July 17-21, 2007

Hilton St. Petersburg

St. Petersburg, Florida, USA

 


SITE INDEX

l What is Sclerochronology?

l Purpose

l Transportation Information

l Conference Overview

l Tentative Agenda

l About St. Petersburg

l Conference Structure & Themes

l Poster Directory l Conference Sponsors

l Who Should Attend?

l Registration Information

l Organizing Committee

l Call for Abstracts l Host Hotel Information l Questions
An Internet Café will be available for Conference participants - compliments of our Sponsors.
Conference Abstract Book (PDF format)
Conference Photo Album

 

Student Award Recipients

1st Place Award for Best Student Oral Presentation
Kristine DeLong
 "Reconstructing 20th Century SST Variability in the Southwest Pacific: A Replication Study Using Multiple Coral Sr/Ca Records from New Caledonia"

2nd Place Award for Best Student Oral Presentation
Matthias Lopez-Correa
"Recent Atlantic and Fossil Mediterranean Acesta spp. Bivalves as Environmental Archives for the Deep-sea"

1st Place Award for Best Student Poster Presentation
Ann Goewert
"Seasonal Variations Preserved in an Extinct Neogene Scallop, Chesapecten, from Florida to Delaware, USA"

2nd Place Award for Best Student Poster Presentation
Matthias Lopez-Correa
"Southern Ocean Limpets as Potential High-resolution Environmental Archives"


What is Sclerochronology?

 

Sclerochronology is the study of physical and chemical variations in the accretionary hard tissues of organisms, and the temporal context in which they formed. Sclerochronology focuses primarily upon growth patterns reflecting annual, monthly, fortnightly, tidal, daily, and sub-daily increments of time entrained by a host of environmental and astronomical pacemakers. Familiar examples include daily banding in reef coral skeletons or annual growth rings in mollusk shells. Sclerochronology is analogous to dendrochronology, the study of annual rings in trees, and equally seeks to deduce organismal life history traits as well as to reconstruct records of environmental and climatic change through space and time.

 

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Who Should Attend?

 

Anyone interested in and working on the formation and interpretation of growth increments in accretionary hard parts of invertebrate and vertebrate organisms should attend this conference. You should plan to attend if you wish to increase your knowledge and understanding of state-of-the-art sclerochronological research, if you desire to present your research in a forum of like-minded scientists, or if you want to learn of the many realized and potential applications of this exciting field of study.

  • Paleontologists

  • Geologists

  • Ecologists

  • Geochemists

  • Archaeologists

  • Biologists

  • Environmental scientists and others

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Conference Overview

 

It has been over 25 years since publication of the definitive “Skeletal Growth of Aquatic Organisms” and there have been many exciting developments in the field of sclerochronology since that time. Methodological advances have been considerable, the range of species being included in sclerochronological research has expanded, and the applications are more diverse than ever. However, sclerochronology is a multi-disciplinary pursuit, and because of that the lines of communication among the diversity of researchers in this field are not well-established. We are convening the 2007 International Sclerochronology Conference as a venue to foster enduring lines of communication and bring to light the many recent advances in this field of study.

 

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Conference Structure & Themes

 

The conference themes include such topics as biomineralization and vital effects, methodological state-of-the-art, modeling and statistical analyses, and the diverse applications of these techniques. The conference themes will provide a strong foundation upon which to establish and enhance lines of communication and to build collaborations that will be a springboard for future research. The meeting format, a single forum with no concurrent sessions, has been chosen to maximize opportunities for interaction. Thus, the number of oral presentations will be limited although poster presentations are welcome and will be emphasized in their own session. Those presentations focusing on cutting edge methodologies, technologies, and applications will be featured in the oral sessions.

 

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Call for Abstracts

 

Individuals are invited to submit abstracts on all aspects of sclerochronology including, but not limited to: biomineralization, growth increment formation, vital effects, visualization and sampling methods, modeling and statistical analyses, applications to marine, non-marine, climatological, paleontological, and archaeological systems, as well as general and historical aspects of sclerochronology. Abstract submissions will be used to select oral presentations, and ALL abstracts, both oral and poster, will be published in the conference book of abstracts. Abstracts will also be posted on the Sclerochronology website following the conference.

- The Abstract Submission Deadline has been extended to April 13.

If you wish to make an oral presentation or present a poster, please submit an abstract no later than April 13, 2007. Abstracts MUST be submitted ONLINE via this web site.

Please Note: All students participating in the 1st International Sclerochronology Conference will be eligible for a Best Oral Presentation Award and a Best Poster Presentation Award. If you are a non-student meeting attendee and you wish to assist with judging these presentations, please notify Bill Arnold (bill.arnold@myfwc.com).

 

You must pre-register for the conference in order to be considered for an oral or poster presentation. Thank you!

 

Abstracts are no longer being accepted.

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Purpose

 

The 2007 International Sclerochronology Conference (ISC07) will bring together scientists from academia, museums, government institutions, and other backgrounds to discuss the latest techniques and concepts in the rapidly developing field of sclerochronology and to manifest new ideas and collaborations that will move this science forward.

 

Key goals include:

  1. Bringing together scientists from the many and varied disciplines engaged in sclerochronological research to create new opportunities for collaboration;

  2. Expanding the temporal, spatial, and taxonomic range of sclerochronological research;

  3. Developing or enhancing methods to validate and optimize chronological proxies;

  4. Increasing student involvement and excitement;

  5. Enhancing our awareness and appreciation of others working in this field;

  6. Providing a departure point for future sclerochronology conferences.

It is hoped by the conference organizers that this meeting will be the first in a continuing series of International Sclerochronology Conferences that will be held in a different location every two or three years. We welcome your suggestions and involvement in this regard.

 

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Tentative Agenda

 

Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - Arrival & Check-in

4:00pm-6:00pm

Conference Registration Opens and Early Bird Social

 

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

7:00am-5:00pm

Conference Registration Open

7:30am-8:30am

Continental Breakfast

9:00am-10:00am

Welcome & Introductory Remarks

10:00am-10:30am

Refreshment Break

General Session I - 10:30am-12:30pm

   Moderator - Bernd Schone

10:30am-10:50am

Daily Microgrowth Bands in Bivalve Shells; Where is the Evidence? – Christopher Richardson

10:50am-11:10am

Subdaily and Hourly Growth Patterns within the Shell of the Chilean Gastropod Concholepas concholepas: New Perspectives for High-Resolution Sclerochronological Studies – Nury Guzman

11:10am-11:30am

Reality and Ilusion in Interpretation of Daily Growth Increments in Cephalopod Statoliths and Fish Otoliths  – Alexander Arkhipkin

11:30am-11:50am

Isotope Sclerochronology and Season of Annual Growth Line Formation of the Limpet Patella vulgata from Spain and Norway  – Donna Surge

11:50am-12:10pm

Advances in Sample Preparation for Bivalve Growth Increment Studies – Robert Cerrato

12:10pm-12:30pm

Annual Growth Bands in the Carboniferous Brachiopod Gigantoproductus: A High-resolution Stable Isotope and Sclerochronology Study – Ethan Grossman

12:30pm-2:00pm

Lunch on Own

General Session II - 2:00pm-4:00pm

   Moderator - Donna Surge

2:00pm-2:20pm

Changing Growth Rate and Growth Pattern of the Northern Quahog, Mercenaria mercenaria, in Narragansett Bay, RI (USA): A Tug of War between Increasing Water Temperature and Decreasing Chlorophyll Concentration – Kelly Henry

2:20pm-2:40pm

Isotopic Records of Geoduck Shells and Environmental Changes in Hood Canal – Yongwen Gao

2:40pm-3:00pm

Coral Skeletal Records of Sedimentation on the Mesoamerican Reef
 – Jessica Carilli

3:00pm-3:20pm

Use of Nitrogen Stable Isotopes in shell from Mercenaria mercenaria to Trace Wastewater Inputs from Watershed to Estuarine Ecosystems through Time – Ruth H. Carmichael

3:20pm-3:40pm

Historical and Geographic Trends in the d15N Sewage Signal Encoded in Florida and Bahamas Gorgonians – Mike Risk

3:40pm-4:00pm

Coral Growth Records and their Relationship to Freshwater Discharge in Southeast Florida – Kevin Helmle

5:00pm-7:00pm

Welcome Reception

 

Thursday, July 19, 2007

7:00am-5:00pm

Conference Registration Open

7:00am-8:00am

Continental Breakfast

General Session III - 8:00am-10:00am

   Moderator - William Arnold

8:00am-8:20am

Sclerochronological and Geochemical Constraints on the Timing of Biological Invasions – David Goodwin

8:20am-8:40am

Use of Trace Elemental Fingerprinting to Determine Larval Connectivity in Southern California Mussel Populations – Pat McMillan

8:40am-9:00am

How to Decode Individual Fish Movements Archived by Fish Otoliths? A Bayesian Perspective. – Ronan Fablet

9:00am-9:20am

Intra-bone Oxygen Isotope Seasonality Patterns - A Promising New Approach for Vertebrate Skeletochronology? – Thomas Tütken

9:20am-9:40am

Incremental Growth of Fossil Lamnoid Shark Vertebral Centra – Bruce MacFadden

9:40am-10:00am

Determing the Individual Ages and Growth of Modern and Eocene-Oligocene Tortoises (Reptilia: Testudines) Using Skeletochronology – Dana Ehret

10:00am-10:30am

Refreshment Break

General Session IV - 10:30am-12:30pm

   Moderator - Irv Quitmyer

10:30am-10:50am

Stable-Isotope and Microgrowth-Increment Variation in Shells of the Queen Scallop from Cool- and Warm-Temperate Settings – Andrew Johnson

10:50am-11:10am

Episodic Variability in Elemental Concentrations as a Potential Aging Tool in Deep-Water Gorgonians (Keratoisis spp): Comparisons with Radiometric and Morphological Age Estimators – Ronald Thresher

11:10am-11:30am

Isotopic Evidence for Variable Climate and Longevity in Modern and Archaeological Coquina Clams, Donax variabilis, from Northeast Florida – Douglas Jones

11:30am-11:50am

Primary Isotope Ratios Preserved in a Late Permian Bivalve Allow for Life History and Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions – Linda Ivany

11:50am-12:10pm

Seasonality in the North Sea during Selected Climate Transitions (Allerod and Late Medieval Climate Optimum) - Bivalve Sclerochronology (Arctica islandica) – Bernd R. Schöne

12:10pm-12:30pm

The Seasonal Timing of Annual Growth Increments in the Shells of the Bivalve Arctica islandica (ocean quahog): A Circum North Atlantic Perspective using Oxygen Isotopes – Alan Wanamaker

12:30pm-2:00pm

Lunch on Own

General Session V -  2:00pm-4:00pm

   Moderator - Douglas Jones

2:00pm-2:20pm

Growth Rate Patterns in Trachycardium procerum (Mollusca) Shells from Coastal Peru and Relationships with ENSO-Related Environmental Parameters  – Marc Gosselin

2:20pm-2:40pm

Do Fossil Bivalve Shells From Seymour Island (Antarctic Pennisula) Provide Evidence for Eocene El Nino?   – Thomas Brey

2:40pm-3:00pm

High Latitude Climate Variability and Its Effect on Fishery Resources as Revealed by Fossil Otoliths – Audrey Geffen

3:00pm-3:20pm

Constructing Growth Chronologies from Long-lived Bivalves: Have We Got it Right? – Christopher Richardson

3:20pm-3:40pm

Recent Atlantic and Fossil Mediterranean Acesta spp. Bivalves as Environmental Archives for the Deep-sea – Matthias López Correa

3:40pm-4:00pm

Antipatharians: High Resolution Recorders of the Oceanographic Environment – Charles Holmes

4:00pm-6:00pm

Poster Session & Social

 

Friday, July 20, 2007

7:00am-5:00pm

Conference Registration Open

7:00am-8:00am

Continental Breakfast

General Session VI - 8:00am-10:00am

    Moderator - Bernd Schone

8:00am-8:20am

Incremental Growth in a Deep Sea Hydrocoral – Fred Andrus

8:20am-8:40am

Microstructural and Geochemical Patterns at the Nyctemeral Scale in the Concholepas concholepas (Gastropoda) Shell – Claire Lazareth

8:40am-9:00am

Shell Formation in Mytilus edulis: Interactive Effects of Temperature, Salinity and Food Availability – Ute Kossak

9:00am-9:20am

Diary of a Bluegill: Daily d13C and d18O Records in Otoliths by Ion Microprobe – Brian Weidel

9:20am-9:40am

Shell Architecture and Stable Isotope Signature of a Giant Deep-Sea Oyster (Azores Archipelago) – Max Wisshak

9:40am-10:00am

An Innovative Laser Analytical Method for Data Records from Mussel Shells – Peter Bisling

10:00am-10:30am

Refreshment Break

General Session VII - 10:30am-12:30pm

   Moderator - Donna Surge

10:30am-10:50am

Cod Otoliths & Indicators of Phenology and Endogeny? – Sophy McCully

10:50am-11:10am

Varying Growth Rates in Bamboo Corals: Sclerochronology and RadiocarbonDating of a Mid-Holocene Deep-Water Gorgonian Skeleton from Chatham Rise (New Zealand)  – Sibylle Noe

11:10am-11:30am

Sclerochronology Study of Ruditapes philippinarum Shell  – Céline POULAIN

11:30am-11:50am

Using Dendrochronology Techniques for Age Determination and Validation of Ring Counts for Northern B.C. Geoduck Clams (Panopea abrupta) – Darlene Gillespie

11:50am-12:10pm

History and Applications of Ageing Living Marine Resources at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center – Richard S. McBride

12:10pm-12:30pm

Application of Tree-Ring Techniques across Diverse Taxa and Ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest, USA – Bryan Black

12:30pm-2:00pm

Lunch on Own

General Session VIII - 2:00pm-3:40pm

   Moderator - Irv Quitmyer

2:00pm-2:20pm

Population Genetics of Mercenaria in Florida: Patterns and the Influence of Scientific and Aquaculture Activities – William Arnold

2:20pm-2:40pm

Ambient Temperatures, Metabolic Stress and Otolith Increment Formation in North Sea cod (Gadus morhua L.) – Andrew Harwood

2:40pm-3:00pm

Characterization and Quantification of Organic and Mineral Contents of Fish Otoliths using Micro-Raman Spectrometry: Application to European Hake – Aurelie Jolivet

3:00pm-3:20pm

Cathodoluminescence Sclerochronology of Mollusc Shells: A Tool for Seasonal Contrasts Estimate Through Geological Time – Franck Lartaud

3:20pm-3:40pm

Population Parameters from Size-Frequency Analysis Using a Constrained Maximum Likelihood Method – Robert Cerrato

3:40pm-4:00pm

Refreshment Break

General Session IX - 4:00pm-5:00pm

   Moderator - Douglas Jones  

4:00pm-4:20pm

Reconstructing 20th Century SST Variability in the Southwest Pacific: A Replication Study Using Multiple Coral Sr/Ca Records from New Caledonia – Kristine DeLong

4:20pm-4:40pm

Holocene and Last Interglacial Paleoceanography in the Pacific Subtropical Gyre from Coral Annual Bands of Okinotori-shima Island, Northwestern Subtropical Pacific Ocean – Hajime Kayanne

4:40pm-5:00pm

Sclerochronolgical Studies and d18O Analyses on Modern and MSA Opercula of Turbo Sarmaticus from the Southern Coast of South Africa.  – Mariagrazia Galimberti

5:00pm

Dinner on Own

 

Saturday, July 21, 2007

7:30am-12:00pm

Conference Registration Open

7:30am-8:30am

Continental Breakfast

General Session X - 10:00am-11:20am

   Moderator - William Arnold

10:00am-10:20am

Age and Growth of the Patagonian Scallop Zygochlamys patagonica (King and Broderip, 1832) Using a New Technique on the Hinge Ligament – Paul Brickle

10:20am-10:40am

Environmental Controls on a Unique Siderastrea Coral Morphology – Jennifer Sliko

10:40am-11:00am

Changes in Gape Frequency and Thermal Tolerance in the Freshwater Bivalves Anodonta cygnea and Margaritifera falcata  – David Rodland

11:00am-11:20am

Temperature and Salinity Relationships from Bivalve Shell Carbonate Using Calcium and Stable Isotope Ratio Profiles  – Dorothee Hippler

11:20am-12:00pm

Break and Remove Posters

12:00pm-2:00pm

Awards Lunch and Meeting Summary

2:00pm

Conference Concludes

 

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Poster Directory 

Poster
Number

1

Paleoenvironmental and Sclerochronologogic Reconstruction of Large Oyster-Bearing Pliocene Reefs from Curacao – Amanda Booth, Michael Savarese, Roger W. Portell, Douglas S. Jones and Irvy R. Quitmyer

2

Growth Increment Analysis as an Archaeological Measure of Shellfish Collection Intensity – Meghan Burchell, Aubrey Cannon and Darren R. Gröcke

3

A 150-year Chronology Using Growth Increments in the Shell of Arctica islandica from the Irish Sea – Paul G. Butler, Christopher A. Richardson and James D. Scourse

4

Calcification Rate of Montastraea Coral Species Growing Under Thermal Stress – Juan P. Carricart-Ganivet and Laura Chanona-Espinosa

5

Arctic Bivalves as Proxies of Local and Large-scale Climatic Variations: Analysis of pan-Arctic growth patterns – Michael L. Carroll, William G. Ambrose, Michael Greenacre, Lisa Clough, Kelton McMahon, Lani Stinson, Jessica Edgerly and Simon Thorrold

6

Complimentary Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotopic Records of Fluvial Conditions in the Shells of Freshwater Bivalves – Monica Carroll and Christopher S. Romanek

7

Elemental Records of River Variation in the Shells of Freshwater Bivalves – Monica Carroll and Christopher S. Romanek

8

Shell Microstructure of Ocean Quahog, Arctica  islandica: Past and present – Elena Dunca, Harry Mutvei and Edward Kulakowski

9

Recording Paleoenvironmental Conditions by Mollusc Shells Using Cathodoluminescence and Stable Isotope Sclerochronology – Laurent Emmanuel, Franck Lartaud, Damien Huyghe, Didier Merle, Eric Verrecchia and Maurice Renar

10

Otolith Morphogenesis Analysis: An automated computer vision framework – Anatole Chessel and Ronan Fablet

11

Mg/Ca Ratios in Marine Bivalve Shell Calcite: Evidence for a weak temperature control, strong species-specific variation and significant small-scale compositional heterogeneity – Pedro Freitas, Leon J. Clarke, Hilary Kennedy and Christopher Richardson

12

Oxygen Isotope Variation in Relation to Opaque and Translucent Bands in European hake (Merluccius merluccius) Otoliths; Comparison between High Resolution Mass Spectrometry and Ion Probe (SIMS) Techniques – Audrey J. Geffen, Hans Hoie, Beatriz Morales-Nin, José Manuel Hidalgo and Javier Tomas

13

Periodic Endolithic Algal Blooms in Montastrea faveolata Corals – Jessie M. Godfrey, Jessica E. Carilli and Richard D. Norris

14

Seasonal Variations Preserved in an Extinct Neogene Scallop, Chesapecten, from Florida to Delaware, USA – Ann Goewert and Donna Surge

15

Reconstructing Intra-Annual Growth in Bivalve Mollusks: A mathematical approach – David Goodwin and Christine Wissink

16

Improvement of Image Analysis for Sclerochronological and Paleo-Environmental Studies on Mollusc Shells and Fish Otoliths – Marc Gosselin, Claire E. Lazareth, Elise Dufour, Nury Guzman and Luc Ortlieb

17

Influence of Sea Temperature Variability on Shell Microstructural Growth of Concholepas concholepas (Gastropoda) in Southern Peru – Ernesto Fernández, Nury Guzmán, Luc Ortlieb, Federico Velazco, Sheyla Zevallos and Matthias Wolff 

21

Examining Environmental Variation in a Norwegian High-Arctic Fjord: Evidence from Serripes groenlandicus (Bivalvia) Growth Rates and Carbon Isotope Composition – Gregory A. Henkes, William G. Ambrose Jr, Beverly J. Johnson, Kelton W. McMahon, Michael L. Carroll and Haakon Hop

18

Temperature and Salinity Relationships from Bivalve Shell Carbonate Using Calcium and Stable Isotope Ratio Profiles – D. Hippler, R. Witbaard, D. Buhl, D. Richter and A. Immenhauser

19

The Microstructure of Bivalve Shells: New insights from the ocean quahog Arctica islandica – D. Hippler, E. Griesshaber, R. Witbaard and A. Immenhauser

20

The Effect of Early Meteoric Diagenesis on the Ca-Isotope System: A Case Study from Altered Holocene/Pleistocene Bivalves (Gulf of Corinth Area, Greece) – A. Immenhauser, D. Hippler and D. Buhl

22

Stable Isotopes in Unstable Environments: Probing In Situ Environmental Conditions of Zebra and Quagga Mussels – Dana H. Geary, Erik N. Hoffmann, John W. Valley, Noriko Kita, Taka Ushikubo, Carol E. Lee and Suzanne Peyer

23

Assessing Environmental Factors Associated with Changes in the Growth Rate of Semele casali through the Holocene – R.A. Krause, Jr., J.W. Huntley, M. Kowalewski, C.S. Romanek, D.S. Kaufman and M.G. Simoes

24

Recent Salinity Change in the Western Pacific Warm Pool Reconstructed by Coral Paleo-salinometer – Hiroko Iijima, Hajime Kayanne, Osamu Abe, Maki Morimoto and Toshio Yamagata

25

Looking Younger While Getting 'Colder': Exploring the Role of Heterochrony in the Evolution of Long-Lived Bivalves from the Eocene of Seymour Island – Devin P. Buick and Linda C. Ivany

26

Geographic Variation in Growth Rate and Form of a Jurassic Oyster, and its Environmental Implications – Andrew L. A. Johnson, Jingeng Sha and Mark N. Liqourish

27

Stable Isotope Profiles of Fossil Molluscs from the Lower Pleistocene Seoguipo Formation (Korea) and Paleoseasonality Variation – Boo-Keun Khim, Jin Kyung Kim, Kyung Sik Woo and Seok Hoon Yoon

28

High-resolution Isotope Profiles of Walleye Pollack (Theragra chalcogramma) Otoliths from the East Sea: Tracing Habitat Environmental Conditions – Boo-Keun Khim and William P. Patterson

29

Modeling Oxygen-Isotope Ratios in an Estuarine Bivalve, Saxidomus gigantea: Insights into Holocene Climate Change in Coastal British Columbia, Canada – Andrew W. Kingston, Darren R. Gröcke and Aubrey Cannon

30

Source Effects on the Carbon-Isotope Variation in an Estuarine Bivalve, Saxidomus giganteaAndrew W. Kingston, Darren R. Gröcke, Aubrey Cannon and Meghan Burchell

31

Trace Element Mapping of Otoliths by Laser Ablation ICP-MS: Transportation, Migration and/or Vaterite? (And a Good Look at the Methods) – Alan E. Koenig and Daniel Gibson-Reinemer

32

A Marine Carbonate Reference Material for Microanalysis – Alan E. Koenig and Stephen A. Wilson

38

High-resolution Calibration of Geochemical Proxies in the Shell of a Laboratory Grown Giant Clam (Tridacna squamosa) – Claire E. Lazareth, F. LeCornec, M. Elliot and G. Cabioch

33

ENSO, Eastern Tropical Atlantic Temperature Anomalies and Coral Growth – Ruy K. P. Kikuchi, Marilia D.M. Oliveira, Carlos A.D. Lentini and Zelinda M.A.N. Leăo

 -- Cancelled --

34

Hydrothermal Vent Mussels as Recorders of Environmental Change – C. A. Richardson, J. Libertinova, L. J. Clarke, H. Kennedy, and P. R. Dando

35

Southern Ocean Limpets as Potential High-resolution Environmental Archives – Matthias López Correa and M. Taviani

36

Stable Isotopes (d18O & d13C), Trace and Minor Element Compositions of Recent Lophelia pertusa Deep-Water Corals in the Ionian Sea (Mediterranean Sea) – Matthias López Correa, P. Montagna, B. Vendrell, M. McCulloch and M. Taviani

37

Cross-dating: A Practical Application to Verify Historical Age Data for British Columbia Geoduck (Panopea abrupta) – Shayne E. MacLellan, Darlene Gillespie and Judy McArthur

39

Environmental Controls on Daily Shell Growth of Phacosoma japonicum (Bivalvia: Veneridae) from Japan – Kazushige Tanabe, Bernd R. Schöne and Tsuzumi Miyaji

40

Micro-scale Elemental Distribution in a Shell of the Venerid Bivalve Phacosoma japonicumKazushige Tanabe, Yuji Sano, Kotaro Shirai and Tsuzumi Miyaji

41

Relationships between Fish and Otolith Sizes and Impact on Growth Patterns  – Kristen M. Munk, Jodi Neil and Rhiannon Jensen

42

Indian Ocean Dipole Index for the Last 100 Years Recorded in Kenyan Coral Annual Bands – Hajime Kayanne, Nobuko Nakamura, Hiroko Iijima, Timothy R. McClanahan, Swadhin Behera and Toshio Yamagata

43

Microstructure, Growth Banding and Age Determination of a Primnoid Gorgonian Skeleton (Octocorallia) from the Late Younger Dryas to Earliest Holocene of the Bay of Biscay – Sibylle U. Noé, Lester Lembke-Jene, Julie Reveillaud and Andre Freiwald

44

Schlerochronology in Massive Corals: Advantages and Disadvantages – Kristine DeLong and Timothee Ourbak

45

Gastropod Statoliths: A Tool for Reconstructing the Growth of Gastropods – C.A. Richardson, E Chatzinikolaou and C. Saurel