PSA-Intercongress programme update
Allen C. Chen
cac at sinica.edu.tw
Mon Oct 5 21:29:43 EDT 1998
Dear coral-listers,
I would like to take the chance to update the final programme of the
symposium, "Ecology and Conservation of the Coral Reef in the Pacific",
Pacific Science Association Intercongress, 15-19 Nov., Academia Sinica,
Taipei, Taiwan. This programme, as I believe, should be the last version,
though minor change will be added. To those who are still interested in
coming this symposium, I would like to encourage you to present in the
poster section. Please contact Miss Flora Pu (florapu at gate. sinica.edu.tw)
for the late registration. If you have any inquring regarding to the
scientific programme, please do not hesitate to send me an e-mail.
Pacific Science Association Intercongress, 15-19 Nov., Institute of
Zoology, Academia Sinica,Taipei
and
The 6th Taiwan Coral Reef Society Annual Meeting
Date/Time Speaker/ Title
15 Nov. 1998, Sunday
Invited speakers arrivial
16 Nov. 1998, Monday
8:30am PSA registration
9:00-9:45am Open ceremony of PSA in the Activity Centre Hall
10:00-11:00am Plenary speech of PSA (I/II)
11:00-5:30pm City tour to the National Palace Museum/ Northern Coast
19:00-21:30pm Reception party in the Activity Centre (host by Academia
Sinica)
17 Nov. 1998, Tuesday
9:00-11:00am Plenary speech of PSA (III/IV)
(*posters will be exhibited from the 9:00am in the Institute of Zoology)
11:00-11:10am Open ceremony of Symposium of Ecology and Conservation of
Coral Reef in the Pacific
(This will be held in the auditorium of
Institute of Zoology)
11:10-12:10pm Plenary speech/ Jeremy Jackson**
(To be announced)
12:10-13:30pm Lunch and poster session
Session I Coral Reef Ecology/Conservation/Management
13:30-14:00pm Terrence Hughes**
Large-scale processes on coral reefs
14:00-14:30pm Terry Done**
Performance indices for management of coral reef
ecosystems
14:30-15:00pm Edgardo Gomez**
Coral Reef conservation in a developiong country:
after 20 years, has the philippines made progress?
15:00-15:30pm Richard Grigg**
Holocence coral reef accretion in Hawaii: a
function of wave exposure and sea level history
15:30-15:45pm Denise McCorry
Classification of Hong Kong's coral communities
using quantitative underwater video
sampling and its scope from management
applications in the South China Sea
15:45-16:00pm Tea/ Coffee break
Session II Environmental challenges and coral-algal symbiosis
16:00-16:30pm Robert Rowan**
How do coral-algal symbioses cope with
environmental challenges?
16:30-17:00pm Anglea Douglas**
Zooxanthellae in corals: does molecular
diversity matter?
17:00-17:15pm Jih-Terng Wang and Anglea Douglas**
The role of endosymbiotic algae, Symbiodinium sp.
on nitrogen metabolism of the
cnidarian host: nitrogen recycling or
nitrogen conservation
17:15-17:30pm E. A. Titlyanov and T. V. Titlyanova
Coral bleaching or degradation of zooxanthellae
is a normal physiological process
in symbiotic organism
17:30-17:45pm Chaolun Allen Chen# and Lee-Shing Fang#
Does thermal adapation occur in the
cnidarian-zooxanthellae symbiosis?
A molecular ecology approach
17:45-18:00pm Jr-Kai Yu, Lee-Shing Fang and Chaolun Allen Chen
Zooxanthellae polymorphism with Taiwanese
Pocillopora damicornis revealed
by PCR-RFLP and DNA sequences of
SSrDNA
18:30-21:30pm Banquet (host by the Fin Sealife Taipei)
18 Nov. 1998, Wensday
9:00-11:00pm Plenary speech of PSA (V/VI)
11:10-12:10pm Plenary speech/Chuck Birkeland**
Why some reefs recover and others do not?
12:10-13:30pm Lunch and poster session
Session III Ecology of Coral Reef Fishes
13:30-14:00pm Howard Choat**
Herbivory by fishes on coral reefs: does it
occur, and is important and if it doesn't?
14:00-14:15pm Jeng-Ping Chen and Kwang-Tsao Shao#
Spawning hour difference as one reproductive
isolation factor among several
species Apogon cookii complex
14:15-14:30pm Rong-Quen Jan#
Inter-oceanic comparisons of nest-size of the
dameslfishes, Abudefduf saxatilis complex
14:30-14:45pm Lishu Chen#
Ontogenetic morphometric changes for juvenile
scarids, Chlorurus sordidus and Scarus schlegeli
14:45-15:00pm Tea/ Coffee break
Session IV Evolution and ecology of corals and reef-associated
organisms (I)
15:00-15:30pm Bette Willis**
New perspectives on hybrids and species borders
in the coral genus Acropora
15:30-15:45pm Tung-Yung Fan and Chang-Feng Dai#
Reproductive ecology in transplanted and native
population of the scleractinian coral
Echinopora lamellosa in northern and
southern Taiwan
16:15-16:30pm Chang-Feng Dai, Tung-Yung Fan, Jr-Kai Yu and Sin-Che Lee
Reproductive isolation and genetic variation of
a scleractinian coral, Mycedium elephantotus
16:30-16:45pm Keryea Soong#, Hon-Ming Fan and Chaolun Allen Chen
Coral recruitment study at Nanwan, South Taiwan
16:45-17:00pm Jiang-Shiou Hwang and Rudi Strickler
In situ observations of the physical-biological
interactions between
polyps and suspended particles
17:00-17:15pm Wen-Hung Twan, Ching-Fong Chang, Jiang-Shiou Hwang
Estradiol-17B and testosterone in scleractinian
corals
18:00-21:30pm PSA closing Banquet (PSA invited speakers only, host by
Academia Sinica)
19 Nov. 1998, Thursday
8:30-9:00am Registration of Taiwanese Coral Reef Society (TCRS)
Election new committee members
Session V Evolution and ecology of corals and reef-associated
organisms (II)
9:00-10:00am Plenary speech/ Charlie Veron**
Reticulate evolution: the alternative paradigm
10:-10:15am Tea/ Coffee break
10:15-10:45am Yehuda Benayahu** and Chang-Feng Dai
Soft corals (Octocorallia) from Taiwan
10:45-11:15am Ming-Shu Jeng#
Reef-building soft coral, Sinularia
11:15-11:30am Tin-Yam Chan#
The reef lobsters of Taiwan and the Pacific
11:30-11:45am Hsin-Ju Lin
Spatial changes in the abundance and growth of
intertidal Thalassia hemprichii
seagrass beds in southern Taiwan
11:45-12:30pm Closing Remark/ Fu-Shiang Chia**
Coral reef conservation: from interlectural
discourse to social movement
Symposium closed
12:15-14:00pm Banquet (TCRS committees, speakers and all participants
include TCRS members;
host by Inst. Zool.
Academia Sinica)
14:00-14:30pm TCRS General Assembly
14:30-15:30pm TCRS new-elected committee meeting (elect new president)
17:00pm Overseas invited speakers fly to Kaohsiung and
transfer to Kenting National Park
20:00pm arrive at the Kenting National Park
20 Nov. 1998, Friday
8:30am Diving/ free tour in the National Park
14:30-16:30am Round table disscussion for coral reef conservation of
Taiwan
Stay at Kenting National Park
21 Nov. 1998, Saturday
Departure for Taipei/abroad or stay in Taipei or
Kaohsiung for more days
Poster Section Authors/ Title
S-II-3-1-1 Z.-H. Liao, J.-K. Yu and C. A. Chen
Doese zooxanthellae diversity correlate with coral colour patterns?
A case study in Pocillopora damicornis
S-II-3-1-2 M.S. Goodson, A. M. Savage and A. E. Douglas
Molecular diversity of zooxanthellae on a high-latitude coral reef
S-II-3-1-3 S.-J. Rau, K.-T. Shao and C. A. Chen
Subrepeat variation of mitochondrial control region in Dascyllas
trimaculatus: implication for
population interdependence of the South China Sea
S-II-3-1-4 J. Chen and K. Soong
Why are there always two notices before a symposium? how do the
marine widges synchornize their emergence?
S-II-3-1-5 P.-S. Lee and K. Soong
Study of eutrophication in coral reef
S-II-3-1-6 L.-C. Tseng and J.-S. Hwang
Effects of terrestrial and marine sediments on the activity of a
gorgonian, Subergorgia suberosa
S-II-3-1-7 W. S. Tasi, G.-N. Zoun, H.-I Hsiesh, M.-D. Lin, N. V. Wei
and C. A. Chen
Status of coral reef in the Pescadores: ReefCheck98 in the Penghu
Islands
S-II-3-1-8 N. V. Wei, Y. C. Chiu, Y.-W. Yang and C. A. Chen
Status of coral reef in the Posunotao: ReefCheck98 in the Lanyu Island
S-II-3-1-9 Y.-W. Yang, N. V. Wei, Y. C. Chiu, K. Soong and C. A. Chen
Status of coral reef in the Green Island: ReefCheck98 in the Green
Island
Cheers, Allen
Allen C. Chen, PhD
Assistant Research Fellow
Institute of Zoology
Academia Sinica
Taipei, Taiwan
Ph: 886-2-2789-9549
Fax: 886-2-2785-8059
E-mail: cac at gate.sinica.edu.tw
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