Session No. 207
Monday, 6 October 2008: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
T9. Crises on the Reefs? Anticipating the Effects of Global Warming on Reefs by Reference to the Fossil Record—Is the Past Really the Key to the Present in the New Field of Conservation Paleobiology?
Claudia C. Johnson, Jere Lipps, George D. Stanley Jr and Dennis Hubbard, Advocates
1:30 PM
Paleoecological Patterns of Reef Death and Possible Causes for the Carbonate Collapse at the End-Triassic Mass Extinction
MARTINDALE, Rowan, Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, 117 ZHS, USC, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0470 and BOTTJER, David, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Zumberge Hall 117, Los Angeles, CA 90254, rmartind@usc.edu, rmartind@usc.edu
2:00 PM
Evolutionary History of Photosymbiosis and Its Implications for the Future of Reefs
LIPPS, Jere H., CAZASSA, Lorraine R., FAY, Scott A. and WEBER, Michele, Department of Integrative Biology & Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, jlipps@berkeley.edu, jlipps@berkeley.edu
2:30 PM
The Demise of Acropora Palmata in Caribbean Reefs: Past, Present and Future
HUBBARD, Dennis K., Dept. of Geology, Oberlin College, 52 W. Lorain St, Oberlin, OH 44074 and LAGOMARCINO, Anne, Dept. of Geology, University of Cincinnati, PO Box 0013, Cincinnati, OH 45221, dennis.hubbard@oberlin.edu, dennis.hubbard@oberlin.edu
3:00 PM
U-Th Dating of Holocene Sea Level Highstands Using Fringing Coral Reefs along the Vietnamese Coast
NGUYEN, AI D.1, YU, Kefu
2, ZHAO, Jian-xin
2 and GASPARON, Massimo
1, (1)Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia campus, Birsbane, 4072, Australia, (2)Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia, aidnguyen@gmail.com, aidnguyen@gmail.com
3:15 PM
Anomalous Enhanced Calcification in Irregular Archaeocyaths in a High-CO2 World: Evidence for Photosymbiosis in Irregular Archaeocyaths
HICKS, Melissa, Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, 204 Heroy Geology Laboratory, Syracuse, NY 13244 and
ROWLAND, Stephen M., Department of Geoscience, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Box 454010, Las Vegas, NV 89154-4010, steve.rowland@unlv.edu, steve.rowland@unlv.edu