2007

June 4-8 2007.

St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

Proceedings of the 33rd Scientific Meeting of the
Memorias de la 33va Reunión Científica de la

AMLC / ALMC

Association of Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean
Asociación de Laboratorios Marinos del Caribe

Organizers
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Welcome
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Program
Poster Sessions

I.M. Sandeman
Light driven lipid peroxidation of coral membranes and a suggested role in calcification

C. Menza, M. Kendall & S. Hile
The deeper we go the less we know

T.J. Goreau, T. Fisher, F. Perez, K. Lockhart, M. Hibbert & A. Lewin
Turks and Caicos Islands 2006 coral reef assessment: large-scale environmental and ecological interactions and their management implications

D.G. Zawada, P.R. Thompson & J. Butcher
A new towed platform for the unobtrusive surveying of benthic habitats and organisms

R.S. LeGore, M.P. Hardin, J.R. García-Sais & J.R. Brice
Marine ornamental trade in Puerto Rico: rapid population assessment of primary target species

R.A. Watlington, J.M. Morell & J.E. Corredor
Improved Understanding of Oceanic Processes through an Integrated Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System

R.L. Hayes & T.J. Goreau
An analysis of satellite-derived sea surface temperature from Caribbean and Atlantic coral reef sites, 1984-2003

L.L. Richardson & D.N. Ragoonath
Organic carbon enhances dark survival of the cyanobacterium Geitlerinema sp. isolated from black band disease of corals

P.V. Susan Tepetlan & D. Aldana
Aranda Macrofauna bentónica asociada a bancos ostrícolas en las lagunas costeras Carmen, Machona y Mecoacán, Tabasco, México.

S.C.C. Steiner & J.M. Kerr
Stony corals in Dominica during the 2005 bleaching episode and one year later

N.J. Quinn & B.L. Kojis
The recent collapse of a rapid phase-shift reversal on a Jamaican north coast coral reef after the 2005 bleaching event

C.M. Huijbers, M.G.G. Grol & I. Nagelkerken
Shallow patch reefs as alternative habitats for early juveniles of some mangrove/seagrass-associated fish species in Bermuda

P. Miloslavich
The Census of Marine Life in the Caribbean: A Biodiversity Program

L.F. Artigas, E. Otero, R. Paranhos, M.L. Gómez, C. Piccini, M. Costagliola, R. Silva, P. Suárez, V.A. Gallardo, D.U. Hernández-Becerril, A. Chistoserdov, R. Vieira, M. Perez-Cenci, J.F. Ternon, B. Beker, M. Thyssen, H. Dionisi, I. do Rosario Marinho-Jaussaud, A. Gonzalez, C. Hurtado, J.P. Parra, C. Alonso, C. Hozbor, S. Peressutti, R. Negri, C. Espinoza, A. Cardoso, O. Martins, F. Covacevich, C. Berón & G.L. Salerno
Towards a Latin American and Caribbean international census of marine microbes (LACar – ICoMM): overview and discussion on some current research directions

J.A. Alfonso, J. Azocar, J.J. LaBrecque, B. Garcia, D. Palacios & Z. Benzo
Trace metals in bivalves and seagrass collected from Venezuelan coastal sites

J.M. Calnan, T.B. Smith, R.S. Nemeth, E. Kadison & J. Blondeau
Coral disease prevalence and host susceptibility on mid-depth and deep reefs in the United States Virgin Islands

C. del Mónaco, E. Villamizar & S. Narciso
Tasa de depredación de Coralliophila abbreviata (Neogastropoda: Coralliophilidae) sobre algunas especies coralinas del Parque Nacional Morrocoy, Venezuela

J.G. Rodríguez
Pequeños peces crípticos de arrecifes coralinos y áreas adyacentes en el Parque Nacional Morrocoy y Refugio de Fauna de Cuare, Venezuela

E. Villamizar, H. Camisotti, B. Rodríguez, J. Pérez & M. Romero
Impacts of the 2005 Caribbean bleaching event at Archipiélago de Los Roques National Park, Venezuela

D.P. Moore, E.H. Williams, Jr., A.A. Mignucci-Giannoni, L. Bunkley-Williams & W.G. Dyer
Successful surgical treatment of spear wounds in a Hawksbill Turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata (Testudines: Cheloniidae)

D.P. Moore, E.H. Williams, Jr., A.A. Mignucci-Giannoni, L. Bunkley-Williams, F.E. Tippett & R.A. Montoya
Acute myocarditis in a West Indian Manatee, Trichechus manatus (Sirenia: Trichechidae), from Puerto Rico

A.K. Bashirullah, E.H. Williams, Jr. & L. Bunkley-Williams
An anomalous White Mullet, Mugil curema (Perciformes: Mugilidae), with three ovarian lobes found in the Gulf of Cariaco, Venezuela

E.H. Williams, Jr., L. Bunkley-Williams, C.S. Rogers & R.M. Fenner
Color correction of a publication error in the Tan Hamlet and the second occurrence of a Potentially Inheritable Character the Butter Hamlet (Perciformes: Serranidae)