National and Regional Implementation Committee Posters

Australia
A Hierarchical Framework for Classifying Seabed Biodiversity with Application to Planning and Managing Australia’s Marine Biological Resources—Peter R. Last with Vincent D. Lyne, Alan Williams, Campbell R. Davies, Alan J. Butler, Gordon K. Yearsley, Daniel C. Gledhill

 
New Australian Sharks and Rays—William White
 
Biodiversity in Western Australia’s Deep Sea— Allen Williams
 
Seamount Ecosystems Conserved in the Huon Commonwealth Marine Reserve, Australia—Allen Williams 
 
Canada
Towards a pan-Arctic inventory of the species diversity of the macro- and megabenthic fauna of the Arctic shelf seas—P. Archambault with Piepenburg, D., Ambrose, W. G., Blanchard, A., Bluhm, B. A., Carroll, M. L. Conlan, K. E., Cusson, M., Feder, H. M., Grebmeier, J. M., Jewett, S. C., Lévesque, M., Petryashev, V. V., Sejr, M. K., Sirenko, B. I., Włodarska-Kowalczuk, M.

Mobilizing Marine Biodiversity Research: The Canadian Healthy Oceans Network—Paul V.R. Snelgrove with Archambault, P., Juniper, S. K., Lawton, P., Metaxas, A., McKindsey, C., Pepin, P., and Tunnicliffe, V.
 
EuroCoML
Invasive Alien Species in European Marine Ecosystems—Anastasija Zaiko with Sergej Olenin
 
Biodiversity of the European Seas—Bhavani E. Narayanaswamy with Henn Ojaveer, Marta Coll, Roberto Danovaro
 
Caribbean
Marine biodiversity in the Caribbean: increasing awareness through the Census of Marine Life program—Patricia Miloslavich with Juan Manuel Díaz, Eduardo Klein, Juan José Alvarado, Cristina Díaz, Judith Gobin, Elva Escobar-Briones, Juan José Cruz, Ernesto Weil, Jorge Cortés, Ana Carolina Bastidas, Ross Robertson, Fernando Zapata, Alberto Martín, Julio Castillo, Aniuska Kazandjian, Manuel Ortiz
 
Indian Ocean
Benthic bacterial diversity: iron ore dominated mangroves versus ilemenite-rich beach sediment—Christabelle E.G. Fernandes with Sheryl O. Fernandes, P.A. Loka Bharathi
 
Present Status of DNA Barcoding of Marine Species from India—K.X. Francis with R. Giridhar, K.V. Jayachandran, Vijayalakshmi R. Nair, C.T. Achuthankutty, Shanta Nair
 
Benthic Biodiversity of the Indian Ocean—B. Ingole with Sautya S., Sivadas S., Singh R., Gophane, A., Gaude G., Mukhergee I., and Sahoo G.
 
Japan
Japan: a Marine Biodiversity Hotspot!—Katsunori Fujikura with Dhugal John Lindsay, Hiroshi Kitazato, Shuhei Nishida, Yoshihisa Shirayama
 
Korea
Marine Biodiversity of Korea—Youn-Ho Lee with Sejin Pae, Sung Kim, Sung-Dae Kim, Soo-Young Park, Jong-Kyu Park, Ho-Young Soh, Sung-Min Boo, Kang-Hyun Lee
 
South Africa
Marine biodiversity in South Africa: evaluation of current states of knowledge—C.L. Griffiths with T.B. Robinson, L. Lange, A. Mead
 
United States
Attaining Operational Marine Biodiversity Observations—Linda Amaral Zettler with Gustav Paulay, J.   Emmett Duffy, Reg Beach, Michael Feldman
 
An Overview of Marine Biodiversity in United States Waters—Daphne Fautin with Melissa Brodeur, Michael Feldman, Andy Rosenberg, Wes Tunnell