11ICRS: Mini-Symposium 4 - Coral Reef Organisms as Recorders of Local and Global Environmental Change

Mini-Symposium 4:
Coral Reef Organisms as Recorders of Local and Global Environmental Change

Poster Presentations: Wednesday, July 9, 2008 16:00 - 18:00 Exhibit Hall A-D (Click on presentation title to view abstract)

POSTER BOARD #	TITLE	*AUTHORS (^ indicates Presenting Author)**
4.51	Status of Genus Acropora in Indian Reefs and it’s Role as an Indicator of Reef Health	*Sumitro SEN, Satyanarayana CHOWDULA**
4.52	The potential of the soft coral Sinularia polydactyla and the scleractinian coral Leptastrea purpurea as bio-monitoring organisms: a case study	*Peter SCHUPP, Paulina WELCH, Chie TAKASE, Gary DENTON**
4.53	Biogeographic pattern and impact of climate change on coral communities in Taiwan	*Sheng-wen HORNG, Chang-feng DAI**
4.54	Deep reef radiocarbon records from the Straits of Florida	*Brad ROSENHEIM, Thiago CORREA, Peter SWART, Gregor EBERLI, Mark GRASMUECK**
4.55	Deep-Sea Corals from the Straits of Florida as Proxy Indicators of Bottom Conditions in the Florida Straits	*Angela ROSENBERG, Peter SWART, Gregor EBERLI, Mark GRASMUECK, Thiago CORREA**
4.56	Opposed trend of skeletal carbon isotopic ratios found in two different coral species collected from the same site: Genus-dependent responses	*Michiyo SHIMAMURA, Kiseong HYEONG, Tsuyoshi WATANABE, Tomohisa IRINO, Chan-Min YOO, Woong-Seo KIM**
4.57	Preliminary assessment of the impact of solid waste on reef flat gastropod community in Talim Bay, Batangas, Philippines	*Alexander ALOY, Benjamin VALLEJO JR**
4.58	150 Years of Coral Growth Rates and Water Quality on the Mesoamerican Reef	*Jessica CARILLI, Richard NORRIS, Konrad HUGHEN, Nancy PROUTY**
4.59	Maracajau Reefs (in Northeastern Brazil) - an ecosystem under severe thermal stress	Elga MAYAL, Sigrid NEWMANN-LEITAO, Elga MAYAL*
4.60	Seawater isotopic composition variation in Abrolhos Reef Complex, Brazil	*Ricardo DOMINGUES, Alexandre COSTA, Ruy KIKUCHI**
4.61	Montastrea cavernosa thermal stress bioindicator in the South Atlantic	*Elga MAYAL, Mara FISNER, Alcides SIAL, Valderez FERREIRA, Isabelle SOARES**
4.62	Sr/Ca and Mg/Ca use as temperature proxy in a Southwestern Atlantic endemic coral	*Maria Cristina SANTEDICOLA, Priscila GONÇALVES, Carlos MENDONÇA-FILHO, Ruy KIKUCHI**
4.63	Coral Morphology As An Indicator of Sedimentation Rate; Cañada Honda, Dominican Republic	*Allicia DAVIS, Dennis HUBBARD**
4.64	Reconstruction of climatic variability induced by the PNA pattern in the Southern Gulf of Mexico: geochemical evidences from coral growth bands	*Constanza RICAURTE, Jose CARRIQUIRY, Julio VILLAESCUSA, Guillermo HORTA**
4.65	ENSO Variability Recorded in the Growth Rate of Southwestern-South Atlantic Corals	*Danielly GODIVA, Heitor EVANGELISTA, Abdelfettah SIFEDDINE, Zelinda LEÃO, Nivaor RIGOZO, Barbara SEGAL, Tércio AMBRIZZI, Milton KAMPEL, Ruy KIKUCHI**
4.66	Sclerochronology and Geochemistry of Brazilian Corals to Reconstruct Southwestern-South Atlantic Climate Variability	*Danielly GODIVA, Heitor EVANGELISTA, Abdelfettah SIFEDDINE, Bruno TURCQ, Thierry CORRÈGE, Nivaor RIGOZO, Ruy KIKUCHI, Zelinda LEÃO, Milton KAMPEL, Renato CAMPELLO**
4.67	Using Nearshore Macrobenthos as Environmental Indicators Adjacent to a Major Navigational Inlet: Port Everglades Inlet, Florida	Jessica CRAFT*
4.68	Evidences of Magdalena River as a Sporadic Stress factor to Coral Reefs in Tayrona National Park (Colombia)	*Iliana CHOLLETT-ORDAZ, Alberto RODRÍGUEZ-RAMÍREZ, Eduardo KLEIN**
4.69	Application of the SEDCON Index on Patch Reefs in Biscayne National Park, Florida	*Alexa RAMIREZ, Camille DANIELS, Pamela HALLOCK**
4.70	A Comparison of Chemical Records in Montastraea faveolata and Siderastrea siderea as Examined by Laser Ablation ICP-MS: A Look at Methodology for Caribbean Coral for Seasonal and Storm Events	*Alan KOENIG, Jessica CARILLI, Noreen BUSTER**
4.71	Heavy Metal Contents in Growth Bands of Porites Corals: Record of Anthropogenic and Human Developments from the Jordanian Gulf of Aqaba	*Saber AL-ROUSAN, Rashid AL-SHLOUL, Fuad AL-HORANI, Ahmad ABU-HILAL**
4.72	Study of heavy metal accumulation in Scleractinian corls of Viti Levu, Fiji Islands	Sofia SHAH, Edward LOVELL*
4.73	Past 100 years Inter-annual Sea Surface Salinity Changes in the Western Pacific Based on Coral Isotope Analysis	*Hiroko IIJIMA, Hajime KAYANNE, Nobuko NAKAMURA**
4.74	Indian Ocean Dipole Index for the Last 115 Years Recorded in Kenyan Coral Annual Bands	*Hajime KAYANNE, Nobuko NAKAMURA, Hiroko IIJIMA, Timothy R. MCCLANAHAN, Swadhin BEHERA, Toshio YAMAGATA**
4.75	Variability of Coral Skeletal Tin, Copper, Zinc, and Cadmium in Porites Lobata Corals from Kona, Hawaii	*Michael COLELLA, Jamie WARD, Sarah C. GRAY, Geoff DALY**
4.76	Sclerosponge Skeletal Growth Band as a Proxy of Ocean Surface Environmental Change	*Tamotsu OOMORI, Mutsumi MORI, Eri HIROSAWA, Miyo IKEDA, Hiroyuki FUJIMURA, Takuro NOGUCHI, Yoshihito OHTSUKA, Michinari HATTORI, Yuichi TAKAKU**
4.77	Rare species as bio-indicators of environmental thermal stress: clues from a small coral	Andrei SALCEDO-GREBECHOV, Alberto ACOSTA*
4.78	Effect of feeding and light on the nitrogen isotopic composition of a zooxanthellate coral	*Stéphanie REYNAUD, Fanny HOULBREQUE, Philippe MARTINEZ, Isabelle BILLY, Denis ALLEMAND, Christine FERRIER-PAGES**
4.79	Impacts of climate change on coral reefs of India	*R. JEYABASKARAN, R. RAJKUMAR, P.L. YENNAWAR**
4.80	On the causes of density banding in skeletons of Montastraea corals	*Juan P. CARRICART-GANIVET, Elizabeth DÁVALOS-DEHULLU, Héctor HERNÁNDEZ-ARANA**

Mini-Symposium 4: Coral Reef Organisms as Recorders of Local and Global Environmental Change

Mini-Symposium 4:
Coral Reef Organisms as Recorders of Local and Global Environmental Change