| Draft Agenda for the Central Pacific Coral Disease Workshop: Protocols for Assessment, Monitoring and Outbreak Investigation | ||||||||||||||||
| Date | Activity | Time | Details | Location | Personnel | |||||||||||
| 2/27/07 | Registration & Lectures | 8:00-9:00 | Registration of participants | UOGML classroom | ||||||||||||
| 9:00-9:30 | Introduction to the Workshop: Approach, goals, objectives, participants | UOGML classroom | L. Raymundo, UOG | |||||||||||||
| 9:30-10:15 | Coral diseases: What do we know about them? | UOGML classroom | L. Raymundo | |||||||||||||
| 10:15-10:30 | coffee break | UOGML classroom | ||||||||||||||
| 10:30-11:15 | Global patterns in coral disease | UOGML classroom | A. Bruckner, NOAA | |||||||||||||
| 11:30-11:50 | Porites Ulcerative White Spots as a model for studying coral disease | UOGML classroom | L. Raymundo | |||||||||||||
| 11:50-12:15 | Disease progression in a colonial organism: A self-organized critical process? | UOGML classroom | A. Kerr, UOG | |||||||||||||
| 12:15-1:15 | lunch | UOGML classroom | ||||||||||||||
| 1:15-2:00 | Decision Tree for underwater assessment and diagnosis | UOGML classroom | L. Raymundo | |||||||||||||
| 2:15-3:15 | Methods for assessment and monitoring | UOGML classroom | A. Bruckner, L. Raymundo | |||||||||||||
| 3:15-3:30 | coffee break | UOGML classroom | ||||||||||||||
| 3:30-5:00 | Dry land practice runs: reading transects | UOGML classroom | Bruckner, Raymundo, Woodley, Higgins | |||||||||||||
| 2/28/07 | Lectures & Intro Lab | 9:00-9:45 | Assessing outbreaks | UOGML classroom | C. Woodley, NOAA | |||||||||||
| 10:00-10:45 | Decision Tree for outbreak assessment | UOGML classroom | C. Woodley | |||||||||||||
| 11:00-11:45 | Data management and analysis | UOGML classroom | A. Bruckner, L. Raymundo | |||||||||||||
| 12:00-1:00 | lunch | UOGML classroom | ||||||||||||||
| 1:00-5:00 | Laboratory: familiarity with microscopic view of diseased and compromised tissue, preparing for sampling, practicing mock responses | UOGML wet lab and microbio lab | Raymundo, Bruckner, Woodley, Higgins | |||||||||||||
| 3/1/07 | Field work | 8:30-3:00 | Practicing prevalence surveys | Tumon Bay reef flat | A. Bruckner, L. Raymundo | |||||||||||
| 3:00-5:00 | Laboratory: review of sampled specimens and some basic microbiology | UOGML classroom & microbio lab | Raymundo, Bruckner, Woodley, Higgins | |||||||||||||
| 3/2/07 | Field work | 8:30-3:00 | Practicing outbreak response protocols | Cocos lagoon | Raymundo, Bruckner, Woodley, Higgins | |||||||||||
| 3:00-4:00 | Laboratory: review of sampled specimens and microbiology | UOGML classroom | Raymundo, Bruckner, Woodley, Higgins | |||||||||||||
| 4:00-5:00 | Friday UOGML POETS lecture series; all participants are invited to attend | UOGML classroom | A. Bruckner | |||||||||||||
| 3/3/07 | Field work | 8:30-12:00 | Follow-up field work; review and finishing | Anae Reef | L. Raymundo, C. Woodley, J. Higgins | |||||||||||
| Wrap-up session | 2:00-5:00 | Wrap-up, review, assessment, discussion of data base and regional working group | UOGML classroom | L. Raymundo, C. Woodley, J. Higgins | ||||||||||||