Symposium:                Cardio-Respiratory Physiology of Diving: Extreme Physiology at Depth

 

Track:                         Ecophysiology for the 21st Century
                                    Friday, 10:30 AM—12:30 PM, 29C

Chaired:                        Patrick J. Butler

 

10:30 AM                    Rhythms of regulation: getting to the bottom of cardiac control during diving. David Jones. Univ. of British Columbia.

11:00 AM                    Energetic and thermal challenges at depth: the marine mammal's dilemma. Terrie M. Williams. Univ. of California, Santa Cruz. 

11:30 AM                    Buoyancy control by diving penguins: do they predict depth of the subsequent dive? Katsufumi Sato. Univ. of Tokyo.

 

12:00 PM                    Diving response and spleen contraction: two ways of changing to a “diving mode” in humans. Erika Schagatay. Mid Sweden Univ.