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  | Friday Morning | Friday Afternoon | Friday Evening |
   
  Friday, May 6, 2005 - Morning:
 
8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast, Registration (Piazza) and Student Poster Session Set-up (Piazza-Rear)
Concurrent Sessions
Ocean Studies Institute
Arid Zone Hydrology
Control Theory and Spatial Modeling

Ocean Studies Institute
Justine’s Ballroom
West


This symposium addresses marine population dynamics and marine protected areas in Southern California.

9:00-12:00 Session Speakers:
9:00 - 9:35

Steve Murray, Professor of Biology at California State University, Fullerton

Marine Protected Areas and Marine Protected Area Processes: An Overview and an Update

9:40 - 10:05

Rick Pieper, Director of the Southern California Marine Institute

Oceanic structure and variability: setting the stage for biological populations

10:10 - 10:30

Demian A. Willette, Dept of Biological Sciences, California State University, Los Angeles.

Shallow Surf Riders: Small-scale Larval Distribution in Estuarine Waters

10:35 - 10:55

Larry Allen, Professor of Biology at California State University, Northridge

Fish abundances and trends around Catalina Island.

11:00 - 11:10
BREAK
11:10 - 11:30

Chris Lowe, Professor of Biology at California State University, Long Beach

Fish movement patterns in Marine Protected Areas.

11:35 - 11:55

Kevin Kelley, Professor of Biology at California State University, Long Beach

Short- and Longer-term Stress Effects of "Catch & Release" in Marine Gamefish-Catalina Island Studies.

12:00-1:30 Lunch and OSI Board Meeting
   

Arid Zone Hydrology
Justine’s Ballroom
East

This symposium addresses issues of water quality, nutrient biogeochemical cycling, water balance issues, salinization, and modeling of hydrologic and hydrogeologic systems in arid zones. The symposium features distinguished speakers from government and academia discussing their arid zone research in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

9:00-12:00 Session Speakers:
9:00 - 9:30

John Izbicki, Research Hydrologist with U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division.

Natural and artifical recharge in the western Mojave Desert, Southern California.

9:30 - 10:00

Richard Laton, Assistant Professor of Geology at Cal State, Fullerton

Water budget analysis - a story of two arid region groundwater basins.

10:00 - 10:30

Matthew Kirby, Assistant Professor of Geology at Cal State Fullerton

Muddy perspectives on Southern California's Holocene hydroclimatology.

10:30 - 10:50 BREAK
10:50 - 11:25

Graduate student presentation: Sheila Morrissey (CSLA - Geology) and Helen Kong (UCLA - Civil and Environmental Engineering)

Title: Effects of Wildfire on Flow Paths in San Bernardino Mountain Watersheds: Evidence from Hydrograph Separation and Geochemistry.

11:25 - 11:55

James Hogan, Staff Scientist for SAHRA at the University of Arizona Hydrology and Water Resources Department

Groundwater recharge and riparian sustainability in the San Pedro Basin AZ

   
12:00-1:30 No-Host Lunch
   
Control Theory and Spatial Modeling
Justine’s Ballroom Center

*order of talks to be decided*
9:00-12:00 Session Speakers:
 

Carlos Robles, CEA-CREST Program Director, California State University, Los Angeles.

A large-Scale Field Test of Equilibrium Dynamics in an Archetypal Predator-Prey System.

 

Alan Martinez, CEA-CREST Graduate Fellow, California State University, Los Angeles.

Stabilizing Responses by a Keystone Predator ,Pisaster ochraceus, of Mussel Communities.

 

Megan Dohanue, CEA-CREST Postdoctoral Researcher at California State University, Los Angeles.

Spatial modeling of an intertidal mussel bed: gradients, neighborhood effects, and temporal dynamics.

 

Corey Garza, CEA-CREST Postdoctoral Researcher at California State University, Los Angeles.

Title:

 

Robert A. Desharnais, California State University at Los Angeles.

Spatially Explicit Mean Field Models for The Dynamics of Predation in Intertidal Communities

 
12:00-1:30 No-Host Lunch
   
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  Friday, May 6, 2005 - Afternoon:
 
 
1:30-2:30

Plenary Address
Piazza Ballroom

 
Introduction: Dr. Carlos Robles, Director for the Center for Environmental Analysis and Dr. Tina Salmassi, CEA-CREST affiliated faculty member.
Plenary Speaker:
Kyle D. Brown, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture in the College of Environmental Design & Director of the John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies at Cal Poly, Pomona.
Title: Connecting Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice: Implications for Action
Concurrent Sessions
Arid Zone Hydrology
Ocean Studies Institute
   

Arid Zone Hydrology
Justine’s Ballroom
East

This symposium addresses issues of water quality, nutrient biogeochemical cycling, water balance issues, salinization, and modeling of hydrologic and hydrogeologic systems in arid zones. The symposium features distinguished speakers from government and academia discussing their arid zone research in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

2:45-5:00 Session Speakers:
2:45 - 3:15

John Hawley, New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute, New Mexico State University.

Digital hydrogeologic-framework model of the binational Western Hueco Bolson area, Texas and Chihuahua.

3:15 - 3:45

Bill Hutchison, P.G., Hydrogeology Manager. El Paso Water Utilities.

Hueco Bolson Hydrogeology, Management, and Modeling.

3:45 - 4:15

Alfredo Granados, University of Ciudad Juares.

Fracture trace analysis of structural geology at the Sierra de Presidio and its relationship to hydrogeochemistry.

4:15 - 4:45

Chris Eastoe, SAHRA/Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona.

Salinization of surface water and groundwater, Hueco Bolson and Mesilla Valley, New Mexico, Texas and Chihuahua: sources of sulfate as indicated by stable O, H and S isotopes.

4:45 - 5:15

Barry Hibbs, CEA-CREST, California State University, Los Angeles.

Irrigation return flows or cross-formation leakage from the Hueco Bolson Aquifer as the dominant source of salinity in the Rio Grande Alluvium? - inorganic and isotopic tracers tell a story.

   

Ocean Studies Institute
Justine’s Ballroom
West

This symposium addresses marine population dynamics and marine protected areas in Southern California.

2:45-5:00 Session Speakers:

Loraine Hale, M.S. Graduate Student, Biological Sciences, California State University Long Beach.

Age and growth of the round stingray, Urobatis halleri, at Seal Beach, California.

Kristy Forsgren, M.S. Graduate Student, Biological Sciences, California State University Long Beach.

Early life history, growth, and reproduction of captive weedy sea dragons, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus.

 

Ryan Ellingson, Dept of Biological Sciences, California State University, Los Angeles.

Born and raised in Southern California: Developmental evolution and cryptic speciation in the sea slug genus Alderia.

Beck, A.R., E.M. Gallardo and R.R. Wilson, Jr. California State University, Long Beach.

Acanthogobium flavimanus: Does the San Francisco Bay Population Show Evidence for Population Genetic Bottleneck?

Friday, May 6, 2005– Evening: Piazza Ballroom:
5:00-6:00 Student Poster Session & Reception
Piazza Ballroom
   
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