15^thNorthWest Algal Symposium Program

Friday Afternoon, May 11

For early arrivals there is a low tide at 13:15 (-1.3ft)

17:00 Registration and Housing Assignments: Company F Building

18:00 Dinner (Mess Hall A)

Friday Evening, May 11

20:00 Poster Set up and Informal Social in Company F Building (Remove Posters by 11:00 Sunday May 13)

Saturday Morning May 12

07:30 Breakfast in Mess Hall A

08:00 Registration resumes in Company F Building 

08:30	Welcome (Auditorium B)
	Contributed Papers (Auditorium B)
08:45	MONITORING OF INTERTIDAL SEAWEED DIVERSITY IN THE OUTER BAY OF FUNDY (NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA) REVEALS SYMPTOMS OF ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS  Colin R. Bates^1, Thierry Chopin^1,2 & Gary W. Saunders^1. ^1Centre for Environmental & Molecular Algal Research, Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada, E3B 6E1;^2Centre for Coastal Studies and Aquaculture, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, NB, Canada, E2L 4L5
09:00	BIOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF COEXISTING SEAWEEDS – CONFORMATION TO FLOW, POINTS OF FAILURE, AND REGENERATION Robert E. DeWreede. Department of Botany, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada
09:15	SURVIVORSHIP AND NEW BLADE PRODUCTION IN MAZZAELLA SPLENDENS: THEIR RELATIVE IMPORTANCE IN LIFE HISTORY PHASE  Leonard J. Dyck & Robert E. De Wreede. Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, 3529 - 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V6T 2B1
09:30	Coexistence of introduced and native congeneric algae:Codium fragile and C. tomentosum on Irish rocky intertidal shores Cynthia D. Trowbridge. Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University, Newport, Oregon 97365, USA
09:45	LOW PREFERENCE ULVOID GREEN ALGAE ARE CHEMICALLY DEFENDED Kathy Van Alstyne & Letise Houser. Shannon Point Marine Center, Western Washington University, 1900 Shannon Point Road, Anacortes, WA 98221, USA
10:30	C/T Break (Company F Building)
11:00	PHYTOPLANKTON DYNAMICS IN THE SALTON SEA, CALIFORNIA, 1997-1999 Mary A. Tiffany^1, Maria R. González^2 & Stuart H. Hurlbert^1.^1Department of Biology and Center for Inland Waters, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA & ^2Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
11:15	Diel rhythm in oxygen evolution of Euglena gracilis Gabriela Hannach and Frieda B. Taub. School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
11:30	KINETICS OF HALOGENATED MONOTERPENE BIOSYNTHESIS BY MICROPLANTLET SUSPENSION CULTURES OF THE RED ALGA OCHTODES SECUNDIRAMEA WITHIN AN AIRLIFT PERFUSION PHOTOBIOREACTOR Gregory L. Rorrer & Jason P. Polzin. Department of Chemical Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
11:45	HYDROGEN PEROXIDE PRODUCTION IN CYANOBACTERIA John Rueter^1, Mike Houston^2 & Eric Henry^2. ^1Environmental Sciences Department, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA. & ^2Puriponics, Portland, Oregon, USA
12:00	Lunch (Mess Hall A)

Saturday Afternoon May 12

13:00	Low Tide Excursion
14:00	Low Tide at 13:59 (-0.8 ft)
15:00	C/T Break (Company F Building)
15:30	POSTER SESSION (Authors available for discussion)

Saturday Evening, May 12

18:00	Banquet and related activities (Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, Chief Petty Officers’ Club)
	Banquet Speaker.Dr. Michael Hawkes, University of British Columbia Topic: “Up Over, Down Under, and in the Middle: Phycological Forays in Both Hemispheres”

Sunday Morning, May 13

07:30	Breakfast (Mess Hall A)
	Contributed Papers (Auditorium B)
09:00	PHOTOSYNTHETIC COMPETENCE OF SYMBIOTIC ALGAE (ZOOXANTHELLAE) EXPELLED AND RETAINED BY STRESSED CORALS  Gisele Muller-Parker. Shannon Point Marine Center and Dept. of Biology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225-9160, USA
09:15	ANABAENA AND APHANIZOMENON: ENIGMATIC FILAMENTS  Charles R. Williams and J.R. Waaland. Department of Botany, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195
09:30	MORPHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR ASSESSMENTS OF HYBRIDIZATION IN 7 KELP GENERA  Julie Collens and Louis Druehl, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, at the Bamfield Marine
09:45	USING ADDITIONAL GENE SYSTEMS TO UNDERSTAND KELP (LAMINARIALES; PHAEOPHYCEAE) EVOLUTION Christopher E. Lane, Charlene Mayes and Gary W. Saunders. Center for Environmental and Molecular Algal Research, Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B., Canada, E3B 6E1
10:00	Recruitment patterns onto natural substrata of the intertidal kelp Hedophyllum sessile (C. Ag.) Setchell in Barkley Sound, British Columbia Sophie Boizard, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
10:00	C/T Break (Company F Building)
10:45	BUSINESS MEETING (Auditorium B)
11:30	Take down posters and have a safe trip home
12:00	Note: Dining Hall Lunch is not part of the Meal Plan on Sunday

LOW TIDE at 14:59 (-0.2 ft)