ED11A:
ASLO Multicultural Program Student Symposium for Undergraduate and Beginning Graduate Students I

Submit an Abstract to this Session

Session ID#: 11344

Session Description:
This session is sponsored by the ASLO Multicultural Program. It provides undergraduate and beginning graduate students an opportunity to present their work in an oral session with a friendly and supportive audience. Any student attending the conference who has not before presented in the student symposium or in a regular oral session may submit their abstract for this session. Thus the session is open to all students that meet this criterion, regardless of their affiliation with the Multicultural Program. We look forward to a diverse mix of students from all backgrounds and interests.
Primary Chair:  Benjamin Cuker, Hampton University, Marine and Environmental Science, Hampton, VA, United States
Chairs:  Deidre Michelle Gibson, Hampton University, Department of Marine and Environmental Science, Hampton, United States and Benjamin Cuker, Hampton University, Marine and Environmental Science, Hampton, VA, United States
Moderators:  Benjamin Cuker, Hampton University, Marine and Environmental Science, Hampton, VA, United States and Deidre Michelle Gibson, Hampton University, Department of Marine and Environmental Science, Hampton, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Benjamin Cuker, Hampton University, Marine and Environmental Science, Hampton, VA, United States and Deidre Michelle Gibson, Hampton University, Department of Marine and Environmental Science, Hampton, United States
Index Terms:

0810 Post-secondary education [EDUCATION]
0855 Diversity [EDUCATION]
6630 Workforce [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

ED11A-01
Using ATTO dyes to probe bacterial interactions with the marine diatom Pseudo-nitzschia. (90357)
Sanjin Mehic, University of California Santa Cruz, Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Marilou Sison-Mangus, University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
ED11A-02
Herbivory and competition limit the expansion of the macroalga Turbinaria ornata to shallow zones on a fringing reef in the South Pacific (93949)
Samuel Degregori, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, United States, Christina Williams, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, United States, Paul H Barber, University of California, Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, United States, Shayna Sura, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Alabama, United States and Peggy Fong, University of California, Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, CA, United States
ED11A-03
Identifying Genes Involved in the Iron Metabolism Pathway Through Transcriptomic Analysis (90578)
Daven Khana, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
ED11A-04
Nutrients, high light, and shallow depths favor the expansion of the brown macroalgae Turbinaria ornata in the coral reefs of Mo'orea, French Polynesia (93942)
Jonathan Rogers, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, United States, Guadalupe Cordoba, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, TX, United States, Manuel Nieves, University of Puerto Rico, Marine Biology, PR, United States, Paul H Barber, University of California, Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, United States, Peggy Fong, University of California, Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Shayna Sura, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Alabama, United States
ED11A-05
Effects of Shading on Environmental Parameters, Population Dynamics and Copper Tolerance in the Marine Copepod Tigriopus californicus (92472)
Yaamini Venkataraman, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
ED11A-06
Assessing Long-Term Seagrass Changes by Integrating a High-Spatial Resolution Image, Historical Aerial Photography and Field Data (93902)
Mariana Leon-Perez1, William J Hernandez1 and Roy Armstrong2, (1)University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Department of Marine Sciences, Mayaguez, PR, United States, (2)University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Department of Marine Sciences, Lajas, United States
ED11A-07
ORGANIC CARBON LOADING IN TROPICAL NEAR-SHORE ECOSYSTEMS: THE ROLE OF MANGROVE LAGOONS AND CHANNELS IN COASTAL OCEAN ACIDIFICATION (93940)
Erick García, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR, United States and Julio M Morell, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System, Mayaguez, United States
ED11A-08
Effects of Wood Pollution on Pore-Water Sulfide Levels and Eelgrass Germination (89256)
Chesley Ekelem, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
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