International Stromatolite Symposium
Thursday, January 12
7:00pm, Reception/Social, Los Aluxes Bacalar Restaurant, Avenue Costera, Bacalar (on the Costera, lake drive)
Friday, January 13
09:00am - 09:15am
Laguna Bacalar Welcome: River Kaster, Luisa Falcon and Carmen Aguilar
09:15am - 9:30am
Bacalar Municipio and Governor's Office Welcome
09:30am - 10:00am
Dra. Luisa l. Falcon, "Global significance of Laguna Bacalar microbialites"
Instituto de Ecologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
falcon@ecologia.unam.mx
10:00am - 10:30am
Bacalar within a larger coastal interconnected ecosystem.
Héctor A. Hernandez Arana
Dpto. Ecología Acuática y Sistemática
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur unidad Chetumal, Chetumal, MEXICO
hhernand@ecosur.mx
10:30am - 11:00am
Geomorphological role of thrombolites in coastal lagoon formation.
David Siqueiros Beltrones and Oscar U. Hernandez Almeida. CICIMAR-IPN, La Paz, BCS, MEXICO
dsiquei@ipn.mx
11:00am - 11:30am
Paleoproterozoic stromatolite microbial communities of the Belchers Group, Nunavut, Canada.
Dominic Papineau1 and Marilyn L. Fogel2
1Dept. Earth & Environmental Sciences, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA USA
1dominic.papineau@bc.edu
2Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington DC, USA
11:30am Announcements: Polly Gropen, Laguna Bacalar Institute
11:30am - 01:30pm: Lunch*
01:30pm - 02:00pm
Giant Holocene Freshwater Microbialites of Laguna Bacalar, Quintana Roo, Michael Gibson, University of Tennessee at Martin, Eberhard Gischler and Wolfgang Oschmann, Institut fur Geowissenschaften, J.W. Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt, Germany
Presented by Carmen Aguilar and River Kaster
School of Freshwater Sciences, Great Lakes WATER Institute, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
aguilar@uwm.edu / jlk@uwm.edu
02:00pm - 02:30pm
Prokaryote community diversity and explanatory variables.
Carla M. Centeno1, Yislem Beltrán, Rocio J. Alcántara-Hernandez, Luisa I. Falcón
Instituto de Ecologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Mexico City, MEXICO
1ccenteno@ecologia.unam.mx
02:30pm - 03:00pm
Phosphorus transformations in bacteria associated to microbialites of a saline-alkaline crater lake in the Central Mexico highlands.
Patricia M. Valdespino1, Rocío J. Alcántara-Hernández2, Luisa I. Falcón2
1Posgrado en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Mexico City, MEXICO.
1pancronica@yahoo.com
2Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Mexico City, MEXICO
03:00pm - 03:30pm: Break
03:30pm - 04:00pm
Los Estromatolitos de Chichankanab
Arturo Bayona Miramontes
Instituto Tecnologico Superior de Felipe Carrillo Puerto.
Felipe Carrillo Puerto, MEXICO
a.bayona@itscarrillopuerto.edu.mx
04:00pm - 04:30pm
Freshwater Microbialites of Pavilion and Kelly lakes, Canada
Darlene Lim
NASA Ames Research Center
Space Science and Astrobiology Division
Moffett Field, California, USA
Darlene.Lim@nasa.gov
05:00pm - 08:00pm: Dinner/Social*
Saturday, January 14
09:15am - 09:30am: Announcements, Polly Gropen
09:30pm - 10:00am
Ecoturismo: una alternativa de conservaciòn de los estromatolitos en la laguna de Bacalar
Martin Guadalupe Maas Vargas
Laboratorio de usos multiples del COBACH Bacalar,
Bacalar, Quintana Roo, MEXICO
marmaas@yahoo.com
10:00am - 10:30am
Estromotolitos: Giants living in the Laguna de Bacalar, Mexico (Video)
Metzli Suarez y Martin Guadalupe Maas Vargas
Laboratorio de usos multiples del COBACH Bacalar,
Bacalar, Quintana Roo, MEXICO
marmaas@yahoo.com
10:30am - 11:00am
Nitrogen cycle in microbialites.
Rocio J. Alcántara-Hernandez1, Carla Centeno2, Patricia M Valdespino3, Luisa I. Falcón2
1,2Instituto de Ecologia. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Mexico City, MEXICO
1ralcantara@miranda.ecologia.unam.mx
3Posgrado en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Mexico City, MEXICO.
11:00am - 11:30am
Continental thrombolites from a crater lake in central Mexico.
Elizabeth Chacón Baca1 , Jorge Aranda-Gómez2, and Marcela Charles Polo3
1,3 Facultad de Ciencias de la Tierra, UANL, MEXICO
2Centro de Geociencias, Campus Juriquilla, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Mexico City, MEXICO.
1elizachb@fct.uanl.mx
11:30am - 01:30pm: Lunch*
01:30pm - 02:00pm
Perspectives of conservation and sustainable growth in Bacalar.
Gonzalo Merediz Alonso, Executive Director,
Amigos de Sian Ka'an,
Cancun, Mexico
gmerediz@amigosdesiankaan.org
2:00pm - 02:30pm
Spatially-resolved genomic, molecular organic, and stable isotopic analyses of an actively-accreting freshwater microbialite from Cuatro Cienegas, Mexico
David Hollander1, Mya Breitbart (CMS-USF), Anthony Nitti (CMS-USF), Janet Siefert (Rice U), Valeria Souza (UNAM)
1College of Marine Science, University of South Florida
University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA
1davidh@marine.usf.edu
02:30pm - 03:00pm
Nanakuli beach microbialites at the edge of an urban center.
Carmen Aguilar
School for Freshwater Sciences, Great Lakes WATER Institute, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
aguilar@uwm.edu
03:00pm - 03:30pm: Break
03:30pm - 04:00pm
Enigmatic cretaceous pitted stromatolites from Argentina
Hugo Beraldi-Campesi1, Carlos Console-Gonella2, Rosa Marquillas3
1Geology, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; Mexico City, MEXICO;
2University of Tucuman, ARGENTINA; 3University of Salta, ARGENTINA
1hberaldi@unam.mx
04:00pm - 04:30pm
Ecological consequences of microbialite encrustation by the invasive black striped mussel, Mytilopsis sallei.
River Kaster, School of Freshwater Sciences, Great Lakes WATER Institute, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
jlk@uwm.edu
4:30 - 05:00pm: Discussion Groups
05:00pm - 08:00pm: Dinner/Social*
Sunday, January 15
09:00am - 11:00pm: Breakfast and Pontoon cruise on Laguna Bacalar
Maximum 20 - must sign up on Friday; $30/person12:00pm - 3:30pm: Group trips to the "real" giant microbialites in the south Rio Chaac river. The best way to see these is by floating the river with mask, snorkel, and fins. This is a fabulous exploration that few have experienced. Trips will be organized as needed.
*Lunch and dinner at attendee's expense
Note that the agenda is not the final version.
Agenda
13 - 14 January 2012
