OPI VIII

11-15/May

2020

VIRTUAL

CONFERENCE

Schedule

Program

Monday, May 11

Day 1

Welcome and Preliminaries (organizers)

18:00

Meeting Opener

18:05

Poul Holm

The Bestiary of D. Juan de Austria: Natural history treatises as elements for the analysis of past sea animals and populations

18:15

Cristina Brito

French cod catches in Newfoundland 1500-1800

18:30

Bernard Allaire

The Capacity Trend Method: A new approach for enumerating the Newfoundland cod fisheries (1675-1790)

18:40

John Nicholls

The Danish North Sea Coast Fisheries, 1450-1660)

18:50

Poul Holm

Q&A/Moderated discussion & Chat moderator

19:00

Ruth Thurstan
Ben Fitzhugh

Tuesday, May 12

Day 2

Welcome and Setup (organizers)

18:00

Environmental history and archaeology of coastal northern communities of the transpacific Otter fur trade

18:05

Paul Montgomery

A Return to the Past or the New Normal?: Human responses to the 1999-2000 and 2019 eastern North Pacific gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) unusual mortality events

18:20

Sophia Nicolov

Social-ecological transformations affecting marine governance in the Republic of Mauritius

18:35

Josheena Naggea

Null models for attribution analysis of fish distribution shifts to climate change

18:50

Guillem Chust

Q&A/Moderated discussion & Chat moderator

19:00

Cristina Brito
Ruth Thurstan

Wednesday, May 13

Day 3

Welcome and Setup (organizers)

18:00

1000 years of commercial eel fisheries in Europe

18:05

Bo Poulsen

Introducing the North Atlantic Encounters Program

18:20

Tom McGovern

Setting baselines for coastal species in Central California

18:35

Jennifer Selgrath

Changing times, changing vulnerabilities in Mexican shark fisheries

18:50

Ilse Martinez

Q&A/Moderated discussion & Chat moderator

19:00

Ben Fitzhugh
Alison McDiarmid

Thursday, May 14

Day 4

Welcome and Setup (organizers)

18:00

Poster lightning talks with links to online posters

Marine Lexicon: Presenting a cross-European thesaurus about early modern marine mammals

Casks of oil, burdens of baleen: The importance of whales and whaling in Brazil (17th and 18th centuries)

SeaChanges: a training network bridging archaeology and marine biology

Flatfish and the origins of European marine fishing

SEACHANGE: Quantifying the impact of major cultural transitions on marine ecosystem functioning and biodiversity

Ocean Decade Heritage Network (ODHN)

The Demise of the Atlantic Grey Whale (Eschrichtius robustus)

18:05

Joana Baço
Nina Vieira
David Orton
Katrien Dierickx
Paul Butler
Antony Firth
Youri van den Hurk

Climate-driven biodiversity collapse on the Mediterranean Israeli shelf

18:30

Paolo Albano

Two centuries of social and ecological transformation in an inshore marine system: Queensland's rock oysters

18:45

Ruth Thurstan

OBIS – A brief overview

19:00

John Nicholls

Q&A/Moderated discussion & Chat moderator

19:00

Alison MacDiarmid
Poul Holm

Friday, May 15

Day 5

Welcome and Setup (organizers)

18:00

Long-term changes in fish communities in the western North Sea

18:05

Georgina Hunt

Disentangling the factors affecting the CPUE in Icelandic fisheries in the past

18:20

Hreiðar Þór Valtýsson

Technological creep masking stock collapse in a 90-year marine fishery time series

18:35

Alf Ring Kleiven
Sigurd Heiberg Espeland
Stian Stiansen
Esben Moland Olsen

Te Waiwhakata: reflecting on the past to plan for the sustainability of coastal ecosystems

18:50

Philip Ross

Q&A/Moderated discussion & Chat moderator

19:05

Poul Holm
Cristina Brito

Session close

19:25