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Tuesday afternoon sessions and presentations


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12:00	Advances in Marine Mammal Conservation Science in the Wider Caribbean Region	Botany of Montserrat, West Indies

Moderators	Felice Major	Donald McClelland and Sarah Snyder

12:00-12:05	Introduction to the session	Introduction to the session

12:05-12:20	Charlotte Dunn Assessing Health and Reproduction of Blainville’s Beaked Whales in the Bahamas	Rho Kackley Advances in the Moss Flora of Montserrat

12:20-12:35	Pending Pending	Sophia Salisbury Investigating Habitat Preferences and Diversity of Lichens on Montserrat

12:35-12:50	Jeffry Bernus Ti Whale An Nou - Results of 5 Years of Cooperation, Research, and Conservation in the Lesser Antilles and Beyond	Donald McLelland An Overview of the History of Plant Collecting on Montserrat

12:50-1:05	Anmari Alvarez-Aleman Wider Caribbean Manatee Alliance: Mission and Goals	Ke Coco Deng Investigating the Pollinators of Two Caribbean Endemic Plants on Montserrat

1:05-1:15	Concluding remarks and questions	Concluding remarks and questions

1:15	Fishes of the Wider Caribbean	Crocodylians of the Caribbean, Plus Fossil Primates

Moderators	Lauren Mihaly	Venetia Briggs Gonzalez

1:15-1:20	Introduction to the session	Introduction to the session

1:20-1:35	Madison Androne Seasonality of Fishes on a High-latitude Reef and its Influence on Spearfishing Catch and Activity	Mason Hintermeister Fossil Caribbean Primates Exhibit Locomotor Repertoires Unique Among Platyrrhines

1:35-1:50	Lauren Mihaly Differences in Secondary Consumer Behavioral Responses to Predators on Natural and Artificial Reefs in South Florida	Irina Fermin Morales Extraction and Analysis of the Macroscopic and Microscopic Characteristics of Cuban crocodile Semen (Crocodylus rhombifer)

1:50- 2:05	Wes Neal Freshwater and Diadromous Fishes of Puerto Rico: A Free Resource for the Caribbean	Valerie Garcia Closing Distribution Gaps of Crocodylus acutus Across the Caribbean Slope and Central Guatemala

2:05-2:20	Patricia Torres-Piñeda Challenges and Opportunities for the Study of Evolution and Conservation of Freshwater Fishes in Hispaniola	Venetia Briggs Gonzalez American Crocodiles (Crocodylus acutus) as Restoration Bioindicators in the Florida Everglades

2:20-2:30	Concluding remarks and questions	Concluding remarks and questions


2:30	Invertebrates in the Gulf of Mexico: Responses to Anthropogenic Influences	Soil and Freshwater Research in the Caribbean

Moderators	Heather Judkins	Pending

2:30-2:35	Introduction to the session	Introduction to the session

2:35-2:50	Jordan Kleinschmidt Dilena Microplastic Contamination in Longfin Squid: Implications for Gulf of Mexico Food Webs	Thomas Coote Ecological Resilience at Bugby Hole: Early Research on Severely Impacted Stream Systems Due to Volcanic Activity on the Island of Montserrat

2:50- 3:05	Lucas Antonio Morais de Abreu Immune Response of Ciona robusta to Microplastic-Associated Bacterial Biofilm	Jesica Antunes Improving Methods for Analyzing Changes in Antibiotic Resistance In Soil During Decomposition.

3:05-3:20	Lisa Rose-Mann Organic Contaminants in The Common Clubhook Squid in the Northern Gulf of Mexico	Korik Vargas Mercury Contamination and Wildlife Monitoring in the Ayapel Swamp, Colombia: A Bi-National Approach to Assessing Threats in a Ramsar Wetland

3:20-3:35	Christian Goldman Assessment of Artificial Oyster Reef Health, Based on Water Quality, Oyster Recruitment, and Perkinsosis Infection in Tampa Bay	Open Discussion: Freshwater and Soils Research Needs

3:35-3:45	Concluding remarks and questions	Concluding remarks and questions

3:45	Freshwater Biodiversity in the Caribbean	Insects of the Caribbean

Moderators	Michael W Sandel	Bruce Conn

3:45-3:50	Introduction to the session	Introduction to the session

3:50-4:05	Ingo Schlupp Vulnerable Fishes of the Greater Antilles: The Genus Limia and Behavior, Speciation, Radiation, and Biogeography	Edwin Garcia-Rios Ant Communities and their Foraging Patterns in the Northern Karst Region of Puerto Rico

4:05-4:20	Christopher Martin The Adaptive Radiation Of Pupfishes, Endemic to San Salvador Island, Bahamas: Genomics, Craniofacial Morphology, Scale-biting, and Fitness Landscapes	Juli Morga First Time Records of Tyrannochthonius and Lagynochthonius Pseudoscorpions (Family Chthoniidae) on the US and British Virgin Islands

4:20-4:35	Sheila Rodríguez Machado Fine-Scale Bioregionalization in a Complex Island System: A Freshwater Perspective from the Greater Antilles	David Conn Surveillance for Urban Mosquitoes as Potential Disease Vectors Across Caribbean Seaports

4:35-4:50	Jacob Laurain Status and Community Structure of US Virgin Islands Freshwater Fauna	Open Discussion: Entomology Research Needs

4:50-5:00	Concluding remarks and questions	Concluding remarks and questions

5:00	Marine Research in the Caribbean	Open Discussions about the Caribbean Research Collaboration

Moderators	Craig Layman	Pending

5:00-5:05	Introduction to the session	Introduction to the session

5:05-5:20	Madison DiGirolamo Population Ecology of Marine Benthic Invertebrates at Lighthouse Reef Atoll, Belize	Potentials for Research Collaboration in Cuba

5:20-5:35	Eric Cole A Life-history Trilogy Involving Cassiopea jellyfish, a Cerithid Snail, and Atlantic Lugworms in the Turks and Caicos Islands	The Importance of Citizen Science in the Caribbean

5:35-5:50	Michael Morgan Coral Reef Education: Training the Next Generation	The Role of iNaturalist in Faciliating Research in the Caribbean

5:50-6:05	Emma Pranger Carnivorous Queen Conch? Aliger gigas Observed Consuming Barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) in Short-term Captivity	Concluding remarks and questions

5:20-5:30	Concluding remarks and questions

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