Program

 

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The schedule below is subject to change.


Monday, September 3; Yerba Buena Salon 7-9

Poster Session, 6:00 - 8:30 p.m.

  1. Habitat Protection and Restoration as a Means of Mitigating the Effects of Natural Hazards - the NOAA Perspective; Cecelia Linder
  2. Impacts of Stormwater Runoff on Coho Salmon in Restored Urban Streams; Sarah McCarthy
  3. Hypoxia in Hood Canal, Puget Sound: Effects on Dungeness Crab (Cancer magister) Ecology; Caroline Paulsen
  4. Monitoring the Recovery of Organic Enriched Sediments Following Targeted Mitigation and Intervention in a Temperate Estuary in the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada; François Plante
  5. Report to Congress on the Impact of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma on Commercial and Recreational Fishery Habitat of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas; Jim Thomas

Wednesday, September 5; Golden Gate Hall, Salon C3

Session Moderator 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Terry Smith
Session Moderator 1:20 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.: Roger Zimmerman

Introduction & Keynote, 8:00 - 9:00 a.m.

  1. 8:00 - 8:20 Introduction; Ron Baird
  2. 8:20 - 9:00 Keynote; Mike Chrisman

Hurricanes & Tsunamis, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

  1. 9:00 - 9:20 Assessing Seafood Safety in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; Tracy Collier
  2. 9:20 - 9:40 Lessons for Minimizing Impacts to Coral Reef and Other Ecosystems from the 2004 Tsunami; Dwayne Meadows
  3. 9:40 - 10:00 Ecological Responses of the Neuse River-Pamlico Sound Estuarine Continuum to a Period of Elevated Hurricane Activity: Impacts of Individual Storms and Longer Term Trends; Hans Paerl
  4. 10:00 - 10:20 Break
  5. 10:20 - 10:40 Post-Katrina Restoration of Freshwater Fisheries in South Mississippi; Don Jackson
  6. 10:40 - 11:00 Responding to Hurricane Impacts on Artificial Reefs in Northwest Florida; Scott Jackson
  7. 11:00 - 11:20 Development and Implementation of a Large Geographic Survey and Mapping Program to Identify Hurricane Hazards and Debris Threatening Traditional Fishing Grounds and the Recovery of Gulf Based Shrimping and Commercial Fishing; Tim Osborn
  8. 11:20 - 11:40 Louisiana Fisheries and the Hurricanes of 2005; Rex Caffey
  9. 11:40 - 12:00 Mitigating Economic Damages to Mississippi Commercial and Recreational Fishing Industries from Hurricanes Katrina; Ben Posadas
  10. 12:00 - 1:20 Lunch
  11. 1:20 - 2:20 Fishery Sector Recovery: Policy Lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita; Panel: Wayne & Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude
  12. 2:20 - 2:40 Sunken Boats, Tangled Nets and Disrupted Lives: Impacts of Hurricane Katrina on Two Coastal Areas of Louisiana; Palma Ingles
  13. 2:40 - 3:00 Developing a Specialized Marine Action Assessment Response Team (SMART) for Post-Hurricane Response and Recovery; Mike Spranger
  14. 3:00 - 3:20 Break
  15. 3:20 - 3:40 Development and Implementation of the American Fisheries Society Disaster Relief Program; Fred Heitman
  16. 3:40 - 4:00 Challenges for Post-tsunami Fisheries Management; Niklas Mattson
  17. 4:00 - 4:20 Wave of Change: Coping with Catastrophe; Pedro Bueno
  18. 4:20 - 5:00 Waves of Adversity, Layers of Resilience: Lessons for Building Sustainable, Hazard-Resilient Coastal Communities; Bruce Glavovic

Thursday, September 6; Golden Gate Hall, Salon C3

Session Moderator 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Mike Spranger
Session Moderator 1:20 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.: John Boreman

Storms, Hypoxia & Volcanoes, 8:00 - 10:20 a.m.

  1. 8:00 - 8:20 Coastal Louisiana Ecosystem Assessment & Restoration (CLEAR) Program: the Role of Ecosystem Forecasting in Evaluating Restoration Planning in the Mississippi River Deltaic Plain; Robert Twilley
  2. 8:20 - 8:40 The Use of Living Shorelines to Mitigate the Effects of Storm Events on Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA; LaDon Swann
  3. 8:40 - 9:00 Coastal Storms, Toxic Runoff, and the Sustainable Conservation of Fish and Fisheries; Nat Scholz
  4. 9:00 - 9:20 The Role of Extension Disaster Education Network in Coastal Disasters; Ed Jones
  5. 9:20 - 9:40 The effects of Hypoxia on Marine Fish Populations in Southern Hood Canal; Wayne Palsson
  6. 9:40 - 10:00 Salmonid Population Trends and Recovery in the North Fork Toutle River, Washington Following the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens; Dustin Hinson
  7. 10:00 - 10:20 Break

Harmful Algal Blooms, 10:20 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.

  1. 10:20 - 10:40 Environmental and Human Health Impacts of Karenia brevis "Red Tide" Blooms in the Gulf of Mexico; Cindy Heil
  2. 10:40 - 11:00 Measuring the Economic Implications of Red Tide Events on the Gulf Coast of Florida, USA: Recent and On-going Research Efforts; Chuck Adams
  3. 11:00 - 11:20 From Jubilees to Halos: Clarifying the Economic Effects of Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB's) on Commercial Fisheries; Porter Hoagland
  4. 11:20 - 11:40 Red Tide: Sources of Information, Public Perceptions and Future Actions; John Stevely

Multiple Hazards & Closeout, 11:40 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

  1. 11:40 - 12:00 An Approach to Establishing Fish and Fisheries as In Situ Environmental Bioindicators of Natural Hazards; Stephen Bortone
  2. 12:00 - 1:20 Lunch
  3. 1:20 - 1:40 Natural Hazards, Fish Habitat and Fishing Communities in Alaska; Christian Zimmerman
  4. 1:40 - 2:00 Natural Hazards, Stock Depletion and Decision Making in the Southern Gulf of Mexico Fishery of Pink Shrimp, Farfantepenaeus duorarum; Francisco Arreguin-Sanchez
    5. (UNABLE TO ATTEND)
  5. 2:00 - 2:20 The Future of Fish in Response to Large-Scale Change in the San Francisco Estuary, California; Peter Moyle
  6. 2:20 - 2:40 Symposium Synthesis: Exploring Themes Across Various Natural Hazard Events; Gary Matlock
  7. 2:40 - 4:00 Moderated Discussion; led by Ron Baird