On Friday, August 8, 2003, PISCO participated in a symposium titled "Expanding Scales, Expanding Prospectives: New Insights into Marine Ecosystem Dynamics" at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America. PISCO Principal Investigators Pete Raimondi and Bruce Menge organized the symposium. Held in Savannah, Georgia the session highlighted some of PISCO's recent findings in the nearshore environment of the U.S. West Coast as well as findings from related research around the world. Approximately 100 people attended the event.

Session Schedule

August 8, 2003

8:30 am: Dramatic changes in rocky intertidal communities associated with oceanographic regime shifts, Bruce Menge, Oregon State University

8:55 am: The future of local versus regional species richness plots: reconciliation or rubbish?, Roly Russell, Oregon State University

9:20 am: Large-scale patterns and processes in kelp forest ecosystems, Mark Carr, UC Santa Cruz

9:45 am: Unexpected dynamism in zonation and abundance revealed by long-term monitoring on rocky shores, Pete Raimondi, UC Santa Cruz

10:10 am: Break

10:25 am: Marine masting: episodic prey recruitment and the synchrony of community dynamics on large spatial scales, Jon Witman, Brown University

10:50 am: Temporal and geographic variation in positive and negative interactions among salt marsh plants, Steve Pennings, University of Houston

11:15 am: Large-scale sampling in coastal ecosystems: ecological patterns and processes in New Zealand, Chile, and western USA, David Schiel, University of Canterbury

11:40 pm: Connecting science to ecosystem-based management: reflections on the ocean commissions, Jane Lubchenco, Oregon State University