Symposium Agenda
8:15 Start – Introductions
Early Morning
8:30 Matt Lauretta – Research Fishery Biologist – NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center
“West Atlantic bluefin tuna close-kin mark-recapture”
9:00 Rob Toonen – Professor, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology – UH Manoa
“Promises and pifalls: What will fuel ocean science breakthroughs?”
9:15 Peter Marko – Associate Professor – Department of Biology – UH Manoa
“eDNA assessment of shallow water coral reef communities in Hawaii”
9:30 Erica Goetze – Associate Professor – Department of Oceanography – UH Manoa
“Environmental DNA biotic surveys at the deep seafloor: Biodiversity, biogeography, and biomonitoring”
9:45 Jeff Drazen – Professor – Department of Oceanography – UH Manoa
“The potential effects of deep-sea mining on pelagic ecosystems and fisheries”
10:00 Coffee / Posters
Symposium Agenda
Mid-Morning
10:45 Lars Bejder – Director – Marine Mammal Research Program – HIMB – UH Manoa
“The use of innovative technologies to study resident and migratory cetaceans”
11:15 Kim Holland – Researcher – Hawai’i Institute for Marine Biology – UH Manoa
“Animals as oceanographers – Near real-time ocean profiles from Hawaii sharks”
11:30 Eva-Marie Nosal – Assoc Prof & Dept Chair – Ocean and Resources Engineering – UH Manoa
“Tricks to localize marine mammals using passive acoustics in some challenging scenarios”
11:45 Jennifer McCullough – Senior Passive Acoustics Associate – JIMAR / PIFSC
“An acoustic survey of beaked whales and Kogia in the Mariana Archipelago using drifting recorders”
12:00 Melanie Hutchinson – Science Program Manager – JIMAR / PIFSC
“Electronic tagging to improve the fate of incidentally captured sharks in commercial fisheries”
12:15 Lunch (on our own)
Early Afternoon
13:45 Greg Asner – Director and Professor – Ctr for Global Discovery & Conservation – Arizona St Univ
“High resolution mapping of live coral cover and habitat complexity across the main Hawaiian Islands”
14:15 Courtney Couch – Coral Reef Researcher – JIMAR/PIFSC
“Scaling up coral reef monitoring through imagery and machine learning”
14:30 John Burns – Assistant Professor – Department of Marine Science – UH Hilo
“A comparison of the diagnostic accuracy of in-situ and digital image-based assessments of coral health and disease”
14:45 Atsuko Fukunaga – Ecological Research Statistician – JIMAR / PMNM
“Extraction of habitat metrics from 3D reconstruction of coral reefs: 3D vs 2.5D”
15:00 Coffee/Posters
Mid-Afternoon
16:45 Scott Baker – Assoc Director, Cetaceans Conservation and Genomics Lab – Oregon State Univ
“Searching for missing whales with DNA”
16:15 Angelique White – Associate Professor – Department of Oceanography / CMORE – UH Manoa
“What pretty pictures of tiny things + a few lasers can tell you about life and death at the base of the marine food web”
16:30 Benedetto Barone – Research Oceanographer – BEACH Lab – UH Manoa
“The use of autonomous underwater vehicles to study the spatial variability of ocean ecosystems and to measure metabolic rates”
16:45 Seth Bushinsky – Assistant Professor – Department of Oceanography – UH Manoa
“Utilizing biogeochemical profiling floats to understand air-sea fluxes of oxygen and carbon”
17:00 Sara Ferron – Assistant Researcher – Department of Oceanography / CMORE – UH Manoa
“Shipboard measurements of gross primary productivity using membrane inlet mass spectrometry”
17:15 End