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l Who Should Attend	l Post-Symposium Field Trips		l Area Information
l Call for Abstracts	l Registration Information		l Symposium Organizers
l Poster Information	l Meeting Location		l Symposium Coordinator
l Symposium Proceedings	l Hotel Accommodations		l Local Arrangement Committee
l Symposium Themes	l Financial Assistance		l ISDSC Steering Committee
l Agenda	l Symposium Sponsors
l Printable Brochure (PDF)		l Proceedings of the 2nd ISDSC
l Program and Abstract Book

Introduction & Purpose

Understanding the ecosystem role, function and value of deep-sea corals and associated fauna has become a priority topic for many national governments and international regional resource management bodies. Continuing with the tradition of the 1st Symposium in Halifax, Canada (2000), and 2nd Symposium in Erlangen, Germany (2003), the 3rd International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals will facilitate global exchange of the current scientific knowledge of deep-sea corals and associated fauna and to discuss possible statutory means available to conserve and protect deep-sea habitat.

The 3rd International Symposium will provide attendees from around the world with an opportunity to share their research results, identify information gaps, and discuss if deep-sea corals need special protection and if so, the statutory means available to do so. Being
international and interinstitutional in nature, the symposium also allows scientists to develop collaborative partnerships for future projects. A public forum presented by selected deep-sea coral researchers will be held one evening.

This international event will focus on scientific exchange and establishing collaborative partnerships. As several publications have recently stated, deep-sea corals are “out of sight but no longer out of mind.”

See you in America’s tropics, Miami!

Robert Brock, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service and Bob George, GIBS
Symposium Organizers

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Who Should Attend

This symposium is designed to bring together scientists, resource managers, students, and policy-makers from around the world who are actively involved in the monitoring and research management of deep-sea corals and other deep-sea habitats as well as the animals associated with them. As responsible management decisions are based upon the best available science, resource managers and policy-makers will also find this symposium invaluable to identifying information gaps and planning management activities.

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Call for Abstracts

All individuals involved in deep-sea coral research are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract under the appropriate symposium theme for consideration as an oral or poster presentation. Abstracts must
be submitted electronically by June 1, 2005 [Extended to June 10, 2005] following the detailed submission instructions provided in the link below. Thematic topic co-conveners will decide which abstracts will be presented orally and those by poster. ALL abstracts, both oral and poster, will be published in the symposium book of abstracts.

Abstract submission is closed.

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Poster Information

Poster Display

The poster will be in A0 DIN format (portrait): 4 ft high x 3 ft wide (1189mm x 841mm).

Poster boards will be freestanding and stationed in the Breezeway of the RSMAS Science and Administration Building.
Poster boards are covered with fabric, and posters can be affixed using either Velcro or ¾” long push pins. Tape is not permitted. A limited supply of Velcro tape will be available for your use during mounting, but we recommend you bring a supply with you. Multiple strips two inches in length work best.
Posters must be presented using the poster boards provided by the Symposium. The poster boards are contiguous, and presenters may not use their own self-contained displays. Due to space constrictions, no tables will be provided.

Note: If this is your first poster presentation, please refer to poster display guidelines (PDF format).

Poster Session

Set-up is Tuesday, November 29 from 8:00am-1:00pm. Please have all posters up by 2:00pm. All posters will be arranged by theme then in alpha order, unless a presenter requested another poster be positioned beside their poster.

The Poster Reception will be held Tuesday, November 29, 5:30pm-7:00pm. Presenters are required to be stationed at posters from 5:30pm-6:30pm. Please be sure to grab a drink and hors d’oeuvres before you go to your poster.

Poster must be removed on Friday, December 2, 12:00pm. The poster display boards will be dismantled and removed by the vendor at 1pm on Friday, so please have your poster down by this time. If not, the conference organizers are not responsible for lost or damaged posters removed by the display board vendor.

SPECIAL NOTE: For authors presenting multiple posters, we make every attempt to position your posters within close proximity of each other. However, please note that posters are topically divided and it is possible you may have a poster presentation in different themes.

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Symposium Proceedings

Editors and Editorial Board
Bulletin of Marine Science (BMS) (No. 6 Dec. 2006)

“Deep-Water Coral Ecosystems: Science and Management”

Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals held November 28 – December 2, 2005, at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS), Miami, Florida

Guest

Editors: Prof. Robert Y. George (GIBS)
Dr. Stephen Cairns (Smithsonian Institution)

Geology: Dr. Peter Swart (RSMAS)
Dr. William Schroeder (University of Alabama)
Dr. Marco Taviani (ISMAR - Italy)

Biology: Mr. John Reed (Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution)
Dr. Kenneth Sulak (U.S. Geological Survey)
Dr. Lance Morgan (Marine Conservation Biology Institute)
Dr. Pal Mortensen (Institute of Marine Research - Norway)

And: Dr. Su Sponaugle (BMS)
Dr. Rafael Araujo (BMS)

All contributors (oral and posters) to the symposium are encouraged to submit a paper to the proceedings of the symposium for publication in March 2007 as a regular number of the Bulletin of Marine Sciences. Manuscripts should be a minimum of six pages and a maximum of ten pages. Deadline to submit a manuscript is February 16, 2006. Editors will meet with the BMS Editorial Board on Nov. 28, 2005, in Miami during the symposium. Further details will be given to all symposium participants during the symposium.

Instructions for Symposium participants
who intend to submit manuscript for
publication in the Symposium Proceedings.

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Symposium Themes & Conveners

Theme 1	Systematics and Zoogeography Conveners: Stephen Cairns (USA) and Timothy Shank (USA)
Theme 2A	Habitat Mapping, Sampling and Characterization Conveners: Anthony Grehan (Ireland) and Kathy Scanlon (USA)
Theme 2B	Habitat Mapping, Sampling and Characterization Conveners: Anthony Grehan (Ireland) and Kathy Scanlon (USA)
Theme 3A	Geology: Palaeontology Conveners: Peter Swart (USA) and Michael Risk (Canada)
Theme 3B	Geology: Climate Change Conveners: Peter Swart (USA) and Michael Risk (Canada)
Theme 4	Coral Biology: Feeding, Growth and Reproduction Characterization Conveners: Tomas Lundalv (Sweden) and Sandra Brooke (USA)
Theme 5	Biodiversity: Microbial and Invertebrate Association Conveners: Robert George (USA) and Pål Mortensen (Norway)
Theme 6	Fish Ecology Conveners: Anthony Koslow (Australia) and Kenneth Sulak (USA)
Theme 7	Ecosystem-Based Management Conveners: Steve Murawski (USA) and Susan Gass (Scotland)
Theme 8	Conservation and Protection of Deep-Sea Corals Conveners: Murray Roberts (UK) and Dorothy Zbicz (USA)

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Agenda

Monday, November 28, 2005 (Doubletree Hotel Coconut Grove)

3:00pm–7:00pm	Registration
5:00pm–6:00pm	Opening Session & Welcome Conveners: *Dr. Robert Brock, NOAA Fisheries Service and Prof. Robert George*, George Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability
	*Dr. Otis Brown*, Dean, University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
	*Mr. Timothy Keeney*, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
	*Dr. Suzette Kimball*, Regional Director of the Eastern Region, U.S. Geological Survey
	*Dr. James Kendall*, Chief Scientist, U.S. Minerals Management Service
	Symposium Dedication
6:00pm–7:30pm	Welcome Reception

Tuesday, November 29, 2005 (University of Miami RSMAS)

7:00am–8:00am	Bus Shuttle from Doubletree Hotel to the University of Miami RSMAS
7:30am–12:00pm	Poster Presenters Set-Up Displays
7:30am–5:30pm	Registration Open
TWO CONCURRENT SESSIONS
8:30am–12:00pm	Theme 1: Systematics and Zoogeography Conveners: *Dr. Stephen Cairns, National Museum Of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USA) and Dr. Timothy Shank*, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (USA)
8:30am–9:00am	Keynote: Deep-Water Corals: A Primer – *Stephen Cairns*
9:00am–9:15am	Low Sequence Variability within Anthozoan Mitochondrial Genomes: Are Antipatharian Noncoding Regions the Exception? – Mercer R. Brugler and Scott C. France
9:15am–9:30am	*Genetic Analysis of Bamboo Corals: Does Lack of Colony Branching Distinguish Lepidisis* from Keratoisis?** – Scott C. France
9:30am–9:45am	A Molecular Phylogenetic Perspective on Diversity and Species Boundaries of Deep-Sea Scleractinian Corals from the Southeastern U.S. and Gulf of Mexico – Cheryl L. Morrison, Robin Johnson, Steve W. Ross, Kenneth J. Sulak, Robert J. Toonen and Tim L. King
9:45am–10:00am	The Cinderella of the Nuclear Sequences? Contribution of ITS2 Sequences and Predicted RNA Secondary Structures to Octocoral Systematics – Juan Armando Sánchez
10:00am–10:30am	Refreshment Break
10:30am–10:45am	*Population Genetic Structure of the Deep-Sea Precious Coral Corallium secundum* from the Hawaiian Archipelago Based on Microsatellites – Amy R. Baco**
10:45am–11:00am	Nuclear Sequences Distinguish Oculina Species by Geography, not Classical Taxonomy – Michael E. Hellberg and Margaret W. Miller
11:00am–11:15am	Ecology, Systematics, and the Evolution of Stylasterid Coral Diversity (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Stylasteridae) – Alberto Lindner
11:15am–11:30am	Corallum Growth Modifications in Black Corals as an Effect of Associated Fauna: Implications for the Taxonomy – Tina Molodtsova and N. Budaeva
11:30am–11:45am	*Shape Variation Analysis of the Deep-Sea Star Coral (Deltocyathus calcar)* – Javier Reyes
11:45am–12:00pm	Studies on Azooxanthellate Hard Corals in India – Krishmanmoor Venkataraman
12:00pm–2:00pm	Lunch On Own
8:30am–12:00pm	Theme 3A: Geology: Paleontology Conveners: *Dr. Michael Risk, McMaster University (Canada) and Dr. Peter Swart*, University of Miami RSMAS (USA)
8:30am–9:00am	Keynote: The Climate Record From Deep-Water Corals Rules, Because Geochemistry Finally Married Paleontology – *Michael Risk*
9:00am–9:15am	Danian Bryozoan and Coral Mounds in Denmark - Ancient Analogues to Modern Deep-Sea Coral Mounds? - *Morten Bjerager* and Finn Surlyk
9:15am–9:30am	IODP Expedition 307 Unravelled the Deep Secrets of the Cold Water Coral Banks in the Porcupine Seabight - *Ben De Mol, Timothy Ferdelman, Akihiro Kano, Trevor Williams, Kohei Abe, Miriam S. Andres, Morten Bjerager, Emily L. Browning, Barry A. Cragg, Boris Dorschel, Anneleen Foubert, Tracy D. Frank, Yuji Fuwa, Phillippe Gaillot, Jamshid J. Gharib, Jay M. Gregg, Veerle Ann Ida Huvenne, Philippe Léonide, Xianghui Li, Kai Mangelsdorf, Xavier Monteys, Akiko Tanaka, Ivana Novosel, Saburo Sakai, Vladimir A. Samarkin, Keiichi Sasaki, Arthur J. Spivack, Chizuru Takashima, Juergen Titschack, Jean-Pierre Henriet* and shipboard party of IODP LEG 307
9:30am–9:45am	The Influence of Bottom Currents and Cold-Water Corals on Mound Growth on the Irish Continental Margin – The Recent Situation and Initial Results from IODP Expedition 307 - *Boris Dorschel, Dierk Hebbeln, Anneleen Foubert, Martin White* and Expedition 307 scientific party
9:45am–10:00am	From Surface Coring to Deep Drilling on Challenger Mound in the Porcupine Seabight, W of Ireland – *Anneleen Foubert, Boris Dorschel, Veerle A.I. Huvenne, Juergen Titschack, Jean-Pierre Henriet*, and the IODP Expedition 307 Shipboard Scientific Party
10:00am–10:30am	Refreshment Break
10:30am–10:45am	Distribution of Cold-Water Corals in the Gulf of Cádiz under Changing Late Quaternary Climate Conditions - *Dierk Hebbeln, Claudia Wienberg* and Boris Dorschel
10:45am–11:00am	The Initial Stages of Large Coral Bank Formation: New Insights from Present-Day Analogues and from the First Results of IODP Expedition 307 in the Porcupine Seabight - *Veerle A.I. Huvenne, Boris Dorschel, Anneleen Foubert, Ben De Mol* and the IODP Expedition 307 Shipboard Scientific Party
11:00am–11:15am	Azooxanthellate Coral Communities on a Diapiric Continental Margin (Colombian Caribbean) - *Nadiezhda Santodomingo, Javier Reyes, Adriana Gracia, Germán Ojeda* and Juan Ramón Peláez
11:15am–11:30am	Pliocene Deep-Water Coral Limestones from the NW Apennines (Italy) and Their Links to Hydrocarbon Seepage - *Marco Taviani*, S. Cavagna, P. Clari, F. Dela Pierre and M. Lopez Correa
11:30am–11:45am	Description and Depositional History of the Plio-Pleistocene Deep-Water Coral Facies from Messina (southern Italy) - Comparison with Recent Environments - *Agostina Vertino, André Freiwald, Italo Di Geronimo* and Paolo Pino
11:45am–12:00pm	Sediment Mounds at the Shelf Margin of the East China Sea, Possible Deep Water Coral Reefs? - *Ping Yin, Serge Berne* and Zhenxia Liu
12:00pm–2:00pm	Lunch On Own
TWO CONCURRENT SESSIONS
2:00pm–5:30pm	Theme 2A: Habitat Mapping, Sampling and Characterization Conveners: *Dr. Kathy Scanlon, U.S. Geological Survey (USA) and Dr. Anthony Grehan*, National University Of Ireland-Galway (Ireland)
2:00pm–2:30pm	Keynote: Distribution and Status of Cold-Water Coral Ecosystems in Coastal Channels in the NE Skagerrak, Norway and Sweden – Tomas Lundälv
2:30pm–2:45pm	Deep-Water Sponge and Coral Habitats in the Coastal Waters of British Columbia, Canada: Multibeam and ROV Survey Results – *Kim W. Conway*, J. Vaughn Barrie, William C. Austin, Phillip R. Hill, and M. Krautter
2:45pm–3:00pm	Morphology and Sediment Dynamics of Initial Cold-Water Coral Mounds (Moira mounds) in the Porcupine Seabight – *Anneleen* *Foubert, Veerle A. I. Huvenne, Andy Wheeler, J. Opderbecke* and Jean-Pierre Henriet
3:00pm–3:15pm	ROV Investigations of Cold-Water Coral Habitats along the Porcupine Bank Margin, West Coast of Ireland – *Anthony J. Grehan, Margaret Wilson, Janine Guinan, James O'Riordan, Levente Molnar, Edin Omerdic, Jenny Ullgren, Erwan Le Guilloux, Daniel Toal* and Colin Brown
3:15pm–3:30pm	*Bathymetry Model of a Vertical Lophelia pertusa* Reef in the Trondheim Fjord, Norway – Martin Ludvigsen** and Johanna Järnegren
3:30pm–4:00pm	Refreshment Break
4:00pm–4:15pm	Identification and Characterization of Deepwater Coral Communities on Continental Shelf-Edge Reefs and Banks in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico – *George P. Schmahl, Emma L. Hickerson* and Douglas C. Weaver
4:15pm–4:30pm	*Seabed Characteristics at Sites Where Lophelia pertusa* Occur in the Northern and Eastern Gulf of Mexico – William W. Schroeder**
4:30pm–4:45pm	ROV-Based Habitat Mapping on Franken Mound, West Rockall Bank, NE Atlantic – Claudia Wienberg, Sebastian Heidkamp and Dierk Hebbeln
4:45pm–5:00pm	Deep-Sea Corals in the New England Seamounts: Habitat Mapping Today and their Distribution in the Past – *Jess F. Adkins, Daniel Scheirer, Laura Robinson* and Tim Shank
5:00pm–5:15pm	Structure-Forming Benthic Invertebrates: Habitat Distributions on the Continental Margins of Oregon and Washington – *Natalie A. Strom, Chris Goldfinger, W. Waldo Wakefield* and Brian N. Tissot
5:15pm–5:30pm	Substrate and Physical Features as Predictors of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats in the Aleutian Islands – *Doug Woodby, Dave Carlile, Bob Stone, Jon Heifetz, Jennifer Reynolds* and Gary Greene
TWO CONCURRENT SESSIONS
2:00pm–5:30pm	Theme 5: Biodiversity: Microbial And Invertebrate Association Conveners: Dr. Pål l Mortensen, Institute Of Marine Research (Norway) and Prof. Robert George, George Institute For Biodiversity And Sustainability (USA)
2:00pm–2:30pm	Keynote: Deep-Sea Coral Microbial Ecology – *Christina Kellogg*
2:30pm–2:45pm	Characterization of Bacterial Communities Associated with Deep-Sea Corals on Gulf of Alaska Seamounts - *Naomi Ward, Kevin Penn* and Dongying Wu
2:45pm–3:00pm	Productivity and Abundance of Invertebrate-Associated Microbes in Sponges of Cold Water Coral Reefs (Rockall Trough, NE Atlantic) - *Fleur C. van Duyl, Cornelia Maier, Astrid Hoogstraten* and Jan Hegeman
3:00pm–3:15pm	*Clearance and Respiration Rates of the Deep Living Bivalve Acesta excavata* (J.C. Fabricius, 1779) - Johanna Järnegren** and Dag Altin
3:15pm–3:30pm	Trends in the Biodiversity of Benthic Macrofauna from Deep-Water Carbonate Mounds in the Porcupine Seabight, West of Ireland - *Lea-Anne M. Henry, Rosanna Milligan* and J. Murray Roberts
3:30pm–4:00pm	Refreshment Break
4:00pm–4:15pm	Key Species of Cold-Water Coral-Associated Fauna - *Tim Beck* and André Freiwald
4:15pm–4:30pm	Question and Answer Session
4:30pm–4:45pm	Bamboo Corals in North America - Peter J. Etnoyer and *George Schmahl*
4:45pm–5:00pm	Habitat Utilization and Species-Specific Associations between Galatheids and Deepwater Corals off the Southeastern United States - *Martha S. Nizinski, Steve W. Ross* and Kenneth J. Sulak
5:00pm–5:15pm	Invertebrate Assemblages on Deep-Sea Corals on Seamounts in the Gulf of Alaska - *Thomas C. Shirley*, Amy R. Baco, Danielle Parker and Jon Warrenchuk
5:15pm–5:30pm	*Biodiversity and Biogeography of Communities Associated with Lophelia pertusa* in the Northern Gulf of Mexico - Erik E. Cordes*, Michael P. McGinley, Elizabeth L. Podowski* and Charles R. Fisher
5:30pm–7:00pm	Poster Reception *Poster presenters must be stationed by their poster from 5:30pm-6:30pm.
6:15pm–7:15pm	Bus Shuttle from the University of Miami RSMAS to the Doubletree Hotel

Wednesday, November 30, 2005 (University of Miami RSMAS)

7:00am–8:00am	Bus Shuttle from Doubletree Hotel to the University of Miami RSMAS
7:30am–5:30pm	Registration Open
8:30am–12:00pm	Theme 3B: Geology: Climate Change Conveners: *Dr. Michael Risk, McMaster University (Canada) and Dr. Peter Swart*, University of Miami RSMAS (USA)
8:30am–9:00am	Keynote: Are Deep-Sea Corals Threatened by the Decline in Aragonite Saturation State in the Ocean – *Chris Langdon*
9:00am–9:15am	Geochemical Profiles of Corals from a Dynamic Habitat: Charleston Bump, NW Blake Plateau - *C. Fred T. Andrus, George R. Sedberry* and Christopher S. Romanek
9:15am–9:30am	Will Changes in Seawater Chemistry Negatively Affect Deep-Sea Coral Ecosystems? - *John M. Guinotte, James Orr, Robert George, and Lance Morgan*
9:30am–9:45am	Antarctic Rosetta Stone: Towards a Recent Paleoceanographic Reconstruction from the Southern Ocean Using a Deep Sea Coral - *Michael Lutz, A. Meibom, B. Roderick, P. Chamberlain, R. Dunbar, D. Mucciarone, and Stephan Cairns*
9:45am–10:00am	Preliminary Evidence of Oceanic Climate Change around New Zealand over the Last Century: The Pole-Equator Seesaw - *Helen Neil, Ronald Thresher, DiTracey, Peter Marriott, Allen Andrews* and Juan Sanchez
10:00am–10:30am	Refreshment Break
10:30am–10:45am	Development of Radiocarbon, Trace Element, and Stable Isotopic Records From a Deep Sea Coral: Isididae sp.- *E. Brendan Roark, Stewart Fallon, Thomas P. Guilderson, Robert B. Dunbar, Malcolm McCulloch* and B. Lynn Ingram
10:45am–11:00am	Deep Sea Corals as Recorders of North Atlantic Radiocarbon Variability - Laura F. Robinson, Jess F. Adkins, John Southon, Diego P. Fernandez and S.L. Wang
11:00am–11:15am	Isotope Screening on Lophelia pertusa (L.) – Reconstruction of Temperature vs. Growth Rate - *Andres Rüggeberg, W.-Chr. Dullo, A. Eisenhauer, J. Fietzke, André Freiwald, B.R. Schöne* and N. Andersen
11:15am–11:30am	*A 1200-Year History of Labrador Slope Water off Nova Scotia from Nitrogen Isotopes in Deep-Sea Primnoa* Corals - Owen A. Sherwood*, Kumiko Azetsu-Scott, David B. Scott* and Michael J. Risk
11:30am–11:45am	Temperature-Dependence of Mg/Ca Deposition in Keratoisis spp.: Evidence and Application to Reconstruction of Deep-Water Oceanography and Climatology in the Australian/New Zealand Region - *Ronald Thresher, Helen Neil, Jess Adkins, Colin MacRae, Nick Wilson, Rob Gurney* and Di Tracey
11:45am–12:00pm	Deep-Water Antipatharians and Gorgonians: Proxies of Biogeochemical Processes? - *Branwen Williams, Mike Risk, Ken Sulak, Steve Ross* and Robert Stone
12:00pm–2:00pm	Lunch On Own
TWO CONCURRENT SESSIONS
2:00pm–5:30pm	Theme 4: Coral Biology: Feeding, Growth And Reproduction Characterization Conveners: Dr. Sandra Brooke, Oregon Institute Of Marine Biology (USA) and Dr. Tomas Lundälv, Tjarnoe Marine Biological Station (Sweden)
2:00pm–2:30pm	Keynote: Morphology, Growth and Feeding in Cold-Water Corals- *Pål B. Mortensen*
2:30pm–2:45pm	The Exploration of the Trophic Foodweb of a Cold-Water Coral Community of the Rockall Trough by Means of Analysis of Stable Isotope (δ15N) Signatures of the Main Biota - *Marc S.S. Lavaleye* and Gerard C.A. Duineveld
2:45pm–3:00pm	Potential Food Sources for Deep Water Corals from Rockall Trough (NE Atlantic) Assessed by Aquarium Feeding Experiments and Stable Isotopic Composition - *Cornelia Maier, Anna de Kluijver, Wolf-Rainer Abraham, Fleur C. van Duyl, Martin Agis* and Markus Weinbauer
3:00pm–3:15pm	The Physiological Ecology of the Reef Framework-Forming Coral Lophelia pertusa - *Lyndsey A Dodds,J Murray Roberts* , Alan Taylor and Francesca Marubini
3:15pm–3:30pm	Skeletal Growth and Chemistry of Two North Atlantic Deep Water Scleractinia - *Anne L. Cohen, John Crusius, Bruce H. Corliss, Robert Y. George* and Tomas Lundalv
3:30pm–4:00pm	Refreshment Break
4:00pm–4:15pm	Trace-Element “Vital Effects” are a Ubiquitous Feature of Scleractinian Corals – New Data from Lophelia, Oculina and Desmophyllum – Daniel. J. Sinclair, B. Williams and M. Risk
4:15pm–4:30pm	Lead-210 Dating Bamboo Coral (Family Isididae) of New Zealand and California - *Allen H. Andrews, Dianne M. Tracey, Helen Neil, Gregor M. Cailliet* and Cassandra M. Brooks
4:30pm–4:45pm	Age and Growth, and Age Validation of Deep-Sea Coral Family Isididae - *Dianne M. Tracey,* Juan. A. Sanchez, Helen Neil, Peter. Marriott, Allen. H. Andrews and Greg.M. Cailliet
4:45pm–5:00pm	*Growth Pattern of Deep-Water Gorgonian (Primnoa resedaeformis pacifica) in Japan* - *Asako* *K. Matsumoto*
5:00pm–5:15pm	*Reproduction of Lophelia pertusa* from Norway and the Northern Gulf of Mexico** - Sandra Brooke, *Johanna Järnegren* and Martin Ludvigsen
5:15pm–5:30pm	Reproductive Ecology of Hydrocorals from the Aleutian Islands - Sandra Brooke and Robert Stone
TWO CONCURRENT SESSIONS
2:00pm–5:30pm	Theme 2B: Habitat Mapping, Sampling and Characterization Conveners: Dr. Anthony Grehan, National University Of Ireland-Galway (Ireland) and Dr. Kathy Scanlon, U.S. Geological Survey (USA)
2:00pm–2:15pm	Large-scale Associations between Habitat, Fish and Corals – Curt E. Whitmire, N. Tolimieriand M. E. Clarke; NOAA Fisheries – Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA, USA
2:15pm–2:30pm	Finding Suitable Areas to Conserve Lophelia Habitat on Rockall Bank – *Mark Tasker, Jason Hall-Spencer, Sabine Christiansen* and Stuart Rogers
2:30pm–2:45pm	Distribution of Deep-Water Corals on the Western Margin of Little Bahama Bank, Bahama Islands – *Charles G. Messing, Ryan P. Moyer, Richard Shaul* and Richard E. Dodge
2:45pm–3:00pm	Southeastern U.S. Deep Sea Corals Initiative (SEADESC): Characterizing Known Locations of Habitat-Forming Deep-Sea Corals in the South Atlantic Bight – *Timothy Birdsong, John McDonough, Martha Nizinski, Jeremy Potter, Steve Ross, George Sedberry* and Andy Shepard
3:00pm–3:15pm	Coral Habitats on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge – *Pål B. Mortensen, Lene Buhl-Mortensen, Andrey V. Gebruk* and Elena M. Krylova
3:15pm–3:30pm	Distribution of Benthic Species Associations in the Belgica Mound Province, Porcupine Seabight – Ecological Aspects and Relation to Facies and Benthic Habitat Features – *Tim Beckand Anneleen Foubert*
3:30pm–4:00pm	Refreshment Break
4:00pm–4:15pm	*Submersible Surveys of Deep-Water Lophelia* pertusa Coral Reefs off the Southeastern USA: Recent Discoveries and Research – John K. Reed*, Doug C. Weaver* and Shirley A. Pomponi
4:15pm–4:30pm	*ROV Surveys of Oculina* Banks Marine Reserve: Habitat Mapping and Fish-Habitat Associations – Stacey L. Harter** and Andrew N. Shepard
4:30pm–4:45pm	The HURL Database of Deep-Sea Corals in Hawaii –*Christopher Kelley*, Deetsie Chave, Leping Hu, Jane Culp, and Rachel Shackelford
4:45pm–5:00pm	Prototype Deep-Water Coral Geodatabase: Gulf of Mexico and Beyond – *Kathryn M. Scanlon, Julia M. Knisel* and Rhian Waller
5:00pm–5:15pm	Deep-Sea Coral Distributions in the Newfoundland and Labrador Region – *Vonda E. Wareham* and Evan N. Edinger
5:15pm–5:30pm	Seaways of the Bahamas Archipelago: A Vast Natural Laboratory for Research on Biophysical Parameters Controlling the Development of Deep Sea Buildups (Banks and Lithoherms) – *Robert N. Ginsburg* and Steve J. Lutz
5:30pm–6:00pm	Bus Shuttle from the University of Miami RSMAS to Doubletree Hotel
7:00pm–9:00pm	Public Lecture (University of Miami RSMAS Auditorium) Bioprospecting on Deep Reefs: Unexpected Treasures - *Shirley Pomponi, President and CEO, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution Film on cold coral reefs off Florida Atlantic Coast - John Reed*, Senior Scientist, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution

Thursday, December 1, 2005 (University of Miami RSMAS)

7:00am– 8:00am	Bus Shuttle from the Doubletree Hotel to the University of Miami RSMAS
7:30am– 5:30pm	Registration Open
8:30am–12:00pm	Theme 6: Fish Ecology Conveners: *Dr. Tony Koslow, Commonwealth Scientific And Industrial Research Organization (Australia) and Dr. Ken Sulak*, U.S. Geological Survey (USA)
8:30am–9:00am	Keynote: Patterns in the Biogeography and Endemism of Seamount Biotas as the Basis for Their Conservation and Management: Update from the September 2005 ISA/CoML CenSeam Workshop - J. Anthony Koslow
9:00am–9:15am	Coral Distribution on NE Atlantic Seamounts, Continental Slopes and Oceanic Islands Prior to Industrial Deep-Water Trawling - *Jason Hall-Spencer* and Alex Rogers
9:15am–9:30am	Patterns of Groundfish Diversity and Abundance and Deep-Sea Coral Distributions in Newfoundland and Labrador Waters - *Evan N. Edinger, Vonda E. Wareham* and Richard L. Haedrich
9:30am–9:45am	The Distribution of Fishes Over Seamount Landscapes in the Western North Atlantic Ocean - *Peter J. Auster, Kari Heinonen* and Jon Moore
9:45am–10:00am	Benthic Fishes Occupying Deep Coral Habitats along the Southeastern United States Continental Slope - *Steve W. Ross, Kenneth J. Sulak* and Andrea M. Quattrini
10:00am–10:30am	Refreshment Break
10:30am–10:45am	*Megafauna and Fish Community Patterns at Several Carbonate Mounds Dominated by Lophelia pertusa* along the Porcupine and Rockall Bank, West off Ireland** – Karine Olu-Le Roy, A. Fifis, André Freiwald, J. Galéron, Anthony Grehan, E. Le Guilloux, Jean-Pierre Henriet, Pascal Lorance, M. Sibuet, J. Vacelet, H. Zibrowius, and the Caracole cruise scientific team
10:45am–11:00am	The Ecology and Ecological Impact of an Invasive, Alien Octocoral on Hawaii’s Deep-Water Coral Reef Community - *Samuel E. Kahng*
11:00am–11:15am	Habitat and Fish Assemblages of Three Deep-Sea Corals in Hawaii - *Frank A. Parrish*
11:15am–11:30am	*Characterization of Northern Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Hard Bottom Communities - Stephen T. Viada,* Craig M. Young, Sandra D. Brooke, Charles Fisher, Erik Cordes, William W. Schroeder and Steven Morey
11:30am–11:45am	*Fishes Associated with Lophelia pertusa* Habitats in the Gulf of Mexico – Kenneth J. Sulak*, George D. Dennis III, R. Allen Brooks, and Steve W. Ross*
11:45am–12:00pm	Linking Deepwater Corals and Fish Populations - *Peter J. Auster*
12:00pm–2:00pm	Lunch On Own
2:00pm–5:30pm	Theme 8: Conservation And Protection Of Deep-Sea Corals Conveners: *Dr. Dorothy Zbicz, World Wildlife Fund (USA) and Dr. Murray Roberts*, Scottish Association of Marine Science (UK)
2:00pm–2:30pm	Keynote: Conservation and Protection of Cold-Water Coral Reefs: What do Policy and Decision Makers Need to Know? - Stefan Hain
2:30pm–2:45pm	MPAs to Protect Deep Sea Corals and Seamounts off Alaska - *Catherine Coon, John Olson* and Matthew Eagleton
2:45pm–3:00pm	Protection of Deep Water Corals with the Development of Oil and Gas Resources in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico - *Thomas E. Ahlfeld* and Gregory S. Boland
3:00pm–3:15pm	*The Occurrence of the Cold-Water Coral Lophelia pertusa* (Scleractinia) on Oil and Gas Platforms in the North Sea - Susan E. Gass** and J. Murray Roberts
3:15pm–3:30pm	Isolation and Characterization of Novel Tri- and Tetra-Nucleotide Microsatellite DNA Markers for the Delineation of Reproductive, Population, and Phylogeographic Structures in the Deep-Water Reef-Forming Coral Lophelia pertusa - Tim L. King, Cheryl L. Morrison, Robin Johnson, Michael S. Eackles, Kenneth J. Sulak and Steve W. Ross
3:30pm–4:00pm	Refreshment Break
4:00pm–4:15pm	Developing Ecological Quality Objectives for the Management of Cold-Water Coral Protected Areas - Jan Helge Fosså, Anthony J. Grehan, Paal Mortensen and Simon Jennings
4:15pm–4:30pm	The Darwin Mounds – From Undiscovered Coral to the Emergence of an Offshore Marine Protected Area Regime: A History of Interactions and Consequences - *Elizabeth M. De Santo* and Peter J.S. Jones
4:30pm–4:45pm	The Aleutian Islands Model for Deep-Sea Coral Ecosystem Conservation - *Geoff Shester* and Jon Warrenchuk
4:45pm–5:00pm	Tools and Options for the Protection of Deep-Sea Coral Ecosystems - *Kristina M. Gjerde*
5:00pm–5:15pm	Science Priority Areas on the High Seas – Scientists’ Views - *Hjalmar Thiel*
5:15pm–5:30pm	In Sight, Still Out of mind! — Coral Banks in Chilean Fjords: Characteristics, Distribution, Threats - Günter Försterra and Vreni Häussermann
5:30pm–6:00pm	Bus Shuttle from the University of Miami RSMAS to Doubletree Hotel
8:00pm–10:00pm	Symposium Banquet (Doubletree Hotel Coconut Grove) Award of “Robert Avent Medal” Award of “Donald McAllister Medal” Recognition of GIBS/USGS delegates to 3^rd ISDSC – *Dr. Gary Brewer*, USGS

Friday, December 2, 2005 (University of Miami RSMAS)

7:00am–8:00am	Bus Shuttle from the Doubletree Hotel to the University of Miami RSMAS
7:30am–5:30pm	Registration Open
8:30am–12:00pm	Theme 7: Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management Conveners: *Ms. Susan Gass, Scottish Association Of Marine Science, (UK) and Dr. Steve Murawski*, NOAA Fisheries Service (USA)
8:30am–9:00am	Keynote: Ecosystem Based Fisheries Managment (EBFM): A Primer – Steve Murawski
9:00am–9:15am	A National Assessment of Deep-Sea Coral Communities and Approaches to their Conservation and Management - *Lance Morgan, John Guinotte, Sara Maxwell* and Fan Tsao
9:15am–9:30am	Technology to Support Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management in the South Atlantic Region - *Tina Udouj, Roger Pugliese* and Myra Brouwer
9:30am–9:45am	Deepwater Corals in the U.S. Southeast: Conservation and Management - *Roger Pugliese, Doug Rader, Myra Brouwer, Gregg Waugh, Brian N. Tissot, Mary M. Yoklavich, Milton S. Love* and Keri York
9:45am–10:00am	Protecting Sensitive Deep-Sea Canyon Habitats Through Fisheries Management: A Case Study In The Northeastern U.S. - *Leslie-Ann S. McGee, Deirdre V. Boelke, David K Stevenson* and Robert N. Reid
10:00am–10:30am	Refreshment Break
10:30am–10:45am	Are Deep-Sea Coral Communities Benthic Habitat for Fishes on Rocky Banks off Southern California? - *Brian N. Tissot, Mary M. Yoklavich, Milton S. Love* and Keri York
10:45am–11:00am	A Satellite Vessel Tracking to Protect Deep-Water Corals - *Jason Hall-Spencer*
11:00am–11:15am	Development of a Proposal to Mitigate the Adverse Effects of Bottom Trawling on Benthic Habitat off the U.S. Pacific Coast - *Jon Warrenchuk* and Geoff Shester
11:15am–11:30am	Designing Management Measures to Protect Cold-Water Corals off Nova Scotia, Canada - Derek Fenton and *Heather Breeze*
11:30am–11:45am	Methodology to Reduce Bycatch of Corals and Sponges in the Groundfish Trawl Fishery: An Example from British Columbia, Canada - Jeff Ardron and *Dorthea Hangaard*
11:45am–12:00pm	Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management: Food-chain Models for a Northeast Pacific Gorgonean Forest, the Mid-Atlantic Corner Rise Seamount and the Florida Oculina Reefs - Robert Y. George, Thomas Okey, John Reed and Robert Stone
12:00pm	Poster Displays Removed
12:00pm–2:00pm	Lunch On Own
2:00pm–4:00pm	Panel Discussion – Protection of Coldwater Coral Habitats And Seamounts – Legal And Political Considerations Facilitators: Dr. Robert Brock and *Prof. Robert George*
	Panelists: *Dr. Ronán Long, Manahan Law of the Sea Research Fellow & Jean Monnet Chair European Law, School of Law, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Dr. Kristina M. Gjerde, Senior Scientist, IUCN—The World Conservation Union, Global Marine Program, Konstancin-Chylice, Poland Mr. Matthew Gianni, Policy Advisor, Deep-Sea Conservation Coalition, Amsterdam, Holland Dr. Ellen Pikitch, Professor of Marine Biology and Executive Director, PEW Institute for Ocean Sciences, RSMAS, University of Miami Dr. James Kendall, Chief Scientist, U.S. Minerals Management Service Dr. William Hogarth*, Assistant Administrator, NOAA Fisheries Service
3:00pm–4:00pm	Question & Answer
4:00pm	Symposium Adjourns
4:00pm–4:45pm	Bus Shuttle from University of Miami RSMAS to Doubletree
4:00pm–5:00pm	International Steering Committee of ISDSC (RSMAS Dean’s Conference Room)
7:00pm–8:30pm	Announcement: GIBS-PIOS Academic Forum on Deep-Water Ecosystems Conservation and Management (RSMAS Auditorium) Sponsored by George Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (GIBS) and PEW Institute for Ocean Sciences (PIOS), RSMAS Moderated by: Prof. Robert Y. George, President, GIBS and Dr. Beth Babcock, Chief Scientist, PIOS, RSMAS - Symposium participants and RSMAS graduate students and faculty are invited.

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Poster Directory

Theme 1 – Systematics and Zoogeography

How Much Do We Know about Octocorals in Colombian Caribbean Continental Margin? – Isabel Cristina Chacón-Gómez, Javier Reyes and Nadiezhda Santodomingo; Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras INVEMAR, Santa Marta, Colombia

Cold Water Corals of British Columbia – G. S. Jamieson¹, N. Pellegrin¹ and S. Jessen²; ¹Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, BC, Canada; ²Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Biodiversity and Vertical Distribution of Azooxanthellate Scleractinia in Brazilian Waters – Marcelo Visentini Kitahara; Museu Oceanográfico do Vale do Itajaí, Itajaí, Santa Catarina, Brazil; Mestrando da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis – trabalho auxiliado pelo CNPq.

Black Corals (Cnidaria: Antipatharia) from Brazil: an Overview – Livia de L. Loiola; Ministry of the Environment, Coastal and Marine Division, Brasilia, DF, Brazil.

Isididae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) from Brazil – Marcelo Semeraro de Medeiros; Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Corals from the Brazilian Shelf and Slope: New Records and an Evaluation of Richness from Latitudes 13° to 23° S – Clovis B. Castro¹, Débora O. Pires¹, Marcelo S. Medeiros¹, Livia L. Loiola^{1, 2}, Renata C. M. Arantes¹, Cristovam M. Thiago¹ and Eduardo Berman¹; ¹Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil; ²Ministério do Meio Ambiente, Núcleo da Zona Costeira e Marinha, Brasília, Brasil

Status of Knowledge of the Azooxanthellate Coral Fauna off Brazil – Débora O. Pires; Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil

Azooxanthellate Coral Biodiversity in the Southern Caribbean – Javier Reyes and Nadiezhda Santodomingo; Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras, Santa Marta, Colombia

Systematics of the Bubblegum Corals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Paragorgiidae) with Emphasis on the New Zealand Fauna – Juan Armando Sánchez; National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research-NIWA, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND; Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, COLOMBIA

Expressed Homeobox Genes in Lophelia pertusa – William B. Schill and Alison R. Griffin; USGS- Leetown Science Center, Kearneysville, WV, USA

Theme 2 – Habitat Mapping, Sampling, and Characterization

Distribution of Corals on Derickson Seamount, a Deep Seamount Near the Aleutian Chain of Alaska – Amy R. Baco¹ and Stephen Cairns²; ¹Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA; ²Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA

Distribution of Deep-Sea Corals on the Northern Chain of Seamounts in the Gulf of Alaska – Amy R. Baco¹ and Thomas C. Shirley²; ¹Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA; ²Fisheries Division, University of Alaska Fairbanks Juneau Center, Juneau, AK 99801 USA

Distribution of Deep-Sea Corals in Relation to Geological Setting in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands – Amy R. Baco¹, Emily Yam², Christopher Kelley², John R. Smith² and Stephen Cairns³; ¹Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA; ²Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory, SOEST, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA.; ³Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA

Sponge Reefs on the Western Canadian Continental Shelf: New Multibeam Results Provide New Opportunities for Ocean Management and Science – J. V. Barrie¹, E. D. Sargent², K. W. Conway¹ and M. Krautter³; ¹Geological Survey of Canada – Pacific, Sidney, Canada; ²Canadian Hydrographic Service, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, Canada; ³University of Stuttgart, Germany

Southeastern U.S. Deep-Sea Corals Initiative (SEADESC): Exploring and Characterizing Deep Coral Communities of the South Atlantic Bight – Timothy Birdsong¹, Betsy Gardner², Susan Gottfried², Andrea Quattrini³, Christina Ralph⁴, Jessica Stephen⁵ and Tina Udouj⁶; ¹Office of Ocean Exploration, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD, USA; ²National Coastal Data Development Center, Stennis Space Center, Bay St. Louis, MS, USA; ³Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, USA; ⁴Grice Marine Laboratory, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA; ⁵Marine Resources Research Institute, Marine Resources Division, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Charleston, SC, USA; ⁶Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, St. Petersburg, FL, USA

Preliminary Discoveries of Scleractinian Coral Lophelia pertusa and other Deep-sea Coral and Sponge Communities in the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary – Ed Bowlby¹, Jeffrey Hyland², Mary Sue Brancato¹, Cynthia Cooksey² and Steve Intelmann¹; ¹NOAA Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, Port Angeles, WA, USA; ²NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Charleston, SC, USA

Cancelled -- Biomapper and KGSMapper: Two Modeling Techniques for Predicting Deep-Water Coral Habitat – Tanya Bryan¹, John Guinotte² and Lance Morgan²; ¹Atlantic Centre for Global Climate and Ecosystem Research, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada; ²Marine Conservation Biology Institute, Redmond, Washington, USA

Campos Basin Deep Sea Coral Communities (SE Brazil) - Preliminary results – Maria Patricia Curbelo Fernandez¹, Ana Paula da Costa Falcão², Emerson Muziol Morosko² and Guarani de Hollanda Cavalcanti²; ¹Consultant; ²Research and Development Center (CENPES)- Petrobras, Cidade Universitária, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Deep Sea Coral Assessment Project - Campos Basin (SE-Brazil) – Guarani de Hollanda Cavalcanti, Ana Paula da Costa Falcão, Emerson Muziol Morosko and Maria Patricia Curbelo Fernandez

Biotic and Abiotic Measurements across the Slope of Rockall Trough (400-1000 m, NW Atlantic) over a Cold-Water Coral Community with Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata – Gerard C.A. Duineveldand Marc S.S. Lavaleye; Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, Netherlands

Distribution and Abundance of Black Corals (Antipatharia) in Relation to Depth and Topography on the New England Seamounts (Northeast Atlantic) – Scott C. France and Mercer R. Brugler; Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, USA

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Design for Sampling the Deep Ocean Floor – Franz S. Hover, Victor Polidoro, Robert Damus and Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

How Computer-Assisted Interpretation Can Improve the Mapping and Monitoring of Potential Habitats in Cold-Water Coral Reef Settings – Veit Huehnerbach¹, Philippe Blondel² and Veerle A.I. Huvenne¹; ¹National Oceanography Centre, Southampton; Southampton, United Kingdom; ²Dept. of Physics, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

Development of New Methods for Mound-Scale Habitat Mapping and Invertebrate and Fish Community Structure Analysis, Coupling Microbathymetry, Mosaïcking and GIS: Exemple of the Theresa Mound off Ireland – E. Le Guilloux¹, K. Olu-Le Roy¹, P. Lorance², F. Lecornu³, J.-M. Sinquin³, J. Opderbecke⁴, A.G. Allais⁴and A. Grehan⁵; ¹Dept Etude des Ecosystèmes Profonds, IFREMER Centre de Brest, Plouzané, France; ²Dept Sciences et Technologies Halieutiques, Ifremer Brest, Plouzané, France; ³Dept Navire et systèmes embarqués, Ifremer Centre de Brest, Plouzané, France; ⁴Dept Systèmes sous-marins, Ifremer Toulon, zone de Brégaillon, La Seyne sur Mer; ⁵Martin Ryan Marine Science Institute, National University of Ireland - Galway, Ireland

Observations and Comparisons of Californian Seamount Communities – L. Lundsten,D. A. Clague and L. Kuhnz; Monterey Bay Aquarium Research, Moss Landing, CA, USA

Spatial and Temporal Differences in Size Structure of Hawaiian Black Corals – Anthony D. Montgomery; Hawaii Division of Aquatic Resources, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Honolulu, HI, USA

Colonization of Lophelia pertusa on the Tanker Gulfpenn Sunk During WWII in the Northern Gulf of Mexico – William W. Schroeder¹ and Robert A. Church²; ¹Marine Science Program, The University of Alabama, Dauphin Island, AL, USA; ²C & C Technologies, Inc., Lafayette, LA, USA

Acoustic Facies Analysis of Late Quaternary Deep-Water Coral Mounds in the Tyrrhenian Sea – Luca Gasperini, Marco Taviani, Alessandro Remia and Giovanni Bortoluzzi^/; ISMAR-Marine Geology Division, CNR, Bologna, Italy

Distribution of Habitat-Forming Scleractinian Corals in the New Zealand Region – Dianne M. Tracey¹, Ashley A. Rowden¹ and Kevin A. Mackay¹; National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand

Distribution and Abundance of Gorgonian Octocorals on the New England Seamounts in Relation to Depth and Substrate – Les Watling and Anne Simpson.; Darling Marine Center, University of Maine, Walpole ME

Theme 3A – Geology: Palaeontology

Environmental and Spatial Distribution of Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals – Ben De Mol¹, Marco Taviani² , Miquel Canals¹, Alessandro Remia², German Alverez³, Pere Busquets³, Nuria Teixido⁴ and Jose-Maria Gilli⁴; ¹GRC Geociències Marines, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain; ²ISMAR-Marine Geology Division, CNR,Bologna, Italy; ³Departament d'Estratigrafia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain; ⁴Deptartment Biología Marina, CMIMA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain

New Insights into Stable Isotope Fractionation in Deep Sea Corals: Comparison with the Fossil Record – Peter K. Swart¹, Brad Rosenheim² and George Stanley³; ¹MGG/RSMAS, University of Miami, Miami FL; ²National Ocean Sciences AMS Facility , WHOI, Woodshole, MA; ³Department of Geology, University of Montana, Missoula, MT

Last Glacial Deep Water Corals from the Red Sea – Marco Taviani¹, Matthias López Correa^1/2, Helmut Zibrowius³, Malcom McCulloch⁴, Paolo Montagna⁵ and Marco Ligi¹; ¹CNR-ISMAR, Bologna, Italy; ²IPAL, University of Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany; ³Centre d'Océanologie de Marseille, Station Marine d'Endoume, Marseille, France; ⁴Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU, Canberra, Australia; ⁵ICRAM, Roma, Italy

Serpulid Tube-Worms (Annelida Polychaeta) on Deep Coral Mounds from the Ionian Sea (Eastern Mediterranean) – Rossana Sanfilippo; Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche, Sezione di Oceanologia e Paleoecologia, Catania, Italy; (Presented by: Agostina Vertino)

Theme 3B – Geology: Climate Change

Geochemical Ecology of a High Latitude Coral: Plesiastrea versipora a New Paleo-Environmental Archive – S. N. Burgess^{1, 2}, M. T. McCulloch¹, M. K. Gagan¹ and T. Ward²; ¹Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; ²South Australian Research and Development Institute: Aquatic Sciences, West Beach, South Australia

Radiocarbon Reservoir Age of North Atlantic Surface Water Inferred from Orphan Knoll Corals – Li Cao^1,2, Richard G. Fairbanks^1,2, Michael J. Risk³ and Richard A. Mortlock¹; ¹Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York, USA; ²Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; ³School of Geography and Geology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont., Canada

Elemental Imaging and Proxy Development in the Deep Sea Coral, Corallium secundum – Stewart J. Fallon¹, E. Brendan Roark², Thomas P. Guilderson^1,3, Robert B. Dunbar² and Peter Weber¹; ¹Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, Ca. USA; ²Stanford University, Palo Alto, Ca. USA; ³University of California, Santa Cruz, Ca. USA

Multiple Proxy “Vital Effects” in a Deep-Sea Coral – Alexander C. Gagnon¹and Jess F. Adkins²; ¹Chemistry and ²Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

Environmental Variability at Intermediate Water Depths Recorded by Bamboo Coral Geochemistry – T .M. Hill¹, H. J. Spero¹, D. Clague² and J. Barry²; ¹Department of Geology, University of California, Davis CA USA,; ²Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Monterey CA USA

Stable Oxygen and Carbon Isotope Composition of Extant North Atlantic Acesta spp. (Bivalvia:Limidae) Provide High-Resolution Environmental Archives for Cold-Water Coral Habitats – Matthias López-Correa^1,2, André Freiwald¹ and Marco Taviani²; ¹IPAL, Institute of Paleontology, University of Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany; ²CNR-ISMAR, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Science Marine, Bologna, Italy

Shallow-water Desmophyllum dianthus from the Chilean Fjords: U-series Dating and In-Situ Trace Element Geochemistry – Malcolm McCulloch¹, Paolo Montagna², Graham Mortimer¹, Gunter Försterra³, Verena Häussermann³ and Claudio Mazzoli⁴; ¹Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; ² Central Institute for Marine Research, Roma, Italy; ³Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Germany; ⁴Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Padova, Italy

Deep-Sea Bamboo Corals: Living Bone Implants – Hermann Ehrlich¹, Peter Etnoyer², Hagen Domaschke³, Serguei D. Litvinov⁴, Thomas Hanke¹, Heike Meissner⁵, Rene Born¹ and Hartmut Worch¹; ¹Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials and Institute of Materials Science, Dresden, Germany; ²Aquanautix Consulting, Los Angeles, USA; ³Max Planck Institute of Cell Biology and Genomics, Dresden, Germany; ⁴Samara State University, Samara, Russia; ⁵University Hospital “Carl Gustav Carus”, Dresden, Germany; (Presented by: George Schmahl)

In-Situ High Resolution Minor and Trace Element Compositions in Desmophyllum dianthus from the Mediterranean Sea and the Pacific Ocean – Paolo Montagna¹, Malcolm McCulloch², Marco Taviani³, Alessandro Remia³ and Claudio Mazzoli⁴; ¹ICRAM, Rome, Italy; ²Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; ³CNR-ISMAR, Bologna, Italy; ⁴Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Padova, Italy

U-Series Dating of Submerged Sites Documents Continuous Growth of Extant Deep-Water Coral Mounds in the Mediterranean since 500 ky at Least – Marco Taviani¹, Malcom McCulloch² and Alessandro Remia¹; ¹ISMAR-CNR, Bologna, Italy; ²Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU, Canberra, Australia

Paleobiodiversity of the Plio-Pleistocene Deep-Water Corals from the Messina Strait (Southern Italy): NE Atlantic Affinity – Agostina Vertino¹Italo Di Geronimo² and André Freiwald¹; ¹Institute of Paleontology, Erlangen University, Germany; ²Geological Department, Catania University, Italy

Fossil Scleractinians from the New England Seamounts – Ancient DNA Techniques Give New Insights Into Past Climate Change – Preliminary Data – Rhian G. Waller¹, Timothy M. Shank¹, Jess Adkins² and Laura Robinson²; ¹Biology Department Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA; ²California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd, Pasadena, CA

Theme 4 – Coral Biology: Feeding, Growth and Reproduction Characterization

Responses of Lophelia pertusa to Environmental Factors – Sandra Brooke, Michael Holmes and Craig M. Young; Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, Charleston, Oregon, USA

Laboratory Study of Lophelia pertusa Polyp Behaviour in Different Current Regimes – L. G. Jonsson¹ and T. Lundälv²; ¹Department of Marine Ecology, Göteborg University, Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory, Strömstad, Sweden; ²Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory, Strömstad, Sweden

Sizes and Distributions of Octocorals Keratoisis sp. and Paragorgia sp. on the New England Seamount Chain: Implications for Colonization Dynamics – Susan W. Mills and Lauren S. Mullineaux; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA USA

Observations of the Solitary Scleractinian, Flabellum alabastrum Moseley, 1876 in Lab and Field – Lene Buhl-Mortensen¹, Pål B. Mortensen¹, Shelley Armsworthy² and Dan Jackson²; ¹Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway; ²Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Canada

Reproductive Morphology of Two Deep-water Octocorals, Paramuricea placomus (Plexauridae) and Metallogorgia melanotrichos (Chrysogorgiidae) – Anne Simpson, Les Watling and Kevin Eckelbarger; University of Maine - Darling Marine Center, Walpole, ME USA

Dendrochronology in Bamboo? Geochemical Profiles and Reproducibility in a Specimen of the Deep-Water Bamboo Coral, Keratoisis spp. – G. Allard¹, D. J. Sinclair¹, B. Williams¹, C. Hillaire-Marcel¹, S. Ross² and M. Risk³; ¹GEOTOP, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada; ²Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA.; ³School of Geography and Geology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Some Findings on the Reproduction of Hawaiian Precious Corals – Rhian G. Waller and Amy Baco-Taylor; Biology Department Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA

Theme 5 – Biodiversity: Microbial and Invertebrate Association

DNA Extraction and Genetic Fingerprinting of Prokaryotes on Deep Water Corals and Associated Invertebrates – Martin Agis¹, Cornelia Maier² and Markus G. Weinbauer¹; ¹Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche-sur-mer (LOV), Villefranche-sur-mer, France; ²Royal Neth. Inst. for Sea Res. (NIOZ), Den Burg, the Netherlands

Habitat Association of Macroinvertebrates with Deep-Sea Corals in Hawaii – Amy R. Baco¹ and Thomas C. Shirley²; ¹Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA; ²Fisheries Division, University of Alaska Fairbanks Juneau Center, Juneau, AK, USA

Population Genetics of North Atlantic Seamount Fauna: Investigating Pathways, Dispersal and Evolution – Walter Cho and Timothy M. Shank; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA

Bryozoan Fauna Associated with the Azoxanthellate Coral Cladocora Debilis (Colombian Caribbean) – Paola Flórez-Romero, Erika Montoya-Cadavid, Nadiezhda Santodomingo and Javier Reyes; Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras INVEMAR, Santa Marta, Colombia

Fish and Crustacea Associated with Lophelia Reefs in the Agassiz Coral Hills (Blake Plateau) and in the ‘OSPAR’ region of Northeast Atlantic – Robert Y. George; George Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability, North Carolina, USA

Petrarca (Crustacea: Ascothoracida) Infesting Fungiacyathus marenzelleri off Southern California, with a Retrospective Review of Petrarcid Galls in Deep-Sea Corals – Mark J. Grygier¹, Stephen D. Cairns²and Waltraud Klepal³; ¹Lake Biwa Museum, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan; ²National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA; ³Institut für Zoologie der Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria

Deep Coral Reefs along the Angola Margin and Hypothetical Relation to Cold Seeps – K. Olu-Le Roy, K. Dekindt and M. Sibuet; DEEP-LEP, IFREMER Centre de Brest, Plouzané, France

Theme 6 – Fish Ecology

A Description of the Fish Assemblages in the Black Coral Beds off Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii – Raymond C. Boland and Frank A. Parrish; Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Sublethal Injury Rate in a Deepwater Ophiuroid, Ophiacantha bidentata, an Important Component of Western Atlantic Lophelia Reef Communities – R. Allen Brooks¹, Martha S. Nizinski², Steve W. Ross³ and Kenneth J. Sulak⁴; ¹ENSR International, St. Petersburg, FL, USA; ²NOAA/NMFS National Systematics Laboratory, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA; ³Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina – Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, USA; ⁴Florida Integrated Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Gainesville, FL, USA

Deepwater Emergence of Red Tree Coral (Primnoa sp.) in Glacier Bay, Alaska – Robert Stone¹, Alex Andrews² and Jennifer Mondragon²; ¹National Marine Fisheries Service, Auke Bay Laboratory, Juneau, AK, USA; ²U.S. Geological Survey, Juneau, AK, USA

Theme 7 – Ecosystem Based Management

An Economic Model of Pink Coral (Corallium secundum) Harvest at the Makapu’u Bed in the Main Hawaiian Islands, USA – Geoff Shester and Justin E. Warren; Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Theme 8 – Conservation and Protection of Deep-Sea Corals

Measurement of Exposure and Effect of Chemical and Particle Discharges from Oil and Gas Activities in Deep-Sea Corals for the Purpose of Integrating Biomarker Response Data into a Risk Assessment Model – Jan Fredrik Børseth¹, Bodil Katrine Larsen¹, Steinar Sanni¹, J Murray Roberts², Laurence Pinturier³ and Arne Myhrvold⁴; ¹RF-Akvamiljø, Stavanger, Norway ²The Scottish Association for Marine Science, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Oban Argyll, Scotland, UK ³TOTAL E&P NORGE, Stavanger, Norway ⁴Statoil, Stavanger, Norway

Warm and Cold Water Coral Reefs – Same Roles? Same threats? – Emily Corcoran¹ and Stefan Hain²; ¹UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK; ²UNEP Coral Reef Unit, Cambridge, UK

Deep-sea Conservation for the UK – A Project to Develop Our Ability to Predict the Occurrence of Cold-Water Coral Reefs and Raise Public Awareness of Vulnerable Deep-Water Habitats – Andrew J. Davies and J. Murray Roberts; Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, Argyll, UK

Protecting Deep-Sea Corals by Including Davidson Seamount in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary – Andrew P. DeVogelaere, Erica J. Burton and Richard H. McGonigal; Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Monterey, CA, USA

Assisting Management Initiatives through Development of a National Deep Sea Coral Database – G. Dorr, D. Brown, T. Hourigan and B. Lumsden; National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA

Fishing in Troubled Waters – Evidence for higher Diversity and high Abundance of Cold Water Corals along the Chilean Coast – Alejandro Bravo¹, Günter Försterra² and Vreni Häussermann²; ¹Instituto de Zoología, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile; ²Fundación Huinay, Puerto Montt, Chile

The Status of Deep Coral Communities in the United States: Challenges for Conservation – Thomas F. Hourigan, Beth Lumsden, Gabrielle Dorr and Andrew Bruckner; NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Spring, MD, USA

Outreach and Education Efforts in Support of Deep Water Coral Resources of the Southeast – Jennifer Schull¹, Andrew Shepard² and Kim Iverson³; ¹NOAA-Fisheries, Southeast Fisheries Science Center Miami, Florida, USA; ²NOAA Undersea Research Center, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA; ³South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, Charleston, South Carolina, USA

Industrial Fisheries Impact on the Deep-Sea Scleractinia in Southern Brazil – Marcelo Visentini Kitahara; Museu Oceanográfico do Vale do Itajaí, Itajaí, Santa Catarina, Brazil; Mestrando da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis – trabalho auxiliado pelo CNPq.

Virgin Fisheries of the Tropical Western Atlantic Associated with Deep-Water Reef-Forming Corals Necessitate Protection – Steven J. Lutz and R. N. Ginsburg; Ocean Research and Education Foundation, Coral Gables, Florida, USA

Protected Deep-Water Coral Reefs in Norway – Jan Helge Fosså¹, John Alvsvåg¹, Dag Ottesen² and Pål Mortensen¹; ¹Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway; ²Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, Norway

Effects of Bottom Trawling on a Deep-Water Coral Reef – John K. Reed¹, Chris Koenig² and Andrew Shepard³; ¹Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Fort Pierce, FL, USA; ²Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA; ³NOAA Undersea Research Center, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, NC, USA

Status of Deep-Water Coral Areas off Iceland and Management Actions – Sigmar Arnar Steingrímsson; Marine Research Institute, Reykjavík, Iceland

Oceana’s Continuing Efforts to Protect Deep-Sea Coral – Michael F. Hirshfield, David Allison, Ricardo Aguilar and Margot Stiles; Oceana, Washington, DC, USA

The ‘Santa Maria di Leuca’ Lophelia Reef of the Mediterranean Basin: A Case for Total Protection – Cesare Corselli¹, Marco Taviani² and Angelo Tursi³; ¹CoNISMa, Milano-Bicocca University, Italy; ²ISMAR-Marine Geology Division, CNR, Bologna, Italy; ³CoNISMa, Bari University, Italy

On the Occurrence of a Shark Nursery (Family Scyliorhinidae) in a Deepwater Gorgonian Field in the Mississippi Canyon, Gulf of Mexico – Peter Etnoyer¹ and Jon Warrenchuk²; ¹Aquanautix, Los Angeles, California, USA; ²Oceana, Juneau, Alaska, USA

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Post-Symposium Field Trips

Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution - $55
Saturday, December 3, 2005

Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution (HBOI) is dedicated to exploring the world's oceans, integrating the science and technology of the sea with the needs of humankind. Our staff of over 250 includes scientists, engineers, mariners and support personnel. We are involved in research and education in the marine sciences; biological, chemical, and environmental sciences; marine biomedical sciences; marine mammal conservation; aquaculture; and ocean engineering. We have a wide variety of educational programs and products to raise public awareness of the marine environment, illustrating how the health of our planet is inextricably linked to the state of our oceans. HBOI is home to the 62-m R/V Seward Johnson and Johnson-Sea-Link Research Submersibles. R/V Seward Johnson is part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) fleet.

The tour will take you to see the world class Johnson-Sea-Link research submersible, which is equipped with a clear acrylic sphere for nearly 360o visibility and capable of diving to 1000 m. You will receive behind the scene tours of various labs and facilities including the Division of Biomedical Marine Research whose mission is to address critical human health problems through chemical and biological research on marine organisms and their chemical constituents. Using the JSL submersibles and worldwide expeditions, they have discovered hundreds of novel compounds from deep-water marine organisms, some of which are in clinical trials to treat human cancer. You will tour the Aquaculture Division whose mission is to develop economically feasible and environmentally sustainable methods to farm aquatic organisms for food, sport, stock enhancement, aquarium markets, and pharmaceuticals. Their state-of-the-art 60 acre Aquaculture Development Park is a leader in the research and development of culture technologies for mollusks, crustaceans, marine ornamentals, food fish, seaweed, and biomedical species. A lunch will be served along with lectures from some of the top scientists in their fields tentatively including Dr. Shirley Pomponi (biomedical research) and Dr. Edie Widder (deep sea bioluminescence).

Web Sites: www.hboi.edu and www.at-sea.org

Saturday, December 3, 2005

7:30am

Depart Doubletree Hotel

10:30am

Arrive HBOI

Education Center - Tour outside showing marine railway, ship, Deep Diver (first lockout submersible in history)

Education Center Auditorium - Welcome presentation, history of HBOI, and HBOI overview video (Dr. Dennis Hanisak, Director of Marine Science and Education)

11:30am

Link Engineering Building - Split into three groups of 10:

1) Division of Biomedical Marine Research
    (Dr. Peter McCarthy, Director)

2) Division of Marine Engineering
    (Ladd Borne, Director)

3) Submersibles and Marine Operations
    (Don Liberatore, Chief Sub Pilot)

12:30pm

Link Engineering Building - Lunch in Cafeteria

1:15pm

Bus to Aquaculture South (split into two groups):

1) Tour Ornamental Reefs and Aquaria facilities
    (Kevin Gaines, President)

2) Tour of Aquaculture
    (Dr. Megan Davis, Director)

2:00pm

Bus to Research Vessel Seward Johnson (split into two groups)

2:30pm

Education Center Auditorium

1) Dr. Edie Widder - Bioluminescence, Eye in the Sea deep sea camera

2) Dr. Peter McCarthy - Deep Sea Biomedical Research

3) Dr. Tracey Sutton - Deep sea fish research

4) John Reed - Deep Oculina Reefs - Destruction by Trawling (video)

3:30pm

Depart HBOI

6:30pm

Arrive Doubletree Hotel

Keys Diver Snorkel Tours
Saturday, December 3, 2005

99696 Overseas Hwy. Unit #1
Key Largo, Fl. 33037-2432
Email: info@keysdiver.com
Web Site: www.keysdiver.com

For those seeking a snorkel adventure in the shallow reefs of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and John Pennekamp State Park, we have arranged discounted rates with Keys Diver Snorkel Tours. They offer two daily tours aboard their 40ft. US Coast Guard inspected passenger vessel designed and built for snorkeling.

9:00AM Tour
The boat departs at 9:00am for one destination (over an hour of water time), and returns to the dock around 11:45am. The price is $21 per person + taxes.

12:15PM Tour
The afternoon tour stops at three different locations, and allows for more than 2 hours of water time. This tour features the Christ Statue, weather permitting. Return time is around 5:00pm. The group rate is $27 per person + taxes.

The price of each tour includes gear: mask, fins, snorkel and safety vest, and instructions by PADI licensed Dive Masters.

Reservations should be made in advance to hold your space on the boat. Please call Keys Diver Snorkel Tours at 1-305-451-1177 or 1-888-289-2402. They are open daily from 8:00am-4:00pm, and can be reached by email at info@keysdiver.com.

When contacting Keys Diver, please provide the following:

1. Saturday, December 3, 2005

2. Indicate 9AM or 12:15PM tour

3. Number of people in your party

4. Your last name

5. State you are with the International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals

Transportation will not be provided because this tour option is on your own. We suggest that participants car pool to Key Largo, which is about 80 km one-way from the Doubletree Hotel. Discounted rental car rates are being offered by AVIS. To facilitate sharing rides, we have developed a sign up sheet.

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Registration Information

Registration Fees: The attendee registration fee, combined with funds contributed by our generous sponsors, will allow meeting attendees to receive an abstract book and additional conference materials onsite. The fee also includes a welcome reception, daily morning and afternoon refreshment breaks at RSMAS, poster session reception and daily transportation from Doubletree Hotel to RSMAS. Please refer to the detailed agenda for the date and time of scheduled functions. An optional Awards Banquet on Thursday evening and Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution Field Trip on Saturday are available for additional fees.

The accompanying person and child registration fees include the welcome and poster session receptions only. Please Note: The Guest Registration Category is not for use by
co-workers.

All figures are presented in US dollars ($).

REGISTRATION FEES:	EARLY	REGULAR	LATE
MEETING ATTENDEES:	If register by August 15, 2005	If register by or before October 3, 2005	If register AFTER October 3, 2005
Conference Attendee Fee (Limited to 200)	US $250	US $300	US $350
Student Attendee Fee (Limited to 50) (FAX Copy of Student ID to 1-352-392-9734 after registering online)	US $125	US $175	US $225
GUEST ATTENDEES:
Accompanying Person	US $75	US $95	US $95
Child (12 years and under)	US $25	US $50	US $50
*PLEASE NOTE:* The Accompanying Person registration fee includes the welcome reception and the poster session reception only. The Guest Registration Category is not for use by co-workers.

OPTIONAL EVENTS:	FEE
Thursday, December 1, 2005 Symposium Dinner Banquet	US $50
Saturday, December 3, 2005 Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Field Trip (Limited to 30)	US $55

Before clicking on the Register Now link below, we recommend that you have payment information on-hand, such as credit card, check number or purchase order number, if we are to invoice your institution.

Refund Policy: Requests for registration refunds will be honored if a written notification of cancellation is received by the Office of Conferences & Institutes on or before October 3, 2005. A $50.00 processing fee will be deducted from all registration refunds. Sorry, no refunds will be honored for cancellations after October 3, 2005.

Special Needs: Participants with special needs can be reasonably accommodated by contacting the Office of Conferences & Institutes at least 10 working days prior to the conference. We can be reached by phone at 1-352-392-5930, by fax at 1-352-392-9734, or by calling 1-800-955-8771 (TDD). The TDD number can only be accessed from within Florida.

Advanced registration is closed, however, we will be happy to register you onsite at the symposium and look forward to your participation.

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Meeting Location

The 3rd Symposium will be held at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) on Virginia Key, an island off the coast of Miami, Florida, USA. Oral presentations will take place in the 250-seat RSMAS Auditorium.

RSMAS Web site: www.rsmas.miami.edu

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Hotel Accommodations

DoubleTree Hotel Coconut Grove
2649 South Bayshore Drive
Miami (Coconut Grove), Florida 33133
Phone: 1-305-858-2500
Fax: 1-305-858-9117
www.coconutgrove.doubletree.com

The DoubleTree Hotel Coconut Grove is offering participants of the 3rd International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals a very special guest room rate of $107.00 (plus 13% tax) with one or two people in a King room. A room with two beds is $117.00 (plus 13% tax). The group rate will be honored three days prior and three days following the symposium, based on availability.

To qualify for the special rate, reservations must be made prior to October 14, 2005. Be sure to specify you are attending the 3rd International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals. After October 14, guestrooms and the group rate may no longer be available. As this is a discounted group rate, it is not commissionable to travel agents. Please contact the hotel directly by telephone at 1-305-858-2500.

Parking at the hotel is valet only. The hotel is offering a discounted rate of $10 per day. There are no daily parking garages in the immediate vicinity. The few street parking spaces in front of the Doubletree Hotel are metered, and strictly enforced.

Click Here to Make Reservations Online

Overflow Accommodations

In the event the Doubletree is full over the dates (November 28-December 2, 2005) you are requesting accommodations, the following properties are offering guest rooms to 3rd ISDSC attendees:

Wyndham Grand Bay Hotel
2669 South Bayshore Drive
Coconut Grove, FL 33133
Tel: 305-858-9600 Ext 7152
Website: www.wyndhamcoconutgrove.com
Email: RNegretti@wyndham.com

The Wyndham is offering symposium participants a special rate of $149.00/night single/double occupancy plus 13% tax. To make a reservation, contact the Wyndham Grand Bay Hotel directly at 305-858-9600 Ext 7152 and identify yourself as a participant of the 3rd International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals. And if phone is not an option, please send an email to Roberto at <RNegretti@wyndham.com> with your arrival date, departure date, and guest name.

Miami River Inn
118 SW South River Drive
Miami, FL 33130
Tel: 1-305-325-0045 or outside Florida (USA only) 1-800-468-3589
Fax: 1-305-325-9227
Website: http://miamiriverinn.com/index
Email: info@miamiriverinn.com

The Miami River Inn is Miami's only bed and breakfast. The Inn has four cottages with a total of 40 rooms, each uniquely decorated with antiques and period pieces. Guests can occupy a first floor room with a porch that opens to the garden area or choose a room on the second or third floors with a view of the Miami River and downtown Miami to the east.

Currently, the Inn has a few rooms available at $79.00/night plus 13% tax. To make a reservation, contact the Inn directly at 1-305-325-0045 and identify yourself as a participant of the 3rd International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals. A valid credit card number and expiration date or an advanced payment for the first night (by check or cash is required to guarantee your stay.

Please note: If you stay at the Inn, you are responsible for providing your own transportation to symposium events.

Check-In time is between 12 noon and 9:00 PM. Check out time is by 12 noon. Guest's arriving outside of these times must notify the Inn to make the necessary arrangements. Guests who wish to check-out late may make arrangements with advance notice.

Breakfast is available for guests of the Inn only between 7:30 AM and 10:00 AM daily. Toast, homemade muffins, hot/cold cereals, fresh fruits, juice, coffee, tea and milk are available.

The Inn must be notified of changes or cancellations by 6:00PM (EST) the evening before the guest's arrival. (72-hour notice required during holiday weekends of which November 24-27 is Thanksgiving.) A guest who has not met the appropriate cancellation policies and guaranteed a reservation will be charged for the first night of each room reserved.

Sharing a guest room with another participant?
Specify to the hotel the following.

The full names of all sharing the guest room. If a person is not listed on the room, they will not be allowed to check into the guest room upon arrival.
How the deposit is to be paid and by whom. If the deposit is to be paid by more than one person, then the full information and payment arrangements need to be included in the communication. (NOTE: A deposit is required by the hotel in order to reserve a guest room.)
How the remaining room charges are to be paid. The hotel will need method of payment for each person responsible for the charges. This information will be reiterated at check-in.

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Financial Assistance

GIBS Announcement for Travel Support for Deep-Sea Coral Scientists
Presenting Paper or Poster at 3rd ISDSC

The purpose of the Miami Deep-Sea Coral Symposium is to synthesize our exiting knowledge on deep-sea corals in the world oceans for making wise management of these living resources and to identify gaps in our knowledge.

With this goal in mind the George Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (GIBS) will provide a few travel grants for deep-sea coral scientists from the developing countries and also Russia. This award will cover plane ticket, hotel cost, registration fee and per-diem for 4 days in Miami.

Qualified deep-sea coral scientists and graduate students are eligible for this award from GIBS. They should submit a letter by June 5, 2005 to:

Prof. Robert Y. George, President, GIBS
305 Yorkshire Lane
Wilmington, North Carolina 28409 USA

This letter must contain the following information:

1. Name, contact information (title, address, e-mail, phone number)

2. Copy of the abstract submitted to 3rd ISDSC

3. Estimated cost for participation.

4. List of peer-reviewed papers or technical reports on deep-water corals (any aspect)

5. One Reference with e-mail address (any individual who is cognizant of your research on deep-water corals).

Selected participants will be notified by July 4, 2005 and will be reimbursed for their expenses for participation in the symposium.

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Symposium Sponsors

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Travel Information

Travel Methods

Information for
Foreign Travelers
to the United States

By Plane

Miami International Airport

Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood
International Airport

By Rental Car

Avis is offering special rental rates to Symposium
attendees. Click here to
make reservations

By Taxi Service

MG Transportation

By Train

          Click here for information on taking
          the train to Miami, from other cities
          in Florida and around the country
          for a very low cost.

By Bus

Click here for information on taking the Greyhound bus to and from Miami from your arrival destination/airport for a price of $50-$150

Driving Directions

Click here to find driving directions to Miami, FL from any address/destination in the USA by simply typing in the starting address and then the end destination address; very user friendly.

Map of Florida

Click here for a map of the state of Florida.

Mileage Chart

Click here for a chart that lists the mileage/distance from city to city in Florida.

Florida Visitor Tools

Currency Converter

Click here for a simple to use currency converter.

Miami Weather

Click here to see a detailed 7-day weather forecast for Miami, FL.

Activities

Click here to explore Florida attractions, theme parks, and history by city.

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Area Information

Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau

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Symposium Organizers

Robert Brock
Fishery Biologist
NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service
Office of Science & Technology
1315 East-West Hwy (F/ST7)
Silver Spring MD 20910-3282
Phone: 1-301-713-2367 x162
FAX: 1-301-713-1875
Email: Robert.Brock@noaa.gov

Robert George
President
George Institute for Biodiversity
Sustainability
305 Yorkshire Lane
Wilmington, NC 28409
Phone: 1-910-799-4722
Email: Georgeryt@cs.com

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Symposium Logistics Coordinator

Shelby Sowder
Conference Coordinator
University of Florida/IFAS
Office of Conferences & Institutes (OCI)
PO Box 110750
Building 639, Mowry Road
Gainesville, FL 32611-0750
Telephone: 1-352-392-5930
Fax: 1-352-392-9734
Email: msowder@ifas.ufl.edu

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Local Arrangement Committee

Peter Swart, Professor of Marine Geology
and Geophysics, Chair
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL

Beth Babcock, Chief Scientist
Pew Institute for Ocean Science, Miami, FL

Robert Brock, Symposium Organizer
Office of Science & Technology, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, MD

Jim Cato, Director, Florida Sea Grant
University of Florida/IFAS, Gainesville, FL

John Dean, Distinguished Professor Emeritus
University of South Carolina and South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, Columbia, SC

George Geiger, Vice-Chairman
South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, Sebastian, FL

Bob George, Symposium Organizer
George Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability, Wilmington, NC

Peter Glynn, Professor of Marine Biology
and Fisheries
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL

Peter Ortner
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Miami, FL

John Reed
Division of Biomedical Marine Research, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Ft. Pierce, FL

Shelby Sowder, Symposium Logistics
Coordinator
Office of Conferences and Institutes, University of Florida/IFAS, Gainesville, FL

Nancy Voss, Research Professor of Marine
Biology and Fisheries, and Director
RSMAS Marine Invertebrate Museum, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL

Elizabeth Wenner, Senior Marine Scientist
and Principal Investigator
Marine Resources Research Institute, Charleston, SC

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ISDSC Steering Committee

*Robert Brock*	USA	*Pål Mortensen*	Norway
*Mark Butler*	Canada	*Murray Roberts*	Scotland
*Jan-Helge Fossa*	Norway	*Miriam Sibuet*	France
*André Freiwald*	Germany	*Marco Taviani*	Italy
*Bob George*	USA	*Sandy Tudhope*	United Kingdom
*Anthony Grehan*	Ireland	*Les Watling*	USA
*Bruce Hatcher*	Canada	*Martin Willison*	Canada
*Veerle Huvenne*	Belgium	*John Wilson*	United Kingdom
*Tony Koslow*	Australia

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Proceedings of the 2nd ISDSC

The proceedings of the 2nd ISDSC (Erlangen, Germany) entitled "Cold-water Corals and Ecosystems," edited by André Freiwald and Murray Roberts, has been published. This book is 1247 pages thick and contains 361 illustrations. For more information or to order, go to:
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,1-40109-22-46811100-0,00.html

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