RSS 1.0Red Sea Research Center Symposium, April 2011
To celebrate the Inauguration of the Red Sea Research Center (RSRC), the University hosted a three-day symposium from Saturday April 9 through to Monday April 11 that brought together researchers from around the world who are working to understand this unique environment. The Symposium emphasized two aspects - results from recent expeditions, field and modeling work in the Red Sea and potential application of research results on similar systems. The Symposium featured talks from KAUST faculty and researchers, as well as guest speakers from the University of Oxford, the University of Athens, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution , University of Bergen, James Cook University and the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology.
Recent Submissions
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Experimental and Numerical Studies of Atmosphere Water Interactions(Red Sea Research Center Symposium, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2011-07-04) [Learning Object]Understanding and quantifying the interaction of the atmosphere with underlying water surfaces is of great importance for a wide range of scientific fields such as water resources management, climate studies of ocean-atmosphere exchange, and regional weat
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Long-tailed distributions in microbial communities in globally distributed sites and(Red Sea Research Center Symposium, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2011-06-28) [Presentation]Taxon-rank abundance curves for naturally occurring microbial populations are Long-tailed distributions.
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Modeling of Regional Climate over Red Sea and Arabian Peninsula(Red Sea Research Center Symposium, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2011-04-09) [Learning Object]Observations, re-analyses, and climate model simulations show strong surface temperature trends in Middle East and Arabian Peninsula in the last 30 years. Trends are especially pronounced in summer exceeding +1K/decade. However, some regions, e.g., the So
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Reduced Genomes in the Ocean: Specialized Roles in Biogeochemical Cycles(Red Sea Research Center Symposium, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2011-04-09) [Presentation]
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A Model System for Studies of Dinoflagellate-Cnidarian Symbiosis(Red Sea Research Center Symposium, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2011-04-09) [Learning Object]The enormous importance of coral reefs is widely recognized, as is the unfortunate fact that corals throughout the world are greatly threatened by a variety of anthropogenic stresses.
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The Red Sea Microbiome project: Metagenomics analysis of the microbial(Red Sea Research Center Symposium, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2011-04-09) [Learning Object]To understand the metabolic pathway, physiological process, genomic structure, and adaptation of microbial communities in different environments in the Red Sea.
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Modelling Vertical Migration:Combined Effects of Environment and Animal(Red Sea Research Center Symposium, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2011-04-09) [Learning Object]Vertical migration is one of the most important types of animal migrations, encompassing most zooplankton and many fish species in the world’s oceans.
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The genome sequence of the dinoflagellate Symbiodinium sp., a symbiont from(2011-04-09) [Learning Object]Dinoflagellates are ubiquitous marine and freshwater protists. As free-living photosynthetic plankton, they account for ~50% of the primary productivity of oceans and lakes.
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Characterization of Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) from Stylophora pistillata(Red Sea Research Center Symposium, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2011-04-09) [Learning Object]Coral reefs are the most productive marine ecosystems with highest species diversity. During the last decades, reefs have been facing multiples global and anthropogenic stressors leading to bleaching and death of entire reefs.
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Beyond Land-Atmosphere Interaction(Red Sea Research Center Symposium, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2011-04-09) [Learning Object]Traditionally, land-surface models (LSMs) provide bottom boundary conditions (or surface fluxes) for weather and climate models in the form of reflected solar radiation, upward emission of long-wave radiation, and turbulent exchanges of heat, moisture, an
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Quantitative Genetics and Genomics of Adaptive Traits in Reef Building Corals(Red Sea Research Center Symposium, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2011-04-09) [Learning Object]The decline of standing coral populations due to global warming is now well documented, but the prospects for the next generations of corals are not yet clear.
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Shedding Light on the Dark:A Metaproteogenomic View of Chemosynthesis at(Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2011-04-09) [Learning Object]
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Bioeconomic Analysis of Traditional Fisheries on the Red Sea Coast of Saudi(2011-04-09) [Learning Object]We undertake a bioeconomic analysis of the aggregate traditional fisheries in the Red Sea off the coast of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).
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Herbivory, Connectivity and Resilience on Coral Reefs(Red Sea Research Center Symposium, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2011-04-09) [Learning Object]
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Biogeochemical Dynamics of the Coastal Waters of Jeddah:A 3D Finite(Red Sea Research Center Symposium, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2011-04-09) [Learning Object]How do we build more realistic computer models of marine ecologies, such as those found in the Red Sea? This talk sets out some simple rules that need to be considered when constructing these plankton and fisheries models.
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Scientific Opportunities in the Red Sea: Building Research Strength - Global Networks(Red Sea Research Center Symposium, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2011-04-09) [Presentation]Building research strength global networks in marine science indentifying an international niche, navigating funding opportunities and building suuport-base
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Towards Regional Impact and Global Excellence(2011-04-09) [Presentation]Welcome Reception - Prof. Choon Fong Shih, President of KAUST KAUST – Towards Regional Impact and Global Excellence
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The Red Sea-Precious Resource:Opportunity and Responsibility(Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2011-04-09) [Presentation]This presentation talking about the red sea opportunity and responsibility
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The Ocean deserts:salt budgets of northern subtropical oceans and their(Red Sea Research Center Symposium, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2011-04-09) [Learning Object]The Ocean deserts: salt budgets of northern subtropical oceans and their relationship to climate variability The high salinity near surface pools of the subtropical oceans are the oceanic deserts, with high levels of evaporation and low levels of precip
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The structure and ecology of coral reefs across the central Pacific(Red Sea Research Center Symposium, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2011-04-09) [Learning Object]The central Pacific is home to a spectrum of coral-reef fringed islands and atolls, spanning a range of anthropogenic and oceanographic conditions.