Below is the list of 22 Symposia Themes, followed by the full list of 71 Mini-Symposia that are nested within these themes.
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Title |
Chair |
Co-Chair(s) |
| Reefs through time |
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| 1a |
– Reef and reef island geomorphology |
Scott Smithers |
Chris Perry, Paul Kench |
| 1b |
– Reef response to sea-level and environmental changes |
Gilbert Camoin |
Jody Webster |
| Palaeontology |
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| 2a |
– Pantropical palaeontology of Cenozoic coral reefs |
James Klaus |
Kenneth Johnson |
| 2b |
– Coral reefs: is the past the key to the future? |
George Stanley |
Dennis Hubbard |
| Evolution, biogeography and taxonomy |
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| 3a |
– Evolution, biogeography and taxonomy: general session |
John Pandolfi |
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| 3b |
– Genetically-based species recognition: microbes to vertebrates |
Todd LaJeunesse |
Allen Chen, James Reimer, Michael Hellberg |
| 3c |
– The new age of integrated coral taxonomy |
Michel Pichon |
Carden Wallace, Francesca Benzoni |
| Biophysical processes |
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| 4a |
– Water motion, abiotic and biotic processes on coral reefs |
James Hench |
Hunter Lenihan |
| 4b |
– Chemical ecology of coral reef ecosystems |
Valerie Paul |
Jennifer DeBose |
| 4c |
– Coral reef response to multiple stresses: organisms to ecosystems |
Hajime Kayanne |
Michio Hidaka, Allen Chen, Jih-Terng Wang |
| Technologies for coral reef science |
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| 5a |
– Satellite remote sensing of reef environments |
Gang Liu |
Chris Roelfsema, Stuart Phinn, Stacy Jupiter, Alastair Harborne, James Goodman, William
Skirving, Scarla Weeks, Vittorio Brando |
| 5b |
– Sensor networks and their applications |
James Hendee |
Ruben van Hooidonk, Lew Gramer, Pamela Fletcher |
| 5c |
– Genomics and proteomics as tools for detecting sub-lethal stress |
Robert Richmond |
Cheryl Woodley, Craig Downs |
| 5d |
– Robots and machine learning techniques aiding coral reef science |
Oscar Pizarro |
David Kline, Robin Beaman, Greg Mitchell, Stefan Williams |
| Physiology and functional biology |
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| 6a |
– Cell and molecular biology of symbiosis |
Simon Davy |
Alex Venn, Virginia Weis |
| 6b |
– Mechanisms of calcification |
Sylvie Tambutté |
Michael Holcomb, Anne Cohen |
| 6c |
– Coral physiology and energetics |
Christine Ferrier-Pagès |
Andrea Grottoli, Stephen Levas |
| 6d |
– Coral physiology under ocean acidification |
Sophie Dove |
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| Genomic approaches to coral reef biology |
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| 7a |
– Genomic approaches to coral reef biology |
Christian Voolstra |
David Miller, Timothy Ravasi, Monica Medina, Sylvain Forêt |
| Ocean acidification |
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| 8a |
– Organism and ecosystem responses to ocean acidification |
Malcolm McCulloch |
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| 8b |
– Carbonate chemistry feedbacks within reef habitats |
Ryan Moyer |
Dwight Gledhill, Joanie Kleypas, Kimberly Yates, Russell Brainard |
| 8c |
– Coral calcification and accretion |
Ilsa Kuffner |
Andreas Andersson, Nicholas Bates |
| 8d |
– Effects of ocean acidification |
Chris Langdon |
Katharina Fabricus |
| 8e |
– Growth records in coral cores |
Timothy Cooper |
Janice Lough, Neal Cantin |
| Climate change and bleaching |
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| 9a |
– Coral bleaching and climate change |
Ray Berkelmans |
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| 9b |
– Coral communities in extreme environments |
Joerg Wiedenmann |
John Burt, Bernhard Riegl, Charles Sheppard, Steve Coles |
| 9c |
– Ecology of mesophotic coral reefs |
Marc Slattery |
Michael Lesser |
| 9d |
– Refuges for corals in time and space |
Marilyn Brandt |
Tyler Smith, Bernhard Riegl |
| Modelling reef futures |
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| 10a |
– Modelling reef futures |
C. Mark Eakin |
Simon Donner, Peter Mumby, Cheryl Logan, Claire Spillman |
| Ecological dynamics, resilience and phase shifts |
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| 11a |
– Ecology and macroecology: general gession |
Sean Connolly |
Sally Keith |
| 11b |
– Phase shifts and alternative states on coral reefs |
Albert Norström |
Magnus Nyström |
| 11c |
– Seaweed-coral competition |
Douglas Rasher |
Mark Hay |
| 11d |
– The boom and bust of urchins and starfish |
Nicholas Dulvy |
Rowan Trebilco, Julia Baum |
| 11e |
– Long-term change in coral reef ecosystems |
Loren McClenachan |
Dalal Al-Abdulrazzak, Jack Kittinger |
| Life histories and reproduction |
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| 12a |
– Life histories and reproduction |
Andrew Baird |
Joshua Madin, Mia Hoogenboom |
| Fish and fisheries |
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| 13a |
– Fish and fisheries: general session |
Glenn Almany |
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| 13b |
– The changing role of fishes in coral reef ecosystems |
David Bellwood |
Nick Graham, Alan Friedlander |
| 13c | – Ecological effects of habitat degradation |
Andrew Hoey |
Morgan Pratchett |
| 13d | – Reef sharks and coral reefs |
Andrew Chin |
Nick Dulvy, Michelle Heupel, Mark Meekan, Rupert Ormond, Colin Simpfendorfer |
| Larval ecology, recruitment and connectivity |
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| 14a |
– The ecological importance of larval dispersal |
Robert Warner |
Peter Buston |
| 14b | – Larval and settlement behaviour of coral reef organisms |
Steve Simpson |
Jean-Olivier Irisson, Ivan Nagelkerken, Uli Siebeck, Jeff Leis |
| Biodiversity and systematics |
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| 15a | – Biodiversity and systematics: general session |
Alexander Kerr |
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| 15b | – Seagrasses and seagrass ecosystems |
Robert Coles |
Michelle Waycott, Len McKenzie, Alana Grech |
| 15c | – Physiology and ecology of cyanobacteria |
Laurie Richardson |
Miroslav Gantar |
| 15d | – Biodiversity and coevolution of organisms associated with corals |
Patrick Scaps |
Jessica Haapkyla |
| 15e | – Sponge diversity and roles in reef ecology |
Christine Schoenberg |
Janie Wulff |
| 15f | – Benthic foraminfera on coral reefs |
Pamela Hallock |
Jere Lipps, Willem Renema, Sven Uthicke |
| Microbes and viruses |
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| 16a | – Microbial mutualism in coral reef invertebrates |
Nicole Webster |
Tracy Ainsworth, David Bourne |
| 16b | – Coral-microbe interactions and disease |
Greta Aeby |
Yui Sato, Tracy Ainsworth, David Bourne, Bette Willis, Drew Harvell, Laurie Raymudno |
| 16c | – Immune defenses of coral reef organisms |
Laura Mydlarz |
Caroline Palmer, Nikki Traylor-Knowles |
| 16d | – Functional roles of microbes in reef ecosystems |
Max Teplitski |
Kim Ritchie |
| The Coral Triangle Initiative |
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| 17a | – Science to support the Coral Triangle Initiative |
Helen Fox |
Carissa Klein, Maurice Knight, Alfonso Lombana, Lida Pet |
| 17b | – Marine protected areas and networks in the Coral Triangle |
Alan White |
Patrick Christie, Porfirio M. Aliño, Alison Green |
| 17c | – Regional-scale design and local-scale actions for marine conservation |
Bob Pressey |
Rebecca Weeks |
| 17d | – Managing bleached coral reefs |
Thamasak Yeemin |
Dr Suharsono, Porfirio M. Aliño, Affendi Yang Amri |
| Management and monitoring |
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| 18a | – Evaluating management success |
Duncan MacRae |
Kalli De Meyer |
| 18b | – Managing coral reef ecosystems under a changing climate |
Roger Beeden |
David Wachenfeld, Paul Marshall, Chloe Schauble |
| 18c | – Spatially-explicit and multi-disciplinary approaches for coral reef conservation |
Serge Andráfouët |
Julie Scopelitis, Samuel Purkis, Ameer Abdulla, Shankar Aswani, Johnathan Kool |
| 18d | – Strengthening science-management partnerships |
Steven Thur |
Kacky Andrews |
| 18e | – The future of the Coral Sea reefs and sea mounts |
Eric Clua |
Clive Wilkinson |
| 18f | – Does Monitoring Lead to Improved Coral Reef Management? |
Jerker Tamelander |
Gregor Hodgson, Christy Loper, Clive Wilkinson, Ruben Torres, Matthias Hammer |
| Human impacts on coral reefs |
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| 19a | – Human impacts on coral reefs: general session |
Natalie Ban |
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| 19b | – Coral reef resilience, conservation and management |
David Obura |
Paul Marshall, Alison Green, Ameer Abdulla, Ole Vestergaard, Stephanie Wear |
| 19c | – Trade in coral reef wildlife |
Cara Cooper |
Daniel Thornhill, Barbara Best, Brian Tissot |
| 19d | – Managing fish spawning aggregations |
Yvonne Sadovy de Mitcheson |
Martin Russell |
| Restoration of coral reefs |
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| 20a |
– Restoration of coral reefs |
James Guest |
Andrew Bauman, Buki Rinkevich |
| Water quality: impacts and management |
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| 21a | – Watershed management and reef pollution |
Greg Piniak |
Michelle Devlin, Jon Brodie, Kathy Chaston, Paul Sturm, Rob Ferguson, Curt Storlazzi, Piers
Larcombe, Joshua Voss |
| 21b | – Enhancing coral reef resilience through management of water quality |
Frederieke Kroon |
Britta Schaffelke |
| 21c | – Exploited lagoons |
LoŃ—c Charpy |
Nabila Gaertner-Mazouri, Yannick Gueguen |
| Social, economic and cultural perspectives |
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| 22a | – Cultural, political and historical dimensions of coral reef management |
Simon Foale |
Michael Fabinyi |
| 22b | – Gender and coral reef conservation |
Danika Kleiber |
Amanda Vincent |
| 22c |
– Management of coral reefs in regions of high biocultural diversity |
Alana Grech |
Stacy Jupiter, Bob Pressey |
| 23d |
– Economic valuation and market-based conservation |
Nathalie Hilmi |
Tamatoa Bambridge, Jos Hill |
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