2014 Annual Science Meeting Presentations

Presentations

Altman
Do Key Prey Species (KPS) drive ecosystem services in the Gulf of Maine? Using observed patterns and integrative modeling to assess changes in KPS assemblage and explore ecosystem-wide effects

Boumans
Designing a modeling framework to guide decision making in restoring the Herring River Ecosystem, Wellfleet Massachusetts

Byron
The role of dogfish in seal diet in the Gulf of Maine

Chen
Factors Controlling Mercury Fate in Coastal Areas of the Gulf of Maine

Jordaan
Using indicators to study long-term change in the Gulf of Maine

Kohut
Across the land-sea boundary: Bringing the dynamics of the fluid into a more informed seascape ecology

Kress
What puffins are telling us about changes in the Gulf of Maine

Latimer
Comparative ecological approach to assess the role of watersheds in estuarine condition

Levenworth
Then they saw it, now you don’t. The trophic base of an ecosystem vanishes in one lifetime

Li
Changing rhythm of stratification on the Northwest Atlantic shelf: interannual variability and its biological implications

Liebman
An Integrated Sentinel Monitoring Network (ISMN) for Climate Change in Northeastern Coastal Ecosystems

Manning
Environmental Monitors on Lobster Traps: an update

Oppenheim
A new forecasting model for the American lobster fishery using the American Lobster Settlement Index

Pershing
Ecological consequences of rapid warming in the Gulf of Maine

Record
Gelatinous zooplankton trends, models, and information gaps in the Gulf of Maine

Ribera
Local productivity hotspots in the western Gulf of Maine: strength, persistence and correlation to fishing effort

Simpson
Estimating carbon storage in eelgrass meadows in the Gulf of Maine

Urquhart
Use of Environmental Predictors to Monitor and Model Pathogenic Vibrios in the Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire

Valentine
Storm currents have sorted glacial sediment on Stellwagen Bank into sheets of clean coarse-grained sand, producing a large expanse of substrate suitable for an important forage fish (sand lance; Ammodytes)

Whitney
Reconstructing hydrographic variability in the Gulf of Maine using oxygen isotopes from an annually resolved Arctica Islandica shell-based record

Witman
Developing a regional perspective for benthic community structure at a unique offshore ledge (Cashes Ledge)

Posters

Bamford
The Range, Prevalence, and Abundance of Codworm (Pseudoterranova decipiens) in Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua) in the Gulf of Maine

Battista
Fishing as an Ecosystem Driver: A Spatial Characterization of New England Commercial Fisheries Helps Identify where Fishing Activity Takes Place

Biedron
Stakeholder Perspectives and Social Factors: Driving factors in the Mid-Atlantic and New England Fishery Management Council Transition to Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management?

Bien
Marine debris abundance and accumulation in the Gulf of Maine

Bisagni
Inter-annual Variability of the Shelf Break Front Position between 75° and 50° W

Ford
Mapping seagrass meadows in shallow water

Gonzalez
The early bird gets the worm—and its parasite: investigating endoparasitism in herring gull (Larus argentatus) chicks

Kunkel
An Acidic Bottom Feature associated with Wilkinson’s Basin in the Gulf of Maine

Langton
Fish at the Interface: How Oceanic, Estuarine and Riverine Fish Interact….or Not

Le Bris
Does size structure affects marine fish population stability and resiliency?

McCarthy
Effects of changing sea temperatures on the decadal distributions of Atlantic cod

Mecray
Finding Relevant Climate Data in the Gulf of Maine Region

Mello
Complexity Matters: The effect of non-native algal species on habitat architecture, biodiversity and predator-prey interactions

O’Brien
Long-Term Monitoring of Intertidal Transects at Shoals Marine Laboratory, Appledore Island, ME

Pilskaln
Annual top-to-bottom carbon cycle dynamics in the Gulf of Maine

Robben
Seabird changes, tidal forced heat-exchanging, and a chain of ocean ecosystem driver

Seidman
A Model of Population Dynamics for the Life Stages of Salpa fusiformis in the Gulf of Maine

Sirak
Gray and harbor seal bycatch and depredation in New England sink-gillnet fisheries

Smith
Diadromous Fish Assemblage Assessment and Food Web Characterization in the Saco River Estuary, ME

Symons
The use of GPS tracking of Atlantic Puffins, Fratercula arctica, and Razorbills, Alca torda, to identify important marine areas in the Gulf of Maine