AARMS-CRM Workshop on Sustainability of Aquatic Ecosystem Networks

October 22-25, 2013

Program
 

Tuesday, October 22, 2013
08:30 - 09:00
Registration, Opening and Welcome


09:00 - 10:00
Kurt Anderson
(University of California, Riverside)
Modeling spatially-explicit ecological dynamics in streams and rivers
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Jonathan Sarhad
(University of California, Riverside)
Population persistence in river networks using metric graphs
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Yasmine Samia
(University of Ottawa)
Population dynamics on dendritic river networks
Abstract
11:30 - 12:00
Discussion
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
Les Stanfield
(Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources)
An adaptive management and ecohealth approach to build sustainable communities
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:30
Andrew Paul
(Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development)
Rethinking cumulative effects management of fisheries in dendritic river networks: Examples from Alberta
Abstract
16:30
Discussion

 

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

09:00 - 10:00
Daniel Boisclair
(Université de Montréal)
Multistate Markov models as tools to assess the effects of hydropower developments on fisheries productivity
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Pierre Girard
(Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso / Centro de Pesquisa do Pantanal)
Finding ecological limits of hydrologic alteration in rivers flowing in the Brazilian Pantanal
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Qihua Huang
(University of Alberta)
The effect of homing fidelity on the persistence of migratory fish population
Abstract
11:30 - 12:00
Discussion
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:30
Gunog Seo
(Colgate University)
Mathematical modeling of invasive Asian clam population dynamics
Abstract
14:30 - 15:00
Olga Vasilyeva
(Christopher Newport University)
Population dynamics of stream insects
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Frithjof Lutscher
(Université d'Ottawa)
A probabilistic framework for nutrient uptake length
Abstract
15:30
Discussion


Meeting room(s) : UNB Campus, Loring Baily Hall, Room 146

19:00
Canadian Rivers Institute’s Annual Hynes Lecture

 

Thursday, October 24, 2013

09:00 - 10:00
Alan Hastings
(University of California, Davis)
Connectivity and persistence in marine systems
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Myriam A. Barbeau
(University of New Brunswick)
Demography and movement of the amphipod Corophium volutator on mudflats in the Bay of Fundy: metapopulation dynamics and implications
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Michael Neubert
(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Fishing wars, warring fish and the no man’s land: “Simple” models for the spatial management of fisheries and their implications for the economic efficiency of marine reserve networks
Abstract
11:30 - 12:00
Discussion
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:00
Andrea Locke
(Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
TBA
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Holly Moeller
(Stanford University)
Accounting for habitat damage increases the economic optimality of marine reserves
Abstract
16:00 - 16:30
Jessica Hearns
(University of Central Florida)
Modeling of the marine coral reef system off the coast of south Florida
Abstract
16:30
Discussion

 

Friday, October 25, 2013

09:00 - 09:30
Ali Gharouni
(University of New Brunswick)
Estimating the spread rate of the European Green Crab in Atlantic Canada
Abstract
09:30 - 10:00
Kimberley Davies
(Dalhousie University)
Investigating scallop population dynamics and connectivity on Georges Bank using biophysical modeling
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
David Drolet
(University of Prince Edward Island)
TBA
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Emily Moberg
(MIT—WHOI)
Stochastic dominance as a test of species’ distributional shifts
11:30 - 12:30
Closing discussion

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