Classification and Identification of
Marine Organisms from Images and Video
Marine Organisms from Images and Video

Workshop Schedule
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Speaker biographies are available here.
| Sunday, | March 29th | |
| 7:00 pm | Reception at the Monterey Bay Aquarium (in Monterey, not Moss Landing) |
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| Monday, March 30th | ||
8:30
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Welcome | |
| 8:35 | Linda Kuhnz | Opening talk |
| Fishes | ||
9:00 |
Greg Cailliet | Introduction to major deep-sea fish groups |
9:45 |
Break | |
| 10:00 | Greg Cailliet | Fish introduction continued |
10:45 |
Bob Lea | Rockfishes and flatfishes |
| 11:30 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 | Tomio Iwamoto | Grenadiers |
| 1:45 | Open session with fish experts | |
| Sponges | ||
| 2:45 | Henry Reiswig | Hexactinellids |
| 3:30 | Bill Austin | Demospongiae |
| 4:15 | Open session with sponge experts | |
| 5:15 | Close of day 1 | |
| Tuesday, March 31st | ||
| Echinoderms | ||
| 8:30 | Greg Rouse | Crinoids |
9:15
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Chris Mah | Sea stars |
| 10:30 | Break | |
| 10:45 | Dave Pawson | Holothurians |
| 11:30 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 | Rich Mooi | Echinoids |
| 1:45 | Open session with echinoderm experts | |
| Annelids | ||
| 2:30 | Greg Rouse | Deep-sea worms and other similar organisms |
| Cephalopods | ||
| 3:30 | Janet Voight | Cirrate and incirrate octopods |
| 4:15 | Open session with cephalopod and annelid experts | |
| 5:15 | Close of day 2 | |
| Wednesday, April 1st | ||
| Corals | ||
8:30
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Gary Williams | Overview of the corals with emphasis on sea pens and gorgonians |
| 9:45 | Break | |
| 10:00 | Dennis Opresko | Antipatharians |
| 10:45 | Lonny Lundsten | Seamount corals and other megafauna |
| 11:30 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 | Open session with coral experts | |
| Anemones | ||
| 2:00 | Daphne Fautin | Actiniaria and Corallimorpharia |
| 2:45 | Break | |
| Decapods | ||
| 3:00 | Mary Wicksten | Decapods from the deep sea |
| 3:45 | Open session with anemone and decapod experts | |
| 4:45 | Closing session: wrap-up, open comments, feedback, future direction | |
| 5:15 | Close of day 3 | |
Hands-on demonstrations of VARS, MBARI's video archiving system, will be available every 30 minutes during the conference open sessions; sign up sheets will be available at the conference.

