Lisa Zeigler Allen, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, USA
Viral Ecology through Genome-Enabled Technology
Melissa Baustian, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Benthic-pelagic coupling in aquatic ecosystems: identifying the mechanisms involved and the stressors that impact them
Cayelan Carey, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
The complex and synergistic interactions between increasing dissolved organic carbon, harmful algal blooms, and climate on aquatic ecosystems (with Kevin Rose)
Kyle Cavanaugh, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Using Social Network Tools to Define and Analyze Marine Metapopulations
Huan Chen, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
Bacterial predators and their ecological implication in aquatic ecosystems
Anna de Kluijver, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Yerseke, The Netherlands
Human Impact on Carbon Cycling in Plankton Food Webs from Micro- to Global Scale
Claudia Dziallas, University of Oldeburg, Germany
Microbial interactions
Lauren Garske, University of California, Davis, California, USA
From Land to Sea: Transport and Impact Potential of Coastal Runoff in Nearshore Ecosystems
Beatriz Fernández Gómez, Marine Science Institute (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Ecology of Marine Flavobacteria
Erin Graham, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Symbiosis in a changing planet: Is climate change shifting photosynthetic mutualisms in aquatic ecosystems?
Jennifer Griffiths, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Using a meta-ecosystem framework to characterize the responses of aquatic ecosystems to climate change
Gretchen Hansen, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
A comparison of the abundance distributions of invasive and native species
Emily Norton Henry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Preserving lake littoral zone ecosystem services: prioritizing areas for management and conservation
Brittany Huntington, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
What drives variability in marine reserve performance?
John Kirkpatrick, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA
Gene transcription in the environment: What RNA does and doesn’t tell us
Lesley Knoll, Lacawac Sanctuary, Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania, USA
Linking watershed features, biogeochemical cycling, and climate change
Julie Koester, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Assessing evolution in the ocean with respect to the eukaryotic phytoplankton
Talina Konotchick, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, USA
Integration of Molecular Approaches to Studying Physical-biological Interactions
Peter Levi, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Unifying metrics of aquatic ecosystem health for improved management (with Sarah Roley)
David Murphy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Scaling up Sensory Ecology: Linking the Hydrodynamics of Plankton Behavior to Ecosystem Processes
Chris Patrick, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Meta-ecosystem theory as a framework for understanding how changes to biodiversity as multiple spatial scales can affect ecosystem functions in aquatic ecosystems
Hannes Peter, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Biodiversity-stability in aquatic ecosystems
Brandi Kiel Reese, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Combining molecular microbiology and geochemistry to better understand microbial ecology in subsurface sediments
Kelly Robinson, University of South Alabama, Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA
Gelatinous plankton in coastal pelagic food webs: effects of climate variability and future climate change on population abundances and distributions
Sarah Roley, Univeristy of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
Unifying metrics of aquatic ecosystem health for improved management (with Peter Levi)
Kevin Rose, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, USA
The complex and synergistic interactions between increasing dissolved organic carbon, harmful algal blooms, and climate on aquatic ecosystems (with Cayelan Carey)
Steven Sadro, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Environmental control of aquatic ecosystem metabolism: Predicting effects in response to a changing climate
Xaymara Serrano, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
Implications of larval dispersal and marine population connectivity for the resilience of coral reefs following disturbance
Jason Smith, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Nitrification in coastal upwelling systems: linking the abundance and activity of pelagic microbes to climate
Beth Stauffer, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Columbia University, Palisades, New York, USA
Ecological Issues in the Coastal Zone: Challenges to studying eutrophication, algal blooms, and hypoxia
Darcy Taniguchi, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, California, USA
The meaning of structure in planktonic communities in freshwater and oceanic systems
Aaron True, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
The Poster Child for Biophysical Coupling in Coastal Marine Ecosystems: Thin Planktonic Layers
Jay Zarnetske, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Integrating hydrological and ecological frameworks to quantify headwater DOM export across biomes and global change conditions
