Dear Colleagues: We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the CORAL REEFS session of the 2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting (Session 144 entitled: "Coral Reefs:Impacts of Environmental Alterations and Climate Change on Coral Biology and Biogeochemistry, and Links Between Dissolved Organic Matter."). A full description of the session is given below. This year, the AGU/ASLO joint sponsored Ocean Sciences Meeting is being held 2-7 March 2008 in Orlando, FL. The abstract submission deadline is October 2, 2007. Abstracts can be submitted online at http://www.aslo.org/meetings/orlando2008/. We look forward to your participation in the session.
Sincerely, Andrea Grottoli, Chris Shank, Tamara Pease, Ralph Mead, and Kimberly Ritchie Session 144. Coral Reefs: Impacts of Environmental Alterations and Climate Change on Coral Biology and Biogeochemistry, and Links Between Dissolved Organic Matter Organizers: Andrea G. Grottoli, The Ohio State University, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; G. Christopher Shank, University of Texas at Austin - Marine Science Institute, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ralph Mead, University of Miami - RSMAS, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tamara Pease, University of Texas, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Kimberly Ritchie, Mote Marine Laboratory - Center for Coral Reef Research, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Globally, coral reefs are increasingly exposed to unprecedented levels of stress due to regional and global environmental alterations and global climate change. As a result, incidents of coral bleaching and coral disease have increased substantially in recent years. In addition, these environmental changes degrade water quality surrounding the coral reefs and influence a variety of important biogeochemical cycles occurring within the reef ecosystem including coral-bacterial-zooxanthallae interactions. As the building blocks of tropical reef ecosystems, corals are critical for healthy ecosystem functioning and the maintenance of tropical biogeochemical cycles. This session will explore the following topics: 1- the various ways coral physiology, biology, and ecology are affected by stress conditions such as increases in sea-surface temperature, ultra-violet radiation, ocean acidification, nutrient loading, and sedimentation, 2- organic matter cycling in waters surrounding coral ecosystems including terrestrial influences on dissolved organic matter (DOM) sources to coral reefs, 3- the links between DOM characteristics and the microbial community responsible for a variety of coral diseases and organic matter cycling within the coral-zooxanthallae community, and 4- the connections between the biological/ecological responses and biogeochemical cycles in the past (i.e., proxy records), present, and in the face of future environmental and climate change. ******************************************************* Andrea G. Grottoli, Assistant Professor Ohio State University School of Earth Sciences 125 South Oval Mall Columbus, OH 43210 office: 614-292-5782 lab: 614-292-7415 cell: 215-990-9736 fax: 614-292-7688 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grottoli webpage: http://www.earthsciences.osu.edu/~grottoli.1/ Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry Laboratory (SIB Lab): http://earthsciences.osu.edu/~grottoli.1/SIB_Lab.html SES seminars: http://www.earthsciences.osu.edu/seminars.php Office location: 329 Mendenhall Labs *******************************************************
