Coral Club
Although our home base is San Diego, our field work and our network of collaborators extend around the world. The San Diego Coral Club is a monthly gathering of coral reef researchers working in the San Diego area at all levels, from students to established scientists. Here they can present preliminary data to colleagues and discuss other research questions. The goal is to foster new collaborations and to provide a forum for exchanging ideas about coral reef science and the conservation of tropical reefs. In addition, reef scientists visiting San Diego have presented talks about their current research directions to the group.
If you are interested in learning more about coral reefs, you are welcome to attend the meetings of our San Diego Coral Club. The meetings are not on a regular schedule, so please contact us if you would like to learn more about the when and where of the next meetings.
Past Coral Club Speakers:
Peter Vroom (NOAA) - Assessing America's Remote Pacific Reefs
Katie Barott and Tracey McDole (SDSU) – NOAA 2010 Coral Reef Monitoring Cruise
John Pandolfi (University of Queensland) - Ecological dynamics of Pleistocene reef
Eugene Rosenberg (Tel Aviv University) – Phage therapy of coral disease
Ben Neal (SIO) - Computer vision coral ecology: cyber-enabled image classification for rapid, large scale, automated monitoring of climate change impacts on coral reefs
Kristen Marhaver (SIO) - Practical insurance advice for young corals and the young
Linda Wegley (SDSU) - Iron enrichment on a coral reef changes the ecosystem from the
Stuart Sandin (SIO) - Phoenix Islands 2009 cruise summary
Andreas Haas - Algal-derived carbon sources and their influences on corals
Elizabeth Dinsdale (SDSU) – Preliminary microbial data from the 2009 Southern Line
Jennifer Smith (SIO) – Preliminary benthic data from the 2009 Southern Line Islands
Katie Barott (SDSU) – Hyperspectral and physiological analyses of coral-algal interactions from the 2009 Southern Line Islands cruise
Dirk Zeller (University of British Columbia) - Global Fisheries
Dave Zawada (USGS, St. Petersberg FL) - LIDAR, tow vehicles, and coral reefs
Josh Cinner (James Cook University) – Using social science to improve coral reef management
Kristen Marhaver (SIO) – Parent colony microbes influence coral larvae settlement and survival
Steven Smriga (SIO) - Milkfish feces share common bacteria with coral holobiont
Melissa Garren (SIO) - Potential for transport of bacteria between fish farms and coral reefs
Ben Ruttenberg (SIO) - Demographic shifts in coral reef fish communities across a gradient of human disturbance
Jessica Carilli (SIO) - Why I dragged a 250 lb compressor across Central America
Elizabeth Dinsdale (SDSU) – Metagenomics of microbial and viral communities on coral reefs
Fabiano Lopes Thompson (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) - Marine microbial diversity in the Blue Amazon
Ranjan Muthukrishnan (UCLA) - Determinants of community structure in tropical reef ecosystems: external stresses and internal feedbacks
Dave Zawada (USGS) - Fluorescence classification of Caribbean organisms & substrates
Oscar Beijbom and Tali Treibitz (UCSD / SIO) - Automated annotation of coral reef survey images
Art Gleason (RSMAS / University of Miami) - Coral reef mapping and monitoring with underwater image mosaics
Les Kaufman (Boston University) - Monitoring and modeling ecosystem health
Josh Cinner (JCU) - Evaluation of natural resource co-management arrangements across five countries
Mark Vermeij (CARMABI) - A story of reef conservation in the Caribbean and why conservationists rather hand out T-shirts than do their job
Phil Munday (JCU) - The prospects for acclimation and adaptation of reef fishes to climate change
Dave Zawada (USGS) - Remote-Sensing Fusion for Coral Reef Ecosystem Studies
Liz Dinsdale, Rob Edwards, Rob Schmieder, Matt Haggerty, Clint Edwards, Jill Harris, Rachel Morrison, and Tali Vardi (UCSD / SIO) - Recent work carried out in the Abrolhos Islands, Brazil
