| 7:30 – 8:30 Registration, Light Continental Breakfast, Poster setup
Session I: Microbial action and the hydrosphere
8:30 – 8:45 Welcome Address by David R. Butler
8:45 – 9:45 Heather Viles (Keynote): Microbial geomorphology: A neglected link between life and landscape
9:45 – 10:15 Larissa A. Naylor, Martin A. Coombes, Heather A. Viles: Reconceptualising the role of organisms in the erosion of rock coasts: A new model
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break & posters
10:45 – 11:15 Peter Meadows, Azra Meadows, John M.H. Murray: Biological modifiers of marine benthic seascapes: Their role as ecosystem engineers
11:15 – 11:45 Bernhard Statzner: Geomorphological implications of engineering bed sediments by lotic animals
11:45 – 12:15 Paul DeVries: Salmonid influences on rivers: A geomorphic fish tail
12:15 – 2:00 Lunch, BGS Steering Committee Meeting, Posters
Session II: Ecosystem Engineering & Larger-animal Zoogeomorphology
2:00 – 3:00 Clive Jones (Keynote): Ecosystem engineers and geomorphological signatures in landscapes
3:00 – 3:35 Robert Beshcta, William J. Ripple: The role of large predators in maintaining riparian plant communities and river morphology
3:35 – 4:05 Coffee Break & Posters
4:05 – 4:35 Gary Haynes: Elephants (and extinct relatives) as earth-movers and ecosystem engineers
4:35 – 5:05 Al Kinlaw, M. Grasmueck: Evidence for and geomorphologic consequences of a reptilian ecosystem engineer: The burrowing cascade initiated by the Gopher Tortoise
5:05 – 5:35 Carol F. Sawyer, Donald C. Brinkman, Vincent Walker, Tyler Covington, Elizabeth A. Stienstraw: Nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) burrow characteristics in southern Alabama: Their possible zoogeomorphic effects
6:30 – 7:00 Reception – Faculty Clubhouse
7:00 – 9:00 Banquet – Faculty Clubhouse |
