Anna is in Oslo, Norway this week to participate in a workshop on "Natural mortality in fish populations during early life stages" organized by the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) at the University of Oslo. Anna joins participants from Norway, USA, Germany and Russia.
Lab Member Jennifer Wong-Ala's research featured on KITV4 news
More coverage of lab member and recent GES graduate Jennifer Wong-Ala's work exploring larval reef fish dynamics was featured on KITV4 News.
Lab member Jennifer Wong-Ala's research featured on UH News
Lab member and recent GES graduate Jennifer Wong-Ala was featured on the UH News page today. Read more about her efforts exploring reef fish sustainability here. Great job Jenn!
Registration open: XIth International Larval Biology Symposium, Honolulu, HI
Registration for the XIth International Larval Biology Symposium, Aug. 10-13 in Honolulu, Hawaii, is now open! Please see www.larvalbiology2017.org to register, reserve a room at the conference hotel, and preview program and symposium information.
Register by June 1 to receive a reduced early registration fee. The deadline for talk or poster submission is June 15. We hope to see you in August!
Neuheimer Lab @ 31st Wakefield Symposium, Anchorage, USA
Anna is in Anchorage, Alaska this week for the 31st Wakefield Symposium on the "Impacts of a Changing Environment on the Dynamics of High-latitude Fish and Fisheries".
Anna will be presenting on Tuesday 9 May from 9:30-10:00am in Session 1: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS ON SUBARCTIC AND ARCTIC ECOSYSTEMS: SPECIES-SPECIFIC RESPONSES (abstract below).
Hope to see you there!
GES Thesis Completion - Congrats Jennifer Wong-Ala!
On 5 May 2017, lab member Jennifer Wong-Ala presented her Global Environmental Science final thesis entitled "Disentangling Biophysical Factors Affecting Reef Fish Recruitment in West Hawai'i Island". Congratulations Jenn! We're so proud of all your hard work and the stellar finished project!
Congratulations also to all of today's GES Symposium presenters! Great job all around!
UH's 5th Annual Conference of Biological Oceanography Graduate Students
Please join us this Tuesday, 21 March for the 5th Annual Conference of Biological Oceanography Graduate Students (CBOGS). This student-run event will showcase current student research in biological oceanography at SOEST.
Neuheimer Lab @ ASLO 2017 Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI
This week the Neuheimer Lab will be at the 2017 Aquatic Sciences Meeting being held here in Honolulu, HI. Anna (along with Lorenzo Ciannelli) will be co-convening Session 044 Bridging the eco-evolutionary gap: Plastic and adaptive responses to climate change on Thursday 2 March. In addition, here are a list of presentations co-authored by lab members:
Neuheimer, A. B.; Ciannelli, L.; Ottersen, G.; SESSION TUTORIAL: BRIDGING THE ECO-EVOLUTIONARY GAP: PLASTIC AND ADAPTIVE RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE (Abstract ID: 29217)
Leitner, A. B.; Neuheimer, A. B.; Drazen, J. C.; UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY OF SEAMOUNT ENHANCED PRIMARY PRODUCTION: A GLOBAL ANALYSIS OF SATELLITE CHLOROPHYLL DATA AROUND SEAMOUNTS (Abstract ID: 30020)
Hope to see you soon!
Call for Symposia: XIth International Larval Biology Symposium, Honolulu, HI
The organizing committee for the XIth International Larval Biology Symposium is soliciting short proposals for symposium topics for our August 2017 meeting. If you’re interested in organizing a symposium for a particular topic, please submit your proposal through the link on the front page of the meeting website.
We hope to see you all in Honolulu next August!
Neuheimer Lab @ Hawaii Pacific University
This week Anna was invited to speak at Hawaii Pacific University as part of their Marine Science Guest Speaker Seminar Series. Anna presented recent work from the Neuheimer lab exploring early fish life history variation at high and low latitudes.
31st Wakefield Symposium on high-latitude fish and fisheries, Anchorage, AK
The 31st Wakefield Symposium on the Impacts of a Changing Environment on the Dynamics of High-latitude Fish and Fisheries is now accepting abstracts. The symposium will be held from 9-12 May 2017 in Anchorage, Alaska.
Symposium topic areas are:
- Environmental impacts on subarctic and arctic ecosystems: species-specific responses
- Environmental impacts on subarctic and arctic ecosystems: community structure, biodiversity, energy flow, and trophodynamics
- Physiological effects of ocean acidification, oxygen limitation, and temperature stress on high-latitude fish and shellfish
- Incorporating environmental effects and accounting for changing life history traits in the assessment and management of fish populations
- Evaluating management strategies under projected environmental changes
- Coping with environmental variability and climate change: perspectives from coastal communities
More info on session descriptions and invited speakers is available here. Hope to see you in Anchorage in May!
Submit an abstract: 2017 ASLO Meeting - Bridging the eco-evolutionary gap
We invite you to submit an abstract to
Session 044 - Bridging the eco-evolutionary gap: Plastic and adaptive responses to climate change
at the 2017 ASLO Aquatic Science Meeting in Honolulu (Hawaii; 26 Feb – 03 Mar).
Abstracts are due 14 October 2016.
Here's a description of the session:
Climate change is affecting ecological processes and biogeochemical cycles of marine environments. Species respond to climate change through both phenotypic plasticity and microevolutionary adaptations. For example, across many trophic levels, species quickly respond to change is by shifting their distribution in space (e.g. population distribution) or time (e.g. reproductive events). However, there are limits to these types of responses, imposed by the presence of the limiting requirements of different critical stages in a species? life history. These limitations are linked to a species? life history strategy, with further response of the species beyond this point moving from phenotypic plasticity to genetic adaptation. There is unfortunately a chasm between phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary adaptations in the literature of marine species response to climate change. In this session we invite studies on species? response to environmental change, using both niche-based (e.g., climate-envelope models) and genetic (e.g., evolutionary models) approaches. Through this theme session we intend to develop awareness among scientists and build capacity to merge these two realities by including more evolutionary thinking in niche-based approaches and more ecological thinking in studies of species evolutionary processes. This understanding is necessary as we develop models to project species adaptability to future climate scenarios.
New Article: Spatial variability in deep-diving toothed whale occurrence in the Ligurian Sea, Mediterranean
A second article from our collaboration with UH’s Marine Mammal Research Program over at the Hawai`i Institute of Marine Biology has been accepted at Deep Sea Research Part I. In the article, we use passive acoustic recordings to explore spatial variability in toothed whale occurrence in the Ligurian Sea, Mediterranean.
Neuheimer Lab @ Aarhus University
Anna is visiting Peter Grønkjær in the Department of Bioscience at Aarhus University (Aarhus, Denmark) for the next two months to collaborate on ongoing research of high latitude fishes.
Neuheimer Lab MSc defence - Congrats Chantel!
On 15 July 2016, lab member Chantel Chang successfully defended her Oceanography MSc thesis entitled "The Influence of Biophysical Factors on the Connectivity of Holoplanktonic Copepods". It was a wonderful celebration of all Chantel's hard work and excellent contributions to our lab and department. Congratulations Chantel!
Neuheimer Lab @ Bayesian Workshop, Colorado State University
Anna is at CSU in Fort Collins, CO this month to attend a NSF-funded (award #: DEB-1145200) Bayesian modelling workshop presented by Drs. Tom Hobbs, Mevin Hooten, Kiona Ogle, and Maria Uriarte. The workshop follows material in Drs. Hobbs and Hooten's 2015 book Bayesian Models: A Statistical Primer for Ecologists.
Congratulations 2016 C-MORE Scholars!
Congratulations to this year's C-MORE Scholars, including our very own Jennifer Wong-Ala! Best of luck in all your future endeavours, Scholars!
Neuheimer Lab @ ICES/PICES 6th Zooplankton Production Symposium
Chantel and Anna are in Bergen this week for the ICES/PICES 6th Zooplankton Production Symposium. Come check out our poster "Can biophysical processes explain copepod connectivity and distribution across the Atlantic Ocean basin?" (#136, Tues. 10 May, 17:45-19:45). A big mahalo (takk!) to PICES for providing Chantel with a grant to support her travel to Norway.
Adult and offspring size paper featured at The Centre for Ocean Life
Our paper (and accompanying data paper) exploring patterns of adult and offspring size in the ocean is featured on the Centre for Ocean Life's website here.
New Article: Adult and offspring size in the ocean data paper
Our data paper, Adult and offspring size in the ocean: A database of size metrics and conversion factors, is posted as an Accepted Article over at Ecology. The database contains adult and offspring size estimates (and associated conversion factors) for marine species covering >17 orders of magnitude in body mass. The work is a collaboration with the Centre for Ocean Life and accompanies our papers:
Andersen, K.H., T. Berge, R.J. Gonçalves, M. Hartvig, J. Heuschele, S. Hylander, N.S. Jacobsen, C. Lindemann, E.A. Martens, A.B. Neuheimer*, K. Olsson, A. Palacz, F. Prowe, J. Sainmont, S.J. Traving, A.W. Visser, N. Wadhwa, and T. Kiørboe. 2016. Characteristic Sizes of Life in the Oceans, from Bacteria to Whales. Annual Review of Marine Science. 8:3.1-3.25. (pdf)
Neuheimer, A.B.*, M. Hartvig, J. Heuschele, S. Hylander, T. Kiørboe, K.H. Olsson, J. Sainmont, and K.H. Andersen. 2015. Adult and offspring size in the ocean over 17 orders of magnitude follows two life history strategies. Ecology 96:3303–3311. (link, pdf)