We’re all waiting for you at CERF 2013; San Diego, CA, USA, 3-7 November 2013. Photo: La Jolla Coves, Courtesy of Lisa Field, SanDiego.org Walter Boynton, CERF President 2011-2013 [email protected]On page 33 of this CERF Newsletter, I penned a per- sonal account of my first experience with an Affiliate Society (AS); I hope new AS members have a smoother experience with their first science talk than I did. In any case, that initial experience “bonded” me to an Affiliate Society and shortly after led to a career-long membership in CERF. For me, and I hope for many others, membership in both an Affiliate Society and CERF is a seamless affair, each complementing the other and each offering different services and opportunities. The purpose of this message is to say a few things about the CERF-Affiliate Society symbiosis and where I hope this will develop in the coming years. During Susan Williams’ time as CERF President, an updated strategic plan (“Visions III”) was devel- oped, based on hard work by Board members and input from the Affiliate Society Presidents and other interested CERF members. (Please visit http://www. erf.org/about-us#visions to see both the short and long versions of Visions III.) The strategic plan has seven (7) major goals, one of which focuses on the CERF- Affiliate Society relationship and how that might evolve in the future. Turn to page 4 to read the high- lights of this portion of the strategic plan. Steve Weisberg, CERF 2013 Conference Chair [email protected]When Susan Williams and Joy Bartholomew asked me to lead the CERF 2013 meeting in San Diego, I asked how they would judge whether the meeting was successful. Much to my surprise, they didn’t start with finances (though let’s be real, it’s on the list). Instead, they emphasized the culture of CERF and making the meeting memorable. They felt the most successful meetings were ones that introduce innova- tions that serve as inspirations for things we do at future CERF meetings. I am pleased to say that your CERF planning team has taken that mandate seriously and is considering many new and exciting initia- tives that we hope will make San Diego memorable. The first initiative is institution of plenary sessions in which we bring in high profile speakers, who will provide new perspectives to the CERF community. The plenary sessions will establish topical themes that will pervade the rest of the meeting, as the plenary sessions are followed by a series of invited and contributed sessions on the same topics. We will even have workshops and field trips that are paired with those themes. Your Scientific Program Chairs, John Largier and Skyli McAfee, have a separate article in this Newsletter; it provides more detail on the ple- nary themes (and, of course, we will have many sessions on other topics as contributed by the CERF community). Newsletter October 2012 C oastal and E stuarine Research Federation ® Vol. 38, No. 3 From the CERF President… Affiliate Societies and CERF – A Symbiotic Relationship CERF 2013: Innovations and Inspirations continued on page 4 continued on page 29 Affiliates and CERF – a Symbiotic Relationship . . . 1 CERF 2013: Innovations and Inspirations ....... 1 CERF 2012-Argentina Schedule ................ 5 CERF 2013 Scientific Program ................. 6 Affiliate Society News ....................... 11 CERF Leaders on the Hill .................... 22 Journal Star on the Rise...................... 24 Membership Renewal for 2013 ............... 35 HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS I SSUE
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We’re all waiting for you at CERF 2013; San Diego, CA, USA, 3-7 November 2013. Photo: La Jolla Coves, Courtesy of Lisa Field, SanDiego.org
On page 33 of this CERF Newsletter, I penned a per-sonal account of my first experience with an Affiliate Society (AS); I hope new AS members have a smoother experience with their first science talk than I did. In any case, that initial experience “bonded” me to an Affiliate Society and shortly after led to a career-long membership in CERF. For me, and I hope for many others, membership in both an Affiliate Society and CERF is a seamless affair, each complementing the other and each offering different services and opportunities.
The purpose of this message is to say a few things about the CERF-Affiliate Society symbiosis and where I hope this will develop in the coming years.
During Susan Williams’ time as CERF President, an updated strategic plan (“Visions III”) was devel-oped, based on hard work by Board members and input from the Affiliate Society Presidents and other interested CERF members. (Please visit http://www.erf.org/about-us#visions to see both the short and long versions of Visions III.) The strategic plan has seven (7) major goals, one of which focuses on the CERF-Affiliate Society relationship and how that might evolve in the future. Turn to page 4 to read the high-lights of this portion of the strategic plan.
When Susan Williams and Joy Bartholomew asked me to lead the CERF 2013 meeting in San Diego, I asked how they would judge whether the meeting was successful. Much to my surprise, they didn’t start with finances (though let’s be real, it’s on the list). Instead, they emphasized the culture of CERF and making the meeting memorable. They felt the most successful meetings were ones that introduce innova-tions that serve as inspirations for things we do at future CERF meetings.
I am pleased to say that your CERF planning team has taken that mandate seriously and is considering many new and exciting initia-tives that we hope will make San Diego memorable. The first initiative is institution of plenary sessions in which we bring in high profile speakers, who will provide new perspectives to the CERF community. The plenary sessions will establish topical themes that will pervade the rest of the meeting, as the plenary sessions are followed by a series of invited and contributed sessions on the same topics. We will even have workshops and field trips that are paired with those themes. Your Scientific Program Chairs, John Largier and Skyli McAfee, have a separate article in this Newsletter; it provides more detail on the ple-nary themes (and, of course, we will have many sessions on other topics as contributed by the CERF community).
NewsletterOctober 2012
Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation®
Vol. 38, No. 3
From the CERF President…
Affiliate Societies and CERF – A Symbiotic Relationship
ACCESSMelisa WongFisheries and Oceans CanadaDartmouth NS, [email protected]
AERSMark J. BrushVirginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)College of William and MaryGloucester Point, [email protected]
CAERSSharon HerzkaCentro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE)Ensenada, Baja California, [email protected]
GERSRuth H. CarmichaelUniversity of South Alabama andDauphin Island Sea LabDauphin Island, [email protected]
NEERSJohn BrawleyWoods Hole GroupEast Falmouth, MA [email protected]
CERF Newsletter is published by the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation®, associated with the following regional societies: Mid-Atlantic (AERS), California (CAERS), Gulf (GERS), Canadian Atlantic (ACCESS), New England (NEERS), Pacific (PERS) and Southeastern (SEERS). Newsletter inquiries should be addressed
to Mark Wolf-Armstrong, Susan Helmrich or Alejandra (Ally) Garza (see contact information below). Membership form is enclosed on the inside back cover. Visit the Federation’s web site: http://www.erf.org
President, 2011-2013Walter R. BoyntonUniversity of Maryland Center for Environmental ScienceSolomons, [email protected]
President-ElectKenneth L. Heck, Jr.Dauphin Island Sea LabDauphin Island, [email protected]
Past PresidentSusan L. WilliamsBodega Marine Laboratory, UC–DavisBodega Bay, [email protected]
SecretaryLinda BlumUniversity of VirginiaCharlottesville, [email protected]
TreasurerFinance & Investment Committee ChairChris TannerSt. Mary’s College of MarylandSt. Mary’s City, [email protected]
Member at Large 2009-2013Robert J. DíazVirginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)College of William and MaryGloucester Pt., [email protected]
Member at Large 2009-2013Janet NestlerodeResearch EcologistGulf Breeze, [email protected]
Member at Large 2011-2015James HagyResearch EcologistGulf Breeze, [email protected]
International Member at Large 2011-2015Alejandro Yáñez-ArancibiaInstitute of Ecology A. C. (CPI-CONACYT)Xalapa, Ver., [email protected]
CeRf goveRning BoaRd offiCeRs and MeMBeRs at laRge
CeRf goveRning BoaRd MeMBeRs and affiliate soCiety RepResentatives
CERF 2013Steve Weisberg, ChairSouthern California Coastal Water Research ProjectCosta Mesa, [email protected] Jan Newton, Vice-ChairUniversity of WashingtonSeattle, [email protected]
ConfeRenCe CHaiRs
Managing EditorMerryl AlberUniversity of GeorgiaAthens, [email protected]
In this Newsletter, we are pleased to announce the publication of the 2nd edition textbook, Estuarine Ecology. This eagerly awaited update of the origi-nal textbook is a great addition to our array of publications. We are particularly grateful that the editors, John Day, Byron Crump, Michael Kemp and Alex Yáñez-Arancibia, have generously offered to donate their royalties from the textbook to CERF. Special purchase rates are available to CERF members (see the article at right).
Next month CERF steps out on the world stage! It’s pretty exciting to anticipate CERF 2012 in Mar del Plata, Argentina. With more than 150 presentations, this conference is our first confer-ence outside the USA. I wanted to thank our conference team, Bob Christian; Paulina Marti-netto; Oscar Iribane; and Ally Garza, CERF’s program manager, for their steadfast work to make this conference come together. Although it is smaller by design than our biennial confer-ence, it is big in spirit and robust in science. And, there is still time for you to plan to join us!
CESN has a special moment to acknowledge, as well. Nancy Steinberg, our CESN editor, just reached her 50th edition of CESN. A huge THANK YOU and “job well done” goes to Nancy for her great work on these science abstracts. CESN continues strong under the leadership of Merryl Alber, CESN editor. EPA has just renewed their support for CESN. And, I might add that, even if you don’t read Spanish, you should check out our Spanish language ver-sion, which just launched this year.
Finally, I want to thank the Affiliate Societies for the warm welcome they have shown me in my first few months as CERF’s executive director. I have had the pleasure of attending some of the affiliate conferences, and have thoroughly enjoyed meeting CERF and affiliate members there.
Just a reminder – we are now in the 2013 membership renewal season. As you know, your membership is a real investment in the broad array of CERF’s programs. We hope you will renew for 2013, and mark your calendar to join us in San Diego for CERF 2013.
I hope you enjoy this issue of the Newsletter. I find it a wonderful way to share the many con-tributions our members make to our success. There is always so much going on at CERF to report. Thank you, all.
From CERF’s Executive Director…
Special Thanks
The long-awaited second edition of the seminal textbook Estuarine Ecol-ogy is due to publish in October 2012 and is now available for pre-order at the Wiley.com website: www.wiley.com/buy/0471755672. CERF mem-bers can take advantage of a special discount rate of 20% off the list price by entering the following code at the Wiley.com checkout: LS12.
Authored by a team of world experts from the estuarine science com-munity from eight countries, this full-color edition includes new chap-ters covering phytoplankton, microbial food webs, seagrasses, coastal marshes, mangroves, benthic algae, Integrated Coastal Zone Manage-ment techniques, and the effects of global climate change. It also features an entirely new section on estuarine ecosystem processes, trophic webs, ecosystem metabolism, and the interactions between estuaries and other ecosystems, such as wetlands and marshes.
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Estuarine Ecology, Second Edition Professor John W. Day, Jr. (Louisiana State University), Dr Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia (INECOL, Mexico), Professor W. Michael Kemp and Professor Byron C. Crump (both University of Maryland).
Now available to order: Estuarine Ecology, Second Edition
TABLE OF CONTENTS1. Introduction to Estuarine Ecology John W. Day, Jr., Alejandro Yáñez-
Arancibia, W. Michael Kemp, and Byron C. Crump
2. Estuarine Geomorphology and Coastal Hydrology
Gregg A. Snedden, Jaye E. Cable, and Björn Kjerfve
3. Estuarine Chemistry Thomas S. Bianchi4. Estuarine Phytoplankton Hans W. Paerl and Dubravko Justic5. Seagrass and Related Submersed
Vascular Plants Jens Borum, Renee K. Gruber, and W.
Michael Kemp6. Coastal Marshes Carles Ibáñez, James T. Morris, Irving
A. Mendelssohn, and John W. Day, Jr.7. Mangrove Wetlands Robert R. Twilley and John Day, Jr8. Estuarine Benthic Algae Karen J. McGlathery, Kristina Sund-
bäck, and Peggy Fong
9. Estuarine Microbial Ecology Linda K. Blum and Aaron L. Mills10. Estuarine Microbial Food Webs Byron C. Crump, Hugh W.
Ducklow, and John E. Hobbie11. Estuarine Zooplankton Mark C. Benfield12. Estuarine Benthos James G. Wilson and John
W. Fleeger13. Estuarine Nekton James H. Cowan, Jr., Alejandro
Yáñez-Arancibia, Patricia Sánchez-Gil, and Linda A. Deegan
14. The Ecology of Estuarine Wildlife Russell Greenberg15. Ecosystem Metabolism Jeremy M. Testa, W. Michael Kemp,
Charles S. Hopkinson, Jr. and Stephen V. Smith
16. Estuarine Food Webs James D. Hagy III and W. Michael
Elections for the 2013-2015 CERF administration, to be led by current President-Elect Ken Heck, will take place in June 2013. Serving on the Governing Board is a fantastic way to meet other dedicated CERF mem-bers, to shape the path forward for CERF, and to have a ton of fun. The Governing Board meets twice yearly. CERF is soliciting nomina-tions for our next President-Elect, Secretary, and two Members-at-Large (http://www.erf.org/gov-erning-board-committees-staff). Please send your nominations to Past-President Susan Wil-liams ([email protected]), copied to Executive Director Mark Wolf-Armstrong ([email protected]), before the 13 February 2013 deadline. Self-nomina-tions are welcome.
NotiCe of aNNual BusiNess meetiNG
the annual business meetingof the Coastal and estuarine
researCh federation (Cerf) will be held on
tuesday, 9 oCtober 20124:00 pm
tremont plaza hotel222 st. paul plaCe
baltimore, md 21202 usa
GOAL 7: Continue to Develop and Strengthen the Affiliate SocietiesVision: CERF began with the recogni-tion by several regional affiliate societ-ies that a broader, national and international organization was needed. Since then, there has been a mutually beneficial relationship between CERF and the Affiliate Societies, with growth for both. CERF resources in communi-cations and organization services need to continue and expand to serve the Affiliate Societies and the Affiliates need to continue acting as catalysts for regional estuarine science and commu-nication activities while serving to strengthen affiliate membership ties with CERF.
General Objectives: n Providing CERF administrative and
logistic support to the regional Affil-iate Societies.
n Engaging Affiliate Societies to serve as catalysts for regional collabora-tion in coastal and estuarine science.
In addition to these general objec-tives, the plan lists six more specific objectives, all consistent with the over-all vision. In this way CERF plans to continue to strengthen both the rela-
tionships among the individual Affili-ate Societies and the bond between the Affiliate Societies and CERF.
So, where do we stand today?Any plan, even a good one, is just a plan without some action. So, what’s been happening regarding this portion of the strategic plan? Let me start with a word of caution: my sense is that we are not advocating any immediate changes in the CERF-Affiliate Society relationship. Rather, we are carefully considering possibili-ties and checking to see if there are mutually beneficial results to be gained from changes. As we review options, we are being cognizant of the unique cultural aspects of each organization. At this point, the AS Presidents have been meeting at the semi-annual CERF Board meetings to discuss common issues, search for solutions to some long-standing problems, and look for oppor-tunities to further their societies’ missions. In addition, the CERF executive director, Mark Wolf-Armstrong, has been con-vening conference calls with AS Presi-dents to continue this dialogue and move toward a set of recommendations.
Finally, at the last CERF Governing Board meeting, the AS Presidents pro-
duced a compelling list of specific actions that could promote both Affili-ate Society and CERF activities. So, there is serious progress being made on this strategic plan goal. As ideas and recommendations develop, we will share these with Affiliate Society leader-ship and members, as well as with the CERF membership. And, as always, we encourage members to send comments and ideas related to this vision.
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Sunday, 11 November 2012 Evening Welcome Reception with tango performance Terrestrial and Marine Forcings on Coastal EcosystemsOpening Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ivan Valiela, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.
Monday – Wednesday, 12 – 14 November 2012 Oral and poster presentations on two topics each day
PLEnAry TOPiCS And inviTEd SPEAKErS
Land-sea Couplings in Rapidly Changing Environments
Dr. Walter Boynton (University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, Md, USA. email: [email protected])
Dr. Daniel Conde (Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de La república, Montevideo, Uruguay. email: [email protected])
Impacts of UVR on Coastal Waters
Dr. Walter Helbling (instituto de Fotobiología, Playa Union, Argentina. email: [email protected])
Dr. Susana Agustí (instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados (iMdEA), departamento de recursos naturales, islas Baleares, España. email: [email protected])
Climate Change and Estuarine Ecosystems; Fluctuations in Freshwater Use on Land and the Hydrodynamics of Estuaries
Dr. Robert Twilley (Energy, Coast and Environment Building, department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton rouge, LA, USA. email: [email protected])
Dr. Marcelo Acha (Universiadad nacional de Mar del Plata-COniCET, Mar del Plata, Argentina. email: [email protected])
Fisheries Exploitation
Dr. Juan Carlos Castilla (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago. email: [email protected])
Dr. Mike Sinclair (Bedford institute of Oceanography, dartmouth, Canada. email: [email protected])
CO2: A Driver of Change in Coastal Ecosystems Past, Present and Future
Dr. Stephen Widdicombe (Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom. email: [email protected])
Dr. Richard Zimmerman (Old dominion University, norfolk, vA, USA. email: [email protected])
Changing Baseline Populations
Dr. Just Cebrian (dauphin island Sea Lab, department of Marine Science, University of South Alabama, dauphin island, AL, USA.
Rio de la Plata Special Evening SessionDr. Hermes Mianzan and Dr. Alberto Piola
Wednesday, 14 November 2012 Closing Social
Fixing Estuaries and Coasts: A Tribute to Scott Nixon
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Carlos Duarte, instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados - iMdEA, departamento de investigación del Cambio Global, Esporales, islas Baleares, España.
Thursday, 15 November 2012 Field trips, including a one-day touring and birding excursion by the coastal Pampas in the Mar Chiquita Biosphere reserve
The world’s oceans, coasts and estuar-ies are under increasing pressure from human activities – at the same time that society looks increasingly towards the ocean for resources and inspiration. Pollution, changing hydrographs, changing climate, invasive species, shoreline development, resource extraction, and changing water chem-istry negatively impact ecosystems and physical processes, placing at risk the very fabric that supports the diversity of marine life along the coast, and in
turn threatening local, national and global ocean economies. Now, more than ever, the role of science in sup-porting the management of these com-plex stressors is critical. But often scientists work in isolation from real-world problems, or their valuable efforts fail to be effectively transmitted to key decision-makers working in a political sphere. As complex challenges mount, scientists and decision-makers alike need to understand their respec-tive and collective roles in addressing these issues – scientists to be aware where new knowledge is most needed, and managers to be aware of how sci-ence can guide decisions and yield more efficient actions.
CERF is at the vanguard of this effort – at the same time as producing fundamental new science on estuary and coastal environments, CERF mem-bers have long addressed real-world issues in ways that promote a healthy
and productive exchange of informa-tion. It is the program committee’s intention that CERF 2013 continue and advance this trend with a provocative and meaningful program – both the content and structure of the program are designed to attract and challenge attendees, and to ‘ratchet up’ our understanding of critical issues and their management by offering new perspectives on difficult subjects.
As noted in Steve Weisberg’s arti-cle on CERF 2013, this meeting will be the first to offer plenary sessions, in which we bring high-profile speakers to provide new perspectives to the CERF community. Each plenary will target a topical theme, which will be
developed further through invited and contributed sessions, as well as work-shops and field trips that pair with these themes. Together these activities represent a symposium on each theme. These symposia within CERF 2013 pro-vide a novel meeting architecture that is expected to enhance the value of the biennial conference to all members, to attract more colleagues from outside CERF, and to increase the impact of conference proceedings on our society. Consistent with the move to increase the international dimension of CERF, international and local speakers have been recruited to exchange their per-spectives and to help promote an enhanced understanding of these sem-inal topics. Understanding trade-offs between focused themes and a broad inclusion of topics of interest to CERF members, we are working to carefully balance invited and contributed talks and posters.
Meetings Within A Meeting – The CERF 2013 SymposiaThe 2013 symposia will each draw a group of experts to CERF – people who may not normally attend CERF, but who will enhance the dialog by sharing ideas and hearing ideas. We anticipate that many international participants will attend to share in these symposia, as will scientists who more typically attend other society meetings. The aim is to cross-fertilize ideas and advance the science of CERF members. We chose themes that would engage most CERF members at the same time as addressing a global challenge in which additional research is key. Further, each of these is a serious and complex issue that requires scientists and managers to work hand-in-hand, seeking new perspectives. Toward this end, we are soliciting session proposals that link with these themes; now is the time to act (the deadline is 1 October, but ses-sions that link well with Symposiums will be considered past the deadline).
1. Managing Nutrients in a Changing World (Chair: Martha Sutula). Nutri-ent pollution and eutrophication of the world’s coastal zone is one of the major consequences of human-induced global change. A fundamental challenge for developing effective policies to prevent or mitigate coastal nutrient pollution is gaining a quantitative understanding of ecological processes that is sufficient to develop and persuasively argue for an appropriate policy response or action. Managing nutrients requires a well-defined goal for the status or con-dition of the coastal ecosystem, a scien-tific rationale, and monitoring/assessment to both inform goal setting and to evaluate progress toward achiev-ing goals. Scientific information is thus needed to guide development of poli-cies that provide a reasonable expecta-tion of achieving water quality and ecosystem condition objectives. This series of plenary and invited sessions will explore the translation of science to
CERF 2013 Scientific Program
From Cutting-Edge Science to Real-World Solutions
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At the same time as producing fundamental new science on estuary and coastal environments, CERF members have long addressed
real-world issues in ways that promote a healthy and productive exchange of information. It is the program committee’s
intention that CERF 2013 continue and advance this trend ...
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nutrient management through a variety of perspectives, topics and approaches.
2. Anthropogenic Facilitation of Estu-arine Species Invasions (Co-chairs: Jeff Crooks & Jim Ekman). Ecosystems are inherently unstable in the sense that ecosystems change temporally. A major contributor to ecosystem instability is species invasions, which occur natu-rally but which have been accelerated tremendously by human activities. Humans alter estuarine ecosystems via direct introduction of foreign species (intentional or unintentional) and via changing the physico-chemical proper-ties or biological composition of the habitat, both of which can facilitate the establishment of non-native species. Runaway anthropogenic facilitation of estuarine and coastal species invasions presents special challenges to environ-mentalists and government-supported managers of estuarine habitats. Deci-sions regarding control or eradication of estuarine invaders must be based on assessments of realized or potential damage of the invasion weighed against the feasibility (in terms of cost and effort) of attempts to control the invasion. This series of plenary and invited sessions will address anthropo-genic acceleration of species invasions of estuarine habitats, and the compro-mises faced by environmentalists, man-agers, and regulators.
3. Sea Level Rise (SLR) in Estuaries (Chair: Denise Reed). Increases in sea level associated with climate change affect natural environments and pro-
cesses, as well as human-built features of estuaries. The environmental, eco-nomic and social importance of coasts and estuaries demands urgent atten-tion across the sciences, providing new knowledge that can reduce or at least quantify the uncertainty in potential impacts and interactions – including both ecosystems and infra-structure. This series of plenary and invited sessions will focus on address-ing both what has been done and what needs to be done to deal with SLR. In the plenary, case studies from different locations will compare and contrast major efforts internationally. Special sessions may address ecologi-cal impacts of SLR, economic impacts of SLR, combined effects of SLR & eutrophication, ecosystem restoration in the context of SLR, and more – ses-sion proposals are welcomed.
4. Acidification in Estuaries (Chair: Jan Newton). The surface waters of the ocean are increasingly acidic due to uptake from the atmosphere of anthropogenic carbon dioxide. In estuarine and coastal waters, this ocean acidification interacts with land runoff and rapid biogeochemical pro-cesses to yield a mosaic of acidifica-tion on smaller space and time scales. Understanding the linkages between offshore acidification from atmo-spheric CO2 and that of near-coastal and estuarine acidification with com-pounded local drivers requires a multi-disciplinary approach that is now emerging. New insight is needed in understanding the impact of acidi-
fication in coastal and estuarine habi-tats – and the opportunities to regulate land-based acidification drivers. This series of plenary and invited sessions will bring attention to acidification in the transitional waters in estuaries, bays and along the shoreline where runoff from the land is a factor.
All the Usual Goodies at CERFIn addition to introducing these sym-posia, CERF 2013 will include all of the activities that you have come to value at biennial CERF conferences – focused sessions on your favorite topic, your choice of oral or poster sessions, work-shops that allow you to hone skills, and field trips that yield insights to the estuaries of southern California (not to mention the social program).
But … however we plan it, the qual-ity and content of the conference ulti-mately rests on you … it relies on you, our members, to propose special ses-sions now and to submit your best sci-ence in abstracts submitted later. In considering session proposals, give some extra thought to how your inter-ests may link with the symposium themes, allowing for resonance and synergy in the final program.
Session proposals are due by 1 October (or within a week of Newsletter receipt).
For further information, please contact CERF 2013 Program Committee co-chairs: John Largier ([email protected]) or Skyli McAfee ([email protected]).
Cerf 2013studeNt opportuNities at a GlaNCe
Travel awardsFree regisTraTion for Student Workers
Cash prizes for Best PresentationssTudenT Career nighT: Free Pizza and Job InformationsTudenT workshop: Scientific Writing and Publishing
sTudenT soCial evenT: Offsite, No Work, Just Fun!More information at www.erf.org on the conference web site
CERF Newsletter October 20128
CERF 2013San Diego Town and Country Resort3-7 November 2013San Diego, California USA
Conference ChairSteve WeiSbergSouthern California Coastal Water Research [email protected]
The Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation is grateful to the following sponsors and contributors who have stepped forward to support the CERF 2013 biennial conference:
In-KInd SponSoRS& ContRIbutoRS:Southern California Coastal Water Research ProjectUniversity of WashingtonUniversity of California, DavisCalifornia Ocean Science Trust
University of San FranciscoEPA Gulf BreezeCalifornia Sea Grant Scripps Institution of OceanographySan Diego State UniversityNew Hampshire Sea GrantCICESE
G.L. Williams and Associates, LtdTijuana National Estuarine Research ReserveUniversity of New OrleansAZTI TecnaliaUniversity of OregonUniversity of Rhode Island
Invasives Jim Eckman/Jeff Crooks California Sea Grant/Tijuana National Estuarine Research Reserve
Nutrients Martha Sutula Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
Sea-Level Rise Denise Reed University of New Orleans
Field Trips
Jeff Crooks Tijuana National Estuarine Research Reserve
International Subcommittee
Sharon Herzka CICESE, Mexico
Angel Borja AZTI Tecnalia, Spain
Gary Williams G.L. Williams and Associates, Ltd., Canada
Social Events Chair
Theresa Talley Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Student Activities Chair
Drew Talley San Diego State University
Conference Logistics
Chair Alejandra Garza, CERF HQ
Social Media Coordinator Leanna Heffner, University of Rhode Island
Abstract Database Manager Sue Chalifoux, New Hampshire Sea Grant
Coordination with Other Societies Steve Rumrill, University of Oregon
Webmaster Chris Schneider, The Schneider Group
Registration and Administration Helen Schneider-Lemay, The Schneider Group
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Coastal and Estuarine Scientific AwardsCall for NomiNatioNsOne of the highlights of our 2013 conference will be the conferring of the four
Coastal aNd estuariNe researCH federatioN awardsWe invite you to nominate candidates for the following awards:
odum lifetime achievement award for a sustained record of important contributions to our understanding of estuaries.
Cronin award for an estuarine scientist early in his or her career who has shown greatest promise with early work carried out during the first six years past the Ph.D.
william l. Niering outstanding educator award for excellence in teaching in estuarine and coastal science.
donald w. pritchard award for the best physical oceanography paper published in Estuaries and Coasts (2011-2012).
Specific instructions regarding the nomination process and the nominations deadline will soon be found on the CERF website (www.erf.org) and also emailed to you.
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• Self-contained loggers for easy deployment• Low-cost helps maximize spatial coverage• Waterproof shuttle for easy & reliable offload• Powerful graphing and analysis software
Hurricane IsaacThanks to quick and well-executed prepa-rations, research and academic institutions in the GERS region seemed to fare well after hurricane Isaac. The storm caused some flooding, but thankfully many of us only suffered a few days away from our labs and offices.
Dr. Frank RomanoGERSians were touched by the loss of a great pedagog, mentor, and researcher, Dr. Frank Romano, who passed away in August. A professor and Chair of the Biol-ogy Department at Jacksonville State Uni-versity, Dr. Romano was well known for his humor, professionalism, dedication to stu-dents, enthusiasm for high-speed travel, and fascination with unusual invertebrate life. His passion for tardigrades, a very small cryptobiotic invertebrate, recently led to the discovery of four new species in the Gulf of Mexico. Dr. Romano was also among the small number of researchers recently awarded a Gulf of Mexico Research Initia-tive grant to study effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Dr. Romano was consid-ered a dear friend by many and a true gen-tleman. He will be missed.
GERS 2012 Biennial Meeting, 8-9 NovemberGERS leadership is now preparing for the fall 2012 GERS biennial meeting, which will be held 8-9 November on Dauphin Island, AL. We expect a great line-up of presenta-tions and look forward to our distinguished Keynote Speaker, Dr. Blake Schaeffer, Research Ecologist at the U.S. EPA lab in Gulf Breeze, FL.
Dr. Shaeffer’s work focuses on use of satellite remote sensing technology to moni-tor water quality, including application of satellites such as SeaWiFS, MODIS, MERIS, and HICO on the International Space Sta-tion. His fieldwork employs autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and Remote Environmental Monitoring Units (REMUS). Dr. Shaeffer’s presentation will discuss
application of these types of ocean sensing technologies to near shore and estuarine ecology. We look forward to his presentation and to sharing with our membership this cutting-edge research that bridges chemical, physical, and biological data.
EARLY registration for the 2012 GERS biennial meeting closes 25 Oct 2012
Abstract submittal closes in early Oct 2012
Student housing available on-site (sign up when you register)
Lunches & banquet included in the registration fee
Register and submit abstracts online at www.gers.us
There will be three field trip opportunities during GERS 2012:1. Alabama coastal marshes—Visit a local
marsh system on the Mississippi-Alabama border and learn about northern Gulf of Mexico marsh restoration.
2. The Mobile-Tensaw Delta—Tour this freshwater conduit for Mobile Bay, the 4th largest freshwater drainage in the U.S. This unique habitat is home to a variety of submerged aquatic vegetation, wildlife, fisheries, coastal birds, ancient shell middens, and more!
3. Dauphin Island—Visit the Dauphin Island Sea Lab facilities and Estuarium, tour the west end of the island and see the renovated Katrina cut, which divided the island from 2005 to 2011.
GERS will give two student travel awards:n GERS 2012 $250 Student Travel Awardn GERS $1,000 Student Travel Award to
CERF Argentina! (co-sponsored by CERF, which provided 50% of the funds). This intimate meeting will be a great place for students to gain experience with international travel and scientific collaboration (and learn to TANGO).
You can follow GERS and northern Gulf of Mexico current events on our website at www.gers.us and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gulf-Estuarine-Research-Society/243019765759149. The GERS Face-book page has taken off! This is a great place to see the most recent news items, information from CERF, and discuss regional scientific issues with colleagues.
Until next time, visit us at the website or on Facebook, register for GERS 2012, submit your abstract and Student Travel Award applications, and get ready for the GERS Fall Meeting on Dauphin Island!
See you there.
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Dr. Blake Schaeffer, U.S. EPA, will be the keynote speaker at GERS 2012 on Dauphin Island, AL.
Upcoming Affiliate Society Meetings
Society Dates Location
ACCESS 10-13 May 2013 TBD
AERS 11-13 October 2012 Chincoteague, VA
CAERS 27-28 September 2012 California State University Long Beach Long Beach, CA
GERS 8-9 November 2012 Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL
NEERS 11-13 October 2012 Block Island, RI
PERS 4-7 April 2013 Tsawwassen, BC
SEERS 19-21 October 2012 University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL
For detailed information, please check the Affiliate Societies’ websites via www.erf.org.Choose the “Affiliates” heading near the top of the home page.
Preparations are well underway for our Fall 2012 meeting on the Delmarva Peninsula. The meeting will take place 11-13 October with an opening reception at the Marine Sci-ence Consortium in Wallops Island, VA, followed by the remainder of the meeting at the Chincoteague Center in Chincoteague, VA. The meeting theme is “Ecosystem Sus-tainability & Resilience: From Genetics to Popu-lations, Habitats & Function” and will focus on coastal ecosystem response to environ-mental change across all levels of biological organization.
The meeting will begin with keynote presentations and a panel discussion featur-ing Rob Condon (Dauphin Island Sea Lab), discussing changes to pelagic food webs and the rise of jellyfish blooms; Louis Hinds (Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge), discussing sustainable management at the Chincoteague Wildlife Refuge including efforts to protect Piping Plover nesting sites;
Mark Luckenbach (Virginia Institute of Marine Science), discussing the sustainabil-ity of hard clam aquaculture; and Michael Peek (William Paterson University), discuss-ing the role of genetic variability and use of multiple ecotypes in beachgrass restoration. Following the keynotes and panel discus-sion, the meeting will continue with contrib-uted talks and posters organized around the meeting theme, as well as on general topics.
Our proximity to the NASA Wallops Flight Facility has enabled a special treat this time: NASA scientist and former astronaut Piers Sellers of the Goddard Space Flight Center will present a special seminar after lunch on observation of environmental impacts from space. Piers flew to the Inter-national Space Station on missions STS-112 in 2002, STS-121 in 2006, and STS-132 in 2010, and has logged nearly 35 days in space, including almost 41 hours space-walking during six excursions. His work at Goddard has focused on interactions between the biosphere and the atmosphere, construction of computer models of the global climate system, and a variety of cli-mate-related satellites. Friday will be capped off as usual with a banquet and party, and Saturday morning talks will end with the presentation of student awards.
The meeting is being organized and hosted by Julie Ambler (Millersville Uni-versity), along with co-hosts Danielle
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LEFT AND ABOVE: UMCES M.S. student Mindy Forsyth (above) and research assistant Melissa Day (left) monitoring water quality in Rock Creek, MD. Photo credit: Lora Harris
Past-President Peter Straub and former Trea-surer David Osgood with an artifact from a prominent AERS alum at the spring meeting in Cape May, NJ. Photo credit: Peter Straub
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AERS Program Committee members Jeremy Testa and Sam Lake staff the registration desk at the spring meeting in Cape May, NJ. Photo credit: Peter Straub
SEERS newest news now available at SEERS.orgYou can now find us easily at our new website: SEERS.org. Although I do not recommend to the faint of heart simulta-neously buying a new domain name, changing your domain name, changing your web host, and constructing a new web site, all while planning a meeting, we pulled it off – but only with some excellent inside technical help.
And SEERS is now on Facebook. Like us on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Southeast-ern-Estuarine-Research-Society-SEERS/ 168628483248121
Announcing the Fall 2012 SEERS MeetingHold the date! The fall meeting of the Southeastern Estuarine Research Society (SEERS) will be held 19-21 October in Jacksonville, FL, at the University of North Florida. Yes, that’s Friday afternoon to Sunday noon. All events – workshop, posters, talks, lunch, and banquet – will be at the Biological Sciences building at UNF. Courtney Hackney is our gracious local host.
Registration is open until 12 October (on line) or on-site (space available). An optional kayak tour at the GTM NERR is also available.
SEERS supports student travel to CERF 2012-ArgentinaWith impetus from Bob Christian and financial help from CERF, SEERS was able to provide $1,200 for student travel to the CERF 2012-Argentina meeting. Xochitl Perez will be presenting.
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Kreeger and Angela Padeletti (Partnership for the Delaware Estuary), Ajoy Kumar (Millersville University), Tiffany Moisan (NASA), David O’Neill (Community Col-lege of Baltimore County), Dave Wilson (Maryland Coastal Bays Program), and Louise Wootton (Georgian Court Univer-sity). The Program Committee (Ben Fertig, Jeremy Testa, and Sam Lake) is hard at work putting the program together.
AERS is grateful to our current meeting sponsors, including CERF, the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays, the Marine Sci-ence Consortium, the Maryland Coastal Bays Program, Maryland Sea Grant, the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, and YSI. Support is also being provided by the Eastern Shore Office of The Nature Conser-vancy in Virginia.
Stay tuned for details on our Spring 2013 meeting, to be hosted by AERS Presi-dent Mark Brush and colleagues at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and College of William and Mary. This meeting will feature elections for a new President-Elect and Secretary.
In the meantime, please remember to keep your AERS (and of course CERF) memberships current, and encourage your students and colleagues to join. Maintain-ing and expanding our membership is criti-cal to ensuring a strong future for our society. There are many benefits of being an AERS member, including membership in
the oldest CERF affiliate, the opportunity to attend our intellectually-stimulating meet-ings at a reduced rate, access to student travel money for both AERS and CERF meetings, and the opportunity to expand one’s professional and even personal net-works.
AERS hopes to have a strong showing at CERF 2012-Argentina later this fall and next year at CERF 2013 in San Diego. Program Committee Chair Ben Fertig will be present-ing at the Argentina meeting and serving as an ambassador for our society; the Execu-tive Committee is pleased to announce that we have given him a $250 travel award to support his trip as an early career scientist. This money was originally donated by Robert Christian, Michael Piehler, Ashley Smyth, and Victor Camacho-Ibar to sup-port travel to the meeting. Congratulations Ben and thanks to Bob and his colleagues!
We are also excited to see the continued strengthening of relationships among the CERF affiliates and between the affiliates and CERF Headquarters, being facilitated by CERF Executive Director Mark Wolf-Armstrong – thanks Mark! And stay tuned for more news on CERF 2013 – the planning committee has a number of great plans involving the affiliates.
Until we meet later this fall in Chin-coteague, be well and enjoy the start of the fall semester! If you haven’t been to an AERS meeting in a while, we sure would love to see you.
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AERS Membership Chair Treda Grayson and Secretary Jessie Jarvis relax at the spring meeting in Cape May, NJ. Photo credit: Peter Straub
Our annual meeting will be held on 27 and 28 September at the campus of the Califor-nia State University, Long Beach. This year’s meeting, hosted by wetland scientist Chris-tine Whitcraft, will focus on the repercus-sions of urbanization on estuarine systems, as well as on coastal-estuarine interactions. The fact that we, as a community, recognize the importance and diversity of Baja Califor-nia and California estuaries and coastal sys-tems is reflected in the participation of about 100 people from throughout California and Baja California in our annual meeting. We will have 47 talks and 28 posters! The pro-gram and abstracts can be found at our web
In addition to our busy and extremely interesting presentation program, we have organized a variety of activities oriented to students. We will be hosting a student career development panel. The panelists, who will also be giving talks on their research pro-grams, include Juliette Hart (Urban Ocean Program, University of Southern California Sea Grant), Jeremy Long (San Diego State University), Nathalie Reyns (University of San Diego), David Rivas (Center for Scien-tific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada, Mexico) and Martha Sutula (Southern California Coastal Water Research Project). We will also present awards for student oral and poster presentations; the awards will consist of support to attend CERF’s Biennial Conference that will be held in San Diego in November of 2013.
We are also pleased to have high school students from Ocean Discovery Institute in attendance. Every year, Ocean Discovery involves hundreds of underserved students in various hands-on research activities that
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Christine Whitcraft, host of the 2012 CAERS annual meeting, with husband Jona-than Pompa and their son Alden, born 26 August 2012. Congratulations!
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Collects data continually for 90 days unattended
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Losses to the Scientific Community Hit HomeI am going to start with the sad news first. Many of you have learned of the recent losses that have landed upon the NEERS and CERF communities. The passing of Scott Nixon, Michelle Dionne, and Peter Lord has had a tremendous effect on NEERS members this year. Our colleagues’ contributions to science, policy, education, and friendship were, and will continue to be, very significant. They will be missed dearly.
NEERS Fall 2012 MeetingFall is in the air, and the estuaries are just now making the turn into their quiescent phase. The notable warm winter, spring, and summer water temperatures in New England are finally on the decline, cuing
many estuarine species to fatten up and leave. NEERS members will experience this transition at this fall’s meeting, which is taking place in one of the most beautiful places in New England: Block Island. The much anticipated meeting is being organized by veterans, Veronica Berounsky and Walter Berry; with help from MJ James-Pirri, Charlie Roman, and Autumn Oczkowski. The Friday night dinner and entertainment should be a real hootenanny.
The Special Symposium, Thinking Beyond Boundaries: Broader Perspectives in Coastal Ecology, will kick the meeting into gear on Thursday, 11 October. Scott Nixon was an active participant in NEERS meetings for many years. His presentations were thought-provoking and enthusiastically delivered; and they usually culminated in a series of profound ecological questions that required us to think differently about something that we thought we already knew. Scott always encouraged students to present their research results at NEERS, yet he was also a critical participant and did not shy from challenging (kindly) those of us on the stage. Scott loved the NEERS Block Island meetings. Although he was never officially on the NEERS planning committees, Scott often suggested speakers, topics, and ideas for the Rhode Island NEERS meetings, including the famous Shallow Water Discussion Group. This past winter and spring were no exceptions. To honor Scott, the members of the planning committee have decided that, rather than having a session focusing on Scott’s works (since there will be other sessions dedicated to that at URI-GSO and CERF), we will do it NEERS style, and have a
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session that Scott would have enjoyed. Scott was not afraid to think outside of the box, nor was he afraid to jump into public debate. This session will embody some of the key aspects of Scott’s work: thinking beyond the boundaries of scale, time, space, ecosystem, discipline, and convention.
In other news…Under the supreme leadership of Stephen Hale, NEERS has made some notable progress in some areas of recent concern. The first is the reinstatement of our 501(c)(3) status with the IRS. Cindy Delpapa trudged through NEERS records, filled out paperwork, and talked to several important people to get to the bottom of our delinquent status. Once there, she found the pathway to success, and now we are in good standing. Thank you Cindy! NEERS is not the only affiliate society relying on the diligence of ephemeral volunteers to keep important procedures in place. Therefore, there has been some discussion on exploring ways to increase the consistency of these necessary organizational processes in ways that reduce risk and enhance resilience. This is still a work in progress among the affiliates and CERF, and there will be more to report next year.
Another item worth noting is the hard work that Jamie Vaudrey has put into revamping our NEERS website (www.neers.org). Jamie has put in endless hours of her personal time to redesign, construct, and populate our new site. Although there may still be a few areas under construction, it has come a long way. Please go to the website to get information on upcoming meetings or peruse the archived meeting materials for presentation titles, authors, and abstracts.
While you are at the NEERS website, remember to join NEERS or renew your membership by downloading the member-ship form. Alternatively, you can join or renew via the CERF website (www.erf.org) or at our meeting registrations. We encourage students to join NEERS (reasons listed on the website) and therefore have preserved the student membership rate at $5/year. That’s less than a pound of tilapia!
Ten NEERS presidents gathered at last spring’s meeting in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Back row (left to right): Sandy MacFarlane, David Franz, Fred Short, Veronica Berounsky, Marshall Pregnall, Steve Hale. Front row (left to right): Pam Neubert, Pam Morgan, Robert Buchsbaum, and John Brawley.
2012 ACCESS MEETINGThe 2012 ACCESS meeting was a great suc-cess! The meeting was held 10-13 May at the University Club, Dalhousie University, Hali-fax, Nova Scotia. A total of 65 participants from federal and provincial governments, academics, consulting companies, and com-munity groups attended. ACCESS expanded its membership base this year by welcoming our first members from Newfoundland and British Columbia!
Opening Keynote talk and Special SymposiumThe meeting began on Thursday evening with a well-attended opening reception, where participants relaxed with beer and pizza, while chatting with old and new friends. On Friday morning, CERF Execu-tive Director Mark Wolf-Armstrong made a special presentation about how ACCESS fits within the CERF organization. Then, Dr. Heike Lotze, from the Department of Biol-ogy at Dalhousie University, gave the Key-note talk, which was titled “Past, present and future of coastal vegetated habitats.” Dr. Lotze spoke about the different ecosystem services and functions provided by a variety of coastal habitats, and how these services are affected by various anthropogenic and natural disturbances. Dr. Lotze’s talk was a great introduction to our Special Sympo-sium, “Seagrass Ecology, Restoration, and Management,” held on Friday morning. Invited and contributed talks in the sympo-sium were presented by Bob Gregory (Fish-eries and Oceans Canada), Allison Schmidt (Dalhousie University), Marc Skinner (Uni-versity of New Brunswick), Tony Miller (St. Francis Xavier University), Jon Grant (Dal-housie University), Jeff Barrell (Dalhousie University), Tim Webster (Nova Scotia Community College), Marc Ouellette (Fish-eries and Oceans Canada), Chris McCarthy
(Parks Canada), and Cynthia Durance (Pre-cision Identification). The symposium cov-ered a wide range of topics, including fish community structure, eutrophication effects, mapping, migratory bird impacts, inter-actions with aquaculture, and restoration. The presentations were stimulating and many lively discussions ensued!
Contributed oral and poster presentationsThe meeting continued throughout Friday and Saturday with 27 oral presentations in sessions on habitat restoration, habitat assessment and monitoring, physical pro-cesses, and faunal ecology. Eighteen posters were presented at the Friday afternoon poster session. Mike Dowd (Dalhousie Uni-versity) created the poster quiz that had many busily searching for the answers!
Student presentations and prizesIn true ACCESS tradition, there was a strong student contingent at the meeting. Eighteen students (16 graduate and 2 undergraduate) gave oral presentations, and six students (5 graduate and 1 undergraduate) gave poster presentations. Hoskins Scientific provided student prizes. The student prize winners were:n Best oral presentation, graduate student
(First place)— Allison Schmidt, Dalhousie Univer-
sity (with co-authors JKC Wysmyk,
SE Craig, HK Lotze) “Regional-scale effects of eutrophica-
tion on eelgrass ecosystem structure and services in Atlantic Canada”
n Best oral presentation, graduate student (Second place)— Colette Feehan, Dalhousie Univer-
“Investigating the identity and source of a pathogenic amoeba infecting sea urchins in Nova Scotia”
n Best oral presentation, undergraduate student— Leah Beveridge, St. Francis Xavier
University (with co-author DJ Garbary)
“An assessment of the vegetation and integrity of the sand dunes of western Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia”
n Best poster presentation— Jeff Clements, University of New
Brunswick Saint John (with co-author Heather Hunt)
“Influence of sediment pH and car-bonate saturation state on soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria) recruitment in the Bay of Fundy”
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Participants chat during the well-attended poster session.
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A big thank you to Benedikte Vercaemer (Fisheries and Oceans Canada) for organiz-ing the student judging! Also, we are very grateful to Hoskins Scientific and company representative Jennie Gouthro for once again provided student travel awards and prizes.
Banquet presentation and field tripACCESS members enjoyed our Friday evening banquet, especially the dessert presentation by Gavin Manson (Geological Survey of Canada). Gavin’s talk was titled “The shorelines of McNab’s Island in a changing climate,” and presented interest-ing geological, historical, and biological information of the Island, located in Halifax Harbour. Many of us Haligonians learned all sorts of interesting new facts about the Island in our own backyard! Gavin’s presentation prepared us well for the field trip to McNab’s Island he led on Sunday. Eight people (and one dog) spent the day on the Island, hiking the shoreline and learning about the different geological features. The weather was beautiful and the day well spent!
FundraisingDawn Sephton (Fisheries and Oceans Can-ada) organized our first silent auction, which was a great success! ACCESS mem-bers helped us raise $580. These funds, combined with those from t-shirt sales, will go toward supporting ACCESS president travel to CERF board meetings, as well as student travel.
Meeting organizersSpecial thanks to those who helped organ-ize the meeting: Monica Bravo, Melanie Boudreau, Mike Dowd, Jon Grant, Mike Brown, Dawn Sephton, Gavin Manson, Gail Chmura, Sheridan Thompson, and Benedikte Vercaemer. Thank you for your tireless work and efforts!
ACCESS 2013 – Save the DateNext year’s meeting will be hosted by Tim Webster, of the Centre for Geographic Servi-ces (COGS), Nova Scotia Community Col-lege, in Lawrencetown, NS. Mark 10-13 May on your calendar! We will be electing a new president-elect, treasurer, secretary, two student repre-sentatives, and two members at large at the 2013 meeting. If you are interested in serv-ing on the ACCESS executive, please con-tact us.
take place in California and Baja California. The students make genuine contributions to science and develop skills and back-ground to promote their future participa-tion in science and conservation efforts. Ocean Discovery Institute’s efforts have been recognized by the White House, with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Sci-ence, Mathematics, and Engineering Men-toring.
As CAERS President, I would like to thank the meeting planning committee: our tireless host, Christine Whitcraft; Theresa Talley; Martha Sutula; Drew Talley; and our student reps, Max Castorani and Brent Hughes. I would also like to thank Hach Hydromet - Hydrolab & OTT Products for their continued sponsorship throughout the years; thanks also to our student volunteers. I am grateful to CERF for proving travel support for our panelists. Everyone’s com-mitment to CAERS will make this meeting a success!
CAERS is one of the youngest Affiliate Societies of the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation, and we are celebrat-ing our 10th anniversary. Happy anniver-sary, CAERS!
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ABOVE: Mark Hanson and Jeff Clements deep in discussion during the poster session.
RIGHT: ACCESS members enjoy the sunny weather during the field trip to McNabs Island.
One of the major events in the PERS calen-dar is our Annual Meeting, held to celebrate our estuarine research discoveries and revi-talize the PERSian culture. The 2013 Annual Meeting will be held at the Coast Tsawwas-sen Inn, Tsawwassen, BC, from 4-7 April. These dates were selected to coincide with high tides to minimize field program con-flicts and maximize student participation. Tsawwassen is located south of Vancouver, close to the US-Canadian border, and offers a small community atmosphere nestled between Roberts Bank and Boundary Bay in the Fraser River estuary. Planning is con-tinuing in keeping with our PERS traditions to ensure a successful meeting.
In June, our PERS newsletter was revived. To promote better connection to our parent society, CERF, the newsletter featured “CERF Corner” as a regular spot for Federation news. I want to thank the efforts of our new newsletter editor, John Bragg; and Secretary-Treasurer Jeannie Gilbert; as well as contributors CERF President Walter Boyton and Executive Director Mark Wolf-Armstrong; Profes-sional Members-at-large Cynthia Durance and Jim Brennan; Paul Horgen; Student Representative Pascale Goertler; Past President Steve Rumrill; and President-Elect Tony D’Andrea. Now that the news-letter is alive and well, I encourage PERSians to submit articles, commentary and announcements to help keep it a vibrant communications tool.
I will be presenting papers on invasive cordgrass, Spartina spp. at the CAERS annual meeting in Long Beach, 27-28 September, as well as at the CERF International Conference in Mar del Plata, Argentina, 11-14 November. Establishing closer ties with CAERS has been a goal of PERS, and will build on the past efforts of Steve Rumrill. This will be the 10th anniversary of CAERS. The Argentina meet-ing provides a prime opportunity for observ-ing seacoast cordgrass, S. densiflora, in its
native South American habitat and learning about the current research from the Universi-dad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Corporate funding has been obtained to support both these trips. Spartina control has been an important estuarine management focus of the BC Spartina Working Group since I iden-tified it on Roberts Bank in 2003, based on knowledge I gained from previous PERS Annual Meetings.
Dealing with Marine Invasive Species Associated with the Japanese Floating Debris Washing up on Oregon Shores
Steve Rumrill, Shellfish Program Leader, Marine Resources Program
The recent 9.0 R earthquake off Honshu, Japan (11 March 2011) generated a massive tsunami that sent millions of tons of floating debris into the North Pacific Ocean. Objects within the drifting debris field began to come ashore along the Pacific coast of North America during the spring and summer of 2012; and many more items are expected to reach the shorelines of Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California over the next three years. On 5 June 2012, a 66-foot commercial shipping dock washed ashore on Agate Beach (Newport, OR). The top, sides, bottom, and interior ballast compartment of the floating dock were colonized by living non-indigenous marine organisms,
(seaweeds, mussels, seastars, barnacles, crabs, oysters, etc.). These non-native species were originally established in the coastal waters of northern Japan (Aomori Prefecture) prior to the tsunami, and their high rate of survival at sea over the drift of 14 months and nearly 5,000 miles was unexpected. Diverse communities of marine invertebrates and seaweeds occur naturally along the shoreline of northern Japan, where they are attached to hard substrata in the intertidal and shallow subtidal zone. These communities are adapted to the cold temperate marine environment of central and northern Japan and have a high potential to survive along the rocky coastlines throughout the Pacific Northwest.
In response to arrival of the Japanese dock, staff members from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife worked quickly to remove 4,260 lbs of living marine organisms from the top and sides of the dock; and organisms attached to the bottom were dislodged during the grounding, scoured by sand and surf, and crushed by the weight of the dock as it settled into the sandy beach. The top and sides were scorched repeatedly with propane torches in an effort to eradicate any cryptic organisms in cracks and crevices, and to destroy any spores, recent settlers, or microorganisms. Over two tons of non-native species were buried under 10-12 ft of sand by contractors working for the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. The dock was later dismantled by cutting through the concrete and steel structure and removed from the beach for recycling at an upland disposal site. The Japanese government reported that four
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Upcoming Affiliate Society Meetings
Society Dates Location
ACCESS 10-13 May 2013 TBD
AERS 11-13 October 2012 Chincoteague, VA
CAERS 27-28 September 2012 California State University Long Beach Long Beach, CA
GERS 8-9 November 2012 Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL
NEERS 11-13 October 2012 Block Island, RI
PERS 4-7 April 2013 Tsawwassen, BC
SEERS 19-21 October 2012 University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL
For detailed information, please check the Affiliate Societies’ websites via www.erf.org.Choose the “Affiliates” heading near the top of the home page.
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identical floating docks were dislodged by the tsunami from the Aomori fishery landing facilities. Japan was able to retain one of the floating docks before it was caught up in the flow of the Kuroshio Current. However, two of the docks remain adrift in the Pacific Ocean within the advancing debris field; and their precise locations are unknown.
It is important to recognize that the large floating dock and numerous small floats and buoys that have recently come ashore from Japan have been colonized by several non-native species of barnacles, mussels, small crabs, and seaweeds – and many of them are potentially invasive. There are also yet-unidentified worms (polychaetes), sponges, tunicates and other taxa that may also be of concern.
Two non-native species that were hitch-hikers on the dock are included on the global list of 100 worst invasive species: Wakame kelp (Undaria pinnatifida) and North Pacific seastar, (Asterias amurensis).
Wakame kelp is a fast-growing non-native species of golden-brown seaweed from Asia that has recently become estab-lished in southern and central California. This marine alga can spread quickly and become a fouling nuisance on ship hulls and marine infrastructure. Due to its prolific growth and large size, it can have a pro-found influence on the communities of native nearshore flora and fauna.
The kelps typically grow in the low inter-tidal zone to depths of about 15 feet, and they
tolerate a wide range of temperatures and physical conditions. The microscopic spores can colonize almost any hard surface, and in sheltered waters it can quickly form large beds that shade out native marine algae.
The Northern Pacific seastar is native to the shorelines of northern China, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, and Russia. This predatory 5-rayed seastar has successfully invaded the southern coast of Australia and Tasmania, and has the potential to cause widespread ecological and economic harm. In Port Phillip Bay (Australia) the popula-tion reached over 12 million individuals in a period of two years! Eradication efforts are thought to be ineffective because, once established, the planktonic larvae are free-swimming for periods of several weeks and can be transported to new locations in the ballast water of ships.
The seastars are voracious feeders, with shellfish such as mussels, clams, oysters, and scallops preferred prey. However, they are also omnivores, scavenging dead fish, fish waste, and prey upon a variety of native marine organisms. In Japan their populations exhibit a ‘bust and boom’ cycle. They are considered a serious pest to mariculture operations because the planktonic larvae settle on scallop longlines, spat bags, mussel lines, and oyster nets; and the adult seastars prey upon the cultivated shellfish. Outbreaks of the seastar have occurred in Japan and Australia, and cost the mariculture industry millions of dollars.
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1. Viable specimens of Wakame (Undaria pinnatifida) were attached to the floating dock from Japan that drifted ashore on Agate beach, OR, on 5 June 2012.
2. The sides of the floating dock were heavily colonized by dense populations of non-indigenous mussels, seaweeds, and barnacles.
3. PERS member Mitch Vance (ODFW) used a propane torch to eradi-cate algal spores and cryptic marine organisms.
4. Staff members for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife removed over two tons of non-native living marine organisms from the top and sides of the floating dock. Photo credit (all): Steve Rumrill
As of 31 August 2012, the following Federation members donated to the William E. Odum Fund, Donald W. Pritchard Fund, CERF Enhancement Fund and/or Scott W. Nixon Fund for the current membership year.Thanks to all of you for your generosity. Your contributions of time, energy and support make the Federation great.
CERF Angels and Sustainers
CERF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization – donations to the CERF Enhancement Fund, Scott W. Nixon Fund, William E. Odum Fund, and Donald W. Pritchard Fund are tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.
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Mark AdamsBurnaby, BC, CANADA
Merryl AlberUniversity of GeorgiaAthens, GA, USA
Dennis AllenUniversity of South CarolinaGeorgetown, SC, USA
Iris AndersonVirginia Institute of Marine ScienceGloucester Point, VA, USA
Mary BarberRTI InternationalWashington, DC, USA
Linda BlumUniversity of VirginiaCharlottesville, VA, USA
Donald BoeschUniversity Maryland Center for Environmental ScienceCambridge, MD, USA
Curtis BohlenCasco Bay Estuary PartnershipPortland, ME, USA
Walter BoyntonUniversity of MarylandSolomons, MD, USA
Stephen BrandtOregon State UniversityCorvallis, OR, USA
Deborah BronkCollege of William and Mary/ VIMSGloucester Point, VA, USA
David BuzanAtkinsAustin, TX, USA
Donald CahoonUS Geological SurveyBeltsville, MD, USA
Just CebrianDauphin Island Sea LabDauphin Island, AL, USA
Robert ChristianEast Carolina UniversityGreenville, NC, USA
Daniel ConleyLund UniversityLund, SWEDEN
John DayLouisiana State UniversityBaton Rouge, LA, USA
Linda DeeganMarine Biological LaboratoryWoods Hole, MA, USA
Robert DiazVIMSGloucester Point, VA, USA
John FarringtonWoods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionWoods Hole, MA, USA
Kenneth ForemanMarine Biological LaboratoryWoods Hole, MA, USA
Joe GermanoGermano & Associates, Inc.Bellevue, WA, USA
Anne GiblinMarine Biological LaboratoryWoods Hole, MA, USA
Holly GreeningTampa Bay Estuary ProgramSt. Petersburg, FL, USA
Leila HamdanU.S. Naval Research LaboratoryWashington, DC, USA
Mark HesterUniversity of LouisianaLafayette, LA, USA
Clay HilesHudson River FoundationNew York, NY, USA
Robert HowarthCornell UniversityIthaca, NY, USA
Anthony JanickiJanicki Environmental, IncSt. Petersburg, FL, USA
Patrick KangasUniversity of MarylandCollege Park, MD, USA
Robert LivingstonFlorida State UnivTallahassee, FL, USA
Parker MacCreadySeattle, WA, USA
Robert McAdoryUS Army Engineer Research & Development Ctr.Clinton, MS, USA
Paul MontagnaTexas A&M Univ. Corpus ChristiCorpus Christi, TX, USA
Janet NestlerodeUS EPA Gulf Ecology DivisionGulf Breeze, FL, USA
Gary PowellAquatic Science AssociatesAustin, TX, USA
Nancy RabalaisLouisiana Universities Marine ConsortiumChauvin, LA, USA
Francis ReillyLogistics Management InstituteStafford, VA, USA
Matthew RoweMaryland Department of the EnvironmentBaltimore, MD, USA
Stuart SiegelWetlands and Water Resources, Inc.San Rafael, CA, USA
Charles SimenstadUniversity of WashingtonSeattle, WA, USA
Thomas SmithUS Geological SurveySt. Petersburg, FL, USA
R. Brian SturgisAssateague Island National SeashoreLinkwood, MD, USA
Erick SwensonLouisiana State UniversityBaton Rouge, LA, USA
Christopher TannerSt. MarySt. Mary’s City, MD, USA
William TaylorTEC Inc.Seattle, WA, USA
Robert TwilleyUniversity of LouisianaLafayette, LA, USA
David VelinskyAcademy of Natural SciencesPhiladelphia, PA, USA
Robert VirnsteinSeagrass Ecosystems AnalystsEast Palatka, FL, USA
Terry WestEast Carolina UniversityGreenville, NC, USA
Dara WilberBowhead Information Technology ServiceCharleston, SC, USA
Susan WilliamsUC Davis-Bodega Marine LaboratoryBodega Bay, CA, USA
David YoskowitzTexas A&M University- Corpus ChristiCorpus Christi, TX, USA
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Your extra efforts on behalf of CERF will ensure the future of the Federation.
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CERF Leaders on the Hill and in the Community…
A Tale of Two BaysExcerpted from www.compassonline.org/policy/May15/ScienceBriefing
On 15 May 2012, CERF President Walter Boynton, along with past journal Editors-in-Chief Jim Cloern and Scott Nixon, presented to an audience of 45 Congres-sional staffers and representatives from relevant agencies and NGOs in a lunch-time briefing on Capitol Hill. The topic was, A Tale of Two Bays: How the “Long View” on Ecological Change Can Lead to More Effective Use of Management Resources. The CERF scientists also participated in a series of one-on-one meetings with staffers from Senate personal offices, Congressional Research Service, House Science Commit-tee, and Office of Management and Bud-get. They shared their science on changing estuaries, illuminated by their career-long studies and the availability of long-term monitoring data in their respective sys-tems. Together these scientists represented a combined 116 years of experience study-ing San Francisco, Chesapeake, and Nar-ragansett Bays. The meeting was organized
by COMPASS, in partnership with the Coastal States Organization.
No rest for the weary, Walter and Jim continued offering their expertise to lead a discussion, organized by COMPASS in partnership with the DC Science Café. The DC Science Café is a monthly discussion that gives the general public an opportunity to participate in lively and important dis-cussions about the consequential scientific discoveries and issues of our times. This event marked the one-year anniversary of the Science Café series, and was the first
occasion that an environmental or marine science topic was addressed.
Walter and Jim discussed ecological change in the Chesapeake and San Fran-cisco Bays. They showed examples of how nutrient pollution, biological communities (crabs, clams, etc), and climate shifts have influenced patterns of ecological health or degradation over time, and shared some of their more surprising findings. Their talks were followed by a lively discussion with the audience – 50 scientists, science writers and science.
Headin’ for the Hill…
Wetland Restoration and the 2012 Farm Bill Recap
(l-r) CERF President Walter Boynton, along with past journal Editors-in-Chief Scott Nixon and Jim Cloern share a Tale of Two Bays. Photo credit: Heather Galindo, COMPASS
Editor’s Note: In the May 2012 Newsletter, we told you that CERF and three sister societies formed the Consortium of Aquatic Science Societies (CASS). As you may recall, CASS recently hosted a seminar on Capitol Hill to improve congressional and public understanding of how the 2012 Farm Bill could impact wetlands restoration in agricultural areas. Here is a recap of that seminar.
On May 10, 2012, the Consortium of Aquatic Science Societies, in partnership with the Environmental Law Institute, hosted a joint briefing on wetlands restoration to Wash-ington, D.C. policymakers. The briefing was the first in what the Consortium hopes will become an annual or semi-annual event. More than 40 individuals represent-ing members of Congress, the White House, USDA, EPA, HUD, NOAA, USFWS, non-governmental agencies, and lobbying firms attended the event. “One of the main rea-sons the Boards of our societies formed CASS was to hold successful events like this to promote global awareness of the impor-tant functions and values of aquatic ecosys-
tems,” said John Downing, President-elect of the Association for the Sciences of Lim-nology and Oceanography (ASLO).
Robert P. Brooks, Director of Riparia at Penn State University, kicked off the event with a crash course on wetland science and conservation, delving into such topics as the classification of wetlands, the role of wetlands in the natural environment, and the societal values of wetlands such as flood protection and water quality.
Next, Chris Craft, Janet Duey Professor in Rural Land Policy at Indiana University and 2012 National Wetland Award recipient for Science Research, presented an over-view of the benefits of restoring wetlands and riparian buffers for water quality improvement and other ecosystem services.
Scott Sutherland, Director of the Gov-ernmental Affairs Office of Ducks Unlim-ited, then discussed what the political landscape might mean for the agricultural landscape. Sutherland noted that with increasing attention on budget deficits, the 2012 Farm Bill will need to cost less than it has in the past. His presentation examined
what that will mean for conservation pro-grams used to conserve wetlands.
Following the formal presentations, the speakers fielded questions from the attend-ees. After the seminar, attendees were invited to attend the 2012 National Wet-lands Award ceremony, which took place at the U.S. Botanic Garden.
An audio recording of the event is available at: http://www.eli.org/audio/ 05.10.12dc/05.10.12dc.mp3.
About CASS: The Consortium of Aquatic Science Societies was formed in 2010 as a means for professional scientific organiza-tions to work together to promote interna-tional aquatic ecosystem scientific study, education, and outreach.
Current members of CASS are as fol-lows: Association for the Study of Limnol-ogy and Oceanography, www.aslo.org; Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation, www.erf.org; Society for Freshwater Science, www.benthos.org; Society of Wetland Scien-tists, www.sws.org
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CERF mourns the passing of a legend and friend
sCott W. nixon1943 - 2012
The CERF family mourns the loss of Scott W. Nixon, who passed away in May 2012. A long-time CERF supporter, who served for many years as co-editor-in-chief of the journal, Estuaries (now Estuaries and Coasts), Scott left his mark on the heart and soul of the Federation, as well as on marine ecosystems across the globe.
Scott spent his career at the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island (URI) and was Rhode Island Sea Grant Director for many years. According to URI Provost Donald H. DeHayes, “Scott was a world leader in the study of how coastal and
estuarine ecosystems work, initially using Narragansett Bay as his laboratory and employing mesocosms to measure respira-tion and production at a community level. This began a long and detailed exploration of the bay, especially the role nutrients play in its ecology. While his findings helped define our understanding of marine ecosystems locally, Scott applied his knowl-edge at broader scales, too, exploring marine ecosystems around the world, comparing and contrasting them to shape a global view that he then used to challenge himself to think in new ways and to challenge the scientific dogma of the times.”
In addition to his lifelong membership in CERF, Scott was a member of the National Research Council’s Ocean Studies Board, a national associate of the National Academies of Science, chair of the NRC committee to review the Florida Keys Car-rying Capacity Assessment Model, and member of the NRC committee to review the Louisiana Coastal Restoration Plan. He was a member of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Massachusetts Bay Outfall Monitoring Scientific Advisory Commit-tee and served on numerous other boards and committees.
CERF President Walter Boynton commented, “Scott was a world leader in thinking, speaking and writing about how these wonderful coastal and estuarine ecosystems work...it was and will always be a pleasure to read his papers, many of which seem to almost yell out from the page...’read me...this is very interesting and important stuff.’ The CERF family and the larger world of marine science has lost a true leader. If there is a gleam of hope at this sad time it is that Scott trained many students and influenced and inspired so many of his colleagues that he will live on in many and varied ways.”
Note: To honor Scott’s broad contributions to the knowledge and stewardship of our coasts and estuaries, CERF has created the Scott W. Nixon Memorial Fund. The Federation will use all funds contributed to the Scott W. Nixon Memorial Fund to support student participation in CERF meetings and events, such as its biennial conferences. Any student, presenting or not presenting, will be eligible to apply for a scholarship to attend any CERF conference, workshop or other such meeting. Dona-tions in Scott’s memory may be made using the “Donate Now” button on the CERF website, www.erf.org.
CERF is pleased to announce that the 2011 impact factor* of the journal, Estu-aries and Coasts, has continued its trend of annual improvements and for the first time is above two (2.109) – confirm-ing that both the stature and impact of our journal are steadily increasing. The impact factor has nearly doubled since 2007.
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is on track for another record year of manuscript submissions in 2012, fol-lowing a banner year in 2011.
And, the number of reviewers for the journal increased over 25% between 2010 and 2011.
Thanks to the journal’s wonderful editorial staff, reviewers, and contribu-tors, the Estuaries and Coasts star contin-ues to rise!
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CERF mourns the passing of member
MiCHele dionne 1954 - 2012
The CERF/NEERS family is sad to announce the passing of long-time member Michele Dionne, who lost her valiant battle with cancer on 4 July 2012.
Michele served since 1991 as the Research Director of the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) in Maine. Paul Dest, Director of the Wells NERR com-mented, “Michele Dionne was an inspiration to all of us at the Wells Reserve and Laudholm Trust, throughout the NERR System, and in the coastal and estuarine sci-entific, education, and conservation communities…she was an innovative and tal-ented scientist with unlimited energy and ideas. And she was as practical as she was
brilliant – always ensuring that new-found knowledge was applied to coastal environmental issues.”Michele served on numerous committees, most recently including Piscataqua Region National Estuary Program Tech-
nical Advisory Committee, National SeaGrant Healthy Coastal Ecosystems Workgroup and Coastal Fish Habitat Partner-ship Advisory Committee, and National Coastal Indicators Workgroup.
Michele was also a valued peer-reviewer for the Federation’s journal. Her innumerable contributions to the coastal and estuarine community will be greatly missed.
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John Wickham, Program Analyst NOAA, Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research
About CSCORNOAA’s Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research (CSCOR) in the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) supports research programs that provide the critical information and predictive capabilities required to manage the Nation’s coastal resources in a regional ecosystem context. CSCOR works with the user and scientific communities to identify national research priorities oversees the execution of research with continued involvement of the user community and facilitates the transition of knowledge and tools into applications for coastal policy and management. http://www.cop.noaa.gov/
New Research Projects to Predict Ocean Acidification Effects on Commercial FisheriesNOAA has recently announced funding for three new research projects totaling $1.5 million over three years that will link ocean acidification (OA) with fisheries and the coastal economies that depend upon them. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Sarah Cooley, Principal Investigator) plans to link model projec-tions of changing CO2 to ocean scallop populations, harvest and economic conditions. The State University of New York at Stony Brook (Chris Gobler, Principal Investigator) plans to examine bay scallops and hard clams, explore OA impacts on each species and identify regions of estuaries most vulnerable to OA. The University of Washington (Isaac Kaplan, Principal Investigator) plans to link a large climate model with fish population and economic models in order to predict OA conditions and trace the economic impacts. These awards are managed by CSCOR in partnership with the NOAA OA Program administered through the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research.
Research Paper Documents History, Impacts of Harmful Algal Blooms along West CoastA recent research paper presents the state-of-knowledge on harmful algal blooms (HABs) along the west coast of North America. Along the Pacific coast of North America, from Alaska to Mexico, HABs have caused losses to natural resources and coastal economies, and have resulted in human sicknesses and deaths for decades. Recent reports indicate a possible increase in their prevalence and the impacts of these events on living resources over the last 10–15 years. Two types of HABs pose the most significant threat to coastal ecosystems in the west coast region: dinoflagellates of the genera Alexandrium, Gymnodinium, and Pyrodinium that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) and diatoms of the genus Pseudo-nitzschia that produce domoic acid (DA), the cause of amnesic shellfish poisoning (ASP) in humans. Problems from other HABs are less widespread but locally significant, and these blooms are potentially expanding. This paper is a step toward meeting the need for a West Coast regional integration of HAB outreach, research, and management efforts. Read the paper: Lewitus, Alan J.,
et al. 2012. Harmful algal blooms along the North American west coast region: History, trends, causes, and impacts. Harmful Algae 19 (September): 133–159.
“Twilight” Coral Ecosystems Research Cruise Sails in the Gulf of MexicoUniversity scientists sponsored by CSCOR conducted a 12-day mis-sion (14-25 August 2012) to study how the mid-depth, middle-light (mesophotic) coral reefs of Pulley Ridge may replenish key fish spe-cies and other organisms in downstream reefs of the nearby Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and Tortugas Ecological Reserve. With the well-documented decline of Florida’s reefs, places like Pul-ley Ridge may serve as sources of larvae that can help sustain the Florida Keys’ reef ecosystem and the tourism economy that depends on it. This is the first research cruise for the 5-year project led by University of Miami Professor Robert Cowen and represents a col-laboration of more than 30 scientists at ten different universities.
2012 Gulf of Mexico “Dead Zone” SizeResults of an annual mid-summer CSCOR-sponsored hypoxic zone survey by the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (Nancy Rabalais, Principal Investigator) measured the fourth smallest dead zone on record in the northern Gulf of Mexico (7,480 km2). The team found hypoxia limited to a thin band near the mouth of the Mississippi River, followed by a large non-hypoxic area to the west before finding several stations with hypoxia off of Galveston Bay. The patchy pattern of hypoxia observed in 2012 was unlike any other year documented, including those during drought years. The worsening drought in much of the United States, particularly in the Midwest, resulted in near record low levels of water traveling down the Mississippi into the Gulf. This lack of fresh water entering the Gulf substantially reduced the amount of nutrients delivered to the Gulf, limiting the amount of plankton that could bloom. It also did not allow the physical conditions (i.e. stratification) for hypoxia to form. Earlier, in June, the annual forecast of the size of the dead zone issued a divergent outlook of 3,100 to 16,092 km2.
Modeling Efforts Aim to Improve Chesapeake Bay Seasonal Hypoxia ForecastsTwo projects under the Coastal Hypoxia Research Program (CHRP) have developed Chesapeake Bay seasonal hypoxia forecasts. One annual hypoxia forecast is run by scientists at the University of Michigan (Don Scavia, Principle Investigator); this forecast uses a hybrid model that combines three existing watershed/water qual-ity models. A team of researchers from the University of Maryland (Mike Kemp, Principle Investigator), University of Delaware and Dalhousie University are developing a second forecast based on the Regional Ocean Model (“ROMS”) physical hydrodynamic model and a generalized water quality model. Together, they improve the quantitative understanding of mechanisms causing Chesapeake Bay hypoxia. The long-term goal is to use these and other models for an “ensemble” forecast similar to the methodology used to pre-dict hurricane storm tracks.
CSCOR Update: Predicting Ocean Acidification Effects on Commercial Fisheries, Analyzing Smallest Dead Zone on Record in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Using ESP to Predict Red Tide, and much, much more…
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Hardened Shorelines Reduce Fish Egg Abundance in Delaware Inland BaysAtlantic silversides (Menidia menidia) prefer to deposit their eggs on native salt marsh habitat but not invasive salt marsh species, beaches, or shorelines hardened by bulkheads or rip-rap, according to a recent paper by a researcher funded by CSCOR. The research-ers found approximately 94% of M. menidia eggs collected were found in native marsh habitat, suggesting a clear spawning prefer-ence for the native, vegetated, unhardened shoreline type over other types of shoreline habitat. Increasing areas of hardened shore-line structures in estuarine environments may have serious implica-tions for M. menidia and other intertidal spawning fishes by reducing habitat used most frequently for egg deposition. Read the paper: Balouskus, R.G. and T.E. Targett. 2012. Egg deposition by
Atlantic silverside, Menidia menidia: substrate utilization and com-parison of natural and altered shoreline type. Estuaries & Coasts 35 (4):1100–1109.
Sensor Monitors Gulf of Maine Algae for Signs of Approaching Red TidesIn late April researchers at WHOI funded by the CSCOR deployed a sensor that detects cells of several algae, including Alexandrium tamarense, the dinoflagellate responsible for toxic red tides in the Gulf of Maine. The device relays its data back to scientists on land to enable state agencies to decide whether or not to close specific areas to shellfishing. This sensor, called the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP), was tested simultaneously with traditional shipboard sampling techniques to determine the sensor’s accuracy. NOAA and state agencies are eager to see a string of ESPs transmitting a stream of continuous, near-real-time data along the coast to increase the precision of weekly HAB forecasts during active blooms. This deployment is a significant advancement toward realizing this goal.
Hurricane Isaac came ashore in south Louisiana on 28 August 2012, disrupt-ing lives and work at coastal locations from Louisiana to the Alabama/Flor-ida border. At various times the hurri-cane was predicted to make landfall in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Lou-isiana; so hurricane preparations were made by huge numbers of citizens and CERF members who live and work along the Gulf coast. Isaac was particu-larly ominous for the north central Gulf Coast, as it made landfall on the seven-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which had caused catastrophic damage to many parts of the area.
Much has been written about the relatively small impacts of Isaac experi-enced by residents of New Orleans, but much less has been reported about the major impacts of the storm in south Louisiana, the Mississippi coast and, to a lesser extent, coastal Alabama. Many homes and businesses were flooded in both Louisiana and Mississippi, and the devastation and suffering in south Louisiana was widespread. In addition, the operation of several coastal labora-tories where CERF members work and study was suspended, and damages
were reported at facilities in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Nancy Rab-alais, Executive Director of the Louisi-ana Marine Consortium (LUMCON) in Cocodrie, Louisiana, says that LUM-CON was prepared for the storm. Prior preparations before landfall included the evacuation of vessels, vehicles and equipment. Unfortunately, the LUM-CON grounds were flooded by several inches of water, which seeped into the lobby and other first floor areas of the DeFelice Marine Center. Other minor water damage also occurred, but hard-working LUMCON staffers cleaned and re-opened the Lab only a week after the passage of Isaac.
In Mississippi, Monty Graham, Chair of the Department of Marine Sci-ence at the University of Southern Mis-sissippi’s campus at the Stennis Space Center, MS, reported that the flooding pattern of Isaac was similar to that of Katrina, although the surge of Isaac was around 4 meters while that of Cat-egory 3 Katrina was nearly 10 meters. The most widespread damage in coastal Mississippi was to docks and piers, although residential flooding also occurred in some areas not built to new post-Katrina standards. Huge amounts of marsh detritus washed out of the
extensive coastal salt marshes, along with an estimated 20,000 nutria car-casses, which were still being removed from the beaches of Mississippi some two weeks after the storm passed.
In Alabama, damage was less than that of either Louisiana or Mississippi, and relatively small numbers of houses were inundated by storm surge. Dau-phin Island was breached in two areas near its west end, and now remains in three separate pieces. The Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL), located on the Island’s east end, received only minor damage, and reopened three days after the storm made landfall. Aside from the cancellation of classes and disrup-tion of research activities, DISL’s prob-lems were only minor wind-blown water intrusion and the loss of a num-ber of large fish being used in meso-cosm experiments.
All Gulf Coast residents and CERF members continue to keep an eye on the tropics as they await the end of the 2012 hurricane season. Some idea of the changes wrought by Hurricane Isaac on the shorelines of the northern Gulf Coast can be seen from post-storm aerial photos at the following NOAA web site (http://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/storms/isaac/index.html).
Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season…
Hurricane Isaac Hammers the North-Central Gulf Coast
CERF Newsletter October 201228
Submitted by: Liz TirpakForeign Affairs Advisor
for Ocean Research Policy & AuthorizationsU.S. Department of State –
Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental & Scientific Affairs
The United Nations has embarked on a regular process for global reporting and assessment of the state of the marine envi-ronment, including socioeconomic aspects, hereafter called the World Ocean Assess-ment (WOA). The projected completion date for the first WOA report is 2014. Sub-sequent WOA reports will be generated on a five-year cycle, and – as designed – will make evident trends in the state of the marine environment.
Call for Nominations:Pool of Experts World Ocean Assessment
The United Nations established a Group of Experts for scientific oversight of the first WOA report. The Group of Experts has developed a comprehensive outline of the first WOA report, which includes more than fifty subjects grouped within four main themes: marine environ-ment and understanding of the ocean’s role in the global integrated Earth system; food security and food safety; human activities that influence the ocean or are influenced by the ocean; and marine bio-logical diversity. A scientific and technical summary will integrate content to show linkages among the approximate fifty chapters in interdisciplinary subjects such as human impacts, ecosystem services, and habitats.
The Group of Experts will select from an international Pool of Experts, estimated to be 1000-2000 people, authors and review-ers of the first WOA report. Criteria for members of the Pool of Experts include internationally recognized expertise rele-vant to a chapter of the WOA report and ability to serve in a voluntary and indepen-dent individual capacity.
Persons interested in participating in the Pool of Experts are encouraged to apply. The application form (a.k.a. the Per-sonal History Form) is available at http://www.un.org/Depts/los/global_reporting/global_reporting.htm. Completed applica-tion forms should be sent to Elizabeth Tirpak ([email protected]) at the U.S. Department of State Office of Ocean and Polar Affairs.
Although it is expected that the drafting and review efforts of the first WOA report will be conducted through electronic corre-spondence, there may be an occasion for a face-to-face meeting. The U.S. Department of State and the United Nations, including their offices and divisions, have no funds to support the expenses of members of the Pool of Experts. Thus, applicants are encour-aged to consult with their supervisors or program managers on the potential need for related travel support.
This call for participants for the Pool of Experts will remain open until the Group of Experts decides to close the process. The U.S. Department of State will transmit applications on 31 July and at the end of each successive month until the process is closed.
Please visit http://www.un.org/Depts/los/global_reporting/global_reporting.htm for addi-tional information on the WOA outline, the WOA timeline, the Group of Experts, the Pool of Experts, and the evolution of the WOA.
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Announcing the launch ofTidalMarshMonitoring.org
an online tool for tidal marsh restoration monitoring
Contributed by Kelley Turner, Restoration BiologistUSGS Western Ecological Research Center
We are pleased to announce the launch of TidalMarshMonitoring.org, an online tool for tidal marsh restoration monitoring. This new website was created out of the growing need for a more standardized monitoring approach among restoration projects throughout the Western United States.
Monitoring ecosystem response is essential in documenting the effectiveness of restora-tion actions. Evaluating restoration performance depends on systematic and consistent data collection as well as the development and application of proven and repeatable monitoring methods. In addition, each tidal marsh restoration project represents opportunities to advance restoration and monitoring science through the communication of lessons learned and shared experiences.
Here we’ve developed a “one-stop” website to provide an online monitoring handbook for tidal marsh restoration practitioners that are “on the ground” conducting tidal marsh restoration monitoring. TidalMarshMonitoring.org offers information on tidal marsh monitoring design, selection of appropriate methods, and downloadable standard operating procedures, datasheets and database templates, and a restoration forum for restoration practitioners, managers, scientists, and the interested public.
The main features of www.tidalmarshmonitoring.org are:n steps on designing a monitoring plan with downloadable examples n details on over 40 physical, biological, and ecological monitoring methods n method comparisons by monitoring group (e.g. hydrology, sedimentation, birds, vegetation)n slideshow summaries of monitoring methodsn downloadable, step-by-step SOPs, datasheets, database templates, and manualsn monitoring discussion forum by topicn over 100 downloadable references
Tidalmarshmonitoring.org is a “living” document that will incorporate improved and new methods as they are developed by the restoration science community.
This website was developed in partnership by U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, San Francisco Bay Estuary Field Station; Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge; and Nisqually Indian Tribe. The National Wildlife Refuge System Pacific Region Inventory and Monitoring Program provided initial funds to develop and launch TidalMarshMonitoring.org, and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Estuary and Salmon Restoration Program (ESRP) contributed funds for the maintenance of the site.
Our second new initiative is the CERF Bowl, an estuarine science quiz competition in which the regional chapters will compete against each other for the soon-to-be-coveted CERF Bowl trophy! The competition will be modeled after the National Ocean Sci-ence Bowl and will be an evening event, which we hope will be both entertaining and a means of instilling local chapter pride. Make sure to start selecting your team at your next regional affiliate society meeting.
We also have several other initia-tives under consideration, including a debate in which we bring in leading college debating teams to argue the pros and cons of a sociopolitical issue of interest to CERF members. We are also looking to institute an auction to support student activities (please let us know if you have science memorabilia or other items that you would like to contribute to the auction).
Put all these together with a great set of workshops, local tours and all that San Diego has to offer, and this is a meeting you will want to attend.
I hope to see you there.
Innovations and Inspirationscontinued from page 1
ReNew your CERF membership today!Visit www.erf.org to renew online (or use the form on the inside back cover).
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CERF is grateful for the support of the United States Environmental Protection Agency National Estuary Program,
a network of voluntary community-based programs that safeguards the health of important coastal ecosystems across the country.
Coastal and Estuarine Science News, which provides summaries of selected articles
from the Federation’s journal, Estuaries and Coasts, is funded by the National Estuary Program
of USEPA to strengthen the link between science and management in coastal systems.
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The Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation publishes the scholarly journal Estuaries and Coasts, six times per year.The following table of contents is for the third issue for 2012.
It is reprinted here as a service to Newsletter readers and is also online at www.springer.com/CERF.
ESTUARIES AND COASTS ~ CONTENTS
Hans Ulrik Riisgård, Per Andersen and Erik Hoffmann. From Fish to Jellyfish in the Eutrophicated Limfjorden (Denmark). 701-713
Daphne van der Wal and Peter M. J. Herman. Ecosystem Engineering Effects of Aster tripolium and Salicornia procumbens Salt Marsh on Macrofaunal Community Struc-ture. 714-726
Ilia Rochlin, Mary-Jane James-Pirri, Susan C. Adamowicz, Mary E. Dempsey and Thomas Iwanejko, et al. The Effects of Integrated Marsh Management (IMM) on Salt Marsh Vegetation, Nekton, and Birds. 727-742
Kenneth W. Able, Deborah N. Vivian, Gina Petruzzelli and Stacy M. Hagan. Connectiv-ity Among Salt Marsh Subhabitats: Resi-dency and Movements of the Mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus). 743-753
Megan C. Tyrrell, Michele Dionne and Sarah A. Eberhardt. Salt Marsh Fucoid Algae: Overlooked Ecosystem Engineers of North Temperate Salt Marshes. 754-762
Juliano César Marangoni and César Serra Bonifácio Costa. Short- and Long-Term Veg-etative Propagation of Two Spartina Spe-cies on a Salt Marsh in Southern Brazil. 763-773
Sarah A. Morley, Jason D. Toft and Karrie M. Hanson. Ecological Effects of Shoreline Armoring on Intertidal Habitats of a Puget Sound Urban Estuary. 774-784
Lorena Rodríguez-Gallego, Silvana Mas-ciadri and Mariana Nin. Modern Vegetation and Pollen Relationships in Four South-western Atlantic Coastal Lagoons. 785-798
Allison Schein, Simon C. Courtenay, Cindy S. Crane, Kevin L. Teather and Michael R. van den Heuvel. The Role of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in Structuring the Near-shore Fish Community Within an Estuary of the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence. 799-810
Jill A. Olin, Scott A. Rush, M. Aaron MacNeil and Aaron T. Fisk. Isotopic Ratios Reveal Mixed Seasonal Variation Among Fishes from Two Subtropical Estuarine Systems. 811-820
Chris J. Harvey, Gregory D. Williams and Phil-lip S. Levin. Food Web Structure and Trophic Control in Central Puget Sound. 821-838
Yongsik Sin, Bonggil Hyun, Quang-Dung Bach, Sungryull Yang and Chul Park. Phyto-plankton Size and Taxonomic Composition in a Temperate Estuary Influenced by Mon-soon. 839-852
Kailen Gilde and James L. Pinckney. Sub-lethal Effects of Crude Oil on the Commu-nity Structure of Estuarine Phytoplankton. 853-861
Behzad Mortazavi, Ashley A. Riggs, Jane M. Caffrey, Hélène Genet and Scott W. Phipps. The Contribution of Benthic Nutrient Regeneration to Primary Production in a Shallow Eutrophic Estuary, Weeks Bay, Ala-bama. 862-877
Lydie Herfort, Tawnya D. Peterson, Fredrick G. Prahl, Lee Ann McCue and Joseph A. Needoba, et al. Red Waters of Myrionecta rubra are Biogeochemical Hotspots for the Columbia River Estuary with Impacts on Primary/Secondary Productions and Nutri-ent Cycles. 878-891
Tao Sun, Jing Xu and Zhifeng Yang. Objec-tive-Based Method for Environmental Flow Assessment in Estuaries and Its Applica-tion to the Yellow River Estuary, China. 892-903
Pedro Morais. Comments on Lowe et al. “Otolith Microchemistry Reveals Substan-tial Use of Freshwater by Southern Flounder in the Northern Gulf of Mexico.” 904-906
Michael R. Lowe, Stuart A. Ludsin, Brian J. Fryer, Russell A. Wright and Dennis R. DeVr-ies, et al. NOTE: Response to “Comments on ‘Otolith Microchemistry Reveals Sub-stantial Use of Freshwater by Southern Flounder in the Northern Gulf of Mexico’” by Pedro Morais. 907-910
W. Michael Kemp and Walter R. Boynton. Erratum to: Synthesis in Estuarine and Coastal Ecological Research: What Is It, Why Is It Important, and How Do We Teach It? 911-912
Volume 35 May 2012 Number 3
See page 32 for the contents of Volume 35 (4)
http://chapman.agu.org/tidalrivers/
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 12 July 2012 (23:59 ET)Tidal freshwater rivers link watersheds with estuaries and affect
the flux of carbon, nutrients, sediment, and freshwater from land
to the ocean. However, climate change is continually altering tidal
river ecosystems as tides advance inland and watershed inputs
change. This Chapman Conference will generate synthesis of
feedbacks between geomorphic, biogeochemical and ecological
processes in tidal rivers to better predict ecosystem changes in
response to climate change.
For complete meeting details, including information regardingabstract submission, housing, conveners, and more,
visit www.agu.org/TidalRivers.
EOS_12070a
AGU Chapman Conference on Hydrogeomorphic Feedbacks and Sea Level Rise in Tidal Freshwater River Ecosystems
Reston, Virginia, USA 13-16 November 2012
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 12 July 2012 (23:59 ET)Tidal freshwater rivers link watersheds with estuaries and affect
the flux of carbon, nutrients, sediment, and freshwater from land
to the ocean. However, climate change is continually altering tidal
river ecosystems as tides advance inland and watershed inputs
change. This Chapman Conference will generate synthesis of
feedbacks between geomorphic, biogeochemical and ecological
processes in tidal rivers to better predict ecosystem changes in
response to climate change.
For complete meeting details, including information regardingabstract submission, housing, conveners, and more,
visit www.agu.org/TidalRivers.
EOS_12070a
AGU Chapman Conference on Hydrogeomorphic Feedbacks and Sea Level Rise in Tidal Freshwater River Ecosystems
Reston, Virginia, USA 13-16 November 2012
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The Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation publishes the scholarly journal Estuaries and Coasts, six times per year.The following table of contents is for the fourth issue for 2012.
It is reprinted here as a service to Newsletter readers and is also online at www.springer.com/CERF.
ESTUARIES AND COASTS ~ CONTENTS
Wim J. Kimmerer, Alexander E. Parker, Ulrika E. Lidström and Edward J. Carpenter. Short-Term and Interannual Variability in Primary Production in the Low-Salinity Zone of the San Francisco Estuary. 913-929
Alexander E. Parker, Wim J. Kimmerer and Ulrika U. Lidström. Reevaluating the Gen-erality of an Empirical Model for Light-Limited Primary Production in the San Francisco Estuary. 930-942
Yoana G. Voynova and Jonathan H. Sharp. Anomalous Biogeochemical Response to a Flooding Event in the Delaware Estuary: A Possible Typology Shift Due to Climate Change. 943-958
Stephanie R. Rogers, Tim Webster, William Livingstone and Nelson J. O’Driscoll. Air-borne Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF) Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) for the Quantification of Dissolved Organic Matter Concentration in Natural Waters. 959-975
Hongmei Jing and Hongbin Liu. Contrasting Bacterial Dynamics in Subtropical Estua-rine and Coastal Waters. 976-990
Maialen Garmendia, Suzanne Bricker, Marta Revilla, Ángel Borja and Javier Franco, et al. Eutrophication Assessment in Basque Estu-aries: Comparing a North American and a European Method. 991-1006
Jenny Davis and Ian M. Kidd. Identifying Major Stressors: The Essential Precursor to Restoring Cultural Ecosystem Services in a Degraded Estuary. 1007-1017
Chen and Raymond Torres. Effects of Geo-morphology on the Distribution of Metal Abundance in Salt Marsh Sediment. S1018-1027
K. P. White, J. A. Langley, D. R. Cahoon and J. P. Megonigal. C3 and C4 Biomass Allocation Responses to Elevated CO2 and Nitrogen: Contrasting Resource Capture Strategies. 1028-1035
Brian A. Bergamaschi, Jacob A. Fleck, Bryan D. Downing, Emmanuel Boss and Brian A. Pellerin, et al. Mercury Dynamics in a San Francisco Estuary Tidal Wetland: Assessing Dynamics Using In Situ Measurements. 1036-1048
Anne E. Bernhard, David Marshall and Laz-aros Yiannos. Increased Variability of Micro-bial Communities in Restored Salt Marshes nearly 30 Years After Tidal Flow Restora-tion. 1049-1059
Nguyen Tai Tue, Tran Dang Quy, Hideki Hamaoka, Mai Trong Nhuan and Koji Omori. Sources and Exchange of Particulate Organic Matter in an Estuarine Mangrove Ecosystem of Xuan Thuy National Park, Vietnam. 1060-1068
Sérgio A. Netto, André Menegotto Domingos and Márcia Neunschwander Kurtz. Effects of Artificial Breaching of a Temporarily Open/Closed Estuary on Benthic Macroin-vertebrates (Camacho Lagoon, Southern Brazil). 1069-1081
Mélanie Béguer, Julien Bergé, Caroline Gar-dia-Parège, Laurent Beaulaton and Gérard Castelnaud, et al. Long-Term Changes in Population Dynamics of the Shrimp Palae-mon longirostris in the Gironde Estuary. 1082-1099
Richard G. Balouskus and Timothy E. Tar-gett. Egg Deposition by Atlantic Silverside, Menidia menidia: Substrate Utilization and Comparison of Natural and Altered Shore-line Type. 1100-1109
Joshua James Newhard, Joseph William Love and John Gill. Do Juvenile White Perch Morone americana Grow Better in Freshwa-ter Habitats of the Blackwater River Drain-age (Chesapeake Bay, MD, USA)? 1110-1118
Margaret A. McManus, Jeff C. Sevadjian, Kelly J. Benoit-Bird, Olivia M. Cheriton and Amanda H. V. Timmerman, et al. Observa-tions of Thin Layers in Coastal Hawaiian Waters. 1119-1127
Dean S. Janiak and Richard W. Osman. Experimental Effects of the Grass Shrimp, Palaemonetes pugio, on Hard-Substrate Communities in Chesapeake Bay and an Adjacent Coastal Bay, USA. 1128-1136
Cristián G. Suazo, Aldo M. Arriagada and Jaime R. Rau. Ephemeral Aquatic Bird Assemblages in Estuarine Wetlands from South-Central Chile: Using an Intertidal Flat Habitat During the Austral Summer. 1137-1143
Cristián G. Suazo, Aldo M. Arriagada and Jaime R. Rau. Erratum to: Ephemeral Aquatic Bird Assemblages in Estuarine Wetlands from South-Central Chile: Using an Intertidal Flat Habitat During the Aus-tral Summer. 1144
Volume 35 July 2012 Number 4
See page 31 for the contents of Volume 35 (3)
Outstanding Contributions to Manuscript Review
On behalf of the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation,The Editors in Chief and the Editorial Board of Estuaries and Coasts recognize
Zoe HugHesBoston University Department of Earth Science
Massachusetts, USA
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Ready to offer a helping hand…
CERF and Affiliate Society Membership – A Personal Perspective
Editor’s Note: With the beginning of another membership renewal cycle, CERF HQ asked President Walter Boynton to provide a short and personal account of his reasons for being a member of CERF and an Affiliate Society through-out his career.
My membership story began in about 1971, when my thesis advisor indicated that it was time for me to make a presentation of my Masters work. He suggested I make my inau-gural presentation at an AERS meet-ing being held in coastal North Carolina. At the time I knew beans about AERS, and CERF was still to be born. I did know that I was scared witless just thinking about standing at the front of a room full of scien-tists, who, I was convinced, knew tons more than I did about estuarine ecology and all of whom would just love the chance to tear my prelimi-nary results to shreds.
So, after a number of sleepless nights and terror-filled days, the meet-ing day arrived; and I showed up more or less ready to give my talk. Eventually the moderator called my name, and off I went to the stage. I gave my talk at a rate of several thou-sand words per minute. As I reflect back, I think it was a pretty bad talk or, at very least, a horrid presentation; but the worst was yet to come. After uttering the final words and saying “thank you,” I stepped back from the podium and fell off the back of the stage. Apparently, as I disappeared from view, I let out a strangled scream that may have been the only interest-ing part of the talk. I hit the floor pretty hard and knocked myself more senseless than usual. When I recov-ered, I was tangled up in electric cords
and the stage curtain; and I was cov-ered with a great many dust balls. I remember thinking, “Oh great…what’s next? You have made an unholy mess of this.”
What happened next is really the heart of this short note. As my eyes focused and I started to get up, a hand reached down and a voice said, “let me give you a hand…are you OK?” I was physically OK…just a bit shaken. As I was hauled (dust balls and all) back onto the stage, the AERS crew gave this unfortunate young scientist a round of applause…cer-tainly not for the talk, but because I was OK. For the rest of the meeting, AERSers made me feel better about the whole sad affair, and offered many useful suggestions about how to give a better talk at a meeting. In short, they were both kind and con-structive in their comments. I knew I had found a home with AERS, and later with CERF.
On a more serious note, Affiliate Society and CERF membership has been a working lifetime event for me. In the early days, my membership was tied to the Journal, which was very important to me…and it still is critically important. I became more aware of both Affiliate Society and CERF meetings and the opportunities they provided for participation. My circle of professional colleagues expanded and continues to expand after all these years. I became aware of the informal culture of the Affiliate Societies and CERF. I found it was OK to ask notable scientists and new-comers alike about their work and discovered that they loved being asked questions! I found I could call and chat with members about new and emerging techniques, in part because I met them at a meeting and felt comfortable giving them a call. Later, I was asked to do some service work for CERF. So, for six years I
served as treasurer; and now, sans dust balls, I am honored to serve as CERF president. Again this has been a learning experience and a route to meeting more of the folks who make up our Federation.
In retrospect, I guess this journey all started when a member offered a hand and hauled me back into a meeting many years ago. So, I’m offering a hand of sorts here by encouraging you to join or re-join this amazing federation of scientists, edu-cators, environmental managers, con-sultants, and others who work to understand, sustain and educate about the coastal and estuarine sys-tems of our world.
Estuarine Ecology,Second EditionNow Availablecontinued from page 3
TABLE OF CONTENTS (CONT’D)17. Budget Analyses of Estuarine Ecosystems Walter R. Boynton and Scott W. Nixon18. Fisheries in Lagoon-Estuarine Ecosystems Daniel Pauly and Alejandro Yáñez-
Arancibia19. Human Impact and Management
of Estuarine Ecosystems John W. Day, Jr., Alejandro Yáñez-
Arancibia, and W. Michael Kemp20. Global Climate Change and
Estuarine Systems John M. Rybczyk, John W. Day, Jr.,
Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia, and James H. Cowan
21. Estuarine Ecological Modeling Enrique Reyes, Kenneth Rose, and
Dubravko Justic
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‘Scuzie, where’s YOUR coozie?
Cerf’s got it all! Conferences! Camaraderie! Coozies!??This summer, a spontaneous competition popped up on Facebook. The brainchild of Leila Hamdan and Janet Nestlerode, the CERF Coozie Challenge invited Federation members to share photos of adven-tures with their CERF 2011 coozie. Rules included, 1) the coozie must be on a beverage, 2) the owner must be in the photo, 3) there must be a cap-tion that is at least 60% entertaining and no more than 10% “sciencey.” The 2012 contest ended the last day of summer, with a “Major Award” to the best entry. Federation members will have another chance to showcase their CERF pride and good taste when the contest resumes in 2013. You can grab a highly coveted coozie at CERF 2013 and join in the fun at:http://www.facebook.com/groups/455820554431412/
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Erin Burge (disqualified, but fan favorite, entry!)
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