0950 – 1010 Insights
gained from top-down food web investigations in the Sacramento-San Joaquin
Delta: Implications for restoration Lenny Grimaldo (CA Dept of Water
Resources and SFSU)
1010 - 1025 – BREAK
1025 – 1045 Juvenile
steelhead and coho salmon use of the Albion and Navarro river estuaries.
Steve Cannata (CA Dept. of Fish and Game)
1045 – 1105 Gualala
River estuary and lower river assessment. Thomas P. Keegan (ECORP Consulting,
Inc.)
1105 – 1125 Fish populations
of small coastal lagoons in southern California. Camm C. Swift (Natural
History Museum of Los Angeles County)
1125 - 1145 What do
long-term datasets reveal about the ecology of longfin smelt (Spirinchus
thaleichthys) in the San Francisco Bay estuary? Jonathan A. Rosenfield
(UC Davis)
1145 – 1205 The prevalence
of non-indigenous species in southern California bays and harbors and
their effects on benthic macroinvertebrate communities. J.A. Ranasinghe
(SCCWRP)
1205 – 1300 LUNCH
1300 – 1320 Circulation
impacts of the Cabrillo shallow water habitat, Port of Los Angeles, CA.
Robert McAdory (US Army Engineer Research and Development Center)
1320 – 1340 Breach
II: understanding variability in tidal marsh restoration processes and
patterns in the San Francisco Bay-delta. Steve Bollens (Romberg Tiburon
Center, SFSU)
1340 – 1400 Successes
and shortcomings in habitat restoration: a case study of Cerithidea
californica (Gastropoda) colonization and fitness in a created tidal
mudflat. Anna R. Armitage (UCLA)
1400 – 1420 Estuarine
macroalgae take up nutrients from sediments leading to increased growth
and tissue nutrient content. Krista Kamer (SCCWRP)
1420 – 1440 Using macroalgae
as an indicator of terrestrial influences in southern California estuaries.
Risa A. Cohen (UCLA)
1440 – 1500 Nutrient
and macroalgal dynamics in five southern California estuaries. Rachel
L. Kennison (UCLA)
1500 – 1520 The North
versus The South: are nutrient dynamics fundamentally different? Peggy
Fong (UCLA)
1520 – 1540 BREAK
Special Session: Ecology
of Mission Bay (Organized by John Largier)
1540-1545 Introduction - John Largier (Scripps Institution
of Oceanography, UCSD)
1545-1600 Historical changes
in Mission Bay and observed changes in benthos - Jeff Crooks et al
(Tijuana NERRS, NOAA)
1600-1615 Water circulation
and transport in Mission Bay - John Largier et al
1615-1630 Plankton
Dynamics In Relation To The Physical And Chemical Environment In Mission
Bay - Ronald
Kaufmann (USD)
