Jamboree Start

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Auditorium

HCNSO Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Nova Southeastern University

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

Welcome to HCNSO Ocean Science Jamboree

Richard E. Dodge, Nova Southeastern University

HCNSO Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Nova Southeastern University

8:45 AM - 9:00 AM

Jamboree and NSU Research Perspectives

Thomas Temple, Nova Southeastern University

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Facility

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Global Population Genetic Dynamics of a Highly Migratory Apex Predator, the Tiger Shark (Galeocerdo cuvier)

Andrea Bernard, Nova Southeastern University

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Facility

9:15 AM - 9:30 AM

Advancing hurricane prediction models through enhanced physics of the air-sea-wave coupling

Isaac Ginis, Nova Southeastern University

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Facility

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM

If you build it, will they come? Exploring enhancements to artificial structure for use in restoration and mitigation applications in the Mexican Caribbean

Kirk Kilfoyle, Nova Southeastern University

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Facility

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Extensive phenotypic variation in Caribbean acroporid hybrids is likely a mechanism for adaptation to changing environments

Nicole Fogarty, Nova Southeastern University

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Facility

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM

A comparison of disease prevalence in Wild AND outplanted Acropora cervicornis colonies along the Florida Reef Tract

Liz Larson, Nova Southeastern University

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Facility

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Coffee Break

HCNSO Ocean Science Jamboree

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Facility

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Food Web Dynamics and Oceanic Processes

Amy Hirons, Nova Southeastern University

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Facility

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

Introduction to the Coral Restoration Lab and a Brief Overview of Hydrocarbon Toxicity

Nick Turner, Nova Southeastern University

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Facility

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

Vertical movements of shortfin mako sharks Isurus oxyrinchus in the western North Atlantic Ocean are strongly influenced by temperature

Jeremy Vaudo, Nova Southeastern University

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Facility

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Genomic assembly analyses of Asian teleost species seabass (Lates calcarifer) and arowana (Scleropages formosus)

Stephen O'Brien, Nova Southeastern University

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Facility

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Variability in Coral Recruitment Along the Southeast Florida Reef Tract

Leah Harper, Nova Southeastern University

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Facility

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

Synchrony of Male and Female Reproductive Parameters during the Biannual Reproductive Cycle of the Yellow Stingray, Urobatis jamaicensis (Myliobatiformes: Urotrygonidae)

Dan Fahy, Nova Southeastern University

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Facility

12:15 PM - 12:30 PM

Lunch

HCNSO Ocean Science Jamboree

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Facility

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Coral connectivity in the Great Barrier Reef: new insights into current and future dispersal patterns

Joana Figueiredo, Nova Southeastern University

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Facility

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Microbial community dynamics in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico

Cole Easson, Nova Southeastern University

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Facility

1:45 PM - 2:00 PM

Geographic Variability in Habitat Selection and Movements of a Marine Top Predator

Michael Byrne, Nova Southeastern University

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Facility

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM

Population status and reproductive potential of the pillar coral, Dendrogyra cylindrus, along the Florida Reef Tract

Lystina Bernadette Kabay, Nova Southeastern University

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Facility

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM

A bank divided: quantifying the spatial-temporal connectivity break on the Campeche Bank

Matt Johnston, Nova Southeastern University

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Facility

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM

Monitoring a problem: evaluating the ecological status of the invasive Nile Monitor in Florida and forecasting population expansion using computational GIS

Noah Cohen, Nova Southeastern University

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Facility

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM

Coffee Break

HCNSO Ocean Science Jamboree

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Facility

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Historic undersampling of deep-pelagic top predators: a case study of the Chiasmodontidae of the Gulf of Mexico using multiple sampling gears

April Cook, Nova Southeastern University

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Facility

3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Twilight Reefs May Usher in a New Dawn for Depauperate, Shallow Reefs

Hunter Noren, Nova Southeastern University
Alicia Vollmer, Nova Southeastern University

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Facility

3:45 PM - 4:15 PM

Keynote Lecture: Out with the old, in with the new hypotheses: tracking behavior and habitat shifts among the sea turtle "lost years”

Kate Mansfield, University of Central Florida

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Facility

4:15 PM - 5:15 PM

Visit Site

Beach BBQ

HCNSO Ocean Science Jamboree

Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Facility

5:15 PM - 8:30 PM