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WEDNESDAY • 19 Aug | |||
11:30 | EARLY CAREER SESSION | ||
11:30 | ECR: Introduction and Welcome | ||
11:40 | ECR: REV Ocean: a new international initiative for healthy oceans | ||
12:00 | ECR: Ships large and small: where is the right berth for you | ||
12:20 | ECR: TBD | ||
12:40 | ECR: Opportunities For Collaboration With Schmidt Ocean Institute | ||
13:00 | ECR: Explore with NOAA: Navigating a Sea of Opportunities for Early Career Scientists | ||
13:20 | ECR: Exploring the Deep-Sea with Ocean Exploration Trust’s E/V Nautilus | ||
13:40 | ECR: Panel discussion about Enhancing Opportunities for Early Career Scientists | ||
14:30 | Early Career and Student Social – Networking Bingo | ||
16:00 | Student Panel 1 | ||
17:00 | Poster browsing | ||
20:00 | eDSBS Icebreaker – Deep-Sea Swag Share | ||
20:30 | Poster browsing | ||
22:00 | Student Panel 2 |
THURSDAY • 20 Aug | |||
07:15 | Opening presentation | ||
07:30 | Deep-Sea Corals
Targeted capture of conserved loci provides phylogenomic resolution for black corals (Order Antipatharia) at the generic and species level
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07:45 | Genetic structure and species delimitation of the precious corals (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Coralliidae) living in Japan using genome wide SNPs
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08:00 | Environmental Controls of Benthic Megafauna Distributions in the Cold Water Coral-rich habitat of the upper Porcupine Bank Canyon, NE Atlantic
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08:15 | Modelling how corals apply the Goldilocks Principle to engineer their habitat
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08:30 | Comparative larval biology of two common deep-sea Octocorals in the Azores
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08:45 | BREAK | ||
09:00 | Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
How deep-sea food webs respond to disturbance: combining in situ observations with modeling.
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09:15 | Convergent evolution and structural adaptation to the deep ocean in the protein folding chaperonin CCTα
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09:30 | What over 20 years of sediment trap data can tell us about deep sea ecology and carbon flux
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09:45 | Unique reflector system of lanternfish photophores and its key-role on a remarkable mechanism for counterillumination
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10:00 | New Zealand deep sea: a hotspot for deep zoantharian diversity?
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10:15 | Epifaunal community patterns in the Agulhas ecoregion, South Africa
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10:30 | Meiofauna Community in Soft Sediments at TAG and Snake Pit Hydrothermal Vent Fields
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10:45 | Oases in the deep-sea desert: Resource retention and recycling by cold-water coral reef communities
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11:00 | High environmental stress and productivity increase functional diversity along a deep-sea hydrothermal vent gradient
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11:15 | BREAK | ||
11:30 | Chemosynthetic ecosystems
Hydrothermal Vent Community Assemblage Networks of the North-West Pacific
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11:45 | Monitoring temporal dynamics of microbial mats at hydrothermal vents with the EMSO-Azores observatory (Lucky Strike vent field, Mid-Atlantic Ridge)
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12:00 | A chemosynthetic ecotone – ‘chemotone’ – in the sediments surrounding deep-sea methane seeps
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12:15 | Natural and anthropogenic disturbance
Recovery of hydrothermal communities in response to an induced disturbance at the Lucky Strike vent field (Mid-Atlantic Ridge)
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12:30 | Chemosynthetic ecosystems
MACROCHESS: A Macroecological Database for Species Distribution across Chemosynthesis-Based Ecosystems
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12:45 | Evidence of vent-adaptation in sponges living at the periphery of hydrothermal vent environments: ecological and evolutionary implications
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13:00 | Integrative taxonomy revisits the ontogeny and trophic niches of Rimicaris vent shrimps
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13:15 | BREAK | ||
13:30 | Chemosynthetic ecosystems
Classical and 3D anatomy and tissue-specific microbial associations in chemosymbiotic Alviniconcha gastropods from the Southwest Pacific
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13:45 | Fine scale population structure of a keystone microbial species uncovered with CRISPR
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14:00 | Phylogenetic, genomic and biochemical insights on the first bacteria isolated from the Rio Grande Cone methane hydrate reservoir
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14:15 | Effects of Energy Availability and Wood Type on Deep-Sea Wood Fall Community Assemblages in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
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14:30 | Deep-Sea Corals
Coral reefs of the high seas: hidden biodiversity hotspots in need of protection
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14:45 | Deep-Sea Coral Species Distribution, Diversity, and Community Structure in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Oxygen Minimum Zone
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15:00 | Is depth a natural refuge for reef fish occurring along the east and south coast of South Africa?
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15:15 | Habitat suitability modeling gives new insights into the distribution and potential climate refugia for Lophelia pertusa off the southeast USA
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15:30 | Variability in soundscape and environmental conditions at a Southeastern Atlantic cold-water coral reef
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15:45 | Global gene expression analysis reveals unique patters in Lophelia pertusa’s molecular response to oil and dispersant exposure
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16:00 | BREAK | ||
16:15 | Natural and anthropogenic disturbance
Assessing the ecological risk to megabenthic assemblages from mining of seafloor massive sulfides using a functional traits sensitivity approach
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16:30 | What’s associated with deep-sea corals and sponges?
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16:45 | Seamount hard substrate community response to large scale disturbance
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17:00 | Rapid deep ocean changes with long-lasting results
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17:15 | Deep-ocean stewardship
Commemorating the Middle Passage on the Atlantic seabed in the Area Beyond National Jurisdiction
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17:30 | Comparing tools to capture deep-sea epifaunal patterns
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17:45 | Making a Difference Through the Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative
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18:00 | How deep-sea mining and high-seas fisheries intersect in space varies per mining area, country and species
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18:15 | BREAK | ||
18:30 | AGM and AGM Social |
FRIDAY • 21 Aug | |||
07:30 | Connectivity and biogeography
Hidden genetic diversity within the isopod species Haploniscus bicuspis (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida) in the deep sea around Iceland
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07:45 | Reproductive biology of the hydrothermal gastropod, Lepetodrilus schrolli L. Beck, 1993 from Manus back-arc basin
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08:00 | Genetic diversity, gene flow and hybridization in fan-shaped demosponges (Phakellia spp.) in the northeast Atlantic deep sea
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08:15 | Deeper reef ecosystems in the Indian Ocean: addressing the great unknown
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08:30 | Biogeography and connectivity across habitat types and geographical scales in Pacific abyssal scavenging amphipods
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08:45 | Multi-scale variations in invertebrate and fish megafauna in the mid-eastern Clarion Clipperton Zone
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09:00 | BREAK | ||
09:15 | Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
Mortality, population and community dynamics of the glass sponge dominated community “The Forest of the Weird”
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09:30 | The effect of ecosystem and depth on the diversity and structure of benthic fish assemblages found in Wright Canyon, South Africa
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09:45 | Identification of a soft coral garden candidate vulnerable marine ecosystem (VME) using video imagery, Davis Strait, west Greenland
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10:00 | Scavenging amphipods at the Wallaby-Zenith Fracture Zone: Sampling beyond hadal subduction trenches
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10:15 | Functional and phylogenetic diversity of polychaetes in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone
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10:30 | Influence of ice coverage on benthic peracarid crustaceans from the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean and Weddell Sea
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10:45 | Depth and latitudinal gradients of diversity in seamount benthic communities of the South Atlantic
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11:00 | Mesoscale spatial variability in the structure and function of megafaunal communities of the abyssal plain
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11:15 | Potentially vulnerable megafauna form large proportion of polymetallic nodule-associated communities
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11:30 | Fungal communities associated to deep sea benthic animals and sediment in the Irish North Atlantic Ocean
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11:45 | BREAK | ||
12:00 | Seamounts and canyons
Seamount effects on seawater and sponge-associated microbial communities
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12:15 | Exploring the community structure of an Arctic deep-sea sponge ground along a depth gradient on the Schulz Bank
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12:30 | Deep-sea epibenthic megafaunal communities on two open ocean guyots: the Atlantis and Irving seamounts (Atlantis-Meteor Seamount Complex, NE Atlantic)
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12:45 | Biodiversity of the Hecate Seamount located on the Charlie Gibbs Fracture Zone
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13:00 | Patterns of distribution of deep-sea fish assemblages on three seamounts located in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument
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13:15 | Macrofaunal Diversity and Community Structure of the DeSoto Canyon and Adjacent Slope
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13:30 | Population structure of the deep-sea precious red coral Hemicorallium laauense along the Hawaiian Ridge
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13:45 | BREAK | ||
14:00 | Pelagic systems
Zooplankton lipid composition in close proximity to a Sub-Antarctic archipelago
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14:15 | Reproductive Ecology of Dragonfishes (Stomiiformes: Stomiidae) in the Gulf of Mexico
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14:30 | An early warning sign: trophic structure changes in the oceanic Gulf of Mexico from 2011-2018
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14:45 | Characterizing the Diets of Siphonophores (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) in the Offshore Central California Current Ecosystem using DNA Metabarcoding
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15:00 | To stay or go? Understanding the behavioural drivers of diel vertical migration in deep-living fishes
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15:15 | Deep-sea ‘omics
Investigating the relationship of a vent-endemic gastropod holobiont using proteomics
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15:30 | Illuminating the impact of diel vertical migration on visual gene expression in deep-sea shrimp
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15:45 | Microscopic and Genetic Characterization of Bacterial Bioluminescent Symbionts of the Gulf of Mexico Pyrosome, Pyrosoma atlanticum
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16:00 | Revolutionizing Biodiversity and Systematics Research on Aplacophora (Mollusca) and Training the Next Generation of Invertebrate Systematists
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16:15 | Made of Other Stuff: Membrane Lipid Composition and Function in Deep, Shallow, Cold and Warm Ctenophores
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16:30 | The chromosome-scale genome assembly of a ctenophore and animal genome architecture
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16:45 | BREAK | ||
17:00 | Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
Trophic webs in the lower boundary of the northeastern Pacific oxygen minimum zone
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17:15 | Functional biodiversity from Condor Seamount (Mid-Atlantic Ridge)
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17:30 | Relating community composition and environmental variables on a low temperature Ridge Flank Hydrothermal System in the Pacific Ocean
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17:45 | Oceanic Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico: the DEEPEND Program Synthesis
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18:00 | Biogeographic Atlas of the deep NW Pacific fauna
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18:15 | The macrofaunal metropolis formed in the sediments around the first-ever deep-sea alligator fall
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18:30 | Diversity of deep-sea crustaceans of Costa Rica
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18:45 | Influence of mesoscale eddies, Madagascar shelf and seamounts on micronekton distribution and community composition in the south-western Indian Ocean
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19:00 | Rapid response of carbonate macrofauna to temporal variation in methane seepage
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19:15 | BREAK | ||
19:30 | Closing Ceremony and Social |