Session 1

9:30—Alicia Gaulke, Contribution of picophytoplankton biomass and primary production in the Neuse River Estuary:shifting paradigms of phytoplankton dynamics in eutrophic systems

 

9:45— Andrew Thaler, Dominant fungi from Gulf of Mexico methane seeps represent an undescribed ascomycete clade

 

10 :00—Wai Leong, Sexual reproduction and growth form: trade-offs in two species of Callyspongia from Florida

 

10:15—Tse-Lynn Loh, Investigating the association between the Orange Icing Sponge and Caribbean corals

 

 

Session 2

10:45—Dan Speiser, The optics and evolution of scallop eyes

 

11:00—Maria Wise, Color phenotype in the sea urchin, Lytechinus variegatus

 

11:15—Mike Polito, Effects of female age, breeding experience, and laying date on clutch and egg size in the Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae)

 

11:30—Pamela Reynolds, Cascading effects of predator richness and the ecology of fear in a benthic marine community

 

 

Session 3

1:30 pm—Rhema Bjorkland, Sea turtle nesting beach surveys. How long and when?

 

1:45—Wendy Dow, In-air and in-water hearing sensitivity of the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas)

 

2:00—Catherine McClellan, Voyages of the loggerhead sea turtle: A study of movement and foraging behaviors

 

2:15—Anna MacGregor, Do the dive patterns used by North Atlantic right whales represent an optimal allocation of dive time for foraging?

 

 

Session 4

2:45—Elliot Hazen, Latitudinal complexity in the deep scattering layers and top predator distribution in the Central Equatorial Pacific

 

3:00—Erin LaBrecque, Daily movement of a frontal zone and its influence on cetaceans off Cape Hatteras, NC

 

3:15—Lynne Williams, Monitoring Marine Mammals Using Passive Acoustic Techniques

 

3:30—Kenneth Morton, Classification of marine mammal echolocations clicks using Bayesian auto-regressive models

 

 

 

Presentation Schedule/Abstracts

The Graduate Student Symposium

@ the Duke University Marine Laboratory

on November 7th—9th, 2008

Duke University Marine Laboratory

135 Duke Marine Lab Road, Beaufort, NC, 28516-9721

Fax # 252-504-7648

Abstracts can be viewed here