Eco-DĀS VIII 2008

The following individuals will participate in Eco-DĀS VIII, October 2008. Each has contributed a proposed chapter outline, in some cases with another participant. These proposed chapter topics will form the basis for 15-20 collaborative chapters in the final symposium proceedings, an open-access, web-based book to be pulished in 2009.

Participants

Name: Betsy A. Bancroft
Affiliation: University of Washington
Proposed title: Working towards a new understanding of environmental stress and community regulation in freshwater and marine systems (with Laura Petes)

Name: Amy J. Burgin
Affiliation: Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Proposed title: Microbial interactions between the sulfur, carbon and nitrogen cycles in aquatic ecosystems

Name: Phoebe Dreux Chappell
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Chemical Oceanography
Proposed title: Diversity and Iron Ecology of Trichodesmium (with Annette Hynes)

Name: Jessica Liz Clasen
Affiliation: University of California-Irvine
Proposed chapter topic: Fundamental differences in the virioplankton of lakes and oceans, and the potential ecological implications

Name: Alison Derry
Affiliation: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Proposed title: Evolutionary responses of plankton communities to natural and human-induced stress

Name: Daniel Dombrowski
Affiliation: University of colorado at Boulder
Proposed title: Hydrodynamics and chemical coupling: A unified approach to understanding life in the aquatic benthic environment

Name: Kelly Dorgan
Affiliation: University of California Berkeley
Proposed title: An individual-based approach to aquatic ecology: applying burrowing mechanics to benthic ecology

Name: Chris Dupont
Affiliation: J. Craig Venter Institute
Proposed title: Proposed title: Physiological and ecological ramifications of the usage of trace metals by marine phytoplankton

Name: Sophia E. Fox
Affiliation: The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory
Proposed title: The ecological effects of nitrogen loading to estuaries: macrophyte and macroinvertebrate communities (with Ylva Olsen)

Name: Tessa Francis
Affiliation: University of Washington
Proposed title: Dynamics at the Aquatic-Terrestrial Interface of Lakes and Coastal Oceans

Name: Blaine D. Griffen
Affiliation: University of Georgia
Proposed subject: Redundancy, resiliency, and recovery

Name: Tamara K. Harms
Affiliation: Arizona State University
Proposed title: Contrasting biogeochemical reaction and hydrologic transport as mechanisms determining flux of essential elements from ecosystems

Name: Kristine N. Hopfensperger
Affiliation: Colgate University
Proposed title: Linking community spatiotemporal patterns to ecosystem processes in aquatic ecosystems

Name: Jennifer Howeth
Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
Proposed title: Metacommunity and invasion dynamics in aquatic ecosystems

Name: Dana Hunt
Affiliation: University of Hawaii, Manoa
Proposed title: Aquatic Microbiology at the microscale

Name: Annette Michelle Hynes
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography
Proposed title: Diversity and Iron Ecology of Trichodesmium (with Phoebe Dreux Chappell)

Name: Julie E. Keister
Affiliation: University of Washington
Proposed title: Bio-physical coupling in a coastal upwelling ecosystem

Name: Noreen Kelly
Affiliation: Dalhousie University, Halifax NS Canada
Proposed title: Use of matrix* models in the study of aquatic populations

Name: Carrie E.H. Scheele Kissman
Affiliation: Miami University
Proposed title: Understanding the Indirect Effects of Exotic Invaders and Climate Change on Aquatic Ecosystems

Name: Andrew M. Kramer
Affiliation: University of Georgia
Proposed subject: The Allee effect, community resiliency and species recovery, and genetic implications

Name: Laurel Griggs Larsen
Affiliation: University of Colorado
Proposed title: Simulating and predicting the evolution of the aquatic eco-scape

Name: Joel K Llopiz
Affiliation: University of Miami, RSMAS
Proposed title: Trophic linkages in marine planktonic ecosystems: a comparative approach

Name: Ramiro Logares
Affiliation: Uppsala University, Sweden
Proposed title: Evolutionary diversification patterns in aquatic microbes: new molecular technologies for studying population genetics

Name: Daniel Marshalonis
Affiliation: University of South Carolina
Proposed title: Predator-prey interactions and trophodynamics: gelatinous zooplankton as a model

Name: Serena M. Moseman
Affiliation: Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Proposed title: Function or failure of marine ecosystems? Macro-and micro-organism interactions mediate environmental change

Name: Craig E. Nelson
Affiliation: UC Santa Barbara
Proposed title: Scales of influence of microbial communities on pelagic biogeochemistry: from molecular interactions to ecosystem processes

Name: Ylva Olsen
Affiliation: The Ecosystems Center, MBL, Woods Hole, MA
Proposed title: The ecological effects of nitrogen loading to estuaries: macrophyte and macroinvertebrate communities (with Sophia Fox)

Name: Eva Ortega-Retuerta
Affiliation: University of Granada
Proposed title: New insights into the ocean carbon cycle: the role of microbes on CDOM and the interface DOM-POM

Name: Denise Lani Pascual
Affiliation: University of Michigan (Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis)
Proposed subject: How does the timing and speciation of nitrogen and phosphorus delivery to small, urban reservoirs affect phytoplankton community structure and successional patterns?

Name: Laura E. Petes
Affiliation: Florida State University Coastal & Marine Laboratory
Proposed title: Working towards a new understanding of environmental stress and community regulation in freshwater and marine systems (with Betsy Bancroft)

Name: Brian Le Gare Reid
Affiliation: Center for Ecosystem Studies in Patagonia
Proposed title: The limnology of alluvial ground water basins

Name: Adam M. Reitzel
Affiliation: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Proposed title: Developing and deploying genomic markers for detection of ecological and evolutionary responses in aquatic ecosystems

Name: Alyson Eileen Santoro
Affiliation: Stanford University
Proposed title: Understanding patterns of marine microbial diversity and their relevance to global nutrient cycling

Name: Daniel Sobota
Affiliation: Washington State University, Vancouver Campus
Proposed title: Controls on nitrogen removal in stream and river ecosystems: realized and potential insights from an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach

Name: Amanda C. Spivak
Affiliation: College of William & Mary, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Proposed title: Resource availability and community composition in seagrass beds

Name: Daniel Edward Spooner
Affiliation: Trent University
Proposed title: Role of stress and catabolism in emergent ecological theory

Name: Maria Vila Costa
Affiliation: University of Georgia
Proposed title: Sulfur cycle in the ocean: from microbes to climate

Name: George G. Waldbusser
Affiliation: UMCES-Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
Proposed title: The Importance of Benthic Infauna to Coastal Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Dynamics