This Dynamic Agenda is being Updated Daily! We intend on having the final agenda in place just hours before the beginning of the Symposium.
For more information, please e-mail info@sargassum.org
Notice: Following the Wednesday sessions, we will have a "Seaweed Social" with a Fish Fry Dinner. Show your SS'09 registration badge and you get a dinner for a 10 cent donation. Sargassum Symposium 2009 attendees are the Guests of Honor!
Thank you for your interest!
| Wednesday 29 April |
| 1:30 | Welcome Remarks | Registration Opens |
| | KEYNOTE SPEAKER |
| 1:45 | Jody Henneke | Texas General Land Office |
| 2:30 | Lloyd Mullins | US Army Corps of Engineers |
| 2:50 | Jennifer Smith-Engle | Texas A&M - Corpus Christi | Site-Specific Sargassum Maintenance on South Texas Beaches |
| 3:10 | BREAK |
| 3:30 | TBA |
| 3:50 | David Parsons | City of Port Aransas |
| 4:10 | Fred Mc\Cutchon | Nueces County Dune and Beach Management Committee |
| 4:30 | Reuben Trevino | Township of South Padre Island |
| 5:00 | Day 1 End |
| 6:00 | Seaweed Social Fish Fry Dinner | UTMSI Patio |
| Thursday 30 April |
| 8:00 | Welcome Continental Breakfast | Registration |
| 8:30 | Richard Watson | Texas Coastal Geology | What has hurricane Ike taught us about |
beach and dune management?||
| 8:50 | Derek Herzog | City of Corpus Christi |
| 9:10 | Tony Amos | University of Texas Marine Science Institute | Where the Weed Was: seasonal changes in weed lines, driving lanes and dune lines on Mustang Island Gulf beach. |
| 9:30 | Rob Conti | Texas General Land Office |
| 9:50 | BREAK |
| 10:10 | Alvin Suarez | Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexico | Epifauna communities in Sargassum beds from El Sauzoso, Baja California Sur, México |
| 10:30 | Amy Williams | Texas A&M University | Critical Areas for Future Research & Science-based Management Decisions for Barrier Island Ecosystems: PERSPECTIVES OF THE COASTAL BARRIER ISLAND NETWORK (CBIN) |
| 10:50 | John Torrey | Seaweed Solutions |
| 1:00 | FIELD TRIP | Mustang and Padre Islands |
| 5:00 | Sargassum Symposium 2009 Ends |
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