Schedule

16th Sunday

17:00-22:00 Registrations (Hotel Ora)
19:30-22:00 Ice breaker reception (Hotel Ora)

17 th Monday

08:00-09:00 Registrations (School of Medicine)
09:00-09:30 Introductory remarks and welcome
PROXY DEVELOPMENT: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Moderators: Al Wanamaker and Yuji Sano
09:30- 10:00 David Gillikin (keynote)
Bivalve sclerochemistry: challenges and opportunities
10:00-10:15 Sierra V. Petersen
Separating seasonality in temperature and the oxygen isotopic composition of water: Sub-annual clumped isotope analysis of gastropods
10:15-10:30 Nicolai Schleinkofer
Assessing geochemical seawater temperature proxies in the deep sea bivalve Acesta excavata
10:30-11:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK
11:00-11:15 Mikko Vihtakari
sclero: an R package to measure growth patterns and align sampling spots in chronologically deposited materials
11:15-11:30 Kristine DeLong
Corals are not thermometers – How to extract a geochemical time series from a complex skeleton
11:30-11:45 Krešimir Markulin
Glycymeris pilosa - spatial and temporal insight into differences of trace element records
11:45-12:00 Kozue Nishida
Microscale stable isotopic analytical system (MICAL3c) reveals high-resolution temperature history of fish otoliths
12:00-12:15 Franck Lartaud
Sclerochronology beyond the deep
12:15-12:30 Alexandra Németh
Anomalous 18O-depletions of Madeiran Glycymeris growth increments - A new tool to trace meridional shifts of the Azores Front
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
PALEOECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
Moderators: Paul G. Butler and Donna Surge
14:00-14:30 Linda C. Ivany (keynote)
How low can you go? Seasonal resolution in 300-million-year-old aragonite mollusks and the insights they provide
14:30-14:45 Niels J. de Winter
Reconstructing paleoseasonality in the Late Cretaceous greenhouse world: A multi-proxy approach
14:45-15:00 Madleen Grohganz
Unravelling the biology of conodonts (early vertebrates) through sclerochro nology of their skeletal tissues
15:00-15:15 Kohki Sowa
Ecological responses of coral reef under different seawater conditions inferred from mid-Holocene coral reefs at the central Ryukyu Islands, Japan
15:15-15:30 Atsuko Yamazaki
Linkage between climate condition and coral reef development on Holocene uplifted terraces in Kikai Island, Japan
15:30-15:45 Andrew L.A. Johnson
Growth rate, extinction and survival among late Cenozoic marine bivalves of the US eastern seaboard
15:45-16:15 REFRESHMENT BREAK

BIOMINERALIZATION
Moderators: Bernd R. Schöne and Elizabeth Harper
16:15-16:45 Antonio Checa (keynote)
Direct cellular activity drives the fabrication of some invertebrate microstructures
16:45-17:00 Stefania Milano
Temperature-induced mineralogical transformations of aragonitic mollusc shells
17:00-17:15 Morgane Oudot
Biomineralization in Spirula spirula: first proteomic data and new microstructural inputs
17:15-17:30 Jorune Sakalauskaite
The “jewel of Mediterranean” Spondylus gaederopus: insights into the biomineralization through biomolecular analysis
17:30-17:45 Helene de Pontual
Asymmetry of otolith chemical composition from 2D mapping: relationship with biomineralization mechanisms and implications for microchemistry analyses
17:45-18:45 Poster session A

PROXY DEVELOPMENT: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

PALEOECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

BIOMINERALIZATION

GROWTH, BIOENERGETICS AND ECOSYSTEMS

18 th Tuesday

08:30 -08:40 Housekeeping
ENVIRONMENTAL BIOMONITORING & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Moderators: Michael Carroll and Andrew L.A. Johnson
08:40-09:10 Karin E. Limburg (keynote)
Environmental biomonitoring – challenges for sclerochronologists
09:10-09:25 Rob Witbaard
Seasonal patterns in shell gape activity of Arctica islandica
09:25-09:40 Maxi Castrillejo
Cerastoderma edule as a new proxy of historical liquid releases from European nuclear reprocessing plants
09:40-09:55 Taro Komagoe
Sclerochronological and geochemical approach for paleo typhoon seasonality reconstruction using giant clam fossils in Kikai Island, Japan
09:55-10:10 Justine Doré
Ba/Ca as a potential proxy for phytoplankton dynamics in Arctica islandica shells from Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (Northwest Atlantic Ocean)
10:10-10:40 REFRESHMENT BREAK
FISHERIES ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
Moderators: Beatriz Morales-Nin and Sanja Matić-Skoko
10:40-11:10 Steve E. Campana (keynote)
A view into the abyss; have we seen the limits of sclerochronology?
11:10-11:25 James Scourse
Atlantic herring recruitment in the North Sea for the past 455 years based on the δ13C from annual shell increments of Arctica islandica
11:25-11:40 Gotje von Leesen
Temperature association and exposure of Icelandic cod (Gadus morhua) over the last 100 years
11:40-11:55 Emile Le Luherne
Can otolith δ18O of tagged fish informed about migration behaviors and population structure of European sea bass in the North East Atlantic?
11:55-12:10 Liqiang Zhao
Large-scale mapping of 143 Nd/ 144 Nd ratios in bivalve shells for geographical traceability
12:10-14:00 Lunch break - on your own
FISHERIES ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
Moderators: Beatriz Morales-Nin and Sanja Matić-Skoko
14:00-14:15 Yvette Heimbrand
Seeking the true time: Exploring otolith chemistry as an age-determination tool
14:15-14:30 Peter Fink-Jensen
Provenance and stock structure of capelin in Greenland using microchemistry
14:30-14:45 Patrick Reis-Santos
Influence of El Niño Southern Oscillation events on otolith growth and chemical chronologies in dusky grouper
14:45-15:00 Marine Randon
Coupling individual natural tracers to assess the connectivity within a flatfish metapopulation
15:00-15:15 Elizabeth Tray
Investigating scale trace element microchemistry as a tool to track adult North Atlantic salmon populations
15:15-15:30 Bronwyn M. Gillanders
Using hard structure chemistry and growth increment chronologies to investigate partial migration: implications for fisheries management
15:30-15:45 Audrey M. Darnaude
Otolith analysis and particle drift modelling to investigate variation in early life connectivity for the gilthead sea bream in the Gulf of Lions

15:45-16:15 REFRESHMENT BREAK
FISHERIES ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
Moderators: Kotaro Shirai and Bronwyn M. Gillanders
16:15-16:30 Susanne E. Tanner
How do deep-sea fish respond to environmental change: Patterns and drivers of growth variation among space, time and taxonomy
16:30-16:45 Raquel Ruiz-Díaz
Hindcasting for forecasting. Disentangling the impact of environment and fishing in Flemish Cap Atlantic cod dynamics
16:45-17:00 Pierluigi Carbonara
An ecological perspective of age and growth in Mullus surmuletus Linnaeus, 1758 from South-West Adriatic Sea
17:00-17:15 Peter van der Sleen
Linking sclerochronology to fish population dynamics
17:15-17:30 Louis Vaughan
Relating patterns in annual growth of a Western Irish European eel Anguilla anguilla Linnaeus, 1758 population to habitat and climatic conditions
17:30-17:45 Joyce Ong
Drivers of synchrony among deep-water snappers
17:45-18:00 Côme Denechaud
Investigating long term temporal stability of otolith morphometry of North east Arctic cod (Gadus morhua) in the Barents Sea

19th Wednesday

08:30-08:40 Housekeeping
GROWTH, BIOENERGETICS AND ECOSYSTEMS
Moderators: Julien Thébault and Melita Peharda
08:40-09:10 Peter Grønkjær (keynote)
Elements, isotopes and banding patterns – Sclerochronogical approaches to the study physiological performance in fishes
09:10-09:25 Ming-Tsung Chung
Plasticity of field metabolic rate between genetically distinct and coexisting cod populations
09:25-09:40 Leila Chapron
Impact of global change on cold-water coral growth: threats to deep-sea ecosystems
09:40-09:55 Karin Hüssy
The “who, when and where” of cod migrations in the Kattegat
09:55-10:10 Filipe Martinho
Daily growth chronologies in a marine flatfish during estuarine colonization
10:10-10:25 Deirdre Brophy
Reconstructing growth histories across multiple fish species in the Celtic Sea using multidecadal otolith collections
10:25-10:55 REFRESHMENT BREAK
10:55-11:10 Clive Trueman
Inferring movement tracks of individual baleen whales from chemical records combined with coupled simulation models
11:10-11:25 Christopher McQuaid
Endolithic cyanobacteria: a complication for the study of ecology and sclerochronology
11:25-11:40 Beatriz Morales-Nin
Exploring illicia microchemistry: a new tool for fish age determination?
CLIMATE AND OCEANS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Moderators: James Scourse and Jochen Halfar
11:40-12:10 Bryan A. Black (keynote)
Towards an integrated synthesis of Earth’s coupled marine-terrestrial systems
12:10-13:40 Lunch break
13:40-13:55 William M. Brocas
Corals reveal a cooler and fresher tropical Atlantic during the mid-last inter glacial
13:55-14:10 Phoebe T.W. Chan
Modern-day decline in skeletal density of subarctic crustose coralline algae
14:10-14:25 Meghan Zulian
Evidence that coralline red algae are tougher than we thought - Industrial era pH seasonality and long-term trends in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
14:25-14:40 Malcolm McCulloch
Reconstructing the upper-ocean 13C Suess-effect using high-resolution sclerosponge records and implications for the oceanic CO2 sink
14:40-14:55 Nicholas Farley
Evaluating Porites microatolls for climate reconstructions: Records from French Polynesia
14:55-15:10 Evan Edinger
Deep-water octocoral sclerochronology and microgeochemistry in cold waters of Atlantic and Arctic Canada
15:10-15:40 REFRESHMENT BREAK

CLIMATE AND OCEANS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Moderators: James Scourse and Jochen Halfar
15:40-15:55 Bernd R. Schöne
Brachiopods – faithful recorders of ocean properties?
15:55-16:10 Eric O. Walliser
Paleoseasonality in the benthic environment of the Tethys during the Late Cretaceous
16:10-16:25 David Reynolds
Northern Hemisphere ocean atmosphere interactions over the last 500 years
16:25-16:40 Christine N. Bassett
Fact or fiction? Exploring the possibility of Neoglacial sea ice off the coast of Unalaska
16:40-16:55 Alejandro Román González
Developing subannual isotope records from fingernail-sized shells from Antarctic coastal waters
17:00-18:00 Poster session B

ENVIRONMENTAL BIOMONITORING AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

FISHERIES ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

CLIMATE AND OCEANS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

SCLEROCHRONOLOGY AND HUMAN-ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTIONS: PAST AND PRESENT


19:00
Departure for conference dinner

20th Thursday

08:30-08:40 Housekeeping
CLIMATE AND OCEANS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Moderators: David Reynolds and Madelyn Mette
08:40-08:55 Tsuyoshi Watanabe
A 150 years Margritifera shell record reveals that summer air temperature in northern Japan is linked to Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
08:55-09:10 Stella J. Alexandroff
Hydrographic and climate variability at St Kilda, Scotland, since the late 19th century
09:10-09:25 Sarah Holmes
A novel study combining sclerochronology and biogeochemical modelling to understand mechanisms controlling bivalve growth on the North West European shelf
09:25-09:40 Roger Mann
A 250 year chronology of Arctica islandica in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US continental shelf
09:40-09:55 Nina M. Whitney
Insights on AMOC dynamics over the last 300 years using multiple geochemical proxies from an Arctica islandica record in the western North Atlantic
09:55-10:10 Justine Briard
Seawater paleotemperature and paleosalinity evolution in neritic environments of the Mediterranean margin during the Miocene: insights from combined δ18 O-Δ47 analyses of bivalve shells
10:10-10:25 Jacob Warner
Local perspectives on ENSO mean states ~2300 B.P. and now: δ18 O reconstructions from the short-lived bivalves Donax obesulus and Mesodesma donacium
10:25-10:55 REFRESHMENT BREAK
SCLEROCHRONOLOGY AND HUMAN-ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTIONS: PAST AND PRESENT
Moderators: Meghan Burchell and Stefania Milano
10:55-11:25 Amy Prendergast (keynote)
Sclerochronology and archaeology in the Mediterranean: seasonal foraging patterns, environmental change, and human-environment interaction
10:25-11:40 Meghan Burchell
Shell midden archives, climate change and human response in Barkley Sound, British Columbia
11:40-11:55 Marc Gosselin
Sclerochronological study in the Arabian Peninsula: growth pattern calibrations on modern bivalves and archaeological application from shell middens
11:55-12:10 Kelsie Long
High-resolution oxygen isotope records from fish and shell remains, Lake Kutubu, Papua New Guinea
12:10-13:40 Lunch break
13:40-13:55 Kaoru Kubota
Geochemistry and sclerochronology of Mercenaria stimpsoni collected from the western North Pacific
13:55-14:10 C. Fred T. Andrus
Challenges and applications of oxygen isotope analysis of season of capture of freshwater mollusks
14:10-14:25 Emma Loftus
Stable isotope investigations of Later Stone Age shellfishing and local climate shifts on the South African west coast
14:25-14:40 Asier García-Escárzaga
Shell sclerochronology and stable oxygen isotope ratios from the limpet Patella depressa Pennant, 1777: Implications for palaeoclimate reconstruction and archaeology in northern Spain
14:40-15:20 Concluding remarks & 6th International Sclerochronology Conference
15:20-15:50 REFRESHMENT BREAK
15:50-17:20 Early Stage Researcher workshop/panel
Meghan Burchell, Thierry Corrège, Stefania Milano, Amy Prendergast, Alan Wanamaker

21st Friday

Excursion