RCUK 2015 programme

Reef Conservation UK 2015

Saturday 28th November

ZSL London Zoo

Conference Overview

09:00 Registration opens

09:30 Welcome

09:35 Session I: Coral reefs and people

09:35 Speaker Presentation title Institution
Plenary speaker: Reef conservation in Sabah, Borneo: a continuing Marine
10:05 Dr Elizabeth Wood challenge. Conservation
10:20 Society
Victoria Jeffers Trialling smartphones for improved fisheries data Blue Ventures
10:35 collection and management.
Dr Gareth Williams Biophysical decoupling and the loss of coral reef Bangor
Speed ecosystem predictability.
Talk Prof Charles Warwick
10:50 Sheppard Marine Management? Making an oxymoron more
Simeon Archer meaningful. CEFAS

Finding the coral reefs of the British Virgin Islands to
allow effective management.

10:55 Poster Session

11:40 Session II: Adaptations to global stressors

11:40 Speaker Presentation title Institution
Dr Nick Graham Predicting climate driven regime shifts versus James Cook
11:55 rebound potential in coral reefs. University
Dr Sebastian Ocean acidification and the future of cold-water Heriot Watt
12:10 Hennige coral reefs.
Dr Cecilia D' Angelo Southampton
12:25 Gene expression underlying the heat stress
Dr Dan Exton tolerance of Porites lobata from the Persian/Arabian Operation
Speed Gulf. Wallacea
Talk Dr Nicholas Uncovering the volatile nature of coral reefs. Glasgow
12:40 Kamenos
Speed Significant increases in Great Barrier Reef coral
Talk bleaching over the last three centuries.
12:45
Speed Eslam Osman Physiological response of Symbiodinium populations Essex
Talk adapted to different thermal regimes in the Red Sea.
12:50
Dr Ben Hume Genetic structure of the thermos tolerant coral- Southampton
symbiotic alga, Symbiodinium thermophilum, across
extreme environmental gradients.

12:55 Lunch

14:00 Session III: Diversity and distribution

14:00 Speaker Presentation title Institution
14:30 The ecology of coral reefs in the North Atlantic and Bergen,
Plenary speaker: principles for conservation. Norway
Jan Helge Selection drives apparent population structure in a Exeter
Tom Jenkins widely distributed temperate octocoral.
Bristol
14:45 Dr Sally Wood Modelling larval dispersal on the global scale:
Implications for the response of corals to climate Natural
15:00 Dr Nadia change. History
Santodomingo The early history of coral triangle biodiversity. Museum
Essex
Speed Sophie Using light sheet fluorescence microscopy to
Talk Stephenson measure the metamorphic rate in Favia fragum Newcastle
15:15 larvae.
Speed Charlie Dryden A multidimensional approach to habitat complexity.
Talk
15:20 Marie-Lise Comparing manual and computer-assisted benthic Highlands &
Speed Schläppy cover estimations from underwater imagery at a Islands
Talk Norwegian rocky reef.
15:25

15:30 Poster Session
16:00 Session IV: Variable threats faced by reefs

Speaker Presentation title Institution
Derby
16:00 Dr Mike Sweet The need for a holistic approach to disease Oxford
Dom Andradi- causation – a look back over 6 years of research. Exeter
16:15 Brown
Dr Kyle Morgan Use of mesophotic reefs by invasive Western Oxford
16:30 Atlantic lionfish.
Vanessa Lovenburg Bangor
Speed Island evolutionary stage a stronger short-term
Talk Henry Gunning driver of island instability than sea-level on
16:45 Maldivian reef rim islands.
Speed Host preference of the flamingo tongue snail
Talk Cyphoma gibbosum and its implications for the
16:50 spread of aspergillosis.
Status and Management of the Red lionfish (Pterois
volitans) in the Cayman Islands.

16:55 Closing remarks

17:00 – 19:30 Drinks reception

For more information and to register for tickets head to www.zsl.org/rcuk
or contact Kirsty Richards at [email protected]
Twitter: @ReefConsUK

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