Human impacts in the marine environment : 2005 Annual Conference of New Zealand Marine Sciences Society, 4th International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions, and NZ-US MARGINS Programme Meeting : conference programme, information and abstracts.

Toothfish seminar. Management and science in the Ross Sea exploratory toothish fishery / Matthew Bartholomew. Dynamics of the Ross Sea toothfish fishery / Stuart Hanchet ... [et al.]. Biological characteristics of the Antarctic toothfish / Peter Horn ... [et al.]. How many Antarctic toothfish are there in the Ross Sea? / Alistair Dunn ... [et al.]. Trophic modeling to investigate effects of fishing in the Ross Sea, Antarctica / Matt Pinkerton ... [et al.]. Antarctic rattails : identification and ageing of the Whitson's grenadier Macrourus whitsoni / Peter Marriott ... [et al.] -- Around sea ice & seamounts. Structure and function of Ross Sea coastal benthic communities / Vonda Cummings ... [et al.]. Pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) fluorometry determination of the effects of salinity and temperature on algae in Antarctic sea ice / Ken Ryan .. [et al.]. Time series of pCO2 and pH in subantarctic surface water : the next installment / Kim Currie & Malcolm Reid. Antarctic sea ice bacteria and ecosystem dynamics / Andrew Martin ... [et al.]. 'CenSeam' : a new Census of Marine Life project : working towards a global baseline and synthesis of seamount data / Malcolm Clark ... [et al.]. Investigating the Brothers Seamount mean flow using a numerical model : the hard way to do it using multiple nesting / Graham Rickard -- Shark things / Kathy Walls. Satellite-tagging white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) at the Chatham Islands / Malcolm Francis ... [et al.]. Age and growth of blue shark in the New Zealand exclusive economic zone : a cautionary tale / Michael Manning & Malcolm Francis -- Community & estuarine issues. Cellular recognition, symbiosis specificity and the potential acceptance of novel algal symbionts by bleached corals / Simon Davy ... [et al.]. The effects of grazing gastropods on seaweeds / Janne Jockheck & Richard Taylor. Hydrodynamic regime in sympatric ghost shrimp Callianassa filholi and seagrass Zostera capricorni beds on an intertidal sandflat / Katrin Berkenbusch & Chris Cornelisen. Epifaunal communities associated with complex biogenic habitats on Otago shelf, south-eastern New Zealand / Anna Wood ... [et al.]. Defenses of a subtidal seaweed : Carpophyllum flexuosum and grazing invertebrates / Keren Spong. Sperm limitation and mating dynamics in New Zealand rock lobster : experimentation, modelling and field evidence / Alison MacDiarmid ... [et al.]. Presence and abundance of small fish in New Zealand estuaries / Malcolm Francis ... [et al.]. Physical factors influencing macroalgal community structure and productivity in Doubtful Sound, Fiordland / Kim Clark ... [et al.]. Carbon flow across ecotone boundaries : determining the importance of terrestrial carbon in Fiordland estuarine food webs / Rebecca McLeod & Stephen Wing. The reproductive biology of the heart urchin, Echinocardium cordatum, and its viability as a biomonitor and toxicology test species / Marcus Cameron & Mary Sewell. Polychaete assemblages in the deeper waters of the Ross Sea : what are the major factors structuring their composition? / Kirstin Kroeger & Ashley Rowden. A bioregional classification system for New Zealand's shallow subtidal reef communities / Nick Shears & Russ Babcock -- Modelling. Dynamic energy budget models : research tools for aquatic sciences / Jeffrey Ren & Barb Hayden. Adaptive fluid flow modelling / Stephane Popinet -- Human impacts on coasts & oceans. Spatial and temporal influence of urban sewage in a coastal bay / Candida Savage. Terrigenous sediment and subtidal marine macrobenthos : responses of two contrasting community types / Drew Lohrer ... [et al.]. Impacts on the Waitemata Harbour of increased freshwater runoff from the growth of urban Auckland / Hugh Grenfell ... [et al.]. Effects of dredge spoil disposal on macrofauna of wave-dominated soft sediments / Brian Paavo. Determining the sensitivity of benthic macrofauna to elevated rates of sedimentation / Jane Halliday ... [et al.]. Terrestrial sedimentation as a threat to coastal rocky reef communities : effects of variable suspended sediment on the clearance rate, oxygen uptake rate and absorption efficiency of the false crab Petrolisthes elongatus (Milne Edwards 1837) from New Zealand / Kate Steger & Jonathan Gardner. Cook Strait submarine power cables, New Zealand : a 40 year case study of cable-environment interactions / Lionel Carter ... [et al.]. The Bay of Plenty benthic environment / Peter Longdill ... [et al.]. Detecting changing landuse at Porirua Harbour-Pauatahanui Estuary using stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes and heavy metals / Karyne Rogers & Kengo Kurata. Ecological effects of urbanisation on populations of the New Zealand cockle (Austrovenus stutchburyi) / Megan Stewart. The importance of physical factors in the fate of deposited estuarine sediments / Richard Ford. Antifouling biocides in New Zealand coastal waters / Carol Stewart. Seaweed trouble in paradise : blooms of Gracilaria linked to nutrient enrichment from a Fiji island resort / Neill Barr & Nick Shears. Tracking anthropogenic nitrogen inputs to marine environments : does 15N vary predictably with depth? / Bruce Dudley & Neill Barr -- Invasion predictions. Oceans apart : using biogeographic patterns to predict potential invaders / Deborah Reusser & Henry Lee. Does native ecology predict invasion ecology? Comparative demographics of invertebrates across coasts / Whitman Miller ... [et al.]. Factors predicting the establishment of introduced oysters / Eric Wagner ... [et al.]. When r-selection may not predict proliferation : susceptibility of a non-native oyster to predation / Melanie Bishop & C.H. Peterson. Cancridae on the move to explore new horizons / Annette Brockerhoff. Rapid evolution and the spread of introduced species : new insights from cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) invasions / Jun Bando -- Vector evaluation & management. Theoretical and realised risks : vector and pathway analyses for New Zealand / Marnie Campbell ... [et al.]. U.S. coast guard aquatic nuisance species program : prevention of ship-mediated invasions through regulation / Richard Everett ... [et al.]. Risk assessment methodology for exotic species importation in Chilean aquaculture / Exequiel Gonzalez ... [et al.]. HAACP protocols for managing aquatic invasive species in marine labs and aquaria settings : case studies from California and Oregon, USA / Jodi Cassell & Paul Heimowitz. Decision making in an emergency eradication-response to an outbreak of Asterias amurensis on Australia's southern ocean coastline / Ingrid Holliday & Don Hough. Protecting the Victorian marine environment from marine pests : a new policy framework to manage ships' domestic ballast water / Timothy Turnbull -- Ballast water management. Tracing ballast water source using the fluoroscence properties of dissolved organic matter / Kathleen Murphy ... [et al.]. Managing ballast on short coastal trips : a case study for South East Australia / Michaela Domisse ... [et al.]. Efficiency of ballast water exchange in coastal waters / Tracy McCollin & Aileen Shanks. Development of rapid format fluoroscence in situ hybridization assay for multiple detection of high priority marine invaders / Douglas Mountfort ... [et al.] -- Larval biology. Demographic connectivity in marine environments : integrating larval condition, dispersal pathways and post-recruitment survival / Jeffrey Shima & Stephen Swearer. Recruitment of benthic invertebrates to the rocky shores around Wellington : dramatic differences between the Cook Strait Coast and Wellington Harbour / Nicole Phillips. Rates of repair of UV-R induced DNA in Antarctic and temperate larvae / Miles Lamare ... [et al.]. Larvae : not just passive particles / Lesley McLeod. Modelling the transport of paua larvae on the open coast / Scott Stephens & Niall Broekhuizen. Successful cryopreservation of Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) oocytes / Robin Tervit ... [et al.] -- Bivalves & aquaculture. Top down and bottom up factors influencing distribution of Mytilus galloprovincialis and Aulacomya maoriana in Doubtful Sound, Fiordland / Erin Zydervelt & Stephen Wing. The influence of mussel farm structures on coastal hydrodynamics / Craig Stevens ... [et al.]. The role of Austrovenus stutchburyi in regulating estuarine benthic-pelagic coupling / Dean Sandwell & Conrad Pilditch. How do the trophic structures of coastal ecosystems adjust to the introduction of bivalve shellfish farms? / Mark Gibbs & Weimin Jiang. Cannibalism and bentho-pelagic link within the life cycle of the mussel, Perna canaliculus / Andrea Alfaro. To fix or not to fix, Callyspongia growth characteristics, Pelorus, Marlborough / Sean Handley ... [et al.]. Cadmium and zinc concentration in Perna canaliculus from Pelorus Sound, Marlborough : effect of location, depth, and sex / Ruth Arkless & Barrie Peake. A comparative evaluation of techniques to induce paua (Haliotis iris) to release from an artificial substrate / Determining the suitability of the sea cucumber Stichopus mollis for marine polyculture / Matthew Slater --

Ocean chemistry. The effect of skin temperature on air-sea flux of CO2 / Kim Currie & Brian Ward. An ocean colour and SST climatology for New Zealand, with application to the northeastern North Island / Ken Richardson ... [et al.]. Dissolved inorganic carbon in the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone / Jennifer Peat & Keith Hunter. An in situ phosphate addition experiment in the Eastern Mediterranean / Cliff Law ... [et al.]. Ocean-atmosphere exchange of climatically important gases / Murray Smith ... [et al.]. Bayesian assessment of chlorophyll-a distribution in Moreton Bay, Queensland Australia / Russell Richards & Milani Chaloupka -- Coastal & ocean physics. Validating an ocean model with SST data / Mark Hadfield ... [et al.]. Decadal spin-up of the deep subtropical gyre in the South Pacific / Philip Sutton ... [et al.]. Bubbled waters : the noise generated by underwater breathing apparatus / Craig Radford ... [et al.] -- Taxonomy. New Zealand munnopsid isopod crustaceans : the Ilyarachninae and their world-wide relationships / Kelly Merrin ... [et al.]. A redescription of Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni Robson, 1925 (Cephalopoda : cranchiidae) / Kathrin Bolstad ... [et al.]. Taxonomy of New Zealand's crustose brown algae / Joe Buchanan. Forensic potential of dredge oyster (Ostrea chilensis) shells / Ellen McCracken -- Monitoring for management. Knowing what's there : New Zealand's approach to marine biosecurity information gathering / Brendan Gould ... [et al.]. Development of a quality-assured marine pest monitoring program for Australian and New Zealand / Jemma Martin ... [et al.]. Identification of priority locations for monitoring / Emma Lawrence ... [et al.]. How useful are predictive habitat models for early detection of marine pests? / Graeme Inglis ... [et al.]. Managing non-indigenous species in marine protected areas / Imene Meliane. Invasive species considerations in marine habitat restoration work / Valerie Chambers -- Invasion patterns. Introduced species of hard substrata in Sepetiba Port survey : Rio de Janeiro/Brazil. Survey and monitoring of non indigenous marine species used in aquaculture / Felipe Parades ... [et al.]. Comparing introduced species in fouling communities from both North Atlantic coasts / Judith Pederson. Invasive reefs as a structural habitat for introduced species / Kimberly Heiman ... [et al.]. Aliens on ice : marine biosecurity in the Southern Ocean / Patrick Lewis. More than 1,000 aquatic invaders in European seas / Stephan Gollasch. Pfiesteria in New Zealand / Lesley Rhodes & Janet Adamson. Multiple invasions of European and North American freshwaters by a North American estuarine invertebrate / David Kelly ... [et al.]. Development of a geographic information system presentation of marine nonindigenous species survey results for the Hawaiian Islands / Steve Coles & Myra McShane. Enemy escapee or Trojan horse? Parasite burdens of an invasive portunid, Charybdis japonica, and a New Zealand native, Ovalipes catharus / Aroha Miller ... [et al.] -- Marine energy seminar. The wave resource and electricity generation / James Frazerhurst & John Huckerby. The hydrodynamics of generating electricity from ocean waves / Murray Smith ... [et al.]. Tidal energy; a beautiful source of energy / Derek Goring. Consenting marine energy projects / Selwyn Blackmore. Experiences in developing marine energy projects / Steve Hastings. Launch of AWATEA (Aotearoa Wave and Tidal Energy Association) / John Huckerby & Philip Mladenov -- Fisheries & conservation issues. A preliminary ecological survey of the ra'ui on Rarotonga, Cook Islands / Sonja Miller ... [et al.]. The strategic issues on accelerating an economic recovery post tsunami disaster for the traditional fisheries in Aceh / Sjarief Widjaja. Sustainable management of New Zealand's surfing breaks using baseline environmental information / Brad Scarfe & Terry Healy. Bycatch mitigation for protected seabirds, marine mammals, marine reptiles and corals / Leigh Bull. Marine conservation management and research : information, tools, processes and barriers to success / Dan Breen & Barbara Bollard. Albatross and petrel warp-strike in the Auckland Islands squid fishery / Edward Abraham. What do New Zealanders think about threats and protection in the marine environment? Results of a national survey / Allison Arnold. Mangrove forests and their inhabitants : how valuable are they as fish nurseries? / Mark Morrison ... [et al.]. Lessons from the Boxing Day tsunami on Thailand / Robert Bell. How does Southland's rocky reef biodiversity stack up? : bringing the news topside / Helen Kettles ... [et al.] -- PNG & NZ source to sink (Waipaoa). The Fly River Dispersal System from source to sink / Charles Nittrouer. Shoreline progradation and sediment exchange between the coastal plain and inner-shelf, Waipaoa sedimentary system / Jesse McNinch ... [et al.]. Preliminary results from the MARGINS program on the Waipaoa shelf / Steven Kuehl ... [et al.]. Source-to-sink transfer of organic carbon in the Waipaoa sedimentary system, New Zealand / Hannah Brackley ... [et al.. Preliminary research results indicate modern sedimentation on the continental slope seaward of the Waipaoa River, New Zealand / Clark Alexander ... [et al.] -- NZ source to sink (Waipaoa & Waiapu). Suspended sediment dispersal over the high discharge Waipaoa margin, New Zealand / Lionel Carter. Stratigraphic evidence indicating the importance of inner shelf processes affecting shelf-wide sedimentation, Waiapu River, North Island, New Zealand / Heidi Wadman & Jesse McNinch. Distinguishing sediment transport modes to the outer-shelf off the Waiapu River, NZ : seabed evidence of hyperpycnal flows / Lisa Addington ... [et al.]. The impact of terrigenous sedimentation on marine productivity and deep-ocean organic fluxes, east of New Zealand / Scott Nodder ... [et al.]. Marine tephra records east of New Zealand : recent examples from ODP-LEG 181 and MD97-2121 / Brent Alloway & Lionel Carter. Tectonic setting of the Waipaoa catchment / Nicola Litchfield & Kelvin Berryman -- Source to sink : general. The post-glacial downcutting history in the Waihuka tributary of Waipaoa River, Gisborne district, New Zealand, and implications for tectonics and landscape evolution / Kelvin Berryman ... [et al.]. Overview of the source-to-sink modelling framework in the 'fine-sediment study' (Raglan catchment) / Jochen Schmidt ... [et al.]. Quantitative measurements of bedform transport rates and sand sheet character in the lower Mississippi River / Jeffrey Nittrouer ... [et al.]. Review of the day's proceedings / Charles Nittrouer & Julie Morris -- Social aspects of invasions. Harvesting of the alien mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis by impoverished coastal communities in South Africa : linking biological problems to economic answers / Tamara Robinson ... [et al.]. Embracing culture in invasive species management : the case of the mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis) in California / Wei Ying Wong. Understanding the spatial distribution of core values as a biosecurity management tool / Chad Hewitt ... [et al.] -- Species impacts. Can microoganisms be invasive and if so, what are their ecological impacts? / Fred Dobbs. Effects of marine pests on nutrient cycling in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia / Jeff Ross ... [et al.]. Introduction of Codium fragile (Chlorophyta) to the Chilean coast and its effects on a subtidal algal community / Paula Neill ... [et al.]. Ecosystem-level consequences of Spartina invasion in western North America / Edwin Grosholz. Impacts and control of the invasive brown alga Sargassum muticum in California marine reserves / Jeffrey Goddard & Carol Blanchette. The introduced ribbed mussel (Geukensia demissa) in Estero de Punta Banda, Mexico : interactions with the native cord grass, Spartina foliosa / Mark Torchin ... [et al.] -- Species invasions. Impacts of an invasive predator on a threatened native oyster in Puget Sound, Washington, USA : patterns and mechanisms / Eric Buhle. Invasion of Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas) in the Wadden Sea (North Sea) : competitive advantage over native mussels? / Susanne Diederich. Management of an invasive alga (Avrainvillea amadelpha) in Hawaiian seagrass meadows (Halophila hawaiiana) / Kimberly Peyton ... [et al.]. Biology, ecology and physiology of the nonindigenous Asian green mussel, Mytilidae : Perna viridis, in Kingston Harbour, Jamaica / Dayne Buddo ... [et al.]. Evidence for the rapid establishment of the Indo-Pacific lionfish along the southeast Atlantic coast of the United States / Paula Whitfield ... [et al.] -- Species management. The life according to Garp : ecological niche / Leif-Matthias Herborg ... [et al.]. Adaptive multi-scale sampling to determine an invasive crab's habitat usage and range in New Zealand / Nick Gust & Graeme Inglis. Dynamics of red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) population near the eastern Varanger fjord coast (the Barents Sea) / Michail Pereladov ... [et al.]. Evaluating management strategies for the North Pacific Seastar in Australia / Nicholas Bax & Piers Dunstan --

Coral reef biology. Temperate zooxanthellar symbiosis : models for tropical zooxanthellae-host dynamics and the consequences of global climate change / Zoe Haws ... [et al.]. Latitudinal diversity of zooxanthellae in New Zealand / Simon Phillips ... [et al.]. Contribution of coral reef algae to biodiversity : the case of Halimeda (Chlorophyta) / Oliver Gussman -- Marine mammals. Maui's dolphin is probably the world's rarest marine mammal / Stephen Dawson ... [et al.]. Recovery of humpback whales in New Zealand waters / Simon Childerhouse & Nadine Gibbs. The Department of Conservation marine mammal action plan 2005-2010 / Don Neale & Rob Suisted. Maternal attendance patterns of lactating New Zealand fur seals. Arctocephalus forsteri, in Kaikoura, and the impact of human disturbance on foraging behaviour / Laura Boren ... [et al]. The effect of fishing on Hector's dolphin populations : implications of new abundance and bycatch estimates / Elisabeth Slooten. Linking science to management : Hector's dolphin challenge / Caren Schroder & Kevin Hackwell -- Techniques. The Dark Decay Assay (DDA), a new technique for measuring the health of plankton / Floor Anthoni. Can isotopes reveal historical records of cyclone activity? / Helen Neil ... [et al.]. Non-destructive sampling of high-value habitats : a fine-scale investigation of the bryozoan thickets on the Otago Shelf using underwater photography / Emily Jones. Insights into Chatham Rise foodweb structure using stable isotopes / Scott Nodder ... [et al.]. A new video methods for estimating fish abundance in situ, with minimal environmental disturbance / Gien Carbines & Mark Morrison. Marine microfossil record of large earthquakes in the past 7200 years in southern Hawkes Bay / Bruce Hayward ... [et al.] -- Biodiversity. The importance of small-scale habitat structure for maintaining beta diversity / Simon Thrush ... [et al.]. The contribution of rare species to biodiversity / Judi Hewitt ... [et al.]. Testing the utility of DNA barcoding for the identification of amphipod crustaceans in Tauranga Harbour / Matthew Knox ... [et al.]. Molecular taxonomy reviels incongruence of larval morphology and gentics in Antarctic marine diversity / Shane Lavery & Mary Sewell -- Fish biology. An ontogenetic shift in habitat preference of the temperate reef fish Forsterygion lapillum. Using patterns in growth and stable isotopes of tissues, to investigate population structure and connectivity of blue cod (Parapercis colias) in Fiordland / Kirsten Rodgers & Stephen Wing. The effects of community assembly on competitive interactions and survival of in a guild of coral reef fish / Shane Geange & Jeff Shima -- Fish & crab biology. Lateral line and visual adaptations to habitat in a clade of triplefin fish (Tripterygiidae) / Michelle Brock ... [et al.]. Search strategy of the dwarf scorpionfish, Scorpaena papillosus, a lateral line predator / Daniel Bassett. Relationships between juvenile fish and their pray in estuaries / Meredith Lowe. Seasonal variation in relative abundance of New Zealand snapper (Pagrus auratus) in a temperate marine reserve / Daniel Egli ... [et al.]. Evidence of the capability of rock-boring in Porcellanidae crabs from Colombia / Nicolai Truemper. Sexual selection in Halicarcinus cookii / Anneke van den Brink & Colin McLay -- Crab & lobster biology. Squatters rights for lobsters : diversity, habitat and distribution of New Zealand squat lobsters (Galatheoidea, Anomura, Crustacea) / Kareen Schnabel ... [et al.]. Role of temperature in limiting recruitment of Halicarcinus varius (Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae) / Andrew Hosie & Colin McLay. Point discharge of storm water runoff into a landward mangrove community : initial investigations indicate a negative effect on keystone species (mangrove crabs, family: grapsidae) / Derek Ball ... [et al.]. The growth rates and movement patterns of spiny lobsters on fished and unfished reef systems around Gisborne / Debbie Freeman & Alison MacDiarmid. Ecosystem modelling to assess trophic level impacts of marine protected areas / Carolyn Lundquist ... [et al.]. Impact of trawl duration on the health status of the Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus (L.) / Iain Ridgway ... [et al.] -- NZMSS poster programme. Geographic and sex-specific variation in growth of yellow-eyed mullet, Aldrichetta forsteri, from estuaries around New Zealand / Thomas Curtis & Jeff Shima. A successful co-management of marine turtle conservation in Mnazi Bay-Ruvuma Estuary Marine Park, Tanzania / Jairos Mahenge. Are New Zealand freshwater mussel (Hyridella menziesii) populations highly structured? / Mark Fenwick. Carbon flux in the symbiotic inter-tidal sea anemone Anthopleura aureoradiata / Christopher Gibbons. Effects of mussel culture on sedimentation, sediment properties and benthic oxygen and nutrient fluxes / Hilke Giles & Conrad Pilditch. The application of sperm cryopreservation in selective breeding of the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) / Rodney Roberts ... [et al.]. Towards a GreenshellTM mussel (Perna canaliculus) gonad expressed sequence tag (EST) database / Andrew Fidler ... [et al.]. What's in the sand? Beach ecology in the Auckland region / Anthony Judd. The enigma of a bryozoan polymorph : the avicularium / Michelle Carter ... [et al.]. Impacts of sedimentation on the physiology of the deposit-feeding bivalve Macomona liliana / Sandra Hinni. Ecklonia radiata morphology as a biological indicator of productivity differences between outer and inner fjord habitats in the Fiordland region / Sara Rutger & Stephen Wing. Sedimentary nitrogen uptake and assimilation in an algal-sea anemone symbiosis / Shyam Morar & Simon Davy. The contribution of seagrass (Zostera muelleri) to estuarine food webs revealed by carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis / Sarah Hailes ... [et al.]. Hydrodynamic modeling of seaweed eggs attachment/detachment on a rocky substrate / Sebastien Delaux ... [et al.]. An improved at-sea method for determining alkalinity in seawater / Simon Whitford ... [et al.]. Phytoplankton limitation in the sub-tropical Tasman Sea / Cliff Law ... [et al.]. The application of microsatellite markers to the aquaculture of New Zealand bivalves : greenshell mussels and Pacific oysters / Jonathan Gardner ... [et al.]. Radiolarian-based indicators of oceanographic changes north of the Subtropical Front, offshore eastern New Zealand, over the last one million years / Vanessa Lueer ... [et al.]. In the pink : an identification guide to coralline algae of central New Zealand, and an outline of ongoing studies / Tracy Farr ... [et al.]. Stable isotope values in modern bryozoan carbonate / Abigail Smith ... [et al.]. Continued renourishment of downdrift beaches in response to dredging of an ebb-tidal delta entrance channel, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand / Kyle Spiers & Terry Healy. Wanted; dead or alive : surprising differences revealed between fossil and living formainiferal assemblages on Campbell Pleateau / Lisa Northcote & Helen Neil. Common causes of mortality in New Zealand fur seals, Arctocephalus forsteri, in the Kaikoura region, with special reference to pups and juveniles / Laura Boren ... [et al.]. An investigation of diet amongst macrourid fish from northeastern and eastern Chatham Rise, New Zealand / Matthew Jones. Morphodynamic channel and stability of the Waikato River Channel : Karapiro-Ngaruawahia Reach / Adam Wood & Terry Healy. Mangroves of Tauranga Harbour : the evolving story of mangrove expansion and community response / Debra Stokes & Terry Healy. Burgeoning biodiversity : NZ crustaceans and the NIWA invertebrate collection / Anna-Nina Loerz ... [et al.]. Mating behaviour in three hymenosomatid crabs / Anneke van den Brink ... [et al.]. Ontogeny and ecology of snapper (Pagrus auratus, Sparidae), in estuarine systems / Natalie Usmar. Severe localized sediment contamination near boatyard not accompanied by alterations to benthic macrofauna / Carol Stewart ... [et al.]. Feeding preferances of Haliotis iris for drift versus attached algae / Christopher Cornwall & Doug McNaught. Temperature-nitrate relationships in the oceanic mixed layer of the New Zealand region / Vanessa Sherlock ... [et al.]. Age estimates for coryphaenoides serrulatus Gunther 1878 and Corypheanoides subserrulatus Makushok 1976 using three techniques / Pierre Rebstock. Geniculate coralline algae from central and southern New Zealand generic placements and molecular data / Darren Hart ... [et al.]. Epibiotic diversity in intertidal boulder fields throughout the Waitemata Harbour / Claire Barnaby. Subtidal rocky reef food webs : differences in community structure associated with juvenile reef fish abundance / Emma Newcombe. Comparative cranial morphology between two species of deep-sea macrourids / Ria Tiney. Autonomous sampling of recruitment under varying hydrodynamic conditions / Nicole Hancock ... [et al.]. Functional feedbacks and impacts on benthic productivity and biodiversity / Luca Chiaroni ... [et al.]. Affordable sediment profile imagery v2 / Brian Paavo. Sperm whale diet in New Zealand waters : implications for conservation / Felipe Gomez. Habitat-specific settlement and post-settlement survival of paua (Haliotis iris) / Jorge David Aguirre-Davies.

MBIC poster programme. Transoceanic NOBOB vessel voyages on the Great Lakes : vectors for new invertebrate invasions and zooplankton dynamics in freshwater ballast tanks / Colin van Overdijk ... [et al.]. Modular concept for the treatment of ships ballast water and sediments : the SEDNA®-System : technical description and test results / Matthias Voigt. Shipboard demonstration of chlorine dioxide on a Swedish flagged combination Ro/Ro containership and a US flagged ITB bulker / Tom Perlich. The removal of invasive species including ballast water using a disk filtration system / Sung Jin Park ... [et al.]. Filtration-magnetic separation system for ballast water treatment / Norihide Saho ... [et al.]. The new waste management policy (ships ballast water) : prior reporting and its successful implementation in Victoria / Helen Syer. Administrative challenges to minimize the introduction of alien aquatic organism via ballast water discharge and sediment into Hawaii / Paul Murakawa ... [et al.]. Ballast water management : blanket vs flexible approach / Matej David ... [et al.]. Problems facing the implementation of ballast water management in southeast Asia / Caitlin Snyder. Biofouling of merchant vessels as a vector for the introduction of non-indigenous marine species : a project in progress / Lukasz Lachowicz. Hitchhikers delight : five star translocation of non-indigenous marine species by cruise ships / Dan McClary & Mike Stuart. Biofouling as a vector for the introduction of non-indigenous marine species to New Zealand : evaluation of risks from recreational yachts / Oliver Floerl ... [et al.]. Ships' sea-chests : an overlooked mechanism for species transfers? / Ashley Coutts & Tim Dodgshun. Invertebrates from ballast residuals in non-ballasted ships entering Chesapeake Bay, and a comparison with Great Lakes / Ian Duggan ... [et al.]. Ships' sea chests : a vector for the dispersal of marine invasive species / Martin Davis. Australia's response to introduced marine pests : a national system / Naomi Parker ... [et al.]. National priority pests : ranking of Australian marine pests / Sasha Migus ... [et al.]. Towards a national emergency management framework for marine bioinvasions / Ian Peebles. Preventing pests in paradise : the regional strategy on shipping-related introduced marine pests in the Pacific Islands / Steve Raaymakers. Multi-agency partnerships and the development of a marine invasive species response team / Anthony Montgomery. Reducing the introduction and distribution of non-native aquatic invasive species through outreach and education / Holy Crosson & Ted Grosholz. Looking beyond regulation : the multi-faceted California marine invasives species program / Lynn Takata & Maurya Falkner. Modelling dynamics of an introduced crab species in the Waitemata Harbour / Paul Breen ... [et al.]. Population modelling of Undaria pinnatifida / Mike Stuart ... [et al.]. A risk-based predictive tool to prevent accidental introductions of non-indigenous marine species / Oliver Floeri ... [et al.]. A review of techniques for assessing ballast water risk / Simon Barry & Keith Hayes. Managing the risk of intentional introductions / Alex Brown ... [et al.]. Risk assessment model for the dispersion of ballast water organisms in shelf seas / David Brickman. Monitoring for invasive bivalves using molecular techniques / Kerry Neil ... [et al.]. Application of genetic probes in the management of marine invasive species / Nicholas Bax ... [et al.]. Introductions of saweeds : genetic insights into movement of red seaweeds / Joe Zuccarello ... [et al.]. Genetic diversity and possible origins of New Zealand populations of UIva sensu lato from pristine and human-modified environments / Svenja Heesch ... [et al.]. Assessment of diver-based versus boat-based port survey methods / Adnan Awad. Biological baseline surveys for introduced marine species in New Zealand ports and marinas / Graeme Inglis ... [et al.]. Aquatic invasive species monitoring and early warning in marine managed areas / Linda Shaw ... [et al.]. Survey efficacy based decision making for the eradication of Caulerpa taxifolia in southern California / Robert Mooney & Rachel Woodfield. Eradication of Caulerpa taxifolia from West Lakes, South Australia using urban stormwater / Vic Neverauskas. Key elements of the successful eradication of Caulerpa taxifolia : a report from Southern California / Rachel Woodfield & Robert Mooney. Responding to a global problem : the story of the SEASTAR TEAM / Ingrid Holliday & Don Hough. Cryopreservation of marine micro-algae / Lesley Rhodes ... [et al.]. Patterns of diversity and taxonomic relatedness between native and non-indigenous marine assemblages in New Zealand / Isla Fitridge. How common are cryptogenic species? An Australian perspective / Cath Sliwa. Gracilaria vermiculophylla : an invasive mussel (Perna viridis) in Florida, with an affinity for artifical substrate / Jonathan Fajans ... [et al.]. The distribution and influence of the introduced alga Colpomenia durvillaei in the rocky intertidal / Daniel McNaughtan. Noticeable shell borer, Polydora uncinata, inhabiting cultured molluscs / Waka Sato-Okoshi & Kenji Okoshi. Biological border patrols : does inter-specific competition exclude bio-invaders from otherwise optimal habitat? / Mia Steinberg & Charles Epifanio. Why some places have comparatively few marine non-indigenous species (NIS)? Focus on the coasts of southern South America / Evangelina Schwindt ... [et al.]. Competition for space in epibenthic communities / Ruby Rajbanshi & Judith Pederson. The invasion of a tropical reef ecosystem by an alien octocoral Carijoa riisei / Samuel Kahng. Australian shipping industry activities update : addressing biofouling issues on commercial vessels / Angela Gillman.

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"Held at Rutherford House, Pipitea Campus, Victoria University of Wellington, 22-26 August 2005, Wellington, New Zealand."

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