Moorea Coral Reef Long Term Ecological Research Site
15^th Annual All Investigators Meeting, December 5^th & 6^th, 2019
Marine Sciences Research Building, UC Santa Barbara

Meeting Agenda
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5^th

10:00-12:00 MCR Executive Committee Meeting, 3^rd floor MSRB Conference Room
10:30-11:30 Graduate Student Workshop – 2^nd floor MSRB Conference Room

12:00-1:00  Bring Your Own Brown Bag Lunch – 2^nd Floor MSRB Patio

1:00-1:15    Welcome and Introductions – Deron Burkepile

1:15-1:30    MCR III Midterm Review Report and Gump Transition Report – Russ Schmitt

1:30-2:55   MCR III  - Accomplishments To Date
      Overview of MCR – Tom Adam – 15 mins
      Resilience of Contemporary Reefs (Theme 1) – Deron Burkepile – 30 mins
      Reefs of the Future (Theme 2) – Hollie Putnam – 30 mins

2:55-3:15    Coffee Break – MSRB Courtyard

3:15-3:45    New Graduate Student Introductions I (4 minutes each - 2 Power Point Slides)
       Introduction – Andy Brooks
       Student 1 - Nury Molina - UCSB/Burkepile
       Student 2 - Noe Castaneda - UCSB/Burkepile
       Student 3 - Randi Honeycutt - UCSB/Schmitt & Holbrook
       Student 4 - Dennis Conetta - URI/Putnam
       Student 5 - Alex Vompe - Oregon State/Vega Thurber
       Student 6 – Erica “Rickie” Ewton – Oregon State/Thurber

3:45-4:10    Reports and Announcements (10 minutes each)
       Andy Brooks – Update on Gump processes for protocols, CITES, etc.
       Gastil – IM policy and best practice, upcoming Investigator webinar

4:10-5:15    Biophysical Coupling: Merging PO with Ecology (15 minutes each)
       Andy Brooks – What PO time series exist?
       Tom Adam – Waves, nutrients, and benthic dynamics
       Mary Donovan – Temperature, nutrients, and coral bleaching
       Dan Holstein – Biophysical connectivity

5:15 Adjourn

6:30-8:00   No Host Dinners – Locations
      Investigators/Post-Docs @ Del Pueblo Café, 5134 Hollister Ave (Magnolia Center)
     Graduate Students/Technicians @ Captain Fatty’s Brewery, 6489 Calle Real, Suite D

Meeting Agenda
FRIDAY, December 6^th

8:00-8:45    Muffins/Bagels/Coffee provided in MSRB Courtyard
                    (Biophysical coupling Discussion Group 2^nd floor MSRB Conference Room)

8:45-9:00      Embracing a Culture of Safety – MCR PIs

9:00-10:30   Coral Bleaching and the 2019 Bleaching Event  (15 minutes each)
       Andrew Thurber – RAPID/MVP bleaching
       Scott Burgess – Impact of Pocillopora haplotypes and size on coral bleaching
       Kelly Speare – Coral bleaching impacts smallest, biggest coral colonies
       Erin Winslow – Island-wide variability in coral community bleaching patterns
       Danielle Becker – Nutrients, temperature, and coral thermal response
       Bob Carpenter – Immediate and subsequent effects of bleaching on coral metabolism

10:30- 10:50  Coffee Break – MSRB Courtyard

10:50-12:00  Lagoon-wide Sampling Campaign - What’s done and what’s next for 2020? (10-15 minutes each)
       Keith Seydel - Field Report
       Deron Burkepile – Lagoon-wide sampling efforts to date
       Dana Cook - Lagoon-wide sampling of fishing, herbivores, and benthic community composition.
Nyssa Silbiger - Groundwater and landscape patterns of lagoon nutrients
       Kyle Neumann - Rivers, land use change, and influence of rivers on reefs
       Becky Vega - Lagoon-wide patterns in coral microbiomes
       Deron Burkepile – Wrap up and charge for the brainstorming session

12:00-12:15   Group Photo – MSRB Courtyard/Staircase

12:30-1:30     Lunch & Working Group Discussions – Lunch provided on MSRB 2^nd floor patio
                       Lagoon-wide sampling campaign planning session

1:30-2:30  Coral Holobiont and Emergent Properties (15 minutes each)
       Hollie Putnam – Rules of Life - Environmental-energetic-epigenetic linkages in corals
       Holly Moeller –  Modeling the coral holobiont
       Erika Johnston – What molecules are beginning to tell us about Pocillopora distribution at Mo’orea
       Adrian Stier – Landscape ecology of coral exosymbionts

2:30-2:35 Announce Gates and Williams Award winners – Gates’ and Williams’ Award Chairs

2:35-3:00    New Graduate Student Introductions II (4 minutes each - 2 Power Point Slides)
       Student 1 – Nina Bean – CSUN/Edmunds
       Student 2 – Kelly Wong -- CSUN/Edmunds
       Student 3 – Kaela Tyler – CSUN/ Carpenter
       Student 4 - Jordan Gallagher - UCSB/Holbrook &Schmitt
       Student 5 - Ben Limer - LSU/Holstein
       Student 6 - Jeannie Bloomberg - LSU/Holstein

3:00- 4:00   Using Photogrammetry in Coral Reef Ecology (15 minutes each)
      Andy Brooks - MCR photogrammetry projects update
      Scott Miller - Photogrammetry and CNH project
      Kai Kopecky – Effects of disturbance type on benthic community dynamics in coral reefs
      Potential for a field workshop in 2020

4:00-4:05       Meeting Wrap-up and Close – Deron Burkepile