Provisional Program
Sunday, August 24
18:00-21:30 Registration desk open at the SWOCC performing arts center.
Monday, August 25
8:00-9:00 Registration desk open (also open during breaks throughout the day)
9:00 Young, C.M. Welcome to Oregon and general introduction.
Session 1. Physiological ecology of deep-sea and midwater organisms
Chairpersons: Ben Wigham, Jorundur Svavarsson
9:15 Bailey, D.M., P.M. Bagley, A.J. Jamieson, A. Cromarty, M.A.
Collins, B. Genard, J.-F. Rees, A. Tselepidis and I.G. Priede. Integrated
studies of deep-sea animal physiology and activity: experiments on the eel
Synaphobranchus kaupi and the shrimp Acanthephyra eximia.
9:30 Genard, B., A. Dekerchove, D.M. Bailey, S. Dupont, M.A. Collins,
I.G. Priede and J.-F. Rees. Seasonal, ontogenical and depth-dependent
variations in metabolic enzyme activities and protein content in muscles of
deep-sea demersal fish.
9:45 Bernhard, J.M. and S.S. Bowser. The peroxisome puzzle: do foraminifers living in sulfide-enriched sediments respire using peroxisomal oxygen?
10:00 Wigham, B.D., B.J. Bett, D.S.M. Billett and A.J. Gooday. Patterns of megabenthic community structure and activity in relation to oxygen minima on the Oman continental slope, NW Arabian Sea.
10:15 Kemp, K., A. Jamieson, P.M. Bagley and I.G. Priede. Physical time signals in the deep sea, and the behavioural and physiological response of the fish community.
10:30 Refreshment Break
11:00 Stowasser, G., R. McAllen, G.J. Pierce, C.F. Moffat, M.A. Collins and I.G. Priede. Fatty acids and stable isotopes: a new approach to the trophic ecology of the deep-sea ichthyofauna.
11:15 De Kerchove, A, B. Genard, M.A. Collins, I.G. Priede and J.-F. Rees. Muscles metabolic enzymes and swimming speeds in Antimora rostrata and Coryphaenoides (N.) armatus, two deep-sea demersal fish.
11:30 Jörundsdottir, K. and J. Svavarsson. Eyelessness among the Gnathiidae (Crustacea, Isopoda).
11:45 Herring, P.J., E.A. Widder and C. Cope. Fishes with red lights: different structures, different mechanisms.
12:00 Battle, E.J.V., M.A. Collins, J.C. Partridge, P.M. Bagley and I.G. Priede. Observations of pelagic and benthic deep-sea bioluminescence in the North East Atlantic Ocean using an ISIT camera.
12:15 Lunch
Session 2. Physiology and ecology of vent and seep organisms.
Chairpersons: Jozee Sarrazin, Yoshihiro Fujiwara
13:15 Prieur, D., D. Flament, G. Henneke, G. Erauso, C. Geslin, E. Jolivet, M. Le Romancer, S. Lucas, V. Marteinsson, J.-P. Raffin and J. Querellou. New biological microbial models from deep-sea hydrothermal vents.
13:30 Le Bris, N., M. Zbinden, P.-M. Sarradin and F. Gaill. Chemical constraints in the Alvinella pompejana environment: new insights.
13:45 Skebo, K. Distribution of zooplankton and nekton above hydrothermal vents on the Juan de Fuca and Explorer Ridges.
14:00 Fujiwara, Y., M. Kawato, K. Uematsu, S. Arakawa, T. Miwa, Y. Suzuki, T. Sato and C. Kato. Dual "symbiont transmission mechanisms" of a hadal thyasirid clam, Maorithyas hadalis.
14:15 Yancey, P.H., N.K. Rosenberg, R.W. Lee, K.M. Kemp and D.M. Bailey. Unusual organic osmolytes in abyssal and hydrothermal-vent animals: adaptations to hydrostatic pressure and sulfide metabolism?
14:30 Dreyer, J. and C.L. Van Dover. Time-series comparison of hydrothermal-vent mussel bed communities on the East Pacific Rise between 1999 and 2001.
14:45 Sarrazin, J., S.K. Juniper, C. Levesque, M.K. Tivey, G. Massoth
and P. LeGendre. Mosaic community dynamics on Juan de Fuca Ridge
sulfide edifices: refining a model of community succession.
15:00 Levin, L.A., W. Ziebis and G. Mendoza. Metazoan response
to sulfide stress at Pacific methane seeps: distribution, community structure,
nutrition, and recruitment.
15:15 Refreshment Break
Session 3. Methods, approaches and tools in deep-sea research
Chairperson: Karen Stocks
15:45 Horton, T. and Bett, B. A comparative trial of macrobenthos samplers—the box corer versus the megacorer.
16:00 Jamieson, A., P.M. Bagley, D. Bailey, M.A. Collins and I.G. Priede. Bentho-pelagic fish behavioural responses to autonomous lander platforms.
16:15 Bagley, P.M, A. Jamieson, E. Battle, D. Bailey, M. Player and I.G. Priede. New approaches to observations of deep-sea mid-water fauna using free-fall, profiler and drifter vehicles.
16:30 Grassle, J.F., Y. Zhang and K. Stocks. The ocean biogeographic information system: a new tool for deep-sea biology.
16:45 Billett, D.S.M. Deep-sea sediment biodiversity: results of the Census of Marine Life Hatfield Workshop.
17:15-19:00 Welcoming reception (Lakeview Rooms in the SWOCC Performing Arts Center).
18:00-21:30 Shuttle transportation to downtown Coos Bay, Charleston and North Bend.
Tuesday, August 26
Session 4. Human impacts and marine protected areas.
Chairpersons: Hjalmar Thiel, Bob George
8:30 Blake, J.A., N.J. Maciolek and I.P. Williams. Rapid recolonization of infaunal benthos at a deep-sea disposal site.
8:45 Narayanaswamy, B.E. and J.D. Gage. Time-series monitoring of deep-water environments.
9:00 Barry, J.P., J.C. Drazen, K.R. Buck, B.A. Seibel, M.N. Tamburri, C. Lover and L. Kuhnz. Field experiments on the biological impacts of deep-sea Co2 injection.
9:15 Thistle, D., K.R. Carman, L. Sedlacek, J.P. Barry, P.G. Brewer and J.W. Fleeger. Consequences for the deep-sea fauna of injection of liquid carbon dioxide: preliminary results.
9:30 Baker, K. and R.L. Haedrich. Could some deep-sea fishes be species-at-risk?
9:45 Stocks, K.I. and G.W. Boehlert. Seamounts and submarine canyons: the known, the unknown, the unknowable, and future steps.
10:00 Schlacher, T.A., M.A. Schlacher-Hoenlinger, B.R. De Forges and J.A. Hooper. Elements of richness and endemism in sponge assemblages on seamounts.
10:15 Howard, C. APEC Fisheries Working Group and deep-sea fisheries.
10:30 Refreshment Break
11:00 George, R.Y. Deep-sea Lophelia coral reefs and gorgonian forests in the North Atlantic Ocean as marine protected areas.
11:15 Colaço, A, F. Tempera, F. Cardigos and R. Serrão Santos. Offshore marine protected areas on the Azores: why, where and what for?
11:30 Christiansen, S. Tackling the conservation of deep-sea biota—the way forward.
11:45 Gianni, M. Seamounts and the biodiversity of the Deep Sea: United Nations General Assembly initiatives to protect the wealth of species on the high seas.
12:00 Thiel, H. Protection of high-seas areas—status report.
12:30 lunch
Session 5. Benthic-pelagic coupling: Short-term responses.
Chairperson: Ursula Witte
13:30 Witte, U. The fate of organic carbon settling at the deep-sea floor: an experimental approach.
13:45 Sommer, S. Meiobenthic response to the pulsed deposition of phytodetritus—an in situ experiment in the Porcupine Abyssal Plain.
14:00 Buehring, S.I., N. Lampadaiou, L. Moodley, A. Tselepides and U. Witte. Benthic response to varying food input: in situ experiments in the oligotrophic Mediterranean.
14:15 Aspetsberger, F., A. Ahke, T. Ferdelman, M. Zabel and U. Witte. Influence of organic carbon quality on benthic mineralization: in situ experiments in a high-productivity area.
14:30 Gage, J.D., R.D. Anderson, P.A. Tyler, R. Chapman and E. Dolan. Ravenous for phytodetritus: can brittle star opportunists prevent phytodetrital mass accumulation in the N.E. Atlantic?
14:45 Billett, D.S.M., B.J. Bett and B.D. Wigham. Jelly lakes in the abyssal Arabian Sea—massive food falls?
15:00 Debenham, N.J., P.J.D. Lambshead, T.J. Ferrero and C.R. Smith. Do whale fall events increase nematode abundance?
15:15 Hughes, D.J., L. Brown, G.T. Cook, G. Cowie, J.D. Gage, E. Good, H. Kennedy, A.B. MacKenzie, S. Papadimitriou, G.B. Shimmield, J. Thomson and M. Williams. Using biology to inform geochemistry: analysis of burrow contents from two sites in the bathyal N.E. Atlantic.
15:30 Refreshment Break
Session 6. Benthic-pelagic coupling: long term responses.
Chairperson: Tassos Tselepides
16:00 Smith, K.L. Jr., R.J. Baldwin, H.A. Ruhl, B.G. Mitchell and M. Kahru. Climate change and benthic boundary layer processes at 4,100 m depth in the N.E. Pacific: a 13-year time-series study.
16:15 Gooday, A.J. and G. Malzone. Long-term (decadal) changes in ‘live' benthic foraminiferal assemblages at an abyssal site in the NE Atlantic.
16:30 Ruhl, H.A. and K.L. Smith, Jr. Variation in deep-sea epibenthic megafauna distribution and abundance, and particle flux in the N.E. Pacific.
16:45 Hudson, I.R., B.D. Wigham, D.S.M. Billett, D.W. Pond, P.A. Tyler and G.A. Wolff. Deep-sea biology, food for thought? Seasonal and reproductive aspects of food availability in deep-sea holothurians.
17:00 Tselepides, A., E. Hatziyanni, N. Lampadariou and C. Corselli. Benthic community structure in the deep hypersaline anoxic basins of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.
17:15 Johnson, N.A., J.W. Campbell, T.S. Moore, C.R. McClain, M.A. Rex and M.D. Dowell. Surface-benthic coupling and the structuring of deep-sea communities.
17:30 Snelgrove, P.V.R., P.A. Ramey and B. Oake. Regulation of deep, cold ocean, benthic infauna by surface processes.
Session 7. Discussion on human impacts and marine protected areas.
Discussion leaders: Hjalmar Thiel, Bob George
17:45-18:30 Open discussion for all interested participants.
18:00-21:30 Shuttle transportation to downtown Coos Bay, Charleston and North Bend.
Wednesday, August 27
Session 8: Benthic-pelagic coupling at high latitudes.
Chairperson: Paul Snelgrove
8:15 Smith, C.R., S. Mincks, A. Glover, D.J. DeMaster and P.Y. Sumida. Food banks of the deep Antarctic shelf: the impact and fate of summer bloom material at the seafloor.
8:30 Galley, E., P.A. Tyler, A. Clarke and C. Smith. Responses of benthic organisms on the deep Antarctic continental shelf to a highly seasonal food supply.
8:45 Mincks, S.L., C.R. Smith, D.J. Demaster and C.J. Thomas. Benthic response to seasonal phytodetritus deposition on the west Antarctic Peninsula shelf.
9:00 Schewe, I. and Soltwedel, T. Living on the (ice-) edge: first results from inter-annual and seasonal studies at an Arctic deep-sea benthic station.
9:15-11:45 Poster Session (and break)
12:15 Buses depart for mid-conference excursion.
12:15-13:00 Tour of Cape Arago, Simpsons Reef, Shore Acres
13:00-13:30 Buffet Lunch at Sunset Bay
13:30-15:30 Tour of southern Oregon coast, Coos Bay to Gold Beach
15:30-21:00 Rogue River mail boat run (includes dinner at Singing Springs Resort, Agness)
21:00-23:00 Bus ride home.
Thursday, August 28
Session 9. Population genetics, evolution and systematics
Chairpersons: Amy Baco, Scott France
8:15 Rogers, A.D. and M. Le Goff. Genetic structure of Lophelia pertusa populations in the NE Atlantic
8:30 Baco, A.R. Population genetic structure of Hawaiian precious corals using microsatellites.
8:45 France, S.C. Patterns of mitochondrial DNA sequence variation in deep-sea octocorals.
9:00 Shank, T.M. Genetic structure of nascent biological communities at Galápagos rift vent fields
9:15 Vrijenhoek, R. A new look at evolutionary pathways and the age of deep-sea hydrothermal vent taxa.
9:30 Martin, J.W. and T. Shank. Decapod crustaceans from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps: an update.
9:45 Mah, C. Species-level phylogenies in the Goniasteridae (Asteroidea: Echinodermata): patterns of evolution in deep-sea starfish.
10:00 Santini, F. Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the Triacanthodidae (Tetraodontiformes, Teleosti), with comments on the role of island arcs systems and Pleistocene sea level changes in causing the present-day distribution of this clade.
10:15 Boyle, E.E., R.J. Etter and M.A. Rex. Phylogeography of the deep-sea rissoid gastropod Benthonella tenella.
10:30 Refreshment Break
Session 10. Biology of the deep Gulf of Mexico
Chairpersons: Tracey Sutton, Charles Blend
11:00 Schroeder, W.W. Observations of hard substrate and epibenthic megafauna at an upper slope site in the Gulf of Mexico.
11:15 Sutton, T., T. Hopkins and S. Burghart. Who is eating most of the zooplankton in the oceanic Gulf of Mexico? The impact of mesopelagic fishes.
11:30 Blend, C.K. and N.O. Dronen. Helminth parasites of deep-sea fishes from the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea.
11:45 Carney, R.S., S. MacAvoy, S.A. Macko and C.H. Fisher. Isotopically traced scenarios of background/foreground trophic interaction at Gulf of Mexico hydrocarbon seeps: exporting or importing?
12:00 Rowe, G., J. Morse, M. Wicksten, J. Deming, E. Escobar Briones, R. Haedrich and P. Montagna. Structure and function of benthic communities in the deep Gulf of Mexico.
12:15 Wilson, G.D.F. Benthic isopod diversity in the Gulf of Mexico.
12:30 lunch
Session 11. Patterns of abundance and diversity
Chairpersons: Angelika Brandt, Kurt Buck
13:30 Rex, M.A., C.R. McClain and N.A. Johnson. A source-sink hypothesis for abyssal biodiversity.
13:45 Brenke, N. Faunal diversity and zoogeography of the abyssal asellota (Crustacea: Isopoda) in the Southeast Atlantic deep sea.
14:00 Brandt, A., H.-G. Andres, N. Brenke, S. Brix, J. Guerrero-Kommritz, U. Mühlenhardt-Siegel and W. Wägele. Abundance, diversity and community patterns of peracarid crustaceans (Malacostraca) from the abyssal plain of the Angola Basin.
14:15 Gage, J.D., P.J.D. Lambshead, J.D.D. Bishop, N.S. Jones and B.E. Narayanaswamy. Large-scale biodiversity pattern of cumacea in the deep Atlantic.
14:30 VanReusel, A., A. Muthumbi, M. Raes, S. Van Gaever, S. VanHove and H. Vermeeren. High nematode species diversity in the deep sea: correlations and causes for diversification within genera?
14:45 Glover, A.G., C.R. Smith, G.L.J. Paterson and G.D.F. Wilson. The worm's turn: species diversity on the Central Pacific Abyssal Plain.
15:00 Haddock, S.H.D. Natural history of deep-sea tuscarorid radiolarians.
15:15 Buck, K.R., K.R. Carman, D. Thistle, L. Kuhnz, C. Lovera and J.P. Barry. Sediment standing stocks from an abyssal site in Monterey Canyon, California.
15:30 Rowden, A.A., M.R. Clark, S. O'Shea and D.G. McKnight. Biodiversity of the Kermadec Volcanic Arc seamounts: an opportunity to answer long-asked questions.
15:45 Refreshment Break
Session 12. History of deep-sea biology.
Chairperson: Craig Young
16:15 Campos-Creasey, L.S, H.P. Lavrado, P. Costa and A.P.C. Falcão. Brazilian deep-sea biology research: a recent history overview.
16:30 Wolff, T. The Danish Dana Expeditions: Purpose and
Accomplishments.
17:00 Morita, R.Y. Early and recent history of deep-sea microbiology.
18:15 Buses depart for Banquet at OIMB
Friday, August 29
Session 13. Reproduction, development and larval biology.
Chairpersons: Eva Ramirez, Florence Pradillon
9:00 Drazen, J.C., S.K. Goffredi, B. Schlining and D.S. Stakes. Aggregations of egg brooding deep-sea fish and cephalopods on the Gorda Escarpment: a reproductive hotspot.
9:15 Voight, J.R. The biggest baby octopus in the world: hatchlings of Graneledone.
9:30 Benitez Villalobos, F. and P.A. Tyler. Temperature and pressure tolerances of embryos and larvae of the Atlantic seastar Asterias rubens (Echinodermata Asteroidea): potential for deep-sea invasion from shallow water.
9:45 Brooke, S.D. and C.M. Young. Embryogenesis and larval biology of the ahermatypic scleractinian coral Oculina varicosa: implications for ecosystem recovery.
10:00 Hilario, A., P.A. Tyler and C.M. Young. Why do female vestimentiferans store sperm?
10:15 Järnegren, J., C.M. Young, C.R. Tobias and S.A. Macko.
Oophagous lifestyle in Acesta bullisi, a bivalve associated with cold-seep
tube worms
10:30 Refreshment Break.
11:00 Waller, R.G. and P.A. Tyler. The reproductive ecology of two deep-water reef building corals in the N.E. Atlantic Ocean.
11:15 Tyler, P.A., E. Dolan, M. Baker and C.M. Young. Gametogenic periodicity in the genus Bathymodiolus.
11:30 Howell, K.L., A.D. Rogers, P.A. Tyler and D.S.M. Billett. Reproductive isolation among morphotypes of the Atlantic seastar species Zoroaster fulgens (Asteroidea: Echinodermata).
11:45 Geiger, D.L. and C.L. Thacker. Colonization patterns of the deep sea: insights from basal snails (Vetigastropoda) using molecular phylogenetics.
12:00 Pradillon, F., M. Zbinden and F. Gaill. Reproductive patterns in Alvinella pompejana (Polychaeta: Alvinellidae) colonies from 9oN and 13oN EPR hydrothermal vents.
12:15 Lunch
Session 14. Distribution and Zonation
Chairpersons: Gritta Veit-Köhler, Craig McClain
13:15 C.G. Messing. Biozonation on deep-water carbonate mounds and associated hardgrounds along the western margin of Little Bahama Bank, with notes on other deep Bahamian bank-margin assemblages.
13:30 Osborn, K. Distribution and feeding of munnopsid isopods in the deep water column of the Gulf of California, Mexico.
13:45 Veit-Köhler, G. Typical shallow water Copepoda Harpacticoida in the Atlantic deep sea.
14:00 Yeh, H.M. and S. Ohta. Modified concept of faunal zonation suggested from the horizontal and vertical trend of zonation of deep-sea demersal fish around Japan.
14:15 Henriques, C., I.G. Priede, M.A. Collins and P.M. Bagley. Scavenging fishes of the deep Eastern Atlantic Ocean: a comparison of behaviour and distribution at latitudes 49oN to 10oS
14:30 Ingole, B. Distributional Pattern of Deep-sea Macrofauna in the Indian Ocean.
14:45 Moore, J.A. Biogeography of the deep-sea fish fauna off New England.
15:00 McClain, C.R. A new hypothesis for bathymetric size clines in the deep sea.
15:15 Refreshment Break
Session 15. Cold seeps and allied ecosystems.
Chairperson: Thomas Soltwedel
15:45 Soltwedel, T., N.-V. Quéric & I. Schewe. Gradients in activity and biomass of the small-sized benthic biota around the Håkon Mosby Mud Volcano, SW Barents Sea slope.
16:00 Sibuet, M., J.C. Caprais, P. Crassous, S. Duperron, M.C Fabri, A. FIFIS, J. Galéron, A. Khripounoff, L. Menot, T. Nadalig, K. OLU-Le Roy, A. Vangriesheim, A. Andersen, and R. Von Cosel. Rich and complex deep sea ecosystems on the equatorial African margin: general objectives and results of the BIOZAIRE environmental program.
16:15 Olu-LeRoy, K., T. Nadalig, J.C. Caprais, A. Fifis, M.C. Fabri, H. Ondréas and M. Sibuet. Spatial variability of the chemosynthetic fauna, chemical environment and microbial communities on a giant pockmark in the Gulf of Guinea.
16:30 Galeron, J., N. Cam, J.C. Caprais, P. Crassous, M.C. Fabri, A. Fifis, A. Khripounoff, L. Menot, M. Moison, T. Nadalig, K. Olu, M. Sibuet and A. VanGriesheim. Macrofauna communities in detritic and chemosynthetic based ecosystems in the Gulf of Guinea.
16:45 Mills, A., C. Ruppel and C.L. Van Dover. Windows to the deep: explorations of the Blake Ridge methane hydrate reservoir.
17:00 Business Meeting
