Download Session 1-01: A New Caribbean Reef Model: A View From Ye Shoulders of Giants (367 KB)

Download Session 1-02: Response of Acropora to Warm Climates: Lessons From the Geological Past (315 KB)

Download Session 1-03: Enigmatic Coral Rock Pillars - Another Look into Reef Dynamics (393 KB)

Download Session 1-04: Cenozoic Evolution of Larger Benthic Foraminifers: Paleoceanographic Evidence for Changing Habitats (252 KB)

Download Session 1-05: Environmental Factors Controlling Community Structure, Morphology and Linear Extension of Mid-Holocene Reef Corals from Cañada Honda, Southwestern, Dominican Republic (229 KB)

Download Session 1-06: Results of Long-Term Bioerosion Study: Belize Patch Reefs (241 KB)

Download Session 1-07: Reef Slope Failure in the Northeastern Corner of Male, Maldives (475 KB)

Download Session 1-08: Real-Time Coral Stress Observations Before, During, and After Beach Renourishment Dredging Offshore SE Florida (501 KB)

Download Session 1-09: The R/V Alpha Helix Expedition: A Retrospective Analysis of a Milestone in Coral Reef Research (217 KB)

Download Session 1-10: Holocene Reef Accretion Along the North Side of Bahia Enriquillo (Western Dominican Republic): Unique lnsights Into Patterns of Reef Development in Response to Sea-Level Rise (406 KB)

Download Session 2-01: Shallow Seismic Profiling Survey on Postglacial Fore-Reef Near the Present-Day Northern Limit of Coral Reef Formation in the Northwestern Pacific (1.2 MB)

Download Session 3-01: The Darwin Point: A Conceptual and Historical Review (111 KB)

Download Session 3-02: Effects of Ocean Acidification and Increased Temperature on Skeletal Growth of Two Scleractinian Corals, Pocillopora meandrina and Porites rus (188 KB)

Download Session 3-03: Remote Sensing of Changes in Carbonate Production on Coral Reefs: The Florida Keys (224 KB)

Download Session 3-04: Fine Banding in the Septa of Corals (642 KB)

Download Session 3-05: Mineral Phase of COCs and Fibers in Coral Skeletons (379 KB)

Download Session 4-01: Applications of the SEDCON and FORAM Indices on Patch Reefs in Biscayne National Park, FL, USA (335 KB)

Download Session 4-02: The Significance of Geochemical Proxies in Corals, Does Size (Age) Matter? (275 KB)

Download Session 4-03: Opposed Trend of Skeletal Carbon Isotopic Ratios Found in Two Different Coral Species Collected From the Same Site: Genus-Dependent Responses (401 KB)

Download Session 4-04: U/Ca As a Possible Proxy of Carbonate System in Coral Reef (293 KB)

Download Session 4-05: Using Nearshore Macrobenthos as Environmental Indicators Adjacent to a Major Navigational Inlet: Port Everglades Inlet, Florida (285 KB)

Download Session 4-06 Coral Rare Earth Element Tracers of Terrestrial Exposure in Nearshore Corals of the Great Barrier Reef (219 KB)

Download Session 5-01: Environmental Controls on the Establishment and Development of Algal Symbiosis in Corals (195 KB)

Download Session 5-02: Does the Coral Host Protect its Algal Symbionts From Heat and Light Stresses? (180 KB)

Download Session 5-03: Measuring Symbiodinium sp. Gene Expression Patterns with Quantitative Real-Time PCR (247 KB)

Download Session 5-04: High-Performance Liquid Chromatographic Analysis of Photosynthetic Pigments in Corals: An Existence of a Variety of Epizoic, Endozoic and Endolithic Algae (893 KB)

Download Session 5-05: Unravelling Coral Photoacclimation: Symbiodinium Strategy and Host Modification (282 KB)

Download Session 5-06: Assessing Ultraviolet Radiation-Induced DNA Damage and Repair in Field-Collected Aiptasia pallida Using the Comet Assay (182 KB)

Download Session 5-07: Induced Bleaching of Stylophora pistillata by Darkness Stress and Its Subsequent Recovery (194 KB)

Download Session 5-08: Thermal Stress Increases Oxidative DNA Damage in Coral Cell Aggregates (613 KB)

Download Session 5-09: Feeding Corals in Captivity: Uptake of Four Artemia-Based Feeds by Galaxea fascicularis (195 KB)

Download Session 5-10: Differential Expression of Soluble and Membrane-Bound Proteins in Soft Corals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) (363 KB)

Download Session 5-11: Practical Applications of Contaminant-Free Symbiodinium Cultures Grown on Solid Media (214 KB)

Download Session 5-12: Differences in the Distribution of Symbiodinium spp. Among Morphotypes and Genotypes of Porites panamensis from the Gulf of California, Mexico (113 KB)

Download Session 6-01: Reference Gene Selection for qRT-PCR Analysis of the Hawaiian Coral Pocillopora meandrina Subjected to Elevated Levels of Temperature and Nutrient (187 KB)

Download Session 7-01: Coral Health and Disease Assessment in the U.S. Pacific Territories and Affiliated States (152 KB)

Download Session 7-02: White Band Syndromes in Acropora cervicornis Off Broward County, Florida: Transmissibility and Rates of Skeletal Extension and Tissue Loss (641 KB)

Download Session 7-03: Ultrastructural and Histological Analysis of Dark Spot Syndrome in Siderastrea siderea and Agaricia agaricites (1.1 MB)

Download Session 7-04: The Unknowns in Coral Disease Identification: An Experiment to Assess Consensus of Opinion Amongst Experts (1.4 MB)

Download Session 7-05: Coral and Crustose Coralline Algae Disease on the Reefs of American Samoa (191 KB)

Download Session 7-06: Inoculation of Vibrio spp. Onto Montastraea faveolata Fragments to Determine Potential Pathogenicity (265 KB)

Download Session 7-07: A Survey of Vibrios Associated with Healthy and Yellow Band Diseased Montastrea faveolata (356 KB)

Download Session 7-08: Development of a Novel Method for Coral RNA Isolation and the Expression of a Programmed Cell Death Gene in White Plague-Diseased Diploria strigosa (Dana, 1846) (640 KB)

Download Session 7-09: Relative Role of Disease and Predators as Drivers of Decline in Coral Cover on the Great Barrier Reef (203 KB)

Download Session 7-10: Significance of Immune Responses in Diadema antillarum to Caribbean-Wide Mass Mortality (302 KB)

Download Session 7-11: The Future of Coral Reefs in the US Virgin Islands: Is Acropora palmata More Likely to Recover than Montastrea annularis Complex? (201 KB)

Download Session 7-12: Black Band Disease upon the Reefs of Los Cayos Cochinos, Honduras (819 KB)

Download Session 7-13: Coral Yellow Band Disease; Current Status in the Caribbean, and Links to New Indo-Pacific Outbreaks (150 KB)

Download Session 8-01: Role of the Coral Surface Microbiota in Disease: An in situ Test Using the Gorgonia-Aspergillus Pathosystem (266 KB)

Download Session 8-02: PCR-based Assay for Detection of Four Coral Pathogens (178 KB)

Download Session 8-03: Coral-Associated Ammonium Oxidizing Crenarchaeota and Their Role in the Coral Holobiont Nitrogen Cycle (172 KB)

Download Session 8-04: Coral Mucus Bacteria as a Source for Antibacterial Activity (177 KB)

Download Session 8-05: δ13C and δ15N Values for Branching Corals in the Berau Marine Conservation Area in East Kalimantan, Indonesia (493 KB)

Download Session 8-06: Reef Building Coral Goniastrea aspera Harbor a Novel Filamentous Cyanobacterium in Their Skeleton (413 KB)

Download Session 8-07: From Bacterial Bleaching to the Hologenome Theory of Evolution (164 KB)

Download Session 9-01: Dimethylsulfoniopropionate is Linked to Coral Spawning, Fish Abundance and Squid Aggregations Over a Coral Reef (195 KB)

Download Session 9-03: Are Tropical Herbivores More Tolerant of Chemically Rich Seaweeds Than Are Temperate Herbivores? A Test of Seaweed-Herbivore Coevolution (190 KB)

Download Session 10-01: Variation in Social Foraging by Fishes Across a Coral Reef Landscape (183 KB)

Download Session 10-02: Factors Influencing Coral Recruitment Patterns in the Sulu Sea Marine Corridors (2.2 MB)

Download Session 10-03: Differences in Coral-Reef Fish Assemblages Between Mangrove-Rich and Mangrove Poor Islands of Honduras (362 KB)

Download Session 10-04: Effects of Hurricane John (2006) on the Invertebrates Associated with Corals in Bahia de La Paz, Gulf of California (168 KB)

Download Session 10-05: Carry-Over Effects - The Importance of a Good Start (193 KB)

Download Session 10-06: Reef Communities in the Dry Tortugas (Florida, USA): Baseline Surveys for the New No-take Area (1.3 MB)

Download Session 10-07: Physiological Performance of Giant Clams (Tridacna spec.) in a Recirculation System (516 KB)

Download Session 10-08: Secondary Succession of Coral Reef Communities at Urasoko Bay, Ishigaki Island, the Ryukyus (Southern Japan) (650 KB)

Download Session 10-09: Scleractinian Coral Recruitment to Reefs Physically Damaged by Ship Groundings (305 KB)

Download Session 10-10: Underestimated Eroder among Reef Fishes – Experimental Comparison between Ctenochaetus striatus and Acanthurus nigrofuscus (Acanthuridae) (322 KB)

Download Session 10-11: Differential Effect of Early Post-Settlement Processes on the Abundance of Two Concurrently Settling Coral Reef Fishes (202 KB)

Download Session 10-12: Fish Mesograzers as Gatekeepers of the Species Composition of Coral Reefs (359 KB)

Download Session 10-13: Comparison of Sedimentation in Bays and Reefs below Developed versus Undeveloped Watersheds on St. John, US Virgin Islands (498 KB)

Download Session 11-01: Spatial Patterns of Reproductive Synchrony by Four Genera of Tropical Green Seaweed Across a Latitudinal Gradient in the Caribbean (180 KB)

Download Session 11-02: The Effects of Temperature and Light on the Gametogenesis and Spawning of Four Sea Urchin and One Sea Cucumber Species on Coral Reefs in Kenya (344 KB)

Download Session 11-03: Survival of Brooding and Broadcasting Reef Corals Following Large Scale Disturbances: Is There Any Hope for Broadcasting Species During Global Warming? (194 KB)

Download Session 11-04: Multi-Specific Coral Spawning in Spring and Autumn in Far North-Western Australia (156 KB)

Download Session 11-05: Sexual Reproduction in the Soft Coral Lobophytum sp. in Tung Ping Chau Marine Park, Hong Kong SAR, China (296 KB)

Download Session 11-06: Lunar Periodicity of Larval Release and Larval Development of Pocillopora damicornis in Thailand (252 KB)

Download Session 11-07: Light Sensing and the Coordination of Coral Broadcast Spawning Behavior (410 KB)

Download Session 12-01: The Effects of Habitat on Coral Resistance and Resilience to Bleaching (162 KB)

Download Session 12-02: Reef Resilience and Change 1998-2007, Alphonse Atoll, Seychelles (251 KB)

Download Session 12-03: Responses of Coral Hosts and Their Algal Symbionts to Thermal Heterogeneity (236 KB)

Download Session 12-04: Tolerance, Refuge and Recovery of Coral Communities to Thermal Bleaching: Evidence from Reefs of the Seychelles (258 KB)

Download Session 12-05: What is the Future for Extensive Areas of Reef Impacted by Fish Blasting and Coral Bleaching and Now Dominated by Soft Corals? A Case Study from Malaysia (212 KB)

Download Session 13-01: The Maintenance of Reef Islands (260 KB)

Download Session 14-01: Coral Recruits to Settlement Plates at Remote Locations in the U.S. Pacific (187 KB)

Download Session 14-02: Indirect Evidences on the Connectivity of Coral Reefs of the Gulf of Mexico and the Mexican Caribbean (166 KB)

Download Session 14-03: Using Ichthyoplankton Distribution in Selecting Sites for an MPA Network in the Sulu Sea, Philippines (569 KB)

Download Session 14-04: Genetic Structure of the Scleractinian Coral, Pocillopora damicornis, From the Mexican Pacific (156 KB)

Download Session 14-05: Southeast African, High Latitude Coral Communities, a Canary for Western Indian Ocean Coral Reefs? (220 KB)

Download Session 14-06: Connectivity of Queen Conch, Strombus gigas, Populations From Mexico (1.4 MB)

Download Session 14-07: Genetic Variation in Two Morphotypes of Porites panamensis from the Gulf of California, Mexico (168 KB)

Download Session 14-08: Genetic Structure of the Massive Coral Porites panamensis (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) from the Mexican Pacific (227 KB)

Download Session 14-09: How Do Swimming Ability and Behaviour Affect the Dispersal of Coral Larvae (192 KB)

Download Session 14-11: Variation in Coral Recruitment on Fijian Reefs (589 KB)

Download Session 15-01: Experimental Characterization of the Water Exchanges with Ocean in a Macro-Tidal Intermittently Open Lagoon Bounded by Semi-Submerged Coral Reef (458 KB)

Download Session 15-02: Characterization of Biologically Significant Hydrodynamic Anomalies on the Florida Reef Tract (1.5 MB)

Download Session 15-03: Influence of Florida Current Frontal Eddies on Circulation and Fish Recruitment Around the Florida Keys Reef Tract (664 KB)

Download Session 15-04: Use of the Coral-sel Technique in the Study of Small Scale Water Flow Environments on Coral Growth (339 KB)

Download Session 15-05: ASTER Bathymetry in Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulation of Rongelap Atoll Hydrodynamics, Marshall Islands (396 KB)

Download Session 15-06: Reef Rip Current Generated by Tide and Wave during Summer Season: Field Observation Conducted in Yoshiwara Coast, Ishigakijima, Okinawa, Japan (365 KB)

Download Session 16-01: Using Cellular Diagnostics to Link Land-Based Sources of Pollution with Coral Reef Degradation in South Florida (265 KB)

Download Session 16-02: Area-Calibrated Automation of Coral Classification for Near And Subsurface Reef Videos (279 KB)

Download Session 16-03: Large Scale Coral Mortality in Barbados: A Delayed Response to the 2005 Bleaching Episode (189 KB)

Download Session 16-04: Mapping Reef Structure and Bathymetry in Belize Using Cobra-Tac (445 KB)

Download Session 16-05: Advancing Spatial-Temporal Continuity in Coral Reef Ecosystem Pattern Detection: The Morphology, Distribution and Chemical Environments of Coral Habitats Encompassing Coiba National Park, Panama (265 KB)

Download Session 16-06: Is Sponge Bioerosion Increasing? (77 KB)

Download Session 16-07: The Semantic Reef: A Hypothesis-Based, Eco-Informatics Platform to Support Automated Knowledge Discovery for Remotely Monitored Reef Systems (143 KB)

Download Session 16-08: GBROOS – An Ocean Observing System for the Great Barrier Reef (142 KB)

Download Session 16-09: Ecological Forecasting for Coral Reef Ecosystems (139 KB)

Download Session 16-10: Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Resurvey Bonaire: A New Tool for Coral Reef Management (969 KB)

Download Session 16-11: The Instrumental Architecture of a Coral Reef Early Warning System (CREWS) Station (105 KB)

Download Session 16-12: CoralWatch - A Flexible Coral Bleaching Monitoring Tool for You and Your Group (283 KB)

Download Session 16-13: Testing the Generality of Acoustic Cue Use at Settlement in Larval Coral Reef Fish (149 KB)

Download Session 16-14: A Glimpse of the Florida Area Coastal Environment (FACE) Program (575 KB)

Download Session 16-15: Coral Reef Information System (CoRIS): A One Stop Shop for Coral Information (184 KB)

Download Session 16-16: Biological and Physical Characteristics of a Mesophotic Coral Reef: Black Jack Reef, Vieques, Puerto Rico (329 KB)

Download Session 16-17: Colored Dissolved Organic Material Increases Resiliency of Coral Reefs by Controlling Exposure to UVR (251 KB)

Download Session 16-18: Second-Generation Landscape Mosaics of Coral Reefs (2.6 MB)

Download Session 16-19: The Light and Motion Sensor Program: Low Cost Coral Reef Monitoring (553 KB)

Download Session 16-20: COREweb, a Web-Based Information Management Solution for Experimental Data from the Field of Coral Reef Ecology (975 KB)

Download Session 17-01: Monitoring Coral Reefs in Optically-Deep Waters (385 KB)

Download Session 17-02: GIS Derived Spatial Analysis as a Tool to Predict Nearshore Coral Reef Fish Species Presence in American Samoa (235 KB)

Download Session 17-03: An Investigation of Coral Reef Fish Assemblage Modelling with Geostatistical Methods (278 KB)

Download Session 17-04: Changes in Spectral Reflectance in Response to Salinity Variation in Siderastrea radians from Florida Bay, Florida USA (399 KB)

Download Session 17-05: Single-Beam Acoustic Remote Sensing for Coral Reef Mapping (358 KB)

Download Session 17-06: NASA Airborne AVIRIS and DCS Remote Sensing of Coral Reefs (453 KB)

Download Session 17-07: An Investigation of Seagrass Patterns at Alphonse Atoll, Seychelles: Linking Structure to Function in Marine Landscapes (318 KB)

Download Session 17-08: A Pan-Sharpening Method for Satellite Image-Based Coral Reef Monitoring with Higher Accuracy (742 KB)

Download Session 17-09: Remote Sensing for Studies of the Spatial Distribution of Coral Reef Fishes (194 KB)

Download Session 17-10: Pre-Processing 2005 AVIRIS Data for Coral Reef Analysis (921 KB)

Download Session 17-11: Habitat Mapping in the Farasan Islands (Saudi Arabia) Using CASI and QuickBird Imagery (373 KB)

Download Session 17-12: Status and Monitoring the Health of Coral Reef Using Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing - A Case Study of Pirotan Coral Reef Island, Marine National Park, Gulf of Kachchh, Gujarat, India (249 KB)

Download Session 17-13: Comparison of in situ Temperature Data from the Southern Seychelles with SST Data: Can Satellite Data Alone Be Used to Predict Coral Bleaching Events? (252 KB)

Download Session 17-14: A Model Framework for Predicting Reef Fish Distributions Across the Seascape Using GIS Topographic Metrics and Benthic Habitat Associations (473 KB)

Download Session 17-15: Seaflor Characterization Using Multibeam and Optical Data at French Frigate Shoals, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (571 KB)

Download Session 17-16: Comparing Semi-Automated Methods for Classifying Multibeam SoNAR & Airborne LiDAR Imagery (341 KB)

Download Session 17-17: Assessing the Distribution of Patch Reef Morphologies in the Lower Florida Keys, US (506 KB)

Download Session 18-01: Macroalgal Distribution in a Mexican Caribbean Reef (254 KB)

Download Session 18-02: Mapping Bottom Features of the Site Selected for the Underwater Observatory in Sharm el Sheikh (South Sinai, Egypt) (592 KB)

Download Session 18-03: Distribution, Abundance and Volume of Xestospongia muta at Selected Sites in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (244 KB)

Download Session 18-04: Impacts of Coastal Development on Ecosystem Structure and Function of Yacatan Coral Reefs, Mexico (248 KB)

Download Session 18-05: Was the 1998 Coral Bleaching in the Southern Seychelles a Catastrophic Disturbance? - 1999-2006 Reef Fish Responses to Coral Substrate Changes (295 KB)

Download Session 18-06: Cozumel Island, Mexico: A Disturbance History (202 KB)

Download Session 18-07: Population Status of the Urchin Diadema antillarum in the Florida Keys 25 Years After the Caribbean Mass Mortality (235 KB)

Download Session 18-08: Coral Reef Monitoring for the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and Tobago (526 KB)

Download Session 18-09: Ecological Patterns and Status of the Reefs of Sudan (272 KB)

Download Session 18-10: The Jamaica Coral Reef Monitoring Network (JCRMN) (197 KB)

Download Session 18-11: Coral Bleaching Mortality and Resilience at Stetson Bank, a High Latitude Coral Community in the Gulf of Mexico (601 KB)

Download Session 18-12: Spatial and Temporal Recovery Patterns of Coral Reefs Within the Gulf of Oman (United Arab Emirates) Following the 2007 Cyclone Disturbance (157 KB)

Download Session 18-13: Bathymetric Distribution of the Benthic Marine Flora in Chemuyil, Mexico (473 KB)

Download Session 18-14: Continued Degradation of Tobago's Coral Reefs Linked to the Prevalence of Coral Disease Following the 2005 Mass Coral Bleaching Event (172 KB)

Download Session 18-15: Small-Scale Variations in the Effects of Coral Bleaching in Rodrigues (162 KB)

Download Session 18-16: Impacts of Non-Point Source Sewage Pollution on Elkhorn Coral, Acropora palmata (Lamarck), Assemblages of the Southwestern Puerto Rico Shelf (245 KB)

Download Session 18-17: Coral Reef Habitat Around New Providence Island, Bahamas (176 KB)

Download Session 18-18: Comparison of Benthic Communities on Six Coral Reefs in the Veracruz Reef System (Mexico) (209 KB)

Download Session 18-19: A Photographic Method for Analyzing Areal Chlorophyll and Bleaching Status of the Coral Stylophora pistillata (247 KB)

Download Session 18-20: Demographic Comparison of Threatened Elkhorn Coral, Acropora palmata, in the Caribbean: A Case Study in Successful Volunteer Partnerships in a Regional-Scale Monitoring Program (344 KB)

Download Session 18-21: The Effects of Hurricane-Deposited Mud on Coral Communities in Florida (396 KB)

Download Session 18-22: Population Status of Acropora Corals in the Florida Keys (229 KB)

Download Session 18-23: Observations of a Red Sea Fringing Coral Reef under Extreme Environmental Conditions (484 KB)

Download Session 18-24: Occupancy Models for Estimating the Size of Reef Fish Communities (208 KB)

Download Session 18-25: Long-Term Changes in Taxonomic Distinctness and Trophic Structure of Reef Fishes at Cabo Pulmo Reef, Gulf of California (228 KB)

Download Session 18-26: Post-Hurricane Assessment (Hurricane Rita, September 2005) and Recovery at the East Flower Garden Bank, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico (771 KB)

Download Session 18-27: Stony Coral Species Diversity and Cover in the Florida Keys Using Design-Based Sampling (224 KB)

Download Session 18-28: Patterns in Southeast Florida Coral Reef Community Composition (180 KB)

Download Session 18-29: Organisms Associated with Live Scleractinian Corals as Indicators of Coral Reef Status in the Wakatobi Marine National Park (SE Sulawesi, Indonesia) (314 KB)

Download Session 18-30: Elkhorn Coral Distribution and Condition throughout the Puerto Rican Archipelago (200 KB)

Download Session 18-31: The Prevalence of Skeletal Growth Anomaly and Other Afflictions in Scleractinian Corals at Wai‘ōpae, Hawai‘i (277 KB)

Download Session 18-32: Distrubance and Recovery of Mangrove Forests and Macrobenthic Communities in Andaman Sea, Thailand Following the Indian Ocean Tsunami (679 KB)

Download Session 18-33: Rapid Recovery From Bleaching Events - Fiji Coral Reef Monitoring Network Assessment of Hard Coral Cover From 1999-2007 (650 KB)

Download Session 18-34: Socioeconomic Monitoring (SocMon) as a Tool in the Management of Marine Protected Areas: Participatory Process and Initial Survey Results in Binduyan Fish Sanctuary, Palawan, Philippines (237 KB)

Download Session 18-35: Reefs at Risk in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia - Status and Outlook (601 KB)

Download Session 18-36: Response of Caribbean Reefs to Repeated Stress Events (139 KB)

Download Session 18-37: New Insights into the Exposure and Sensitivity of Coral Reefs to Ocean Warming (203 KB)

Download Session 18-38: Status of Coral Reefs in Post-Tsunami Period in Andaman & Nicobar Islands (241 KB)

Download Session 18-39: Invertebrates, Communities, and Reef Health in Airai, The Republic of Palau (106 KB)

Download Session 18-40: Examination of Algal Diversity and Benthic Community Structure at Palmyra Atoll, U.S. Line Islands (265 KB)

Download Session 18-41: Assessment of Resilience in Montastrea faveolata Inside and Outside of a Marine Park (77 KB)

Download Session 18-42: Decline of Crinoids on the Reefs of Curacao and Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles (133 KB)

Download Session 18-43: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Coral Bleaching Around Buck Island Reef National Monument, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (303 KB)

Download Session 18-44: Declining Trend on the Mesoamerican Reef System Marine Protected Areas (357 KB)

Download Session 19-01: Nitrogen Fixation in Coral Reef Environments (197 KB)

Download Session 19-02: Role of Organic Matter in Chemical Symbiosis at Coral Reefs: Release of Organic Nitrogen and Amino Acids Under Heat Stress (234 KB)

Download Session 19-03: Exposure to Nutrient-Enriched Sediments Mitigates the Negative Impacts of Sedimentation on Coral Growth in the Caribbean Corals Porites astreoides and Siderastrea siderea (188 KB)

Download Session 19-04: First Evidence of Coral Bleaching Stimulating Organic Matter Release by Reef Corals (206 KB)

Download Session 19-05: Hemichordata: Enteropneusta (Acorn Worm) Bioturbation: Maintaining and Facilitating the Balance of Coral Reef Biogeochemical Cycles (234 KB)

Download Session 19-06: New Approach to Study the Coral Symbiotic Complex: Application to Vitamin B12 (212 KB)

Download Session 19-07: Recycling-Oriented Aquaculture System Utilizing Natural Ecological Functions of Mangrove Organisms (344 KB)

Download Session 19-08: Activities of Antioxidant Enzymes (SOD and CAT) in the Coral Galaxea fascicularis Against Increased Hydrogen Peroxide Concentrations in Seawater (339 KB)

Download Session 19-09: Nitrogen Dynamics in Symbiotic Relationships in Corals (189 KB)

Download Session 19-10: Long-Term Effects of Inorganic Nitrogen Enrichment on the Reef-Building Corals Stylophora pistillata and Acropora spp. (233 KB)

Download Session 19-11: Dual-Carbon Sources Fuel the OCS Deep-Reef Community, a Stable Isotope Investigation (169 KB)

Download Session 19-12: Bacterial Degradability of Dissolved Organic Carbon in Coral Mucus (203 KB)

Download Session 20-02: NOAA Coral Reef Watch Coral Bleaching Outlook System (591 KB)

Download Session 20-03: Recovery of Diadema antillarum and the Potential for Active Rebuilding Measures: Modelling Population Dynamics (174 KB)

Download Session 21-01: Measuring the Effects of Marine Managed Areas: A Global Management Effectiveness Study (178 KB)

Download Session 21-02: Towards a Close Integration of Social and Natural Sciences (134 KB)

Download Session 21-03: The Political Aspects of Resilience (130 KB)

Download Session 21-04: New Eco-Development Initiatives Involving Local People in the Conservation of Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park, Wandoor (India) (173 KB)

Download Session 21-05: Integrated Economic Valuation in Coral Reef Management: Demonstration, Appropriation and Utilization of Coral Reef Economic Values for Sustainability and Conservation (116 KB)

Download Session 21-06: Towards Local Fishers Participation in Coral Reef Monitoring:A Case in Tingloy, Batangas, Philippines (183 KB)

Download Session 22-01: Are the Coral Reef Finfish Fisheries of South Florida Sustainable? (207 KB)

Download Session 22-02: Reproductive Classification and Spawning Seasonality of Epinephelus striatus (Nassau Grouper), E. guttatus (Red Hind) an Mycteroperca venenosa (Yellowfin Grouper) from The Bahamas (397 KB)

Download Session 22-03: Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Juvenile and Adult Abundance and Biomass of Reef Fishes in the Sulu Sea, Philippines (427 KB)

Download Session 22-04: Size Spectra Analysis as a Tool to Examine Management Effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas (182 KB)

Download Session 22-05: The Relevance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge for Modern Management of Coral Reef Fisheries in Melanesia (412 KB)

Download Session 22-06: Managing Fishing Gear to Encourage Ecosystem-Based Management of Coral Reefs Fisheries (234 KB)

Download Session 22-07: Indications of Recruitment Enhancement in the Sea Urchin Tripneustes gratilla Due to Stock Restoration Efforts (260 KB)

Download Session 22-08: The Coupling of St. John, US Virgin Islands Marine Protected Areas Based on Reef Fish Habitat Affinities and Movements Across Management Boundaries (780 KB)

Download Session 22-09: Banggai Cardinalfish: Towards a Sustainable Ornamental Fishery (753 KB)

Download Session 22-10: Differential Depth Effects Upon Biomass Patterns in an Herbivorous Coral Reef Fish Assemblage (139 KB)

Download Session 22-11: Photo-ID on Reef Fish - Avoiding Tagging-Induced Biases (258 KB)

Download Session 22-12: Management of the Aquarium Fishery in the Republic of Maldives (209 KB)

Download Session 22-13: Reef Fish Spawning Aggregations in the Bay of Bengal: Awareness and Occurrence (907 KB)

Download Session 22-14: Preliminary Assessment of the Socio-Economic Importance of Export Trade in Coral Reef Resources on Fijian Society (211 KB)

Download Session 22-15: Improving Management of Coral Reefs Fisheries in Data Limited Situations: Experiences from the ParFish Methodology (258 KB)

Download Session 22-16: Short Term Response of Coral Reef Fish Communities Under Customary Management in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea (298 KB)

Download Session 23-01: Changes in Reef Fish Biomass in Karimunjawa National Park: A Test of the Effectiveness of Government Gazetted Marine Parks in Indonesia (176 KB)

Download Session 23-02: Community Sea Tenure and the Establishment of Marine Reserve Networks in the Pacific Islands (136 KB)

Download Session 23-03: An Ecological Correction to Marine Reserve Boundaries in the US Virgin Islands (345 KB)

Download Session 23-04: Biological Criteria for Protection of U.S. Coral Reefs (156 KB)

Download Session 23-05: Macrobenthic Diversity Reaction to Human Impacts on Maceio Coral Reefs, Alagoas, Brazil (182 KB)

Download Session 23-06: The U.S. Coral Reef Task Force: A Model for Fostering Coral Reef Management at National to Local Scales (177 KB)

Download Session 23-07: Finding the Right Fit for Ecosystem-Based Management in the Philippines (219 KB)

Download Session 23-08: Post Hurricane Dynamics and Status of Coral Reefs St. Croix, US Virgin Islands (199 KB)

Download Session 23-09: Water Quality Standards for Coral Reef Protection (198 KB)

Download Session 23-10: Management and Monitoring for Coral Reef Conservation in the Port of Singapore (151 KB)

Download Session 23-11: Systematic Marine Conservation Planning: Towards a Marine Representative Areas Network in Nanggruh Aceh Darussalam, Indonesia (315 KB)

Download Session 23-12: Fishery Management for Artisanal Reef Fisheries in Developing Countries: A Holistic Economic Approach (156 KB)

Download Session 23-13: Contaminants in Fishes from Johnston Atoll (188 KB)

Download Session 23-14: Ecological Effects of the Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Removal Programme on Chumbe Island Coral Park, Zanzibar, Tanzania (212 KB)

Download Session 23-15: Empowering Fisher Women Through ICT in Reef Conservation and Management - A Case Study from Tuticorin Coast of the Gulf of Mannar, Southeastern India (106 KB)

Download Session 23-16: Habitat Similarity Between an Artificial Reef and the Surrounding Natural Hardbottom in Broward County, FL, USA (1.0 MB)

Download Session 23-17: St. Croix East End Marine Park: The U.S. Virgin Islands' First Territorial Marine Park (260 KB)

Download Session 23-18: Socioeconomic and Governance Monitoring of Marine Managed Areas: A Work in Progress (256 KB)

Download Session 23-19: The Value of Coral Quality to SCUBA Divers in Barbados (134 KB)

Download Session 23-20: Managing Indonesian Coral Reefs: Lessons from Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Program (182 KB)

Download Session 23-21: Post-Hurricane Assessment of Reefs and Banks in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico (331 KB)

Download Session 23-22: Patterns of Spatial Variability in Distribution of Benthic Invertebrates and Algae at Sharm el Sheikh (South Sinai, Egypt) (453 KB)

Download Session 23-24: Coral Reef Conservation Campaign in Brazil (257 KB)

Download Session 23-25: Voluntary Standards as a Tool for Increasing the Sustainability of the Marine Recreation Industry and Improving MPA Effectiveness in Hawaii and Mesoamerica (125 KB)

Download Session 23-26: Hurricanes and Corals in Southern Belize: From Science to Management and Policy Development (96 KB)

Download Session 23-27: Challenges for Effective and Sustainable Co-Managed Marine Protected Areas: A Case Study From the Comoros Islands (100 KB)

Download Session 23-28: Development of a Strategy to Guide the Use of Remotely Sensed Information in the Management of Coral Reef Environments (40 KB)

Download Session 23-29: Monitoring and Evaluation: Lessons from Tubbataha Reef National Park and Coron Island Ancestral Domain, Philippines (98 KB)

Download Session 23-30: Green Fins-Thailand: Coral Reef Conservation in the Face of a Tourism Epidemic (98 KB)

Download Session 24-01: Restoration of Threatened Acropora cervicornis Corals: Intraspecific Variation as a Factor in Mortality, Growth, and Self-Attachment (186 KB)

Download Session 24-02: Improving Restoration Approaches for Acropora palmata: Lessons from the Fortuna Reefer Grounding in Puerto Rico (209 KB)

Download Session 24-03: The Effectiveness of Macroalgal Reduction and Diadema antillarum Addition in Limiting Macroalgal Growth and Facilitating Coral Recovery (201 KB)

Download Session 24-04: Benthic Colonization and Ecological Successional Patterns on a Planned Nearshore Artificial Reef System in Broward County, SE Florida (614 KB)

Download Session 24-05: Effects of Herbiovre Grazing on Juvenile Coral Growth in the Gulf of Mexico (295 KB)

Download Session 24-06: Settlement Behavior of Acropora palmata planulae: Effects of Biofilm Age and Crustose Coralline Algal Cover (249 KB)

Download Session 24-07: Multivariate Responses of the Coral Reef Fish Community to Artificial Structures and Coral Transplants (584 KB)

Download Session 24-08: Recovery of Injured Giant Barrel Sponges, Xestospongia muta, Offshore Southeast Florida (840 KB)

Download Session 24-09: A Study of the Effect of Sediment Accumulation on the Settlement of Coral Larvae Using Conditioned Tiles (296 KB)

Download Session 24-10: Coral Recruitment and Community Development: The Broward County Artificial Reef Compared to Adjacent Hardbottom Areas, Five Years Post-Deployment (521 KB)

Download Session 24-11: Development of a Coral Nursery Program for the Threatened Coral Acropora cervicornis in Florida (221 KB)

Download Session 24-12: Coral Relocation for Impact Mitigation in Northern Qatar (317 KB)

Download Session 24-14: The "Eco-Block" as a Coral-Friendly Contrivance in Port Construction (304 KB)

Download Session 24-15: Survival and Growth of Acropora spp. in Mid-Water Nursery and After Transplantation at Phi Phi Islands, Andaman Sea, Thailand (281 KB)

Download Session 24-16: Coral Transplants as Rubble Stabilizers: A Technique to Rehabilitate Damaged Reefs (258 KB)

Download Session 24-17: Large Coral Transplantation in Bal Haf (Yemen): An Opportunity to Save Corals During the Construction of a Liquefied Natural Gas Plant Using Innovative Techniques (310 KB)

Download Session 24-18: Transplantation of Porites lutea to Rehabilitate Degraded Coral Reef at Maiton Island, Phuket, Thailand (440 KB)

Download Session 25-01: Analysis of Reef Fish Abundance in the Gulf of California, and Projection of Changes by Global Warming (200 KB)

Download Session 25-02: Does Body Colouration Influence Predation Risk of Coral-Dwelling Reef Fish in Bleached Landscapes? (155 KB)

Download Session 25-03: Coral Reefs of the Gulf of Mannar, Southeastern India - Observations on the Effect of Elevated SST During 2005-2008 (268 KB)

Download Session 25-04: Annual Summer Bleaching of a Multi-Species Coral Community in Backreef Pools of American Samoa: A Window on the Future? (182 KB)

Download Session 25-05: The Effect of High and Extreme Temperature Increase on the Coral Porites lutea and Five Different Algae in Northern Vietnam (231 KB)

Download Session 25-06: Reef Development and Resilience to Acute (El Nino Warming) and Chronic (High-CO2) Disturbances in the Eastern Tropical Pacific: A Real-World Climate Change Model (390 KB)

Download Session 25-07: Bleaching as a Life History Trait in Coral-Zooxanthellae Holobionts - Relevance to Acclimatization and Adaptation (256 KB)

Download Session 25-08: Protracted Declines in Coral Cover and Fish Abundance Following Climate-Induced Coral Bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef (218 KB)

Download Session 25-09: Coral Ultrastructural Response to Elevated pCO2 and Nutrients During Tissue Repair and Regeneration (583 KB)

Download Session 25-10: Comparative Investigation of Organic Matter Release by Corals and Benthic Reef Algae - Implications for Pelagic and Benthic Microbial Metabolism (237 KB)

Download Session 25-11: Implications for Our Coral Reefs in a Changing Climate over the Next Few Decades -- Hints From the Past 22 years (1.3 MB)

Download Session 25-12: Adaptation/Exaptation in the host coral Favites complanata (Ehrenberg, 1834; Scleractinia, Faviidae) to increased Seawater Temperatures (265 KB)

Download Session 25-13: GIS Modeling and Mitigation of Coral Reef Damage (39 KB)

Download Session 26-01: Biodiversity of Reefs: Inferring From Sparse Data (271 KB)

Download Session 26-02: Diversity and Abundance of Reef Macro Invertebrates (Mollusca; Echinodermata) in the Southern Gulf of California, Mexico (184 KB)

Download Session 26-03: What Are the Costs of Bad Taxonomic Practices: And What is Madracis mirabilis? (940 KB)

Download Session 26-04: Biodiversity of Cryptofauna Associated with Reefs of the Los Roques ARchipelago National Park, Venezuela (174 KB)

Download Session 26-05: Comparison of Bacterial Diversity within the Coral Reef Sponge, Axinella corrugata, and the Encrusting Coral Erythropodium caribaeorum (265 KB)

Download Session 26-06: Diversity of Gorgonians and Influence of Cutting on Their Growth in the Upper Gulf of Thailand (237 KB)

Download Session 26-07: The Biogeography of Damselfish Skull Evolution: A Major Radiation Throughout the Indo-West Pacific Produces No Unique Skull Shapes (359 KB)

Download Session 26-08: Effects of Coral Mortality on the Community Composition of Cryptic Metazoans Associated with Pocillopora damicornis (715 KB)

Download Session 26-09: Preliminary Results On Marine Algae Of Madagascar Reef, Yucatan, México: a Functional Group Approach (256 KB)

Download Session 26-10: Speciation Extinction Dynamics and the Topography of Diversity on Indo-West Pacific Coral Reefs (219 KB)

Download Session 26-11: Intragenomic ITS2 Variation in Caribbean Seafans (273 KB)

Download Session 26-12: Soft Coral Biodiversity and Distribution in East Africa: Gradients, Function and Significance (376 KB)

Download Session 26-13: Recent Sightings of Longsnout Seahorse, Hippocampus reidi in the Marine Environment of St. Kitts, Lesser Antilles (200 KB)

Download Session 26-14: Cymothoid Isopods on Coral Reef Fishes in the Near Shore Marine Environment of St. Kitts, Lesser Antilles (301 KB)

Download Session 26-15: Habitats and Biodiversity of Ningaloo Reef Lagoon, Western Australia (274 KB)

Download Session 26-16: Coral Systematics Inferred from the Gene Galaxin: Exploring Phylogenetic Relationships Using a Putative Determinant of Skeletal Morphology (206 KB)

Download Session 26-17: Need For a More Integrative Approach to Scleractinian Taxonomy (152 KB)

Download Session 26-18: Species Richness and Morphological Diversity of the Genus Porites in the Pacific Ocean (302 KB)

Download Session 26-19: Coral Assemblages of Cabo Verde: Preliminary Assessment and Description (212 KB)