The Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM) has become an important venue for scientific exchange across a wide range of marine science disciplines, especially as human impacts on the oceans reach unprecedented levels. OSM, co-sponsored by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), and The Oceanography Society (TOS), will be held 11–16 February, in Portland, Oregon.
Researchers representing several LTER sites will present talks or posters on a range of coastal and ocean topics including biogeochemical cycling, microbial community structure, phytoplankton productivity, and ecosystem resilience.
Highlights of LTER research being presented at OSM include:
- Novel approaches to monitoring phytoplankton and microzooplankton communities at multiple spatial and temporal scales
- Physical properties and biogeochemical cycling in the California current, Western Antarctic peninsula, and other regions
- Nutrient cycling, ecosystem metabolism and resilience in U.S. east coast wetland systems
- Poster presentation by a high school student who used LTER data to study the influence of sea ice patterns on penguin and krill populations in Western Antactica (special K-12 poster session)
The full list of LTER science-related talks and posters can be found below. Oral presentations are listed in bold font.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2018
PO11A-01: Multi-Decadal Changes in Plastic Particle Deposition in the Santa Barbara Basin (California Current Ecosystem LTER)
8:00-8:15 – Oregon Convention Center – A107-A109
ED11B-05: Lessons learned when using video teleconferences (VTC) in the classroom (Palmer Station LTER)
9:00-9:15 – Oregon Convention Center – D139-D140
IS12A-04: Long-Term Ecological Research at MVCO and beyond: New insights from high temporal and taxonomic resolution plankton observations (Northeast U.S. Shelf LTER)
11:15-11:30 Oregon Convention Center – E145-E146
BN14D-1065 Biogeochemical and Ecosystem Impacts of Sea Ice Heterogeneity Along the Western Antarctic Peninsula (Palmer Station LTER)
16:00-18:00 Oregon Convention Center – Poster Hall
BN14D-1059: Depth and Temporal Variation of Aggregate Export from the Biological Carbon Pump in Upwelling California Coastal Waters (California Current Ecosystem LTER)
16:00-18:00 Oregon Convention Center – Poster Hall
BN14D-1069: Carbon Export in California Coastal Waters Is Strongly Underestimated (California Current Ecosystem LTER)
16:00-18:00 Oregon Convention Center – Poster Hall
CT14A-1268: Photochemical Degradation of Copper Ligands in the California Current (California Current Ecosystem LTER)
16:00-18:00 Oregon Convention Center – Poster Hall
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2018
BN21B-01: Global in situ imaging of large plankton and particles by the Underwater Vision Profiler in the upper kilometre of all oceans (California Current Ecosystem LTER)
08:00-08:15 Oregon Convention Center – D137-D138
EP24C-0799: Is Every El Niño the Same? ENSO-related Zooplankton Community Shifts in the Southern California Current System (California Current Ecosystem LTER)
16:00-18:00 Oregon Convention Center – Poster Hall
16:02-16:03 Oregon Convention Center – Poster Hall Lightning Area
BN24D-1125: Combining High Resolution Organic Matter Characterization and Analysis of Microbial Community Structure to Assess the Effects of Nutrient Loading on Salt Marsh Carbon Sequestration (Plum Island Ecosystem LTER)
16:00-18:00 Oregon Convention Center – Poster Hall
AI24A-1597: Characterization of and controls on phytoplankton productivity along the Western Antarctic Peninsula (based on Palmer Station LTER data)
16:00-18:00 Oregon Convention Center – Poster Hall
IS24A-2582: Dietary Specialization of Blue Whales in the Southern Sector of the California Current System (California Current Ecosystem LTER)
16:00-18:00 Oregon Convention Center – Poster Hall
MM24B-1465: New Insights to the Diversity of Ciliates Across Space and Over Time in the Northeast U.S. Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem (Northeast US Shelf LTER)
16:00-18:00 Oregon Convention Center – Poster Hall
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2018
OM31A-05: A Composite Physical-Biological El Nino in the California Current System (California Current Ecosystem LTER)
09:00-09:15 Oregon Convention Center – B110-B112
BN13B-02: Observation and Calibration of Carbon Sedimentation following a Dynamic, Chlorophyll-Rich Filament in California Coastal Waters June 2017 (California Current Ecosystem LTER)
14:15-14:30 Oregon Convention Center – D137-D138
CD33A-02: The impact of offshore waves and vegetation on the sediment budget in the Virginia Coast Reserve (Virginia Coast Reserve LTER)
14:15-14:30 Oregon Convention Center – Oregon Ballroom 202
BN34A-1140: Unravelling the Contribution of Large Phaeodaria (Rhizaria) to Silicon Fluxes: Insights from the California Current Ecosystem Long Term Ecological Research Site (California Current Ecosystem LTER)
16:00-18:00 Oregon Convention Center – Poster Hall
CD34A-0111: Impacts of Seagrass Dynamics on the Coupled Long-Term Evolution of Barrier-Marsh-Bay Systems (Virginia Coast Reserve LTER)
16:00-18:00 Oregon Convention Center – Poster Hall
CD34A-0117: Insights from a field experiment into the dune-building capability of three U.S. Atlantic dune grass species: Ammophila breviligulata, Spartina patens, and Uniola paniculata (Virginia Coast Reserve LTER)
16:00-18:00 Poster Hall
CD34A-0122: From Stem to Crest to Island: Vegetation Controls on Coastal Foredune Morphology, Dune State and Barrier Response to Climate Change (Virginia Coast Reserve LTER)
16:00-18:00 Poster Hall
EP34A-0839: Seagrass Ecosystem Metabolism and Resilience Measured by Eddy Covariance (Virginia Coastal Reserve LTER)
16:00-18:00 Oregon Convention Center – Poster Hall
EP34B-0844: Spatial and Temporal Patterns in the Frequency of Sea-Surface Fronts in the California Current System (California Current Ecosystem LTER)
16:00-18:00 Oregon Convention Center – Poster Hall
EP34B-0849: Ecosystem response of the California Current System: from mesoscale to submesoscale (California Current Ecosystem LTER)
16:00-18:00 Oregon Convention Center – Poster Hall
EP34C-0856: Plankton diversity response at mesoscale in the California Current System (California Current Ecosystem LTER)
16:00-18:00 Oregon Convention Center – Poster Hall
EP34C-0858: Implications of Zooglider-detected thin layers for zooplankton predator-prey interactions (California Current Ecosystem LTER)
16:00-18:00 Oregon Convention Center – Poster Hall
EP34C-0859: Detecting Ocean Fronts in the California Current Ecosystem: A Comparison of the Free-fall Moving Vessel Profiler and Underwater Vision Profiler (California Current Ecosystem LTER)
16:00-18:00 Oregon Convention Center – Poster Hall
EP34C-0863: Does Submesoscale Patchiness Enhances Ecosystem Diversity? (California Current Ecosystem LTER)
16:00-18:00 Oregon Convention Center – Poster Hall
ED34B-2412: How do long term trends in sea ice extent and duration influence penguin and krill populations in the Western Antarctic Peninsula? (based on Palmer Station LTER data)
16:00-18:00 Oregon Convention Center – Poster Hall
MM34B-1502: A Sequential Look at Viral Mortality in an Upwelling Filament Within the California Current Ecosystem (California Current Ecosystem LTER)
16:00-18:00 Oregon Convention Center – Poster Hall
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2018
BN42A-08: Temporal variability of episodic organic carbon deposition events in the abyssal northeast Pacific (California Current Ecosystem LTER)
12:15-12:30 Oregon Convention Center – D135-D136
ME43A-01: Active Flux by Diel Vertically Migrating Zooplankton Along the Western Antarctic Peninsula (Palmer Station LTER)
14:00-14:15 Oregon Convention Center – E141-E142
MG44B-0354: The Role of Wind in Controlling Sediment Delivery to Intertidal Salt Marshes (Plum Island Ecosystem, Virginia Coast Reserve, and Georgia Coastal Ecosystem LTERs)
16:00-18:00 Oregon Convention Center – Poster Hall
BN44A-1185: Impacts of Phytoplankton Dynamics on Biogeochemistry along the Western Antarctic Peninsula (Palmer Station LTER)
16:00-18:00 Oregon Convention Center – Poster Hall
CT44A-1358: Investigating the Cycling of Dissolved Organic Carbon and Nitrogen along the West Antarctic Peninsula (Palmer Station LTER)
16:00-18:00 Oregon Convention Center – Poster Hall
OD44B-2799: A workflow to enable insights into plankton ecology from large image datasets: Automated analysis, classification, and quantification of taxon-resolved abundance and biomass from Imaging FlowCytobot (Northeast US Shelf LTER)
16:00-18:00 Oregon Convention Center – Poster Hall
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2018
CT51A-03: Molecular Imaging of the Community Metabolome of a Phytoplankton Bloom in the California Current Ecosystem (California Current Ecosystem LTER)
08:30-08:45 Oregon Convention Center – D135-D136
MM51A-04: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Synechococcus Strains off the Southern California Coast (California Current Ecosystem LTER)
08:45-09:00 Oregon Convention Center – F151
MM51A-07: Interplay of Temperature and Genetic Composition on the Seasonal Size Distributions of the Mixotrophic Ciliate, Mesodinium, on the New England Shelf (Northeast US Shelf LTER)
09:30-09:45 Oregon Convention Center – F151
MM52A-06: Environmental drivers of seasonal microdiversity patterns in a temperate Synechococcuspopulation (Northeast US Shelf LTER)
11:45-12:00 Oregon Convention Center – F151
OD52A-07: Biodiversity Indicators Are Big Data: Developing a Reproducible Indicator for Microzooplankton Diversity (Northeast US Shelf LTER)
12:00-12:15 Oregon Convention Center – E143-E144
OD53A-07: One Size Fits All? Determining the Impact of Image Size on Deep Learning Classifications of Marine Zooplankton (California Current Ecosystem LTER)
15:30-015:45 Oregon Convention Center – F150
OD53A-08: Machine Learning Approaches for Automated Taxonomic Classification of Plankton Images from Imaging FlowCytobot (California Current Ecosystem LTER)
15:45-16:00 Oregon Convention Center – F150
