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CAERS 2008 ANNUAL
MEETING
Arid & Seasonally Arid Estuaries
April
27 - 29
(Sunday evening-Tuesday
afternoon)
Hotel Coral y
Marina
Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
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ABSTRACTS DUE
February 29 2008
(see abstract guidelines below)
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Background
Most of what we know
of estuarine processes has developed under the
framework of classical estuaries. Implicit in the model of classical
estuaries are specific patterns of circulation, nutrient cycling and
distribution and abundance of organisms. However, estuaries in
permanently or seasonally arid regions, such as the California/Baja
California coastline, the northwestern Gulf of Mexico and the Mexican
Caribbean, are characterized by seasonal or sporadic freshwater inflow
events. This leads to distinct hydrodynamics, geochemistry, and
community structure and function.
To gain insight into these processes, we encourage the
presentation of results that include comparisons between classical and
“arid low-inflow” estuaries or that pertain to estuaries that lie along
a gradient of freshwater inflow.
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Abstract guidelines
Please submit your abstract for oral or
poster presentations via e-mail to BOTH:
sherzka@cicese.mx
& vcamacho@uabc.mx
Please use
the following format: Submit title in all caps, and author names (first
& last names) followed by affiliations (use numeric superscript
notation). The main body of the text should be in 12 pt Arial font and
should not exceed 250 words. Abstracts
not meeting these requirements will be returned for formatting.
Example:
SEAGRASS
HERBIVORY PLAYS A LARGER ROLE IN STRUCTURING ARID RELATIVE TO TEMPERATE
INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES. Billy Bob Jones1
and Suzie Cue2. 1USGS,
Menlo Park, CA. 2University of California, Davis, CA.
Abstract
main text (250 words max).
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Registration
Registration: The cost of registration will be $110.00 US or 1200.00
Mexican pesos for two days, and includes lunch on Monday and Tuesday,
as well as a Cheese and Wine Event at the poster session on Monday
evening.
The deadline
for making your payment is March 31st.
Social
events
Informal evening gathering on Sunday, lunches and breaks on Monday and
Tuesday, poster session on Monday evening.
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About Ensenada
Ensenada is located in northwestern of Mexico, about 70 miles south of
the Mexico-US border near the city of San Diego. It takes about 1 hour
to reach Ensenada after the crossing the border and connecting to a
toll scenic highway in excellent condition. Free transportation will be
provided from the San Diego Airport to Ensenada on Sunday starting
around noon, and from Ensenada to the San Diego Airport on Tuesday
evening and Wednesday morning. In addition, various car rental
companies will allow their vehicles to be driven into Mexico, although
an extra fee is charged for Mexican insurance (for example,
Dollar). Please contact sherzka@cicese.mx and vcamacho@uabc.mx
for driving directions or to reserve transportation to and from the San
Diego Airport.
Tourist
information:
www.enjoyensenada.com/
www.ensenada-tourism.com/
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photo from www.ensenada-tourism.com
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Lodging information
We have reserved a block of rooms at the Hotel Coral and Marina, where
the conference will be held (the reservation is for Sunday April 27th
to Wednesday April 30th). The hotel’s address is Km. 103 Carrereta
Tijuana-Ensenada, #3421 Zona Playitas, Ensenada, B.C. 22860. We have
obtained an excellent group rate for Junior Suite rooms: $95.00 (plus
10% tax and 2% lodging tax). Please make your reservation directly with
the hotel by March 27th (call 646-175-0000 in Mexico and
1-877-233-5839 from the US). Mention the group code CAERS when making
your reservation. Late arrivals (after 3 pm) must use a credit card to
hold reservations. To aid the organization process, please send an
e-mail to sherzka@cicese.mx notifying us of your reservation.
Official
documents required for visiting Mexico
There is usually not an immigration stop when you enter Mexico. U.S.
and Canadian citizens do not need visas. However, please bring official
ID. As of January 1 2008, ALL persons, including U.S. citizens,
traveling between Mexico and the U.S will be required to present a
valid passport or other documents as determined by the Department of
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Randy Brown
Memorial Student Fund
Please donate! This fund will support student travel and
attendance at meetings
of CAERS or CERF. Donations can be included with meeting
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Meeting
Focus
The focus of the 2008 CAERS meeting
will be identifying and
characterizing the physical, geochemical and biological processes that
distinguish arid and seasonally arid estuaries from “classical”
estuaries.
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4 Themed Sessions
I. Hydrodynamics:
Residence times and flushing
In the absence of freshwater inflow,
circulation and stratification are driven by tides, winds and surface
fluxes. Flushing mechanisms exhibit spatial and temporal structures
that differ from classical estuaries, and often the innermost basin is
characterized by low energy and long-term residence of water.
These estuaries are much warmer than the cool Californian ocean, often
hypersaline, and sometimes inverse (reversed density gradient).
Associated with the gradient in energy from ocean to land, these
estuaries often exhibit strong longitudinal structures that are
reflected in the geochemical and ecological characteristics of the
system. Freshwater inflow typically occurs in well-defined events.
Steady buoyancy-driven models do not adequately describe estuarine
circulation and freshwater residence during such events. This session will focus on the dynamics of
circulation and stratification as well as on the resultant transport
patterns that influence particle and solute balances in arid and
seasonally arid estuaries.
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II. Dewatering
our estuaries: Lessons learned
Due to
global climate change and the continuing alteration of river systems,
many “classical” estuarine systems may eventually come to resemble
extant arid and seasonally arid estuaries. This session will focus on
identifying the relationship between freshwater inflow and
characteristics of estuaries that are particularly relevant to
assessing the effect of restricting freshwater inflow and climate
change on estuarine systems.
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III. Nutrient
cycling and primary production
This
session will focus on processes related to the sources of nutrients,
controls on nutrient availability and primary production, dominant
sources of primary production, and interactions of these processes in
arid estuaries.
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IV. Adaptations of
organisms to arid & seasonally arid estuaries
This
session will highlight adaptations of organisms to variable or extreme
environmental conditions, connectivity within and among estuarine
systems in arid regions, and community level interactions in arid and
seasonally arid estuarine systems.
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Field trips
We are
considering organizing either a fishing expedition out of Ensenada or a
field trip to San Quintin Bay.
Please contact sherzka@cicese.mx if you are interested.
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Program
Organizers
- Victor Camacho, Universidad
Autónoma de Baja California
- Sharon Herzka, Centro de Investigacion
Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada
- John Largier, Bodega Marine Laboratory,
University of California Davis
- Theresa Sincrope Talley, University of
California Davis
- Drew Talley, San Francisco State
University
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