Proceedings of the

International Stromatolite Symposium 2012

January 13 and 14, 2012

Laguna Bacalar

Southern Yucatan Peninsula

Bacalar, Mexico

Chemistry and preliminary coliform microbial communities in Laguna Bacalar, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

LaBuhn, S.1, C. Burrows1, C. Groff1, N. Neureuther1, S. Schaal1, and J. Volk1, Ana Flores Cupul2, Ana Beatriz Martinez Dominguez2, Milagros Medina Poot2. 2012. International Stromatolite Sympsoium Proceedings, January 2012.

1School of Freshwater Sciences, Great Lakes WATER Institute, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

2Laboratorio de usos multiples del COBACH Bacalar,

Bacalar, Quintana Roo, Mexico

Faculty Leaders:

2Martin Guadalupe Maas Vargas ([email protected]), 1Val Klump ([email protected]), 1River Kaster ([email protected])

Presentations, Abstracts, Papers

(not refereed)

Partial listing of presentations

see agenda for all presentations

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

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Geomorphological role of thrombolites in coastal lagoon formation

David Siqueiros Beltrones and Oscar U. Hernandez Almeida. CICIMAR-IPN, La Paz, BCS, MEXICO 

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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

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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

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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

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2Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington DC, USA

Perspectives of conservation and sustainable growth in Bacalar

Gonzalo Merediz Alonso, Executive Director, Amigos de Sian Ka'an, Cancun, Mexico

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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

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Ecological consequences of microbialite encrustation by the invasive black striped mussel, Mytilopsis sallei. Proceedings of the International Stromatolite Symposium, Bacalar, Mexico. January 2012.

Kaster, J.L. 2012. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, School of Freshwater Sciences. Milwaukee, WI USA

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