The 2005 Scientific Program

Abstracts for ERF 2005 Now Available On-line

Abstracts and tentative scheduling information for the upcoming conference are now available on the ERF web site. Get a head start on your conference planning by browsing through the indices or searching the full text of abstracts.

Scientific Program Topic Summary

These topics and abstracts contain a mix of invited and contributed papers.

Special Sessions

• SPS-01 Retention of Nutrients in Littoral Zone Systems with Different Physical Regimes
• SPS-02 Restoring and Protecting the World’s Estuaries – Comparing Exemplary Programs
• SPS-03 Atmospheric Inputs of Nutrients and Contaminants to Estuaries
• SPS-04 Identifying, Assessing, and Managing Human and Climatically-Induced Change of Estuarine Ecosystems
• SPS-05 Developing Useful Modeling and Mapping Tools to Help Managers Address Sea Level Rise
• SPS-06 Observational and Modeling Studies of Shellfish Responses to Climate Variability
• SPS-07 Sustainability and Wildlife Management in Coastal Wetlands
• SPS-08 Truth and Consequences in Interdisciplinary Studies
• SPS-09 Adapting and Transferring Science to Managers - Research, Case Studies and Connections
• SPS-10 Developing Science-Based Information for Coastal Decision Making
• SPS-11 Research Challenges Resulting from EMAP/NCA National Surveys
• SPS-12 Historic and Current Use and Management of Estuarine Environments by Indigenous, Multi-Generational Colonizers and Pre-Industrial People in Western Atlantic Nations
• SPS-13 Observing and Forecasting Systems for Urban and Coastal Ocean Environments
• SPS-14 Temporal and Spatial Changes within and among Coastal Ecosystems
• SPS-15 Physical and Biological Factors Affecting Horseshoe Crab Abundance and Distribution in Coastal Waters
• SPS-16 Food Limitation in Estuarine Fauna
• SPS-17 Ecological Indicators of Estuarine Change and Condition
• SPS-18 Estuarine Fish Behavior: What Can the Fish Themselves Tell Us About Essential Fish Habitat?
• SPS-19 Innovative Techniques for Assessing Fish and Invertebrate Habitat Linkages in Estuaries and Coastal Systems
• SPS-20 Ecosystem-Based Management
• SPS-21 Indices to Evaluate Estuarine Health
• SPS-22 Estuaries and Ecological Forecasting: Are we making progress
• SPS-23 Geomorphic Features and Ecosystem State Change: Examples from Mangroves and Salt Marshes
• SPS-24 Ecological Assessment of Water Quality, Living Resources and Habitats of Coastal Lagoons
• SPS-25 Coral Diseases: An Increasing Threat to Coral Reefs Worldwide
• SPS-26 Interactions through Estuarine Hydrology
• SPS-27 Recruitment Processes in Estuarine Fishes
• SPS-28 Interdisciplinary Approach to Research in Tropical Seagrass and Mangrove Ecosystems
• SPS-29 Hydrodynamics of Coral Reefs and Seagrass Beds: Implications for Ecological Function, Management and Restoration
• SPS-30 Estuarine Science at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions: Opportunities for Teaching and Research
• SPS-31 Estuarine Exchange and Innovative Technology
• SPS-32 Utility of Residence Time and Related Concepts in Estuarine Studies
• SPS-33 Impact of Direct Groundwater Inputs to Estuarine Studies
• SPS-34 Assessment and Management of PAH Contaminated Sediments
• SPS-35 Extreme Sediment Biogeochemistry: Observational and Experimental Results from Hypereutrophic Ecosystems
• SPS-36 Physical and Biogeochemical Processes in the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine System

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Contributed Sessions

Topics of particular interest for contributed oral, poser or combined presentation sessions are listed below. Abstracts designating these topics will be either pulled into sessions of common themes or may be directed to special sessions, symposia or the colloquium.

• CPS-01. Ecosystems and Trophic Dynamics.
• CPS-02. Population and Community Dynamics.
• CPS-03. Environmental Physiology and Behavior.
• CPS-06. Fish Ecology and Fisheries.
• CPS-07. Habitat and Habitat Selection.
• CPS-08. Biogeochemistry (organic and inorganic).
• CPS-09. Nutrients.
• CPS-10. Estuarine Sediment Dynamics and Morphodynamics.
• CPS-11. Hydrodynamics of Estuaries.
• CPS-13. Impacts of Climate Variability.
• CPS-14. Physical and Biological Interactions.
• CPS-17. Patterns, Response and Management Implications to Large-Scale Phenomena.
• CPS-20. Scientist-Community Group Interactions in Restoration Efforts for Estuaries and Their Watersheds.

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Symposia

The symposia organizers invite most presenters. Symposia may begin with a 30-minute introductory presentation, last a full day, and feature a high-priority ERF 2005 theme. Symposia are very broadly identified and encourage international participation. The organizers are often committed to publishing the proceedings in a journal of their choice.

• SYM-01 Use of Observing Systems for Understanding, Monitoring and Predicting Harmful Algal Blooms and Hypoxia
• SYM-02 Coastal Invasive Species: Impacts, Management and the Role of Modified Habitats
• SYM-03 Examining Nutrient Enrichment Effects on Coastal Ecosystems through Comparative Ecological Approaches and Perspectives
• SYM-04 Observing the Coastal and Ocean Environment: Developments in Sensor Technology and the Use of Long-Term Data Sets for Operational Ecology
• SYM-05 Connecting Estuarine and Great Lakes Health and Human Health
• SYM-06 Managing River Basins and Estuaries: an International Assessment of Approaches and Progress

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Chesapeake Bay Colloquium

The 2-day Chesapeake Bay Colloquium is a combined Federation and Chesapeake Research Consortium (CRC) event. The first day focuses on broad issues relevant to the Bay and many other highly-perturbed estuarine systems of the world. It will include plenary talks cogent to all estuaries adjacent to population-rich areas. Specifically these talks will target system responses to laissez-faire planning within their jurisdictions and proposed, highly innovative and technically demanding management practices that might be possible with significant societal and political behavioral changes. Day 2 will focus on more local issues. A series of concurrent sessions will permit innovative presentations and open discussions including the comparison of findings of different disciplines and focus areas of the basin to the more regional representation of the area.

Note: Presenters on day 1 are also eligible for one additional presentation on the second day of this colloquium.

Conveners: Kevin Sellner (sellnerk@si.edu), Chris Duffy (cxd11@psu.edu), Tuck Hines (hinesa@si.edu), Ed Houde (ehoude@cbl.umces.edu), Margie Mulholland (mmulholl@odu.edu), Tom Simpson (ts82@umail.umd.edu) and Skip Stiles (skipstiles@att.net)

Day 1, Thursday, October 20, 2005

• COL-21 Plenary: What's the future for the Chesapeake: A model for other estuaries? (Chair: K. Sellner)
• COL-01 Estuaries Under Siege: Options for the Future (Chair: D. Boesch)
• COL-02 Estuarine Implications of the Impending Shift in Estuarine Food Production (Chairs: A. Hines & M. Luckenbach)
• COL-03 Productivity and Diversity of Estuarine Plankton and Fish Resources: Scale-Dependent Interactions from Watershed to Sea (Chair: M. Roman)
• COL-04 Integrated Observing Systems and their Applications (Chair: W. Ball)
• COL-05 Managing our Lands for Reducing Loads (Chair: T. Simpson)
• COL-06. Challenges To & Prospects For Large Marine Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management (Chairs: M. McBride & K. Sherman)
• COL-19 Benthic-Pelagic Couplings and Managing Dissolved Oxygen in the Chesapeake and Coastal Bays (Chair: I. Anderson)
• COL-20 Restoration in Highly Urbanized Estuaries (Chair: J. Rieger)

Day 2, Friday October 21, 2005

• COL-07. Waterbirds of the Chesapeake Bay and Vicinity: Harbingers of Change (Chair: M. Erwin)
• COL-08 Innovative Technological Applications for Science and Management in the Basin (Chairs: M. Trice & C. Heyer)
• COL-09 Managing the Bay: Meeting the Mandates of Chesapeake 2000 (Chair: R. Batiuk)
• COL-11 Basin Eutrophication and Public Health (Chair: L. Grattan)
• COL-12 Harmful Algal Blooms in the Chesapeake Bay and Coastal Bays (Chair: P. Glibert)
• COL-13 New Understandings in HABs and Other Plankton, Benthos and Nekton from the Chesapeake (Chair: D. Stoecker)
• COL-14 Ecosystem-Based Approaches to Management and Restoration of Estuarine Fisheries (Chair: M. Luckenbach)
• COL-15 Basin Modeling for Research and Management (Chairs: R. Hood & T. Gross)
• COL-16 Identifying Priorities for Legislative and Executive Activity in Basin Restoration (Chair: W.A Stiles)
• COL-17 Innovation in Agriculture Conservation for the Chesapeake Bay (Chair: C. Musgrove)
• COL-18 The Importance of Non-Tidal Lands and Waters in Basin Dynamics (Chair: R. Brooks)

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