The Gordon Research Seminar on Oceans & Human Health is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.
The focus of this meeting is the present, future, and potential effects of oceanic processes and marine organisms on human health and wellbeing. The unresolved impacts of global climate change, coastal development, and intercontinental dispersal of harmful organisms present tremendous challenges because of the interrelationships among human, animal, and ecosystem health impacts from threats that are increasingly ubiquitous in marine ecosystems, such as heavy metals, marine toxins, aquatic pathogens (including zoonoses), and synthetic organic chemicals.
| SATURDAY |
| 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | PROGRESS IN OCEANS AND HUMAN HEALTH (OHH) |
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Keynote Speaker: Lora Fleming (University of Miami)
"Seas, Society and Human Well-Being: The Crossroads of Public Health and Oceanography" |
| 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Discussion |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I (participants with the last names A-M) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | TOOLS AND METHODS IN OHH |
| Discussion Leader: Tracy Collier (Science Advisor for NOAA OHH) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Jesse A. Port (University of Washington)
"Bioinformatic analysis of stress response pathways in diatoms" |
| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Natalie J. Wallsgrove (University of Hawaii)
"Quantitative determination of trophic position using amino acid specific stable isotope analysis and its application to food web analysis and toxin distribution" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Julie A. Hollenbeck (University of Miami)
"Creating an outreach and education video on ciguatera" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Andrew M. Kramer (University of Georgia)
"Islands of aquatic pathogens: modeling pathogen species accumulation on marine aggregates" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | LINKING OCEAN, ANIMAL AND HUMAN HEALTH: A "One-health" |
| Discussion Leader: Lisa Conti (Florida Department of Health) |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Karen Shapiro (University of California, Davis)
"The role of marine aggregates in the transmission dynamics of zoonotic pathogens in coastal ecosystems" |
| 9:15 am - 9:25 am | Discussion |
| 9:25 am - 9:40 am | Adrienne Flowers (University of Southern Mississippi)
"Vibrio parahaemolyticus and V. vulnificus in Coastal Marine Sediments" |
| 9:40 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
| 9:50 am - 10:05 am | Andrea L. Bogomolni (University of Connecticut, Storrs)
"Phocine Distemper Virus (PDV) in Northeast U.S. Pinnipeds: Emerging Epizootic Events and Environmental Stressors" |
| 10:05 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
| 10:15 am - 10:45 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 am - 11:00 am | John J. Doyle (University of Connecticut, Avery Point)
"Uptake and Bioaccumulation of Nanoparticles in Suspension-Feeding Bivalves" |
| 11:00 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
| 11:10 am - 11:25 am | Marin Kress (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
"Globalization and marine resource commodity markets: visualizing trade dynamics" |
| 11:25 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
| 11:35 am - 12:30 pm | Career Options in Oceans and Human Health (a.k.a. how to get a job) |
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- Crystal Johnson (Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, University of Southern Mississippi)
- Paul Sandifer (Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, South Carolina)
- Robert (Bob) Dickey (FDA/CFSAN Division of Seafood Science and Technology)
- Tom Hutchinson (Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science, UK)
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Poster Session II (participants with the last names N-Z) |
| 3:30 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |
Last Updated: June 3, 2010