HR: 13:30h
AN: B13A-01 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: Through A Glass Darkly: Observations On The Chasm Between Basic And Applied Research In Bioturbation
AU: * Germano, J D
EM: joe@remots.com
AF: Germano & Associates, Inc., 12100 SE 46th Place, Bellevue, WA 98006 United States
AB: Concepts about the structure and function of marine ecoystems have always been limited by either the artificial conditions of laboratory studies or the biases imposed by the sampling technology employed in the field. Given the same system, same sediments, same animals, and same concerns, basic research generally asks very different questions compared to those of applied research. Looking back over the past 150 years of research in benthic ecology provides a sobering insight that, despite the use of new technologies in bioturbation research, we are still traveling down the same roads leading to biased judgments. While it may be impossible to escape Heisenberg's reality, some rules of the road will be presented to help bridge the gap between basic and applied research in bioturbation processes.
DE: 1050 Marine geochemistry (4835, 4850)
DE: 3022 Marine sediments--processes and transport
DE: 3045 Seafloor morphology and bottom photography
DE: 3094 Instruments and techniques
SC: Biogeosciences [B]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly