Currents Fall 2012 Newsletter - Volume XXVII, Number 2

23 Riegl, B.M., S.J. Purkis , A.S. Al-Cibahy, S. Al-Harthi, E. Grandcourt, K. Al-Sulaiti, J. Baldwin, and A. Abdel-Moati. (2012). Coral bleaching and mortality thresholds in the SE Gulf: Highest in the world. In Coral Reefs of the Gulf: Adaptation to Climatic Extremes . B.M. Riegl and Purkis, S.J. (Eds.). Springer Dordrecht, 95–106 Riegl, B.M. , C.R.C. Sheppard, and S.J. Purkis . (2012). Human impact on atolls leads to coral loss and community homogenization: a modeling study. PLoS ONE . 7(6): e36921. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036921. * Riegl, B.M. , A.W. Bruckner, G.P. Rowlands, S.J. Purkis , and P. Renaud. (2012). Red Sea Coral Reef Trajectories over 2 Decades Suggest Increasing Community Homogenization and Decline in Coral Size. PLoS ONE . 7(5): e38396. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0038396 Riegl, B.M. , C.R.C. Sheppard, and S.J. Purkis . (2012). Human Impact on Atolls Leads to Coral Loss and Community Homogenization: A Modeling Study. PLoS ONE . 7(6): e36921. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036921 * Rowlands G., S.J. Purkis, B. Riegl , L. Metsamaa, A. Bruckner, and P. Renaud. (2012). Satellite imaging coral reef resilience at regional scale. A case-study from Saudi Arabia. Marine Pollution Bulletin 64:1222–1237 Samimi-Namin, K. and B. Riegl . (2012). Raised reef on Larak suggests Acroporadominance on the Persian Gulf coral reefs since the Pleistocene, Coral Reefs 31(3),763, DOI: 10.1007/ s00338-012-0908 Serafy, J.E., S.J. Cooke, G.A. Diaz, J. Graves, M. Hall, M. Shivji , and Y. Swimmer. (2012). Evaluating circle hooks in commercial, recreational and artisanal fisheries: research status and needs for improved conservation and management. Bulletin of Marine Science 88(3): 371–391. Sheppard C., M. Al-Husaini, F. Al-Jamali, F. Al-Yamani, R. Baldwin, J. Bishop and B. Riegl , et al. (2012). Environmental concerns for the future of Gulf coral reefs. In Coral Reefs of the Gulf: Adaptation to Climatic Extremes , Riegl, B.M. and Purkis, S.J . (Eds.). Springer Dordrecht, 349–375. Sheppard C.R.C., M. Ateweberhan, B.W. Bowen, P. Carr, C.A.Chen, C. Clubbe, M.T. Craig, R. Ebinghaus, J. Eble, N. Fitzsimmons, M.R. Gaither, C.-H. Gan, M. Gollock, N. Guzman, N.A.J. Graham, A. Harris, R. Jones, S. Keshavmurthy, H. Koldewey, C.G. Lundin, J.A. Mortimer, D. Obura, M. Pfeiffer, A.R.G. Price, S.J. Purkis , P. Raines, J.W. Readman, B. Riegl , A. Rogers, M. Schleyer, M.R.D. Seaward, A.L.S Sheppard., J. Tamelander, J.R. Turner, S. Visram, C. Vogler, S. Vogt, H. Wolschke, J.M.-C. Yang, S.-Y. Yang, and C. Yesson. (2012). Reefs and islands of the Chagos Archipelago, Indian Ocean: why it is the world’s largest no-take marine protected area. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems . DOI: 10.1002/aqc.1248 Shivji, M.S. and D. Carson. (2012). Baffled by Billfish: Like oceanic phantoms, Atlantic blue marlin are here one moment and gone the next. Guy Harvey Magazine Spring 2012. (In Press). Shivji, M.S. and D. Carson. (2012). Caution: Sand Tigers Ahead. Guy Harvey Magazine Winter 2012 issue. Smith, S.G., D.W. Swanson, M. Chiappone, S.L. Miller , and J.S. Ault. (2011). Probability sampling of stony coral populations in the Florida Keys. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment . 183(1-4):121-138. * Soloviev, A., A. Fujimura , and S. Matt , 2012: Air-Sea Interface in Hurricane Conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research- Oceans . (Submitted). * Soloviev, A., C. Maingot , M. Agor, L. Nash, and K. Dixon. (2012). 3D Sonar Measurements in Wakes of Ships of Opportunity. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 29, 880–886. * Soloviev, A., C. Maingot, S. Matt , R. E. Dodge , S. Lehner, D. Velotto, S. Brusch, W. Perrie, and E. Hochberg. (2012). Fine- scale features on the sea surface in SAR satellite imagery: PART I: Simultaneous in-situ measurements. EGU Journal of the European Geosciences Union Ocean Science . (Submitted). Soloviev, A.V., S. Matt, M. Gilman , H. Hühnerfuss, B. Haus, D. Jeong, I. Savelyev, and M. Donelan. (2011). Modification of Turbulence at the Air-Sea Interface Due to the Presence of Surfactants and Implications for Gas Exchange. Part I: Laboratory Experiment. In Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces 2010 ., Kyoto University Press, 285–298. * Spieler, R.E., D.P. Fahy , R.L. Sherman, J. Sulowkoski, and T.P. Quinn. (2011). The Yellow Stingray, Urobatis jamaicensis ( Chondrichthyes: Urotrygonidae ): a synoptic review. Caribbean Journal of Science . 47(1). (In Press). * Taylor K.H. and S.J. Purkis . (2012). Evidence for the southward migration of mud banks in Florida Bay. Marine Geology . 311–314:52-56 * Taylor, M.L. , H.E. Laubach, and D.W. Kerstetter . Endoparasite fauna of elasmobranch and mesopelagic teleost bycatch fishes in the Western North Atlantic pelagic longline fishery. Florida Scientist . (In Press). Thomas, J.D. and L. Watling. (2012). A new genus and species of didymocheliid amphipod from hexactinellid sponges ( Crustacea:Amphipoda: Didymocheliidae ) from the western Atlantic Ocean. Special Supplement—Yale Peabody Museum Natural History . (In Press). Thomas, J.D. and T. Krapp-Schickell. (2012). A New Species of Leucothoid Amphipod, Anamixis bananarama, n.sp . from Shallow Coral Reefs in French Polynesia ( Crustacea: Amphipoda: Leucothoidae ). Zookeys . 2011; (92): 1–8. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.92.1036 Walker B.K. (2012). Spatial Analyses of Benthic Habitats to Define Coral Reef Ecosystem Regions and Potential Biogeographic Boundaries along a Latitudinal Gradient. PLoS ONE . 7:e30466 Walker B.K. , D.S. Gilliam , R.E. Dodge , and J. Walczak. (2012). Dredging and shipping impacts on southeast Florida coral reefs. Proceedings of the 12th International Coral Reef Symposium, 19A Human impacts on coral reefs: general session, Cairns, Australia, 9–13 July 2012. * Walker B.K. , E.A. Larson , A. Moulding , and D.S. Gilliam . (2012). Small-scalemapping andmovement of shallow-water high-density staghorn coral ( Acropora cervicornis ) thickets. Coral Reefs . (In Press). *White, J., J. Patel , A. Ottesen, C. Arce, P. Blackwelder , and J.V. Lopez . (2012).Pyrosequencing of microbes within Axinella corrugata sponges: Diversity and seasonal variability. PLoS ONE . 7(6): e38204. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038204 * indicates publication with OC students