Preliminary Program

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Tuesday, August 8, 2017 
16:00 -21:00 Arrival & Check-in, Reception & Dinner
 

Wednesday, August 9, 2017
8:00-8:45 Breakfast
Session I: Bioturbation in a changing ocean: Responses and implications across scales
9:00-9:45 Keynote: David Shull Western Washington University USA Bioturbation and organic matter mineralization pathways in the Bering Sea
9:45-10:00 Cintia Quintana University of Southern Denmark Denmark Bioturbation of three invasive species of Marenzelleria (Polychaeta) and consequences on the cycles of C, N and P in sediments from the Baltic Sea
10:00-10:15 Ulrike Braeckman Ghent University Belgium Carbon and nutrient cycling in shallow Antarctic benthic communities subject to glacier retreat
10:15-10:30 Sebastiaan Mestdagh Ghent University Belgium Spatio-temporal variation in biotic contribution to estuarine benthic ecosystem functioning
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:15 Christopher Gebhardt University of Rostock Germany Sediment reworking of Arenicola marina induces burial and accumulation of microplastic particles in marine sediments
11:15-11:30 Claudia Morys Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research Netherlands Bioturbation in two contrasting environments: non-tidal versus intertidal
11:30-11:45 Elise Toussaint Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Belgium How do macrofaunal activities impact biogeochemical cycling in anthropogenically disturbed sediment?
11:45-12:00 Annabelle Dairain Université de Bordeaux France Do parasites impact bioturbators?
12:00-12:15 Ludovic Pascal Université de Bordeaux France Parasitism of engineer species: a key factor of marine ecosystem functioning
12:15-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-14:15 Stefan Hulth University of Gothenburg Sweden Functional classification of bioturbating macrofauna in marine sediments using time-resolved imaging of particle displacement and multivariate analysis
14:15-14:30 Carl Van Colen Ghent University Belgium Behavioral responses of benthic macrofauna to ocean warming and acidification
14:30-14:45 Jasmin Godbold University of Southampton UK Impacts of climate change and physical disturbance on bioturbation and biogeochemical processes      
14:45-15:00 Lidya Tarhan Yale University USA The Protracted Development of Bioturbation through the Early Paleozoic
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
 

Session II: Bioturbation and biogeochemical models: approaches and challenges
15:30-16:15 Keynote: Christof Meile University of Georgia USA Flow from images, and its role in shaping a biogeochemical mosaic
16:15-16:30 Martin Solan University of Southampton UK Does burrowing behavior exploit sediment fracturing or fluidization?
16:30-16:45 Elizabeth Murphy University of Virginia USA Oxygen transport in periodically ventilated polychaete burrows
16:45-17:00 Erik Kristensen University of Southern Denmark Denmark Biogeochemical reactions and bioirrigation in sediments along a Skagerrak-Kattegat-Belt Sea transect
17:00-17:15 Matthias Thomsen University of Southampton UK Species compensatory responses depend on the cause of extinction and the extent of biodiversity loss
18:00-19:00 Dinner (Seafood)
19:30-21:00
Nereis Park Film Festival
Nils Volkenborn Stony Brook University USA Buried Alive
Lucie Pastor Ifermer France Life on the Deep Ocean Floor
Kelly Dorgan Dauphin Island Sea Lab USA Worms in Jell-O
Ian Dwyer Stony Brook University USA Two Years in The Hole: A Researcher’s Retrospective
Erni Murinati University of Koblenz-Landau Germany Effects of burrow ventilation of Chironomus plumosus on planar oxygen concentration dynamics above the sediment-water interface using the lifetime-based laser induced fluorescence technique
Nils Volkenborn Stony Brook University USA The Sound of the Seafloor
Emma Michaud Laboratory of Marine Environmental Sciences LEMAR France Using drones to study benthic habitats and bioturbation
William Clemo Dauphin Island Sea Lab USA Jaws: Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the mud…
 

Thursday, August 10, 2017
8:00-8:45 Breakfast
Session III: Novel sensors and approaches to study the bioturbated zone
9:00-9:45 Keynote: Emma Michaud Laboratory of Marine Environmental Sciences LEMAR France Assessing  biogeomorphology using drones: new perspectives for large-scale bioturbation studies
9:45-10:00 Rachel Hale University of Southampton UK Burrow dimensions and network properties in heterogeneous habitats
10:00-10:15 Viktor Baranov Senckenberg Research Institute Germany Peeping into the black box: using a “smart” tracer to enlighten oxygen consumption in bioturbated sediments.
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:00 Erni Murniati University of Koblenz-Landau Germany Imaging bioirrigation using a novel lifetime-based laser induced fluorescence (tLIF) technique
11:00-11:15 Morten Larsen University of Southern Denmark Denmark The influence of Mya arenaria on sediment oxygen and nutrient dynamics: A multi-sensor approach
11:15-11:30 Luis Buatois  University of Saskatchewan  Canada  Assessing changes in animal-substrate interactions through geologic time: Approaches and potential
11:30-13:30       Lunch Break

TAPAS (mixed session)
13:30-13:40 Kelly Dorgan Dauphin Island Sea Lab USA Acoustics as a tool for studying infaunal impacts on sediments
13:40-13:50 Noah Planavsky Yale University USA Effects of Bioturbation on the Global Phosphorus Cycle
13:50-14:00 Gary Banta Roskilde University Denmark Cu toxicity for the freshwater oligocheate Tubifex tubifex – Insights gained via simple bioturbation measurements and classic endpoints.
14:00-14:10 Wytze Lenstra Utrecht University Netherlands Release of nutrients and metals from shelf sediments in the Black Sea and Baltic Sea: contrasting roles for macrofauna
14:10-14:20 Susanne Eriksson Kristineberg-Gothenburg University Sweden Long-term changes in a pristine mangal ecosystem in Eastern Africa
     14:20-14:30

 

 

15:00-18:00
Gabriela Mangano University of Saskatchewan   Canada The fossil record of ecosystem engineers: Exceptionally preserved fossil mounds from the Upper Jurassic of Spain.

 

Boat Trip to Shinnecock Bay
18:00-19:30

 
Poster Session
Annabelle Dairain Université de Bordeaux France Parasite interference with bioturbation activity: a study of trace-metal remobilization
Ian Dwyer Stony Brook University USA Taking Pictures of Mud: Bioturbation in Action
Xiaoyu Fang Ghent University Belgium Spatial and temporal variation in bioirrigation and bioturbation and relationships with environmental variables along the estuarine gradient of the Schelde estuary
Kara Gadeken Dauphin Island Sea Lab & University of South Alabama USA The effect of macrofaunal behavioral responses to a diurnal oxygen cycle on sediment metabolism
Franck Gilbert EcoLab – CNRS France Crossed-effect between temperature and pesticides on fish:  behavioral and physiological responses of Carassius auratus
Ronnie Glud University of Southern Denmark Denmark Benthic diagenesis in a Scottish Loch; Effects of infaunal activity
Angelos Hannides Coastal Carolina University USA Chasing rainbows: Bioturbation and bioirrigation at high energy beaches
Dominik Huelse University of Bristol UK OMEN-SED (Organice Matter ENabled SEDiment model): A new, numerically efficient sediment model for coupling to ESMs
Valentyna Inshyna Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries Germany Sediment biogeochemistry controls relevance of bioturbation for phosphorous cycling in lake
Emma Michaud Laboratory of Marine Environmental Sciences LEMAR France Benthic macrofauna structure and bioturbation activities in the Arctic Ocean across depth gradients
Sharon Pochron Stony Brook University USA The response of earthworms (Eisenia fetida) and soil microbes to the crumb rubber material used in artificial turf fields
Claudia Mory University of Rostock Germany On the necessity of simplification when bioirrigation is treated as an ecosystem function
Nils Volkenborn Stony Brook University USA Poops and Coughs by Worms and Clams: Hydraulic Activity and Geochemical Dynamics in Marine Sediments
Stuart Waugh & Bob Aller Stony Brook University USA N2 production and fixation in bioturbated muds of Great Peconic Bay
Sarah Woodin & David Wethey University of South Carolina USA Pump, Poop, Pause, Reject, Reverse: Non-Invasive Activity Metrics for Infauna
Hang Yin, Bob Aller, Qingzhi Zhu Stony Brook University USA An Irreversible Planar Optical Sensor for Multi-Dimensional Measurements of Sedimentary H2S
19:30-21:30 BBQ
 

Friday, August 11, 2017
8:00-8:45 Breakfast
Session IV: Bioturbation and microbes: Conceptual and technical advances
9:00-9:45 Keynote: Diana Vasquez-Cardenas NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research Netherlands Bacterial reoxidation in bioturbated and electrogenic sediments
9:45-10:00 Jan Vanaverbeke Royal Belgian Insitute of Natural Sciences Belgium Increased densities of the bio-irrigator Lanice conchilega affect composition and diversity of nosZ transcripts
10:00-10:15 Harriet Dale University of Southampton UK Invertebrate mucopolysaccharide fuels the sediment microbial nitrogen cycle
10:15-10:30 Robert Aller Stony Brook University USA On the non-equivalence of nonlocal transport and microstructure models of bioirrigation
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
Session V: Bioturbation in terrestrial and freshwater systems
11:00-11:45 Keynote: Mac Callaham Center for Forest Disturbance Science, Southern Research Station USA How to make soil: Add parent material, soil animals, roots, weather, and set the blender on liquefy”
11:45-12:00 Franck Gilbert EcoLab – CNRS France Soil bioturbation: how do earthworms rework …regard to their marine homologues?
12:00-12:15 Sharon Pochron Stony Brook University USA Factors that influence earthworm sensitivity to glyphosate
12:15-12:30 Magali Gerino University Toulouse France Bioturbation as a bioremediation source in freshwater sediments
12:30-13:30 Lunch