustrated catalogue for the Azores (NE Atlantic)
Chiara Tessarolo	Department of Geological Sciences and Geotechnologies, Milan-Bicocca University, Milano, Italy	Habitat mapping in extreme deep sea environment: geosphere–biosphere interaction in deep anoxic basins
Terje Thorsnes	Geological Survey of Norway	MAREANO – an integrated programme for marine mapping in Norway
Page C. Valentine	U.S. Geological Survey Woods Hole, MA, USA	Developing maps from acoustic and groundtruth data that portray seabed features, substrates, and processes as a basis for habitat and biotope mapping
Vera Van Lanker	Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models (MUMM), Brussels, Belgium	Standardisation and harmonisation in seabed habitat mapping: How can a geological data infrastructure project contribute?
Erikas Visakavicius	Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipeda University, Lithuania	Review of geological mapping in the Lithuanian water area
Sofia Wikström	AquaBiota Water Research, Stockholm, Sweden	A proposed biotope classification system for the Baltic Sea
Manfred Zeiler	Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), Hamburg, Germany	The Seabed Sediment Mapping Programme in the German Baltic Sea (1994 – 2011)