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Oceans and Human Health (GRS)

Gordon Research Seminar

June 12 - 13, 2010
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Conference Description

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.

Related Meeting

This GRS will be held in conjunction with the "Oceans and Human Health" Gordon Research Conference (GRC). Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRC in addition to an application for the GRS. Refer to the associated GRC program page for more information.

Conference Program

SATURDAY
1:00 pm - 5:00 pmArrival and Check-in
3:00 pm - 3:15 pmIntroductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair
3:15 pm - 4:00 pmPROGRESS 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 pmPoster Session I (participants with the last names A-M)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmTOOLS 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 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmLINKING 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)
  • 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)
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 3:30 pmPoster Session II (participants with the last names N-Z)
3:30 pmGordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm.

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