Marine Sciences Research and Management Symposium 2016

Sept. 20 , 8am-4pm, Sala Eugene Francis, Physics Building 1st floor

Morning Session:
8:00 8:30: Registration!
8:30 8:45: Welcome.
Fernando Gilbes, PhD (Decano de Artes y Ciencias-RUM)
Ernesto Otero, PhD (Director Departamento de Ciencias Marinas)
8:45 9:15: Cerame Vivas , PhD(Former Director DMS): Trajectory of the Department of
Marine Sciences and its Purpose
9:15 9:35: Hector Coln, MS (Former Manager Official of the Boquern State Forest):
Historical view of the Boquern State Forest and its Management Status
9:35 9:50: Rolf Vieten (DMS-Geological Oceanography): Quantifying the impact of human
visitation in two cave chambers on Mona Island (Puerto Rico): implications for
archaeological site conservation
9:50 10:05: COFFEE BREAK
10:05 10:20: Luis Pomales (DMS-Physical Oceanography): Detection and the ongoing
characterization of submesoscale eddies off the southwestern coast of Puerto Rico
10:20 10:35: Erick Garca (DMS-Chemical Oceanography): Assessing the impact of carbon
outwelling from Baha Fosforescente as a driver for acidic conditions in nearby shelf
waters
10:35 11:05: Craig Lilyestrom, PhD (DRNA): Research priorities and funding opportunities under
Sport
Fish Restoration

11:05 11:20: Felix Santiago (Ing. Civil - RUM): Flooding Effects combining Storm Surge and Surface
Runoff during Hurricane Georges on the Eastern Coast Puerto Rico
11:20 - 11:35: Jaaziel Garca (DMS-Biological Oceanography): Hawaiis Hu'ahu'a-kai (foam of the seamarine sponges): A morphological and molecular study
11:35 11:50: Brendon Crespo (UPR-Humacao): Morfologa de las Superficies de los Huevos de
Chiton tuberculatus y C. marmoratus (Mollusca: Polyplacophora)
11:50 1:00: LUNCH

Afternoon Session:
1:00 1:15: Gemilly Rosado (DMS-Biological Oceanography): Stress and lifestage-related telomere
length variation in the endangered coral species Orbicella faveolata
1:15 1:30: Danisse Ruiz, PhD (DMS-Biological Oceanography): Stress-response of the black
coral Leiopathes glaberrima to the exposure of crude oil and dispersant
1:30 1:45: Mariel Cruz (DMS-Biological Oceanography): Population structure of the coral-eating
fireworm Hermodice carunculata in the wider Caribbean, Atlantic and Mediterranean
Sea
1:45 2:00: Nick Hammerman (DMS-Biological Oceanography): Horizontal and vertical connectivity
of the plating coral, Agaricia lamarcki from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
2:00 2:15: Diana Beltran, PhD (DMS-Biological Oceanography): Effective Dispersal of Caribbean
Reef
Fish is Smaller than Current Spacing Among Marine Protected Areas
2:15 2:30: Thay-Ling Moya (DMS-Biological Oceanography): The State of Worlds Fisheries and an
overview of Reef fish stocks here in Puerto Rico

2:30 2:45 : Duane Sanabria (DMS-Biological Oceanography): On the abundance, spatial

distribution, and coral host species preference of the threespot damselfishs Stegastes
planifrons in reefs off La Parguera
2:45 3:00: Ernesto Weil, PhD (DMS Faculty-Biological Oceanography): Temporal dynamics of
diseases of the sea fan Gorgonia ventalina in la Parguera, southwest coast of Puerto Rico

3:00 4:00 Poster session:

Adail Rivera (DMS-Physical Oceanography): Towards an Operational 3D Hydrodynamic Model of the
San Juan Bay and Estuary System
Jesus Rivera (DMS-Biological Oceanography): Filling Critical Information Gaps of Data-Poor Fisheries:
Preliminary Age, Growth, and Reproduction in Queen Triggerfish from Puerto Rico

Alex Veglia (DMS-Biological Oceanography): Genomic Variation, Host Range, And Infection Kinetics
Of Closely Related Cyanopodoviruses From New England Coastal Waters
Brendon Crespo (UPR-Humacao): Morfologa de las Superficies de los Huevos de Chiton
tuberculatus y C. marmoratus (MOLLUSCA: POLYPLACOPHORA)
Manuel Nieves (DMS-Biological Oceanography): An intertidal anemone selectively expels less
tolerant symbionts to cope with environmental stress
Carla Mejas (DMS-Chemical Oceanography): Exploratory evaluation of Retranslocation and
Bioconcentration of heavy metals at Las Cucharillas marsh, Puerto Rico
Estefana Quionez (DMS-Physical Oceanography): Lagrangian Drifter Dispersion in the Mona
Passage