Special Sessions for the 118th Annual Meeting

 NOTE – this is a working document and subject to change.  If you have an interest in any of these sessions, 
contact the organizers.  There will be other general sessions as determined by abstract submissions. 
 
There is still time to organize a special session
If you are interested in doing so, contact Sandy Shumway

Session Title Session Chair(s)
Email Address
Abalone
under construction  
Acidification
George Waldbusser [email protected]
Algal Toxins/HAB
Steve Morton [email protected]
Birds and Shellfish Sanitation
Bob Rheault [email protected]
Carbon/Shellfish

Max Zavell

[email protected]
Clams
Brian Beal 

John Kraeuter 

[email protected] 

[email protected]

Commercial Shellfisheries
Kevin Stokesbury

David Rudders

[email protected]

[email protected]

Contaminants of Emerging Concern
Evan Ward 

Anne Gilewski 

[email protected] 

[email protected]

Decapods
under construction  
Disease
Marta Gomez-Chiarri 
Steph Smith

Tal Ben-Horin

[email protected]                              [email protected]   

[email protected]

Down on the Farm
Leslie Sturmer

Bill Walton

[email protected]

[email protected]

Echinoderms 
under construction  
eDNA 
under construction  
Gastropods
Max Zavell [email protected]
Genomics
Louis Plough [email protected]
Good & Bad Microbes
Steph Smith [email protected]
Green Crabs
Brian Beal  

Sylvia Yamada

[email protected]  

[email protected]

Hatcheries
Vengatesen Thiyagarajan  

Karen Hudson

[email protected]  

[email protected]

Macroalgae-Shellfish Co-Culture

Michael Doall

[email protected]

Mangrove Shellfish
Acacia Alcivar-Warren

Caroline DeWitt

[email protected] 

Microbiomes
under construction  
Mussels

under construction

 

Offshore Aquaculture
under development  
OsHv1 
Colleen Burge 

Don Webster

 

[email protected]

Outreach
Katie Houle [email protected]
Oysters
Bill Fisher [email protected]
Pearl Oysters
under construction
Parasites
Laura Urdes [email protected]
Regulations/Permitting
under construction

 

Robotics & Emerging Technology
Allen Patillo 

Katie Houle

[email protected] 

[email protected]

Scallops
under development
 
Seafood Health
under development  
Shellfish Restoration & Conservation

Peter Kingsley-Smith

 

[email protected]

ShrimpENCODE
Kathy Tang

Acacia Alcivar-Warren

[email protected]

[email protected]

Social Dimensions of Shellfisheries
under construction  
Spatial Planning
under construction  
Summer Mortality
Tim Green [email protected]
Undergraduate Research Colloquium
Ed Catapane

Margaret Carroll

[email protected]

[email protected]

Vibrio
Steve Jones [email protected]
Art & Design of Effective Science Presentations (Workshop)
Eric Heupel [email protected]
Grant Writing Training Workshop
Cliff Cosgrove [email protected]
NASA Aquaculture Workshop
 Nima Pahlevan                         Erin Urquhart Jephson             Perry Oddo 

 Kelly Luis 

[email protected]          [email protected]   [email protected]

[email protected] 

Northeast Bivalve Hatchery Health Consortium  (workshop)
Marta Gomez-Chiarri [email protected]
Gyotaku Workshop (fish print art)
Bruce Koike [email protected]
Film Festival - NSA at the Movies
Eric Heupel [email protected]
General Contributed Papers
 

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