From hendee@wave Thu Jan 8 10:25:56 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id KAA16171; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:24:48 -0500 Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA00820; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 15:12:15 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA00815; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:12:12 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id KAA15883; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:12:12 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:12:11 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Re: Injection Wells in West Maui (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The following is a message from Ed Parnell of University of Hawaii, and is herewith forwarded to the list. Sorry for the delay in posting, brought about by the U.S. Government budget impasse. In the future, any messages sent to coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov will be automatically forwarded to the list without need for human intervention (we hope!). JCH ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 10:22:44 -1000 (HST) From: Ed Parnell To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program Subject: Re: Injection Wells in West Maui Deb Schulman and Ed Laws in the oceanography dept. at UH found that ammonia, nitrate, silicate (indicator of freshwater), and del N-15 ratios were higher at Barbers Point and Ewa Beach than most other areas of Mamala Bay. They implicated cesspools to account for the high ammonia and/or groundwater intrusion from the Ewa plain (cultivated for sugar cane for the last 100 years) to account for the other high variables. The pattern of higher nutrients and del N-15 was robust over the ranges of seasonal variation they observed. This work was part of the Mamala Bay study. Brad Gould, in a separate study within the MBS, found that nitrate concentrations were significantly correlated with wave energy. The relationship was non-linear; nitrate concentrations increased with increasing wave energy, and the slope at which nitrate concentrations increased became steeper with increasing wave energy. Pore waters (including groundwater) are pumped by increasing wave energy. This all means that groundwater is a likely significant source of nitrate. Algal diversity and biomass was quantified as part of MBS by Alison Kay et al. They studied three areas; 1) the natatorium (Waikiki) 2) Sand Isalnd and 3) Honouliuli. Algae were studied at three depths 7, 17, and 27 m during winter 94, summer 94, and winter 95. Temporal and spatial variability of dry weight data was so great, just by looking at their graphs (no stats done unfortunately), that no clear pattern emerged. Algal diversity (as # of genera; no diversity indeces were calculated) was highest at Barbers Point. Lynbia and Pterocladia were dominants at all three sites. From hendee@wave Thu Jan 8 10:26:01 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id KAA16170; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:24:48 -0500 Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA00827; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 15:13:27 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA00822; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:13:25 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id KAA15888; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:13:25 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:13:25 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: RE: Injection Wells in West Maui (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Another forwarded message... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 2 Jan 1996 12:43:17 -0500 From: Haskell, B. To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program Subject: RE: Injection Wells in West Maui FYI, the Florida environmental regulatory commission recently decided not to permit anymore injection wells in the Florida Keys due to nearshore water quality degradation. bhaskell@ocean.nos.noaa.gov From hendee@wave Thu Jan 8 10:27:08 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id KAA16173; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:24:49 -0500 Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA00834; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 15:14:39 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA00829; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:14:37 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id KAA15893; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:14:37 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:14:37 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Re: Injection Wells in West Maui (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: This forwarded message is apparently in response to the message posted by Ursula Keuper-Bennett (howzit@io.org). ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 17:13:31 -0700 From: Jack Hardy To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program Subject: Re: Injection Wells in West Maui Send me your mailing address and I'll send copies of a couple of papers we did years ago on eutrophication along the coast of Lebanon, including algal; blooms. Jack Hardy, Director Center for Environmental Sciences Western Washington University Bellingham, WA 98225-9181 voice 360-650-6108 fax 360-650-7284 From hendee@manoa Mon Jan 12 10:45:25 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id KAA29691; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 10:43:38 -0500 Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA06662; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 15:30:28 GMT Received: from harpo.grdl.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA06657; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 10:30:25 -0500 Received: from ocean.nos.noaa.gov by harpo.grdl.noaa.gov with SMTP (16.6/15.6) id AA12541; Fri, 12 Jan 96 10:26:38 -0500 Message-Id: Date: 12 Jan 1996 10:27:47 -0500 From: "Haskell, B." Subject: Fl Keys Nat'l Marine Sanctuary Mgmt. Plan To: "Coral list" X-Mailer: Mail*Link SMTP-MS 3.0.0 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Notice to the general science/management community: If there are any folks out there who are teaching courses in coastal zone management or marine protected areas, the Draft Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement for the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary can be made available to you as a teaching tool. The plan is the first integrated, ecosystem-based management plan developed for a marine protected area in the U.S.A. It represents the culmination of 5 years of planning with a citizen advisory council, managers, scientists, and the public. The plan consists of 3 volumes for a total of 781 pages. Vol. I is composed of 10 action plans: water quality, zoning, research and monitoring, education, enforcement, mooring buoys, channel marking, volunteer, submerged cultural resources, and regulatory. Vol II is the environmental impact statement including a detailed description of the Keys' marine ecosystem and Vol. III are appendices. If you want multiple copies we must ask that you pay for postage by COD or give us your delivery account number (Fedex). We have plenty of copies left to give away. If interested, please contact: Benjamin Haskell Science Coordinator Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary P.O. Box 500368 Marathon, FL 33050 Ph.(305) 743-2437 Fax (305) 743-2357 Email: bhaskell@ocean.nos.noaa.gov From hendee@wave Mon Jan 12 14:20:03 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id OAA02567; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 14:17:21 -0500 Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA06831; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 19:14:23 GMT Received: from aqua.whoi.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA06826; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 14:14:21 -0500 Received: from cliff.whoi.edu (cliff [128.128.16.150]) by aqua.whoi.edu (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id OAA11084 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 14:10:39 -0500 From: acohen@cliff.whoi.edu Received: from cc:Mail by cliff.whoi.edu id AA821484708; Fri, 12 Jan 96 14:09:07 est Date: Fri, 12 Jan 96 14:09:07 est Encoding: 12 Text Message-Id: <9600128214.AA821484708@cliff.whoi.edu> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: coral proxies Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Stan Hart and I are currently working on calibrating various coral-based proxies against instrumental records. Most of these are proxies for water temperature and we're focusing on Porites sp. for now. We're interested to locate other reef sites at which physical parameters such as water temperature have been continuously monitored over the past few years (2-3), especially those which show large amplitude fluctuations of weekly or sub-weekly duration. If you can help, we'd like to hear from you thanks, Anne Cohen (acohen@whoi.edu) From hendee@wave Sun Jan 18 09:23:53 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id JAA26778; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 09:20:05 -0500 Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA13715; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 14:00:22 GMT Received: from isurus.marinelab.sarasota.fl.us by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA13710; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 09:00:18 -0500 Received: from marshall.marinelab.sarasota.fl.us by isurus.marinelab.sarasota.fl.us with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0tcupX-002NZIC; Thu, 18 Jan 96 08:56 EST Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 09:53:15 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Marshall To: coral list Subject: Snorkelling sites in the Keys (fwd) X-Sender: marshall@isurus.marinelab.sarasota.fl.us Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Coral List, Any good advice on this request would be appreciated. Please send answers directly to Dr. Spears. Thanks, Mike Marshall MJM/MARBIO lstowner. """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Michael J. Marshall, Ph.D. Mote Marine Laboratory marshall@marinelab.sarasota.fl.us Tropical Marine Ecology Program 941-388-4441/941-388-4312(fax) 1600 Thompson Parkway http://www.marinelab.sarasota.fl.us Sarasota, Florida 34236 USA """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Mote Marine Lab is an independent, not-for-profit research organization ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 22:01:41 -0500 From: Gene Spears To: Multiple recipients of list ECOLOG-L Subject: Snorkelling sites in the Keys A colleague & I just finished a field course in Florida & as aprt of the course, took our students to the Pennycamp State Park on Key Largo. Fish diversity was high, though the reef seemed to be in rough shape, and the experience was worthwhile, but rather expensive for a class of eight. Can anyone suggest snorkelling spots off the Keys that don't require a boat trip, i.e. park and snorkel spots? Thanks, gene spears@bobcat.lmc.edu From hendee@wave Sun Jan 18 11:28:46 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id LAA28712; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 11:22:59 -0500 Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA13883; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 16:18:19 GMT Received: from gn.apc.org by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA13878; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 11:18:14 -0500 Received: by gn.apc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.31 ) id AA27595; Thu, 18 Jan 96 16:13:11 GMT Date: Thu, 18 Jan 96 16:13:11 GMT From: Lloyd Timberlake Message-Id: <9601181613.AA27595@gn.apc.org> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: job Cc: coastnet@uriacc.uri.edu, marbio@marinelab.sarasota.fl.us Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: AVINA, a young Swiss-based foundation, finds and encourages leadership for sustainable development in the areas of business, institutional change, grassroots development, and conservation in Latin America. We are opening a new office in Miami and are seeking a Project Manager for Marine Conservation. The project manager will help to develop our new marine conservation programme, focusing at present on the reefs and coasts of Central and South America. The job will require vision, strategic planning, administration, partnership development, and a great deal of travel to keep up with developments in marine conservation in Latin America. Requirements: * A PhD in Marine Science or equivalent discipline. * A minimum of five years experience working in Tropical Marine Conservation. * Fluency in English and Spanish - including an ability to write well in both. * Self-motivation, organisation, communications skills, tact and an ability to work largely unsupervised. Conditions: * Position will be based at the foundation's new office in Miami * Initial one-year contract * Competitive salary reflecting the importance we place on the recruitment of high quality staff Prospective candidates should send a full CV with a recent photo and telephone number to Erica Knie, Aptdo 96 07150 Andraitx Mallorca SPAIN From hendee@wave Sun Jan 18 12:56:14 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id MAA29928; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:49:20 -0500 Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA13971; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:40:59 GMT Received: from COASTS.NOS.NOAA.GOV by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA13966; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:40:56 -0500 Received: by COASTS.NOS.NOAA.GOV with VINES-ISMTP; Thu, 18 Jan 96 12:37:42 EST Date: Thu, 18 Jan 96 12:37:39 EST Message-ID: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) To: From: (Michael Crosby) Subject: coral "health" criteria Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: As part of my interest to formulate draft criteria for success in improving the overall "health" or condition of the Florida Keys coral reef ecosystem (including all associated habitats such as coral reefs, mangroves, seagrasses, associated bays and inlets, etc.), I would greatly appreciate input and ideas from those of you with expertise in this broad ecosystem. I am not looking for verbose treatise on the subject of what is "healthy" versus "non-healthy". What I am looking for is what specific variables (i.e., biomass, diversity, presence/absence, physico-chemical, indicator species) you would feel should increase or decrease, and in what magnitude, in order to say the system is improving in overall condition. Note that I am looking for criteria to measure significant improvement, not total restoration (that is another kettle of fish altogether!) Some variable that have been suggested to date (although in many cases still requiring some degree of being quantitative) are: - Nutrients and suspended sediments reduced (by how much? or to what level?) - Macro algae bloom and coverage decrease (by how much? or to what level?) - Increase sea urchin population (by how much? or to what level?) - Tortugus shrimp harvests restored to recent historic levels to support a MSY of 10 million pounds annually - Increase in population of common snook (by how much? or to what level?) - Increase in recruitment of Gray Snapper (by how much? or to what level?) - Restoration of larval and juvenile spiny lobster habitat (loggerhead sponges) to their historic range (what is that range?) - Increase in sighting of jewfish (by how much? or to what level?) - Increase in sighting of sea turtles (which species? by how much? or to what level?) - An increase in coral cover by 15-20% (is this realistic? to low? to high? key species?) - Restore coverage and species composition of seagrasses to mid-1980s level - Increase in wading bird, osprey and brown pelican populations (by how much? or to what level?) Any input or comments that address the above "by how much? or to what level?" questions, and/or additional variable to employ as criteria for success would be most appreciated. I am not sure if it is best to send your input directly to me at my Internet address, or to respond via this coral list server. The former may help to limit loading the server with what some may consider not to be of interest, however the latter approach may serve to stimulate some useful discussions. I would appreciate input ASAP. Many Thanks and Cheers, Michael --------------------------------------------------- Dr. Michael P. Crosby National Research Coordinator Ocean and Coastal Resource Management NOAA, SSMC-4, Rm 11437 1305 East West Highway Silver Spring, MD 20910 phone: 301-713-3155, ext. 114 fax: 301-713-4012 Internet: mcrosby@coasts.nos.noaa.gov From hendee@wave Sun Jan 18 15:54:59 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id PAA02678; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 15:41:31 -0500 Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA14146; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 20:33:28 GMT Received: from NIC.NOAA.GOV by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA14141; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 15:33:26 -0500 Received: from ogp.noaa.gov (QUICKMAIL.OGP.NOAA.GOV) by NIC.NOAA.GOV; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 15:29:15 - 0500 Received: from ogp.noaa.gov (QUICKMAIL.OGP.NOAA.GOV) by NIC.NOAA.GOV with SMTP id AA07893 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Thu, 18 Jan 1996 15:29:15 -0500 Message-Id: Date: 18 Jan 1996 16:29:50 U From: "Mark Eakin" Subject: International Conference on To: "Recipients of coral-list" , "Recipients of MarBio List" X-Mailer: Mail*Link SMTP/QM 3.0.0 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Subject: Time: 3:30 PM OFFICE MEMO International Conference on Biology... Date: 1/18/96 Announcement: Within the first two weeks of April 1997 an International Conference on the Biology of Coastal Environments wil be held in Bahrain. The meeting will provide a borad forum for marine biologists and related scientists from all over the world to communicate and discuss many aspects of coastal environments from diatoms to fishes, including mangroves, coral reefs, and fisheries, as well as related applied and basic research. TITLE: International Conference on Biology of Coastal Environments Organizer: Dr. Jameel Abbas Chairman, Organising Committee Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Bahrain. P.O.Box 32038 - State of Bahrain Date: April 1997 Contact: Telephone: 681234/688316 Fax: 682582 Plenary Speakers include: Pirazzoli, France Round, UK Krahn, USA Morioka, Japan Crawford, UK Popp, Austria Session topics: Aquaculture/Fisheries, coral reefs, intertidal, mangroves, pollution, supralittoral Additional information available including a call for abstracts to be available in February 1996. From hendee@wave Sun Jan 18 15:59:03 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id PAA02868; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 15:53:59 -0500 Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA14164; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 20:50:51 GMT Received: from usgcrp.gov by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA14159; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 15:50:47 -0500 Received: from [131.182.242.99] by usgcrp.gov (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA14140; Thu, 18 Jan 96 15:17:29 EST Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 15:17:52 -0500 To: usgcrp.list@usgcrp.gov, coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov From: mmaccrac@usgcrp.gov (Mike MacCracken) Subject: WAN event 1/23 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: > >The Women's Aquatic Network brings together women and men with >interests in marine and aquatic policy, research, legislation, >and other areas; and promotes the roles of women in these fields. > >___________________________________________ > > >The Women's Aquatic Network invites you to an evening presentation, > >SPEAKER: Dr. D. James Baker, Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and >Atmospheres and Administrator of NOAA > >TOPIC: Outlook for Environmental Prediction and Stewardship: 1996 and Beyond > >Date: Tuesday, 23 January 1996, 6:30 PM, reception; 7:00 PM, speaker > >Place: International City/County Management Association (ICMA), > 777 North Capitol Street, NE, 1st floor training room; > nearest metro: Union Station exit on red line > >Positive RSVP's & info: Donna Wieting, 202-482-5916, email >dwieting@rdc.noaa.gov > >DONATION: $5 WAN members, students, seniors; $7 non-members; > event free to members joining or renewing at the door. > >______________________________________________________________________ >The Women's Aquatic Network invites you to an evening presentation, > >Dr. Stephen Jameson, President, Coral Seas Inc., and >Mr. Ben Mieremet, NOAA, >Office of Ocean and Coastal Management > >TOPIC: "The Development of the Red Sea Marine Peace Park & the Coral Reef >Initiative" > > Cold Winter Getting You Down? Join WAN as we hear about a Hot Spot! > Sometimes referred to as the "Red Sea Riviera", Israel & Jordan are >establishing a marine peace park with the assistance of U.S. AID and NOAA. > > Ben and Steve will narrate a vivid slide presentation on coral reef >management, including work currently underway by AID and NOAA in the middle >east, as well as the projects of the International Coral Reef Initiative. > > The evening will preview the award winning video, "Fragile Ring Of >Life," >which focuses on 5 areas of coral reef management and concern. Already >translated into 5 languages (and more on the way), it is just being released >in the USA. > >DATE: February 15, 1996; Reception 6:30 PM; Speakers 7:00 PM >PLACE: World Wildlife Fund, 1250 24th Street, NW, 5th floor conference room; > closest metro stops: Dupont Circle (red line) or Foggy >Bottom (blue/ orange >line); > >Positive RSVP's: Kelly Greene301/713-1373 x110; email: >kgreene@smtpgate.ssmc.noaa.gov > >DONATION: $5 WAN members, students, seniors; $7 non-members; event free to >members joining or renewing at the door; also receive a special Red Sea Marine >Peace Park poster by joining/renewing that night. > Michael C. MacCracken Director, Office of the USGCRP 300 D Street, SW, Suite 840 Washington DC 20024 Tel. (202) 651-8240 or 8250 (office secretary) Tel. (202) 651-8252 (office and voicemail) Fax. (202) 554-6715 or (202) 554-6858 E-mail: mmaccracken@usgcrp.gov USGCRP Home Page: http://www.usgcrp.gov/ Message for the month: "The pursuit of truth keeps us from the pursuit of each other." James Billington, Librarian of Congress (at least where I saw it quoted) From hendee@wave Wed Jan 21 14:28:31 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id OAA21366; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 14:24:30 -0500 Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA17840; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 19:15:38 GMT Received: from aqua.whoi.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA17835; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 14:15:31 -0500 Received: from cliff.whoi.edu (cliff [128.128.16.150]) by aqua.whoi.edu (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id OAA06685 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 14:12:21 -0500 From: acohen@cliff.whoi.edu Received: from cc:Mail by cliff.whoi.edu id AA822262483; Sun, 21 Jan 96 14:10:50 est Date: Sun, 21 Jan 96 14:10:50 est Encoding: 6 Text Message-Id: <9600218222.AA822262483@cliff.whoi.edu> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: coral proxies Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: We got a great response to our request re: coral proxies and instrumented reef sites. Thank you. We'll be in touch shortly with those who responded. Anne Cohen and Stan Hart (acohen@whoi.edu) From hendee@wave Wed Jan 21 18:14:59 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id SAA21994; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 18:13:17 -0500 Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id XAA17972; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 23:12:17 GMT Received: from holmes.umd.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id SAA17967; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 18:11:51 -0500 Received: from wolfe.umd.edu (wolfe.umd.edu [128.8.10.52]) by holmes.umd.edu(8.6.12/95Sep13) with ESMTP id SAA03327; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 18:08:38 -0500 Received: by wolfe.umd.edu id SAA12595; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 18:08:37 -0500 Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 18:08:36 -0500 (EST) From: Mellie Lewis X-Sender: mlewis@wolfe.umd.edu To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Students work to save the Aquarius Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Coral Reef Members, My students are embarking on a campaign to save funding for the Aquarius. As part of this year's JASON VII Project, millions of students across the county have the opportunity to accompany Dr. Jerry Wellington, via telepresence, as he studies the natural cycle of climate change over several hundred years. If funding to the Aquarius project is cut, this part of the JASON project, and countless other projects dependent upon the Aquarius, may be eliminated. Our plan is to encourage JASON Students, and their parents, to write to their congressional delegation in Washington requesting Congress not to cut funding for the Aquarius Project. We are planning on posting information about the Aquarius on both the JASON Student and JASON Teacher Bulletin Boards. We need your help! We need the facts. We would like to generate a list of how the research projects using the Aquarius will benefit mankind. Any information you could e-mail us would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Mellie Lewis G.T. Resource Teacher Atholton Elementary School From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Jan 24 10:07:42 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id KAA22273; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 10:01:11 -0500 Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA21250; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 14:46:41 GMT Received: from aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA21245; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 09:46:38 -0500 Received: from localhost (hendee@localhost) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.6.10/8.6.4) id JAA22076; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 09:42:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 09:42:59 -0500 (EST) From: "James C. Hendee" X-Sender: hendee@wave To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Pigeon Key Courses Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The following comes originally from the marine biology list-server, but may be of use to some of you on the coral-list, since a course is offered in coral reef ecology. ------------------------------ From: Mike Marshall Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 17:29:36 -0800 (PST) Subject: marbio: Summer marine biology courses Mote Marine Laboratory is pleased to announce that we will offer two courses in marine biology and ecology at our field station in the Florida Keys. If you are interested in these courses, after reading the following announcement, please request an information package and application form by sending an e-mail note to . Thank you. Mike Marshall 1996 Florida Keys Marine Ecology Courses at Mote Marine Laboratory's Pigeon Key Marine Research Center ----Pigeon Key, Florida---- Florida Bay and Florida Keys Ecosystems May 10 - June 1, 1996 3 credits (optional) Course Description: An introduction to the Florida Keys and Florida Bay. Community descriptions and functional inter-relationships of the mangrove communities, seagrass beds, coral reefs and their inhabitants will be emphasized. Field trips to Everglades National Park, Biscayne National Monument, and numerous other sites will be included in this course. Lectures, field trips, and boat cruises will focus on interactions between the Everglades, Florida Bay, and the Florida Keys. Habitat mapping, seagrass growth and physiology, plankton ecology, coral reef studies, fish ecology, and a variety of other subjects will be covered during the cours Coral Reef Ecology August 9 - August 23, 1996 2 credits (optional) Course Description: The biological and physical processes responsible for coral reefs will be introduced and discussed in detail. Particular emphasis will be placed on integration of concepts ranging from chemical to community levels. Current topics in reef science will be discussed based on readings from recent scientific literature. A series of evening presentations, discussions and debates will address reef management issues and students will conduct projects to explore areas of interest in more detail. Prerequisites (both courses): Students should have had basic courses in chemistry and biology. Courses in botany, zoology, ecology, or geology would be helpful Application Procedures & General Information: An application and summer session brochure should be requested by either sending in one of the by writing to the address below, or by sending an e-mail request to FKMRC@marinelab.sarasota.fl.us. All application materials (the filled-in application, transcripts, and a letter of recommendation from a recent instructor) must be submitted by March 30, 1996 Housing and Meals: Student housing and weekday meals will be provided at Pigeon Key. SCUBA: All SCUBA divers will be requried to furnish evidence of certification, furnish and maintain logbooks, and provide medical clearance for diving. Medical clearance forms will be mailed with the application package. Final approval for diving will be dependent on a satisfactory checkout dive. Mote Marine Laboratory's Pigeon Key Marine Research Center: Mote Marine Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit marine research institution. We are members of both the National Association of Marine Laboratories annd the Southern Association of Marine Laboratories. We are not affiliated with any college or university, although credit arrangements through Florida State University may be available for those desiring academic credit. The PKMRC is located on Pigeon Key which is located 2.5 miles west of Marathon, Fl . It is accessible by the last remaining usable section of the old seven mile bridge. Pigeon Key is a National Historic District and is the home of the Pigeon Key Foundation. MML and the PKF are partners in the Pigeon Key restoration and preservation project. More details on MML can be obtained through our web page at http://www.marinelab.sarasota.fl.us. For more information about these course and MML, please write, fax, or e-mail: Pigeon Key Marine Science Center Courses Mote Marine Laboratory 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway Sarasota, Florida 34236 e-mail: FKMRC@marinelab.sarasota.fl.us FAX: 941-388-4312 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Jan 26 08:08:40 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id IAA22896; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 08:05:15 -0500 Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA02502; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 13:00:18 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA02497; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 08:00:16 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id IAA15765; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 08:00:15 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 08:00:15 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: International Congress on the Biology of Fishes Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Message herewith forwarded to the coral-list: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 22:13:58 GMT From: mackinlayd@mailhost.pac.dfo.ca (Don MacKinlay) This note is to announce that a web page has been established for the International Congress on the Biology of Fishes, July 14-18,1996 in San Francisco, California. This meeting should be of interest to your subscribers. Could you please provide a hyperlink from your calendar of events page to the Congress' page at: http://www.helix.net/~macwat/congress.html The Congress includes a symposium on the Physiology of Tropical Fish, including coral reef fish. Thank you, Don MacKinlay From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Jan 26 08:08:53 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id IAA22890; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 08:05:11 -0500 Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA02645; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 13:03:59 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA02640; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 08:03:57 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id IAA15771; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 08:03:56 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 08:03:56 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Acropora cytherea info request Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Message from Dennis Ahern (DAHERN@ccgate.ueci.com): ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 96 11:21:34 EST From: Dennis Ahern To: hendee@coral.AOML.ERL.GOV Subject: Greetings We are researching the ecology of Johnston Atoll in the pacific and are seeking information on Acropora cytherea. Any suggestions on where we can find a general good reference for life history,biology, ecology, range, etc. Thanks. Dennis Ahern Raytheon Environmental Sciences Philadelphia dennis_ahern@ccgate.ueci.com From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Jan 26 14:45:15 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id OAA28472; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 14:38:43 -0500 Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA03257; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 19:12:58 GMT Received: from biology.ucsc.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA03252; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 14:12:54 -0500 Received: from [128.114.25.8] (bio-potts.UCSC.EDU [128.114.25.8]) by biology.ucsc.edu (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id LAA13830; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 11:08:49 -0800 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 11:05:55 PST From: Donald Potts Reply-To: Donald Potts Subject: Re: Acropora cytherea info request To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov X-Warning: UNAuthenticated Sender In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I suggest you contact the person who probably knows more about Acropora than anyone else today: Dr. Carden Wallace Director Museum of Tropical Queensland 70-84 Flinders St Townsville, Qld 4810 Australia FAX: 61-77-21-2093 ****************************************************************************** * * * Donald C. Potts * * Professor of Biology * * Director, UCSC Education Abroad Program * * * * A316 Earth and Marine Sciences Building Phone: (408) 459-4417 * * University of California Fax: (408) 459-4882 * * Santa Cruz Email: potts@biology.ucsc.edu * * California 95064 U.S.A. * * * ****************************************************************************** On Fri, 26 Jan 1996, Coral Health and Monitoring Program wrote: > > Message from Dennis Ahern (DAHERN@ccgate.ueci.com): > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 25 Jan 96 11:21:34 EST > From: Dennis Ahern > To: hendee@coral.AOML.ERL.GOV > Subject: Greetings > > We are researching the ecology of Johnston Atoll in the pacific > and are seeking information on Acropora cytherea. > > Any suggestions on where we can find a general good reference for > life history,biology, ecology, range, etc. > > Thanks. > > Dennis Ahern > Raytheon Environmental Sciences > Philadelphia > > dennis_ahern@ccgate.ueci.com > > > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Jan 29 14:31:31 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id OAA06639; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 14:26:36 -0500 Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA00670; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 19:12:59 GMT Received: from aqua.whoi.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA00665; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 14:12:47 -0500 Received: from cliff.whoi.edu (cliff [128.128.16.150]) by aqua.whoi.edu (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id NAA05654 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 13:46:12 -0500 From: acohen@cliff.whoi.edu Received: from cc:Mail by cliff.whoi.edu id AA822952091; Mon, 29 Jan 96 12:00:06 est Date: Mon, 29 Jan 96 12:00:06 est Encoding: 9 Text Message-Id: <9600298229.AA822952091@cliff.whoi.edu> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: coral proxies Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Jim Hendee suggests I post a summary of the information received in response to our request re: instrumented coral reef. If anyone does not wish their info to be made public, please let me know by the end of this week. thanks Anne Cohen acohen@whoi.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Jan 29 17:49:14 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id RAA08707; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 17:44:31 -0500 Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA00988; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 22:40:03 GMT Received: from umigw.miami.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA00983; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 17:40:01 -0500 Received: from aszmant.rsmas.miami.edu (aszmant.rsmas.miami.edu [129.171.104.19]) by umigw.miami.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA20080 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 17:36:49 -0500 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 17:36:49 -0500 Message-Id: <199601292236.RAA20080@umigw.miami.edu> X-Sender: szmant@oj.rsmas.miami.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov From: Alina Szmant Subject: nutrient/productivity studies of pristine reefs Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I am preparing various review papers and am trying to search out any nutrient/productivity (sediment and water column nutrients) work that I might have missed from remote pristine coral reef areas. I am especially interested in any nutrient work that may have been done in Palau lagoon and forereef areas, and remote areas of the Bahamas. Incidental nutrient measurements are also of interest if they are accompanied by some description of collection and analysis conditions. I would appreciate any citations anyone could pass along (reprints would be even better) and/or contact information for any work by others that you might know of. Thank any and all for your help!! Alina Szmant ********************************************** Dr. Alina M. Szmant Coral Reef Research Group RSMAS-MBF University of Miami 4600 Rickenbacker Cswy. Miami FL 33149 TEL: (305)361-4609 FAX: (305)361-4600 or 361-4005 E-mail: ASZMANT@RSMAS.MIAMI.EDU ********************************************** From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Jan 31 07:15:12 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id HAA04913; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 07:12:48 -0500 Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA02719; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 12:03:02 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA02714; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 07:02:59 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id HAA02283; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 07:02:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 07:02:58 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Call for Proposals--Earthwatch Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 15:50:00 EST From: drobbins Subject: Call for Proposals from Center for Field Research/Earthwatch Call for Proposals: The Center for Field Research invites proposals for 1997 field grants awarded by its affiliate Earthwatch. Earthwatch is an international non-profit organization dedicated to sponsoring research and promoting public education in the sciences and humanities. All funds awarded by Earthwatch are derived from the contributions of Earthwatch members who pay for the opportunity to join scientists in the field and assist with data collection and other research tasks. On average, each volunteer contributes $600 - $900 towards the field grant and spends 12 to 16 days in the field. Grants range from $8,000 - $100,000 depending on the project length and number of volunteers involved. Preliminary proposals for Earthwatch field grants should be submitted at least 13 months in advance of anticipated field dates. Full proposals are invited upon review of preliminary proposals. Information about Earthwatch field grants is available on The Center's World Wide Web site (http://gaia.earthwatch.org/www/cfr.html) or you can contact: Dee Robbins, Life Sciences Program Director, The Center for Field Research, 680 Mt. Auburn Street, Watertown, MA 02172. Telephone: (617) 926-8200 o FAX: (617) 926-8532 o e-mail: drobbins@earthwatch.org or Sean Doolan, Science Officer, Earthwatch Europe, Belsyre Court, 57 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HU, United Kingdom Telephone (865) 311 600 o FAX (865) 311 383 o email: ewoxford@vax.oxford.ac.uk From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Jan 31 09:35:09 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id JAA06627; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 09:33:12 -0500 Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA03077; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 14:31:49 GMT Received: from mar.icmyl.unam.mx by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA03072; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 09:31:45 -0500 Received: by mar.icmyl.unam.mx (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA12959; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 08:27:20 +0600 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 08:27:19 -0600 (CST) From: Jordan Dahlgren Eric X-Sender: jordan@mar To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Cc: John Ogden , Nancy Knowlton , Hector Guzman , Jorge Cortes Subject: LAST CALL FOR WORKSHOP Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII content-length: 1383 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: TALLER SOBRE MANEJO DE ARRECIFES CORALINOS EN AMERICA LATINA !! ULTIMA OPORTUNIDAD !! (Spanish version) Ya deberia de estar armado el programa del Taller y esto no ha sido posible, porque el numero de proposiciones que nos han hecho llegar es aun escaso, para garantizar que sea representativo de la opinion de cientificos que trabajan en los arrecifes coralinos de latinoamerica. En contraste con lo anterior, existe un gran interes en los resultados y discusiones de este taller, al grado que los organizadores del Simposio, han conseguido la oferta de fondos adicionales para asegurar la participacion en este taller. Sin embargo, para poder gestionar esos fondos es necesario contar con un programa definido a la brevedad posible. Independiente de la conveniencia economica que esto puede significar, es imperativo que aprovechemos este foro para ganar la mayor experiencia posible. LO UNICO QUE NECESITAMOS ES UNA LISTA (en orden de importancia decreciente) DE LOS PROBLEMAS RELEVANTES, QUE DESDE UN PUNTO DE VISTA FORMAL, TIENE QUE RESOVERSE PARA ASEGURAR UN MANEJO RACIONAL DE LOS ARRECIFOS CORALINOS EN TU PAIS. Adicionar un parraf explicando el porque de la relevancia local de los problemas indicados y que tema particular le gustaria a Ud tratar (o que se tratara) en el Taller. LA FECHA LIMITE DE RECEPCION ES EL 28 de FEBRERO, 1966. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Jan 31 09:53:50 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id JAA06865; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 09:49:16 -0500 Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA03113; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 14:51:44 GMT Received: from mar.icmyl.unam.mx by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA03108; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 09:51:42 -0500 Received: by mar.icmyl.unam.mx (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA13036; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 08:47:18 +0600 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 08:47:15 -0600 (CST) From: Jordan Dahlgren Eric X-Sender: jordan@mar To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Cc: John Ogden , Nancy Knowlton , Hector Guzman , Jorge Cortes Subject: LAST CALL FOR WORKSHOP Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII content-length: 1107 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: WORKSHOP ON CORAL REEF MANAGEMENT ON LATINAMERICA !! LAST OPPORTUNITY !! Dear Colleagues> By now the final programme of the workshop should have been completed, however, this has not been possible due to a reduced number of propositions regarding the topics to be discussed at the workshop. This information does not guarantee, as of yet, a representative view of the problematic in all of Latinamerica. The interest in this particular workshop is such, that the organizing committee of the Symposium has been able to obtain an offer of additional funds to support participants of this particular workshop. However, without a final program on time, these funds may not be available at all. WE ONLY NEED A LIST OF THE RELEVANT PROBLEMS, WHICH FROM A FORMAL POINT OF VIEW, ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT IN A GIVEN LATINAMERICAN COUNTRY IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE PROPER MANAGEMENT OF LOCAL CORAL REEFS. The addition of a small paragraph explaining why each topic is relevant, and which one would you like to address at the Workshop, will be of great help. FINAL DATE FOR RECEPTION: February 28th, 1966. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Jan 31 10:12:54 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id KAA07065; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:08:10 -0500 Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA03141; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 15:06:49 GMT Received: from mar.icmyl.unam.mx by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA03136; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:06:46 -0500 Received: by mar.icmyl.unam.mx (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA13069; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 09:02:19 +0600 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 09:02:16 -0600 (CST) From: Jordan Dahlgren Eric X-Sender: jordan@mar To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Cc: John Ogden , Nancy Knowlton Subject: LAST CALL FOR CORAL REEF MANAGEMENT IN LATINAMERICA Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII content-length: 242 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ESTIMADOS COLEGAS> Tambien puede enviar sus propuestas por FAX a: MEXICO (987) 10138 / 10139 DEAR COLLEAGUES: You can also send your proposals by FAX to us, at: MEXICO (987) 10138 / 10139 Saludos, Eric Jordan y Jorge Cortez From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Jan 31 20:05:01 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id UAA14184; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 20:00:20 -0500 Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id AAA04138; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 00:53:34 GMT Received: from bishop.bishop.Hawaii.Org by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA04133; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 19:53:16 -0500 Received: by bishop.bishop.Hawaii.Org (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA33873; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 14:51:28 -1000 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 14:51:28 -1000 (HST) From: Pacific Science Assn To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Coral Reef Economics Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: CORAL REEF BIODIVERSITY AND ECONOMICS The IUCN Biodiversity Program and IUCN Marine and Coastal Program are seeking to develop an informal consultative group (or "network") on the economics of coral reef biodiversity, especially the economic factors of biodiversity loss. This is part of a wider programme effort undertaken by the Economist of the IUCN Biodiversiy Program on understanding and elaborating the Economics of Biodiversity Loss. The marine component of this effort is focusing on coral reefs for the present, however there is only limited information and few people involved in this field. We would be pleased to receive expressions of interest from, or reference to, individuals who might be able to contribute their expertise to this informal group. Reference to any relevant literature (published, grey, or other) related to the economics of marine biodiversity and specific to the economics of coral reef diversity would also be very much appreciated. Please contact: Frank Vorhies e-mail: fwv@hq.iucn.ch fax: 41 22 999-0025 Thank you From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Wed Feb 4 23:37:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA02356 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 23:37:27 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id EAA09471; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 04:12:00 GMT Received: from polaris.ncs.nova.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id XAA09466; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 23:11:58 -0500 Received: by polaris.ncs.nova.edu (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA25287; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 23:07:15 -0500 Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 23:07:14 -0500 (EST) From: Jose PICHARDO X-Sender: pichardo@polaris To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: X-ray densitometry Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 395 Status: RO X-Status: Since Chalker et al. (1985) I have been unable to find any more work related to x-ray densitometry of corals. I would appreciate if anybody could send me references to any articles dealing with this topic post 1985. Also, does anybody know why this method for measuring coral skeletal density has not been used in research? Or has it? Jose Carlos Pichardo pichardo@polaris.ncs.nova.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Feb 5 09:18:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA05264 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 09:18:03 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA09870; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 13:56:13 GMT Received: from post.tau.ac.il by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA09865; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 08:56:03 -0500 Received: from zoot.tau.ac.il (roz@zoot.tau.ac.il [132.66.16.10]) by post.tau.ac.il (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA21831 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 15:56:24 +0200 Received: (roz@localhost) by zoot.tau.ac.il (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA25119; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 13:52:09 GMT Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 15:52:09 +0200 (IST) From: Michael Rozenfeld To: coral list Subject: effect of sediment on hard-substrate organisms.Help? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 1013 Status: RO X-Status: A To All Coral List Subscribers, I am a MSc. student at the institute for Nature Conservation Reserch,Tel-Aviv University,Israel. I'm writing my thesis on the effect of marine sediments on hard-substrate dwellers. I already have lots of material on corals, but am severly lacking in material on other types of hard-substrate organisms.I would greatly appreciate receiving any and all information including reference lists, actual publications and names of professionals in the field who could help me out. I can be reached at E-mail: roz@zoot.tau.ac.il Snail mail: Institute for Nature Conservation Research Faculty of Life Sciences Tel-Aviv Univesity Tel-Aviv ISRAEL Thank you very much! Micael Rosenfeld \|/ ( 0 0 ) j ___ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Feb 5 10:13:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA06208 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 10:13:56 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA10112; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 14:50:58 GMT Received: from scccvc.corning-cc.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA10107; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 09:50:53 -0500 Message-Id: <199602051450.JAA10107@reef.aoml.erl.gov> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 09:45 EST From: MCGRATTA@scccvc.corning-cc.edu To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Unique fish assemblage. Seeking information. X-VMS-To: SMTP%"coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov" Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Content-Type: text Content-Length: 693 Status: RO X-Status: I July, 1995 we were surveying a reef on the Northern end of San Salvador Island in the Bahamas when we encountered a close swimming school of about 30 bue tang surrounding a 1.5 meter reef shark. This assemblage processed along the reef for several hundred meters and was seen 10-15 minutes later by another team on another part of the reef. We have never seen this behavior before or since and are curious about it. One suggestion in discussions has been that it may be similar to the mobbing behavior of birds in the presence of a predator. We would really appreciate any insights that you can provide about this. Tom McGrath Bahamian Reef Survey P.I. mcgratta@scccvc.corning-cc.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Feb 5 11:36:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA07081 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 11:36:32 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA10173; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 16:06:47 GMT Received: from wgs1smtp.btl.net by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA10168; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 11:06:37 -0500 Received: from [206.27.238.61] by btl.net id 50590.wrk; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 10:02:52 EDT Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 11:06:37 -0500 Message-Id: <199602051606.LAA10168@reef.aoml.erl.gov> X-Sender: jpowell@btlmail.btl.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 To: consbio@u.washington.edu, BIODICEN-L@ucjeps.herb.berkeley.edu, coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov From: James Powell Subject: Belize, Glover's Reef Atoll Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 4943 Status: RO X-Status: PLEASE FEEL FREE TO FORWARD OR CROSS POST THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE. Glover's Reef Marine Research Station Belize, Central America Wildlife Conservation Society P.O. Box 2310 Belize City, Belize Tel: 501-2-33855 FAX: 501-2--31963 E-mail: jpowell@btl.net or jcarter@mailbox.une.edu Glover's Reef atoll and marine reserve is located approximately 50 km off the coast of central Belize. It is considered to be one of the most pristine and important coral reef sites in the Caribbean. Due to the isolation of Glover's Reef atoll, there is little influence from coastal sedimentation or pollution. It is considered to be one of the most ideal sites in the world to conduct coral reef research (Dahl, MacIntyre & Antonius. 1974. A comparative survey of coral reef research sites. In: Marie-Helene Sachet and Arthur Dahl. Atoll Research Bulletin. 172: 37-75.). Consequently the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in cooperation with the Government of Belize has established a permanent research station at Middle Cay located on Glover's Reef. WCS along with the Government of Belize would like to invite scientists and graduate level students who are interested in working at Glover's Reef to contact James Powell at jpowell@btl.net or Jacque Carter at jcarter@mailbox.une.edu for more information. The marine reserve at Glover's Reef atoll is a major component of a general comprehensive program for coastal zone management for Belize, Central America. In a broad sense the reserve was established to maintain ecological processes, preserve genetic diversity, achieve sustainable yields of its resources through wise management of species and their habitats, maintain natural areas for education and research and provide social, and economic benefits through ecologically sensitive recreation and tourism. Keenly aware of the need to protect this world class resource, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) purchased the island of Middle Cay, situated at the southern end of the atoll, for the purposes of providing a marine park headquarters for the Government of Belize and to establish a marine research field station. WCS has completed construction of this facility and now provides a base of operations for park rangers and scientists alike. WCS's over-arching mission is to provide for the long-term conservation and protection of Glover's Reef atoll. To accomplish this goal, WCS is working in close collaboration with the government of Belize to develop a coordinated research and management program for the atoll. WCS's primary responsibility in this partnership is scientific research. In the coming years, we hope that the research on Glover's Reef atoll will lead to a better understanding and management of this coral reef. The Comparative Investigations of Tropical Reef Ecosystems (CITRE) program identified Glover's Reef as the most preferred site in the Caribbean for "long-term, multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional investigation of coral reef ecosystems" (Dahl, MacIntyre & Antonius. 1974. A comparative survey of coral reef research sites. In: Marie-Helene Sachet and Arthur Dahl. Atoll Research Bulletin. 172: 37-75.). The authors reported, "In contrast to the other reefs surveyed in the Caribbean area, Glover's Reef atoll appears to offer the greatest variety of reef types, and the optimum reef development in terms of population density and species diversity of reef corals and associated organisms". In addition to Glover's Reef, Belize's extensive barrier reef is 30 km away. The WCS research station on Glover's Reef atoll is located on Middle Cay. The present facility includes a ranger station and visitor's centre, a dry laboratory and work area, dining and cooking facilities (meals are provided and we have an excellent cook) and current housing for eight scientists and/or students. There are boats, air compressor and SCUBA tanks for researcher support. Aquarium facilities will soon be installed. The station is completely self-sufficient with full-time electricity (110 vac) provided by a complementary system of wind and solar power. Fresh water is available through a (soon to be installed) de-salination plant and rain-water catchment. Refrigeration is available. Toilet facilities are state-of-the-art pollution-free, containment composition type. One aim of the station is to utilize, whenever possible, non-polluting and energy efficient technology. WCS invites any scientists or students interested in using the Glover's Reef Research Station to please contact: Glover's Reef Marine Research Station, P.O. Box 2310, Belize City, Belize or Tel. 501-2-33855 or fax 501-2-31963. E-mail messages can be sent to: jpowell@btl.net or jcarter@mailbox.une.edu . ************************************* James A. Powell Glover's Reef Marine Research Station P.O. Box 2310 Belize City, Belize e-mail: jpowell@btl.net ph: (501)2-33855 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Feb 5 16:03:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA09150 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 16:03:42 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA10446; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 20:36:59 GMT Received: from cantva.canterbury.ac.nz by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA10441; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 15:36:52 -0500 Received: from zool.canterbury.ac.nz ("port 1965"@zool2.canterbury.ac.nz) by csc.canterbury.ac.nz (PMDF V5.0-5 #7295) id <01I0VZLXMLBMPVHY7M@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Tue, 06 Feb 1996 09:32:41 +1300 Received: from DARWIN/MAILQUEUE by zool.canterbury.ac.nz (Mercury 1.13); Tue, 06 Feb 1996 09:37:32 +1300 Received: from MAILQUEUE by DARWIN (Mercury 1.13); Tue, 06 Feb 1996 09:37:20 +1300 Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 09:37:13 +1300 From: "Dr.C.L.McLay" Subject: Crabs on Corals To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Reply-to: c.mclay@zool.canterbury.ac.nz Message-id: <253378734D34@zool.canterbury.ac.nz> Organization: Zoology, University of Canterbury X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.1 (R1) Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1450 Status: RO X-Status: I work on a group of crabs some of which inhabit hard corals. These belong to the primitive family Dynomenidae. They are not unlike the xanthid or "black-fingered" crabs but have the last pair of legs very reduced and obsolete. Dynomenids tend to be covered in a fairly dense layer of setae. There are only about 13 species known and they are mostly small: around 10 - 30mm carapace width in size. I am writing a monograph of the whole family. These crabs mostly belong to the genus "Dynomene" and have been collected from "Pocillopora", "Goniastrea", and "Porites" corals. They seem to live only in the dead part of the coral head or perhaps in the coral rubble at the base. Since I have never seen live ones I have a number of questions: 1) Have you ever seen any crabs like these? - if you have any samples I would be happy to identify them for you. 2) Are there any data from whole-coral head samples of co- inhabitants which include these dynomenids? 3) Has anyone made any observations of live dynomenid crabs? How do they feed? Do they sometimes live in the live part of the coral head? Any help that you can give will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dr Colin McLay Zoology Department Canterbury University PB 4800, Christchurch New Zealand. Tel: +64 3 364 2887 FAX: +64 3 364 2024 email: c.mclay@zool.canterbury.ac.nz WWW Home Page: http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/zool/cm.htm From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Feb 6 04:15:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA04355 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 04:15:57 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id IAA10908; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 08:40:58 GMT Received: from sme.univ-mrs.fr by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id DAA10903; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 03:40:08 -0500 Received: from [139.124.16.29] (smepc19.univ-mrs.fr) by sme.univ-mrs.fr with SMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA111145772; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 09:36:12 +0100 Message-Id: <199602060840.DAA10903@reef.aoml.erl.gov> X-Sender: priess@sme.univ-mrs.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Eudora F1.4.2 Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 09:39:56 +0300 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov From: priess@com.univ-mrs.fr (Kathrin PRIESS) Subject: RE: X-ray densitometry Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 1941 Status: RO X-Status: On Sun 4 Feb Jose Carlos Pichardo wrote : Since Chalker et al. (1985) I have been unable to find any more work related to x-ray densitometry of corals. I would appreciate if anybody could send me references to any articles dealing with this topic post 1985. Also, does anybody know why this method for measuring coral skeletal density has not been used in research? Or has it? Jose Carlos Pichardo pichardo@polaris.ncs.nova.edu Try the following articles. David Barnes of the AIMS in Townsville was working rather a lot with x-ray densitometry. Barnes,-D.J.; Lough,-J.M., 1990b. Computer simulations showing the likely effects of calix architecture and other factors on retrieval of density information from coral skeletons. J.-EXP.-MAR.-BIOL.-ECOL. 1990. vol. 137, no. 2, pp. 141-164. Chalker,B.E.; Barnes,D.J., 1990. Gamma densitometry for the measurement of skeletal density. CORAL-REEFS. 1990. vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 11-23. Lough,-J.M.; Barnes,-D.J., 1990a. Possible relationships between environmental variables and skeletal density in a coral colony from the central Great Barrier Reef. J.-EXP.-MAR.-BIOL.-ECOL. 1990. vol. 134, no. 3, pp. 221-241. Lough,-J.M.; Barnes,-D.J., 1990b. Intra-annual timing of density band formation of Porites coral from the central Great Barrier Reef. J.-EXP.-MAR.-BIOL.-ECOL. 1990. vol. 135, no. 1, pp. 35-57. Lough,-J.M.; Barnes,-D.J., 1990c. Measurement of density in slices of coral skeleton: Effect of densitometer beam diameter. J.-EXP.-MAR.-BIOL.-ECOL. 1990. vol. 143, no. 1-2, pp. 91-99. Lough,-J.M.; Barnes,-D.J., 1992. Comparisons of skeletal density variations in Porites from the central Great Barrier Reef. J.-EXP.-MAR.-BIOL.-ECOL. 1992. vol. 155, no. 1, pp. 1-25. Hope it helps Kathrin Priess Universite de la Mediterranee Centre d'Oceanologie de Marseille Station Marine d'Endoume Rue de la Batterie-des-Lions F-13007 Marseille phone : (33) 91 04 16 00 fax : (33) 91 04 16 35 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Feb 6 07:18:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA05981 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 07:18:57 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA11058; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 12:05:42 GMT Received: from goby.ssp.nmfs.gov by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA11053; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 07:05:39 -0500 Received: from ccgate.ssp.nmfs.gov by goby.ssp.nmfs.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/940406.SGI) id HAA24014; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 07:05:40 -0500 Received: from cc:Mail by ccgate.ssp.nmfs.gov id AA823567210; Mon, 05 Feb 96 16:37:55 EST Date: Mon, 05 Feb 96 16:37:55 EST From: "Nancy Daves" Message-Id: <9601058235.AA823567210@ccgate.ssp.nmfs.gov> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov, MCGRATTA@scccvc.corning-cc.edu Subject: Re: Unique fish assemblage. Seeking information. Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1440 Status: RO X-Status: Large schools of blue tangs grazing slowly along the reefs are such a common sight that even shark biologists have witnessed it many times, and we all know that shark biologists seldom get wet. It is believed to be a way of avoiding being chased by territorial fishes or perhaps an anti predator school. I am sure that, if you look in books on coral reef fishes, you will find many references to that behavior. All the best. Jose Castro. ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Unique fish assemblage. Seeking information. Author: MCGRATTA@scccvc.corning-cc.edu at ~INTERNET Date: 2/5/96 10:29 AM I July, 1995 we were surveying a reef on the Northern end of San Salvador Island in the Bahamas when we encountered a close swimming school of about 30 bue tang surrounding a 1.5 meter reef shark. This assemblage processed along the reef for several hundred meters and was seen 10-15 minutes later by another team on another part of the reef. We have never seen this behavior before or since and are curious about it. One suggestion in discussions has been that it may be similar to the mobbing behavior of birds in the presence of a predator. We would really appreciate any insights that you can provide about this. Tom McGrath Bahamian Reef Survey P.I. mcgratta@scccvc.corning-cc.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Feb 6 10:31:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA07025 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 10:31:23 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA11527; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 14:46:07 GMT Received: from amalia.rz.uni-frankfurt.de by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA11520; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 09:45:39 -0500 Received: from rz.uni-frankfurt.de by amalia.rz.uni-frankfurt.de id <55935-0@amalia.rz.uni-frankfurt.de>; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 15:41:08 +0000 From: Gektidis@em.uni-frankfurt.de Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 15:41:07 +0100 (TZ=CET) To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: field work requested! Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Host: buff.rz.uni-frankfurt.de Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 962 Status: RO X-Status: To whom it may concern. My name is Jenny Krutschinna, I am a 26 years old student of Biology at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. Over the last three years I took part in several courses on marine biology. In october 94 I joined a field trip of Peter Vogel and Bill Kiene to Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas. The trip was part of a bioerosion project in reef environments. Since I would like to continue working in marine (reef-) biology, I am now eager to gain more field experience. Apart from fossil reefs there is not much of that in Frankfurt so that is why I am using the net to ask for volunteer projects. If you have vacancies for a volunteer student for some time between 1.4.-15.7.96 or for a masters project (diplom) later on, please contact me: e-mail: Gektidis@em.uni-frankfurt.de snail mail: Jenny Krutschinna Wurmbachstr.9 60487 Frankfurt am Main Germany I hope to hear from you soon. Thanks, Jenny From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Feb 6 14:08:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA08024 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 14:08:47 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA01062; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 18:53:02 GMT Received: from cheviot.ncl.ac.uk by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA01057; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 13:52:59 -0500 Received: from TOWN3.ncl.ac.uk by cheviot.ncl.ac.uk id (8.6.12/ for ncl.ac.uk) with SMTP; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 18:51:46 GMT Received: from TOWN3/MAILQUEUE by TOWN3.ncl.ac.uk (Mercury 1.13); Tue, 6 Feb 96 18:49:14 GMT0BST Received: from MAILQUEUE by TOWN3 (Mercury 1.13); Tue, 6 Feb 96 18:48:58 GMT0BST From: "J.M.H.NEIGHBOUR" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 18:48:56 GMT0BST MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Coral reefs/dissertation X-Confirm-Reading-To: "J.M.H.NEIGHBOUR" X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Message-ID: <16EF6AB1655@TOWN3.ncl.ac.uk> Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 509 Status: RO X-Status: I am currently undertaking a 3rd year dissertation on the effects of heavy metals on corals, in particular in the vicinity of a tin smelter effluent in Ko Phuket, Thailand. The species I am concerned with is Goniastrea aspera, and I would be extremely grateful if you could forward any information on either the region(in particular historical data of sediment heavy metal analysis), or on the species itself, (reproduction/ heavy metal uptake/growth etc.). Any help would be very well appreciated. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Feb 6 14:10:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA08030 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 14:10:21 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA01010; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 18:42:20 GMT Received: from isurus.marinelab.sarasota.fl.us by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA01005; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 13:42:17 -0500 Received: from marshall.marinelab.sarasota.fl.us by isurus.marinelab.sarasota.fl.us with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0tjsHw-002MYOC; Tue, 6 Feb 96 13:38 EST Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 14:35:13 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Marshall To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov, ecolog-l@umdd.umd.edu, crust-l@vims.edu, fish-ecology@searn.sunet.se cc: marbio@marinelab.sarasota.fl.us Subject: Florida Keys Summer Courses X-Sender: marshall@isurus.marinelab.sarasota.fl.us Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 1035 Status: RO X-Status: Mote Marine Laboratory is offering two courses, 1)Coral Reef Ecology and 2)Florida Keys/Florida Bay Ecosystems, at our Pigeon Key Marine Research Center. Full details and application forms for both courses can be obtained from our web site or by request from the Pigeon Key Course Coordinator at . Thank you. Mike Marshall MJM/MARBIO lstowner. """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Michael J. Marshall, Ph.D. Mote Marine Laboratory marshall@marinelab.sarasota.fl.us Tropical Marine Ecology Program 941-388-4441/941-388-4312(fax) 1600 Thompson Parkway http://www.marinelab.sarasota.fl.us Sarasota, Florida 34236 USA """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Mote Marine Lab is an independent, not-for-profit research organization From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Feb 7 17:50:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA04093 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 17:50:45 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA03695; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 22:20:32 GMT Received: from LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA03690; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 17:20:28 -0500 Received: from LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU by LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 4750; Wed, 07 Feb 96 16:16:48 CST Received: from LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU (NJE origin TSNELL@LSUVM) by LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 7133; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 16:16:48 -0600 Date: Wed, 07 Feb 96 16:10:06 CST From: Tonya Subject: coral genetics To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Mailer: MailBook 95.01.000 Message-Id: <960207.161646.CST.TSNELL@LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU> Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Content-Type: Text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 346 Status: RO X-Status: I am looking for information about conducting molecular techniques on coral tissue, mtDNA analysis in particular. If anyone is willing and able to devulge some info on the topic (protocols, primers, contamination by algal DNA, etc.), it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance... Tonya Snell Louisiana State University Baton Rouge From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Feb 8 05:20:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA13459 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 05:20:02 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id KAA04225; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 10:02:31 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id FAA04220; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 05:02:28 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id FAA15471; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 05:02:27 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 05:02:26 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Coral Reef Bleaching Seminar Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 7618 Status: RO X-Status: U.S. Global Change Research Program Second Monday Seminar Series CORAL REEF BLEACHING: ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS What is coral reef bleaching? What are its causes? Where is it occurring and how long has this phenomenon been observed? When was coral reef bleaching first observed? What are the economic, ecological, and societal implications of coral reef bleaching? Can bleaching be remedied? What's being done? Public Invited TUESDAY, February 13, 1996, 3:15-4:45 P= M Rayburn House Office Bldg., Room B369 Reception Following INTRODUCTION Rafe Pomerance, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment and Development, US Department of State, Washington, DC. SPEAKERS Dr. Raymond L. Hayes, Howard University, Washington, DC. Dr. Alan E. Strong, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Annapolis, MD. OVERVIEW Coral reef bleaching is a reduction in the density of dinoflagellate algae (marine microscopic plants) that are housed in reef ecosystems. Bleaching also represents a reduction in algal pigments, rendering reef corals bleached or white in appearance. Consequently, coral reef bleaching represents an uncoupling of the mutually life-sustaining association between algae and coral. Corals do not receive their normal nutritive support from the algae, and the algae do not receive the protective nutritive environment afforded by the corals. Coral reef bleaching was first observed in the early 1980's. Since that time reef ecosystems in all tropical regions of the globe have experienced repetitive and more frequent episodes of mass coral reef bleaching. Although elevated salinity, toxic chemicals, elevated UV radiation, reduced temperatures, and prolonged shading due to cloud cover have been demonstrated to induce coral reef bleaching locally, there is no evidence of these factors being responsible for mass coral reef bleaching episodes. Observations also indicate that mass coral reef bleaching has coincided in space and time with the warmest season and with warmer than usual sea surface temperatures (generally in excess of an approximate temperature threshold of 30=9A C). Thermal anomalies of 1=9A C or more above the maximu= m warm water seasonal averages are significantly correlated with the rapid onset and duration of mass coral reef bleaching episodes. As elevated sea surface temperatures gradually fall, reefs may either recover gradually or succumb entirely to the stress. If bleaching persists, there is no net reef building and the reef frame gradually erodes, which can result in habitat destruction and mortality. Satellite data confirm that elevated sea surface temperatures have been associated with widespread coral reef bleaching in the western Caribbean and in the Gulf of Mexico. An analysis of the satellite-derived sea surface temperatures show that the summer of 1995 was the warmest since 1984 (when reliable records were first obtained) for Belizian Reefs and for the entire Caribbean Basin. Belize represents the Western Hemisphere's longest and most pristine barrier reef, and massive coral reef bleaching broke out for the first time in Belize in September, 1995. Prolonged coral reef bleaching can alter the relative abundance of reef organisms and, in so doing, alter the biodiversity of the reef communities. The physical reef structures can also suffer gradual physical losses and/or be covered by algae, thus leading to light and oxygen starvation, and changes in pH in the surrounding water column. As reef ecosystems change in composition, a new community equilibrium may appear, while some medically important members of former reef communities may disappear. Loss of physical reef habitat for young fish may also lead to a reduction in reef fish and, in turn, a decline in economically important open ocean fish stocks. Biography of Dr. Raymond L. Hayes Dr. Raymond L. Hayes is currently Assistant Dean for Medical Education, and Professor of Anatomy, at Howard University in Washington, DC. Dr. Hayes formerly served as Chair in the Department of Anatomy at Howard University and at the University of Pittsburgh. He has also held academic appointments in the Department of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School, the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Pittsburgh, and in the Department of Anatomy at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. His research interests include the biology of coral reefs and reef ecosystems, reef ecosystems and climate change, and human health and climate change. Dr. Hayes has served as a member of the National Advisory Council of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and as Acting Director of the MacLean Marine Science Center at the University of the Virgin Islands in St. Thomas, and currently serves as a Corporation Member of the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. He also serves as Vice President and Executive Board Member of the Association of Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean, and as a member of the Board of Directors for the Marine Archeological and Historical Society in Washington, DC. In 1994 Dr. Hayes received the Distinguished Service Award from Howard University. He received his BS degree from Amherst College, MA, and his MS and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Biography of Dr. Alan E. Strong Dr. Alan E. Strong has been Research Physical Scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) since 1991. Prior to that he served at NESDIS's Office of Research and Applications Oceanic Sciences Branch, using satellite data to address oceanographic problems. In 1986 Dr. Strong was assigned to serve as Chair of Remote Sensing in the Oceanography Department of the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. In 1991 Dr. Strong was also appointed Project Manager of NOAA's Cooperative Project in Oceanic Remote Sensing (CPORS) with the US Naval Academy. His research interests include: satellite monitoring of sea surface temperature, wind speed, and ocean color; monitoring volcanic aerosols; using satellite data to investigate coral bleaching and sea surface temperature changes; monitoring sea surface temperature trends; using satellite data to study global change and El Nino phenomena; and the application of satellite data to study other important environmental issues. For the past three years he has also been involved in teaching global climate change at the US Naval Academy. Dr. Strong received his BA degree in mathematics at Kalamazoo College, MI, and his MS and Ph.D. degrees in Oceanography at the University of Michigan. NEXT SEMINAR: Monday, March 11,1996 Extent & Implications of Land Cover Changes: The View from Space for more information please contact: Dr. Anthony D. Socci, U.S. Global Change Research Program Office 300 D St., SW, Suite 840, Washington, DC 20024 Telephone: (202) 651-8244; Fax: (202) 554-6715 E-Mail: TSOCCI@USGCRP.GOV. Additional information on the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and this Seminar Series is available on the USGCRP Home Page at: http://www.usgcrp.gov. Normally these seminars are held on the second Monday of each month. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Feb 8 07:28:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA15169 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 07:28:13 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA04356; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 12:04:21 GMT Received: from dzowo by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA04351; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 07:04:09 -0500 Received: from rodrig.uem.mz by dzowo.uem.mz id <15763-0@dzowo.uem.mz>; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 13:15:29 -0200 Received: from rodrig by rodrig.uem.mz (UUPC/extended 1.12k) with UUCP for CORAL-LIST@REEF.AOML.NOAA.GOV; Thu, 08 Feb 1996 13:10:38 -20000 Message-Id: <199602081204.HAA04351@reef.aoml.erl.gov> From: Maria Joao Rodrigues To: CORAL-LIST@reef.aoml.erl.gov Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 13:10:35 gmt+0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: e-mail request Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 241 Status: RO X-Status: Dear All, Does anybody know the e-mail contact of one of the following scientists: Vicki J. Harriot Peter L. Harrison Simon A. Banks If you do, pls contact me. Thanks in advance. All the best for 1996, Maria Joao Rodrigues -- MJoao From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Feb 8 13:40:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA19191 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 13:40:15 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA05401; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 18:13:19 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA05396; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 13:13:17 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id NAA16764; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 13:13:16 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 13:13:16 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Daily C-MAN data via e-mail Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 1413 Status: RO X-Status: Greetings, We now have the capability of automated sending of daily Florida Institute of Oceanography enhanced, and other, Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) bulletins of stations listed on our Home Page at http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/cman/cman_menu.html. They will be sent every morning around 0430 hrs EST. Please note that these are NOT quality controlled data, rather, near real-time raw data. These data are presented only for investigational and informational purposes and should not be used for navigation or other means. If you'd like to begin receiving these data via e-mail, please let me know. Sincerely yours, Jim Hendee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | Coral Health and Monitoring Program | | Ocean Chemistry Division | | Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorlogical Laboratory | | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | | Miami, Florida | | USA | | | | Email: coral@coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | World-Wide Web: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Feb 8 13:41:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA19207 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 13:41:48 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA05384; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 18:00:17 GMT Received: from LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA05378; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 13:00:13 -0500 Received: from LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU by LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 1121; Thu, 08 Feb 96 11:56:29 CST Received: from LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU (NJE origin TSNELL@LSUVM) by LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 1917; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 11:56:30 -0600 Date: Thu, 08 Feb 96 11:49:35 CST From: Tonya Subject: coral genetics To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Mailer: MailBook 95.01.000 Message-Id: <960208.115628.CST.TSNELL@LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU> Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Content-Type: Text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 284 Status: RO X-Status: A I am trying to get in touch with Sandra Romano. I believe that she worked at the University of Hawaii. If anyone has any info (or if you are reading this Sandra) please let me know. Thank you so much!! Tonya Snell Louisiana State University Baton Rouge tsnell@lsuvm.sncc.lsu.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Feb 8 14:00:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA19320 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 14:00:00 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA05444; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 18:38:47 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA05439; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 13:38:45 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id NAA16890; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 13:38:45 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 13:38:45 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: C-MAN Stations listed Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 1318 Status: RO X-Status: Sorry, for those of you who do not have access to the Web, following are the C-MAN stations for which we have reports and can send via automated e-mail every morning about 0500 hrs (a correction) Eastern Time: -- Florida Keys -- MLRF1 = Molasses Reef 25.01 N, 80.38 W SMKF1 = Sombrero Reef 24.63 N, 81.11 W SANF1 = Sand Key Reef 24.45 N, 81.88 W FWYF1 = Fowey Rocks Reef 25.59 N, 80.10 W LONF1 = Long Key Station 24.84 N, 80.86 W DRYF1 = Dry Tortugas Station 24.38 N, 82.52 W -- Bahamas -- SP6F1 = Settlement Point, GBI 26.69 N, 79.00 W -- Micronesia -- ENIP2 = Eniwetok, Micronesia 11.37 N, 162.35 E KOSP2 = Kosrea, Micronesia 5.12 N, 163.00 E MLIP2 = Mili, Micronesia 6.00 N, 172.00 E ULUP2 = Ulithi Atoll, Micronesia 10.20 N, 139.80 E -- Gulf of Mexico -- PTAT2 = Horace Falwell Pier (Port Aransas, TX) 27.83 N, 97.05 W SRST2 = Sea Rim State Park (Sabine, TX) 29.67 N, 94.05 W GDIL1 = USCG Station (Grand Isle, LA) 29.27 N, 89.96 W DPIA1 = Mobile Bay Entrance (Dauphin Island, AL) 30.25 N, 88.08 W CSBF1 = Elgin AFB Site D-3 (Cape San Blas, FL) 29.67 N, 85.36 W VENF1 = Venice Pier (Venice, FL) 27.07 N, 82.45 W BURL1 = Southwest Pass, LA 28.90 N, 89.43 W From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Feb 8 14:33:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA19507 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 14:33:57 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA05531; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 19:03:22 GMT Received: from aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA05526; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 14:03:20 -0500 Received: (from hendee@localhost) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3.CAR) id NAA02714; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 13:59:04 - 0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 13:59:03 -0500 (EST) From: "James C. Hendee" X-Sender: hendee@wave To: Tonya cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Who is on the coral-list In-Reply-To: <960208.115628.CST.TSNELL@LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 1360 Status: RO X-Status: Dear Tonya, You can find out who is on the coral-list by sending the following message (only) in the body of a message to majordomo@reef.aoml.noaa.gov: who coral-list For a list of other commands, substitute that message with: help Hope this helps. Jim Hendee +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ | James C. Hendee | Internet: hendee@aoml.noaa.gov| | Coral Health and | | | Monitoring Program | Voice: 305 361-4380 | | Ocean Chemistry Division | Fax: 305 361-4582 | | NOAA/AOML | COASTAL RBBS: 305 361-4524 | | 4301 Rickenbacker Causeway | | | Miami, FL 33149-1026 | http://coral.aoml.erl.gov | +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ On Thu, 8 Feb 1996, Tonya wrote: > Date: Thu, 08 Feb 96 11:49:35 CST > From: Tonya > To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov > Subject: coral genetics > > I am trying to get in touch with Sandra Romano. I believe that she > worked at the University of Hawaii. If anyone has any info (or if you > are reading this Sandra) please let me know. > > Thank you so much!! > > Tonya Snell > > Louisiana State University > Baton Rouge > tsnell@lsuvm.sncc.lsu.edu > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Feb 8 16:43:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA20757 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 16:43:48 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA05673; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 21:13:32 GMT Received: from aloha.cc.columbia.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA05668; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 16:13:29 -0500 Received: (from elg6@localhost) by aloha.cc.columbia.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA04415; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 16:09:22 - 0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 16:08:32 -0500 (EST) From: Ellen L Goedecke X-Sender: elg6@aloha.cc.columbia.edu To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 362 Status: RO X-Status: A I am working on my senior thesis, and I need to find up-to-date info on the health of reefs in Florida and Hawaii. If anyone has this kind of data available, or knows where I can get it, please Please PLEASE e-mail me as soon as you get a chance. Thank you very much! Lori Goedecke P.S. My thesis is on the efficacy of US coral reef protection laws. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Feb 8 22:38:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA25932 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 22:38:30 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id DAA06258; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 03:20:07 GMT Received: from electra.cc.umanitoba.ca by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id WAA06253; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 22:20:04 -0500 Received: from [130.179.245.69] (dyn2-324.cc.umanitoba.ca [130.179.245.69]) by electra.cc.umanitoba.ca (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id VAA19707 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 21:16:06 -0600 (CST) X-Sender: umkaletz@mail.cc.umanitoba.ca Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 21:16:14 -0600 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov From: umkaletz@umanitoba.ca (Greg Kaletzke) Subject: Need Help Finding Data Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 2136 Status: RO X-Status: Hi. I am a graduate student in geography at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. I have a great interest in the preservation of coral ecosystems, and am currently working on a project involving the identification of endangered reefs. The model I propose will deal with the detection of terrestrial pollution such as effluent and/or toxic discharge. Belsher, et al (1992) have suggested the use of the satellite monitoring of Benthic algae as an indicator of possible or existing pollution. In their study Belsher, et al make use of SPOT satellite images taken of the lagoon of Moorea island in French Polynesia. Computer assisted interpretation of these images allowed for the creation of a map of the Benthic organisms in this area. I would like my model to demonstrate that an introduction of pollution or an increase in pollution to coral intolerant levels will cause the death of coral populations and a notable increase in levels of Benthic Algae. One of my problems is a lack of data. Winnipeg, if you don't already know, is a city that is nearly in the center of the continent - making data on coral reefs slightly difficult to come by. I am hoping that you would be able to provide me with some data, or suggestions as to where I might find some. I would also appreciate any and all suggestions you may have regarding the topic. I would be more than happy to provide you with a copy of my work if you were able to help me or were interested. Thank you in advance. Yours truly, Greg Kaletzke Belsher, T. with (1992)Contribution of SPOT satellite data to the knowledge of M.L. Meinesz, C. Payri, coral reef ecosystems. The marine vegetation of Moorea Island (French H. Ben-Moussa Polynesia). Remote Sensing and Insular Environments in the Pacific: Integrated Approaches. Pix' Iles 90. pp. 537-546. "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Feb 9 17:15:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA08465 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 17:15:35 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA07496; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 21:22:19 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA07491; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 16:22:17 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id QAA19467; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 16:22:16 -0500 Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 16:22:16 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Positions Avail (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 2261 Status: RO X-Status: [ forarded message... ] Postdoctoral Research Associate Marine Biology/Coral Specialist Biosphere 2 Center for Research and Education of Columbia University A postdoctoral position is available immediately at Biosphere 2 Research and Education Center of Columbia University (Oracle, AZ), for research on the marine environment, with an emphasis on the coral reef organisms. Duties may include the following: act as research coordinator for the ocean biome of Biosphere 2, oversee the marine maintenance systems management, monitor research activities of the ocean, work with other departments to further develop the Biosphere 2 ocean complex and analogs.. Experience in marine systems research and management preferrred. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: 1) Ph.D. in some aspect of marine ecology or related discipline 2) Diving certification Send curriculum vitae, reprints and names of three references to: Human Resources Managwer, Biosphere 2 Center, Inc., PO Box 689, Oracle, AZ 85623. An Equal Opportunity Employer. ---------------------------------------------- Marine Technical Assistant Biosphere 2 Center for Research and Education of Columbia University A position is available immediately at Biosphere 2 Research and Education Center of Columbia University (Oracle, Arizona) for a biologist interested in working with the 3.5 million liter coral reef mesocosm housed inside the 3 acre Biosphere 2 apparatus. The successful applicant will work with research scientists from Biosphere 2 Center and Columbia University+s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. Research into coral physiology and biogeochemical signals in the water column are some of the projects researchers will be working on. Duties may include scuba diving for biological surveys, species management, system maintenance, water chemistry analysis, daily support system maintenance, and data collection. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: BS in Marine Biology or relevant field, basic knowledge of marine sciences, SCUBA certification, scientific diving experience, computer literacy. Send curriculum vitae, reprints and names of three references to: Human Resources Managwer, Biosphere 2 Center, Inc., PO Box 689, Oracle, AZ 85623. An Equal Opportunity Employer. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Feb 9 18:11:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA08952 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 18:11:47 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA07587; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 22:49:29 GMT Received: from uclink4.berkeley.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA07582; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 17:49:26 -0500 Received: from uclink2.berkeley.edu (uclink2.berkeley.edu [128.32.136.72]) by uclink4.berkeley.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA24508 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 14:45:28 -0800 Received: (from yajleft@localhost) by uclink2.berkeley.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA06385; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 14:42:18 - 0800 Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 14:42:16 -0800 (PST) From: Jay Scott Grenfell Reply-To: Jay Scott Grenfell Subject: OCEAN Initiative research To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Length: 815 Status: RO X-Status: The Ocean Conservation and Environmental Action Network (OCEAN Initiative), at the University of California, Berkeley is currently conducting research on threatened coral reefs worldwide with a focus on the Caribbean. We are most interested in direct threats to coral reef ecosystems such as destructive fishing methods, dive related damage,etc. We are also interested in restoration efforts and progams to minimize damage. We hope to map threatend reefs in the Caribbean, classifying the different problems in different regions. Any information regarding the above mentioned threats or any others can be sent to either ocean-initiative@uclink.berkeley.edu or to yajleft@uclink2.berkely.edu. This information or any contact will be of great value and will be appreciated. Thank you, Jay Grenfell From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Feb 10 20:38:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA24961 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 20:38:33 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA08745; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 01:20:01 GMT Received: from cold.ice.net.au by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA08740; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 20:19:49 -0500 Received: from [203.17.166.109] (dialup-9.hobart.ice.net.au [203.17.166.109]) by cold.ice.net.au (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA13863 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 12:15:02 +1100 Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 12:15:02 +1100 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov From: bobjoh@ice.net.au (Bob Johannes) Subject: cyanide/live reef food fish trade Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 2579 Status: RO X-Status: Summary of Report entitled: Environmental, Economic and Social Implications of the Fishery for Live Coral Reef Food Fish in Asia and the Western Pacific, by Robert E. Johannes and Michael Riepen Summarized below is a recently released 33,000 word report on the environmentally devastating but not widely known live reef food fish trade that is spreading for thousands of miles from its center in Southeast Asia. The report is based on an investigation which took the authors to nine countries in the region and involved interviews with several hundred individuals, including fishermen, divers, dive tour operators, social and biological researchers, members of national and international NGOs, live reef food fish exporters and importers, government officials, aquaculture experts, fish farmers and village leaders. Copies of the full report can be obtained from Carol Fox of The Nature Conservancy in Honolulu, fax number 1 808 545 2019 - email cfox@tnc.org. For more information contact Bob Johannes 8 Tyndall Court, Bonnet Hill, Tasmania 7053, Australia Phone 002 298 064 - Fax 002 298 066 - Email bobjoh@ice.net.au *********************** Summary of the Summary A billion dollar restaurant trade in live reef fish has grown up o over the past decade in Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Taiwan, and other Chinese population centers. To stun and capture reef fish for this market, hundreds of tons of sodium cyanide are being pumped annually into the coral reefs of Southeast Asia, degrading the most species-rich marine communities in the world. In addition, intensive hook and line fishing to supply this market has completely eliminated some grouper spawning aggregations in the region. The Philippines and Indonesia are being rapidly depleted of target species. In consequence, and because of escalating demand for live reef fish in China, these fishing practices are spreading into the Western Pacific Islands to the east and the Indian Ocean to the west. Fishing companies involved in the trade are especially optimistic about prospects in Papua New Guinea. The trade is destructive not only to the marine environment, but also to the economies and the social fabric of coastal fishing communities in the region. It is also resulting in the death or paralysis of many untrained divers, due to the bends. Despite the appalling destruction being caused by this industry, it could be put on an environmentally and economically sustainable basis. We propose a series of actions to bring this about. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Feb 12 13:26:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA18692 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 13:26:07 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA10997; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 17:39:52 GMT Received: from dzowo by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA10991; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 12:37:47 -0500 Received: from rodrig.uem.mz by dzowo.uem.mz id <23901-0@dzowo.uem.mz>; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 19:28:44 -0200 Received: from rodrig by rodrig.uem.mz (UUPC/extended 1.12k) with UUCP for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 19:24:56 -20000 Message-Id: <199602121737.MAA10991@reef.aoml.erl.gov> From: Maria Joao Rodrigues To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 19:24:53 gmt+0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: generic diversity Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 309 Status: RO X-Status: Dear All, I'm looking for literature about generic diversity (on corals). Can anybody help me??? I'll be looking foward for any response. Best Wishes, Maria Joao Rodrigues 5th year Student at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane Department of Biological Sciences Biology Course Maputo-Mozambique -- MJoao From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Feb 12 15:18:43 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA19484 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 15:18:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from epic66.dep.state.fl.us by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA11188; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 15:22:33 -0500 Received: from mr.dep.state.fl.us by EPIC66.DEP.STATE.FL.US (PMDF V5.0-4 #7204) id <01I14PGPW8I800063A@EPIC66.DEP.STATE.FL.US> for OWNER-CORAL-LIST@REEF.AOML.ERL.GOV; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 15:19:18 -0500 (EST) Received: with PMDF-MR; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 15:19:10 -0500 (EST) MR-Received: by mta ARM1; Relayed; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 15:19:10 -0500 MR-Received: by mta EPIC66; Relayed; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 15:19:11 -0500 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 13:16:32 -0500 (EST) From: "Walt, Jaap" Subject: generic diversity - Reply To: OWNER-CORAL-LIST@reef.aoml.erl.gov Message-id: <01I14PGQNTYE00063A@mr.dep.state.fl.us> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal UA-content-id: WPCORP X400-MTS-identifier: [;01915121206991/153567@ARM1] Hop-count: 2 Status: RO X-Status: Brian Rosen, British Museum of Natural History, Geology Dept. and Charlie Vernob, Australian Institute of Marine Science (Townsville) published several articles on diversity of corals in the Indo Pacific.. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Feb 13 07:07:16 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA29535 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 07:07:15 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id LAA12224; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 11:39:38 GMT Received: from amalia.rz.uni-frankfurt.de by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id GAA12219; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 06:39:22 -0500 From: jodlauk@stud.uni-frankfurt.de Received: from rz.uni-frankfurt.de by amalia.rz.uni-frankfurt.de id <17989-0@amalia.rz.uni-frankfurt.de>; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 12:34:46 +0000 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 12:34:45 +0100 (TZ=CET) To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: volunteer project or PHd Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Host: buff.rz.uni-frankfurt.de Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: To whom it may concern, my name is Ulrike Rothenb=E4cher and Iam a 27 years old biologist from the= =20 University of Frankfurt, Germany. I just finished my study with a master=20 project (diplom). My speciality is Zoology and I studied Marine Biology =20 and Marine Zoology about one year at the University of La Laguna=20 (Tenerife,Spain). Iam a VDTL-diver (German diving licence) and I have=20 joined diving trips to several places. Apart from my studies at the=20 University Iam now eager to gain more field experience in marine biology=20 and I would like to continue with a dissertation (PHd) later on. If you=20 have vacancies for a volunteer or projects to collaborate for some time=20 please contact me. Iam looking forward to hear from you. Al ser posible me intersaria mucho asistir o colaborar en un proyecto de=20 biologia marina (zoologia) del campo para obtener mas experiencia y=20 practica. Como desde Frankfurt es bastante dificil enterarse de las=20 posibilidades que hay seria muy amable si Usted me mandara informaciones=20 a la siguiente direccion Ulrike Rothenb=E4cher Saalgasse 17 60311 Frankfurt Germany e-mail: jodlauk@stud.uni-frankfurt.de From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Feb 13 09:11:38 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA00471 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 09:11:37 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA12310; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 13:34:39 GMT Received: from mail06.mail.aol.com by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA12305; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 08:34:36 -0500 From: FKMRC@aol.com Received: by mail06.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA23049; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 08:30:15 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 08:30:15 -0500 Message-ID: <960213083014_320686232@mail06.mail.aol.com> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov, marbio@marinelab.sarasota.fl.us Subject: research at Pigeon Key Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: To all interested parties, As you may have heard, Pigeon Key is undergoing extensive renovations to its historic railroad-era buildings. The old lab building (Section Gang Quarters) has been completed and is available as a teaching and meeting facility. Several other buildings, including the dormitory, have recently received funding and work will commence shortly. Mote Marine Laboratory has established the Pigeon Key Marine Research Center (PKMRC) on the island to support research and college/graduate education. A wet lab with seawater system will be operational within a few weeks and boats will be available. The PKMRC also has a historic structure, the Bridge Foreman's House (the old "dock" house) that will serve as a dry lab. Although it now contains an office and some very basic bench space, it is in need of complete renovation. The plans call for a National Register quality restoration (Pigeon Key is a National Historic District) but with modern laboratories within. An NSF Facilities Grantis being submitted to request funding to assist with the renovations. I am seeking expressions of interest from researchers who would consider using the PKMRC, particularly those that would need dry lab space. Please plan to stop by if any of you are in the Keys and see all that has been done (and needs to be done!). For those of you not familiar with Pigeon Key, check our Web page at: http://www.marinelab.sarasota.fl.us/~marshall/fkmrc2.html Thanks! Erich Mueller, Ph.D., Director Phone: (305) 289-4282 Mote Marine Laboratory FAX: (305) 289-9664 Pigeon Key Marine Research Center email: FKMRC@aol.com P.O. Box 500895 Marathon, FL 33050 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Feb 13 11:28:55 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA01009 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 11:28:54 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA12622; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 15:46:47 GMT Received: from alpha.rhodes.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA12617; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 10:46:36 -0500 Received: from rhodes.edu by rhodes.edu (PMDF V5.0-4 #11492) id <01I15S0AFOE4001VNO@rhodes.edu> for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 09:42:20 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 09:42:20 -0500 (CDT) From: David Kesler Subject: Reefs as Source or Sink of CO2 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Message-id: <01I15S0AFOE6001VNO@rhodes.edu> X-VMS-To: in%"coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I am teaching a course, "Coral Reef Ecology", and we will be discussing Kayanne et al.'s 1995 Science article, "Diurnal changes in the partial pressure of carbon dioxide in coral reef water". Are you aware of any responses to their article or more recent work dealing with this topic? Thank you in advance for your time. (I'm new to this listserver and apologize if this question is redundant.) David Kesler, Ph.D. Rhodes College 2000 N. Parkway Memphis, TN 38112 (901) 726-3557 - phone (901) 726-3565 - fax KESLER@RHODES.EDU http://kesler.biology.rhodes.edu/default.html From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Feb 14 04:32:50 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA14202 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 04:32:49 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id JAA13650; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 09:03:23 GMT Received: from hermes.unice.fr by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id EAA13644; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 04:02:37 -0500 Message-Id: <199602140902.EAA13644@reef.aoml.erl.gov> Received: from DialupEudora (aurora.unice.fr) by hermes.unice.fr (MX V4.1 VAX) with SMTP; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 09:53:09 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Eudora F1.4.1 Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 10:01:16 +0100 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov From: gattuso@hermes.unice.fr (Jean-Pierre Gattuso) Subject: RE:Reefs as Source or Sink of CO2 CC: Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: >I am teaching a course, "Coral Reef Ecology", and we will be discussing >Kayanne >et al.'s 1995 Science article, "Diurnal changes in the partial pressure of >carbon dioxide in coral reef water". Are you aware of any responses to their >article or more recent work dealing with this topic? >Thank you in advance for your time. (I'm new to this listserver and apologize >if this question is redundant.) Two technical comments are in press in Science (due to be published sometime in February). The authors are: - Buddemeier R. W. [contact: bob_buddemeier@msmail.kgs.ukans.edu] - Gattuso J.-P., Frankignoulle M., Smith S. V., Ware J. & Wollast R. [contact: gattuso@naxos.unice.fr] Hope this helps. JPG +-------------------------------+---------------------------------------+ | Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Observatoire Oceanologique Europeen | +-------------------------------+---------------------------------------+ | VOICE: (+33) 92167982 (direct)| SNAIL : Observatoire Oceanologique | | : (+33) 93153600 (switch)| Europeen, Avenue Saint-Martin | | FAX : (+33) 93505297 | MC-98000 Monaco | +-------------------------------+---------------------------------------+ | E-MAIL: GATTUSO@NAXOS.UNICE.FR | +-------------------------------+---------------------------------------+ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Feb 15 02:38:28 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA00080 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 02:38:27 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id HAA15292; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 07:16:23 GMT Received: from netcom21.netcom.com by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id CAA15287; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 02:16:20 -0500 Received: by netcom21.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id XAA16683; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 23:11:01 -0800 Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 23:11:00 -0800 (PST) From: Craig Bingman Subject: Re: Reefs as Source or Sink of CO2 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov In-Reply-To: <01I15S0AFOE6001VNO@rhodes.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, David Kesler wrote: > I am teaching a course, "Coral Reef Ecology", and we will be discussing Kayanne > et al.'s 1995 Science article, "Diurnal changes in the partial pressure of > carbon dioxide in coral reef water". Are you aware of any responses to their > article or more recent work dealing with this topic? I'll defer to the judgement of others, as I know that some of the individuals sending technical comments are also on the list and may respond here as well, but what struck me about the article was that the body of water which was isolated seemed to have many things growing in it besides corals. I remember seeing extensive areas of seagrass and other "green" things in the water in the diagrams of the area. So, my gut reaction to the article was that the "unexpected" results reported might have a lot more to do with the CO2 demand from the seagrass and other photosynthetic organisms than some problem with the orthodox view that the act of producing calcium carbonate from a solution in which the alkalinity is mainly in the form of bicarbonate produces carbon dioxide in addition to calcium carbonate. Or that coral can be net producers of carbon dioxide during the day when the rate of calcification overtakes the photosynthetic carbon dioxide demand. It is sort of difficult to work one's way around these equations: (1) Ca++ + 2(HCO3-) --> CaCO3 + H2O + CO2 (2) Ca++ + CO3-- --> CaCO3 Since the bulk of the alkalinity in seawater is in the form of HCO3- ions, what you get is mainly equation 1), with some of equation 2). The body of water surveyed was also fairly northern and it is not clear that the species of corals contained were among the more rapidly calcifying types. I'm sure others will have other things to say. ;) Craig Bingman From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Feb 15 07:40:15 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA04420 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 07:40:14 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA15693; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:14:53 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA15688; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 07:14:51 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id HAA29349; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 07:14:50 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 07:14:48 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Important notes: C-MAN data Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Greetings, Doug Scally of NOAA's National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) has offered important notes, listed here (with minor editing), regarding our posting of Coastal-Marine Automated Network data: a. FWYF1 (Fowey Rocks), SMKF1 (Sombrero Reef), MLRF1 (Molasses Reef) and DRYF1 (Dry Tortugas) are presently operated and maintained by NDBC for MET measurements (under programmatic and financial support from NWS [National Weather Service].) However, FIO (Florida Institute of Oceanography) maintains and operates all oceanographic sensors. b. SANF1 (Sand Key) and LONF1 (Long Key) operate temporarily under the same division of responsibility, but are both scheduled for removal this year (as financial support, formerly through FIO, is no longer available.) c. Wind speed and direction are 2-minute averages (minutes 58 to 00 each hour); wind gust is the highest 5-second running average measured during the 2-minute observation. The SeaKeys stations also report "continuous wind measurements" each hour. These consist of 6 10-minute averages and the peak gust during the previous hour. d. You may wish to substitute "Celsius" (equivalent to Centigrade) as the now preferred term for metric temperatures. e. There are now 10 Micronesian C-MAN stations but not all are presently releasing data through GOES. f. More detailed information on the stations and met measurements are available on our SeaBoard Home Page (http://seaboard.ndbc.noaa.gov/ndbc.html). ----------------------------------- For further information, contact: Douglas Scally, NDBC phone: 601/688-1719 e-mail: dscally@ndbc.noaa.gov From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Feb 15 17:05:15 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA08975 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 17:05:15 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA16353; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 21:27:52 GMT Received: from kusd.kusd.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA16348; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 16:27:41 -0500 Received: from [192.25.139.231] by kusd.kusd.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/22Sep95-0213PM) id AA18136; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 15:23:08 -0600 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 15:23:08 -0600 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov From: nskrenes@kusd.kusd.edu (Neal Skrenes) Subject: Health rating of Fl. Keys Reef Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: This months Rodale's had a "reader survey" that listed the condition of the reef scoring a 3.8 out of possible 5. How many of you agree with this rating? I know about Algae Blooms in the summer? Few< sea urchins=algae taking over Bleaching no small mollusks, crustaceans or fish except parrot fish. lots of nurse sharks and 'cuda Are these the signs of a healthy reef? I feel that the reef is not in good health, and I question if it is not misleading or irresponsible for a diving publication to allow uninformed divers to think otherwise. What do you think?? [:-}< From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Feb 15 21:32:38 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA12160 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 21:32:37 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id CAA16523; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 02:20:47 GMT Received: from calafia.uabcs.mx by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA16518; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 21:20:31 -0500 Received: by calafia.uabcs.mx (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA08788; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 19:18:41 -0600 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 19:18:40 -0600 (CST) From: Hector Reyes Bonilla To: Neal Skrenes Cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Re: Health rating of Fl. Keys Reef In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: About the problem of the diving magazines writing things that are not precisely true, the same happened for years when they refered to Cabo Pulmo reef, at the Gulf of California. Even "Skin diver", the foremost authority (or so they say) said in the 70'\s and 80's that Pulmo was a protected area; it was not. Why they don't bother in asking the right people about it, instead of just "write what they see"? Now, could that be a problem when other people (decision -makers) read about it? Saludos, banda. H./ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Feb 15 23:34:33 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA13591 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 23:34:32 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id EAA16603; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 04:23:52 GMT Received: from labdien.cc.columbia.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id XAA16598; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 23:21:19 -0500 Received: (from nd71@localhost) by labdien.cc.columbia.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA14622; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 23:16:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 23:16:53 -0500 (EST) From: Nicole Dettmann X-Sender: nd71@labdien.cc.columbia.edu To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Looking for information Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: To all interested parties: I am an undergraduate student in Environmental Science at Barnard College of Columbia University. I have a great interest in the preservation of coral reefs and am currently writing my thesis on Mexican environmental law and protection schemes. I am taking an in depth look and the content and efficacy of environmental law and its affect on coral reefs in Mexico. I am very interested in the recent development project at Paradise Reef on the Caribbean coastal island of Cozumel. A new cruise ship dock/pier is being built and threatens to destroy a major part of Paradise Reef. This is an interesting example of how Environmental law in Mexico is not being enforced. Any information, contacts or sugesstions pertaining to my thesis (especially the new pier development) would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. Nicole L. Dettmann Box 142 McIntosh 3001 Broadway New York, New York U.S.A. Telephone: (212) 853-5921 e-mail : nd71@columbia.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Feb 16 10:26:23 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA19696 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:26:22 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA17399; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 13:48:04 GMT Received: from goby.ssp.nmfs.gov by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA17394; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 08:48:02 -0500 From: Michele_Dastin_at_~NMFS-1@ccgate.ssp.nmfs.gov Received: from ccgate.ssp.nmfs.gov by goby.ssp.nmfs.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/940406.SGI) id IAA02382; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 08:47:32 -0500 Received: from cc:Mail by ccgate.ssp.nmfs.gov id AA824489038; Fri, 16 Feb 96 08:37:09 EST Date: Fri, 16 Feb 96 08:37:09 EST Message-Id: <9601168244.AA824489038@ccgate.ssp.nmfs.gov> To: Jay Scott Grenfell , coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Re: OCEAN Initiative research Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A very basic document that you might find interesting is the State of the Reefs. Call ICRI Secretariat at 202-736-7113. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Feb 16 10:43:38 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA19914 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:43:38 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA17388; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 13:39:20 GMT Received: from alpha.rhodes.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA17382; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 08:39:14 -0500 Received: from rhodes.edu by rhodes.edu (PMDF V5.0-4 #11492) id <01I19UF5L3LC000ZHC@rhodes.edu> for coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 07:34:45 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 07:34:45 -0500 (CDT) From: David Kesler Subject: Source of coral for teaching? To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Message-id: <01I19UF5L8AQ000ZHC@rhodes.edu> X-VMS-To: IN%"coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Can you suggest a source of non-living coral (corallums) for teaching coral taxonomy? David Kesler, Ph.D. Rhodes College 2000 N. Parkway Memphis, TN 38112 (901) 726-3557 - phone (901) 726-3565 - fax KESLER@RHODES.EDU http://kesler.biology.rhodes.edu/default.html From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Feb 16 10:46:26 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA19930 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:46:25 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA00615; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 15:26:47 GMT Received: from amalia.rz.uni-frankfurt.de by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA00610; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:25:41 -0500 From: Gektidis@em.uni-frankfurt.de Received: from rz.uni-frankfurt.de by amalia.rz.uni-frankfurt.de id <25778-0@amalia.rz.uni-frankfurt.de>; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 16:20:41 +0000 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 16:20:38 +0100 (TZ=CET) To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: urgent search! Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Host: buff.rz.uni-frankfurt.de Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear all, I am trying to get hold of Henrich Bruggemann from Groningen, Holland who went off to set up a marine lab somewhere in Africa. If anybody knows his current address or (better) e-mail or Henrich, if you read this, please reply as soon as possible! Lots of thanks, Marcos Gektidis From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Feb 16 14:08:37 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA21097 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 14:08:36 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA00943; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 18:22:18 GMT Received: from iniki.soest.hawaii.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA00938; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 13:22:12 -0500 Received: (from carlson@localhost) by iniki.soest.hawaii.edu (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA00381; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 08:17:14 -1000 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 08:17:13 -1000 (HST) From: Bruce Carlson X-Sender: carlson@iniki To: David Kesler cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Re: Source of coral for teaching? In-Reply-To: <01I19UF5L8AQ000ZHC@rhodes.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: David, We raise a variety of corals at the Waikiki Aquarium and can make them available either alive or as teaching specimens. Let me know what you need and what quantity and let you know what have available. Bruce Carlson Waikiki Aquarium University of Hawaii On Fri, 16 Feb 1996, David Kesler wrote: > Can you suggest a source of non-living coral (corallums) for teaching coral > taxonomy? > > David Kesler, Ph.D. > Rhodes College > 2000 N. Parkway > Memphis, TN 38112 > (901) 726-3557 - phone > (901) 726-3565 - fax > KESLER@RHODES.EDU > http://kesler.biology.rhodes.edu/default.html > > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Feb 17 11:56:02 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA03609 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 11:56:01 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA02706; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 15:55:40 GMT Received: from emout07.mail.aol.com by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA02701; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 10:55:36 -0500 From: PHrank2139@aol.com Received: by emout07.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA06021; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 10:50:56 -0500 Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 10:50:56 -0500 Message-ID: <960217105055_324862525@emout07.mail.aol.com> To: KESLER@rhodes.edu, coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Re: Source of coral for teaching? Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Contact the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. They have lots of confiscated corals which they will give out on permanent loan to any educational institution. Frank M. Greco (pHrank2139@aol.com) From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Feb 19 07:56:38 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA27852 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 07:56:38 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA04814; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 12:17:42 GMT Received: from innet.meta.fr by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA04809; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 07:17:37 -0500 Received: by innet.meta.fr (5.65/1.2-eef) id AA06999; Mon, 19 Feb 96 12:09:41 GMT Date: Mon, 19 Feb 96 12:09:41 GMT Message-Id: <9602191209.AA06999@innet.meta.fr> X-Mailis: C87 From: pecheux@eureka.meta.fr To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Large Foram biometry Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: PECHEUX M 1995 Ecomorphology of a recent large foraminifer, Operculina ammonoide s. GEOBIOS (Lyon, France) 28/5, 529-566 Hundred specimens studied from Aqaba stu died by X-ray and computerized biometry, with >100000 data Growth rate, fecundity, shape controlled by light while size by competition. Calcification equals to photosynthesis. Irregularities at mid-depth, very slight compared toabnormalities during bleachi ng From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Feb 19 08:05:12 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA27978 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 08:05:12 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA04853; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 12:47:19 GMT Received: from uts2.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA04848; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 07:47:13 -0500 Received: from [133.11.2.38] by uts2.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (5.65/TISN-1.3/R2) id AA07003; Mon, 19 Feb 96 21:39:42 +0900 Message-Id: <9602191239.AA07003@uts2.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 21:43:59 +0900 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov From: kayanne@geogr.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Kayanne) X-Sender: kayanne@133.11.2.1 Subject: Re: Reefs as Source or Sink of CO2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp X-Mailer: Eudora-J(1.3.5-J10) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear coral-list participants, Thank you for the recent information exchange on our paper "Diurnal changes in the partial pressure of carbon dioxide in coral reef water" in Science, 269, 214-216 (1995). As Dr. Jean-Pierre Gattuso showed, we have received two comments from Dr. Gattuso et al. and Prof. Buddemeier and I responded to them. Their principal criticisms are that our examples are too small (representativeness of our study site and statistical poverty etc.) to contradict the current idea that reef calcium carbonate production exceeds net photosynthetic production and act as a sources of CO2. In my response to their comments, I stressed that our basic question is to the idea of a closed reef originated from Odum in 1950's that reef net primary production is zero, because reefs are surrounded by tropical oligotrophic water. We wish that the discussion of the relation between reefs and CO2 will not remain in sink/source controversy but is sublated to create new viewpoint on coral reefs. This March, we will hold an "International Workshop on Response of Coral Reefs to Global Changes" in Tsukuba, Japan. One of the topics in it is to extend the idea of open reefs both to the outer ocean and to the atmosphere in relation not only to carbon but also to nitrogen and phosphate. Basically this workshop is composed of the presentations only by invited speakers and is not a open symposium. We would like to discuss the issues from interdisciplinary points of views and both from longer and shorter timescales and hope to create a new research program on reefs and global changes. Hajime Kayanne Univ. Tokyo ------------------------ Sorry if you feel my response is delayed. I am now crazy busy in WS prep, univ works etc. I cut off sleeping time to respond to you ! Hajime KAYANNE Dept. Geography, Univ. Tokyo Tel: +81-3-3812-2111 (ex4573) Fax: +81-3-5684-0518 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Feb 19 08:11:38 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA28056 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 08:11:37 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA04833; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 12:29:39 GMT Received: from uts2.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA04828; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 07:29:30 -0500 Received: from [133.11.2.38] by uts2.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (5.65/TISN-1.3/R2) id AA06918; Mon, 19 Feb 96 21:21:59 +0900 Message-Id: <9602191221.AA06918@uts2.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 21:26:15 +0900 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov From: kayanne@geogr.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Kayanne) X-Sender: kayanne@133.11.2.1 Subject: Re: Reefs as Source or Sink of CO2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp X-Mailer: Eudora-J(1.3.5-J10) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear coral-list participants, Thank you for the recent information exchange on our paper "Diurnal changes in the partial pressure of carbon dioxide in coral reef water" in Science, 269, 214-216 (1995). As Dr. Jean-Pierre Gattuso showed, we have received two comments from Dr. Gattuso et al. and Prof. Buddemeier and I responded to them. Their principal criticisms are that our examples are too small (representativeness of our study site and statistical poverty etc.) to contradict the current idea that reef calcium carbonate production exceeds net photosynthetic production and act as a sources of CO2. In my response to their comments, I stressed that our basic question is to the idea of a closed reef originated from Odum in 1950's that reef net primary production is zero, because reefs are surrounded by tropical oligotrophic water. We wish that the discussion of the relation between reefs and CO2 will not remain in sink/source controversy but is sublated to create new viewpoint on coral reefs. This March, we will hold an "International Workshop on Response of Coral Reefs to Global Changes" in Tsukuba, Japan. One of the topics in it is to extend the idea of open reefs both to the outer ocean and to the atmosphere in relation not only to carbon but also to nitrogen and phosphate. Basically this workshop is composed of the presentations only by invited speakers and is not a open symposium. We would like to discuss the issues from interdisciplinary points of views and both from longer and shorter timescales and hope to create a new research program on reefs and global changes. Hajime Kayanne Univ. Tokyo ------------------------ International Workshop on Response of Coral Reefs to Global Changes Date: 4-6 March, 1996 Venue: Auditorium, Tsukuba Research Center, Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, MITI (Tsukuba 305, Japan) Rationale: Coral reefs are landforms constructed by corals themselves, on which diversified creatures live and they drive biogeochemical cycles in relation to the ocean and the atmosphere. Coral reefs are related not only to local environmental changes but also to major elements of the global changes: CO2 increase, global warming and sea-level changes. To understand reef response to the global changes, we should view them from interdisciplinary points of view (geological, physical, ecological and biogeochemical) and in relation to the ocean and the atmosphere. The target timescale of the future global changes is 100 years. At this timescale, reef landforms and functions of reefs to the global cycles have been changed and will be changed. We should approach this timescale both from longer (>1000 years) and from shorter (<10 years) timescales. On the basis of these points, this workshop intends to create new research fields to evaluate and predict response of coral reefs to the global changes from interdisciplinary points of view. Though the speakers approaches the issue from various viewpoints and timescales, they are asked to comment the relation between reefs and the global changes with a timescale of 100 years. Sponsors Science and Technology Agency, Japan Geological Survey of Japan 4 March Yonekura, N. (Univ. Tokyo): Background and outline of this workshop Session 1. Coral reefs and global changes: To review global changes which affect coral reefs and to discuss their relation to reef development mainly from longer timescales and change in reef landforms accompanying with the changes. Chair: Matsumoto, E. (Inst. Hydrospheric-Atmospheric Sci., Nagoya Univ.) Fairbanks, R. G. (Lamont-Doherty Geoscience Observatory): The response of reefs to changing sea level. Kayanne, H. (Univ. Tokyo): Reef development through postglacial time with change in geomorphological, physical, biological and biogeochemical interactions. Session 2. Changes in physical conditions: To review hydrological environment around coral reefs and to discuss necessary researches to evaluate and predict responses of reefs to the past and future global changes. Chair: Hosokawa, Y. (Port Harbour Res. Inst.) Wolanski, E., Massel, S. and Furukawa, K. (Australian Institute of Marine Science): Oceanographic impacts of sea level rise on coral reefs. Nakamura, Y. (Kyushu Univ.): Hydrodynamic control of mass transfer at the sea floor. Session 3. Characteristics of coral reef ecosystems: To show uniqueness of coral reef ecosystems and their biogeochemical cycles comparing with the other ecosystems. Chair: Omori, M. (Tokyo Univ. Fisheries) Hughes, T. (James Cook Univ.): Geographic variation in community structure of coral reefs: Implications for global climate change. Fry, B. (Florida Int. Univ.): N budgets and possible uses of 15N to study coral reef N cycles. Wada, E. (Kyoto Univ.): Isotope biogeochemical structures of several aquatic ecosystems with emphasis on N2 fixation. Session 4. Response of corals and reef ecosystems to the global changes: To discuss the past and the future responses of corals and reef ecosystems to the global changes. Chair: Yamazato, K. (Univ. Ryukyus) Muscatine, L. (Univ. California L. A.): Response of corals to global changes. Eakin, C. M. (NOAA): Response of coral reef ecosystems to global changes. Tsuchiya, M. (Univ. Ryukyus): Environmental purification in coral reefs: maintenance of beautiful landscape by biological activities. 5 March Session 5. Role of coral reefs in the global biogeochemical cycles: To discuss the functions of reefs in the global carbon and nutrient cycles. Chair: Koike I. (Ocean Res. Inst., Univ. Tokyo) Gattuso, J. -P. (Observatoire Oceanologique Europeen): Productivity and calcification in recent coral reefs: effect on air-sea CO2 fluxes. Szmant, A. M. (Univ. Miami): Nutrient dynamics and cycling within coral reef communities: contrasts between oligotrophic benthic and eutrophic planktonic production systems. Capone, D. (Chesapeake Biol. Lab.): Coral reef ecosystems in the context of the marine nitrogen cycle. Yamamuro, M. (Geological Survey of Japan): Coral reefs as sustainable organic producers. Session 6. Organic geochemistry of coral reefs: To view reefs from organic geochemical points of view and to discuss the role of reefs in organic geochemical cycles. Chair: Ishiwatari, R. (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.) Logan, G. (CSIRO): Potential of organic geochemistry for study of coral reefs and global change. Yamamoto, M.(Geol. Survey Japan): Characteristics of organic matter in coral reef sediments. Session 7. Strategy in coral reef researches: To view future research strategy in coral reef researches to solve the relation between the global changes and reefs. Chair: Harashima, S. (Natioanl Inst. Environmental Studies) McManus, J. W. (Int. Center Living Aquatic Resources Management): Determining the effects of global changes on coral reefs: A strategy for International research, data exchange and meta-analysis. Grigg, R. W. (Univ. Hawaii): Global climate change and coral reef research:future priorities, planning, funding and scientific organization. Sato, T. (Geol. Survey Japan) Closing remarks 6 March Closed expert workshop to create new research fields. ------------------------ Sorry if you feel my response is delayed. I am now crazy busy in WS prep, univ works etc. I cut off sleeping time to respond to you ! Hajime KAYANNE Dept. Geography, Univ. Tokyo Tel: +81-3-3812-2111 (ex4573) Fax: +81-3-5684-0518 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Feb 19 11:35:28 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA00757 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 11:35:28 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA05076; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 15:57:06 GMT Received: from abel.ic.sunysb.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA05071; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 10:57:03 -0500 Received: from libws2.ic.sunysb.edu (libws2 [129.49.12.86]) by abel.ic.sunysb.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA18023 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 10:44:24 -0500 Received: (nreyns@localhost) by libws2.ic.sunysb.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA24639; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 10:52:15 -0500 Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 10:52:10 -0500 (EST) From: Nathalie Brigitte Reyns To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: West Indies Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I am a graduate student working on larval brachyurans from the West Indies. I am currently looking for information (published, and non-published) regarding species from this region. I am particularily interested in keys and any other relevant information pertaining to identification and ecology. I'd appreciate any help! Thanks! Nathalie Reyns Marine Sciences Research Center State Univeristy of New York Stony Brook, NY 11789-5000 email: nreyns@ic.sunysb.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Feb 19 13:28:52 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA02239 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 13:28:52 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA05206; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 17:52:21 GMT Received: from mar.icmyl.unam.mx by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA05201; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 12:52:18 -0500 Received: by mar.icmyl.unam.mx (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA07171; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 11:09:34 +0600 Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 11:09:33 -0600 (CST) From: Jordan Dahlgren Eric X-Sender: jordan@mar To: Nicole Dettmann Cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Re: Looking for information In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Nicole: Unfortunately, as you say the Pier in Paraiso is being built. Most likely it will destroy a small part of that reef, but we are not able to prove that it will ".. destroy a major part of Paradise Reef". Based on the limited available information on the water-dynamics of the area, there is reason to suspect that both during stages of the construction, and also while operating, damage may be caused in downstream reef areas. However, there is no information at present to properly asses the extention of the influence area, nor the amount of damage to the reef community, that may result from both these puntual (in time) and chronic impacts. In my opinion, there is too much to risk, but the problem is that this is only one opinion, and however educated it may be, is not a certainity. In spite of the sadness of seeing that pier being built, notwithstanding that some scientists adviced against it, some good has come from this. Because of the turmoil that this affair generated, a wider social sector in Mexico is now aware that these ecosystems are fragile and useful (in terms of anthropogenic activities), at the same time. So, we may do better next time. On the other hand, as you surely know these are complex social issues, and regarding Mexico I will try to have a wide open mind to be able to understand the causality of these problems. You see, socially speaking Mexico is not very similar to the US. Mexico's struggle to shift from almost total ecological unawareness in marine ecosystems to healthy environmental law enforcement is a slow process. There are several people that could help you: Rita Sheese, at Cozumel (987) 23535, could tell you about the environmentalist people point of view. Official position is to be obtained from top officials at Mexico City (This issue fall under federal government) in the Secretaria del Medio Ambiente, such as Julia CArabias or GAbriel Quadri. In the mexican consulate at your place you would be able to obtain their phone numbers. Scientific information can be provided by the same environmentalists of Cozumel (do you read spanish ?). For specific doubts on these matters you can call upon me. On Thu, 15 Feb 1996, Nicole Dettmann wrote: > > To all interested parties: > > I am an undergraduate student in Environmental Science at Barnard > College of Columbia University. I have a great interest in the preservation of > coral reefs and am currently writing my thesis on Mexican environmental > law and protection schemes. I am taking an in depth look and the content > and efficacy of environmental law and its affect on coral reefs in > Mexico. > I am very interested in the recent development project at Paradise > Reef on the Caribbean coastal island of Cozumel. A new cruise ship > dock/pier is being built and threatens to destroy a major part of > Paradise Reef. This is an interesting example of how Environmental law in Mexico > is not being enforced. Any information, contacts or sugesstions pertaining to my > thesis (especially the new pier development) would be greatly appreciated. > > Thank you in advance. > > > > Nicole L. Dettmann > Box 142 McIntosh > 3001 Broadway > New York, New York > U.S.A. > > Telephone: (212) 853-5921 > e-mail : nd71@columbia.edu > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Feb 19 20:13:58 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA07337 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 20:13:57 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id AAA05598; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 00:45:19 GMT Received: from xaway.ciqro.conacyt.mx by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA05591; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 19:44:54 -0500 Received: from [148.207.52.100] (camaron.ciqro.conacyt.mx [148.207.52.100]) by xaway.ciqro.conacyt.mx (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA10055 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 18:59:04 GMT Date: Mon, 19 Feb 96 18:14:25 CST From: "Juan Pablo Carricart Ganivet" Message-Id: <19346.jpcarri@xaway.ciqro.conacyt.mx> X-Minuet-Version: Minuet1.0_Beta_11 X-POPMail-Charset: English To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Looking for information Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Nicole: Unfortunately, there are many interesting examples of how environmental law in Mexico is not being enforced. The Federal Government, on august 1992, declared, as a National Marine Park, the Reef System of Veracruz (RSV). There is not a adequate management plan improved by the goverment, until now. I am sending to you, by mail, a photocopy of this declaration. Best wishes, Juan P. Carricart-Ganivet ECOSUR Apdo. Postal 424, Chetumal, Q. Roo. 77000. Mexico e-mail: jpcarri@xaway.ciqro.conacyt.mx From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Feb 20 00:27:49 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA10128 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 00:27:48 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id FAA05767; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 05:10:47 GMT Received: from axe by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id AAA05762; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 00:10:43 -0500 Resent-From: cel1@axe.humboldt.edu Resent-Message-Id: <199602200510.AAA05762@reef.aoml.erl.gov> Received: from axe.humboldt.edu by axe.humboldt.edu (PMDF V5.0-6 #11939) id <0DN26620100D9A@axe.humboldt.edu>; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 21:06 -0800 (PST) Resent-date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 21:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 21:06:01 -0800 (PST) From: Christopher Ledford Subject: Re: West Indies In-reply-to: To: Nathalie Brigitte Reyns Cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Nathalie, In response to your request for information on brachurans, you might want to try to contact the School for Field Studies on South Caicos. I know they have a lot of unpublished data on all sorts of things, but I'm not sure about brachurians. Their e-mail address is sfstci@igc.apc.org and thier phone number is (809) 946-3362. You also might want to try the Caicos Conch Farm on Provodencialis. I don't know the number but if you ask for Bill at SFS he could tell you. Good luck. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Feb 20 18:08:55 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA19063; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 18:08:47 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA06952; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 22:30:46 GMT Received: from eagle.ewu.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA06947; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 17:30:42 -0500 From: TSTEIN@ewu.edu Received: from ewu.edu by ewu.edu (PMDF V5.0-5 #9372) id <01I1FTL1Q9008Y8G8S@ewu.edu> for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 14:22:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 14:22:10 -0800 (PST) Subject: transplantation/reintroduction? To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Message-id: <01I1FTL1QIN68Y8G8S@ewu.edu> X-Envelope-to: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov X-VMS-To: IN%"coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I recently read an article by Ian Anderson (New Scientist, Jul '95) on reparing reefs by hard grafting coral samples taken from healthy reefs. I am interested in doing a case study on coral transplantation but find that the information is very sparce. Other than the IUCN red data book on invertebrates, are there other primary sources I might look into? Suggestions appreciated, Tim Stein From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Feb 20 19:54:30 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA19705; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 19:54:28 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id AAA07159; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 00:31:09 GMT Received: from iniki.soest.hawaii.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA07154; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 19:31:05 -0500 Received: (from carlson@localhost) by iniki.soest.hawaii.edu (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA21222; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 14:25:56 -1000 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 14:25:55 -1000 (HST) From: Bruce Carlson X-Sender: carlson@iniki To: TSTEIN@ewu.edu cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Re: transplantation/reintroduction? In-Reply-To: <01I1FTL1QIN68Y8G8S@ewu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Tim, I have not conducted any coral transplantation work in the field but we handle a lot of coral fragments in culture and the techniques could be applied to field situations. Others can inform you how they transplant corals on the reef, but on our "farm" we snip off fragments roughly 3-5cm in length (mostly Acropora spp.). These are immediately glued onto small, cubical nylon plugs ("faucet adaptors") using Z-Spar splash zone compound (A-788). The plugs are then set into the slots in a plastic eggcrate tray in an outdoor aquarium. We can grow dozens of fragments in a very small space this way. The fragments are then used for research, or given to other public aquariums, or used in our own exhibits. I see no reason why this method could not be expanded to grow fragments to transplant on the reef. The plugs could either be snipped off or used as anchors to hold the coral fragments in small holes on the reef. Of course, the plugs would have to be secured with underwater epoxy to ensure that they stay in place. This would require an underwater drill, and probably regular trips to the surface to get additional epoxy -- it starts to become unworkable in about 10 minutes. My gut feeling is that transplanting corals on the reef is more trouble than it's worth, given all the logistics involved, but there probably are reef areas which might be unsuitable for the settlement of coral planulae but otherwise have conditions suitable for coral growth. Such areas might be candidates for transplanting fragments. On Tue, 20 Feb 1996 TSTEIN@ewu.edu wrote: > I recently read an article by Ian Anderson (New Scientist, Jul '95) on reparing > reefs by hard grafting coral samples taken from healthy reefs. I am interested > in doing a case study on coral transplantation but find that the information > is very sparce. Other than the IUCN red data book on invertebrates, are there > other primary sources I might look into? > > Suggestions appreciated, > > Tim Stein > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Feb 20 22:05:46 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA20770; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 22:05:43 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id CAA07256; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 02:28:02 GMT Received: from iniki.soest.hawaii.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA07251; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 21:27:57 -0500 Received: from bio-ocean.soest.hawaii.edu (bio-ocean [128.171.154.56]) by iniki.soest.hawaii.edu (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA22462 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 16:23:05 -1000 Received: (parnell@localhost) by bio-ocean.soest.hawaii.edu (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA02289; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 16:23:02 -1000 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 16:23:02 -1000 (HST) From: Ed Parnell X-Sender: parnell@bio-ocean To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: transplanting Acropora cytherea to MHI (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 16:17:37 -1000 (HST) From: Ed Parnell To: Bruce Carlson Subject: transplanting Acropora cytherea to MHI Hello, I saw your reply on the coral server list regarding the transplantation of corals for reef rehab. In it you inferred that the ends probably wouldn't justify the means (i.e., too much effort). However, I still wonder how Acropora cytherea would do in the Main Hawaiian Islands if transplanted from the North West Hawaiian Islands. As you know, Acropora is a hardy, fecund, fragmenting, and most important of all, a fast growing species. The lack of Holocene reef accretion in Hawaii could be due to the lack of just such a species. Given the high energy, high disturbance regime of Hawaii, pioneering and fast growth seem to be required for resilience in the face of frequent disturbance. Acropora fits this bill in addition to being resistant to wave energy such as seen in the NWHI where it is naturally common. It just hasn't made its way to the MHI. The recent work of Clark and Edwards (1995; Coral Reefs, 14:201-213) demonstrate that mortality rates of transplanted acroporids was about 50% after 28 months. Given the fast growth and 50% return rates of Acropora they measured, doesn't it seem worthwhile to try it in the MHI. The possible benefits over the next fifty years include: 1)Production of reef that serves to: a)enlarge coral habitat space for coral reef species b)for fish this could mean higher biomass and therefore larger and safer fishing stocks c)higher fish biomass could lead to increased herbivory rates on coral competing algae thereby leading to a an established healthy positive feedback coral community; N.B. the production of reef by Acropora could also enhance the biomass of other corals so the MHI reefs would not be monospecific. Reef buildup provides vertical relief so recruiting larvae aren't quickly abraded by sand and debris as they are now d)protect shorelines that may be eroded in the near future by storm waves in an ocean that's rising 2)Enhance an important natural resource of this state that attracts tourist dollars. As you mentioned in your reply, the inertia to establish corals to rehabilitate/enhance reefs, if not regions, is immense. But, it may be that once Acropora got started in the MHI it would do quite well on its own seeding the region from a few strategically placed reefs. One could bring down parts of many colonies and transplant them to a protected area such as Kaneohe Bay. After they are established and begin to reproduce locally, they become a local source of larvae for seeding larger and larger areas of K Bay. The planulae could be collected over these reefs and in K Bay itself (since flushing rates are low). These larvae could then be artificially recruited in culture and grown for a year (to miss hi juv. mort. rates) then transplanted to other areas of Oahu. Fragments of the K Bay colonies could also be transplanted to other areas of Oahu. These may be grandiose ideas but I think some discussion is warranted and at least a transplanting pilot study should be done with A. cytherea here in Hawaii. What do you think? Would there be resistance to this idea by the public or reef scientists? Have you already had this idea? Ed Parnell From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Feb 20 23:18:07 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA21342; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 23:18:04 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id DAA07310; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 03:50:12 GMT Received: from iniki.soest.hawaii.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id WAA07305; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 22:50:09 -0500 Received: (from carlson@localhost) by iniki.soest.hawaii.edu (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA23099; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 17:45:19 -1000 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 17:45:18 -1000 (HST) From: Bruce Carlson X-Sender: carlson@iniki To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Re: transplanting Acropora cytherea to MHI (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 17:42:16 -1000 (HST) From: Bruce Carlson To: Ed Parnell Subject: Re: transplanting Acropora cytherea to MHI Ed, Good idea but there are pitfalls. Collecting Acropora cytheria at French Frigate Shoals is possible, and we can certainly grow it here (I have several colonies from Fiji) in our outdoor tanks. However, State Agriculture will not allow anything from French Frigate Shoals into the main Hawaiian Islands without an import permit. Yes the NW Hawaiian Islands are geologically and biologically and politically part of Hawaii but from Agriculture's standpoint they might as well be Africa. I can get a permit to bring corals back from the NWHI but only on condition that they be safeguarded from accidental introduction into the wild. The permit conditions are very stringent with stiff penalites. In addition to these hurdles, there are many people here who are steadfastly against introductions of new corals into the main Hawaiian Islands. Basically on the premise that we cannot know in advance what disruption they may cause to existing ecosystems. My guess is that A. cytheria would provide benefits, but I could be wrong and who would want to take the blame for any permanent long-term environmental havoc? We've had a long history of bad mistakes in this area (e.g. the introduction of the blue-lined snapper from Tahiti) so I think such a proposal would take years to get through the approval process -- if ever!! For your information, Acropora was apparently quite common on Oahu about 10,000 years ago. We can still find fossil colonies of it on the Ewa plain (and brain corals etc.). A few colonies of Acropora have turned up on Kauai over the years. That's what we need to find (and nurture!). Thanks for the ideas! Bruce Carlson On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, Ed Parnell wrote: > Hello, > I saw your reply on the coral server list regarding the transplantation > of corals for reef rehab. In it you inferred that the ends probably > wouldn't justify the means (i.e., too much effort). However, I still > wonder how Acropora cytherea would do in the Main Hawaiian Islands if > transplanted from the North West Hawaiian Islands. As you know, Acropora > is a hardy, fecund, fragmenting, and most important of all, a fast > growing species. The lack of Holocene reef accretion in Hawaii could be > due to the > lack of just such a species. Given the high energy, high disturbance > regime of Hawaii, pioneering and fast growth seem to be required for > resilience in the face of frequent disturbance. Acropora fits this bill > in addition to being resistant to wave energy such as seen in the NWHI > where it is naturally common. It just hasn't made its way to the MHI. > The recent work of Clark and Edwards (1995; Coral Reefs, 14:201-213) > demonstrate that mortality rates of transplanted acroporids was about > 50% after 28 months. Given the fast growth and 50% return rates of Acropora > they measured, doesn't it seem worthwhile to try it in the MHI. The > possible benefits over the next fifty years include: > 1)Production of reef that serves to: > a)enlarge coral habitat space for coral reef species > b)for fish this could mean higher biomass and therefore larger > and safer fishing stocks > c)higher fish biomass could lead to increased herbivory rates on > coral competing algae thereby leading to a an established healthy > positive feedback coral community; N.B. the production of reef by > Acropora could also enhance the biomass of other corals so the MHI reefs > would not be monospecific. Reef buildup provides vertical relief so > recruiting larvae aren't quickly abraded by sand and debris as they are now > d)protect shorelines that may be eroded in the near future by > storm waves in an ocean that's rising > 2)Enhance an important natural resource of this state that attracts > tourist dollars. > > As you mentioned in your reply, the inertia to establish corals to > rehabilitate/enhance reefs, if not regions, is immense. But, it may be that > once > Acropora got started in the MHI it would do quite well on its own seeding > the region from a few strategically placed reefs. > > One could bring down parts of many colonies and transplant them to a > protected area such as Kaneohe Bay. After they are established and begin > to reproduce locally, they become a local source of larvae for seeding > larger and larger areas of K Bay. The planulae could be collected over > these reefs and in K Bay itself (since flushing rates are low). These > larvae could then be artificially recruited in culture and grown for a > year (to miss hi juv. mort. rates) then transplanted to other areas of > Oahu. Fragments of the K Bay colonies could also be transplanted to > other areas of Oahu. > > These may be grandiose ideas but I think some discussion is warranted and at > least a transplanting pilot study should be done with A. cytherea here in > Hawaii. What do you think? Would there be resistance to this idea by > the public or reef scientists? Have you already had this idea? > > Ed Parnell > > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Feb 21 00:16:33 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA21899; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 00:16:30 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id EAA07352; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 04:48:33 GMT Received: from konichiwa.cc.columbia.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id XAA07346; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 23:45:59 -0500 Received: (from esh8@localhost) by konichiwa.cc.columbia.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA06867; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 23:41:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 23:41:06 -0500 (EST) From: Erika Haendel X-Sender: esh8@konichiwa.cc.columbia.edu To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Coral Reefs and Debt-for-Nature Swaps Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A To all interested parties: Hi, my name is Erika Haendel and I am currently writing a senior thesis at Columbia University under the supervision of Professor David Downie. This thesis explores the possibility of using debt-for-nature swaps to save endangered coral reefs throughout the world. Part of my thesis will involve making recommendations for future debt-for-nature swaps involving coral reefs. In order to do this, I need to find current information concerning coral reefs throughout the world (preferably in developing nations) which are severely threatened by human activities (i.e. muro-ami or explosive fishing techniques, increasing coastal development, sewage discharge into reef ecosystems etc...). Some areas where I would be interested in include the Philippines, Tanzania, Honduras (or other Central American countries), Belze, Kenya, Jordan, Egypt, Thailand and the Caribbean. If anybody has any current information on the state of the reefs in these or any other developing nations, or if you know of a place or a book where I might be able to obtain this type of information, your assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank You in advance, Erika S. Haendel esh8@columbia.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Feb 21 07:41:06 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA24751; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 07:41:03 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA07728; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 12:10:56 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA07723; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 07:10:55 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id HAA08280; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 07:10:54 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 07:10:54 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Re: Coral Reefs and Debt-for-Nature Swaps Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Forwarded response: To: coral-list From: rbak@nioz.nl (Rolf P.M. Bak) Subject: Re: Coral Reefs and Debt-for-Nature Swaps Dear Erika, A debt for nature swap is being considered to save the threatened, yet pristine coral reefs of Oostpunt, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. For more info contact: Wim Bergman email iucnnethcomm@gn.apc.org or Nico Visser fax 599 9 612154 Good luck, Rolf Bak From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Feb 21 10:37:55 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA26073; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 10:37:52 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA07863; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 15:05:00 GMT Received: from bgnet2.bgsu.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA07858; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 10:04:52 -0500 Received: (from cbester@localhost) by bgnet2.bgsu.edu (8.7.1/8.6.12) id IAA07871; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 08:49:29 - 0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 08:49:28 -0500 (EST) From: Cathleen Lyn Bester Subject: Re: Coral Reefs and Debt-for-Nature Swaps To: Erika Haendel cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Erika, In response to your email concerning coral reefs throughout the world, I may be able to give you some information. During 1994 summer I worked as a work-study at the Hol Chan Marine Reserve off of San Pedro in Belize. Hol Chan is a marine reserve set up by the Belize Dept of Fisheries with some help from USAID. You can get in contact with them at: Hol Chan Marine Reserve, San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, Belize. They can provide some answers for you on the state of the reef there. Also, the department of fisheries may be able to help you - they are located in Belize City as well as the Belize Center for environmental studies on Eve Street in Belize City, Belize. Due to the fact that Hol Chan is a "eco-tourist" destination, I found it to be badly damaged by snorkelers and SCUBA alike. I took part in the marine patrol during the summer and saw people touching and standing on everything - a bit of a disaster. Many of the grey snapper there also had fungal infections due to being touched by humans as they are used to being fed (which is now illegal there)! To all concerned: I am currently a masters degree student working on the molecular mechanisms that occur between the coral polyp and its symbiotic zooxanthellae, carrying out my research in Bermuda. If anyone has any info on such subjects, it would be greatly appreciated... Cheers Cathy Bester From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Feb 21 12:06:44 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA27331; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 12:06:42 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA07985; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 16:40:40 GMT Received: from polaris.ncs.nova.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA07980; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 11:40:38 -0500 Received: by polaris.ncs.nova.edu (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA27668; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 11:34:22 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 11:34:21 -0500 (EST) From: JOSHUA Feingold X-Sender: joshua@polaris To: Ed Parnell Cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov, Joshua Feingold Subject: Re: transplanting Acropora cytherea to MHI (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, Ed Parnell wrote: snip ... > As you know, Acropora > is a hardy, fecund, fragmenting, and most important of all, a fast > growing species. The lack of Holocene reef accretion in Hawaii could be > due to the > lack of just such a species. Given the high energy, high disturbance > regime of Hawaii, pioneering and fast growth seem to be required for > resilience in the face of frequent disturbance. Acropora fits this bill > in addition to being resistant to wave energy such as seen in the NWHI > where it is naturally common. It just hasn't made its way to the MHI. snip... > One could bring down parts of many colonies and transplant them to a > protected area such as Kaneohe Bay. After they are established and begin > to reproduce locally, they become a local source of larvae for seeding > larger and larger areas of K Bay. The planulae could be collected over > these reefs and in K Bay itself (since flushing rates are low). These > larvae could then be artificially recruited in culture and grown for a > year (to miss hi juv. mort. rates) then transplanted to other areas of > Oahu. Fragments of the K Bay colonies could also be transplanted to > other areas of Oahu. > > These may be grandiose ideas but I think some discussion is warranted and at > least a transplanting pilot study should be done with A. cytherea here in > Hawaii. What do you think? Would there be resistance to this idea by > the public or reef scientists? Have you already had this idea? Ed, I am amazed that you would consider the introduction of any species into the waters of Hawaii. Yes, A. cytherea may grow quickly and recruit to areas not yet populated with corals. It also may displace native corals and change the structural complexity of existing reef habitats. In general, species introductions are fraught with unexpected outcomes. Even if the transplanted species comes from a nearby region, A. cytherea is not native to the main Hawaiian archipelago. This idea exemplifies the conflict between wanting to mitigate anthropogenic diminution of reef systems and the desire to allow reefs to develop naturally (be that increase or decline). Joshua Feingold Nova Southeastern University joshua@polaris.ncs.nova.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Feb 21 11:24:58 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA26932; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 11:24:56 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA07920; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 15:57:38 GMT Received: from wizard.wizard.net by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA07915; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 10:57:36 -0500 Received: from [206.161.15.42] (pm112.wizard.net [206.161.15.42]) by wizard.wizard.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA17067; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 10:52:26 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 10:52:26 -0500 Message-Id: <199602211552.KAA17067@wizard.wizard.net> Subject: Re: transplantation/reintroduction? From: "Stephen C. Jameson" To: "Bruce Carlson" , cc: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Tim, A good person to talk to regarding transplanting coral is Harold Hudson. He along with Bill Goodwin run the restoration office at the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Harold can be reached at hhudson@ocean.nos.noaa.gov or via phone 305/451-5321, 305/451-3193 (fax). Keep me posted on your progress. Best regards, Dr. Stephen C. Jameson, President Coral Seas, Inc. 4254 Hungry Run Road The Plains, VA 20198-1715 USA 703/754-8690, 703/754-9139 (FAX) From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Feb 21 16:55:51 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA29368; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 16:55:49 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA08328; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 20:39:21 GMT Received: from arl-img-3.compuserve.com by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA08323; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 15:39:16 -0500 Received: by arl-img-3.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) id PAA25171; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 15:34:37 -0500 Date: 21 Feb 96 15:29:49 EST From: "Jack, Sobel" To: Subject: Re: transplanting Acropora cyth Message-ID: <960221202949_555063.0_EHF31-1@CompuServe.COM> Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Why don't we spend more time and effort protecting our natural heritage rather than trying to replicate someone else's to displace ours? Coral reefs, Acropora coral reefs included, are parts of beautiful and valuable natural ecosystems, and we should do all we can to protect these threatened treasures; but that doen't mean we should be exporting them into other natural environments that also have value. Why don't we learn from our past mistakes? History provides enough experience with both deliberate and accidental introductions to be very wary of such actions, which often have unintentional adverse impacts. Think about the deliberate introduction of carp or the accidental introduction of the zebra mussel to North America. There are a multitude of such examples. Hawaii, in particular, with its sensitive, highly endemic flora and fauna; provides a font of such examples. Let's protect our extraordinary and threatened natural coral reefs, including those with Acropora, but let's not manufacture a need to introduce them to areas where they don't belong. Let's not mess unnecessarily with Mother Nature. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Feb 21 17:58:19 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA29720; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 17:58:17 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA08727; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 22:26:58 GMT Received: from iniki.soest.hawaii.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA08722; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 17:26:50 -0500 Received: from bio-ocean.soest.hawaii.edu (bio-ocean [128.171.154.56]) by iniki.soest.hawaii.edu (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA29686 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 12:22:14 -1000 Received: (parnell@localhost) by bio-ocean.soest.hawaii.edu (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA02735; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 12:22:11 -1000 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 12:22:11 -1000 (HST) From: Ed Parnell X-Sender: parnell@bio-ocean To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Re: transplanting Acropora cytherea to MHI (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 09:58:14 -1000 (HST) From: Robert Miller To: Ed Parnell Subject: Re: transplanting Acropora cytherea to MHI (fwd) hey ed, see i'm supporting you! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 09:56:46 -1000 (HST) From: Robert Miller To: JOSHUA Feingold Subject: Re: transplanting Acropora cytherea to MHI (fwd) Joshua, There are no native, that is endemic, Hawaiian corals that are restricted to the main chain. All the species in the Hawaiian chain occur thoughout it except A. cytheria, and it has in the past lived in the main isles. The reefs of the main Hawaiian chain are now pretty depauperate, due partly to the fact that this area is not a good habitat for corals, as Ed pointed out (too much disturbance). I think his proposal deserves careful consideration based on the biogeography of the area and not dismissal based on the mere presence of numerous examples of bad exotic introductions. The reintroduction of cytheria should more appropriately be compared to the seeding of native plants wiped out by a particularly bad winter. Bob Miller (a former nova employee) Bob Miller Dept. of Oceanography University of Hawaii 1000 Pope Rd. Honolulu Hawaii 96822 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Feb 22 08:56:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA09117; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 08:55:58 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA09597; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 13:19:58 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA09592; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 08:19:57 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id IAA10325; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 08:19:56 -0500 Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 08:19:56 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Re: transplanting Acropora cytherea to MHI (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Forwarded message: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 19:26:52 -0500 From: Ursula Keuper-Bennett To: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Re: transplanting Acropora cytherea to MHI (fwd) To Ed Parnell: First off I am a layperson whose only knowledge of corals is limited to the ones I dive with in West Maui. I do however know some of them (entire coral heads) quite personally. I can even tell you what year they got smothered and died. During a series of algae blooms (Cladophora) the corals that got killed off the quickest were Pocillopora endouxyii and also Pocillopora meandrina. While these corals would stand the pounding winter waves and yes, to some extent even being blasted by sand and silt assaults, one season of Cladophora blooms did many of them in. At 04:23 PM 2/20/96 -1000, Ed Parnell wrote: >As you mentioned in your reply, the inertia to establish corals to >rehabilitate/enhance reefs, if not regions, is immense. But, it may be that >once >Acropora got started in the MHI it would do quite well on its own seeding >the region from a few strategically placed reefs. I just checked what Acropora looks like in the book Living Corals. I could not find cytherea but many of the Acropora species appear to have finger-like branches and a rasp-like appearance. In this respect they are as vulnerable to algae blooms as their Pocillopora cousins. The Cladophora snags on the branches and does them in. While I am not suggesting our dive site is typical of the Hawaiian Islands, I am suggesting nutrient input and runoff are an increasing problem and MORE of a concern than any pounding winter waves. The decline of many Hawaiian corals has more to do with suspect-to-poor water quality and lack of serious commitment to protect their ocean environment than anything nature could toss their way. Ed Parnell then wrote: >These may be grandiose ideas but I think some discussion is warranted and at >least a transplanting pilot study should be done with A. cytherea here in >Hawaii. What do you think? Please correct me if I am wrong but I believe there was an interesting transplanting study done on Oahu (Kaneohe Bay?) where Red Hypnea, a Florida native was studied as a money "crop". As I heard it it was not feasible and the plant was let loose. Other stories say it got loose. Anyway, that Red Hypnea piles up in various parts of Maui every summer now including our dive site. It is now so "successful" it has become a permanent blight. I am in no way suggesting a coral could accomplish something this impressive or fast in a little over a decade, I am just pointing out the side-effects of many "introductions" inflicted on the Hawaiian Islands. Ed Parnell then wrote: Would there be resistance to this idea by >the public or reef scientists? I can tell you with all due respect, I know of at least ONE..... Aloha and best ^ Ursula Keuper-Bennett 0 0 Mississauga, Ontario /V^\ I I /^V\ Email: howzit@io.org /V Turtle Trax V\ /V Forever Green V\ http://www.io.org/~bunrab From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Feb 22 08:59:43 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA09181; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 08:59:41 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA09606; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 13:21:51 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA09601; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 08:21:49 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id IAA10334; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 08:21:49 -0500 Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 08:21:49 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Re: transplanting Acropora cytherea to MHI (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Forwarded message: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 07:10:05 -0500 From: Ursula Keuper-Bennett To: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Re: transplanting Acropora cytherea to MHI (fwd) Robert Miller wrote: The reefs of the main Hawaiian chain >are now pretty depauperate, due partly to the fact that this area is not >a good habitat for corals, as Ed pointed out (too much disturbance). You are right with the too much disturbance part. Only I don't think we would agree on what "disturbance" means. Again, I am only reporting here on the reefs along West Maui but most of them were done in by run-off and (likely) sewage "management". Robert Miller then wrote: >think his proposal deserves careful consideration based on the >biogeography of the area and not dismissal based on the mere >presence of numerous examples of bad exotic introductions. Fair.... but let's make that highly cautious consideration instead. Robert Miller than wrote: The >reintroduction of cytheria should more appropriately be compared to the >seeding of native plants wiped out by a particularly bad winter. I recall the damage done to certain areas of Kaneohe Bay because of sewage outfall and construction run-off. There was a documentary made on it "Cloud over the Reef" I believe... It might even be these areas you are considering "replanting". Then there is my dive site in West Maui where many of the corals got wiped out in a single Cladophora bloom of 1989. The area has experienced annual blooms of various algaes/seaweeds since then. What used to be mature P. endouyxii and meandrina heads are now clumps of seaweeds. The fact they got so big means for decades that ocean had the right water quality they required for growth. These corals were NOT wiped out by a "particularly bad winter". Crashing waves (hurricanes) did not do them in. They are STILL in place only overgrown with seaweeds and algae. See a "particularly bad winter" implies your reefs are being done in by nature. That is not only false but a harmful assertion. It suggests man has little role to play but "replant". Given my experience with Hawaii's lack of resolve to protect its reef resources, no "particularly bad winter" can match the harm humans do daily to your oceans. ^ Ursula Keuper-Bennett 0 0 Mississauga, Ontario /V^\ I I /^V\ Email: howzit@io.org /V Turtle Trax V\ /V Forever Green V\ http://www.io.org/~bunrab From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Feb 20 18:08:55 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA19063; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 18:08:47 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA06952; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 22:30:46 GMT Received: from eagle.ewu.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA06947; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 17:30:42 -0500 From: TSTEIN@ewu.edu Received: from ewu.edu by ewu.edu (PMDF V5.0-5 #9372) id <01I1FTL1Q9008Y8G8S@ewu.edu> for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 14:22:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 14:22:10 -0800 (PST) Subject: transplantation/reintroduction? To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Message-id: <01I1FTL1QIN68Y8G8S@ewu.edu> X-Envelope-to: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov X-VMS-To: IN%"coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I recently read an article by Ian Anderson (New Scientist, Jul '95) on reparing reefs by hard grafting coral samples taken from healthy reefs. I am interested in doing a case study on coral transplantation but find that the information is very sparce. Other than the IUCN red data book on invertebrates, are there other primary sources I might look into? Suggestions appreciated, Tim Stein From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Feb 22 14:46:09 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA12431; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 14:41:21 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA09915; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 18:55:14 GMT Received: from relay1.Hawaii.Edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA09910; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 13:55:09 -0500 Received: from uhunix4.its.Hawaii.Edu ([128.171.44.54]) by relay1.Hawaii.Edu with SMTP id <11637(4)>; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 08:50:16 -1000 Received: by uhunix4.its.Hawaii.Edu id <105807>; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 08:49:55 -1000 Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 08:49:51 -1000 From: Marian B Westley X-Sender: westley@uhunix4 To: TSTEIN@ewu.edu cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Re: transplantation/reintroduction? In-Reply-To: <01I1FTL1QIN68Y8G8S@ewu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Tim, Try Paul Jokiel at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology--in the middle of a tranplanting project at Kawaihae Harbor on the Big Island of Hawaii. His email address is (I think) jokiel@soest.hawaii.edu Good luck! Marian Westley From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Feb 24 02:49:56 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA11851; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 02:49:53 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id HAA01480; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 07:26:50 GMT Received: from rfx.rfx.com by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id CAA01475; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 02:26:43 -0500 Received: by rfx.rfx.com (950911.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH825/940406.SGI) for coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov id XAA17312; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 23:20:58 -0800 From: "Steve Tyree" Message-Id: <9602232320.ZM17309@rfx.rfx.com> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 23:20:57 -0800 X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.0 06sep94) To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Re: transplanting Acropora cytherea to MHI Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Coral Reef List, You have brought up a particular subject which I think will become extremely important to the ecosystems of the planet. I think its a given that human interaction has changed the shape of ecosystems of the planet. In some cases completely obliterating them. This human trait though is not restricted to our species in particular. Every species on the planet has its own survival at the top of its agenda list, well besides reproduction maybe :>. The blooming algae could care less that it may wiped out a local acropora population, in fact it pro- bably is not even coherent of the fact. We as humans though do have that capability of recognizing dynamic changes in eco- system populations. This leads to a great debate about what should WE in particular do. Should we leave the ecosystems alone and let them try to recover to some subjective state or should we try to manage them somewhat. I dont agree that any- thing we do is not natural. We are a product of mother nature. We evolved here. If mother nature thinks we should not be here, we will disappear. So we are no more guilty than the theoritical algae was that just wanted to bloom. We are different from that algae in our ability to recognize that our blooming has an affect on other species. So now, mother nature has created a species that has the ability to direct the dynamic changes that our occuring to species populations. I say that the trait was a desired one or one selectively choosen for. If you realize the ultimate fate of this planet, the reason behind the trait becomes quite clear :>. Dont get me wrong, I am not condoning the wholesale management of ecosystem populations. Just that a two pronged approach is probably the best bet. One that combines niche ecosystem preservation with management of species. Any coral reef in particular could do with a human reef manager or two. One excellent job would be righting and recementing large old coral colonies that have been toppled by storm surge or wind driven currents. Some recent dives on the Solomon Islands found many large Acropora tables that had been toppled or knocked down in an avalanch. Many stony coral colonies be- come loose from the substratum because of boring organism activity. What would be wrong with recementing or fortifying their base. Many coral fragments get broken off corals and end up in piles where little light penetrates. These could be recemented onto newly added platforms or older existing ones. I am currently writing a non-academic book centered on reef- building stony coral that will include lots of research from academic works. This above debate will sort of be an under- lying theme and one of the reasons I am writing the book. So any input will be highly desorable. The thread is already on my hard disk :>. Sorry for the poorly edited text, I am work- ing with a poor internet connection. I highly recommend reading the recent book by Veron titled "Corals in Space and Time, The Biogeography and Evolution of the Scleractinia". One interesting point is that what we see currently as species distribution, is only a small slice in time of the long geo- logical distribution of these corals. Also, there appear to be some interesting aspects of coral species distribution over time, that make the whole subjective species concept, somewhat tainted :>. Steve Tyree Dynamic Ecomorphology (Very busy right now, but appreciates any input for the book). From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Feb 24 08:35:10 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA14076; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 08:35:07 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA01758; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 13:20:37 GMT Received: from pat.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA01753; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 08:20:35 -0500 Received: from lzn2.lass.nottingham.ac.uk by pat.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Sat, 24 Feb 1996 13:15:47 +0000 Received: from LZN2/MERCURYQ by lzn2.lass.nottingham.ac.uk (Mercury 1.13); Sat, 24 Feb 96 13:21:05 GMT0BST Received: from MERCURYQ by LZN2 (Mercury 1.13); Sat, 24 Feb 96 13:20:34 GMT0BST From: EDWINA DOMINGUEZ Organization: Soc Sci Faculty, Univ of Nottm To: CORAL-LIST@reef.aoml.erl.gov Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 13:20:30 GMT0BST Subject: Priority: normal X-mailer: PMail v3.0 (R1a) Message-ID: Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Has there been any research done on Ecotourism as a Tool in Coral Reef Conservation? I am doing research on the subject in relation to the Philippines Edwina Dominguez lgxeedo@lzn2.lass.nottingham.ac.uk From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Wed Feb 25 15:06:18 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA25237; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 15:06:16 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA03986; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 19:43:12 GMT Received: from aloha.cc.columbia.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA03981; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 14:43:09 -0500 Received: (from nd71@localhost) by aloha.cc.columbia.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA27426; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 14:38:17 - 0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 14:38:17 -0500 (EST) From: Nicole Dettmann X-Sender: nd71@aloha.cc.columbia.edu To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: looking for information Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Can anyone tell me about the Snail Darter in the U.S.? What happen with efforts to protect it? Thanks. Nicole Dettmann BOX 142 McIntosh 3001 Broadway New York, NY 10027 U.S.A. (212)853-5921 nd71@columbia.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Feb 26 08:58:42 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA05562; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 08:58:39 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA01011; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 13:35:47 GMT Received: from mail04.mail.aol.com by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA01006; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 08:35:44 -0500 From: FKMRC@aol.com Received: by mail04.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA24064 for coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 08:30:45 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 08:30:45 -0500 Message-ID: <960226083044_333286935@mail04.mail.aol.com> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: talks in the Keys Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A To all in the Florida Keys or planning trips to the Keys, Mote Marine Laboratory's Pigeon Key Marine Research Center is establishing a speaker series to publicly communicate scientific information, particularly about or relevant to the Keys. No doubt many of you are aware of the environmental devisiveness that exists in this area. At least part of this is due to lack of scientific communication with the public or the misinterpretation of scientific statements by various media. We wish to provide a venue for information to flow directly from scientists to the public regarding findings relevant to the Keys' ecosystems. Talks will be for a general audience but with enough information to keep you all interested enough to stay for the discussions afterward! If you will be in the Keys on 14 March, please plan to attend Bob Steneck's talk: Reef Degradation in St. Croix and Jamaica: Two Long-Term Case Studies Talk will be at 7:00 PM in the newly restored Section Gang Quarters on Pigeon Key. If you need further info or would like to share your findings in the future, please contact: Erich Mueller, Ph.D., Director Phone: (305) 289-4282 Mote Marine Laboratory FAX: (305) 289-9664 Pigeon Key Marine Research Center email: FKMRC@aol.com P.O. Box 500895 Marathon, FL 33050 Web page: http://www.marinelab.sarasota.fl.us/~marshall/fkmrc2.html From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Feb 26 09:21:45 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA05904; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 09:21:43 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA01043; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 14:02:19 GMT Received: from wizard.wizard.net by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA01038; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 09:02:16 -0500 Received: from [206.161.15.39] (pm109.wizard.net [206.161.15.39]) by wizard.wizard.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA19825; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 08:57:25 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 08:57:25 -0500 Message-Id: <199602261357.IAA19825@wizard.wizard.net> Subject: Re: looking for information From: "Stephen C. Jameson" To: "Nicole Dettmann" , Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Nicole, For information on the snail darter you could start with: Herb Kaufman NOAA Office of Protected Species Protected Species Management Division 301/713-2319 301/588-4967 (fax) Ask Herb for more contacts in: US Fish & Wildlife Service Endangered Species Office or call National Biological Service 202/482-2348 and they can point you in the right direction. Best regards, Dr. Stephen C. Jameson, President Coral Seas, Inc. 4254 Hungry Run Road The Plains, VA 20198-1715 USA 703/754-8690, 703/754-9139 (FAX) From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Feb 26 10:13:26 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA06602; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:13:23 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA01123; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 15:00:27 GMT Received: from wizard.wizard.net by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA01118; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:00:25 -0500 Received: from [206.161.15.51] (pm121.wizard.net [206.161.15.51]) by wizard.wizard.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA19946; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 09:28:07 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 09:28:07 -0500 Message-Id: <199602261428.JAA19946@wizard.wizard.net> Subject: Re: From: "Stephen C. Jameson" To: "EDWINA DOMINGUEZ" , Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Edwina, In my mind ecotourism is not a tool. The tools related to ecotourism that help manage our coral reef ecosystems include: 1. Integrated coastal zone management: This includes: public education, community development, economic incentives and alternative income generation, global or regional legal instruments, institutional restructuring, wellmanaged marine protected areas, regulation and enforcement of reef resource exploitation, management of tourism and recreational activities, management of land-based activities and coastal development, coral reef ecosystem monitoring, mapping, database creation, and restoration. 2. Capacity building 3. Improved Scientific Understanding of Coral Reef Ecosystems Ask Peter Thomas, Coordinator, International Coral Reef Initiative (pthomas@state.gov) for a copy of: Jameson, S.C., J.W. McManus, and M.D. Spalding 1995. State of the Reefs: Regional and Global Perspectives. International Coral Reef Initiative Executive Secretariat Background Paper. U.S. Department of State. There is also some useful information on the Philippines in this paper. Also see the latest edition (Spring 1996) of the Natural Resources Defense Council Amicus Journal. On page 31 there is an article titled "Where is ecotourism going? If ecotravel is booming, asks a photojournalist, how sustainable is it?" Best regards, Dr. Stephen C. Jameson, President Coral Seas, Inc. 4254 Hungry Run Road The Plains, VA 20198-1715 USA 703/754-8690, 703/754-9139 (FAX) From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Feb 26 16:48:34 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA12738; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 16:48:31 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA01938; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 20:53:56 GMT Received: from xaway.ciqro.conacyt.mx by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA01932; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 15:53:06 -0500 Received: from [148.207.52.100] (camaron.ciqro.conacyt.mx [148.207.52.100]) by xaway.ciqro.conacyt.mx (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA04803 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 15:05:41 GMT Date: Mon, 26 Feb 96 14:21:04 CST From: "Juan Pablo Carricart Ganivet" Message-Id: <16905.jpcarri@xaway.ciqro.conacyt.mx> X-Minuet-Version: Minuet1.0_Beta_11 X-POPMail-Charset: English To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: National Marine Park, Reef System of Veracruz Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Dr. Causey: Maybe you don't remember me, but I was with you on your last visit (June of 1992) to Isla de Enmedio. I was working at Secretariat of Marine, in Veracruz, and now I'am in ECOSUR, here in Chetumal (since January of this year). The mooring buoys you refer, because of bureaucracy, were finaly installed along the reef tract of Isla Verde (in front of the Port of Veracruz). The environmental degradation of de coral reefs of the Reef System of Veracruz (RSV) is more evident every day. Suspended solids in the water column, sewage discharges, organic matter and pesticides supplied from the continent, and nutrient enrichment of the reefs waters, are the major troubles caused by anthropogenic impact. I know that Dr. Luis Sautto, Manager of CRIP-Veracruz, is working on the management plan for the RSV. You can contact him at (29) 31-44-37 (sorry I don't have his mailing address). On the other hand, what can I do to get a copy of your 1960 and 1992's videos? Many advanced thanks. Sincerely yours, Juan P. Carricart-Ganivet ECOSUR Apdo. Postal 424, Chetumal, Q. Roo. 77000. Mexico Tel: (983) 21666 Fax: (983) 20447 e-mail: jpcarri@xaway.ciqro.conacyt.mx From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Feb 26 21:22:37 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA16626; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 21:22:34 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id CAA02965; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 02:08:02 GMT Received: from mailhub.cc.columbia.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA02960; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 21:07:59 -0500 Received: from dialup041.cc.columbia.edu (dialup041.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.36.41]) by mailhub.cc.columbia.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA02756 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 21:02:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 21:02:51 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199602270202.VAA02756@mailhub.cc.columbia.edu> X-Sender: jsh32@mailhub.cc.columbia.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: CORAL-LIST@reef.aoml.erl.gov From: Jason Hunter Subject: Economic valuation of coral reefs Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Working with the International Coral Reef Initiative, we have been tasked to develop a study on the biological, political, and economic benefits of the proposed "Coral Reef Peace Park" in Aqaba Jordan. The primary focus of the study is on the economic valuation of Aqaba's coral reefs as they exist today, as well as projected net worth after tourist development. In order to assist us in our study we are kindly looking for the following information: - is there a ubiquitous method to determine diver capacity on a particular reef eco-system (outside of the method used by Dixon et al.); - what are the average expenditures by divers on a 6 day trip (including hotels, restaurants, etc.); - specific information on capacity, development plans, and the general diving tourist trade in Jordan, Israel and Egypt; - and following up on Edwina Dominguez message, any general data on the valuation of reefs from a eco-tourism perspective would be most helpful. Your assistance in this project would be of immense help. Thank you, Coral Reef Workshop School of International and Public Affairs Columbia University * * * * * * * * * * * Jason Hunter School of International and Public Affairs Columbia University jsh32@columbia.edu http://www.columbia.edu/~jsh32/ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Feb 27 10:50:22 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA27750; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:50:20 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA03768; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 15:26:13 GMT Received: from wizard.wizard.net by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA03763; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:26:10 -0500 Received: from [206.161.15.59] (pm129.wizard.net [206.161.15.59]) by wizard.wizard.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA27441; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:20:55 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:20:55 -0500 Message-Id: <199602271520.KAA27441@wizard.wizard.net> Subject: Re: Ecotourism From: "Stephen C. Jameson" To: , Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Richard, Please put me on the mailing list for a copy of the Red Sea ecotourism study. I'm helping the Kingdom of Jordan set up and manage the Red Sea Marine Peace Park and would find your study very interesting. PS. Thanks for all your help with the maps for the International Coral Reef Initiative "State of the Reefs" Report. They were great! Best regards, Dr. Stephen C. Jameson, President Coral Seas, Inc. 4254 Hungry Run Road The Plains, VA 20198-1715 USA 703/754-8690, 703/754-9139 (FAX) Internet: sjameson@coralseas.com From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Feb 27 11:08:49 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA27924; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 11:08:46 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA03787; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 15:45:39 GMT Received: from wizard.wizard.net by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA03782; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:45:37 -0500 Received: from [206.161.15.59] (pm129.wizard.net [206.161.15.59]) by wizard.wizard.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA27550; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:40:52 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:40:52 -0500 Message-Id: <199602271540.KAA27550@wizard.wizard.net> Subject: Re: Economic valuation of coral reefs From: "Stephen C. Jameson" To: "Jason Hunter" , Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Jason, Dr. Nanette Chadwick-Furman and her students are doing some interesting work on the correlation between scuba diving and physical damage to coral reefs in the Red Sea. This along with other factors will be useful in determining carrying capacity. Contact her at: Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences P.O. Box 469 Eilat, Israel Tel: 7-360-101 Fax: 7-374-329 email: furman@brosh.cc.biu.ac.il Also see: Riegl, B and B. Velimirov 1991. How many damaged corals in Red Sea reef systems? A quantitative survey. Hydrobiologia 216/217: 249-256. Best regards, Dr. Stephen C. Jameson, President Coral Seas, Inc. 4254 Hungry Run Road The Plains, VA 20198-1715 USA 703/754-8690, 703/754-9139 (FAX) Internet: sjameson@coralseas.com From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Feb 28 23:26:45 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA26040; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 23:26:42 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id DAA07372; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 03:45:53 GMT Received: from axis.scu.edu.au by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id WAA07367; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 22:45:47 -0500 Received: from alsvid.scu.edu.au (root@alsvid.scu.edu.au [203.2.33.1]) by axis.scu.edu.au (8.7.1/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA30902 for ; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 14:40:53 +1100 (EST) Received: from [203.2.41.73] (U-Block-9.scu.edu.au [203.2.41.73]) by alsvid.scu.edu.au (8.7.3/8.7.2) with SMTP id OAA17852 for ; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 14:40:49 +1100 Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 14:40:49 +1100 Message-Id: <199602290340.OAA17852@alsvid.scu.edu.au> X-Sender: areichel@pophost.scu.edu.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov From: areichel@scu.edu.au (amanda reichelt) Subject: reference Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hello, Just wondering if anyone could help me. I am looking for a refernce I found on the home page of the coral-list. I would really appreciate it if someone may be able to help. Glynn, P.W.; Szmant, A.M.; Corcoran, E.F.; Cofer-Shabica, S.V. Condition of coral reef cnidarians from Byscayne National Park rref tract:Pesticides, heavy metals and histopathological examination. RES. RESOUR. MANAGEM REP. U.S. NATL. PARK. SERV. 1989. 36 pp. Thans in advance Mandy. _*-*_*-*_*-*_*-*_*-*_*-*_*-*_*-*_*-*_*-*_*-*_*-*_*-*_*-*_*-*_*-*_*-*_*-*_*-*_* Amanda Reichelt Centre for Coastal Management Southern Cross University PO Box 157 Lismore NSW 2480 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Feb 29 16:01:58 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA07524; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 16:01:56 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA08277; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 20:26:49 GMT Received: from cantva.canterbury.ac.nz by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA08272; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 15:26:43 -0500 Received: from zool.canterbury.ac.nz ("port 3734"@zool2.canterbury.ac.nz) by csc.canterbury.ac.nz (PMDF V5.0-6 #7295) id <01I1TI8YD8C2QKHBGF@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Fri, 01 Mar 1996 09:22:00 +1300 Received: from DARWIN/MAILQUEUE by zool.canterbury.ac.nz (Mercury 1.13); Fri, 01 Mar 1996 09:27:32 +1300 Received: from MAILQUEUE by DARWIN (Mercury 1.13); Fri, 01 Mar 1996 09:27:05 +1300 Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 09:26:56 +1300 From: "Dr.C.L.McLay" Subject: Precious Coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Reply-to: c.mclay@zool.canterbury.ac.nz Message-id: <27735D39120A@zool.canterbury.ac.nz> Organization: Zoology, University of Canterbury X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.1 (R1) Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A I have a record of a crab living on "precious coral (Corallium sp.)" taken from around 360m off Ohau, Hawaii. I wonder if someone could please tell me what is meant by "precious coral" and direct me to some references or pictures of these corals. Please forgive what is probably a very elementary question from a non-coral specialist. I find that the books on my shelves are of little use! Thanks, Dr Colin McLay Zoology Department Canterbury University PB 4800, Christchurch New Zealand. Tel: +64 3 364 2887 FAX: +64 3 364 2024 email: c.mclay@zool.canterbury.ac.nz WWW Home Page: http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/zool/cm.htm From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Mar 2 23:07:54 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA02925; Sat, 2 Mar 1996 23:07:52 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id DAA10858; Sun, 3 Mar 1996 03:46:06 GMT Received: from dub-img-2.compuserve.com by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id WAA10853; Sat, 2 Mar 1996 22:45:44 -0500 Received: by dub-img-2.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) id WAA18033; Sat, 2 Mar 1996 22:41:07 -0500 Date: 02 Mar 96 22:39:10 EST From: Harry McCarty <73261.2212@compuserve.com> To: Subject: Pathobiology Workshop Message-ID: <960303033910_73261.2212_FHO40-7@CompuServe.COM> Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A workshop, "New Perspectives on Pathobiology of Coral Reef Organisms," will be presented at the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium, 24-29 June 1996 in Panama City, Panama. This one-day workshop will be held mid-week during the symposium and will provide a forum for education and communication in the field of pathobiology as it relates to the study of diseases in algae, invertebrates, and vertebrates of tropical marine ecosystems. The workshop will consist of short presentations on diseases and research topics, hands-on discussion/demonstration sessions of methods and techniques in histopathology, microbiology, and parasitology, and a discussion on physical/chemical factors causing or mediating diseases in these organisms. To obtain a copy of the program and registration forms for the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium, please contact: Maria Majela Brenes P., Convention Manager Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute phone: 507-280354 fax: 507-280970 e-mail: stri01.naos.brenesm@ic.si.edu To help plan the activities for the workshop, please provide the following information by March 16 to Esther Peters or Debbie Santavy (addresses at end). If you know someone else who might wish to participate, please give them this form also. Name: Address: Phone: Fax: E-mail: Check one: ( ) I am definitely planning to attend the workshop. ( ) I am not yet sure I will be able to attend. [Please let us know if your plans change] Are you interested in participating in a special discussion group? Please select one: ( ) Histopathology ( ) Microbiology ( ) Parasitology Could you present a short (10 min) presentation on your research or a topic of interest? If yes, please specify the topic: Do you have any other interests or concerns about research on diseases of tropical marine organisms that you think we should discuss at the workshop? Please list: Thank you very much. We look forward to seeing you in Panama! Esther Peters Deborah Santavy Tetra Tech, Inc. U.S. EPA, Environmental Research Lab 10306 Eaton Place, Suite 340 1 Sabine Island Drive Fairfax, VA 22030 Gulf Breeze, FL 32361 USA phone: 703-385-6000 phone: 904-934-9358 fax: 703-385-6007 fax: 904-934-9300 e-mail: e-mail: 73261.2212@compuserve.com dsantavy@gulfbr.gbr.epa.gov From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Mar 4 11:46:43 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA19563; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 11:46:41 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA01005; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 16:21:18 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA01000; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 11:21:16 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id LAA14961; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 11:21:15 -0500 Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 11:21:15 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Anne Cohen's Instrument Summary Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: We have posted Anne Cohen's (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute) summary of coral reef instrumented monitoring sites at our CHAMP Home Page (near the bottom of the page) at http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov. If you have any additions or corrections to her graphic, I'm sure she would be grateful, and we will update the graphic as soon as we can. Sincerely yours, Jim Hendee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | Coral Health and Monitoring Program | | Ocean Chemistry Division | | Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorlogical Laboratory | | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | | Miami, Florida | | USA | | | | Email: coral@coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | World-Wide Web: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Mar 4 11:48:19 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA19602; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 11:48:16 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA01017; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 16:24:40 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA01012; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 11:24:39 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id LAA14978; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 11:24:38 -0500 Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 11:24:38 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Anne Cohen's e-mail Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Whoops, forgot to include Anne Cohen's e-mail address. It is: acohen@cliff.whoi.edu Sincerely yours, Jim Hendee ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 11:21:15 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef Subject: Anne Cohen's Instrument Summary We have posted Anne Cohen's (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute) summary of coral reef instrumented monitoring sites at our CHAMP Home Page (near the bottom of the page) at http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov. If you have any additions or corrections to her graphic, I'm sure she would be grateful, and we will update the graphic as soon as we can. Sincerely yours, Jim Hendee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | Coral Health and Monitoring Program | | Ocean Chemistry Division | | Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorlogical Laboratory | | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | | Miami, Florida | | USA | | | | Email: coral@coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | World-Wide Web: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Mar 4 10:57:15 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA18799; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 10:57:12 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA00863; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 15:26:58 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA00858; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 10:26:56 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id KAA14826; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 10:26:55 -0500 Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 10:26:54 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Archives of coral-list Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Archives of posted coral-list messages may be found at the following URL: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/coral-list/coral-list.html This is one big file of all the messages, and is only meant to be a temporary fix until (if?) I come up with an automated system that will post each new message as it comes. I should mention that the file is about 934K long and is best loaded via a Web Browser. The best use out of this link would be to search for a particular topic after the file is loaded. For instance, using your browser, you could search for the key word "spawn" or "bleach" to get to each message where these words are mentioned. Hope this helps. Sincerely yours, Jim Hendee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | Coral Health and Monitoring Program | | Ocean Chemistry Division | | Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorlogical Laboratory | | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | | Miami, Florida | | USA | | | | Email: coral@coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | World-Wide Web: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Mar 4 21:31:23 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA27126; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 21:31:20 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id CAA01607; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 02:05:59 GMT Received: from umailsrv1.umd.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA01602; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 21:05:54 -0500 Received: by umailsrv1.umd.edu (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA17732; Mon, 4 Mar 96 21:01:08 -0500 Received: from ZOOL/MAILQUEUE by zool.umd.edu (Mercury 1.21); 4 Mar 96 21:06:32 +0500 Received: from MAILQUEUE by ZOOL (Mercury 1.21); 4 Mar 96 21:05:54 +0500 From: "JENNIFER WHEELER" Organization: University of Maryland Zoology To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov, conslink%sivm.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 21:05:45 +0500EST Subject: Coral reef organisms & the aquarium trade Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Message-Id: <7870A8D7681@zool.umd.edu> Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I am undertaking research on the trade of coral reef organisms for aquariums as part of project to assist a Pacific island nation develop sustainable uses for its reefs. The market for marine aquarium species is booming globally, and I am interested in determining if this market can be used to further the conservation of coral reefs rather than contribute to their demise. Questions: What information is available on the market (supply and demand) for coral reef organisms to be used in aquariums? (International data important.) Is sustainable harvest of reef organisms possible? Have levels been determined? How feasible Is mariculture to produce organisms for export? What are the implications (biological and financial) of the above approaches as compared to unregulated harvest? Any leads or information to assist me in my research would be appreciated. Thank you. Jennifer Wheeler Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology program University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland wheeler@zool.umd.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Mar 5 08:55:58 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA04326; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 08:55:56 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA00862; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 13:25:20 GMT Received: from aoml.erl.gov by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA00857; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 08:25:18 -0500 Received: from manoa (manoa.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.3]) by aoml.erl.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3.CAR) with SMTP id IAA00774; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 08:19:56 -0500 (EST) Received: by manoa; (5.65/1.1.8.2/04Nov94-8.2MPM) id AA19121; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 08:25:12 -0500 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 08:25:11 -0500 (EST) From: "James C. Hendee" X-Sender: hendee@manoa To: JENNIFER WHEELER Cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov, conslink%sivm.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu Subject: Re: Coral reef organisms & the aquarium trade In-Reply-To: <7870A8D7681@zool.umd.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: On Mon, 4 Mar 1996, JENNIFER WHEELER wrote: [ first and last parts deleted... ] > How feasible Is mariculture to produce organisms for export? > What are the implications (biological and financial) of the above > approaches as compared to unregulated harvest? To my mind, this is the best long-range solution, but with an initial high price tag. As a former mariculturist of marine fishes, invertebrates and plants (macro and micro), I can testify that it is possible to raise many (but not all) of the species of value to the aquarium trade at this time. If a developing nation wants to adopt this strategy, it will have to: a) Be prepared to invest "substantial" (i.e., hundreds of thousands to a million dollars) into basic research into the life cycle and disease etiology of new species it wants to culture and export; b) Be prepared both financially and emotionally (!) to lose all of its cultured stocks overnight to disease, human error or natural catastrophes (e.g., storms), then start over again; c) Hire the best and most experienced mariculturists it can. There are some basic precepts of mariculture that just can not be violated, and I have seen untrained culturists re-invent a tool or approach that doesn't work, and result in the demise of the operation. It's the same old adage--"You get what you pay for." You can hire "bargain" personnel, only to be wiped out later because of a rudimentary mistake. Hope this helps. Jim Hendee From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Mar 5 09:45:12 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA05004; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 09:45:09 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA00990; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 14:21:13 GMT Received: from wizard.wizard.net by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA00985; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 09:21:11 -0500 Received: from [206.161.15.40] (pm110.wizard.net [206.161.15.40]) by wizard.wizard.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA20221; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 09:16:34 -0500 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 09:16:34 -0500 Message-Id: <199603051416.JAA20221@wizard.wizard.net> Subject: Re: Coral reef organisms & the aquarium trade From: "Stephen C. Jameson" To: "JENNIFER WHEELER" , , Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Jennifer, The International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) State of the Reefs Report will give you a preliminary global and regional snapshot of the impacts of the aquarium trade on the health of coral reef ecosystems. Jameson, S.C., J.W. McManus, and M.D. Spalding. 1995. State of the Reefs: Regional and Global Perspectives. International Coral Reef Initiative Executive Secretariat Background Paper, U.S. Departmenmt of State, Washington, D.C. Contact Dr. Peter Thomas, ICRI Coordinator (pthomas@state.gov) for a copy. Also, in the early 1970's I did the pioneering research on the early life history of the giant clams to provide a basis for a large scale aquaculture and conservation program for Tridacna in the Indo-Pacific. Many people are now raising Tridacna to a small size and selling them for the aquarium trade (more profitable than for food). Contact John McManus at the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management in Manila (iclarm@cgnet.com) for more information on Tridacna culture for the aquarium trade. Best regards, Dr. Stephen C. Jameson, President Coral Seas, Inc. - Integrated Coastal Zone Management 4254 Hungry Run Road The Plains, VA 20198-1715 USA 703/754-8690, 703/754-9139 (FAX) Internet: sjameson@coralseas.com From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Mar 6 07:49:03 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA19125; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 07:49:00 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA02804; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 12:24:16 GMT Received: from aoml.erl.gov by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA02799; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 07:24:14 -0500 Received: (from hendee@localhost) by aoml.erl.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3.CAR) id HAA22615; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 07:18:59 - 0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 07:18:58 -0500 (EST) From: "James C. Hendee" X-Sender: hendee@wave To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov cc: bhoffman@deltanet.com, bk2j@musicb.mcgill.ca Subject: Coral Reef Restoration Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The following posting to the marine biology list-server regarding coral transplantation and reef restoration may be of interest to the coral-list: Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 16:52:52 -0800 From: Bob Hoffman Subject: Re: coral reef transplantation Richard F. Ambrose wrote: > > In article <4hfbcq$fh1@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> bk2j@musicb.mcgill.ca writes: > >From: bk2j@musicb.mcgill.ca > >Subject: coral reef transplantation > >Date: 4 Mar 1996 18:05:14 GMT > > >Does anybody know anything about feasability of coral reef transplantation. Any comments/references would be appreciated. > > There's an article in the most recent issue of Restoration Ecology that deals > with this: > > Rinkevich, B. 1995. Restoration strategies for coral reefs damaged by > recreational activities: the use of sexual and asexual recruits. Restoration > Ecology 3: 241-251. You may want to get in contact with John Naughton with the National Marine Fisheries Service in Honolulu. He is involved in coral transplant project somewhere in Pacific Islands. His email address is john_naughton@ssp.nmfs.gov. Bob Hoffman NMFS, Long Beach, CA bob_hoffman@ssp.nmfs.gov From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Mar 6 08:03:04 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA19454; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 08:03:02 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA02868; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 12:44:39 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA02863; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 07:44:38 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id HAA02475; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 07:44:37 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 07:44:36 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Returned coral-list e-mail addresses Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Sorry for the extra bandwidth, but the following e-mail addresses of coral-list subscribers have been continuously returned by the list-server as bad addresses. If you happen to recognize any of these and could offer a new address or other enlightenment, I'd appreciate your help (and so might they!). Cheers... Jim Hendee Coral-List Administrator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mmoore@violet.berkeley.edu Madeline.G@eworld.com jutro.p@epamail.epa.gov carvis@icarus.state.gov william_peterson@ssp.nmfs.gov ccc@coralcay.demon.co.uk oceano%ceniai@igc.orgau geobjkj@npd.uff.br Ross.Jones@jcu.edu.au tapled1@mail.auburn.edu lara@cicese.mx j_pandolfi@aims.gov.au path@amsg.austmus.oz.au lbecker@zool.umd.edu rbradley@climate1.geo.umass.edu spater@cb.uga.edu slowey@ocean.tamu.edu scoats@co.pinellas.fl.us nreyns@ic.sunysb.edu cbcmnrj@omega.lncc.br Sehested@dk-online.dk orion@speedy.coacade.uv.mx From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Mar 6 09:31:33 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA20547; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 09:31:31 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA03111; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 14:12:51 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA03106; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 09:12:49 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id JAA02607; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 09:12:48 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 09:12:48 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Coral Reef Restoration - Reply (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Forwarded message from Walt Jaap: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 07:23:55 -0500 (EST) From: Walt, Jaap To: OWNER-CORAL-LIST@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Coral Reef Restoration - Reply The Soto Reef Restoration project at Grand Cayman currently working on the 8th week has transplanted about 600 corals, moved ten tons of rubble and replaced large coral heads weighing in excess of 6000 lbs. The crew has in excess of 4000 hours under water. We are using Liquid Rock epoxy to attach corals back on the reef. Restoration will be finiished in about two weeks. At that point we will have transplanted approximately 2500 corals. We will be glad to share our insights with those that are interested. W. Jaap, J. Morelock. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Mar 6 12:09:09 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef.aoml.erl.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA03297; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 12:09:07 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.erl.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA03257; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 16:47:49 GMT Received: from physics.arizona.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA03252; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 11:47:47 -0500 Received: from [128.196.188.142] (xenos.physics.Arizona.EDU) by physics.arizona.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13892; Wed, 6 Mar 96 09:42:58 MST Date: Wed, 6 Mar 96 09:42:57 MST Message-Id: <9603061642.AA13892@physics.arizona.edu> From: "Warren Beck" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Subject: remove name Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Please remove my address from the coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov server. I no longer wish to receive messages from this list. Warren Beck Warren Beck NSF AMS Facility Department of Physics University of Arizona Bldg. #81 Tucson, AZ 85721 Phone: 520-621-4277 Fax:520-621-9619 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Mar 7 08:25:20 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA12981; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 08:25:17 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA04548; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 13:01:43 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA04543; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 08:01:40 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id IAA04221; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 08:01:38 -0500 Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 08:01:38 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Discontinued C-MAN postings Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The daily posting of Coast-Marine Automated Network data will be temporarily discontinued. We hope to be able to present them again soon. If you have a use for these data, please drop a line so I can get an idea of who uses them and for what purpose. Many thanks... Take care, Jim Hendee From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Mar 7 17:46:51 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA19061; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:46:48 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA05117; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 22:12:45 GMT Received: from wizard.wizard.net by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA05112; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:12:42 -0500 Received: from [206.161.15.34] (pm104.wizard.net [206.161.15.34]) by wizard.wizard.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA05887; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:08:34 -0500 Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:08:34 -0500 Message-Id: <199603072208.RAA05887@wizard.wizard.net> Subject: Re: Coral Reef Restoration - Reply (fwd) From: "Stephen C. Jameson" To: "Coral Health and Monitoring Program" , Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Walter, I'd be very interested in hearing your insights regarding the Soto Reef project. Do you plan any follow up studies on survival rates? Please drop me a line when you get a chance. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Mar 7 17:48:32 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA19097; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:48:30 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA05127; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 22:19:04 GMT Received: from wizard.wizard.net by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA05122; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:19:01 -0500 Received: from [206.161.15.34] (pm104.wizard.net [206.161.15.34]) by wizard.wizard.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA05995; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:15:07 -0500 Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:15:07 -0500 Message-Id: <199603072215.RAA05995@wizard.wizard.net> Subject: Re: Coral Reef Restoration - Reply (fwd) From: "Stephen C. Jameson" To: "Coral Health and Monitoring Program" , Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Walter, I'd very much like to hear your insights from the Soto Reef project. Do you plan any follow-up survival studies? Drop me a line when you get a chance. Best regards, Dr. Stephen C. Jameson, President Coral Seas, Inc. - Integrated Coastal Zone Management 4254 Hungry Run Road The Plains, VA 20198-1715 USA 703/754-8690, 703/754-9139 (FAX) Internet: sjameson@coralseas.com From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Mar 7 20:55:47 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA21758; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 20:55:44 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA05313; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 01:41:38 GMT Received: from io.org by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA05308; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 20:41:34 -0500 Received: from dyna-135.net7b.io.org (dyna-110.net7b.io.org [204.92.49.110]) by io.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA12654 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 20:36:53 -0500 Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 20:36:53 -0500 Message-Id: <199603080136.UAA12654@io.org> X-Sender: howzit@io.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Ursula Keuper-Bennett Subject: Information request for Barclay's Park, Barbados Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hello, I am interested in any information about Barclay's Park, Barbados. I would especially welcome any comments from divers who may know the area. I have surfed the Net and the only information I presently have on the locale is it is a 50 acre park and swimming can be dangerous. During my Net poking about I did discover that a surprising number of papers had been written about eutrophication in Barbados water. I need to know a lot more than this. I would appreciate any feedback on the condition of corals and ocean in and around Barclay's Park, please. Aloha and best ^ Ursula Keuper-Bennett 0 0 Mississauga, Ontario /V^\ I I /^V\ Email: howzit@io.org /V Turtle Trax V\ /V Forever Green V\ http://www.io.org/~bunrab From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Mar 8 07:28:15 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA29955; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 07:28:13 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA05822; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 12:04:14 GMT Received: from sepia.nioz.nl by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA05817; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 07:04:09 -0500 Received: from pc_duyl by sepia.nioz.nl with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m0tv0pS-0002MEC; Fri, 8 Mar 96 12:59 MET Message-Id: Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Gert Jan Gast" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 12:59:25 +0000 Subject: Sending replies X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Gert Jan Gast" X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.10) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Hello all, This: > Dear Walter, > > I'd very much like to hear your insights from the Soto Reef project. Do > you plan any follow-up survival studies? Drop me a line when you get a > chance. > > > > Best regards, > > Dr. Stephen C. Jameson, President > Coral Seas, Inc. - Integrated Coastal Zone Management > 4254 Hungry Run Road > The Plains, VA 20198-1715 USA > 703/754-8690, 703/754-9139 (FAX) > Internet: sjameson@coralseas.com > is an example of mail meant for one person that was sent to over 500 people. That is unnecessary loading of many E-mail boxes. Could all of you please pay attention to the address your mail application chooses when you click "reply"? In other words: please only send to the coral-list when you want your message to appear on >500 computer screens. That would make live a bit easier for all of us. Thanks in advance. Nice weekend to all of you! Gert Jan Gast Netherlands Institute for Sea Research Department of Marine Ecology P.O. Box 59, 1790 AB Den Burg, The Netherlands. Phone: 31 (0)222 369573. Fax: 31 (0)222 319674. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Mar 8 08:34:34 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA01149; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 08:34:31 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA05976; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 13:17:46 GMT Received: from mercury.ukc.ac.uk by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA05971; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 08:17:39 -0500 Received: from kiwi.ukc.ac.uk by mercury.ukc.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 13:11:51 +0000 Received: from pc-esf.ukc.ac.uk by kiwi.ukc.ac.uk (SMI-8.6/UKC-2.14) id NAA10854; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 13:11:47 GMT From: William Moreno Caycedo To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Fishing and its effect on coral Message-ID: Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 13:11:46 +0000 (gmt) Priority: NORMAL X-Mailer: Simeon for Windows X-Authentication: none MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: To anybody Does anybody knows anything about the effects to coral by fishing (or overfishing) in a particular area of the world. At the moment I'm trying to study this problem but at this University (Canterbury U.K) there is not much information. I would be most grateful if someone could tell me where I can obtain this kind of info. Thanks William Moreno Durrel Intitute of Conservation and Biology wm1@ukc.ac.uk From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Wed Mar 10 13:05:15 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA23332; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 13:05:12 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA09291; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 17:54:27 GMT Received: from axe by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA09286; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 12:54:23 -0500 Resent-From: jc13@axe.humboldt.edu Resent-Message-Id: <199603101754.MAA09286@reef.aoml.erl.gov> Received: from axe.humboldt.edu by axe.humboldt.edu (PMDF V5.0-6 #11939) id <0DO2C6X01002Q2@axe.humboldt.edu> for coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 09:49 -0800 (PST) Resent-date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 09:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 09:49:45 -0800 (PST) From: Joshua Craig Subject: Fish Forums? To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A I am enjoying the range of topics on this bulletin board. Are there any similar forums for information exchange about tropical marine fishes, especially reef fishes? From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Wed Mar 10 00:39:04 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA19704; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 00:39:01 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id FAA08672; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 05:20:54 GMT Received: from SCALOP.AIMS.GOV.AU by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id AAA08667; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 00:20:47 -0500 From: C_WILKINSON@aims.gov.au Received: from AIMS.GOV.AU by AIMS.GOV.AU (PMDF V4.3-10 #7365) id <01I26ET646AU8WW0HS@AIMS.GOV.AU>; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 15:16:06 +1000 Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 15:16:06 +1000 Subject: Coral Bleaching in PNG region To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Message-id: <01I26ET64FY08WW0HS@AIMS.GOV.AU> X-VMS-To: IN%"coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov" X-VMS-Cc: C_WILKINSON MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A The following was sent to me by John Rewald, Motupore Research Station in PNG dated 07-MAR-96. A sig. area from S of Normanby Island through Cape Vogel, and to Tufi is suffering from coral bleaching over the past 3 weeks, extending down to 20 m. Bleaching in shallow water is most extensive - almost 100% in some areas, including soft corals and anemones. Water temps have been 29 to 30 deg. C during DEC for past 2 months. This is the longest recalled period of warm water in Milne Bay province - weather also calm and skies relatively clear. Reefs N of Normanby/Fergusson Ids are not affected to any degree though signs are there. Corals appear live at the moment with patches of dead coral and beginning of algal growth. I will be monitoring bleaching over next 5 weeks. These are observations from Bob Halstead, operator of dive boat Telita and he requests advice from scientists as to what he should observe. Please contact Rewald on jrewald@peg.apc.org (note: no dates and precise locations provided and Rewald is currently travelling to Australia - good luck) Clive Wilkinson From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Mar 11 06:08:29 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA29100; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 06:08:18 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id KAA10018; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:51:16 GMT Received: from dzowo by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id FAA10013; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 05:50:47 -0500 Message-Id: <199603111050.FAA10013@reef.aoml.erl.gov> Received: from mfca.uem.mz by dzowo.uem.mz id <01703-0@dzowo.uem.mz>; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:47:37 -0200 Received: from mfca by mfca.uem.mz (UUPC/extended 1.12k) with UUCP for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:40:03 -20000 From: AMORIM To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:40:02 gmt+0200 Subject: diversity indexes Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Dear all, I'm doing a research work on comparing coral reef fishes in two areas, using a video camera. What I need to know, urgently, is how to compare, statisticly, diversity indexes to see if they are significant. Are there any scientific papers on similar studies? I would appreciate it if you would help me. Thanks! Sorry for any duplication! -- amorim From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Mar 8 12:04:25 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA03007; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 12:04:22 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA06188; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 16:07:39 GMT Received: from mailman.nsf.gov by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA06183; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 11:07:34 -0500 From: prtaylor@nsf.gov Received: from xrelay.nsf.gov by mailman.nsf.gov with SMTP id AA34740 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 11:05:13 -0500 Received: from cc:Mail by xrelay.nsf.gov id AA826309874; Fri, 08 Mar 96 10:19:17 EST Date: Fri, 08 Mar 96 10:19:17 EST Message-Id: <9602088263.AA826309874@xrelay.nsf.gov> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Cc: ewild@nsf.gov, prtaylor@nsf.gov Subject: Coral Reef Activities -- U.S. National Science Foundation Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: To anyone interested: The attach file outlines many research and related projects that were supported by the U. S. National Science Foundation in Fiscal Year 1995 as part of the U. S.Coral Reef Initiative and its contribution to the International Coral Reef Initiative. Phil Taylor Division of Ocean Sciences U. S. National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, Virginia 22230 USA prtaylor@nsf.gov 703-306-1587 To anyone interested: The attach file outlines many research and related projects that were supported by the U. S. National Science Foundation in Fiscal Year 1995 as part of the U. S.Coral Reef Initiative and its contribution to the International Coral Reef Initiative. Phil Taylor Division of Ocean Sciences U. S. National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, Virginia 22230 USA prtaylor@nsf.gov 703-306-1587 3/8/96 ********************************************** Population Biology of Caribbean Octocorals Daniel Brazeau, University of Florida Fertilization success among sessile, marine invertebrates is a largely unknown variable bridging those factors which field ecologists can measure (fecundity, organism size, population abundance) and one often difficult to estimate (reproductive success). Using the Caribbean octocoral Baiareum asbestinum as a model animal, this project will examine temporal and spatial variation in reproductive success for male and female colonies. The research will test the specific prediction that female fertilization success is directly proportional to the nearby abundance male colonies. This information is crucial for understanding the abundance and growth of invertebrate populations in coral reef ecosystems and will provide important information for the successful restoration and management of coral reefs worldwide. The Role of Heterotrophic Dinoflagellates in Marine Plankton Dynamics: Growth, Grazing Behavior and Bioluminescence Edward Buskey, University of Texas Austin This study will examine the effects of food quantity and quality on the growth, feeding and bioluminescence of several species of Protoperidinium. Selective feeding of these pallium, feeding dinoflagellates (which capture large food particles extracellualarly) and the role of sensory perception in this selection process will also be examined. In addition, the study will determine the abundance of heterotrophic dinoflagellates in the western Gulf of Mexico, and examine the relationship between growth rate and bioluminescence capacity for field collected Protoperidinium incubated at ambient food concentrations. Hydrodynamic Forcing of Metabolism of Coral Reef Algal Communities Robert Carpenter, California State University Northridge and Susan Williams, San Diego State University The current paradigm explaining how coral reefs maintain high biomass of organisms and extremely high rates of gross primary productivity is that tight recycling of nutrients and organic matter occurs within the reef resulting in zones of net autotrophy alternating with zones of net heterotrophy. Autotrophic upstream communities are thought to support downstream heterotrophic assemblages with the overall balance resulting in ecosystem P/R ratios near unity. According to this paradigm, coral reefs are not coupled significantly to the surrounding oligotrophic ocean. Recent studies suggest that coral reefs may be much more dependent on hydrodynamic processes than currently believed. Although nutrient concentrations of tropical waters are very low, an enormous volume of water is advected across the reef and could result in a large flux of nutrients to benthic primary producers. The major upstream autotrophic zone is the reef flat where algal turf assemblages are responsible for the majority of primary productivi ty. Previous work has demonstrated that rates of primary productivity and nitrogen fixation of algal turf are affected significantly by water flow speed. Furthermore, flow measurements on one reef suggest that algal canopy height significantly alters the local hydrodynamic regime and as a result, metabolic processes of algal turfs may be diffusion- limited for a significant proportion of time. This project will test the hypothesis that rates of primary productivity and nitrogen fixation of coral reef algal turfs are diffusion-limited. Measurements of the flow environment on a reef flat will be made and used to estimate the degree to which algal turfs varying in canopy height are diffusion-limited. The project will then move on to test hypotheses about the specific factors that result in diffusion- limitation. The results of this project should fill a gap on empirical measurements of water flow in coral reef environments and how water flow affects algal metabolism. The results of this research may lead to a si gnificant paradigm shift in understanding how coral reefs function. Demonstration that reefs are open ecosystems that are strongly coupled to the surrounding ocean environment would have important implications for predictions of the effects of global climate change on these unique ecosystems. Population and Community Dynamics of Corals: A Long Term Study. Joseph Connell, University of California, Santa Barbara The objectives of the present project are several: 1) To extend the detailed long-term monitoring of ecological communities of corals and algae on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia which has been carried on continuously over the past 30 years, the longest such study on any coral reef; 2) to expand the study to include sites on two nearby reefs, and additional replicate sites on Heron Reef; 3) to analyze spatial patterns and dynamics of corals and algae at several scales, from centimeters to tens of meters, both during the course of colonization of patches (opened by disturbances) and after most of the surface has become crowded by many colonies. These analyses should reveal the long-term effects of interactions that may be crucial in determining how natural communities are structured; 4) to test with controlled field experiments some hypotheses about mechanisms: a) that produce the unique species composition of corals at the Inner Reef Flat site, b) that cause contrasting patterns of algae after disturbances , and c) that determine precisely how each colony affects its neighbors; 5) to build mathematical models and computer simulations of the dynamics of these populations and communities of corals and algae: a) to investigate the influence of past and present conditions on future changes, b) to characterize temporal and spatial dynamics, and c) to test hypotheses about the consequences of these dynamics to the community. The models will be also used to asses the degree to which community structure and dynamics may or may not be influenced by details of spatial relationships. The field methods will use the standard sampling techniques used over the past 30 years, to assure continuity in the long-term data base. The experimental methods, using coral transplanting and cages to exclude larger herbivores, have also been used before in this study and are well- established. Larval choice experiments and new recruit transplants have been carried out successfully by the co- investigators elsewhere on the Great Barrier Re ef.. The significance of this proposed research to the advancement of knowledge is that: 1) it deepens the general knowledge of how natural communities of corals and algae (the dominant sessile organisms on tropical and sub- tropical reefs), are assembled and structured in the face of changes in their environment over extended periods of time; 2) it reveals some of the mechanisms that link the environment with these community changes, and how both vary over short and long time periods and between small and larger spatial scales; and 3) it helps to predict the effect of environmental changes, including those caused by human activity, on these natural communities. Grazer Diversity and Ecosystem Function in Seagrass Beds J. Emmett Duffy, College of William & Mary, Virginia Institute of Marine Science One of most pervasive and irreversible effects of environmental change wrought by human activity is the reduction in species diversity on local and global scales. The consequences of declining for ecosystem function remain largely unquantified and unpredictable. The loss of species in low diversity but high recruitment environments, like estuaries, may severely alter production levels and trophic transfers. This research will involve a series of mesocosm experiments to test the effects of invertebrate grazer species on: 1) the structure of eelgrass communities, particularly the algal epiphytes, 2) functional processes within the eelgrass ecosystem, especially primary and secondary production, vascular detritus processing, and organic matter export to underlying sediment, and 3) the responses of the plants to nutrient enrichment. The results of this work are likely to provide the first experimental evidence about the roles of mesograzers in shallow water vegetation communities, including their individual and collective effects on community structure and function. Ribosomal DNA Sequences in Marine Yeasts: A Model for Identification and Quantification of Marine Eukaryotes Jack Fell, University of Miami, Rosensteil School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences Using molecular techniques for rapid and accurate determination of community structure, this research will determine fungal biodiversity and population biomass in tropical caostal ecosystems (principally mangrove ecosystems) of two distinctly different groups of micro-fungi: the basidiomycetous yeasts and the oomycetous genus Halophythophora. Both groups have important roles in detrital based food webs. The research program will include laboratory and field studies. Laboratory studies will complete the data bank of know species as a basis for determining community structure in the field. New procedures will be developed with preliminary emphasis on quantitative PCR (QPCR) using laser detected infrared labeled primers. Field research will center on reef and mangrove habitats. Using a combination of classical microbial techniques and molecular methods, the community structure and relative abundance of known and unknown culturable fungi species will be determined. The identity of these species will be ascertain ed by automated DNA sequence analysis and nucleotide alignment with the data bank. Species-specific regions will be located and primers developed to test the accuracy and sensitivity of PCR techniques in estimating community structure. Through the use of PCR and QPCR, the occurrence of unculturable species and population densities will be estimated. The techniques developed in this research can be applied to population analyses of other micro- or macro- eukaryote communities. Bleaching of Symbiotic Algae (Zooxanthellae) and their Invertebrate Hosts: Causes and Mechanisms William Fitt, University of Georgia Bleaching, the loss of symbiotic dinoflagellates("zooxanthellae" hereafter) of their pigments, of reef corals and other invertebrates has become a world-wide problem in tropical marine ecosystem, linked by some researchers to global warming. The results of bleaching have potentially devastating environmental, ecological and economic effects in the Caribbean, IndoPacific, an other tropical marine areas. Though there is some experimental work showing involvement of both higher than average temperature and light, the mechanisms involved in bleaching are not well understood this project will test three hypotheses. 1. Bleaching in nature is caused by high temperature stress coupled with high energy blue light (and possibly UV-A between 380-400nm). Preliminary evidence shows that while high temperature alone will induce bleaching, natural light exposure during high temperature treatment exacerbates the effect by lowering the temperature threshold and time to bleaching at a given temperature. this study will determ ine which component of light is responsible for this effect and the mechanisms of action. Early theories on bleaching had light playing a major role, but experimental evidence has not yet supported this contention. Potentially harmful chemical alterations associated with high energy wavelengths of blue light (and possibly some near-blue wavelengths of UV-A, that are not adsorbed by UV-protecting pigments found in corals) are not only consistent with field observations of bleaching, but are also supported by both laboratory and field-based preliminary experiments. 2. The mechanisms of temperature-light induced bleaching involves the irreversible dissociation of the chlorophyll-protein associations in the chloroplast. The harmful effects of high temperatures and light on algae include the irreversible separation or inactivation of the chlorophyll-protein complexes associated with reaction centers in the chloroplast. Electron transport activity and eventually carbon fixation decrease markedly. 3. High light and temperatures cause decreases in "protective" pigments which absorb ultraviolet light. The role of different wavelengths of light in conjunction with high temperature in determining concentrations of UV- screening pigments will be determined as well as their relationship with photosynthetic rates. These hypotheses will be tested using cultured and freshly isolated zooxanthellae, and intact hosts both in the laboratory and in field-based experiments. El Nino Impacted Coral Reefs In The Tropical Eastern Pacific Secondary Disturbances, Recovery and Modeling of Population and Community Responses. Peter Glynn, University of Miami Rosensteil School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences This research will continue a long-term study that has focused on ecological disturbances to eastern Pacific coral reefs that accompanied the sever and historically unprecedented 1982-83 El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The study involves international collaboration with host- county research teams and primary field sites in Costa Rica, Panama, and the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador), areas heavily impacted by the 1982-83 ENSO. Dr. Glynn will lead the research to continue (a) with the physical and biotic monitoring of eastern Pacific coral reefs initiated in the early-mid 1970s, (b) investigating the responses of different coral species to ENSO stressors, (c) studying coral reproductive ecology as it relates to recruitment success, and (d) documenting coral community recovery. New research directions include (e) remote sensing, which will attempt to link coral bleaching/mortality with local and global scale sea surface temperatures by means of synoptic and repeated measurements, and (f) modeling of coral pop ulation and community dynamics based on mechanistic relationships between temperature, predation, coral growth, and survivorship derived from field monitoring and experimental results. Because important secondary disturbances are still occurring and reef recovery has been slow, it is necessary to continue this study in order to understand the variety of changes involved and the full impact of a major disturbance on eastern Pacific coral survival and reef building. We are hopeful that ENSO warming disturbances can provide some insight to the probable changes in coral reefs worldwide if projected global warming causes repeated and/or protracted sea temperature increases comparable to the 1982-83 ENSO. Quantitative Aspects of Prey Chemical Defenses Mark Hay, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill This project will extend the PI's current investigations on chemical mediation of seaweed-herbivore and invertebrate- predator interactions to include: (1) complex interactions of prey nutritional value with chemical and structural prey defenses, (2) an understanding of how larval and spore defenses differ from those of the adult, and why (exposure to different consumers?, increased exposure to UV without adult structures that provide shade?, etc.), and (3) the role of learned aversion by vertebrate versus invertebrate consumers in affecting both prey and consumer dynamics. Because benthic seaweeds and invertebrates play a trophically and ecologically important role in tropical and sub-tropical near-shore communities and are rich sources of novel secondary metabolites that function as defenses against consumers and have potential applications as pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and growth regulating substances, understanding how these organisms respond chemically to ecological and environmental threats can pro vide fundamental information about how marine systems function, and can suggest strategies for applied uses of marine natural products. Broadcast Spawning and the Population Ecology of Coral Reef Animals Howard Lasker, State University of New York, Buffalo The literature on marine benthic ecology and evolution has generally ignored fertilization rates as an important factor in the life histories of benthic species, many which are important resource species. These rates have implicitly been assumed to be uniformly high and thus not a terribly significant factor in the establishment of the adult populations. There are now a number of data sets which raise doubts about the validity of that assumption. The research will determine rates of fertilization among natural populations and will explore some of the factors controlling these rates in reef communities. Using the Caribbean gorgonian, Plexaura A, as a model system Drs. Lasker and Coffroth will determine rates of fertilization of eggs released in synchronous spawning events. Plexaura A is clonal and often has skewed ratios of male and female colonies on different reefs. This will enable comparison of rates from reefs which differ in current regime and in the density of male colonies. Using random amplified poly morphic DNA (RAPD) from individual planulae larvae, they will conduct paternity analyses, determine the proportion of fertilizations attributable to specific male clones, and determine the effects of clone size and distribution on fertilization. If rates are low and are affected by factors such as population density, then it will be necessary to incorporate fertilization rates in analyses of benthic population animal dynamics and evolution. The Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation on Symbiotic Cnidarians: Action Spectra, Sites of Damage, and Bleaching Michael Lesser, University of New Hampshire The decrease of the stratospheric ozone layer has resulted in an increase in the amount of harmful ultraviolet radiation reaching both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Recent data indicates that this phenomenon will also affect tropical ecosystems. Tropical ecosystems have a long evolutionary history of exposure to fluxes of UV radiation, and can provide considerable insight into evolved mechanisms of protection against the deleterious effects of UV radiation. We presently do not know with confidence the wave length-dependent efficiency (action spectrum) of UV radiation for any physiological function in symbiotic cnidarians. Widespread coral bleaching events have recently been observed following anomolously high sea surface temperatures around the world. If UV radiation synergistically interacts with increased sea water temperatures, action spectra will be required to predict what dose of UV radiation can induce bleaching, with or without an increase in sea water temperature. An important step in understa nding the bleaching phenomenon is to determine the independent and synergistic effects of temperature, visible radiation, and UV radiation on the functional biology of symbiotic associations. A Facility for Research and Education at the Caribbean Marine Research Center, Lee Stocking Island Marine Field Station. Romuald Lipcius, College of William & Mary, Virginia Institute of Marine Science The Caribbean Marine Research Center (CMRC) is one of six National Undersea Research Centers. CMRC's marine field station on Lee Stocking Island (LSI) in the Exuma Cays, Bahamas comprises 28 buildings, a 915-meter airstrip, nine research vessels, wet and dry submersibles, and recompression chamber and an underwater habitat. The station affords access to a pristine marine environment with a diverse array of tropical habitats including shallow and deep coral reefs, grassbeds, sand flats, mangroves, submerged carbonate terraces, subsea caves, blue holes, tidal channels and stromatolites, a unique bio-geological feature. During 1993, 131 visiting scientists and students conducted research in the fields of benthic ecology, invertebrate biology, fisheries ecology, oceanography, coral reef ecology, paleo-oceanography, macroalgal ecology, aquaculture, global climate change, coral bleaching and marine geology. In addition, a limited number of field courses and workshops were held at LSI. However, the station is hinde red by a paucity of accommodations for visiting scientists, and the lack of a suitable lecture and workshop facility, which prevents CMRC from meeting numerous requests to conduct field courses, workshops and research. The proposed partnership between CMRC, The College of William & Mary (W&M), and NSF would significantly enhanced the utility of one of the most productivity marine field stations in the Caribbean. Specifically this project will provide for the construction of a dormitory and lecture/workshop building at LSI. Key contributions by CMRC include property for the facility, support services, and administrative framework for coordination of activities, and maintenance of the building over the facility's lifetime. Path of Carbon in Photosynthesis and Release of Glycerol by Zooxanthellae Leonard Muscatine, University of California Los Angeles One of the most intriguing, and enigmatic phenomena in the field of coral reef ecology is the symbiotic relationship between the coral polyp and the nutrient producing dinoflagellate that it hosts. This relationship is the key feature in the stability of coral reefs and many of the organisms which reside there. The objective of this project is to study the translocation of carbon from symbiotic dinoflagellates to the coral host cells. This will be achieved by a revolutionary approach to studying this relationship, by artificially altering the biochemical carbon pathways, and evaluating the subsequent metabolism of the coral polyp and the photosynthetic capacities of the dinoflagellates. This shall give us new insights on the nutritional relationship between the two. Dr. Muscatine has a string of success with prior NSF awards and is at the forefront in this field of study. His project will help to achieve two objectives: 1) further contribute to our understanding of the role of coral symbioses, which could po tentially have biotechnological value, and 2) provide another opportunity for collaborative work with Russian scientist in U.S. laboratories. Housing Facility for Visiting Scientists Award Valerie Paul, University of Guam The University of Guam Marine Laboratory will build a housing facility for accommodating visiting researchers including visiting graduate students. The 2000 sq ft building will contain three bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a kitchen, and a living area for dormitory style accommodations and a separate suite with two bedrooms, one bath, and a kitchen for an apartment style unit. Earlier support allowed the university to complete the architectural and engineering plans for this building. Such a facility is considered extremely important because 1) the institution is in an isolated academic environment and visiting investigators are a valuable resource for interactions and new ideas, and 2) skyrocketing rents and a serious housing shortage combine to make it difficult to impossible to find adequate lodging for visitors staying less than 6 months. The University of Guam Laboratory supports the research of 8 full-time faculty, numerous graduate and undergraduate students, as well as visiting investigators. The research dem ands on facility have increased due to the addition of new faculty at the laboratory, the recent establishment of collaborative programs between the Marine Laboratory and the University of Hawaii and the University of the Ryukyus (Okinawa, Japan), and the awareness of the Marine Laboratory as a resource for coral reef research by over 550 scientists who attended the 7th International Coral Reef Symposium on Guam in June 1992. The new building will allow the support of increasing numbers of visiting scientists that wish to conduct research at the laboratory , which will in turn enhance the research environment. Assessing the Chemical Defenses of Caribbean Sponges Joseph Pawlik, University of North Carolina Wilmington Sponges are important components of benthic marine communities, particularly on coral reefs. Organic extracts of their tissues have yielded a wealth of unusual chemical compounds that are not known to be involved in primary metabolism. These secondary metabolites have a diversity of pharmacological effects in laboratory assays, but it is unclear why sponges produce them. The most commonly held theory is that these compounds are distasteful to potential predators. The proposed research will provide an assessment of the chemical defenses of Caribbean demo sponges, a group whose taxonomy and chemistry is fairly well described. The investigation will proceed within a theoretical framework established by previous research on the chemical ecology of terrestrial plants and marine algae. Overall, this research project represents the first systematic investigation of the chemical defenses of tropical marine sponges. The results will be useful in judging the general applicability of optimal defense theories based on s tudies of terrestrial ecosystems. On the Abundance, Dynamics and Regulation of Damselfish Populations Russell Schmitt and Sally Holbrook, University of California Santa Barbara The aim of the work is to understand the dynamics and regulation of structured, open populations, which typify most marine reef fishes and invertebrates. While there is broad agreement among ecologists that attributes of populations are shared by more than an single process (e.g., availability of propagules, competition within and between life stages, competition with other species, predation), there remains considerable disagreement regarding their relative importance. There also is some confusion about what roles various processes have in producing dynamics; few empirical workers have distinguished between processes that regulate populations (i.e., bound fluctuations) as opposed to those that cause variation around the mean abundance. An enormous amount is known about the caused of fluctuations in abundance of reef organisms, but very little is known about what regulates their populations. This work will contribute in several key ways to understanding the general issue of dynamics and regulation. It is one of the first comprehensive, pluralistic evaluations of reef fishes that will distinguish effects of processes on regulation and on variation. Second, it will use for the first time operational definitions and analytical protocols for quantitative assessments of the relative importance of various processes. As such, the research could yield standard approaches and procedures to address relative importance. Third, the application of infrared video technology enables the exploration of little studied but crucial processes of settlement and early mortality. Zooplankton Capture by Corals: Effects of Water Movement and Prey Escape Kenneth Sebens and Jennifer Purcell, University of Maryland Information on water flow in coral reef environments has generally been done to quantify mass transport across reefs or to identify important processes generating nutrient flux from reefs. This project will investigate the effects of water flow on several aspects of the feeding biology of corals. Field measurements of feeding rates on four species of corals will be made with prey sampling by an automated pump/sampler and field flume that allows concurrent measurements of water flow and prey availability. Feeding experiments will be manipulated by varying flow rate, prey type, and food availability and will be conducted over several days with different flow conditions. Capture events and prey type, and food availability and will be conducted over several days with different flow conditions. Capture events and prey escape behavior will be filmed using underwater video. Another important aspect of feeding biology in coral reefs is the small scale water flow around corals in the field. This will be accomplished with three self- contained underwater thermistors flowmeters with 2 mm spatial resolution, based on the design of LaBarber and Vogel (1976). The data collected will be used to characterize the general flow regime at the site, providing new information about the flow environment of coral reefs in Jamaica and other sites in the Caribbean. Marine Biotechnology Fellowship: Natural Products from Common Shallow-water Soft Corals of Guam: Reproductive Considerations Marc Slattery, University of Mississippi (Formerly at University of Guam) This research project will utilize analytical chemical techniques to evaluate the importance of secondary metabolites and steroids in the reproduction of 3 species of soft corals from Guam. This project builds on ongoing research which has identified and examined the importance of secondary metabolites, organic extracts, and morphological defenses in soft coral predator deterrence. This project will extract, isolate, and determine the structures of new secondary metabolites in adult colonies and their eggs. Temporal changes in concentrations of these compounds will be correlated with reproductive indices to assess the role of the compounds in maturation and spawning. Standard bioassays will be conducted to guide isolation of bioactive compounds and to determine the importance of isolated natural products in egg release, sperm chemotaxis, and feeding deterrence. Novel compounds identified in this project will expand upon a growing database of metabolites that can be used as chemotaxonomic markers and will be incorporated into existing pharmacological programs. Additionally, this project will contribute significant in sights into the reproductive biology and chemical ecology of the common soft corrals on the shallow reefs surrounding Guam. The Physiology of Sclerochronology: Mechanism and Variation in Formation of High Density Bands in the Massive Coral Montastrea Annularis Alina Szmant and Peter Swart, University of Miami, Rosensteil School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences; Richard Dodge, Nova University and James Porter, University of Georgia High density (HD) bands mark annual cycles of growth in X- radiographs of reef coral skeletons and presumably form due to physiological response to seasonal cycles of temperature and light. However, the mechanism of formation has not been established for any coral. The HD band is usually used to define the annual band, and thus understanding its formation, and the controls on variability in its timing is important. In the research, a conceptual model of how density bands form, based on physiological and morphological data obtained with earlier NSF funding, is will be developed. Four specific aspects of the work will include: (1) development of a mechanistic mathematical model for the formation of the HD band of Montastrea annularis, a major coral used in paleoclimate work; (2) conducting an in situ experiment to test the validity of the model; (3) evaluation of the genetic vs. environmental components of variation in time of formation of the HD band; and (4) assessment of the variation among corals in the re lationship between HD bands and stable isotope profiles. This study will provide the type of environmental physiological data needed for the precise use of coral density bands for paleoclimatology. Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation on the Biology of Caribbean Reef Corals Gerard Wellington, University of Houston Recent studies indicate that ultraviolet radiation can penetrate to considerable depths on tropical reefs. Persistent high levels of UV penetration, resulting from extended periods of calm sea conditions, have been shown to induce stress leading to the loss of symbiotic zooxanthellae (i.e., bleaching) in reef-building corals. These conditions may have contributed significantly to the regional mass coral bleaching events observed in the Caribbean during 1987 and 1990. This project will continue monitoring penetration of UV radiation, sea temperatures, and recovery of coral exposed to UV radiation. In addition, the project will be expanded to evaluate the effects of UV radiation on the early life-history stages, namely planula larvae and newly-recruited juveniles, of predominant coral species. While increases in UV radiation are predicted to be minimal at low latitudes, increased frequency of calm sea conditions predicted by global warming will lead to enhanced water column clarity and high UV penetration with subsequent negative effects on reef corals. This project, by experimentally defining the maximum UV intensities that can be tolerated by larval and juveniles corals, will provide insight into the role that current intensities of UV radiation play in limiting recruitment and shaping subsequent coral community structure. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Mar 11 07:55:40 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA29836; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 07:55:27 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA10138; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 12:26:57 GMT Received: from aoml.erl.gov by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA10133; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 07:26:56 -0500 Received: (from hendee@localhost) by aoml.erl.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3.CAR) id HAA14097; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 07:04:24 - 0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 07:04:23 -0500 (EST) From: "James C. Hendee" X-Sender: hendee@wave To: AMORIM cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Research requests by subscribers In-Reply-To: <199603111050.FAA10013@reef.aoml.erl.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Greetings, Amorim! Requests like yours for basic research are better filled when they are not urgent and when you can get to a good library or do a literature search using DIALOG or other similar services. However, we have set up an area at our Home Page for gaining access to (hopefully) some key references in coral health research. In your particular instance, I would suggest going to our Literature Abstracts area at: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/bib/lit.abstracts.html choose "Indexed by Senior Author", and search for the work of Dr. James Porter, and colleagues. In your particular case, I would think two good starting references would be: "Detecting Change in Coral Reef Communities: A Comparison of Survey Methods" (Meier, O. W. and J. W. Porter, 1991) and, "Species Profiles: Life Histories and Environmental Requirements of Coastal Fishes and Invertebrates (South Florida). Reef-building corals." (Porter, J. W, 1987). See the Page for complete journal citation. I realize the Literature Abstracts area is not up to date (1994, 95, 96 missing), but such are the problems with reduced funding for a project. Hope this helps... Sincerely yours, Jim Hendee +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ | James C. Hendee | Internet: hendee@aoml.noaa.gov| | Coral Health and | | | Monitoring Program | Voice: 305 361-4380 | | Ocean Chemistry Division | Fax: 305 361-4582 | | NOAA/AOML | COASTAL RBBS: 305 361-4524 | | 4301 Rickenbacker Causeway | | | Miami, FL 33149-1026 | http://coral.aoml.erl.gov | +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ On Mon, 11 Mar 1996, AMORIM wrote: > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:40:02 gmt+0200 > From: AMORIM > To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov > Subject: diversity indexes > > > > Dear all, > I'm doing a research work on comparing coral reef fishes in two > areas, using a video camera. > What I need to know, urgently, is how to compare, statisticly, > diversity indexes to see if they are significant. > Are there any scientific papers on similar studies? > I would appreciate it if you would help me. Thanks! > Sorry for any duplication! > > -- > amorim > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Mar 11 08:21:48 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA00036; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 08:21:45 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA10174; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 13:08:50 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA10169; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 08:08:49 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id IAA10842; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 08:08:48 -0500 Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 08:08:48 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Response etiquette In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear subscribers, Please ensure that your responses to fellow subscribers go to whom you intend them to go to by double-checking your "To: " line in your mailer. I sometimes get messages which are addressed to owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov and have no way of forwarding them to the intended recipient if I don't have that person's e-mail address handy. Also, please be sure that replies intended to go to a subscriber personally are not accidentally posted to the entire list. On the other hand, if you feel your response would be of value to the entire list, then by all means please DO post your message for all. Many thanks for attention and consideration. Sincerely yours, Jim Hendee coral-list administrator From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Mar 11 08:47:41 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA00431; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 08:47:37 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA10222; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 13:26:31 GMT Received: from jaguar1.usouthal.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA10217; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 08:26:29 -0500 Received: by jaguar1.usouthal.edu (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA03265; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 07:24:30 -0600 Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 07:24:29 -0600 (CST) From: "Richard B. Aronson" Subject: Re: diversity indexes To: AMORIM Cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov In-Reply-To: <199603111050.FAA10013@reef.aoml.erl.gov> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear AMORIM, This reference will answer your questions about video transect methods: Aronson, R.B. et al. 1994. Large-scale, long-term monitoring of Caribbean coral reefs: simple, quick, inexpensive techniques. Atoll Research Bulletin 421:1-19. Rich Aronson ______________________________________________________________________________ Richard B. Aronson Dauphin Island Sea Lab P. O. Box 369-370 Dauphin Island, AL 36528 Voice: (334) 861-7567 Fax: (334) 861-7540 email: raronson@jaguar1.usouthal.edu On Mon, 11 Mar 1996, AMORIM wrote: > > > Dear all, > I'm doing a research work on comparing coral reef fishes in two > areas, using a video camera. > What I need to know, urgently, is how to compare, statisticly, > diversity indexes to see if they are significant. > Are there any scientific papers on similar studies? > I would appreciate it if you would help me. Thanks! > Sorry for any duplication! > > -- > amorim > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Mar 11 08:51:42 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA00510; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 08:51:39 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA10191; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 13:19:51 GMT Received: from gol1.gol.com by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA10186; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 08:19:41 -0500 Received: from yok69-136.gol.com (yok69-136.gol.com [206.159.69.136]) by gol1.gol.com (8.7.4/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA12841 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 22:23:24 +0900 (JST) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 22:23:24 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199603111323.WAA12841@gol1.gol.com> X-Sender: mnoah@popmail.gol.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: "Michael D. Noah" Subject: Re: diversity indexes Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: At 10:40 AM 3/11/96 gmt+0200, you wrote: > > >Dear all, >I'm doing a research work on comparing coral reef fishes in two >areas, using a video camera. >What I need to know, urgently, is how to compare, statisticly, >diversity indexes to see if they are significant. >Are there any scientific papers on similar studies? >I would appreciate it if you would help me. Thanks! >Sorry for any duplication! > >-- >amorim I'm sure that I'll be corrected quickly by this list membership if I'm wrong (and I'll start off by saying that I'm by no means a statistician), but I researched similarity and diversity indices in depth when I was still in my graduate program back in the early 80's. I've since held the view that for the most part, since diversity indices (or any index, for that matter - i.e., habitat suitability indices) attempt to represent in a single value (and lose much of that information in the process), the mass of "information" that exists in large, often multidimensional (species, space and time) data sets, statistical inferences between indices are usually meaningless. An example: two or more diversity indices can be identical in their respective values, but the underlying data upon which they are each based can be entirely different. I won't go into the mathematics here, but suffice it to say that you can generate the exact same diversity index (i.e., Shannon and Weaver's H') from any number of data sets, each differing from the others in the number of species, the number of individuals within each species, and even the composition of the community encountered. Since the indices can be identical, statistical tests will identify no significant difference between the data sets, yet these data sets can be widely divergent. I also recall reading once that species diversity indices in particular are often highly correlated with each other, due simply to the formula that is used to calculate them - I apologize, I don't recall off-hand the paper that I read that described this "phenomenon (?)," but I'd be happy to look it up in my collection if you're interested. Combining this problem with the failure of most data commonly encountered in ecological field studies to even closely satisfy the assumptions of classical statistical methods and probability theory (missing data, mixed data [binary, rank, quantitative], independent and normal error distributions, homogeneity of variances, additivity of effects, etc.), I think one would be hard pressed to stand on any statistically "significant differences" between two or more indices. I said "usually" above; there may be limited instances where indices can be used as predictor variables, IF considerable thought is given a priori to the underlying hypotheses and the potential relationships that may exist between the variables. Assume, for example, that you have an impacted area and a control area, and you want to develop an index that "describes" that impact. After sampling both areas and using the log-transformed abundance values of the species abundances encountered in a discriminant analysis, the linear additive discriminate function of the log-transformed species abundances would represent (by definition) the best predictor of that impact, and the most efficient test of the null hypothesis: "no impact." The definition of impacted and control areas could be incorporated into the analysis by first performing a cluster analysis to group the samples into faunally homogenous assemblages. If a two-group solution could somehow be interpreted as representing the impacted and control groups of samples that are spatially contiguous, discriminant analysis could be used to define an index of the faunal differences between those two groups. If, however, the two groups were *derived* by cluster analysis, then no significance test would be appropriate since the two groups were created from the outset so as to maximize the differences on the discriminating variables. However, if the groups were defined a priori, then tests of the null hypothesis in species composition between impacted and control areas may be appropriate. My suggestion: first, know what question you are asking, and then second, try to use a statistical method that retains more of the underlying biological information. As for papers that you might want to consider, try R. Pikul, 1974, Development of environmental indices, IN Statistical and mathematical aspects of pollution problems. J.W. Pratt (Ed.). Mercel Dekker, New York. Hope this helps Michael Noah _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ U.S. Navy, COMFLEACT Yokosuka _/_/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ Environmental Department _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ PSC 473 Box 1 Code 1000 _/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/ FPO AP 96349-1100 _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ 243-7311 / 011-81-311-743-7311 FAX 243-9027 / 011-81-311-743-9027 Michael D. Noah mnoah@gol.com "Mother, mother ocean, I have heard your call" J. Buffett U N I V E R S I T Y o f N E B R A S K A C O R N H U S K E R S N a t i o n a l C h a m p i o n s 1 9 7 0 - 7 1 1 9 9 4 - 9 5 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Mar 11 11:44:51 1996 Received: from dzowo (dzowo.uem.mz [196.24.128.66]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA04351 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 11:43:56 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199603111643.LAA04351@aoml.noaa.gov> Received: from mfca.uem.mz by dzowo.uem.mz id <13090-0@dzowo.uem.mz>; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 18:39:11 -0200 Received: from mfca by mfca.uem.mz (UUPC/extended 1.12k) with UUCP for hendee@wave.aoml.noaa.gov; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 18:31:49 -20000 From: AMORIM To: "James C.Hendee" Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 18:31:48 gmt+0200 Subject: Research requests by subscribers CC: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Status: RO X-Status: ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- On Mon, 11 Mar 1996, Jim wrote: Greetings, Amorim! Requests like yours for basic research are better filled when they are not urgent and when you can get to a good library or do a literature search using DIALOG or other similar services. However, we have set up an area at our Home Page for gaining access to (hopefully) some key references in coral health research. In your particular instance, I would suggest going to our Literature Abstracts area at: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/bib/lit.abstracts.html choose "Indexed by Senior Author", and search for the work of Dr. James Porter, and colleagues. In your particular case, I would think two good starting references would be: "Detecting Change in Coral Reef Communities: A Comparison of Survey Methods" (Meier, O. W. and J. W. Porter, 1991) and, "Species Profiles: Life Histories and Environmental Requirements of Coastal Fishes and Invertebrates (South Florida). Reef-building corals." (Porter, J. W, 1987). See the Page for complete journal citation. I realize the Literature Abstracts area is not up to date (1994, 95, 96 missing), but such are the problems with reduced funding for a project. Hope this helps... Sincerely yours, Jim Hendee +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ | James C. Hendee | Internet: hendee@aoml.noaa.gov| | Coral Health and | | | Monitoring Program | Voice: 305 361-4380 | | Ocean Chemistry Division | Fax: 305 361-4582 | | NOAA/AOML | COASTAL RBBS: 305 361-4524 | | 4301 Rickenbacker Causeway | | | Miami, FL 33149-1026 | http://coral.aoml.erl.gov | +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ On Mon, 11 Mar 1996, AMORIM wrote: > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:40:02 gmt+0200 > From: AMORIM > To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov > Subject: diversity indexes > > Dear all, > I'm doing a research work on comparing coral reef fishes in two > areas, using a video camera. > What I need to know, urgently, is how to compare, statisticly, > diversity indexes to see if they are significant. > Are there any scientific papers on similar studies? > I would appreciate it if you would help me. Thanks! > Sorry for any duplication! > > -- > amorim > Dear Jim, Thank you very much for your advise. If I'm not mistaken, the priority of my message was normal, although I wrote "urgently" on the message.I decided to ask for urgent help to the coral-list because I need the information before thursday to finish my prothocol and it's a subject that the Scientific Commission of Eduardo Mondlane's University (where I study) advised to include in my prothocol, last friday. I've searched on the library and found nothing. The library is also very poor in abstracts and the books, although very good and updated, are few. The reason why I did not try the Internet is because I cannot have access to it,yet, here in Mozambique. Even for the e-mail, I think this service is relative new in Mozambique. Once again, thank you very much for your message. -- amorim From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Mar 11 12:37:04 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA05412; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 12:36:59 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA10715; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 17:22:29 GMT Received: from pyxis.rtpnc.epa.gov by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA10710; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 12:22:25 -0500 Received: from mr.rtpnc.epa.gov by mail.rtpnc.epa.gov (PMDF V4.3-10 #8611) id <01I27N9GJR9C8X083F@mail.rtpnc.epa.gov>; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 12:17:12 -0500 (EST) Received: with PMDF-MR; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 12:16:15 EST MR-Received: by mta CARINA; Relayed; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 12:16:15 -0500 Alternate-recipient: prohibited Disclose-recipients: prohibited Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 12:00:00 -0500 (EST) From: KENNARD POTTS 202-260-9178 Subject: U.S. Reef Status To: CORAL-LIST@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Message-id: <01I27N9N5XQA8X083F@mr.rtpnc.epa.gov> X-Envelope-to: CORAL-LIST@REEF.AOML.NOAA.GOV MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Posting-date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 12:15:00 -0500 (EST) Importance: normal Priority: normal X400-MTS-identifier: [;51612111306991/4264417@MAIL] A1-type: MAIL Hop-count: 1 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Can anyone identify a reference or documentation which would characterize a percentage of degradation of United States reefs? I know that Wilkinson was the basis for the International Coral Reef Initiative's global characterization of 10% of the worlds reefs being degraded beyond recovery. Has any similar work been done for the U.S. reefs? By U.S. reefs, this would include Florida, Hawaii, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa and Northern Mariana. Any suggestions? Ken Potts U.S. EPA Oceans and Coastal Protection Division (4504F) 401 M Street, SW Washington, DC 20460 Email: POTTS.KENNARD@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV Thanks, Ken From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Mar 12 15:56:12 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA24896; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 15:56:06 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA12302; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 20:35:48 GMT Received: from esa.org by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA12297; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 15:35:37 -0500 From: Bruce@esa.org Received: from Ecological-Message_Server by esa.org with WordPerfect_Office; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 15:45:32 -0500 Message-Id: X-Mailer: WordPerfect Office 4.0 Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 15:26:48 -0500 To: coral@coral.aoml.erl.gov, coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Injection Wells in West Maui (fwd) -Reply Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The Estuaries Section of the Americian Fisheries Society is looking for short articles, announcements (job, conferences, seminars), essays, poems, photos, etc. for the Spring Newsletter. Areas can include but are not limited to science, environment, industry, policy, litigation, economics, and education. Topics should be relevant to ecology, estuarine sciences, agricultural scienes, aquaculture and fisheries, etc. The spring deadline is March 31, 1996. Materials can be forwarded via email, fax, or mail. Please send contributions to: Bruce M. Kahn 2010 Massachusetts Ave., NW Suite 400 Washington, D.C. 20036 Tel: 202-833-8748 Fax: 202-833-8775 Internet: Bruce@esa.org The objective of the Estuaries Section of the American Fisheries Society is to encourage the exchange of information pertinent to the broad scope of multidisciplinary estuarine issues. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Mar 13 03:14:53 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA02953; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 03:14:51 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id IAA12865; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 08:09:01 GMT Received: from crab.jcu.edu.au by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id DAA12860; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 03:08:53 -0500 Received: by crab.jcu.edu.au id AA01951 (5.65v3.2/IDA-1.5); Wed, 13 Mar 1996 18:04:01 +1000 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 18:04:01 +1000 (EST) From: Mr Rohan Pratt To: Coral List Subject: Coral Reef Restoration Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I have been working on restoring coral reefs by transplanting coral fragments for two years as my PhD. I have not yet published any of my work, but am happy to provide some general information on how to successfully transplant coral fragments. For those interested, write to me directly. I know of only a few researchers currently working on restoration, and would be keen to hear what anyone else is currently doing on this topic. Rohan Pratt Dept. Marine Biology James Cook University Qld, Australia From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Mar 13 07:56:45 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA05066; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 07:56:43 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA13054; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:43:16 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA13049; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 07:43:14 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id HAA14585; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 07:43:14 -0500 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 07:43:14 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: RE: diversity indexes (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: This message, originally sent to owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, is forwarded herewith: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 07:16:02 -0500 (EST) From: James C. Hendee To: coral@coral Subject: RE: diversity indexes (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 16:46:00 -0800 (PST) From: John McManus To: owner-coral-list Subject: RE: diversity indexes TO:coral list In reply to Amorim (and for others who are interested) there are several approaches to statistically comparing diversity indices. If you have data leading to two indices, you can calculate a variance for each index and conduct a t-test. The procedure is in: Magurran, A.E. 1988. Ecological Diversity and its Measurement. Croom Helm, London. 179 p. A more powerful approach would be to use a randomization approach. Randomization may become a standard way to do most statistical comparisons in the future, but is not there yet, so it might require some programming. Neither approach makes me comfortable about comparing diversities in two areas or one area over time, because they do not account for geographic variability in any straight-forward way. Instead, I prefer to take several sample units of equal size in each of the two areas (or times) and treat the diversity indices as if they were a variable such as "fish abundance per transect", calculating mean diversities, variances on the mean, and doing standard statistical tests. However, this only works for transects of the same length and width, as corrections for size are complicated. This will tell you if there is a difference in diversity "per transect" between areas or times. The pros and cons of using the Shannon versus other indices are covered in Magurran's book, which is highly recommended. I like to define the Shannon value as "diversity" and then to analyze the changes in diversity over time or space in terms of changes in abundance, richness, species per 1,000 individuals and evenness (H'/log(s)). That way I identify a pattern and then seek to explain it. Examples are found in our book "The Resource Ecology of the Bolinao Coral Reef" which is unfortunately out of print, but in the collections of some coral reef scientists. If you send us an address, we can send you photocopies of the relevant pages. The whole book is available as a photocopy from ICLARM for $17.50. Sincerely, Dr. John W. McManus Program Leader, Aquatic Environments Program Project Leader, ReefBase Project International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) 205 Salcedo Street, Legaspi Village, Makati, Metro Manila 1229 Philippines Tel. No. (63-2) 8180466/Fax No.: (63-2) 8163183 E-Mail: J.McManus@cgnet.com ---------- From: owner-coral-list To: coral-list Subject: diversity indexes Date: Monday, March 11, 1996 10:40AM Dear all, I'm doing a research work on comparing coral reef fishes in two areas, using a video camera. What I need to know, urgently, is how to compare, statisticly, diversity indexes to see if they are significant. Are there any scientific papers on similar studies? I would appreciate it if you would help me. Thanks! Sorry for any duplication! -- amorim From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Mar 13 07:57:20 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA05080; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 07:57:18 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA13046; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:41:55 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA13041; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 07:41:53 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id HAA14580; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 07:41:53 -0500 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 07:41:52 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Other Mailing Lists Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Requests have been made for other list-server locations. For those of you interested in other marine science-oriented mailing lists, the following URL has a very comprehensive list of all kinds of subjects: http://www.NeoSoft.com/internet/paml/bysubj.html Another list that is not on there, but is of wide interest to marine biologists, is the Marine Biology list-server. Contact Mike Marshall at marshall@marinelab.sarasota.fl.us. Following are some excerpts from that list regarding some other marine science disciplines. The list includes cnidarians, mangroves, crustaceans, sea-grasses, sharks, fish, the deep-sea, aquariums and more. Sincerely yours, Jim Hendee =========== Cnidarians: Date: Fri, 8 Dec 95 10:03:24 +0900 From: Masaya Toyokawa To: marbio@marinelab.sarasota.fl.us Subject: Re: marbio: cniarian mailing list [The following text is in the "iso-2022-jp" character set] [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] At 5:30 PM 95.12.7 -0500, Susan E Reidy wrote: >Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone knew of any Cnidarian mailing lists? > Thanks very much, Sue Reidy > send mail to: listserv@uci.edu with a message: subscribe cnidaria should be replaced by your name. masaya --- mtoyokaw@nria.affrc.go.jp =========== Mangroves: From: Mike van Keulen Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 10:11:16 +0800 (WST) Subject: marbio: Yet another e-mail discussion list - MANGROVE Hello all, On the instigation of Dr Eric Paling at Murdoch University, I have recently established a new global e-mail discussion list devoted to all aspects of mangrove research. The information notice follows this message. To reach as many potential subscribers as possible, I have also posted this message to the discussion lists: ALGAE-L, MARBIO and COASTNET. If you also subscribe to those lists, please bear with me for the overlap. If anyone has any further suggestions for spreading the word, please let me know. For any list-related/administrative issues, please contact me on: keulen@murdoch.edu.au For any mangrove-related issues, contact Eric Plaing on: paling@essun1.murdoch.edu.au - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to the list, simply send a message to: majordomo@essun1.murdoch.edu.au with the the line: subscribe mangrove in the body of the message. You will receive additional information on how to use the list on subscribing, including instructions on how to obtain help and extra information. Best regards, Mike =========== Shark Lists: Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 00:34:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "Selna L. Kaplan" To: marbio@marinelab.sarasota.fl.us Cc: Martha Subject: Re: marbio: Shark lists / Fisheries list On Tue, 24 Oct 1995, Martha wrote: > I agree with you about the list being too broad. I'm interested in a > list just on shark biology. Do you know of any or do you know how I > could start one? On Tue, 24 Oct 1995, Jeff Rodzen wrote: > Does anyone out there know of, and have addresses for, any fisheries > lists??? There are two shark biology lists. The first, SHARK-L, is geared for serious amateurs, although several biologists participate. It can be subscribed to at listserv@utcvm.utc.edu . The second, ELASMO-L, is for more technical research on sharks, rays, and chimeras, and is produced by the American Elasmobranch Society. Contact Sandy Moss at smoss@umassd.edu for subscription info. The principle fisheries biology list is FISH-ECOLOGY . It can be subscribed via listserv@searn.sunet.se . - Bruce Heyer University of California, San Francisco endo@itsa.UCSF.edu ================== Seagrass forum: Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 17:00:37 +0800 (WST) From: Mike van Keulen To: marbio@marinelab.sarasota.fl.us Subject: marbio: Announcing SEAGRASS_FORUM Dear fellow marine biologists, I thought this might be a way of reducing some of the load :-) I am pleased to announce the launch of SEAGRASS_FORUM, a global e-mail discussion list oriented to all aspects of seagrass research. The description notice follows this message. To reach as many potential subscribers as possible, I have also posted this message to the discussion lists: ALGAE-L, MARINE-L and COASTNET. If you have already received this message, I apologise. For any list-related/administrative issues, please contact me on: keulen@murdoch.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to the list, simply send a message to: majordomo@essun1.murdoch.edu.au with the the line: subscribe seagrass_forum in the body of the message. You will receive additional information on how to use the list on subscribing, including instructions on how to obtain help and extra information. I look forward to discussing seagrass-related matters with you in SEAGRASS_FORUM. Best regards, Mike ===================== Date: Wed, 25 Oct 95 08:16:41 BDB From: "Euclydes A. Santos" To: MARBIO@marinelab.sarasota.fl.us Subject: marbio: FISICOMP-L and subscription volume [ stuff deleted... ] For those interested in physiology of marine animals I would point to the existence of FISICOMP-L (Comparative Physiology Discussion List). This list is just the oposite of MARBIO, i.e., it has almost no posting at all. Some new blood may be more than welcome. To join? Send to LISTESERV@IF.USP.BR a single line msg: SUBSCRIBE FISICOMP-L Your Name . =============== Deepsea: Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 11:20:01 -0700 From: "Andrew G. McArthur" To: marbio@marinelab.sarasota.fl.us Subject: marbio: DEEPSEA Mailing List Join the DEEPSEA electronic mailing list! The DEEPSEA mailing list exists to serve as an electronic forum for the world's community of deep-sea and hydrothermal vent/seep biologists, oceanographers, and geologists. By joining DEEPSEA, you will recieve messages from the DEEPSEA membership by email. Frequent uses of DEEPSEA include searches for specialist literature or opinion, specimen exchange, technical discussions, and general discussions about deep-sea marine biology and geology. As of October 1995, DEEPSEA had over 600 members representing more than 35 countries. Moving to the USENET/BIONET soon! To join DEEPSEA, send email to listserv@uvvm.uvic.ca with "SUB DEEPSEA yourfullname" in the body of the letter. After joining you will receive email with full instructions on how to best utilize DEEPSEA. --------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that my email has changed: amcarthu@uvaix.uvic.ca But don't worry, email sent to my old address will still get to me (for now). --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew G. McArthur Department of Biology University of Victoria P.O. Box 1700 Victoria, British Columbia Canada, V8W 2Y2 =============== Aquarium: Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 15:10:19 -0400 (AST) From: Sophie Estelle Mckay To: marbio@marinelab.sarasota.fl.us Subject: marbio: Aquarium listserv I thought that some of you may be interested in the following listserv which discusses subjects related to fish and aquaria. Network-wide ID: AQUARIUM full address and list description: AQUARIUM@EMUVM1.CC.EMORY.EDU To subscribe send message to: LISTSERV@LISTSERV.NET Message sould read: SUBSCRIBE AQUARIUM Sophie ============== Water Management: Dialog-Agua-L is a forum for all whose lives and careers are involved with the use and management of water. The discussion list is moderated by the Florida Center for Environmental Studies, housed at Florida Atlantic University. The dialog was originally set up to serve the needs of the Inter-American Dialog on Water Management (IADWM) and the Florida Center for Environmental Studies (CES). The IADWM seeks to share useful water-related information of all kinds among water managers across the hemisphere. CES is dedicated to research, information and training in the area of tropical and subtropical freshwater and estuarine ecosystems worldwide. It represents all ten universities in the Florida State University System, and brings resources of these universities and state agencies together to address complex water resource problems. Dialog-Agua-L is guided by the IADWM secretariat, located at the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, D.C., and CES. We welcome suggestions and material from all, and have no restrictions on material other than its relevance to our program. To subscribe, send a message to: mailserv@acc.fau.edu The body of the message should read: SUB DIALOG-AGUA-L "(your name)" END For further information, contact me at tgmessen@acc.fau.edu ============== Molluscs: Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 08:12:49 -0500 (EST) From: "Dana Denson TPA 813/744-6100 Ext. 320" To: marbio%marinelab.sarasota.fl.us%in@mr.dep.state.fl.us Cc: Peggy Morgan TPA Subject: marbio: Mollusc mailing list - thanks! Thanks to all of you who responded with information about mollusc mailing lists. Because several people also sent messages asking for what information I received on these lists, I have included it herein. Two lists which are wholly or substantially concerned with molluscs are: MOLLUSCA To subscribe, address to listproc@ucmp1.berkeley.edu With this message (only): subscribe mollusca Note the following: In the address, it is ucmp1 (one), not ucmpl (L). Also, the message should be in the order indicated above. Some sources say that your name should be in the middle, but this doesn't work. SHELLFISH To subscribe, address to shellfish-request@kenyon.edu With this message (only): subscribe Thanks again for your help! ============== NE Atlantic: Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 00:01:19 GMT From: pbrogaard@nn.apc.org To: fish-ecology@sern.sunet.se Cc: marbio@marinelab.sarasota.fl.us Subject: marbio: NE-atlant new list FISHBIO-NE-ATLANT a daily edited list, with news and letters from the whole world, but mainly addressed to academic scientists and tecnical staff who are working on the NE Atlantic area. The headlines will be: Highlights from other lists, Fishbiology, algae, assesment, otoliths, conservation, new tecnology, soft- ware, books, papers, new jobs, meetings and courses, workshops, questions from peopele to peopele, Who is Who, etc.etc. But the main reason to do this list, is the fact that now we got so many lists worldwide, so I think that there must be a need, to join an edited list, who get an fast wiev on todays headlines, specially focusing on the North east atlant (but not only, other topics can be seen, if they are interesting). Anyone can part in the discussion, just E-mail a letter to FISHBIO-NE-ATLANT@nn.apc.org Palle Brogaard, Denmark. listownr. ============== Other: Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 17:53:33 +0800 From: Melita Pennifold To: marbio@marinelab.sarasota.fl.us Subject: marbio: Other mailists Hi everybody, Several people have mentioned that this mailist is growing bigger and bigger and that maybe there should be specialised lists. Well, there are many specialised mailists already out there in the net (you just need to find them!). Here is a useful site to start looking: Marine Biology Links at http://www2.hawaii.edu/wormlab/mario.html Also here are several lists: Coral Health and Monitoring Program (CHAMP). To subscribe, send an e-mail message to: majordomo@reef.aoml.noaa.gov with the following text (only) in the body of the message: subscribe coral-list Seagrass Research Discussion List. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to: majordomo@essun1.murdoch.edu.au seagrass_forum Crustacean Discussion Group. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to: LISTSERV@SIVM.SI.EDU. with the following text (only) in the body of the message:CRUST-L XXXX XXXXX, where the XXXX XXXXX = your name Just to name a few! There will also be a list for polychaete and other wormy things soon (called ANNELIDA). If you are interested in polychaetes there is magazine on the net called Chaetozone and also a polychaete online researches list. These two groups plus many others are listed in Marine Biology Links (see above). I hope this is useful to someone out there. Melita Pennifold From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Mar 13 07:59:21 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA05109; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 07:59:19 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA13067; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:46:00 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA13062; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 07:45:59 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id HAA14592; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 07:45:58 -0500 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 07:45:58 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Coral Reef Restoration - Reply (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 11:57:00 -0500 (EST) From: KENNARD POTTS 202-260-9178 To: owner-coral-list Subject: Re: Coral Reef Restoration - Reply (fwd) Dear Dr. Jameson: I have noted your interactions with the list and thought that you may be of help to me. I am working on an ecosystem protection document for coral reefs with EPA. I am searching for appropriate case studies for inclusion into this document. This document is intended for users at the ground level. (resource managers) This document looks at the watershed and integrated coastal zone approachs to expand current efforts to protect near shore reefs. If you could suggest any possible examples for case studies, I would be most appreciative. Ken Potts U. S. EPA Oceans and Coastal Protection (4504F) 401 M Street, SW Washington DC 20460 Phone 202-260-7893 Fax 202-260-9920 Thank You, Ken From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Mar 13 15:20:48 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA19421; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 15:20:43 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA13712; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 20:07:53 GMT Received: from dub-img-1.compuserve.com by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA13707; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 15:07:50 -0500 Received: by dub-img-1.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) id PAA18818; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 15:03:05 -0500 Date: 13 Mar 96 12:44:08 EST From: "Jack, Sobel" To: Subject: Re: Fishing effects on coral Message-ID: <960313174407_555063.0_EHF74-1@CompuServe.COM> Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: On March 8, William Moreno Caycedo requested information on the effects of fishing or overfishing on corals (see below). Although this important impact has been overlooked and underestimated by many, some particularly good work on this has been published by McClanahan etal on Kenyan coral reefs. Their work was made possible by the existance of "marine no-take reserves", areas closed to fishing, that enabled comparisons between fished and unfished areas. Their work suggests that, at least in Kenya, the impacts of overfishing/fishing on corals may be more important and severe than even widely recognized problems, such as those associated with eutrophication and sedimentation. Jack Sobel, Ecosystem Scientist Center for Marine Conservation sobelj@dccmc.mhs.compuserve.com From: William Moreno Caycedo To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Fishing and its effect on coral Message-ID: Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 13:11:46 +0000 (gmt) Priority: NORMAL X-Mailer: Simeon for Windows X-Authentication: none MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk To anybody Does anybody knows anything about the effects to coral by fishing (or overfishing) in a particular area of the world. At the moment I'm trying to study this problem but at this University (Canterbury U.K) there is not much information. I would be most grateful if someone could tell me where I can obtain this kind of info. Thanks William Moreno Durrel Intitute of Conservation and Biology wm1@ukc.ac.uk From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Mar 13 18:54:54 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA21146; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 18:54:51 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id XAA13926; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 23:24:22 GMT Received: from iniki.soest.hawaii.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id SAA13921; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 18:24:18 -0500 Received: (from rgrigg@localhost) by iniki.soest.hawaii.edu (8.7.4/8.6.6) id NAA01657; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:19:19 -1000 (HST) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:19:18 -1000 (HST) From: Rick Grigg X-Sender: rgrigg@iniki To: "Jack, Sobel" cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Fishing effects on coral In-Reply-To: <960313174407_555063.0_EHF74-1@CompuServe.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Jack, For impacts of fishing on coral reefs, see also: Grigg, R.W. 1994. Effects of sewage, fishing pressure and habitat complexity on coral ecosystems and reef fishes in Hawaii. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Series 103:25-34. Richard Grigg On 13 Mar 1996, Jack, Sobel wrote: > On March 8, William Moreno Caycedo requested information on the effects > of fishing or overfishing on corals (see below). Although this important > impact has been overlooked and underestimated by many, some particularly > good work on this has been published by McClanahan etal on Kenyan coral > reefs. Their work was made possible by the existance of "marine no-take > reserves", areas closed to fishing, that enabled comparisons between > fished and unfished areas. Their work suggests that, at least in Kenya, > the impacts of overfishing/fishing on corals may be more important and > severe than even widely recognized problems, such as those associated > with eutrophication and sedimentation. > > Jack Sobel, Ecosystem Scientist > Center for Marine Conservation > sobelj@dccmc.mhs.compuserve.com > > From: William Moreno Caycedo > To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov > Subject: Fishing and its effect on coral > Message-ID: > Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 13:11:46 +0000 (gmt) > Priority: NORMAL > X-Mailer: Simeon for Windows > X-Authentication: none > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII > Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov > Precedence: bulk > > To anybody > > Does anybody knows anything about the effects to coral by fishing (or > overfishing) in a particular area of the world. > At the moment I'm trying to study this problem but at this University > (Canterbury U.K) there is not much information. I would be most grateful > > if someone could tell me where I can obtain this kind of info. > > Thanks > > William Moreno > > Durrel Intitute of Conservation and Biology > wm1@ukc.ac.uk > > > > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Mar 13 20:13:39 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA21775; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 20:13:37 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA14014; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 01:02:26 GMT Received: from dub-img-4.compuserve.com by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA14009; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 20:02:24 -0500 Received: by dub-img-4.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) id TAA25856; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 19:57:41 -0500 Date: 13 Mar 96 19:18:59 EST From: "Jack, Sobel" To: Subject: Re: Re: Fishing effects on cora Message-ID: <960314001859_555063.0_EHF44-1@CompuServe.COM> Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: After an earlier posting regarding work done on the effects of fishing on Kenyan coral reefs by McClanahan etal, I received requests for more specific reference information. There are actually a number of articles on this subject by this group. Among the more recent are: McClanahan, T.R. & D. Obura. 1995. Status of Kenyan Coral Reefs. Coastal Management 23:57-76. McClanahan, T.R. 1995. Fish predators and scavengersof the sea urchin Echinometra Mathaei in Kenyan coral-reef parks. Env. Biol. of Fishes 43:187-193. McClanahan, T.R. 1995. A coral reef ecosystem-fisheries: impacts of fishing intensity and catch selection on reef structure and processes. Ecolocical Modelling 80(1995):1-19. McClanahan, T.R. 1994. Kenyan coral reef lagoon fish: effects of fishing, substate complexity, and sea urchins. Coral Reefs (1994) 13:231-241. Jack Sobel, Ecosystem Scientist Center for Marine Conservation sobelj@dccmc.mhs.compuserve.com Original Message: Jack, Do you have a complete reference for the McClanahan publication, or an address for him so I can request a reprint? Thanks Bruce Carlson Waikiki Aquarium On 13 Mar 1996, Jack, Sobel wrote: > On March 8, William Moreno Caycedo requested information on the effects > of fishing or overfishing on corals (see below). Although this important > impact has been overlooked and underestimated by many, some particularly > good work on this has been published by McClanahan etal on Kenyan coral > reefs. Their work was made possible by the existance of "marine no-take > reserves", areas closed to fishing, that enabled comparisons between > fished and unfished areas. Their work suggests that, at least in Kenya, > the impacts of overfishing/fishing on corals may be more important and > severe than even widely recognized problems, such as those associated > with eutrophication and sedimentation. > > Jack Sobel, Ecosystem Scientist > Center for Marine Conservation > sobelj@dccmc.mhs.compuserve.com > > From: William Moreno Caycedo > To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov > Subject: Fishing and its effect on coral > Message-ID: > Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 13:11:46 +0000 (gmt) > Priority: NORMAL > X-Mailer: Simeon for Windows > X-Authentication: none > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII > Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov > Precedence: bulk > > To anybody > > Does anybody knows anything about the effects to coral by fishing (or > overfishing) in a particular area of the world. > At the moment I'm trying to study this problem but at this University > (Canterbury U.K) there is not much information. I would be most grateful > > if someone could tell me where I can obtain this kind of info. > > Thanks > > William Moreno > > Durrel Intitute of Conservation and Biology > wm1@ukc.ac.uk > > > > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Mar 13 20:52:52 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA22043; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 20:52:50 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA14091; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 01:46:19 GMT Received: from VM1.MCGILL.CA by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA14086; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 20:46:17 -0500 Received: from VM1.MCGILL.CA by VM1.MCGILL.CA (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with BSMTP id 0918; Wed, 13 Mar 96 20:40:27 EST Received: from MUSICB.MCGILL.CA (NJE origin MUSICB@MCGILL1) by VM1.MCGILL.CA (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 7983; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 20:40:27 -0500 Message-Id: <13MAR96.22327657.0132.MUSIC@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 20:40:25 EST From: "PAUZE,MARC,M" To: X-Mailer: MUSIC/SP V4.1.0 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Message: I'm looking for a picture of a coral head that is dead due to cyanide. It's for a poster presentation for a University course : Principles of ecology. If you have any interesting things for me, please send it to me. Marc Pauze E-mail : XKDB@MusicB.Mcgill.Ca From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Mar 14 10:38:50 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA02807; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:38:48 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA14799; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 15:21:12 GMT Received: from wizard.wizard.net by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA14794; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:21:08 -0500 Received: from [206.161.15.30] (pm100.wizard.net [206.161.15.30]) by wizard.wizard.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA22358; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:15:48 -0500 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:15:48 -0500 Message-Id: <199603141515.KAA22358@wizard.wizard.net> Subject: Re: U.S. Reef Status From: "Stephen C. Jameson" To: "KENNARD POTTS 202-260-9178" , "Coral-List" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Ken, In response to your 3/11/ question regarding the status of United States reefs. There are no - comprehensive - figures available on the percentage of degradation to coral reef ecosystems (or on just coral species in coral reef ecosystems) under United States jurisdiction. I define under U.S. jurisdiction as any coral reef ecosystem where United States environmental laws or regulations apply. Historically, most coral reef surveys have been limited to discrete reefs or species or have been time limited (Rogers 1985, Dustin and Halas 1987, Bythell et al. 1992, Porter and Meier 1992, Ginsburg 1994). The status and trends of complete coral reef ecosystems around entire islands or reef tracts have never been comprehensively evaluated because of the complexity, length of time, and cost of such endeavors. I did a paper for the National Biological Service on this topic. Jameson, S.C. 1995. Coral Reef Ecosystems. In: Our Living Resources: A Report to the Nation on the Distribution, Abundance, and Health of U.S. Plants, Animals, and Ecosystems. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Biological Sevice, Washington, D.C. pp 280-281. Copies of Our Living Resources are for sale through the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402, Stock #024-010-00708-7. Since you are with EPA you can probaly get a free copy by calling or writing: Michael Mac National Biological Service Status and Trends Report Manager Mailstop 3660-MIB 1849 C. St. NW Washington, DC 20240 phone: 202/482-2348 At the time of writing this paper the reefs under United States jurisdiction included: Western Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean: Florida Reef Tract Flower Garden Banks Puerto Rico U.S. Virgin Islands Pacific Ocean: Northwest and Main Hawaiian Islands Wake Island Johnston Atoll Northern Mariana Islands Guam Palmyra Island Kingman Reef Howland Island Baker Island Jarvis Island American Samoa Let me know if you need more details. Best regards, Dr. Stephen C. Jameson, President Coral Seas, Inc. - Integrated Coastal Zone Management 4254 Hungry Run Road The Plains, VA 20198-1715 USA 703/754-8690, 703/754-9139 (FAX) Internet: sjameson@coralseas.com From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Mar 14 12:02:29 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA04756; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 12:02:26 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA14893; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 16:51:34 GMT Received: from isurus.marinelab.sarasota.fl.us by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA14888; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 11:51:31 -0500 Received: from marshall.marinelab.sarasota.fl.us by isurus.marinelab.sarasota.fl.us with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0txGAk-002NcuC; Thu, 14 Mar 96 11:46 EST Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 12:43:07 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Marshall To: Mangrove Research Discussion List , ELAN , coral list , seagrass Subject: Research Literature for Miskito Coast X-Sender: marshall@isurus.marinelab.sarasota.fl.us Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: To all - I am traveling to Nicaragua next week to continue work on estuarine and coral reef surveys within the Miskito Coast Reserve...a new protected area on the northeast coast of Nicaragua. We are collecting materials to establish a research library for the biologists who are charged with monitoring fisheries (shrimp, lobsters, groupers, snappers, snook, etc.) and environmental conditions (water quality, mangrove biology, seagrass ecology, coral monitoring,etc.) within the Reserve. If you have any extra literature (books, reprints, reports), on monitoring and research appropriate for this area, that you would like to donate to this effort please mail them to me at Mote Marine Lab. I will be traveling there on a regular schedule for the next several months. The northeast coast of Nicaragua, within the bounds of the MCR, has several very large and pristine estuaries, many small to large rivers, and many miles of completely undeveloped beaches. The Miskito Cays area is characterized by vast beds of seagrass and a complex reef ecosystem. Thus any papers on topics related to tropical estuaries, seagrass communities, and reefs would be most helpful. Thank you. Best regards, Mike Marshall MJM/MARBIO lstowner. """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Michael J. Marshall, Ph.D. Mote Marine Laboratory marshall@marinelab.sarasota.fl.us Tropical Marine Ecology Program 941-388-4441/941-388-4312(fax) 1600 Thompson Parkway http://www.marinelab.sarasota.fl.us Sarasota, Florida 34236 USA """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Mote Marine Lab is an independent, not-for-profit research organization From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Wed Mar 17 13:04:57 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA09500; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 13:04:54 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA18117; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 17:55:56 GMT Received: from konichiwa.cc.columbia.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA18112; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 12:55:51 -0500 Received: (from esh8@localhost) by konichiwa.cc.columbia.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA16336; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 12:48:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 12:48:10 -0500 (EST) From: Erika Haendel X-Sender: esh8@konichiwa.cc.columbia.edu To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Debt-for-Nature Swap Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: To All Interested Parties: I posted a note on the coral list several weeks ago concerning my senior thesis - "Using Debt-for-Nature Swaps as a Means to Protect Endangered Coral Reefs." I am currently working on the final part of my thesis which involves making recommendations for future debt-for-nature swaps which will protect endangered coral reefs. Unfortunately, it has been very difficult to find current information on threatened reefs. I have been using "Coral Reefs of the World Vol. 1-3," however, this was published in 1988 and I am concerned that this information may be out of date..... My question is, is the information on Disturbances and Deficiencies out of date? How much do these kinds of threats to coral reefs change over time? Would it be valid for me to use this data in my thesis? Furthermore, I am presently seeking information on human threats (sedimentation, land development, muro-ami fishing, etc.) to reefs contained within the borders of these countries: Egypt, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Tanzania, Thailand, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela. If anybody is working in any of these nations, or has worked in these nations and could describe the conditions of some of the reefs, as well as current human threats to these reefs, I would greatly appreciate your assistance. Also, if you know of any areas that should be given funding for coral reef protection (existing marine parks, "paper parks," or any other areas with threatened coral reefs) that would be very helpful as well. Thank you in advance for your time and assistance, Erika Haendel esh8@columbia.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Mar 18 14:24:38 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA25340; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 14:24:36 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA19913; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 19:10:05 GMT Received: from xaway.ciqro.conacyt.mx by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA19908; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 14:09:41 -0500 Received: from [148.207.52.100] (camaron.ciqro.conacyt.mx [148.207.52.100]) by xaway.ciqro.conacyt.mx (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA23895 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 13:26:25 GMT Date: Mon, 18 Mar 96 12:30:30 CST From: "Juan Pablo Carricart Ganivet" Message-Id: <16930.jpcarri@xaway.ciqro.conacyt.mx> X-Minuet-Version: Minuet1.0_Beta_11 X-POPMail-Charset: English To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Looking for Information Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear All: Does anyone knows the e-mail of Dr. J.E.N. Veron? Many advanced thanks Juan P. Carricart-Ganivet From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Mar 18 15:51:35 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA26802; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:51:32 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA20007; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 20:39:55 GMT Received: from jaws.marine.usf.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA20002; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:39:50 -0500 Received: (from pmuller@localhost) by jaws.marine.usf.edu (8.6.11/8.6.11) id PAA05786; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:40:33 -0500 From: Pam Muller Message-Id: <199603182040.PAA05786@jaws.marine.usf.edu> Subject: Bleaching To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:40:33 -0500 (EST) Cc: pmuller@jaws.marine.usf.edu (Pam Muller), htalge@jaws.marine.usf.edu (Helen Talge) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Two papers were published in late 1995 on bleaching in larger foraminifera with diatom endosymbionts: Talge, HK and Hallock, P. 1995. Cytological examination of symbiont loss in a benthic foraminifer, Amphistegina gibbosa. Marine Micropaleontology 26:107-113. Hallock, P., Talge, HK, Cockey, EM, and Muller, RG. 1995. A new disease in reef-dwelling foraminifera: Implications for coastal sedimentation. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 25:280-286. To summarize: "Bleaching" in Amphistegina in the Florida Keys began in summer 1991 and has continued since, increasing in the population each spring, peaking near the summer solstice, and with recovery in progress by late summer and continuing through winter months. Mottling and bleaching in individual forams are caused by progressive digestion of diatom endosymbionts, accompanied by progressive deterioration of the foram's cytoplasm (Talge and Hallock). Associated "symptoms" include anomalous shell breakage, shell-surface lesions that permit invasion by microborers and epibionts, and reproductive damage including deformed young and sometimes failure to calcify (Hallock et al.). Similar symptoms have been observed in Amphistegina spp. from the Bahamas; Jamaica; Heron Island, Australia; the western Australian shelf; and, to a lesser extent, in Belau, and Hawaii. If you are interested in looking for similar symptoms in Amphistegina on your reefs, please let me know and will send you a color photocopy of normal, mottled and bleached Amphistegina, collection instructions, and a copy of the Hallock et al. reprint. This problem is not insignificant. Amphistegina is normally an abundant reef-dwelling organism that is found nearly circumtropically (except the eastern tropical Pacific). Its shells account for substantial proportions of the sand-sized sediments in the coastal zones of Indo-Pacific islands (e.g., 20+% of Hawai'i's beach sands and 90+% of Kapingimarangi's). Loss of Amphistegina populations could have serious implications for coastal sedimentation in such areas if populations sustain long-term damage of the magnitude seen in Florida Keys populations over the past 5 years. Pamela Hallock, Professor Department of Marine Science University of South Florida 140 Seventh Avenue S. St. Petersburg, FL 33701 USA pmuller@seas.marine.usf.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Mar 19 04:21:24 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA03361; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 04:21:21 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id JAA20653; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 09:15:00 GMT Received: from vale.adm.ku.dk by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id EAA20648; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 04:14:52 -0500 Received: from host.domain (garm.adm.ku.dk [130.225.127.34]) by vale.adm.ku.dk (8.7.5/8.7) with SMTP id KAA26894 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 10:05:15 +0100 (MET) Received: from AKI.KU.DK (aki.ku.dk [130.225.206.2]) by garm.adm.ku.dk (8.7.5/8.7.2) with SMTP id KAA28015 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 10:05:13 +0100 (MET) Received: by AKI.KU.DK with Microsoft Mail id <314E86C0@AKI.KU.DK>; Tue, 19 Mar 96 10:04:48 DST From: "Bruce, Niel L. {ZMUC}" To: "'coral-l'" Subject: VERON ADDRESS Date: Tue, 19 Mar 96 10:05:00 DST Message-ID: <314E86C0@AKI.KU.DK> Encoding: 32 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Juan P. Carricart-Ganivet asked: Does anyone knows the e-mail of Dr. J.E.N. Veron? Many advanced thanks If a direct e-mail address had been given, this message need not have gone to the whole group. AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE http://www.aims.gov.au/pages/about.html ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF AIMS STAFF WITH CONTACT DETAILS http://www.aims.gov.au/pages/staff.html The telephone numbers for AIMS are: Cape Ferguson location: voice (077) 534 211 (International - +61 77 534 211) facsimile (077) 725 852 274 Veron, John (Charlie) Chief Scientist/Module 6 j.veron@aims.gov.au Niel L. Bruce Curator of Crustacea Zoologisk Museum, Universitetsparken 15, Copenhagen O, DK 2100 DENMARK Ph: +45 35 32 10 00; +45 35 32 10 21 (direct); FAX: +45 35 32 10 10. e-mail: ; home page: From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Mar 19 17:09:26 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA18746; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 17:09:24 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA21239; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 21:52:49 GMT Received: from wizard.wizard.net by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA21234; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 16:52:47 -0500 Received: from [206.161.15.40] (pm110.wizard.net [206.161.15.40]) by wizard.wizard.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA03943; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 16:42:41 -0500 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 16:42:41 -0500 Message-Id: <199603192142.QAA03943@wizard.wizard.net> Subject: Re: Debt-for-Nature Swap From: "Stephen C. Jameson" To: "Erika Haendel" , "Coral-List" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Erika, The International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) State of the Reefs Report will give you: - a concise summary of what is known regarding the status and trends of coral reef ecosystems on a global and regional scale, - the consequences of coral reef ecosystem degradation to human populations, - and lists some of the major existing management and research programs. Jameson, S.C., J.W. McManus, and M.D. Spalding. 1995. State of the Reefs: Regional and Global Perspectives. International Coral Reef Initiative Executive Secretariat Background Paper, U.S. Departmenmt of State, Washington, D.C. Contact Dr. Peter Thomas, ICRI Coordinator (pthomas@state.gov) for a copy. The Reference Section of the State of the Reefs report lists most of the latest major studies on coral reef ecosystem health from around the world. These references will lead you to more specific studies. Best regards, Dr. Stephen C. Jameson, President Coral Seas, Inc. - Integrated Coastal Zone Management 4254 Hungry Run Road The Plains, VA 20198-1715 USA 703/754-8690, 703/754-9139 (FAX) Internet: sjameson@coralseas.com From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Mar 20 11:55:14 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA02105; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 11:55:12 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA22223; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 16:47:17 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA22218; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 11:47:15 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id LAA27790; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 11:47:15 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 11:47:14 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Coral-List Archives Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The archives of this list-server are now updated fairly regularly (usually twice a day) and may be found off our Home Page at: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/lists/archive.html As a side note, an even more comprehensive list of other marine science related mailing lists can now be found at: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/lists/many_lists.html Take care... Sincerely yours, Jim Hendee From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Mar 20 13:06:53 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA29408; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 09:16:58 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA21941; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 13:44:53 GMT Received: from ocean.ocean.fsu.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA21936; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 08:44:51 -0500 From: mschultz@ocean.ocean.fsu.edu Received: by ocean.ocean.fsu.edu; id AA21527; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 08:36:49 -0500 Message-Id: <9603201336.AA21527@ocean.ocean.fsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 08:39:23 -0500 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Mururoa Atoll Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Colleagues, Does anyone have information or citations on studies done on the basement and carbonate aquifer circulation at Mururoa and Fangataufa Atolls. We have had some interesting discussions concerning contamination of lagoon waters, etc. from the French nuclear testing. Regards, Mike Schultz Mike Schultz Graduate Researcher Department of Oceanography Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306-3048 mschultz@ocean.fsu.edu GO SEMINOLES!!! From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Mar 20 13:06:57 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA29363; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 09:13:44 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA21934; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 13:40:35 GMT Received: from ocean.ocean.fsu.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA21929; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 08:40:32 -0500 From: mschultz@ocean.ocean.fsu.edu Received: by ocean.ocean.fsu.edu; id AA21511; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 08:32:29 -0500 Message-Id: <9603201332.AA21511@ocean.ocean.fsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 08:35:02 -0500 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Job Search Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Colleagues, My name is Michael Schultz. I am currently employed as a graduate researcher in the Department of Oceanography at Florida State University under the direction of Dr. William C. Burnett. I will complete the requirements for the degree M. S. Geochemical Oceanography in the coming summer and actively seeking new opportunities. I am happily married with a wonderful wife and a beautiful almost three year old daughter. My area of research has centered on the behavior of natural decay-series (geochronology of marine phosphorites and carbonates) and authagenic radionuclides (actinide fractionation in marine sediments and soils) in the environment. I have a strong background in alpha- and gamma-spectroscopy, with experience in the latest instrumentation and alpha- and gamma-spec analysis software and also the latest radiochemical separations techniques by extraction chromatographic methods and field experience in sample collection. I have an excellent background in the preparation of effective oral presentations for national meetings and conferences and outstanding writing abilities. I am interested in a postion which will utilize and expand upon the experience and expertise (including both research oriented and nonresearch positions in environmental sciences) which I have gained thus far in my career. Please see; http://ocean.fsu.edu/oce/mschultz/index.html for more information including links to abstracts of presentations and publications. I would appreciate any comments, suggestions and advice. I would be very pleased to send a copy of a current CV along with excellent references to interested parties. Please respond directly (mschultz@ocean.fsu.edu) Thank you. Sincerely, Michael Schultz Mike Schultz Graduate Researcher Department of Oceanography Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306-3048 mschultz@ocean.fsu.edu GO SEMINOLES!!! From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Mar 20 13:23:30 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA03977; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 13:23:27 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA22342; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 18:17:16 GMT Received: from wcmc.org.uk by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA22337; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 13:17:13 -0500 From: Sue.Wells@wcmc.org.uk Received: from RAPHUS.wcmc.org.uk by wcmc.org.uk (4.1/SMI-4.1(D-2.1.4b)) id AA02106; Wed, 20 Mar 96 18:10:28 GMT Message-Id: <9603201810.AA02106@wcmc.org.uk> Received: by RAPHUS.wcmc.org.uk with VINES ; Wed, 20 Mar 96 18:10:26 GMT Date: Wed, 20 Mar 96 17:55:54 GMT Subject: Information on reefs To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: With apologies to John McManus at ICLARM, if I am usurping his right to reply, and to all those who are already familiar with the following projects. This message is for anyone seeking information on threats to reefs, reef management etc. (and there have been several queries in recent weeks). The IUCN/UNEP volumes 'Coral Reefs of the World' 1988/89 remain the only detailed global compilation of this type of information. Some of the detail is out of date but, depressingly, the overall picture is still the same and probably worse as far as threats are concerned. There are however many more protected areas and conservation projects. For information on more recent work, the first place to contact is ICLARM in Manila in the Philippines where a computerised database is being established that provides the same type of information but on a larger-scale and with time-series data - John McManus is running the project (J.MCMANUS@CGNET.COM). If you want information on mapping of reefs you should contact Mark Spalding at the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (mark.spalding@wcmc.org.uk). You can find further information on these projects in Reef Encounter, the newsletter of the International Society for Reef Studies. Sue Wells Cambridge, UK (sue.wells@wcmc.org.uk) From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Mar 20 15:48:21 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA06969; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 15:48:19 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA22460; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 20:38:29 GMT Received: from ns.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA22455; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 15:38:27 -0500 Received: from ogp.noaa.gov (QUICKMAIL.OGP.NOAA.GOV [140.90.171.10]) by ns.noaa.gov (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA08752 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 15:29:34 -0500 Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 1996 15:38:36 -0500 From: "Mark Eakin" Subject: FWD>Press Release -First La To: "Recipients of coral-list" X-Mailer: Mail*Link SMTP-QM 3.0.2 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Mail*Link(r) SMTP FWD>Press Release -First Large Scale Transplant/Hawaii FYI. I am merely forwarding the message and have no further information on this. For further information, please see contacts in press release. Mark ------------------------------------------ Southwest Region, Pacific Area Office, 2570 Dole Street, Room 106, Honolulu, HI 96822. FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: John Naughton March 20,1996 at (808) 973-2940 (Honolulu, HI) or Sue Smith (619) 546-7070 (San Diego, CA) FIRST LARGE-SCALE TRANSPLANT OF LIVE CORAL TAKES PLACE IN HAWAII In the first large-scale coral transplant project ever conducted, nearly fourteen tons of live corals have been successfully transplanted from one location to another in Kawaihae Bay, Hawaii, the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced today. The project was recommended by NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service and funded by the U.S.Army Corps of Engineers to mitigate coral loss during proposed harbor construction and to restore nearby reefs. "The Kawaihae project has been an unprecedented success, with ninety-nine percent of the coral surviving relocation," said Hilda Diaz Soltero, Director of NMFS' Southwest Region. "This study proves that large quantities of these living animals can survive the trauma of transplant." The coral was transplanted from areas that will be disrupted by harbor construction that begins next week , and will be moved from holding areas to reefs damaged during past harbor construction in the bay. Since September, live corals have been taken from the "footprints" of three proposed new breakwaters and relocated to a large stockpile site and seven experimental sites ranging from 10 to 50 feet of water all within a half mile of the proposed small boat harbor at Kawaihae. Participants in the project include NMFS, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Corps of Engineers, State of Hawaii Division of Aquatic Resources, and the staff and students of the University of Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology and Hawaii Preparatory Academy. "Volunteer divers from the Science Department of Hawaii Preparatory Academy have been instrumental the transplant effort," said John Naughton, Pacific Island Environmental Coordinator for NMFS' Southwest Region. Coral heads were carefully detached by divers and gently placed in large wire trays which were then lifted up off the bottom and transported while still submerged to transplant sites by boat. "We'll continue to monitor coral transplant sites during and after the nearby harbor construction to see how they fare," said Naughton. Students and staff from University of Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology are under contract to monitor the transplant sites for three years to obtain data on the growth rates and mortality of the coral. The coral animals themselves are tiny, cuplike creatures with soft, fragile bodies about which they secrete a hard stony skeleton. They emerge only at night when their tentacles expand to sweep the sea for planktonic food. Restored coral reefs should provide new habitat for many species of fish and sea turtles. The National Marine Fisheries Service, an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, studies and manages U.S. living marine resources and is responsible for the protection of marine mammals and sea turtles as well as marine habitats and endangered species. ***VIDEO FOOTAGE AVAILABLE*** ### From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Mar 20 17:18:54 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA08258; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:18:51 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA22547; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 21:54:54 GMT Received: from innet.meta.fr by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA22542; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 16:54:47 -0500 Received: by innet.meta.fr (5.65/1.2-eef) id AA10189; Wed, 20 Mar 96 21:41:06 GMT Date: Wed, 20 Mar 96 21:41:06 GMT Message-Id: <9603202141.AA10189@innet.meta.fr> X-Mailis: C87 From: pecheux@eureka.meta.fr To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: REVIEW ON BLEACHING Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A >From Pecheux, 150p; 650 refs.(515 Ko) version 3 available at : http://coral.nooa.gov/temp/bleach or /bleach.html Original works in annexes. " net. Problems with html/ascii/text file resolve within weeks with version 4 (50 refs more). Commetaries wellcome. At request,Mac disk by mail (3$) Bab's bleaching is due to CO2 ! From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Mar 20 17:28:02 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA08315; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:27:59 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA22585; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 22:13:31 GMT Received: from ns.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA22580; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:13:29 -0500 Received: from ogp.noaa.gov (QUICKMAIL.OGP.NOAA.GOV [140.90.171.10]) by ns.noaa.gov (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA15057; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:04:40 -0500 Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 1996 17:14:10 -0500 From: "Mark Eakin" Subject: Re: Information on reefs To: "Recipients of coral-list" Cc: Sue.Wells@wcmc.org.uk X-Mailer: Mail*Link SMTP-QM 3.0.2 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Reply to: RE>Information on reefs Another source of information regarding reef status has come from efforts of the International Coral Reef Initiative. Documents presented at the Philippines-hosted International Coral Reef Initiative Workshop in June 1995 provided a concise comprehensive global summary of coral reef status. The State of the Reefs and six regional status documents (Tropical Americas, South Asia, Western Indian Ocean, East Asia, Pacific and Middle East) began this process of evaluating the environments, the major threats and opportunities for improved management. These reports should build on the excellent foundation established by Sue Wells' volume, 'Coral Reefs of the World'. >From June 1995 through February 1996, regional meetings have continued this process, often revising or discussing revisions needed in the regional status documents. Further revision of these regional reports will be presented at the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium in Panama in a session to be chaired by Drs. Bernard Salvat and Clive Wilkinson. These State of the Reefs report and regional documents should be available from the ICRI Secretariat at: International Coral Reef Initiative US Department of State-Room 4325, 2201 C St NW, Washington, DC 20520 e-mail: pthomas@state.gov Phone: 1-202-647-0658 Fax: 1-202-647-5247 While there is not a formal ICRI web site yet, ICRI information is available through the CHAMP web site (http://coral.aoml.erl.gov). __________________________________________________________ C. Mark Eakin, Ph.D. NOAA/Global Programs, 1100 Wayne Ave., Suite 1210 Silver Spring, MD USA 20910-5603 Voice: 301-427-2089 ext. 19 Fax: 301-427-2073 Internet: eakin@ogp.noaa.gov From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Mar 20 18:10:21 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA08546; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 18:10:19 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA22610; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 22:42:59 GMT Received: from epic66.dep.state.fl.us by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA22605; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:42:57 -0500 Received: from mr.dep.state.fl.us by EPIC66.DEP.STATE.FL.US (PMDF V5.0-4 #7204) id <01I2KJ1Z0JXC001ICA@EPIC66.DEP.STATE.FL.US> for CORAL-LIST@REEF.AOML.NOAA.GOV; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:36:49 -0500 (EST) Received: with PMDF-MR; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:36:40 -0500 (EST) MR-Received: by mta ARM1; Relayed; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:36:40 -0500 MR-Received: by mta EPIC66; Relayed; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:36:40 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 15:44:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Patterson, Matt E" Subject: Diadema dieoffs in the 1980's To: CORAL-LIST@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Message-id: <01I2KJ209TYE001ICA@mr.dep.state.fl.us> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal UA-content-id: WPCORP X400-MTS-identifier: [;04637102306991/173234@ARM1] Hop-count: 2 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I am in the process of compiling information about the dieoff events of Diadema antillarum in the Florida Keys as well as the rest of the Caribbean. I am interested in both information about the mid-eighties dieoff as well as any information on more recent events (Forcucci,1994). Any advice or information would be greatly appreciated. Matt Patterson Florida Marine Research Institute Coral Reef Research Team e-mail: Patterson_m@harpo.dep.state.fl.us From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Mar 20 20:00:26 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA09304; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 20:00:24 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id AAA22728; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 00:48:56 GMT Received: from dub-img-4.compuserve.com by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA22723; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 19:48:52 -0500 Received: by dub-img-4.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) id TAA19096; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 19:43:03 -0500 Date: 20 Mar 96 19:04:36 EST From: "Jack, Sobel" To: Subject: Re: FWD>Press Release -First La Message-ID: <960321000436_555063.0_EHF59-1@CompuServe.COM> Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Response to recent posting by Mark Eaking below of Press Release on Large-scale coral reef removal and replanting: Let's not forget what mitigation projects are all about, at best they are designed to minimize or make-up for damage/destruction. While transplanting mitigation may beat reef annihilation, the destruction of natural reefs for port development hardly seems worthy of hoopla and celebration. Even if necessary, it seems that we should be saddened somewhat by the price we must pay in lost natural habitat. Furthermore, to declare the project an overwhelming success story because most of the transplanted corals are still alive a few months after the initial reef removal and transplant seems especially ludicrous. Am I missing something here? Original message follows: Mail*Link(r) SMTP FWD>Press Release -First Large Scale Transplant/Hawaii FYI. I am merely forwarding the message and have no further information on this. For further information, please see contacts in press release. Mark ------------------------------------------ Southwest Region, Pacific Area Office, 2570 Dole Street, Room 106, Honolulu, HI 96822. FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: John Naughton March 20,1996 at (808) 973-2940 (Honolulu, HI) or Sue Smith (619) 546-7070 (San Diego, CA) FIRST LARGE-SCALE TRANSPLANT OF LIVE CORAL TAKES PLACE IN HAWAII In the first large-scale coral transplant project ever conducted, nearly fourteen tons of live corals have been successfully transplanted from one location to another in Kawaihae Bay, Hawaii, the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced today. The project was recommended by NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service and funded by the U.S.Army Corps of Engineers to mitigate coral loss during proposed harbor construction and to restore nearby reefs. "The Kawaihae project has been an unprecedented success, with ninety-nine percent of the coral surviving relocation," said Hilda Diaz Soltero, Director of NMFS' Southwest Region. "This study proves that large quantities of these living animals can survive the trauma of transplant." The coral was transplanted from areas that will be disrupted by harbor construction that begins next week , and will be moved from holding areas to reefs damaged during past harbor construction in the bay. Since September, live corals have been taken from the "footprints" of three proposed new breakwaters and relocated to a large stockpile site and seven experimental sites ranging from 10 to 50 feet of water all within a half mile of the proposed small boat harbor at Kawaihae. Participants in the project include NMFS, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Corps of Engineers, State of Hawaii Division of Aquatic Resources, and the staff and students of the University of Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology and Hawaii Preparatory Academy. "Volunteer divers from the Science Department of Hawaii Preparatory Academy have been instrumental the transplant effort," said John Naughton, Pacific Island Environmental Coordinator for NMFS' Southwest Region. Coral heads were carefully detached by divers and gently placed in large wire trays which were then lifted up off the bottom and transported while still submerged to transplant sites by boat. "We'll continue to monitor coral transplant sites during and after the nearby harbor construction to see how they fare," said Naughton. Students and staff from University of Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology are under contract to monitor the transplant sites for three years to obtain data on the growth rates and mortality of the coral. The coral animals themselves are tiny, cuplike creatures with soft, fragile bodies about which they secrete a hard stony skeleton. They emerge only at night when their tentacles expand to sweep the sea for planktonic food. Restored coral reefs should provide new habitat for many species of fish and sea turtles. The National Marine Fisheries Service, an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, studies and manages U.S. living marine resources and is responsible for the protection of marine mammals and sea turtles as well as marine habitats and endangered species. ***VIDEO FOOTAGE AVAILABLE*** ### From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Mar 21 02:02:15 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA11734; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 02:02:12 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id GAA22946; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 06:44:45 GMT Received: from pnl.gov by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id BAA22941; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 01:44:42 -0500 From: ww_gardiner@ccmail.pnl.gov Received: from ccmail.pnl.gov by pnl.gov (PMDF V4.3-13 #6012) id <01I2KTMAK14W93626C@pnl.gov>; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 22:39:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 22:38 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re[2]: FWD>Press Release -First La To: SOBELJ@dccmc.mhs.compuserve.com, coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Message-id: <01I2KTMAT06Q93626C@pnl.gov> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Mitigation should certainly be considered a late option. Perhaps the real reason to celebrate is that these methods may prove useful for reestablishing reefs destroyed by other means or from previous damage. To declare the project an "overwhelming success" after a short time seems a bit premature, but hopeful. Most wetland mitigation projects are observed over a period of years before they are considered a success. Some may do quite well for the first year or so, only to crash later on. Bill Gardiner Battelle Marine Sciences Lab ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: FWD>Press Release -First La Author: SOBELJ@dccmc.mhs.compuserve.com at -SMTPlink Date: 3/20/96 4:04 PM Response to recent posting by Mark Eaking below of Press Release on Large-scale coral reef removal and replanting: Let's not forget what mitigation projects are all about, at best they are designed to minimize or make-up for damage/destruction. While transplanting mitigation may beat reef annihilation, the destruction of natural reefs for port development hardly seems worthy of hoopla and celebration. Even if necessary, it seems that we should be saddened somewhat by the price we must pay in lost natural habitat. Furthermore, to declare the project an overwhelming success story because most of the transplanted corals are still alive a few months after the initial reef removal and transplant seems especially ludicrous. Am I missing something here? Original message follows: Mail*Link(r) SMTP FWD>Press Release -First Large Scale Transplant/Hawaii FYI. I am merely forwarding the message and have no further information on this. For further information, please see contacts in press release. Mark ------------------------------------------ Southwest Region, Pacific Area Office, 2570 Dole Street, Room 106, Honolulu, HI 96822. FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: John Naughton March 20,1996 at (808) 973-2940 (Honolulu, HI) or Sue Smith (619) 546-7070 (San Diego, CA) FIRST LARGE-SCALE TRANSPLANT OF LIVE CORAL TAKES PLACE IN HAWAII In the first large-scale coral transplant project ever conducted, nearly fourteen tons of live corals have been successfully transplanted from one location to another in Kawaihae Bay, Hawaii, the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced today. The project was recommended by NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service and funded by the U.S.Army Corps of Engineers to mitigate coral loss during proposed harbor construction and to restore nearby reefs. "The Kawaihae project has been an unprecedented success, with ninety-nine percent of the coral surviving relocation," said Hilda Diaz Soltero, Director of NMFS' Southwest Region. "This study proves that large quantities of these living animals can survive the trauma of transplant." The coral was transplanted from areas that will be disrupted by harbor construction that begins next week , and will be moved from holding areas to reefs damaged during past harbor construction in the bay. Since September, live corals have been taken from the "footprints" of three proposed new breakwaters and relocated to a large stockpile site and seven experimental sites ranging from 10 to 50 feet of water all within a half mile of the proposed small boat harbor at Kawaihae. Participants in the project include NMFS, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Corps of Engineers, State of Hawaii Division of Aquatic Resources, and the staff and students of the University of Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology and Hawaii Preparatory Academy. "Volunteer divers from the Science Department of Hawaii Preparatory Academy have been instrumental the transplant effort," said John Naughton, Pacific Island Environmental Coordinator for NMFS' Southwest Region. Coral heads were carefully detached by divers and gently placed in large wire trays which were then lifted up off the bottom and transported while still submerged to transplant sites by boat. "We'll continue to monitor coral transplant sites during and after the nearby harbor construction to see how they fare," said Naughton. Students and staff from University of Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology are under contract to monitor the transplant sites for three years to obtain data on the growth rates and mortality of the coral. The coral animals themselves are tiny, cuplike creatures with soft, fragile bodies about which they secrete a hard stony skeleton. They emerge only at night when their tentacles expand to sweep the sea for planktonic food. Restored coral reefs should provide new habitat for many species of fish and sea turtles. The National Marine Fisheries Service, an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, studies and manages U.S. living marine resources and is responsible for the protection of marine mammals and sea turtles as well as marine habitats and endangered species. ***VIDEO FOOTAGE AVAILABLE*** ### From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Mar 21 05:22:51 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA12712; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 05:22:49 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id KAA23114; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:03:53 GMT Received: from sme.univ-mrs.fr by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id FAA23109; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 05:03:45 -0500 Received: from [139.124.16.46] (smemac16.univ-mrs.fr) by sme.univ-mrs.fr with SMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA258322339; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:58:59 +0100 X-Sender: thomassi@sme.univ-mrs.fr Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Eudora F1.5.1 Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:03:29 +0100 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: thomassi@com.univ-mrs.fr (Bernard A. THOMASSIN) Subject: Books on Mururoa and Fangatofa atolls. Answer to mschultz Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear, As coral reef ecologist quiet well known since near 30 years in our coral reef communinity, and as member of the scientific council of the "Direction des Centres d'Exp‰rimentations nucl‰aires" (with my friend Prof. Bernard SALVAT, and other french scientists involve in studies), head of the nuclear tests in Mururoa and Fangataufa atolls, I have to inform you that you could find revelant informations on these atolls and the nuclear tests in the 3 books published by the Ministˆre de la D‰fense/DIRCEN and the scientific editor MASSON, ed. in Paris, Milan & Barcelone, These 3 books (a 4rth is in preparartion) are entitled : "Les atolls de Mururoa et de Fangataufa (Polyn‰sie fran‡aise". Tome 1. 1993. G‰ologie, P‰trologie, Hydrog‰ologie, ‰dification et ‰volution des ‰difices. (= Geology, petrology, building and evolution of the edifice) by G. GUILLE, G. GOUTIERE, J.F. SORNEIN, with coll. of D. BUIGHES, C. GUY, A. GACHON : 168 pp. 82 fig. ISBN n : 2-11-087427-9. (this volume deals with the hydrogeological problems of atolls) Tome 2. 1995. Les exp‰rimentations nucl‰aires. Effets m‰caniques, lumino-thermiques, ‰lectromagnetiques.(= The nuclear tests. Mecanical, ligh-thermic and electromagnetic effect) by J. BOUCHEZ, R. LECOMTE, with the coll. of J. BRUGIES, Ch. GUERRINI, J.F. SORNEIN, J.-L. PLANTET, E. BLANC : 189 pp., >16 fig. ISBN n : 2-225- 84906-4. Tome 3. 1995. Le milieu vivant et son ‰volution.(= The living environment and its evolution) by J.P. BABLET, B. GOUT, G. GOUTIERE, with the coll. of J.Y. TREGUIER, F. POIRRIER and H. TYMEN : 307 pp., 87 fig. ISBN n : 2-225-84907-2. The first issues of these well documented books (written for scientist and graduate student levels) are in french (of course !), but english issues are published or in preparation. But I know from my experience, that when a scientist want to read an interesting book or paper he could always ask the help of colleague, or a foreingh student in stage in the lab., university, and so on...to have a short translation. So before to discuss, please get the informations..."at the fount of the knowledge". Sincerely yours and Best regards to all knowing me. Bernard A. Thomassin Bernard A. THOMASSIN Centre d'Oc‰anologie de Marseille (CNRS-URA n 41), Station marine d'Endoume, traverse de la Batterie des Lions, 13007 Marseille, France. t‰l.lab.: (33) 91 04 16 17 t‰l. home: (33) 91 40 35 24 (if Urgent) fax: (33) 91 04 16 35 e-mail: thomassi@com.univ-mrs.fr From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Mar 21 07:17:50 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA13620; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 07:17:47 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id LAA23199; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:45:03 GMT Received: from mercury.ukc.ac.uk by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id GAA23192; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 06:45:00 -0500 Received: from kiwi.ukc.ac.uk by mercury.ukc.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:40:17 +0000 Received: from pc-esd.ukc.ac.uk by kiwi.ukc.ac.uk (SMI-8.6/UKC-2.14) id LAA09048; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:40:15 GMT From: William Moreno Caycedo To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Belize Coastal Zone Management Project Message-ID: Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:40:14 +0000 (gmt) Priority: NORMAL X-Mailer: Simeon for Windows X-Authentication: none MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear all Does anybody knows the e-mail adress for someone involved in the Belize Coastal Zone Management Project or the adress of an organisation taking part in the project. Thanks William Moreno Durrel Institute of Conservation wm1@ukc.ac.uk From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Mar 21 08:45:59 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA16191; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 08:45:57 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA23361; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 13:30:54 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA23356; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 08:30:51 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id IAA29869; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 08:30:51 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 08:30:50 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Personal Marketing Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear coral-list subscribers, It has come to my attention by several subscribers that the coral-list may not be the best forum for marketing of personal skills (job hunting) or publications unrelated to coral health. Therefore, I would like to ask the cooperation of the subscribers that they not post personal qualifications for job appointments to the coral-list. However, if enough subscribers are interested (AND if we get any further funding!), I will consider placing a special section on our World-Wide Web Home Page for personnel related issues. If you have any other ideas or thoughts regarding this topic, please let me know, as we *do* want to keep our best minds at work doing something they like! If you feel this *is* the forum for posting new job availabilities, then I would appreciate knowing this, too. Please send your messages directly to me (hendee@aoml.noaa.gov), instead of the whole list, if you wish your position to remain confidential. Many thanks for your thoughts and gracious consideration. Sincerely yours, Jim Hendee coral-list Administrator From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Mar 21 12:00:49 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA21672; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 12:00:46 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA23576; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 16:20:35 GMT Received: from ns.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA23571; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:20:32 -0500 Received: from ogp.noaa.gov (QUICKMAIL.OGP.NOAA.GOV [140.90.171.10]) by ns.noaa.gov (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA15876; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:13:57 -0500 Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 1996 11:23:03 -0500 From: "Mark Eakin" Subject: Re: Diadema dieoffs in the 1 To: CORAL-LIST@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, "Patterson, Matt E" X-Mailer: Mail*Link SMTP-QM 3.0.2 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Reply to: RE>Diadema dieoffs in the 1980's Some of the papers on the dieoff and subsequent effects are: Carpenter, R. C. (1985). "Sea urchin mass-mortality: effects on reef algal abundance, species composition, and metabolism and other coral reefherbivores. Abstract." Proceedings of the Fifth International Coral Reef Congress, Tahiti 4: 53. Carpenter, R. C. (1988). "Mass mortality of a Caribbean sea urchin: immediate effects on community metabolism and other herbivores." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 85: 511-514. Carpenter, R. C. (1990). "Mass mortality of Diadema antillarum II. Effects on population densities and grazing intensity of parrotfishes and surgeonfishes." Marine Biology 104: 79-86. Carpenter, R. C. (1990). "Mass mortality of Diadema antillarum I. Long-term effects on sea urchin population-dynamics and coral reef algal communities." Marine Biology 104: 67-77. Liddell, W. D. and S. L. Ohlhorst (1986). "Changes in benthic community composition following the mass mortality of Diadema at Jamaica." Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 95(3): 271-278. Lessios, H. A., P. W. Glynn, et al. (1983). "Mass mortalities of coral reef organisms." Science 222: 715. -------------------------------------- Date: 3/20/96 6:16 PM To: Mark Eakin From: Patterson, Matt E I am in the process of compiling information about the dieoff events of Diadema antillarum in the Florida Keys as well as the rest of the Caribbean. I am interested in both information about the mid-eighties dieoff as well as any information on more recent events (Forcucci,1994). Any advice or information would be greatly appreciated. Matt Patterson Florida Marine Research Institute Coral Reef Research Team e-mail: Patterson_m@harpo.dep.state.fl.us ------------------ RFC822 Header Follows ------------------ Received: by ogp.noaa.gov with SMTP;20 Mar 1996 18:13:44 -0500 Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA22610; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 22:42:59 GMT Received: from epic66.dep.state.fl.us by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA22605; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:42:57 -0500 Received: from mr.dep.state.fl.us by EPIC66.DEP.STATE.FL.US (PMDF V5.0-4 #7204) id <01I2KJ1Z0JXC001ICA@EPIC66.DEP.STATE.FL.US> for CORAL-LIST@REEF.AOML.NOAA.GOV; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:36:49 -0500 (EST) Received: with PMDF-MR; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:36:40 -0500 (EST) MR-Received: by mta ARM1; Relayed; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:36:40 -0500 MR-Received: by mta EPIC66; Relayed; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:36:40 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 15:44:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Patterson, Matt E" Subject: Diadema dieoffs in the 1980's To: CORAL-LIST@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Message-id: <01I2KJ209TYE001ICA@mr.dep.state.fl.us> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal UA-content-id: WPCORP X400-MTS-identifier: [;04637102306991/173234@ARM1] Hop-count: 2 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Mar 21 16:29:56 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA25901; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 16:29:54 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA23819; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 21:08:00 GMT Received: from calafia.uabcs.mx by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA23814; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 16:07:52 -0500 Received: by calafia.uabcs.mx (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA16866; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 14:09:17 -0600 Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 14:09:16 -0600 (CST) From: "Ayax R. Diaz R." To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Looking for M. E. Huber Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear all: Does anybody knows the e-mail address of PhD M. E. Huber? He was working in 1987 in the Marine Biology Research Division, A002, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; the subject of his work was a little simbiont of corals, the crab Trapezia. I'm working on an ecological experiment with corals and their crabs so I need all the information I can get. If anyone in this organization could help me sending all related information I would really thank you all. Hope someone answer this message. Thanks Ayax Rolando Diaz Ruiz Reef Fauna Proyect - Biologia Marina - UABCS Km. 5.5 Carretera al Sur, Apto. Postal 19 - B C.P. 23080. La Paz, B. C. S. Mexico. E-mail adiaz@calafia.uabcs.mx From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Mar 21 21:58:59 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA29325; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 21:58:56 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id CAA24050; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 02:29:54 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA24045; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 21:29:52 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id VAA01248; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 21:29:51 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 21:29:51 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Coral Researchers Directory Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Since we are all gathered here to discuss coral health, it is tempting to say, "Oh, by the way, do you know where I can find Dr. Whomever?" To that end, I will construct a Coral Researchers Directory (although I can't make it real fancy at this time), and I'll try to make it easy for you to add your name and personal information, should you choose to do so. That way, we can all check the directory, rather than flood the list with "Whither Dr. Feelgood?" types of messages. To add your name to the Coral Researchers Directory send the following information to: lagoon@coral.aoml.noaa.gov with your name (Last Name, First Name) in the Subject line of your message: Name: (How you'd like it to appear, e.g., Vice-Pres. Al Gore) Title: Institution: Address Line 1: Address Line 2: Address Line 3: City: State or Province: Country: Business Phone: Business Fax: E-mail: Other info: (Let 'er rip, up to, say, 20 lines, if you'd like.) I know some of you may be tired from staying up all night slaving over a hot microscope, but PLEASE be careful to only send this information to: lagoon@coral.aoml.noaa.gov and not to any of the other various addresses associated with this program. I really appreciate your help and cooperation. I'll post the whereabouts of the Directory after I get enough names (and enough time!). The Directory will hopefully be updated fairly routinely, say, two or three times a week. I hope this helps facilitate networking of the coral research community. Take care... Sincerely yours, Jim Hendee coral-list administrator From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Mar 22 13:10:44 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA08919; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 13:10:39 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA24976; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 17:34:04 GMT Received: from dns2.hboi.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA24971; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 12:34:00 -0500 Received: from SMTP.HBOI.EDU (smtp.hboi.edu [199.227.45.3]) by dns2.hboi.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA31257 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 12:40:33 -0500 Received: by SMTP.HBOI.EDU with Microsoft Mail id <31530F34@SMTP.HBOI.EDU>; Fri, 22 Mar 96 12:36:04 PST From: Kris Metzger To: "'SMTP:coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov'" Subject: Chlorine to corals - toxicity? Date: Fri, 22 Mar 96 12:25:00 PST Message-ID: <31530F34@SMTP.HBOI.EDU> Encoding: 19 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Can anyone provide any information on toxic effects of chlorine, bleach or hypochloride on corals? I don't want information on coral bleaching. I have already searched Biological Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, Oceanic Abstracts, Pollution Abstracts, ASFA and Zool. Rec. and I have found some journal articles, but not much. I'm hoping that someone can direct me to some gray literature. Thanks very much for your help. Kristen Kristen L. Metzger, Librarian Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution 5600 U.S. 1 North Ft. Pierce FL 34946 USA (800)333-4264, Ext. 201 (407)465-2446, FAX metzger@hboi.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Mar 22 14:16:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA10161; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 14:15:57 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA25096; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 18:33:19 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA25091; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 13:33:17 -0500 Received: by coral (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id NAA03185; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 13:33:16 -0500 Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 13:33:16 +30000 From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Other Directories Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: As many of you may already know, there are existing printed directories of coral researchers. Here is one source: Eldredge, L.G. 1987. Coral Reef Researchers: Pacific. UNEP Regional Seas Directories and Bibliographies, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome. 104 p. The International Society of Reef Studies and the Pacific Science Association also publish directories. They, and other associations with directories, are herewith invited to broadcast the availability of such publications. Yours, Jim Hendee From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Mar 23 19:39:10 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA21506; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 19:39:08 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id XAA26500; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 23:55:02 GMT Received: from extra.ucc.su.OZ.AU by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id SAA26495; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 18:54:57 -0500 Received: from linnaeus.bio.usyd.edu.au (linnaeus.bio.usyd.edu.AU [129.78.177.10]) by extra.ucc.su.OZ.AU (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA00095 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 10:53:25 +1100 Received: from a08pc-20.bio.usyd.edu.AU by linnaeus.bio.usyd.edu.au; (5.65/1.1.8.2/12Aug94-0642PM) id AA17583; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 10:54:55 +1000 Message-Id: <1.5.4b12.32.19960324004703.0083e844@mail.bio.usyd.edu.au> X-Sender: oveh@mail.bio.usyd.edu.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4b12 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 10:47:03 +1000 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Ove Hoegh-Guldberg Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Clarification: The two grey literature reports announced as available before : 1. Hoegh-Guldberg, O. (1994) Mass-bleaching of coral reefs in French Polynesia, April 1994. 2. Hoegh-Guldberg, O. (1995) The mass bleaching of coral reefs in the Central Pacific in 1994. A followup study and establishment of long-term monitoring sites. ... are available at the URL http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/CRRI/LIBRARY/gp1.html. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ove Hoegh-Guldberg Ph: (02) 351-2389 School of Biological Sciences Fax: (02) 351-4119 Building A08 Mobile: 014 811 935 University of Sydney Country code Australia = 61 2006 NSW Australia OHG: http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/SOBS/ACADEMIC/ACASTAFF/ohg.html Coral Reef Research Institute: http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/CRRI/crri-ind.html One Tree Island Research Station: http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/OTI/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Mar 25 11:04:07 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA10191; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 11:04:05 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA00415; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 15:47:19 GMT Received: from nsu.acast.nova.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA00410; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 10:47:16 -0500 Received: by nsu.acast.nova.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA22607; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 10:44:09 -0500 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 10:44:09 -0500 (EST) From: CLAY Beauregard To: Coral Health Mailing List cc: COASTNET mailing list Subject: Ciguatera Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Dear subscribers, I am looking for any information (online or not) documenting ciguatera cases in the Caribbean during the last couple decades. I am writing my M.S. thesis paper on the distribution of ciguatera in Florida and the Caribbean region. I have plenty of case studies and first-hand accounts, but I am looking for trends or statistics of reported cases from various Caribbean locations. The CDC takes reports and has published several cases in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, but I don't believe they keep statistics since ciguatera is not really a reportable disease, but a biotoxin poisoning. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would be very grateful. You can respond to me personally if you wish. Thank you, Clay Beauregard Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center (W) 954-920-1909 (F) 954-947-8557 clay@nsu.acast.nova.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Mar 25 15:10:14 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA15286; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 15:10:09 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA00687; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 19:49:34 GMT Received: from relay1.Hawaii.Edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA00682; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 14:49:31 -0500 Received: from uhunix3.its.Hawaii.Edu ([128.171.44.52]) by relay1.Hawaii.Edu with SMTP id <11481(7)>; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 09:47:36 -1000 Received: by uhunix3.its.Hawaii.Edu id <464470>; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 09:46:37 -1000 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 09:46:30 -1000 From: Marian B Westley X-Sender: westley@uhunix3 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov cc: COASTNET mailing list Subject: mangroves and coral reefs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear subscribers, I am looking for information to support statements like the following: "cutting of mangrove trees which normally entrap sediments can result in excessive siltation for nearby seagrass beds and reefs from runoff from heavy rains" (from C.S. Rogers (1990) Responses of coral reefs and reef organisms to sedimentation. Marine Ecology Progress Series 62:185-202). I am particularly interested in cases where mangroves have been cut down and consequent damage to reefs has been documented. Many thanks, Marian Westley From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Mar 26 03:43:31 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA22785; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 03:43:25 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id IAA01433; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 08:17:01 GMT Received: from galadriel.otago.ac.nz by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id DAA01428; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 03:16:57 -0500 Received: from [139.80.104.184] (MAC104184.otago.ac.nz [139.80.104.184]) by galadriel.otago.ac.nz (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id UAA13856 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 20:13:23 +1200 (NZST) X-Sender: st004593@brandywine.otago.ac.nz Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 20:15:35 +1200 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: oliver.gussmann@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Oliver Gussmann) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hope somebody out there can help me out. Looking for info on carbonate production, in situ measueremnt techniques, reefs in terrigenous-carbonate settings, particularly for Pacific tropical/temperate reefs. Cheers Oliver Gussmann University of Otago Department of Marine Science PO Box 56 Dunedin, New Zealand Fax: (64)-3-479 8336 Tel.: (64)-3 479 8306 email: oliver.gussmann@stonebow.otago.ac.nz From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Mar 26 04:41:08 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA23088; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 04:41:06 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id JAA01507; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 09:06:50 GMT Received: from galadriel.otago.ac.nz by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id EAA01502; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 04:06:47 -0500 Received: from [139.80.104.184] (MAC104184.otago.ac.nz [139.80.104.184]) by galadriel.otago.ac.nz (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id VAA15795 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 21:03:14 +1200 (NZST) X-Sender: st004593@brandywine.otago.ac.nz Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 21:05:27 +1200 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: oliver.gussmann@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Oliver Gussmann) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Need information on South Pacific reefs concerning tagging, carbonate production (in situ measuerment techniques), whats being done on reefs in small island nations of the South Pacific, effects of terrigenous sedimentation on carbonate production, terrigenous-carbonate transitions. Cheers, oliver Oliver Gussmann University of Otago Department of Marine Science PO Box 56 Dunedin, New Zealand Fax: (64)-3-479 8336 Tel.: (64)-3 479 8306 email: oliver.gussmann@stonebow.otago.ac.nz From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Mar 25 16:39:34 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA17510; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 16:39:31 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA00839; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 21:17:18 GMT Received: from bishop.bishop.Hawaii.Org by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA00834; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 16:17:14 -0500 Received: by bishop.bishop.Hawaii.Org (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA40738; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 11:16:39 -1000 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 11:16:39 -1000 (HST) From: Pacific Science Assn To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program Cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Coral Researchers Directory In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The revised Directory of Coral Reef Researchers of the World is well in hand and now contains more than 1000 names. [This directory will include names, professional addresses, telephone, fax, e-mail, and scientific interests, indexed on subject, taxonomic interest, and geographic areas of interest and residence]. Each individual researcher will receive a copy for verification of his/her entry as it currently exists. For the most part the entires pre-date e-mail. The verification will also request e-mail addresses for each of the researchers [telephone and fax are already included but also need verification]. At this time, I should very much appreciate your sending me your e-mail address and any other pretinent information to help expedite the completion of this directory. [Please let me know whether or not you would like an original questionnaire as as to be included in this first round.] I anticipate a draft copy of this directory by the time of the Panama meeting. Aloha, Lu Eldredge Pacific Science Association P.O. Box 17801 Honolulu, HI 96817 FAX (1) 808-847-8252 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Mar 26 00:42:23 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA21686; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 00:42:21 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id FAA01231; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 05:19:26 GMT Received: from CGNET.COM by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id AAA01226; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 00:19:20 -0500 Received: from msm.cgnet.com by CGNET.COM (PMDF V4.3-9 #7702) id <01I2RQ8ZUDC0001M51@CGNET.COM>; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 21:18:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by msm.cgnet.com with Microsoft Mail id <31577DFC@msm.cgnet.com>; Mon, 25 Mar 96 21:17:48 PST Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 13:16:00 -0800 (PST) From: "Ma. Carmen Ablan" To: coral list Message-id: <31577DFC@msm.cgnet.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Hi! I've been receiving a lot of material from coral-list passed on to me from a variety of sources. Would it be possible for me to receive these regularly from you? I am currently team leader of ReefBase here at ICLARM. John McManus, our project leader receives coral-list updates himself but information he passes on to me gets delayed when he is away on travel. Thank you so much for taking time. I really appreciate your efforts in getting coral-list organized. Sincerely, Ma. Carmen A. Ablan Team Leader ReefBase From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Mar 26 10:55:24 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA29883; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 10:55:20 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA01868; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 15:33:42 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA01863; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 10:33:40 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA04551; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 10:33:39 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 10:33:39 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Online Coral Researchers Directory Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The Online Coral Researchers Directory is now listed as a link off the main CHAMP Home Page at http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov. As you will see from the "disclaimer", this is only meant to supplement the various existing coral researchers directories within the coral research community. I'm open for suggestions, but please remember that since this project is now operating "out of hide", we can't do much that is fancy at this time. For that very reason, the Directory is not at all fancy, but it does at least make for some interesting reading! The Directory will be updated automatically every night at about 9:00 pm Eastern Time (USA). If you have sent in your registration information, but do not see the posting, it is just because I haven't yet reviewed the information. I'll get to it as soon as I can. Sincerely yours, Jim Hendee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | Coral Health and Monitoring Program | | Ocean Chemistry Division | | Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorlogical Laboratory | | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | | Miami, Florida | | USA | | | | Email: coral@coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | World-Wide Web: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Mar 26 16:38:13 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA07412; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 16:38:09 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA02193; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 21:21:30 GMT Received: from axe by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA02188; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 16:21:28 -0500 Resent-From: cel1@axe.humboldt.edu Resent-Message-Id: <199603262121.QAA02188@reef.aoml.erl.gov> Received: from axe.humboldt.edu by axe.humboldt.edu (PMDF V5.0-6 #11939) id <0DOW8HQ0100B4O@axe.humboldt.edu> for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 13:17 -0800 (PST) Resent-date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 13:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 13:17:50 -0800 (PST) From: Christopher Ledford Subject: Getting an MS in coral reef ecology To: ecology Coral reef Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I am currently attending Humboldt State University working on my BS in Marine Biology. I am looking for schools (world wide) that have a Masters program dealing with coral reef ecology. Thank you for any help. Chris Ledford cel1@axe.humboldt.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Mar 27 07:23:31 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA13341; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 07:23:27 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id LAA02874; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 11:50:53 GMT Received: from aoml.erl.gov by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id GAA02869; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 06:50:51 -0500 Received: (from hendee@localhost) by aoml.erl.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3.CAR) id GAA13747; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 06:48:55 - 0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 06:48:55 -0500 (EST) From: "James C. Hendee" X-Sender: hendee@wave To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Appropriate Subjects Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Esteemed Subscribers, I very much appreciate your interest in this list-server. It would be most helpful if we could all confine our discussions to the following subjects (or at least close), taken from the original informational notice to new subscribers: o bleaching events o outbreaks of coral diseases o high predation on coral reefs o environmental monitoring sites o incidences of coral spawnings o shipwrecks on reefs o international meetings and symposia o funding opportunities o marine sanctuary news o new coral-related publications o announcements of college courses in coral reef ecology o coral health initiatives o new and historical data availability o controversial topics in coral reef ecology o recent reports on coral research Thank you very much for your help and cooperation. Sincerely yours, Jim Hendee coral-list administrator From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Mar 27 10:21:33 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA16827; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 10:21:29 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA03155; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 15:09:22 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA03150; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 10:09:21 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA06663; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 10:09:20 -0500 Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 10:09:19 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Subjects, clarified Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I fear I may have been misunderstood. ANYTHING having to do with coral reef biology or coral reefs in general (e.g., palaeocology of reefs) is welcome on this list. What I feel are inappropriate messages are "flamings" of individuals, subjects that do not relate directly to coral research (e.g., things with religious overtones, postings of, say, deep-sea research, etc.), and perhaps commercial solicitations which will not help the coral research community. However, let me know if you feel differently. Thanks, Jim Hendee coral-list administrator From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Mar 27 10:52:40 1996 Received: from aoml.erl.gov (wave [192.111.123.25]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA17152 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 10:52:40 -0500 (EST) Received: (from hendee@localhost) by aoml.erl.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3.CAR) id KAA15970; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 10:52:39 - 0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 10:52:39 -0500 (EST) From: "James C. Hendee" X-Sender: hendee@wave To: Jim Hendee Subject: National Religious Partnership for the Environment (NRPE) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO X-Status: Accidentally deleted from coral-list archives: >From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Mar 26 16:01:54 1996 Status: RO X-Status: DA Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA06922; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 16:01:44 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA02160; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 20:42:55 GMT Received: from esa.org by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA02155; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 15:42:50 -0500 From: Bruce@esa.org Received: from Ecological-Message_Server by esa.org with WordPerfect_Office; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 16:07:04 -0500 Message-Id: X-Mailer: WordPerfect Office 4.0 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 15:47:28 -0500 To: ellenbethw@aol.com, mmandell@doc.gov, mrand@dorsai.dorsai.org, allison@ewg.org, ahoffnun@hillel.org, jroth@hillel.org, tmoran@hillel.org, aray@oaservera2.ssmc.noaa.gov, /S=M.KNAPP/OU1=W01A@mhs-fswa.attmail.com, FISHFOLK@mitvma.mit.edu, sboa@nsf.gov, osman@nwf.org, lmersfelder@ocean.nos.noaa.gov, bbarak@peacecorps.gov, coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, gjensen@reeusda.gov, mlevy@sysplan.com, dnew@wo0033wp.wo.blm.gov Subject: National Religious Partnership for the Environment (NRPE) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk FYI- please disseminate as appropriate to those who might be interested DOES THE EARTH HAVE A PRAYER? The NRPE invites the environmental community and its friends to a discussion on religion and the enviromnment: " Does the earth have a prayer?" This program is designed to build bridges of communication and understanding between communities of faith and environmentalists who share a concern for the natural world. We will discuss our specific constituencies and why we care about environmental issues, and explore ways in which we can work together and inspire one another. Speakers include: Paul Gorman, Director and Daniel Schwartz, Associate Director National Religious Partnership for the Environment Michal Smart, Co-Director, Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life Drew Christiansen, Director, Office of International Justice and Peace, U.S. Catholic Conference. Paz Artaza-Regan, United Methodist Church, National Council of Churches for Christ. Dr. Ron Sider, President, Evangelicals for Social Action. Date; April 12, 1996 Time: 12:30 to 2:30 Place: 1616 P St., NW, 7th floor Washington, D.C. Please RSVP with number attending to Mara Osman, National Wildlife Federation, 202-797-6818 internet: osman@nwf.org The NRPE was established in 1992 and is a collaboration of the U.S. Catholic Conference, the National Council of Churhces for Christ, the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life and the Evangelical Environmental Network. With those member groups, the Partnership serves more than 100 million Americans and has undertaken a mobilization which represents the religious community's fullest and most formal entry into environmental activity. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Mar 28 00:02:38 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA25775; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 00:02:33 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id EAA03878; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 04:31:05 GMT Received: from galadriel.otago.ac.nz by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id XAA03873; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 23:30:59 -0500 Received: from [139.80.104.154] (MAC104154.otago.ac.nz [139.80.104.154]) by galadriel.otago.ac.nz (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id QAA20913 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 16:29:02 +1200 (NZST) X-Sender: st004593@brandywine.otago.ac.nz Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 05:32:04 +0000 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: oliver.gussmann@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Oliver Gussmann) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Are there currently projects underway monitoring the effects of terrigenous sedimentation on carbonate production rates, carbonate sedimentation? Cheers, Oliver Oliver Gussmann University of Otago Department of Marine Science PO Box 56 Dunedin, New Zealand Fax: (64)-3-479 8336 Tel.: (64)-3 479 8306 email: oliver.gussmann@stonebow.otago.ac.nz From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Mar 28 00:02:45 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA25790; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 00:02:41 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id EAA03886; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 04:35:43 GMT Received: from galadriel.otago.ac.nz by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id XAA03881; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 23:35:39 -0500 Received: from [139.80.104.154] (MAC104154.otago.ac.nz [139.80.104.154]) by galadriel.otago.ac.nz (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id QAA22010 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 16:33:47 +1200 (NZST) X-Sender: st004593@brandywine.otago.ac.nz Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 05:36:47 +0000 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: oliver.gussmann@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Oliver Gussmann) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Since I am new to this list I would like to have some info on what is new on coral-related publications, recent reports on coral research, controversial topics in reef ecology, environmental monitoring sites, international meetings and symposia, and new and historical data availability. Thanks, oLiver Oliver Gussmann University of Otago Department of Marine Science PO Box 56 Dunedin, New Zealand Fax: (64)-3-479 8336 Tel.: (64)-3 479 8306 email: oliver.gussmann@stonebow.otago.ac.nz From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Mar 28 03:08:46 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA26923; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 03:08:42 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id HAA04082; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 07:44:27 GMT Received: from gala.univ-perp.fr by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id CAA04077; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 02:44:13 -0500 Received: from (pichon@localhost) by gala.univ-perp.fr (8.6.10/jtpda-5.1) id IAA04133 for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 08:42:51 GMT Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 08:42:51 GMT From: pichon@univ-perp.fr (michel pichon) Message-Id: <199603280842.IAA04133@gala.univ-perp.fr> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Coral bleaching Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A A CORAL BLEACHING EPISODE IN FRENCH POLYNESIA The onset of a coral bleaching episode has been observed at Moorea (Society Islands, French Polynesia) at the beginning of February 1996, by the permanent staff of the "Centre de Recherches Insulaires et Observatoire de l'Environnement/Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes". (C.R.I.O.B.E./E.P.H.E.). The intensity of the phenomenon is moderate, and it has not been reported from other French Polynesian islands, where a network of observers is monitoring the situation. Some unconfirmed reports, however, suggest that very localized coral bleaching took place on Tahiti, Bora Bora and Rangiroa, in the lagoons as well as on the outer reef slopes. The bleaching does not appear to have gained in intensity since it was first noticed early in February. At the beginning of March, at a depth of 9m, on the outer reef slope on the north coast of Moorea, 27% of all coral colonies were affected by the phenomenon, with 17% partly bleached and 10% wholly or partly fluorescent. The genera most bleached were Montipora, Acropora and Pocillopora. B. Salvat Y Chancerelle email : pol@univ-perp.fr From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Mar 28 03:48:09 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA00473; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 03:48:04 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id IAA04113; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 08:25:56 GMT Received: from galadriel.otago.ac.nz by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id DAA04108; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 03:25:53 -0500 Received: from [139.80.104.154] (MAC104154.otago.ac.nz [139.80.104.154]) by galadriel.otago.ac.nz (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id UAA32546 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 20:24:00 +1200 (NZST) X-Sender: st004593@brandywine.otago.ac.nz Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 09:27:01 +0000 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: oliver.gussmann@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Oliver Gussmann) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Are there currently projects underway monitoring the effects of terrigenous sedimentation on carbonate production rates, carbonate sedimentation? I would also like to have some info on what is new on coral-related publications, recent reports on coral research, controversial topics in reef ecology, environmental monitoring sites, international meetings and symposia, and new and historical data availability. Cheers, Oliver Oliver Gussmann University of Otago Department of Marine Science PO Box 56 Dunedin, New Zealand Fax: (64)-3-479 8336 Tel.: (64)-3 479 8306 email: oliver.gussmann@stonebow.otago.ac.nz From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Mar 28 09:08:31 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA04142; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 09:08:27 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA04393; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 13:45:06 GMT Received: from servms.fiu.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA04387; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 08:45:04 -0500 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 8:42:26 -0500 (EST) From: CLAIR DONNELLY To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov CC: CDONNE01@servms.fiu.edu Message-Id: <960328084226.20407c35@servms.fiu.edu> Subject: Photosynthesis inhibition Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Does anybody have information / experience using DCMU to block photosynthesis in stony corals? i.e. quantities used, time it takes to work etc. Many thanks, Clair Donnelly. Florida International University Department of Biology University Park Miami Florida 33199. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Mar 28 10:34:10 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA05906; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 10:34:03 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA04503; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 15:13:33 GMT Received: from kira.cldc.howard.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA04498; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 10:13:28 -0500 Received: (from rhayes@localhost) by kira.cldc.howard.edu (8.7.3/8.6.6) id KAA14346; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 10:14:58 - 0500 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 10:14:57 -0500 (EST) From: "R. Hayes" X-Sender: rhayes@kira To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Bleaching - French Polynesia Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Greetings, I have just read of the onset of coral bleaching in Moorea, Society Islands, French Polynesia (posted by Salvat and Chancerelle). Has anyone noticed, or heard reports of, whether bleaching is occuring in New Caledonia, French Polynesia? Please respond to me directly at Thanks in advance, Raymond Hayes Howard University From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Mar 28 11:35:57 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA06840; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:35:40 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA04596; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 16:13:33 GMT Received: from charleston.nadn.navy.mil by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA04591; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:13:30 -0500 Received: (from strong@localhost) by charleston.nadn.navy.mil (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA19609; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:12:07 -0500 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:12:06 -0500 (EST) From: Prof Alan E Strong To: michel pichon cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Coral bleaching In-Reply-To: <199603280842.IAA04133@gala.univ-perp.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Michel & Salvat -- Satellite SSTs have been showing 30C water to be lurking off to the north and west of Moorea since mid-Feb. Do you see in-sit values cooresponding to this? Cheers, Al Strong ***************************************************************************** Alan E. Strong Physical Scientist/Oceanographer Adj. Asst. Professor NOAA/NESDIS/ORA -- E/RA28 US Naval Academy NOAA Science Center Oceanography Department Camp Springs, MD 20233 Annapolis, MD 21402 301-763-8102 410-293-6566 [v-mail] astrong@nesdis.noaa.gov strong@nadn.navy.mil FAX: 301-763-8020 FAX: 410-293-213 http://www.nadn.navy.mil/Oceanography/FACULTY/AES_resume.html ***************************************************************************** From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Mar 28 14:15:23 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA01395; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 14:15:18 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA04770; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 18:42:48 GMT Received: from stimpy.ir.miami.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA04765; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 13:42:45 -0500 Received: from umiami.ir.miami.edu by umiami.ir.miami.edu (PMDF V5.0-5 #12471) id <01I2VH4PRVSW9ANA7X@umiami.ir.miami.edu> for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 13:40:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 13:40:26 -0500 (EST) From: atyrell@umiami.ir.miami.edu Subject: summer employment To: coral list server Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hello, I am a sophmore in Marine Biology at the University of Miami. I am extremly interested in coral. In particular coral genetics and coral bleaching. I have two summers of experience in coral genetics including both lab and field work. I am looking for a paid summer position dealing with corals. If anyone on this list has a position open please email me. Thank you, Alicia Tyrell atyrell@umiami.ir.miami.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Mar 28 17:10:48 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA05798; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 17:10:44 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA05122; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 21:50:27 GMT Received: from vxc.ocis.uncwil.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA05117; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 16:50:24 -0500 X-PMrqc: 1 Received: from nurc.cmsr.uncwil.edu by UNCWIL.EDU (PMDF V4.3-10 #15654) id <01I2VND9935S8ZFXY2@UNCWIL.EDU>; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 16:39:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from NURC/SpoolDir by nurc.cmsr.uncwil.edu (Mercury 1.12); Thu, 28 Mar 96 16:42:41 +1100 Received: from Mailqueue by NURC (Mercury 1.11); Thu, 28 Mar 96 16:42:17 +1100 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 16:42:08 +0005 From: Katie Laing Subject: Alizarine and Halimeda growth rates To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Message-id: <357E717901@nurc.cmsr.uncwil.edu> Organization: National Undersea Research Center X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Katie Laing" Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Coral Reef List: Does anyone have information or experience using Alizarine Red-S stain for determining growth rates of calcareous algae? I need to know what concentration, how long to stain and what time of day gives best results. I will be working specifically with Halimeda and am concerned with the stain interfering with growth rates and CNP tissue content. Thanks in advance for any advice you can share. Katie (Halimeda is my life) Laing Master's Student University of North Carolina at Wilmington From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Mar 28 22:40:11 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA09537; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 22:40:07 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id DAA05651; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 03:24:05 GMT Received: from relay1.Hawaii.Edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id WAA05646; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 22:24:00 -0500 Received: from uhunix3.its.Hawaii.Edu ([128.171.44.52]) by relay1.Hawaii.Edu with SMTP id <11612(6)>; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 17:22:07 -1000 Received: by uhunix3.its.Hawaii.Edu id <464527>; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 17:21:56 -1000 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 17:21:49 -1000 From: Deborah Gochfeld X-Sender: gochfeld@uhunix3 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Coral bleaching in PNG Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A I was very interested in John Rewald's report of bleaching in Milne Bay, PNG. I just returned from PNG where I did extensive diving in Milne Bay (Dec 1-15), Madang (Dec 15-Feb 15) and southern New Ireland (Feb 20-Mar 1). I did not observe an unusual amount of bleading in Milne Bay in December, although it sounds as if this event began more recently. I also did not observe an unusual amount of bleaching in Madang, although there were a few white corals here and there. However, there was an excessive amount of bleaching on the reefs in southern New Ireland. Transects laid at each of 15 sites showed that approximately 10-60% of corals in shallow water were bleached. Bleaching on most reefs extended to a depth of 25m. Most corals were still alive, suggesting a very recent event, and the few dead corals were not yet covered with algae. A higher proportion of soft corals were affected, as well as a few anemones. I would be interested in hearing more details about the Milne Bay bleaching event and any other known events in the region. Does anyone know whether any monitoring is being undertaken in Milne Bay or elsewhere in the region. I also think that some periodic monitoring should be performed in Madang (and perhaps elsewhere along the north coast of PNG), if anyone is over that way, as that area is between the two known affected areas. I last dove in Madang around Feb. 15th and did not observe bleaching but it would be interesting to know if or when the bleaching event progresses to Madang. If anyone has any further information on these or other bleaching events, please post it!! Sincerely, Deborah Gochfeld Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology P.O. Box 1346 Kaneohe, HI 96744 gochfeld@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Mar 29 07:27:13 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA14666; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 07:27:09 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA06017; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 12:00:31 GMT Received: from ccrv.obs-vlfr.fr by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA06012; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 07:00:26 -0500 Message-Id: <199603291200.HAA06012@reef.aoml.erl.gov> Received: from kiwi.obs-vlfr.fr by ccrv.obs-vlfr.fr with SMTP (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA19653; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 12:58:20 +0100 Received: from macmiche.obs-vlfr.fr by kiwi with SMTP (1.37.109.4/16.2) id AA12295; Fri, 29 Mar 96 12:57:50 +0100 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 96 12:57:50 +0100 X-Sender: micho@193.49.112.12 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Eudora F1.4 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: micho@ccrv.obs-vlfr.fr (francois Michaud) Subject: BLEACHING REVIEW Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: If reply then to pecheux@eureka.meta.fr About my Review on Bleaching (about 150p., 650 refs, and I hope quite good), sorry for those who read my message (terribly scrambled by Minitel !) and try to get it from the server !. There was quiproquo and it was supress from it. Never mind, it will be on Internet but I dont know when. In the meantime, at request to me, I will send you a MacIntosh diskette by mail.Cheers to all. MICHAUD francois Laboratoire de Geodynamique sous marine Universite Pierre et Marie Curie La Darse, B-P 48, Villefranche sur Mer, France Tel : (33) 93 76 37 40 ou 37 49 Fax : (33) 93 76 37 66 E-mail : micho@ccrv.obs-vlfr.fr From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Mar 29 07:32:57 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA14955; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 07:32:53 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id LAA06006; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:58:20 GMT Received: from ccrv.obs-vlfr.fr by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id GAA06000; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 06:57:39 -0500 Message-Id: <199603291157.GAA06000@reef.aoml.erl.gov> Received: from kiwi.obs-vlfr.fr by ccrv.obs-vlfr.fr with SMTP (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA19606; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 12:55:36 +0100 Received: from macmiche.obs-vlfr.fr by kiwi with SMTP (1.37.109.4/16.2) id AA12290; Fri, 29 Mar 96 12:55:06 +0100 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 96 12:55:06 +0100 X-Sender: micho@193.49.112.12 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Eudora F1.4 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: micho@ccrv.obs-vlfr.fr (francois Michaud) Subject: BLEACHING : NOT UV Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: FROM PECHEUX : pecheux@eureka.meta.fr The following article was refused by Marine Ecology Progress Series (see at end). Please, is there native English-speaking scientist who can check the english before an other submission ? Thanks a lot ! Tables and figures send at request. Also any critics, comments, new informations are wellcome and may be taken in account. It can be also be quoted as unpublished with now archive coral-list server reference. ANALYSIS OF OZONE SATELLITE DATA : NO RELATION BETWEEN UV AND REEF MASS BLEACHING Martin Pecheux, Scientific Consultant, 8, rue Dante, F-06000 NICE, FRANCE. Email : pecheux@eureka.meta.fr Abstract : One of the major threats on Earth ecosystems is the recent and worldwide mass bleaching of reef symbioses, yet unexplained. Global warming or weather pattern change are probably not the causal factors. Many researchers have conducted bleaching experiments with UV, supposed to trigger bleaching events. Here I analyze Nimbus 7 TOMS ozone data above reef areas from 1979 to 1991. There is no trend in ozone amount in tropics at month, season nor year time scale, nor more frequent or more pronounced low ozone values. Examination of twenty bleaching events did not reveal any correlation with ozone drawdown. The UV hypothesis must be discarded, and this lets CO2 rise as the last serious explanation of reef mass bleaching. Key-words : ozone, TOMS, Nimbus 7, ultra-violet, reef, bleaching, CO2. Introduction recent mass bleaching affects all reef photosynthetic symbioses, not only hard corals but also other cnidarians, large foraminifers, sponges and Tridacna mollusks, in association with either dinoflagellates, diatoms or cyanobacteria, some with no mortality. It corresponds to the ruture of the symbiosis with loss of the colored symbionts and/or the photosynthetic pigments, hence the name. This phenomenon is worldwide and observed in all reef biotopes, without coherent spatial pattern. It began in 1979, and seems to increase in magnitude and frequency, becoming chronic (see reviews of Williams and Bunkley-Williams, 1990, Smith and Buddmeier, 1992, Glynn, 1993, Pecheux, soon on Internet). The most worrysome is that the cause is not identified. As bleaching generally occurs during hot time, calm sea and clear sky, global warming has been often invoked. But global warming is evenly distributed on Earth (Jones et al., 1986, Gray, 1990 and ref. herein), in particular not found over Caribbean (Atwood et al., 1992, IPCC, 1992). Temperatures are often reported to be "above normal" during bleaching but long term data are insufficient to label them as abnormally high, apart for the exceptional El Nino 1983 in East Pacific (Glynn, 1989) but not elsewhere (Croffroth et al., 1989). Morever, good counter-examples exist, as for the well studied Great Barrier Reef 1982 event with normal temperature (Coffroth et al., 1989) or bleaching of large foraminifers at less than 27oC in Florida 1991-1993 (Hallock and Talge, 1993, Hallock et al., 1995). Convincing evidences of a climatic shift in the late 70's are accumulating, primarly with an increase of evaporation in marine tropical areas (Flohn and Kappala, 1989, Kumar et al., 1994, Graham, 1995), but with a pattern similar to El Nino, i.e. not worldwide. Mass bleaching have been suspected to be a consequence of formation of dense hot hypersaline waters (Jaap, 1988, Odgen and Wicklund, 1988, Lang et al., 1989), favourized by evaporation, but such formation is excluded when slack winds (Pecheux, 1996, Annex 2). On the other hand, probable increase of mean wind speeds by enhanced convection (Flohn and Kappala, 1989, but see Graham, 1995) seems to rule out more frequent doldrum times in warm tropical areas. With the coincidence of the advents of mass bleaching and the Antartic ozone hole around 1979, many researchers have considered ultra-violet (UV) as the primary cause. Many biological experiments have been carried out (Scelfo, 1986, Siebeck, 1988, Lesser and Schick, 1989, Lesser et al., 1990, Schick et al., 1991, Hallock and Talge, 1993, Reaka-Kudla et al., 1993, Gleason and Wellington, 1993) and measures done in situ (Gleason and Wellington, 1993, Drollet et al., 1994), although it was already known that mean stratospheric ozone had not yet decreased in tropics (Bowman and Krueger, 1985, Frederick and Serafino, 1985, Herman et al., 1991, Stolarski et al., 1991, see last synthesis in Stolarski et al., 1992, Herman and McPeters, 1993). It was necessary to verify if this holds also at seasonal time scale, or if variation had not increased with concomitent more frequent low ozone values. A third posibility might have been that mass bleaching events would be triggered by "mini-ozone holes". Ozone drawdowns are known to occur at time scale of few days in latitude as low as Texas (Michaels et al., 1994). Moreover these drawdowns are associated with anticyclonic features, suggesting their advent during doldrum time, although this correlation is the weakest in tropics (Barsby and Diab, 1995). In order to examine those possibilities, I analyzed available data on ozone level in tropics, as measured by the Nimbus 7 satellite. Data Whole column ozone quantities have been mesured by the Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet/Total Ozone Map Spectrophotometer (SBUV/TOMS) aboard the NOAA Nimbus 7 satellite since November 1978. Its principle is based on the ratio of sun backscatter radiations at 312 nm and 331 nm lengthwave, one strongly absorbed by ozone while the other not. Data are freely available from the Goddard Space Flight Center (DAAC User Service, Global Change Data Center, Code 902.2, Greenbelt, MD 20771) in specific format of ASCII files on three CD-ROMs covering the period from November 1978 to January 1991. Daily 200 000 measures over the globe are averaged in a grid 1o latitude x 1.25o longitude, corresponding to 111 x 139 km squared at equator. Ozone quantities are expressed in Dobson units, corresponding to hundreth of millimeter of an equivalent pure ozone layer at sea level pressure and temperature. Missing values represent 2.4% to 5.7% of the data, evenly distributed in first approximation (not shown). I selected 36 reef locations, using ozone values of the nearest TOMS grid point (Tab. 1). Spatial ozone gradient is weak, with absolute difference between adjacent squares of a mean and standard deviation of about 3 Dobsons, and maximum difference roughly ten time greater, as checked in the GBR and Florida areas. I restricted the data from the 1st January 1979 to the 31th December 1991 (4745 days) to eliminate winter biais in trend analysis. Programs of data extraction from CD-ROMs, with patch reads by trap calls to Operating System primitives for reasonnable speed of lecture, and those of data analysis were written in Think PascalR on Macintosh, and displayed with StatViewR. Results General trends As it was already known, there is no decrease of ozone level in tropics between 21.5oS to 20.5oN for studied locations, with p always > 0.05 for 1979 to 1991. Even positive trends are observed in Chiriqui and San Blas, Panama, and Venezuela (with p=0.009, 0.017, 0.056 respectively). North of 20.5oN, decrease of ozone becomes sensible (p<0.0005), with trend downto 1.2% per year in Aqaba (with no mass bleaching) and Bermuda. A similar pattern is seen with selection of the lowest values of each month, with p<0.05 only north of 29.5oN (one value selected) or north of 26.5oN (four values selected), exception Oahu, 21.5oN, with a weak trend=-0.475 Dobson/year, p=0.029, r2=0.764. Trends for each month are similar, with no significant trend between at least 15oS and 15oN. They group into the four seasons (Fig. 1). In the Southern hemisphere, a weak negative trend is observed in summer, increasing with latitude (-0.63 Dobson/year in New Caledonia, with no mass bleaching reported), but none in the Northern hemisphere summer, even to the northernmost tropical latitudes (and temperate ones, not shown). In addition, ozone values are at their highest level in summer in both hemispheres, May-August in the North and August-December in the South, with a cross of seasonality pattern around 5oS. The lowest ozone values for the 1979-1991 period always occured in June-August south of 5oS and November-February north of it. The 20th lowest values are mostly encountered in northern locations in winters 1983, 1985 and 1988, and in southern locations in winters 1985, 1990, 1980, and also in summers 1984 and 1987 (when no mass bleaching is reported). Correlation with bleaching events I restricted my study to twenty bleaching events for which time of advent is known within a month (Tab. 2). A first visual inspection quickly revealed very few low values of ozone for the time of year at time of bleaching, or within the two months before the event, nor drawdown of ozone. I compared the mininimum and the mean ozone values during either one or two months before bleaching (using as date the last day indicated or the end of the month if days were unprecised in references) with the same values for equivalent periods in 1979-1991. There is no difference with the 1979-1991 mean (range -6.77 to 7.14 Dobson, mean 0.79 plus/minus 4.09 for two months period). It could always be found another year with lower mean and minimum. Exceptions are Bahamas, September 1987, and Bermuda, August 1988, where values are often near the lower range, with about ten days of lowest values upon the two months period. Only San Blas, Panama, with bleaching in June 1983, shows clearly lowest values during the 1-15 May (257-269 Dobson, mean 263.5 plus/minus 3.4, versus decade 256-293, mean 273.9 plus/minus 7.0), however within only 1.5 standard deviation for this two weeks. Transient ozone drawdowns of a few days were quantified by the difference between the daily data and the centered rectangular moving average on (best) three weeks, and more precisely, by the square of only negative value of this difference, emphasizing remarkable low events, also both for one or two months period before bleaching events. No differences for the drawdown indexes are noticeable with the 1979-1991 mean (-0.108 to 0.360, mean -0.078 plus/minus 0.0.363 for the squared index over two months) and lower minima and means could always be found in other years. Particularly low values of drawdown indexes associated with bleaching in Jamaica 1987, Pari 1983 and Looe Key 1983, but are due to jigsaw records from quite high levels ; and in Lizard island, GBR (event between the 15 December 1981 and 7 January 1982), with a pretty fall of ozone from the 16 to 22 December, downto 254 Dobsons, i.e. 5 to 15 Dobsons below moving average, but there are usual falls downto 240-250 Dobsons in December and January. Moreover, the GBR 1982 event appeared synchronously over 500 km, and ozone values over the Magnetic and Myrmydon islands areas, though with some parrallellism, show no drawdown. Also relevant, bleaching was observed in 1987 in Florida in mid-July at Looe Key and end-August at Key Largo (Jaap, 1988), whereas the ozone records are very similar with difference of -1.10 plus/minus 0.85 Dobson, range -19 to 12, mainly because of a time lag of one day between this two sites (Fig. 2A). Discussion These results confirm previous analysis of an abscence of trend of ozone in tropics and extended them for month and seasonal time scales, as well as for variance and particularly low values. Ozone level is at its highest in summer when mass bleaching usually occurs. Its record appears highly variable at annual and interannual scale (ex. fig. 2A). In fact, the volcano impacts (El Chichon, March 1992, Nevado del Ruiz, November 1985, Pinatubo, June 1991) are not discernable in the raw data unless removal of seasonal, ENSO, QBO and 11 years sun cycles (Zerefos et al., 1992, Herman and McPeters 1993), contrary to a suggestion that preferential bleaching in 1983, 1986-88 and 1991 might have been due to those volcanic eruptions (Hallock and Talge, 1993). The abscence of any trend nor correlation between ozone low and mass bleaching implicates that UV are not the primary cause of the phenomenon. An indirect UV effect, due to higher water transparency in reason of a would-be global increase of doldrum time in tropics was suggested by Gleason and Wellington (1993). But periods with very calm sea certainly occur already in the past decades. Moreover, mass bleaching is often observed in very shallow waters and long term change of irradiation in one meter depth water or less can be only negligable. Of course, this does not preclude that UV play is one of the stress, perhaps important, as shown in situ by UV shielding of large foraminifers during an event (Hallock and Talge, 1993) or of upward transplanted corals (Gleason and Wellington, 1993), but just like visible light, probably involved at the photoinhibition site, the PS II D1 protein Qb site (Friso et al., 1995, Day and Vogelmann, 1995, and ref. herein). Large foraminifers, which at contrast to corals continue to calcify during bleaching, show, even in the stable conditions of front reef facies bathed by pristine open ocean waters, spectacular shell abnormalities (Pecheux in Muller et al., 1991, unpublished, Hallock and Talge, 1993, Hallock et al., 1995), almost unknown in sub-present or geological times (in prep.). This clearly emphasizes the recent appearance of mass bleaching and its real signifiance at long term planetary level. Given bleaching occurance, its explanation must hold for all latitudes and longitudes in tropics, for all reef biotopes (from 0 to 100 m depth, lagoon to fore-reef, isolated islands to barriers). It must involved a fundamental biochemical process, as implicated by the biodiversity of reef photosynthetic symbioses, exclusively and all affected, symbioses which constitute the founder of this ecosystem. This excludes complex regional-differentiated climatic or hydrologic changes origin and lets ozone depletion and CO2 rise as the only alternatives. Now the UV hypothesis can be also rejected with good confidence. As supported by theoritical arguments and preliminary CO2-induced bleaching experiments (Pecheux, 1993, 1994), the CO2 rise and the acidification of surface ocean, with H+ actual change of 21%, appears as the responsable global changing factor. 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Prog. Ser. 83:91-101 Zerefos CS, Bais AF, Ziomas I, Bojkov RD (1992) On the relative importance of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation and El Nino/Southern Oscillation in the revised Dobson total ozone records. J. Geophys. Res. 97/D9:10135-10144 Table 1 : Examined reef areas with latitude (negative values South) and longitude (negative values West) of nearest TOMS grid point, 1979-1991 mean, minimum and maximum ozone values in Dobson, trends in Dobson/year, correlation coefficient r2 and probability p of linear regressions. Table 2 : Examined bleaching events : sites, year (Y), month (M) and day (D) (last day indicated in references or last day of month if unprecised), mean (Mean), minimum (Min), and maximum (Max) ozone values of two months period before bleaching, their differences for the same period of year with the 1979-1991 mean (dM), with the year of lowest mean (dLM) and the minimum value (dMin), and same differences (dD, dLD, dMin) for a drawdown index (minus squared of only negative values of difference with three weeks movering average on one month period before bleaching). Bleaching events were described in : Great Barrier Reef : Oliver, 1985, Harriott, 1985, Fisk and Done, 1985, Coffroth et al., 1898 ; Mayotte : Faure et al., 1984 ; Indonesia : Hoeksema, 1991 ; Galapagos : Robinson, 1985, Glynn, 1989 ; Panama : Lasker et al., 1984, Knowlton, 1988 ; Venezuela : Losada, 1988 ; Philipine : Yap et al., 1992 ; Puerto Rico : Goennega and Canals, 1990 ; Jamaica : Woodley, 1988, Sandeman, 1988, Goreau and MacFarlane, 1990, Goreau, 1990, 1991 ; Japan : Kamezaki and Ui, 1984 ; Bahamas : Lang et al., 1989 ; Florida : Jaap, 1985, 1988, Te Strake et al., 1988, Hudson, 1988, Porter et al., 1989 ; Bermuda : Cook et al., 1990. Fig.1 : Ozone trends in Dobson/year during 1979-1991 versus latitude for the four seasons, without significance between 15oS and 15oN. Note that no ozone decrease is observed in summer Northern hemisphere up to 35oN, whereas it exists in summer Southern hemisphere south of 15oS, of which I does not have explanation. Fig. 2: a) Example of an ozone record : Key Largo, Florida, USA. 2A : Note the great variance at annual and interannual scales. Highest values of ozone occur during summer. Note lowest values in winter 1985, 1988, 1991. There were bleaching events in September 1983, August 1987, in autumn 1991, and more recently in summer 1992 (only large foraminifers) and summer 1993 (Hallock and al., 1995). b) Ozone record around the 1987 bleaching event in Looe Key in July (continuous line) and Key Largo in August (discontinuous line), together with minimum and maximum values for same days during 1979-1991. Note coherent values of ozone level over the region, and their normal level for this year. REVIEWER'S EVALUATION >From Editor of the Marine Ecology Progress Series, mainly : "(...). Your paper may well be publishable in another journal; but, the work is largely outside the scope of MEPS. (...)". First reviewer : "Publication not recommanded. This ms does not pass our usual MEPS standard. It presents a confusing picture. Global warming does occur and many bleachings are related to increase seawater temperatures although more than one causal factor may be involved. The results, General trends as well as the Correlation with bleaching events, are confusing without appropriate statistical analysis of data. The ms is badly written and the contents are not very interesting." /My commentary : critics not interesting/ Second reviewer (my commentary under //): "This paper adresses an interesting and important topic but suffers from careless presentation, and language problems as well as misinterpretation of the existing literature (see comments on the text). Contrary to what what is stated in the paper there is good evidence of a coincidence between extreme El Nino events and bleaching at sites across the Pacific in 1983 (Glynn 1993) /what I agree in the text for El Nino 1993/. Elevated seawater temperatures are known to result in coral bleaching both in simulated laboratory experiments (Glynn and D'Croz 1990) /yes, and many other papers, but as with almost any kind of stress/ and in the field (Glynn 1994). In the submitted paper the effects of elevated seawater temperatures are practically ignored /not the subject/. While the analysis of the satellite derived ozone data is of some interest it is important to consider other factors which are likely to influence the bleaching response in shallow waters as a result of increased UVR penetration. One such is the transparency of seawater at any particular location and this should be acknwoledged in the text /I can not agree : long term global change of transparency in very shallow water, for which no indication is in support, can be only negligeable/. Similarly no consideration is given to synergistic effects of interacting factors eg. high seawater and high irradiance /at contrary I conclude that bleaching appears to be due to CO2 in synergy with temperature, light include UV, water agitation/. The current analysis has produce negative resuslts which, nonetheless are important to publish given the body of scientific opinion seeking to involve UVR as a major factor responsible for coral bleaching. I would suggest that the author attemps to summarise his finding as a short note /bof/, eliminates all jargon (eg ozone drawdowns /but it used in geophysical papers/, jigsaws records etc) and quite simply presents a case which is based on two figures and a single table. Most importantly it would be essential to have the draft text checked by an English-speaking scientist before submission." MICHAUD francois Laboratoire de Geodynamique sous marine Universite Pierre et Marie Curie La Darse, B-P 48, Villefranche sur Mer, France Tel : (33) 93 76 37 40 ou 37 49 Fax : (33) 93 76 37 66 E-mail : micho@ccrv.obs-vlfr.fr From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Mar 29 11:02:25 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA20043; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:02:22 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA06222; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 15:26:35 GMT Received: from ccrv.obs-vlfr.fr by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA06217; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 10:26:21 -0500 Message-Id: <199603291526.KAA06217@reef.aoml.erl.gov> Received: from kiwi.obs-vlfr.fr by ccrv.obs-vlfr.fr with SMTP (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA20400; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 16:24:17 +0100 Received: from macmiche.obs-vlfr.fr by kiwi with SMTP (1.37.109.4/16.2) id AA12596; Fri, 29 Mar 96 16:23:47 +0100 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 96 16:23:47 +0100 X-Sender: micho@193.49.112.12 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Eudora F1.4 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: micho@ccrv.obs-vlfr.fr (francois Michaud) Subject: BLEACHING REVIEW, corr. Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The Bleaching review is from MARTIN PECHEUX and better ask me for directely at pecheux@eureka.meta.fr (sorry I have to used Internet of a friend to emit). Sincerely. 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Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Greetings! I have set up a spot on our Coral Health and Monitoring Program Web site at http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov for people who are posting coral research opportunities, or for those who are seeking employment. This page is meant ONLY for posting information on current employment opportunities for coral researchers, and for people seeking employment in coral research. If you would like to post an employment opening, or if you would like to post your own personal advertisement (please, not too long), send your message to coral@coral.aoml.noaa.gov with EMPLOYER NAME in the SUBJECT line of your message, if you are posting an opportunity, or YOUR NAME in the SUBJECT line, if you are seeking employment. 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As part of a course, I am looking for information on black band disease. I have checked all library references and internet sources available to me. I have Reuetzler and Santavy (1983), and Carlton and Richardson, (1995). Any further information you can provide me will be appreciated. Thank you in advance for your time. Amanda Johnson My e-mail address is johea@rhodes.edu. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Apr 1 19:31:19 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA21889; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 19:31:17 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA09467; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 21:43:34 GMT Received: from bgnet1.bgsu.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA09462; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 16:43:30 -0500 Received: (from partim@localhost) by bgnet1.bgsu.edu (8.7.1/8.6.12) id WAA24399; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 22:02:03 - 0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 22:02:03 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Partin Subject: Re: Subjects, clarified To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Could anyone send me recent information on Astrangia danae. It would be of considerable help. -Matt Partin Matt Partin 173 Winfield Bowling Green, OH 43402 partim@bgnet.bgsu.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Apr 3 17:22:05 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA07936; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 17:22:03 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA11779; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 21:37:48 GMT Received: from abernathy.tenet.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA11774; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 16:37:44 -0500 Received: (from dlowen@localhost) by abernathy.tenet.edu (8.7.1/8.7.1) id PAA30746; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 15:35:38 - 0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 15:35:37 -0600 (CST) From: David John Lowen To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Coral Reef Bleaching Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A I am currently working on my doctorate in Science Education and am in need of several articles on Coral Reef Bleaching. I have found some, but most are fairly old and out of date. If anyone has article titles or articles please contact me. Living in a land-locked area, I do not have access to a lot of marine literature. Good diving..... From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Mar 16 21:05:16 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA07856; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 21:05:13 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA17605; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 01:53:13 GMT Received: from extra.ucc.su.OZ.AU by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA17600; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 20:53:09 -0500 Received: from linnaeus.bio.usyd.edu.au (linnaeus.bio.usyd.edu.AU [129.78.177.10]) by extra.ucc.su.OZ.AU (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA05462 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 12:46:25 +1100 Received: from a08pc-20.bio.usyd.edu.AU by linnaeus.bio.usyd.edu.au; (5.65/1.1.8.2/12Aug94-0642PM) id AA03859; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 11:51:16 +1000 Message-Id: <1.5.4b11.32.19960317024120.00810934@mail.bio.usyd.edu.au> X-Sender: oveh@mail.bio.usyd.edu.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4b11 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 12:41:20 +1000 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Ove Hoegh-Guldberg Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Two grey literature reports are now available. These reports are 1. Hoegh-Guldberg, O. (1994) Mass-bleaching of coral reefs in French Polynesia, April 1994. 2. Hoegh-Guldberg, O. (1995) The mass bleaching of coral reefs in the Central Pacific in 1994. A followup study and establishment of long-term monitoring sites. http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/CRRI/LIBRARY/gp1.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ove Hoegh-Guldberg Ph: (02) 351-2389 School of Biological Sciences Fax: (02) 351-4119 Building A08 Mobile: 014 811 935 University of Sydney Country code Australia = 61 2006 NSW Australia OHG: http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/SOBS/ACADEMIC/ACASTAFF/ohg.html Coral Reef Research Institute: http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/CRRI/crri-ind.html One Tree Island Research Station: http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/OTI/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Mar 18 11:19:21 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef.aoml.noaa.gov [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA20472; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:19:19 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA18968; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:43:08 GMT Received: from noc.belwue.de by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA18963; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:41:47 -0500 Received: from [129.69.31.28] (rusxppp28.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.31.28]) by noc.belwue.de with SMTP id QAA20377 (8.6.13/IDA-1.6); Mon, 18 Mar 1996 16:32:31 +0100 Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 16:32:31 +0100 X-Sender: iaal@po.uni-stuttgart.de Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: reinhold.leinfelder@po.uni-stuttgart.de (Reinhold Leinfelder) Subject: JURASSIC REEF PARK: educational online article on reefs Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear colleagues, One of the duties of reef research is to inform the public about the importance of reefs. Under this scope I would like to announce the web-launch of an educational geoscience online article on Jurassic Reefs: The JURASSIC REEF PARK (in German and English; by Reinhold Leinfelder, Stuttgart). The article tries to focus in a (hopefully) understandable way on the following subjects: What are the general features of modern and Ancient reefs? (basic environmental demands of reefs, principal reef organisms: modern and ancient) Why were Jurassic reefs so different from modern ones? (different shelf configuration, different climate, different circulation, different organisms) Can Jurassic reefs tell us more about the Jurassic world? (inform about shelf configuration, climate, sea-level change etc). Can Jurassic reefs contribute to the understanding of present Global Change? (Composition and frequencies of Jurassic reefs have changed drastically during a warming episode, preceeding shallow water oxygen depletion; many similarities with present situation? Reefs as climatic buffers? ) The URL is: http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/UNIuser/igps/edu/JRP/Jurassic_Reef_Park.html (but you also may reach the article by going through our IGPS-homepage or our Reefgroup Homepage, see below) Simplifying without making overgeneralizations and mistakes is one of the major problem of such an article. Any comments, suggestions and critics are therefore greatly welcome (and your name will naturally appear in the acknowledgements). The glossary and scientific annotations should be enlarged in the future. Best wishes Reinhold Leinfelder PS: Please forgive me if you have received this or a similar mail already through another round-letter. ******************************************* Reinhold Leinfelder Institut fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie der Universitaet Stuttgart Herdweg 51 D-70174 Stuttgart, Germany e-mail: reinhold.leinfelder@po.uni-stuttgart.de phone: ++49-711-1211340 or -1339 fax: ++49-711-1211341 http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/UNIuser/igps/home.html How about a look at our reef group pages? http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/UNIuser/igps/researchfiles/reefgroup.html From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Apr 5 13:46:29 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA21577; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 13:46:26 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA13822; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 18:32:54 GMT Received: from aqua.whoi.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA13817; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 13:32:48 -0500 From: acohen@cliff.whoi.edu Received: from cliff.whoi.edu (cliff.whoi.edu [128.128.16.150]) by aqua.whoi.edu (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id NAA29415 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 13:22:41 -0500 Received: from cc:Mail by cliff.whoi.edu id AA828739438; Fri, 05 Apr 96 13:19:32 est Date: Fri, 05 Apr 96 13:19:32 est Encoding: 14 Text Message-Id: <9603058287.AA828739438@cliff.whoi.edu> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Pink Porites Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear All I am making various geochemical measurements on Porites colonies from Johnston Atoll, NC Pacific. On sectioning several colonies from one of my lagoonal sites, I noticed a bright pink line, the contours of which follow the growth bands. In all colonies, it is situated about 1.5 cm from the surface, below the green endolithic algae. I have never seen this before and it seems restricted to one particular site on Johnston Atoll. Neither samples from the reef edge nor any other lagoonal localities nor any other genera I've sectioned show this. Could it be a red algae ? Does anybody have any suggestions ? much appreciated Anne (acohen@whoi.edu) From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Apr 5 14:18:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA21936; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 14:17:55 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA13854; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 19:09:56 GMT Received: from back.vims.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA13849; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 14:09:47 -0500 Received: from VS.vims.edu (VS.vims.EDU [139.70.2.120]) by back.vims.edu (8.6.12/) with ESMTP id OAA09495; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 14:07:46 -0500 Received: (webb@localhost) by VS.vims.edu (8.6.12/) id OAA05294; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 14:07:45 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 14:07:45 -0500 (EST) From: Ken Webb To: acohen@cliff.whoi.edu cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Pink Porites In-Reply-To: <9603058287.AA828739438@cliff.whoi.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I'd guess someone like Bob Buddemeier (bob_buddemeier@msmail.kgs.ukans.edu) stained them to measure the growth rates at some future time. Ken Webb On Fri, 5 Apr 1996 acohen@cliff.whoi.edu wrote: > Dear All > I am making various geochemical measurements on Porites > colonies from Johnston Atoll, NC Pacific. On sectioning > several colonies from one of my lagoonal sites, I noticed a > bright pink line, the contours of which follow the growth > bands. In all colonies, it is situated about 1.5 cm from the > surface, below the green endolithic algae. I have never seen > this before and it seems restricted to one particular > site on Johnston Atoll. Neither samples from the reef edge > nor any other lagoonal localities nor any other genera I've > sectioned show this. Could it be a red algae ? Does anybody > have any suggestions ? > much appreciated Anne > (acohen@whoi.edu) > > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Apr 5 20:27:13 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA25717; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 20:27:10 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id AAA14253; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 00:54:58 GMT Received: from biology.ucsc.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA14248; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 19:54:49 -0500 Received: from [128.114.25.8] (bio-potts.UCSC.EDU [128.114.25.8]) by biology.ucsc.edu (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id QAA24590; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 16:51:57 -0800 Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 16:43:58 PST From: Donald Potts Subject: Re: Pink Porites To: acohen@cliff.whoi.edu cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov X-Sender: potts@darwin.ucsc.edu In-Reply-To: <9603058287.AA828739438@cliff.whoi.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I've seen similar pink bands from time to time in massive Porites from Australia and Papua New Guinea. Again, only in some corals. While I have assumed they represent endolithic algae or micro-organisms, I've never looked closely at the cause. Not all Porites in one area have these pink bands ; and I suspect they may reflect host-specificity of the microorganisms among Porites species, as well as habitat-specificity Don Potts ***************************************************************************** * Donald C. Potts * * Professor of Biology * * Director, UCSC Education Abroad Program * * * * A316 Earth and Marine Sciences Building * * University of California Phone: (408) 459-4417 * * Santa Cruz Fax: (408) 459-4882 * * California 95064 U.S.A. Email: potts@biology.ucsc.edu * ***************************************************************************** From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Apr 6 01:19:55 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA27990; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 01:19:47 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id GAA14516; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 06:13:32 GMT Received: from relay1.Hawaii.Edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id BAA14511; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 01:13:28 -0500 Received: from uhunix4.its.Hawaii.Edu ([128.171.44.54]) by relay1.Hawaii.Edu with SMTP id <11361(10)>; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 20:11:22 -1000 Received: from ZOOGATE.ZOO.HAWAII.EDU ([128.171.120.3]) by uhunix4.its.Hawaii.Edu with SMTP id <105785>; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 20:11:12 -1000 Received: from ZOOLOGY/SpoolDir by ZOOGATE.ZOO.HAWAII.EDU (Mercury 1.21); 5 Apr 96 20:07:04 -1000 Received: from SpoolDir by ZOOLOGY (Mercury 1.21); 5 Apr 96 20:07:02 -1000 From: "Ilsa Kuffner" Organization: University of Hawaii - Zoology To: acohen@cliff.whoi.edu, Ken Webb Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 21:06:53 -1000 Subject: Re: Pink Porites CC: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.01) Message-ID: Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Regarding pink Porites, Here in Hawaii we have a parasite that infects Porites compressa in the form of bright pink "coral zits." I don't know if this is related to pink bands, for I've never seen any when sectioning branches, but I don't believe I've checked an infected coral. The parasite is a trematode with a complicated life cycle involving several intermediate hosts including a gastropod. See papers by Greta Aeby. Anyway, the fact that the color is suspiciously the same and that it is so localized (infection here in Kaneohe Bay is extremely patchy) makes me suspect that it could be what you're seeing. Ilsa Kuffner Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology PO Box 1346 Kaneohe, HI 96744 ikuffner@zoogate.zoo.hawaii.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Wed Apr 7 14:59:28 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA14071; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 14:59:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA15928; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 18:40:54 GMT Received: from kuhub.cc.ukans.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA15923; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 14:40:46 -0400 Received: from pangaea.kgs.ukans.edu by KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU (PMDF V5.0-5 #13311) id <01I39G09JY688XJPQB@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU>; Sun, 07 Apr 1996 13:38:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: from msmail.kgs.ukans.edu by pangaea.kgs.ukans.edu (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA10358; Sun, 07 Apr 1996 13:38:51 +0600 Date: Sun, 07 Apr 1996 12:42:02 +0800 (U) From: Bob Buddemeier Subject: RE: Pink Porites To: acohen@cliff.whoi.edu, coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Message-id: <9604071838.AA10358@pangaea.kgs.ukans.edu> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Contrary to the suggestions of some, I am not some sort of marine easter bunny hopping from atoll to atoll with a basket of dyed Porites (I'll get you for that, Ken). However -- like Potts, I have very occasionally seen pinkish bands in sectioned corals (I think non-Porites as well), but seldom uniform, bright or common -- and usually other colors: see section on boring algae in Buddemeier, Maragos & Knutson (1974). Radiographic Studies of Reef Coral Exoskeletons, J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 14:179-200. If the lines faithfully (as opposed to just approximately) track the density growth patterns, if they are bright and uniform, and especially if they trace out pretty much the whole living surface at time of deposition, then I would check with any other scientists working at the atoll and/or the JA marine ops people to see who might have been dying or dumping material in the lagoon 1-2 years before these corals were collected -- biogenic pigment bands just aren't that consistent. Bob Buddemeier _______________________________________________________________________________ To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: acohen@cliff.whoi.edu on Fri, Apr 5, 1996 12:42 PM Subject: Pink Porites RFC Header:Received: by msmail.kgs.ukans.edu with SMTP;5 Apr 1996 12:42:11 U Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA13822; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 18:32:54 GMT Received: from aqua.whoi.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA13817; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 13:32:48 -0500 From: acohen@cliff.whoi.edu Received: from cliff.whoi.edu (cliff.whoi.edu [128.128.16.150]) by aqua.whoi.edu (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id NAA29415 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 13:22:41 -0500 Received: from cc:Mail by cliff.whoi.edu id AA828739438; Fri, 05 Apr 96 13:19:32 est Date: Fri, 05 Apr 96 13:19:32 est Encoding: 14 Text Message-Id: <9603058287.AA828739438@cliff.whoi.edu> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Pink Porites Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Dear All I am making various geochemical measurements on Porites colonies from Johnston Atoll, NC Pacific. On sectioning several colonies from one of my lagoonal sites, I noticed a bright pink line, the contours of which follow the growth bands. In all colonies, it is situated about 1.5 cm from the surface, below the green endolithic algae. I have never seen this before and it seems restricted to one particular site on Johnston Atoll. Neither samples from the reef edge nor any other lagoonal localities nor any other genera I've sectioned show this. Could it be a red algae ? Does anybody have any suggestions ? much appreciated Anne (acohen@whoi.edu) From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Wed Apr 7 19:32:59 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA16271; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 19:32:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id XAA16090; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 23:25:26 GMT Received: from innet.meta.fr by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA16085; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 19:25:18 -0400 Received: by innet.meta.fr (5.65/1.2-eef) id AA08325; Mon, 8 Apr 96 00:13:23 +0100 Date: Mon, 8 Apr 96 00:13:23 +0100 Message-Id: <9604072313.AA08325@innet.meta.fr> X-Mailis: C87 From: pecheux@eureka.meta.fr To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: RE : pink porites Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I don't know if it may be the same phenomenon but I observed in Acropora crevicornis in Mauritius, 1989 after bleaching event, that where algae have infested the coral, latter enclosed by calcification of recovery, (sometime with H2S smelling !), that the skeletton keep a rose-red color, not eliminated by organic washing. In few cases also a blue pale color was observed, of the skelletton, not tissue. Might it be that an immune reaction prov oke this ? After bleaching ? What time do this band correspond to for season ? It will be the first record of bleaching in coral band. Cheers From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Apr 8 18:10:06 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA08090; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 18:10:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA16978; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 18:37:36 GMT Received: from bock.ucs.ualberta.ca by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA16973; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 14:37:14 -0400 Received: from [129.128.54.160] by bock.ucs.ualberta.ca with SMTP (8.6.5/UA3.0.0June95) id MAA17921 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 12:34:42 -0600 Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 12:34:42 -0600 X-Sender: pblancho@pop.srv.ualberta.ca Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: P.Blanchon@UAlberta.CA (Paul Blanchon) Subject: Reef Resource Page Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Dear list members, Just an introductory note to inform you of a new World Wide Web site that I hope will be of interest and utility. The _ 'Reef Resource Page' _ is an attempt to provide an up-to-date and integrated review of the biology, ecology, and geology of modern reef systems for scientists, policy makers, and students alike. Such integrated reviews are critical for a full understanding of the dynamics of reef systems and therefore a prerequisite for any attempt to prognose reef response to environmental change -- be it natural or anthropogenic. Never has the need for such a review been as pressing as it is now, with reefs worldwide beginning to show signs of stress. Clearly, we need to know if these signs, such as bleaching, urchin die-offs, or starfish infestations, are natural processes with long recurrence intervals or unprecedented early warning signals of reef-system collapse. Only an integrated picture of reef systems will allow us to make that assessment. Any endeavor of this sort clearly requires the input of as many reef scientists as possible. So it is my hope that, by using the Web and all its multimedia capabilities, I can attract your views, insight, and participation. I must state at the outset that, I have no special qualification to undertake this task, only a desire to integrate our present knowledge and to view the entire horizon. Over the next few months I will post preliminary reviews, starting with geology -- the field with which I have most expertise -- and encourage you to send me recently published work on all reef topics for inclusion. I will post summaries and archives of correspondence on a future 'Feedback' section and may start a bibliography of recent in-press papers with abstracts (depending upon the response). In the mean time, before the reef reviews are posted, I have provided a survey and critique of many reef sites on the Web in order to save you time browsing and to keep you abreast of developments. Again, I would welcome your views on these sites, as well as notification of sites I have misconstrued or missed. The more input the better the resource. The site address is: http://www.ualberta.ca/~pblancho/index.html Enjoy and participate. Sincerely, Paul. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Dr. Paul Blanchon || Research Fellow Dept. Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, 1-26 Earth Science Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Tel: (403) 492-4205 Fax: (403) 492-2030 E-mail: p.blanchon@ualberta.ca Web: http://www.ualberta.ca/~pblancho/index.html <<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<> From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Apr 8 19:11:02 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA08637; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 19:10:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id XAA18455; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 23:00:59 GMT Received: from relay1.Hawaii.Edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA18450; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 19:00:53 -0400 Received: from uhunix4.its.Hawaii.Edu ([128.171.44.54]) by relay1.Hawaii.Edu with SMTP id <11658(8)>; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 12:58:39 -1000 Received: by uhunix4.its.Hawaii.Edu id <105777>; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 12:58:25 -1000 Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 12:58:20 -1000 From: Greta Smith Aeby X-Sender: greta@uhunix4 To: acohen@cliff.whoi.edu cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Pink Porites In-Reply-To: <9603058287.AA828739438@cliff.whoi.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Ann, What species of Porites wwere you looking at? was the tissue pink upon collection or was it just the bleached skelteton that showwed the pink color? Living Porites does turn bright pink in response to many irratations. An inflammation response of some kind. The Porites parasite I work on causes polyps to swell up and become bright pink but the discoloration does not extend into the skeleton. If you notice irregular bumps(~5mm) on the coral skeleton that is also probably caused by parasitic infection. If the tissue isn't pink tho it is not caused by parasitic infection. Greta On Fri, 5 Apr 1996 acohen@cliff.whoi.edu wrote: > Dear All > I am making various geochemical measurements on Porites > colonies from Johnston Atoll, NC Pacific. On sectioning > several colonies from one of my lagoonal sites, I noticed a > bright pink line, the contours of which follow the growth > bands. In all colonies, it is situated about 1.5 cm from the > surface, below the green endolithic algae. I have never seen > this before and it seems restricted to one particular > site on Johnston Atoll. Neither samples from the reef edge > nor any other lagoonal localities nor any other genera I've > sectioned show this. Could it be a red algae ? Does anybody > have any suggestions ? > much appreciated Anne > (acohen@whoi.edu) > > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Apr 8 21:18:42 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.erl.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA10043; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 21:18:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA16955; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 18:08:18 GMT Received: from ccrv.obs-vlfr.fr by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA16949; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 14:08:08 -0400 Message-Id: <199604081808.OAA16949@reef.aoml.erl.gov> Received: from kiwi.obs-vlfr.fr by ccrv.obs-vlfr.fr with SMTP (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA17359; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 20:06:08 +0200 Received: from macmiche.obs-vlfr.fr by kiwi with SMTP (1.37.109.4/16.2) id AA27381; Mon, 8 Apr 96 20:05:37 +0200 Date: Mon, 8 Apr 96 20:05:37 +0200 X-Sender: micho@193.49.112.12 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Eudora F1.4 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov From: micho@ccrv.obs-vlfr.fr (francois Michaud) Subject: LARGE FOAMINIFERA GLOBAL MONITORING Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: >From pecheux@eureka.meta.fr (Martin Pecheux) Here we draw a general strategy to sample large foraminifers in reef monitoring stations, aims to guide local non-specialists to collect materials for a worlwide periodic survey, at a very few expense of work. This is the 3rd version of a working document (without plates) reread by several leader specialist of large foraminifers (Dr. P. Hallock, Dr. Erez, Dr. Lee, Dr. Rottger, Dr. Hohenegger, Dr. Venec-Peyre). People involved in reef monitoring are invitated to comment and critic before document finalization. And of course, as they will, to begin collection, perhaps first as described in "Simplified Sampling". See you all in Panama ! Goals are : assess long term reef degradation ; obtain a synoptic view of bleaching in large foraminifers ; acquire comprehensive data on global and temporal variability of ecology and CaCO3 production of those organisms ; and above all to have samples as soon as possible for future studies in a long term perspective. Those samples will also probably serve to monitor small foraminifers, ostracodes, micromollusks, bryozoans, etc... People interested in this perspective are invitated to contact us. Simple observations after sample collection are encouraged and are the only specialized work which might be done. Samples will be examined by our group, using classical technics and other such as high-resolution X-ray imagery. In any case, such samples will be valuable in a long-term perspective of monitoring reef healthiness. INTRODUCTION Long term monitoring of large foraminifers is becoming urgent with the general decay of reefs, often because of local causes in which pollutions, but also with the recent worlwide unexplained mass bleaching of reef photosynthetic symbioses, among them large foraminifers (Hallock and Talge, 1993, Hallock et al., 1995, Pecheux, unpublished). They appear even more sensible to bleaching than corals, and they bleach before them or in years when corals do not (Hallock and Talge, 1993, Hallock et al., 1995). Moreover, it has been observed spectacular abnormalities of the shell associated with bleaching events, to a grade not known in geological time to our knowledge apart the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary. This prooves irrefutably that bleaching is a new phenomenon, and of great significance at planetary level. This long term monitoring have been never undertaken, nonwithstanding its importance. Large foraminifers are very good bioindicators, and for exemple, comparaison of fauna composition between samples taken in 1974 and in 1989 in Mauritius was full of informations (Hottinger and Pecheux, in prep.). Why is it important to study large foraminifers ? - they are major reef CaCO3 producers, maybe the greaters. They are found in almost all reef biotopes, and are very important in mid to deep waters ; - they are easy to collect and store in great numbers in small samples; - they are excellent bioindicators of environmental changes, both by faunal composition and with shell biometrics ; - their reproduction, which is clearly pertubated now, is easy to monitor (size at reproduction and of embryo, number of offspring), and would be indicative for the whole ecosystem ; - they show a great diversity of shell types, biotopes, and algae symbionts. The old hyalin/porcellaneous divergence corresponds to quite different calcification systems, with different responses to carbon change ; - they are excellent experimental biological material, better than corals, easy to cultivate in great numbers, with indicative behavior toward/away light, agitation, temperature, etc. Their biology is best understood then of corals in some domains ; - the geological knowledge on large forams is by far more complete than of any other reef taxon, given their abundance, dominance in some epochs, and their study by oil industry ; - also, there is a link with planctonic symbiotic foraminifers, among main ocean CaCO3 producers. MONITORING The proposed sampling needs only very few hours works if integrated in normal procedure of reef monitoring (Coral reef monitoring handbook, Ref. Meth. Mar. Poll. Stud. 25, UNEP, 1984, Long-Term Global Monit., Pilot Proj. Mangroves Coral Reefs, UNEP, 1991). Foraminifers are to be fully appreciated as main "other conspicuous organisms of interest". This monitoring will keep samples for future studies. In case of no standart corals monitoring, microfauna sampling such as here outlined is indeed the very best faster way for reef assessement. PREVIOUS SAMPLES Samples susceptible to contain large foraminifers and already collected in reef for any other purpose, and particularly those before bleaching in the early 80's, are extremely valuable. They must be conserved with very great care. Even samples of beach sands can provide important informations of when did malformations began, one of our topic interrogations. In order to know disponibilities, it is asked to send a descriptif of those samples. SIMPLIFIED SAMPLING In a first step, some whole samples can be taken from your area (even as a "blind test"), dried and send to us for examination before further advice and collection. We recommand : - a sand beach sample, around 1 mm granulometry ; - an eelgrass sample (search a little white circles of Soritid, see below) ; - a turf/brown algae, shallow 1-3m depth crest or immediate front reef ; - sand and/or algae of your favorite, monitoring sites. SAMPLING METHODS There are two main objectives : a) collect regularly large foraminifers, both living and dead shells ; b) collect and observe living ones at and during bleaching or other pertubating events. Regarding efforts, minimum to better coverage is let to local people choice, and is indicated in order of priority by A) B) C). It corresponds to only few hours work if integrated with recommanded Coral Reefs Global Monitoring, otherwise to one half day work to a very great maximum of a week per year. CHOICE OF GENERA Targeted genera are : A) Amphistegina, hyalin foram, because of its worlwide repartition and importance in sediment production, its shallow to deep euphotic habitat, lagoon to fore-reef, and various biotopes : algae turf, green-brown algae, eelgrass, sand facies, rubbles. A) Soritids (Sorites, Amphisorus, Marginopora) representing porcellaneous forams, easy to detect and observe underwater as white circles, epiphytic on eelgrasses, often abundantly in shallow facies. Whole sample with eelgrass must be conserved. B) porcellaneous Archaias, Cyclorbiculina (chlorophyte symbionts), Peneroplis (with generally rhodophyte symbionts), best encountred on algae in shallow facies up to tidal pool. B) Operculina/Heterostegina, either on soft or hard substrates, from surface (Caribbean, Pacific) or from 20 m depth (Indian) to deep euphotic waters. B) Calcarinids in Western Pacific (Calcarina, Baculogypsina), which can be very abundant in near-crest shallow sand facies with water energy. C) Alveolinids, from very shallow to mid depth, with maximum abundance around 20-40 m depth. They are not well known, as their presence is generally detected only after examination of sand samples with lens or binocular, but might be the most bleaching- and pollution-sensitive genera. C) Deep flat species (Heterocyclina, Cycloclypeus). Their collection at 50-150m depth usually requires a simple grab. Informations on them is desirable given the surface they inhabits in the world (~ 6 millions km2), and because they live in the most stable environment. SITES First is the choice of 2 to about 10 sites rich in large foraminifers, which will be regularly visited (profitably where some samples have been collected in previous years). Locations will be know within some few meters, we insist. According to local assemblage, we recommand A) one -better two- backreef/lagoonal site, subjected to usual lagoon diurnal condition variation, and one -better two- fore reef site, with rather stable environment, well bathed by open ocean water. They will be 2-5 m depth. Next priority is a 10-30 m depth scuba site on front reef, if present also in back reef B) then a multiplication of those sites, and C) one deep grab transect (maybe two if there are clear substrate differences) with 5-10 samples from 50 to 150m depth in clear water. Sites will be the most possible far away from local pollution source otherwise special cases. The sites have to be well caracterized (depth, light, often forgotten currents and water agitation, biological composition, desirable photographies) and homogenous at decadal meter scale, to minimize spatial variations. Aggregation of ~3 sub-samples within each site is recommended. Choosed biotopes will be : A) algae turf or brown or green algae field (Amphistegina and others); A) eelgrasses, with Soritids on leaves as well as Amphistegina and some other species, often at base or rhizome (which can be separated from upper part of leaves); B) sand facies, of 0.2-3mm granulometry, 2-5 m depth. Some samples of beach sands are indeed also wellcome, for completion of survey. C) rubble/boulder facies (Amphistegina,...), 2-5 m depth or deeper; C) very fine sand to mud facies (in both shallow protected areas and deeper realm). The sites will correspond in general to permanent "Monitoring Plots" of inner/mid/outer lagoon, inner/outer flat, reef slope at 3 and 10m depth as outlined in Coral Reefs Global Monitoring. Samples on turf, eelgrasses or other algae have the very great advantage to collect only living forams. It is preferable to cut algae with scissors or knife in order to avoid sediment contamination, and take apart a sediment sample. Usual standing crop is 1 to 10 specimens per cm2, up to 100/cm2 for highly productive biotopes (notably calcarenids in shallow reef flats). Samples will be considered sufficiently rich when few hundreds of living specimens are present. SAMPLING A constant sampling surface is mandatory. Usually a frame (often 10x10cm2, repeated three times with sub-sampling) is used, together with normalization to fresh or dry weight for algae biotope. After sampling in bags, algae are to be strongly agitated and frictionned as delicat cloth. Soritids on eelgrass have sometime to be detached with gentle brushing, sometime scrapped with knife. An other technique is to let the leaves in a seawater bac in darkness or mild-stress but aeration, and they detach by themshelves and fall on the bottom (but recuperation might be not total). Conservation of rest algae dried samples is to be done. Boulders and rubbles must be brushed on their upper face and their lower face, and have also to be (very rougly) measured to know their develloped surface. Sandy bottom samples are best pick up with a transparent box or tube and a sliding cover to take only the very first half centimeter to one centimeter, otherwise very caefully by hand. Sample weight will range from less than one gram (corresponding for example to one thousand Amphistegina) to few hundred grams for sand or grab samples. In all cases, the residus are washed and slowly rinced with seawater to eliminate mud, light and organic particules, or algae. If necessary, sieving with a coarse mesh or strainer (0.5-1cm) will eliminate big fragments of material. Even if samples are rich in very fine sand, it is recommended not to sieve them (or only at 63u) to conserve juvenile specimens, as well as other small microfauna. Then samples are generally washed two-three time with freshwater (which induce protoplasm retraction) and then dryed on newspaper in air in the shadow. Alternatively, they can be conserved in 95% ethanol or buffered formalin, which keeps full colors of living protoplasm (buffering is important to avoid dissolution). TEST OF PRESENCE OF LARGE FORAMINIFERS They can seen with naked eyes (apart for the small juveniles), once one know what to search, often directly in the field when densities are high. Best examination is of course done with good lens (x12, better x20) or binocular at low magnification. Living forams display a full colored protoplasm, typical of the species, brown, green, yellow, purple, depending of type of symbiont. The presence of color in all but the last few chambers due to protoplasm retraction is commun and very caracteristic. A very usefull method to see living forams (and to sort them) is to let the sample in non-agitated seawater in a small bac, jam pot, etc..., preferably with a curved bottom as a salade saucer, with 2-3mm sediment, for one or more days, in dim light and with not too much temperature variations. Large forams will slowly climb (up to 10cm/day) for light and agitation on top of sediment and along the walls where they might be taken with the finger or a pincel. This examination is important for search of bleached moving specimens, otherwise easely confounded with empty shells. SAMPLING FREQUENCY The samples taken during the selection of monitored sites will be kept and constitute a broad baseline allowing a possible ~ 10-20 years survey. It is recommended to collect numerosous samples (50-100) at this occasion for the same purpose, enough well localized, preferably on transects. The selected sites will be sampled : A) once a year in summer, at maximum temperature time, when standing crop and growth will be at maximum and yearly forms already adult, and with most probable bleaching ; B) once a year before spring, at minimum temperature, before reproduction, where some large forms are to be encountred ; Annual or bisannual survey are a "standart best-off". C) once in spring at time of rising temperature and weather change, and once in autumn. C) and/or two first priority sites might be sampled at the four seasons, with additionnal 3 times at spring, each month and half, for reproduction (many species reproduce once a year). Grab transect are worthy to be sampled only once (twice) a year. SAMPLING AT BLEACHING TIME AND SEARCH OF BLEACHING Special sampling associated with bleaching is the very more urgent, as are "episodic events" (UNEP 1991) Sampling must be undertaken as soon as coral bleaching is detected, then one week and one month after. Remember that large foraminifers appear more prone to bleaching than corals, and may bleach before or in years when corals do not, as in Florida 1992. One of our important question is if associations with symbionts other than diatoms are also subject of mass bleaching; abnormal orange color was observed in Cyclorbiculina (P. Hallock, com. pers.) and we observed high proportion of abnormalities in Sorites and Borelis. Observation under binocular for paling, mottling, bleaching, and of climbing behavior of white specimens (see above) should be systematic, and done on a fraction of collected samples. Other signs of stress is loss of mouvement and of adherence of living, well colored specimens, and presence of colored protoplasm in (only) the last chambers, before symbionts expulsion, and of course clump of expelled symbionts at aperture. This is the only analysis asked to be done by monitoring scientists. Shell abnormalities can be also observed, or latter. Sampling just before bleaching event, said in few cases to be predictable within a week when dolldrum time set (B. Causey in Looe Key, Florida, in Williams and Bunkley-Williams, 1990, T. Goreau in Jamaica, pers. com.) is of course particularly wellcome. SPECIAL MONITORING We are convinced that biological caracterization and long-term samples conservation for future studies are whorthy. Two main special monitoring might be done, for various delayed key biochemical and cytological caracterizations, particularly for bleaching at its start : - about one hour 14C/45Ca incubations ; - congelation and better liquid nitrogen storage. It is asked to signalize facilities for such possibilities. COLLECTION, TRANSPORT AND CULTURE OF LIVING LARGE FORAMINIFERS For completion of method description, here are recommendations for collection and transport of living specimens, in the optics of biological analysis. Large foraminifers are indeed quite resistant. Best is to collect them 2-3 days before expedition. After standart collection, seiving might be usefull, both to eliminate small and big particules (0.1-0.5mm and 5-10mm, depending on species), especially to get good sand water circulation therafter (sieving with a fine nylon mesh stocking is easy and fast). Then keep them in small bacs or aquarium to test their viability, and more important to sort them from the sediment and other microfauna , if culture conditions can be simply controlled (light from north window, temperature controller, air bubbling - better not from room where CO2 could be high- or aquarium pump agitator). The most important is that there must be low organic matters or algae, eliminated by carefull washing, nor meiofauna as mollusks, to keep pH in normal range (chemical buffers at 8.2-8.4pH might be used, or a NaHCO3-Na2CO3 mixture at 123mg-29mg/liter). In the container, forams and sediment must be not too thick (few millimeters) with 10-20 more seawater above. Temperature fluctuations are to be avoided as possible, although stressfull conditions are about lower 22oC and upper 30oC. Forams can be transported in plastic bags for few hours, or in bottle (even jam pot) during one day, sometime more, under room temperature. Best is to use one liter thermos bottle, kept in hand bagage if travel by air. If the travel does not exceed one day, it might be send through usual airplane postage if in 20oC-conditionned airplane luggage room, with accelerated transit if needed. When convoyed, it is desireable to regularly gently shake the container each few hours, and change of seawater with clean one from an other closed jar, ideally with some air bubbling (each ~ half day at least) and exposure to low light in day. My advice to keep them long alive (I had Amphistegina reproducing for 5 years in my kitchen) : blue light, some agitation and primarly high pH 8.5. ANNEX I : REFERENCES On large foraminifers here is a list of publications for non-specialists : LEE JJ, 1995, Living Sands, BioScience 45/4, 252-260. A very good introduction. REISS Z, HOTTINGER L, 1984, The Gulf of Aqaba, Ecological Micropaleontology 50, Springer Verlag Ed., 354p. With a very good long chapter on large forams, photo and drawning. HOTTINGER L, 1982, Larger foraminifera, giant cells with historical background, Naturwisssensch. 69, 361-371. Good presentation with different kinds of approach. HALLOCK P, 1984, Distribution of selected species of living algal symbiont-bearing foraminifera on two Pacific coral reefs, J. Foram. Res, 14/4, 250-261, for kind of repartition and plate. HOHENEGGER J, 1994, Distribution of living larger foraminifera NW of Sesoko-Jima, Okinawa, Japan, PSZNI Mar. Ecol. 15/3-4, 291-334. Typical repartition (but >10 meters depth) and good photos. And concerning bleaching and shells abnormalities : HALLOCK P, TALGE HK, SMITH K, COCKEY EM, 1992, Bleaching in a reef-dwelling foraminifer, Amphistegina gibbosa, Proc. 7 Int. Coral Reef Symp. V1, 44-49. HALLOCK P, TALGE HK, 1993, Symbiont loss ("bleaching") in the reef-dwelling benthic foraminifer Amphistegina gibbosa in the Florida keys in 1991-92. in Global Aspects of Coral reefs: health, hazards and history. Rosentiel School Mar. Atmos. Sc., 8-13. HALLOCK P, TALGE HK, COCKEY EM, MULLER RG, 1995, A new disease in reef-dwelling foraminifera : implications for coastal sedimentation. J. Foram. Res., 25/3, 280-286. ANNEX II : MAIN LARGE FORAMINIFERS GROUPS (Pl. 1) Large foraminifers are divided in two groups, those with an imperforate porcellaneous shell, composed of minute cristals which diffract the light and give them a white appearance, and those with a perforate hyalin shell, with big parrallel cristals transparent to light and a glassy aspect. Their internal space are divided in chambers and often chamberlets, and their internal structures are important to distinguish genera and species. As corals, they heavily rely upon photosynthesis of their symbionts, which are of various algae groups. They have active behavior, moving slowly with pseudopods toward elevation, light and agitation. Their life span ranges from few months, usually one year, up to four years at least (Marginopora). They reproduce mainly by multiple fission, giving 100-1000 small calcified embryos. Sexual reproduction give rise to a few percent of individuals with very tiny embryo ("microspherics") ordinarly with a very big size, 2-10 times their clonal counterparts. They are main reef CaCO3 contributors, giving the surface they inhabits, 95% of 6 millions km2 of reefs and tropical plateforms, producing up to 2-3kg/m2.y for calcarenids, usually 100-500g/m2.y in shallow waters, and even 50-100g/m2.y in deep euphotic zone. PORCELANEOUS SHELLS (Miliolina) Peneroplids Small (0.3-0.5, up to 1.5mm) helmet forms, purple color (rhodophyte symbionts) or green (chlorophyte symbionts in P. protea). Simple internal structure. Half a dozen species of Laevipeneroplis (=Peneroplis) and other similar genera (Spirolina, Dentritina), worlwide till subtemperate (Mediterranean). Mainly in very shallow water, on turf, algae or bottom, often in restricted facies subject to temperature, salinity and pH excursions (where shell abberations may be commun), and rare downto 60m. Archaiasids Disc (Cyclorbiculina, 2sp.) or helmet form (Archaias angulatus), about 2mm, up to 4mm, green (chlorophyte symbionts). Other similar genera (Broeckina, Androsina). Abundant in backreef shallow facies downto 20-25m, rarely in restricted facies (Androsina), on bottom or algae. Restricted to the Caribbean, but exist rare similar smaller forms in Indian ocean, New Guinea. Soritids Large white discs, 2-6mm (Sorites 3sp., worldwide, Amphisorus heimprichii, Indopacific), up to 4cm (Marginopora vertebralis, western Pacific), with brown color (dinoflagellates symbionts similar to Symbiodinium microadriaticum, or green S. marginalis with chlorophyts). Sorites and Amphisorus mostly epiphytic on eelgrass where they are conspicuous, Marginopora generally dwelling on bottom. Mainly downto 30-40m, rarely 70m. Alveolinids Small (0.5-1.5mm) subglobular (Borelis pulchra, worldwide), elongate (B. sclumbergeri, Indopacific) to 5-10mm (elongate Alveolinella quoii, western Pacific). Brown diatom symbionts. Living in sand, sometime on hard substrate or algae, rarely seen during diving. Small Borelis can be shallow, mostly 20-50 m depth. HYALIN SHELLS (Rotaliina) Calcarinids Rather small (1-2mm) spheric, spheric with spines or stellate forms, brown (diatom symbionts). Apart Calcarina calcar (Indopacific), restricted to western Pacific where they are often very abundant (up to 100 specimens/cm2) on sediments in shallow (less then 5-10m, rarely to 20m) high energy reef margin with current or bathed tidal pool. Also a small ecological Calcarina-like Asterigina carinata in Caribbean, somewhat deeper. Amphisteginids Shape of lense with medium size (1-2.5mm), slightly assymetric, with brown color (diatom symbionts, also accessory chlorophyt ones). One genera, Amphistegina, abundant, with worlwide repartition. Shallow thick species (A. gibbosa, Caribbean, A. lessoni, A. lobifera, Indopacific) from surface downto 20-40m, then flatter A. radiata and deeper A. bicirculata, A. papillosa downto 150m. Inhabits various biotopes : most abundant in algae turf otherwise on shallow sands, well represented on green or brown algae as well as on eelgrass somewhat on the lower part, or on boulders, gravels on both upper and lower faces, or on mud-fine sand in calm or deep euphotic realms. Nummulitids Mid-water and deep shelf species : - Operculina (and Nummulites)/Heterostegina : Spiral shell of 1.5-5mm, green or brown (diatom symbionts), thick in shallow waters, evolute in deep waters, 0 to 150m depth. O. ammonoides, rather on fine sand, mud or between eelgrass, H. depressa (Indopacific), H. antillarum (Caribbean) on hard substrate, boulders, dead coral head, coarse sand, sometime very shallow. - Heterocyclina/Cycloclypeus : Cyclical flat deeper water species, 5mm-5cm diameter (record 14cm), on sediments 70-150m depth where they can cover 10-20% of the surface. Diatom symbionts. H. tuberculata in western Indian, C. carpenteri, Heterostegina operculinoides in eastern Indian-western Pacific. MICHAUD francois Laboratoire de Geodynamique sous marine Universite Pierre et Marie Curie La Darse, B-P 48, Villefranche sur Mer, France Tel : (33) 93 76 37 40 ou 37 49 Fax : (33) 93 76 37 66 E-mail : micho@ccrv.obs-vlfr.fr From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Apr 8 22:09:35 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA10490; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 22:09:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA18590; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 01:56:31 GMT Received: from superaje.com by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA18585; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 21:56:27 -0400 From: mcall@superaje.com Received: from [204.77.78.105] (port5.superaje.com) by superaje.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05777; Mon, 8 Apr 96 21:01:13 EDT Date: Mon, 8 Apr 96 21:01:13 EDT Message-Id: <9604090101.AA05777@superaje.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Reef Resource Page To: P.Blanchon@UAlberta.CA (Paul Blanchon), coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: SPRY Mail Version: 04.00.06.21 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hi Paul, I look forward to seeing your reef page. Ocean Voice is a Canadian NGO which has been working for coral reef conservation for 10 years now. If you don't have a hot-link to our home page, we would appreciate it. See http://www.conveyor.com/oceanvoice.html And get your university to subscribe to Sea Wind, our quarterly bulletin. The latest special 72-page issue is on Status of the World Ocean and Its Biodiversity. Back issues are only $15 per year. And they might want to have our 126 page educational manual, Save Our Coral Reefs, $20 + postage. don Don E. McAllister /& Canadian Centre for Biodiversity Ocean Voice International /Canadian Museum of Nature Box 37026, 3332 McCarthy Rd. /Box 3443, Station D Ottawa, ON K1V 0W0, Canada /Ottawa, ON K1P 6P4 URL: http://www.conveyor.com/oceanvoice.html E-mail: mcall@superaje.com (or: ah194@freenet.carleton.ca) Tel: (613) 264-8986, Fax: (613) 264-9204 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Apr 10 13:46:02 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA08141; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:45:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA21118; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 17:03:09 GMT Received: from lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA21113; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:03:06 -0400 Received: from 129.236.10.243 (seis_kbox_243.ldgo.columbia.edu) by lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (4.1/SMI-3.2) id AA16681; Wed, 10 Apr 96 13:01:14 EDT Message-Id: <316BA526.7793@ldeo.columbia.edu> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 12:10:14 +0000 From: Ray Sambrotto Reply-To: sambrott@ldgo.columbia.edu Organization: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Macintosh; I; PPC) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Cc: jsh32@columbia.edu Subject: reef studies with CZCS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A For a student project, I am looking for information on the use of remote sensing (particularly Coastal Zone Color Scanner - CZCS - images) in assessing reef health. Thanks in advance for any info. on this. -- Raymond N. Sambrotto, Ph.D. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Rt. 9W Palisades, NY 10964 U.S.A. phone: 914-365-8402; fax: -8150 http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/EV/EarthViewHome.html From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Apr 9 12:06:09 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA19467; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 12:06:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA19615; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 15:47:30 GMT Received: from moe.cc.utexas.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA19610; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 11:47:26 -0400 Received: from [128.83.166.18] (geo2m3.geo.utexas.edu [128.83.166.18]) by moe.cc.utexas.edu (8.6.11/8.6.11/cc- uts-client-1.3) with SMTP id KAA25967 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 10:45:33 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 10:45:33 -0500 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: jlang@uts.cc.utexas.edu (Judith C. Lang) Subject: Re: strange photographic request Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Dear Colleagues, To finish a traveling exhibit about conserving coral reefs in the Caribbean region we could really use a good photo of people using suntan lotion at a beach....should anyone just happen to have an image like this that we could borrow for a couple of weeks, please let me know right away and I'll send shipping instructions. Many advance thanks, Judy Lang From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Apr 12 05:42:54 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA07442; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 05:42:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id IAA23420; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 08:55:52 GMT Received: from emout06.mail.aol.com by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id EAA23415; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 04:55:49 -0400 From: PRJCOLLI@aol.com Received: by emout06.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id EAA16271 for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 04:54:08 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 04:54:08 -0400 Message-Id: <199604120854.EAA16271@emout06.mail.aol.com> Apparently-To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ere know about cluster analysis. I am classifying coral communities, but am not sure what transformation to use on the live% cover data. There are a number of rare species, hence zero's in the data set! I get good results with log-ratio transformaions (which get rid of zero's), but I am unsure as to how valid this proceedure is!! Thanks!! Peter Collinson From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Apr 12 10:10:21 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA12196; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:10:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA23913; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 13:51:59 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.erl.gov by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA23908; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:51:57 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA06360; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:51:56 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:51:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral.aoml.erl.gov To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: reef studies with CZCS (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Forwarded message: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 13:52:59 GMT From: Dr Anjali Bahuguna To: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: reef studies with CZCS Dear Raymond N. Sambrotto Using remote sensing data, lot of work has been done on the coral reefs of India. Particularly using Landsat TM, Indian Remote Sensing Satellite 1A, 1B and 1C. For the study of coral reefs health (condition) high resolution data is required. If you need further information I will be glad to give you. I have been able to map coral reefs zones (ecological and morphological) and condition by way of monitoring over a period of say 10 years or more and the delineation of certain associated features, for e.g. mud over reef - degraded condition live coral zones, wide reef flat, etc. - good condition. The mapping was done using the above data on 1:50,000 as well as 1:25,000 scale. Anjali Bahuguna. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Apr 12 10:20:15 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA12539; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:20:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA23935; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 14:02:07 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.erl.gov by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA23930; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:02:06 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA06398; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:02:04 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:02:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral.aoml.erl.gov To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Cluster Analysis Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Forwarded message from Walt Jaap: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:42:48 -0500 (EST) From: Walt, Jaap To: OWNER-CORAL-LIST@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: - no subject (01I3FYUT3SQQ0004E2) - - Reply For Classification, use Bray Curtis quantitative coefficient, square root transformation, and group average sorting. A good liitle paper on the issue is: Bloom, S.A. 1981. Similarity indicies in community studies: potential pitfalls. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 5: 125-128. Primer, Plymouth Labs is a PC program that does the job real fine. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Apr 12 10:29:31 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA12762; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:29:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA23975; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 14:18:21 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.erl.gov by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA23970; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:18:20 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA06470; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:18:15 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:18:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral.aoml.erl.gov To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Online Research Directory Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: About 75 names have now been added to the Online Coral Researchers Directory. If you haven't added your name yet, but would like to, you may find instructions at the following URL on the World-Wide Web: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/lists/directory.html Cheers... From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Apr 13 19:26:59 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA03929; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 19:26:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id XAA27201; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 23:02:21 GMT Received: from mail06.mail.aol.com by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA27196; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 19:02:18 -0400 From: PRJCOLLI@aol.com Received: by mail06.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA08598 for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 19:00:35 -0400 Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 19:00:35 -0400 Message-ID: <960413190034_469215847@mail06> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Coral growth in enriched N and P. Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear All Hello. Has anyone out here conducted experiments on the effects of N and P on coral 'nubbin' growth?. I believe that there are some of you in Barbados, Glasgow and the States, and I would desperately appreciate advice on expt set up and refs. Many thanks Peter RJ Collinson The University of Hong Kong PRJCOLLI@AOL.COM From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Apr 15 06:52:26 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA19625; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 06:52:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id KAA00659; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 10:16:10 GMT Received: from hera.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id GAA00652; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 06:14:51 -0400 Received: by hera.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA24441; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 12:07:56 +0200 From: William Kiene Posted-Date: Mon, 15 Apr 96 12:07:56 MESZ Received-Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 12:07:56 +0200 Message-Id: <9604151007.AA24441@hera.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> Subject: Re: Pink Porites To: acohen@cliff.whoi.edu Date: Mon, 15 Apr 96 12:07:56 MESZ Cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov In-Reply-To: <9603058287.AA828739438@cliff.whoi.edu>; from "acohen@cliff.whoi.edu" at Apr 05, 96 1:19 pm Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I can contribute some insight to the recent discussion of pink banding observed in Porites - and also help to clear Bob Buddemeier of any responsibility for coloring the corals in question. I have found pink bands in Porites and other corals in studies of microborers in the Pacific (GBR) and the Bahamas. These were in sections and cores of living corals. Sampling of the pink areas (that sometimes occur below the living coral tissue as well as below the "Ostreobium band". Found that they were produced by Plectonema terebrans (a boring cyanobacteria). The pink color is likely a chromatic adaption of pigments to low light conditions. Cochocelis (endolithic stage of red algae) probably also has this pigment adaption and has also been found in living coral skeletons (but I have not seen it in densities that would cause pink coloration). It cannot be ruled out though. William E. Kiene Geologisch-Palaeontologisches Institut Senckenberganlage 32 J.W. Goethe-Universitaet D-60054 Frankfurt am Main Germany Tel. +49 69 798 28598 Fax. +49 69 798 22958 E-mail. kiene@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Apr 15 10:33:15 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA26370; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 10:33:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA01080; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 14:16:11 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.erl.gov by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA01075; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 10:16:09 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA14585; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 10:16:08 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 10:16:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral.aoml.erl.gov To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Eutrophication Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Forwarded message: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 12:58:40 -0400 From: Ursula Keuper-Bennett To: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Hi there, I have just completed a Web search engine sweep on the word "eutrophication" and found the following place names. Jakarta Bay, Indonesia Saquarema, Brazil Cancun, Mexico Barclay's Park, Barbados Moreton Bay, Australia Peel-Harvey, Australia In addition, I hit on these areas from Florida: Hillsborough Bay (an "impacted subdivision of Tampa Bay) Palm Beach and Broward counties "widespread" algae blooms Florida Bay concerns re. blooms and or eutrophication Sarasota Bay " Florida Keys " Indian River " When reading these Web coastal information/reports one thing stands out -- that human population has increased greatly along the world's coastal areas since the late 60's. Following right along (I quickly discovered) were more and more scientific papers and references to such things as run off, sewage, eutrophication, algae blooms, sea grass dieoffs etc. [By the way, I am not suggesting here that increased human population along coastal areas causes/generates scientific papers but I *did* find the link an amusing and true one.] What I found significant are the numerous reports by researchers expressing concern over the increased nutrient loading along coasts and related eutrophication/environmental degradation over the last two decades. Below are regions with environmental/eutrophication concerns but I can't find any detailed environmental information on them. My main interest is the prevalence of a marine turtle disease called fibropapillomas in these areas. But I would also like to know about the conditions underwater in these areas. See, I figured coral people when studying corals might notice lumpy turtles in the same way that when I study lumpy turtles I notice dead corals. So. What follows are areas I need information on. I would like to know the prevalence of fibropapillomas in these areas AND any details of known environmental insults to the ocean near these places. Jakarta Bay, Indonesia Saquarema, Brazil Cancun, Mexico Peel-Harvey, Australia and in Florida, Hillsborough Bay (an "impacted subdivision of Tampa Bay) Palm Beach and Broward counties "widespread" algae blooms Sarasota Bay " My success asking other divers has been minimal. I attribute this to the fact that most recreational divers won't dive in the kind of water I need reports on. I am hoping someone in this list could help. I am particulary interested in any info on the four non-US sites. If you have any information, please don't hesitate to send it this way, no matter how unimportant you might think it is. While I am on here, two other things: I have been told that the south and west coasts of Barbados have experienced considerable coral kills and seaweed blight. I would be interested in the place name of the worst area. Then my task will be to find the prevalence of GTFP there.... unless, of course, I hit paydirt and someone can provide me with both pieces to the puzzle... :-) Finally, and still related, if anyone is aware of coral kills resulting from Cladophora blooms, I would be interested in that too. Thanks for your time and regards ^ Ursula Keuper-Bennett 0 0 Mississauga, Ontario /V^\ I I /^V\ Email: howzit@io.org /V Turtle Trax V\ /V Forever Green V\ http://www.io.org/~bunrab From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Apr 15 12:22:58 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA29067; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 12:22:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA01325; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 16:04:35 GMT Received: from mercury.ukc.ac.uk by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA01320; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 12:04:32 -0400 Received: from kiwi.ukc.ac.uk by mercury.ukc.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Mon, 15 Apr 1996 17:02:28 +0100 Received: from pcec110.ukc.ac.uk by kiwi.ukc.ac.uk (SMI-8.6/UKC-2.14) id RAA28636; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 17:02:26 +0100 From: William Moreno Caycedo To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Beliza GEF Project Message-ID: Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 17:02:25 +0100 (bst) Read-Receipt-To: William Moreno Caycedo Delivery-Receipt-To: William Moreno Caycedo Request-Receipt-To: William Moreno Caycedo Priority: NORMAL X-Mailer: Simeon for Windows X-Authentication: none MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Dear all Does anybody out there knows what is actually happen with the CCC e-mail (if anything is wrong with it) in Belize Jgibson@btl.net. I been trying to contact Janet Gibson (The National Project Adviser) for the pass three weeks and I haven't had any reply. Also I been triying to phone them but the CCC office in London don't seem to have the right telephone number (they claim that 44552 is the right number, but I think in Belize they have six diget number) Can anyone out there help me? I promise that I would dedicate my research project to the person who can provide me with the correct information (phone/e-mail or any contact adress for the CCC in Belize) Thanks William Moreno Durrel Institute of Conservation and Ecology wm1@ukc.ac.uk From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Apr 15 13:31:09 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA01096; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:31:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA01508; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 17:20:29 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.erl.gov by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA01503; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:20:27 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA15237; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:20:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:20:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral.aoml.erl.gov To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Sand Key C-MAN station going off line (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Forwarded message regarding the Sand Key C-MAN station situated at the southern end of the Florida Straits: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 12:36:05 EST From: James C. Humphrey To: hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Cc: svargo@marine.usf.edu, jogden@marine.usf.edu Subject: sand key going offline The Florida Institute of Oceanography's (F.I.O.) enhanced Coastal Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) stations are operated through a cooperative agreement with the National Data Buoy Center (N.D.B.C.). The network stations have been installed at Fowey Rocks, Molasses reef, Sombrero reef, Sand Key reef, Florida Bay, and the Dry Tortugas. The C-MAN stations normally only carry a meteorological suite of sensors, but can be enhanced with oceanographic sensors. The data collected at the enhanced stations include: wind speed, direction and peak gust, barometric pressure, air temperature, solar irradiance, seawater temperature, salinity, and underwater solar irradiance. Solar irradiances are currently not available at Sombrero or Molasses, furthermore, salinity is not available at Sombrero. The Sand Key Meteorological station, and its oceanographic sensors will be taken off-line. These actions have been planned since October 1995, but only now have been scheduled to be carried out, unless there is financial support for this station. The National Weather Service feels Boca Chita measurements are sufficient, and Sand Key is a redundant measurement. If the station is taken off-line, we not only lose accurate oceanic wind measurements, we lose the Coast Guard permit to use the station and the only long term environmental reef tract monitoring station in Key West. The cost to reconstruct the present station is over four times the amount to keep it running at current levels. With increased large vessel harbor traffic in Key West, and ocean related tourism at its highest level yet, Sand Key meteorological station is needed more than ever. Please call your local congress representative to support this project. Thanks, J.Chris Humphrey (field manager) (305)664-9101 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Apr 15 13:33:51 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA01141; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:33:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA01447; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 17:07:14 GMT Received: from saul4.u.washington.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA01442; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:07:09 -0400 Received: from localhost by saul4.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW96.04/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA29151; Mon, 15 Apr 96 10:05:17 -0700 Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 10:05:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Preston Hardison To: William Moreno Caycedo Cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Beliza GEF Project In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: You might look at the Belize Environment and Development Organizations country file available through Communications for a Sustainable Future (gopher csf.colorado.edu; http://csf.colorado.edu) in the directory path: Environment/Conservation Biology/Documents/Country Files - Environment and Development Organizations/Americas/Belize There are also files for a number of other Latin American countries for others who might be interested. The files also contain contacts for external researchers working in-country. Preston Hardison pdh@u.washington.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Apr 15 14:07:10 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA02407; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 14:07:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA01600; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 17:58:56 GMT Received: from postoffice.mail.cornell.edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA01595; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:58:53 -0400 Received: from [128.253.204.176] ([128.253.204.176]) by postoffice.mail.cornell.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA26107; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:57:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Sender: chg2@postoffice.mail.cornell.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:01:22 -0400 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, ENVIRONMENT-L@cornell.edu From: chg2@cornell.edu (greene) Subject: summer internship opportunity Cc: DFS7@cornell.edu, chg2@cornell.edu Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: WHAT: Undergraduate Summer Internship Opportunity in Akumal, Mexico Cornell University and the Ecological Center of Akumal will be sponsoring a summer internship program this upcoming summer. The program is intended for 6 advanced undergraduates with an interest in coral reef ecology. Students will spend 8 weeks diving and studying the coral reefs in Akumal, Mexico. The first two weeks will be spent intensively studying basic coral reef ecology while learning the benthic fauna of the local reefs. During the next five weeks, students will work on individual research projects and participate in a reef monitoring project that will aid in the establishment of a marine park in Akumal. In the final week, students will write up their results in reports and give oral presentations of their findings. Throughout the 8 weeks, students will read, discuss, and write about a variety of topics pertinent to coral reef ecology. Students will also be introduced to the local Mexican and Mayan cultures. Students participating in the program will receive 8 semester credit hours from Cornell University as either Biological Sciences 418 or Geological Sciences 418 "Tropical Marine Science". Students should have relevant course experience in oceanography, geology, and/or ecology. Field course experience is certainly an advantage. Students must be SCUBA certified, and preferably have some underwater research experience. We anticipate stiff competition for the 6 internships, so please include any information on your application that may strengthen your case. WHEN: Exact dates to be announced, but probably 9 June - 3 August (8 weeks) ABOUT AKUMAL: Akumal is a small resort town located about 60 miles south of Canc=FAn, on the Yucat=E1n peninsula. Although the reefs around Akumal a= re in a relatively pristine state, this area of the Yucat=E1n is currently bein= g developed to accommodate the increasing number of tourists visiting the area. In addition to the coral reef diving, attractions include the nearby ancient Mayan ruins of Tulum and Coba and a remarkable network of underwater caves called cenotes. Local residents of Akumal are dedicated to preserving the health of the local reefs while maintaining sustainable development of the tourism industry; to support this effort, part of BioSM 418 will involve the collection of baseline data that will be used to monitor and protect the health of the reefs. WHAT DOES IT COST: The cost of participation in the program is $3,500 US. This includes room & board, tuition, and unlimited diving for 8 weeks. All dive operations will be supervised by a certified dive master. This price also includes international insurance. There is some financial aid available for those needing assistance. IT DOES NOT INCLUDE AIRFARE TO CANCUN, MEXICO, but it does include ground transportation from Cancun to Akumal. Those students requiring equipment will have the opportunity to purchase rebuilt Sherwood regulators (w/ pressure and depth guages) and bouyancy compensators for $250 (retail price, if new, is approximately $1000). APPLICATIONS: Applications should be filed electronically to Dan Shapiro (dfs7@cornell.edu). The forms are below. Dan can also be contacted for further information at his e-mail address. APPLICATION DEADLINE IS MAY 3, 1996. Application Procedures: Student selection will be based on statements of interests and letters of recommendation. All correspondence and application materials will be transmitted by electronic mail. Please transmit the following information to DFS7@CORNELL.EDU as your formal application: 1. Name: 2. Mailing Address: 3. Telephone Number: 4. E-mail Address: 5. FAX Number: 6. Sex: Male or Female (NOT YES OR NO) 7. Birthdate 8. Citizenship: 9. Universities Attended: 10. Current Academic Status: 11. Statement of Interests: Please describe in 500 words or less, 1.) what experience in oceanography, marine ecology, and/or geology you would bring to the program; 2.) what your long-term goals are in these areas; and 3.) how you feel participation in the program could further your efforts toward achieving those goals. 12. Letter of Recommendation: Please have a letter of recommendation transmitted by e-mail. Whoever writes your letter should be familiar with the statement of interests that you have submitted and should emphasize how your participation in the program will assist you in achieving your academic goals. 13. Do you need financial aid? Explain your circumstances and exact requirements to participate. All applications must be in by May 3, 1996 to ensure full consideration. We will attempt to have decisions transmitted to all applicants by May 15, 1996. ******************************************************************* Charles Greene Phone: (607) 255-5449 E-mail: CHG2@CORNELL.EDU FAX: (607) 254-4780 Director, Ocean Resources & Ecosystems Program, Center for the Environment Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, 2130 Snee Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Apr 15 14:51:44 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA03525; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 14:51:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA01667; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 18:25:52 GMT Received: from ucb.edu.bz by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA01661; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 14:25:45 -0400 Received: from [200.10.194.67] by ucb.edu.bz with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0u8sxI-0003EhC; Mon, 15 Apr 96 12:24 GMT-0600 Date: Mon, 15 Apr 96 12:20:51 CST From: "Coral Cay Conservation" Message-Id: <57132.coral@ucb.edu.bz> X-Minuet-Version: Minuet1.0_Beta_16 X-POPMail-Charset: English To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Fwd: Beliza GEF Project Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ----- Forwarded message begins here ----- From: William Moreno Caycedo To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 17:02:25 +0100 (bst) Subject: Beliza GEF Project Dear all Does anybody out there knows what is actually happen with the CCC e-mail (if anything is wrong with it) in Belize Jgibson@btl.net. I been trying to contact Janet Gibson (The National Project Adviser) for the pass three weeks and I haven't had any reply. Also I been triying to phone them but the CCC office in London don't seem to have the right telephone number (they claim that 44552 is the right number, but I think in Belize they have six diget number) Can anyone out there help me? I promise that I would dedicate my research project to the person who can provide me with the correct information (phone/e-mail or any contact adress for the CCC in Belize) Thanks William Moreno Durrel Institute of Conservation and Ecology wm1@ukc.ac.uk Dear Mr. Moreno, You could get in touch with Janet Gibson at tel # +501 (0) 2 35739/30719 or fax # +501 (0) 2 35738. Coral Cay Coservation contact number in Belize is fax/phone # +501 (0) 2 32787, E-mail CORAL@UCB.EDU.BZ Henry Lanza CCC Office Manager ------ Forwarded message ends here ------ --------------------------------------------+-------------------- University College of Belize, PO Box 990, | Tel: +501 2 32787 Belize City, BELIZE, Central America. | Fax: +501 2 32787 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Apr 15 19:50:21 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA08768; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 19:50:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id XAA02358; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 23:35:33 GMT Received: from relay1.Hawaii.Edu by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA02353; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 19:35:25 -0400 Received: from uhunix3.its.Hawaii.Edu ([128.171.44.52]) by relay1.Hawaii.Edu with SMTP id <11473(1)>; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:33:18 -1000 Received: by uhunix3.its.Hawaii.Edu id <464510>; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:33:09 -1000 Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:33:06 -1000 From: Greta Smith Aeby X-Sender: greta@uhunix3 To: PRJCOLLI@aol.com cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Coral growth in enriched N and P. In-Reply-To: <960413190034_469215847@mail06> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Peter, Dr. John Stimson at the University of Hawaii has done experiments looking at the effect of N & P enrichment on coral growth. He published a paper on his results. On Sat, 13 Apr 1996 PRJCOLLI@aol.com wrote: > Dear All > > Hello. Has anyone out here conducted experiments on the effects of N and P > on coral 'nubbin' growth?. I believe that there are some of you in Barbados, > Glasgow and the States, and I would desperately appreciate advice on expt set > up and refs. > > Many thanks > > Peter RJ Collinson > The University of Hong Kong > > PRJCOLLI@AOL.COM > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Apr 15 21:17:23 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA09589; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 21:17:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA02504; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 01:04:04 GMT Received: from galadriel.otago.ac.nz by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA02499; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 21:04:00 -0400 Received: from [139.80.104.135] (MAC104135.otago.ac.nz [139.80.104.135]) by galadriel.otago.ac.nz (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id NAA18543 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 13:02:02 +1200 (NZST) X-Sender: ou008707@brandywine.otago.ac.nz Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 13:04:56 +0600 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: vanessa.craig@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Vanessa Craig) Subject: sand patch communities associated with reefs Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I have been trying to find literature regarding studies conducted on tropical soft-bottom communities associated with coral reefs. Ideally, I am looking for studies which have concentrated on sand patches on the outer reef slope. However, the only papers I have been able to find are those by Betz and Otte (1980), Grelet et al., (1987), Jones (1984) and Thomassin et al., (1982), . I would be very grateful for any information on other relevant literature. Thanks. Vanessa Craig Betz K.H. and Otte G. 1980. Species distribution and biomass of the soft-bottom faunal macrobenthos in a coral reef (Shaab Baraja, Central Red Sea, Soudan). Proc. Symp. Kartoum 1: 13-37. Grelet Y., Falconetti C., Thomassin B.A., Vitiello P. and Abu Hilal A.H. 1987. Distribution of the macro- and meiobenthic assemblages in the littoral soft- bottoms of the Gulf of Aqaba (Jordan). Atoll Res. Bull. 308: 1-14. Jones A.R. 1984. Sedimentary relationships and community structure of benthic crustacean assemblages of reef-associated sediments at Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs 3(2): 101-111. Thomassin B.A., Jouin C., Renaud-Mornant J., Richard G. and Salvat B. 1982. Macrofauna and meiofauna in the coral sediment on the Tiahura Reef Complex, Moorea Island (French Polynesia). Tethys 10(4): 392-397. Department of Marine Science University of Otago PO Box 56 Dunedin New Zealand e-mail: vanessa.craig@stonebow.otago.ac.nz From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Apr 16 02:39:48 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA11996; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 02:39:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id GAA03030; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 06:27:49 GMT Received: from gala.univ-perp.fr by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id CAA03025; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 02:27:39 -0400 Received: from (pichon@localhost) by gala.univ-perp.fr (8.6.10/jtpda-5.1) id IAA07788 for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 08:25:53 GMT Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 08:25:53 GMT From: pichon@univ-perp.fr (michel pichon) Message-Id: <199604160825.IAA07788@gala.univ-perp.fr> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Green water Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A " GREEN WATER" EPISODE IN POLYNESIA A huge oceanic phytoplanktonic blom caused abnormaly high turbidity in French Polynesian waters in March 1996. In early March, fishermen and divers reported high turbidity in oceanic waters near Tahiti and Moorea. Samples were immediately taken by the permanent staff of the CRIOBE (EPHE laboratory in Moorea). Other samples were taken by scientists of the French University of the Pacific and by ORSTOM. The bloom was sufficiently important to cause Secchi disc measurements of less than 7 m, as compared to the usual 25 m plus. Visibility was very low below 20 m depth. From various sources, the bloom was estimated to cover at least 500 km2, from the island of Raiatea to the atoll of Kauhei East to West, and from the Tuamotu archipelago to Tahiti, North to South. The phytoplankton bloom was characterized by a pronounced green colour and a gummy consistency. It was limited to oceanic waters although some green lagoon waters could occasionally be observed when oceanic waters were flushed over the reef front. Inverted microscope examinations revealed a multispecific composition. Picoplanktonic and nannoplanktonic cyanophytes dominated together with (but to a lesser extent) many diatom species and 4-6 species of coccolithophorids. Conversely, dinoflagellates, which usually dominate the oceanic phytoplankton were not abundant. Other small phytoflagellates (e.g. prasinophytes,euglenophytes, chrysophytes) were occasionally encountered. Additional sampling was carried out for algal pigments and POC and DOC determinations. The bloom did not cause massive fish mortality but oceanic fishes like tuna disappeared from the area. Normal catches were made outside the bloom zone or in the places where the waters returned quickly to normal colour. The cause of the bloom is uncertain. Above normal seawater temperatures were observed to the north and the west of Moorea island, but not in the whole of the area where the bloom appeared. As oceanic waters in French Polynesia are strongly oligotrophic, it is assumed that such a bloom would need an enrichment of nutrients, possibly a localized upwelling of deeper waters. However, no low temperature anomaly could be detected by the temperature recorders which have been in place for several years on the outer reef slopes of Moorea, at 25 and 35 m depth. Other hypotheses, like a displacement of the equatorial upwelling, or the influence of the eruption of submarine volcanoes in the Vanuatu archipelago do not seem realistic. Bruno Delesalle Biologie Marine et Malacologie EPHE Universite de Perpignan France Please email comments or replies to : criobe@tahiti.rio.net or to bd@univ-perp.fr From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Apr 16 12:11:08 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA24773; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 12:11:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA04106; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 15:44:55 GMT Received: from crs.loc.gov by reef.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA04101; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 11:44:52 -0400 Received: from CRSMAIL-Message_Server by crs.loc.gov with Novell_GroupWise; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 11:45:45 -0500 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 11:42:13 -0500 From: Gene Buck To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Coral info for Congress Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Coral folks: I have a request from a congressional office for some background information relating to coral and coral reefs. I would appreciate some assistance in pointing me in the direction of where I might find what the office needs. BTW, I work for the Congressional Research Service, one of the support agencies for the U.S. Congress -- we provide non-partisan, objective public policy analysis for Members of Congress and their staff. Here is what the office is seeking: a) a list of U.S. and world experts on coral resources, degradation, and protection, including address and/or telephone numbers. Does any published list exist that might be provided to respond to this question? If not, what might be the best approach to quickly generate the beginnings of such a list? b) the identity and text of any State or Territory (United States only) legislation, studies, or hearings on coral resources, degradation, or protection. Any bibliographies for Florida, Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and others on State/Territorial legislative resources relating to corals? [I am getting together everything done by the Federal Government, but need some help with the State/Territorial material] c) the identity and text of any United Nations resolutions, conferences, studies, symposiums on coral resources, degradation, and protection. Especially interested in all documentation relating to UN resolution designating 1996 as "The Year of the Reef" -- and any events scheduled in relating to this UN designation. Thanks for any assistance and suggestions you might be able to provide. Gene Buck, senior analyst Congressional Research Service e-mail: gbuck@crs.loc.gov fax: (202) 707-7289 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Apr 17 03:43:27 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA08163; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 03:43:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id HAA05965; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 07:30:08 GMT Received: from info.forthnet.gr by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id DAA05958; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 03:29:57 -0400 Received: from pythia by info.forthnet.gr via FORTHnet with ESMTP; id KAA03265 (8.6.12/FORTHNET-2.0); Wed, 17 Apr 1996 10:23:36 +0300 (EET DST) Received: from imbc-gateway.imbc.gr by pythia (8.6.12/FORTHnet-2.0) id KAA12380; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 10:23:45 +0300 Received: by imbc-gateway.imbc.gr via GRUnet; Wed, 17 Apr 96 10:20:52 +0300 (EET) Organization: Institute of Marine Biology of Crete, P.O.Box 2214, Heraklio, Crete, GR-71003 GREECE tel: +30(81)242022, fax: +30(81)241882, tlx: 262268 IMBC GR X-Sender: lisa@poseidon.imbc.gr Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 10:28:40 +0300 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: lisa@imbc.gr (Lisa owen) Subject: IMBC Marine Science Forum Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: **Apologies for the cross-postings. 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Forwarded message, Part 1: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: prtaylor@nsf.gov Received: from xrelay.nsf.gov by mailman.nsf.gov with SMTP id AA14009 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Tue, 16 Apr 1996 13:52:35 -0400 Received: from cc:Mail by xrelay.nsf.gov id AA829687938; Tue, 16 Apr 96 01:51:34 EST Date: Tue, 16 Apr 96 01:51:34 EST Message-Id: <9603168296.AA829687938@xrelay.nsf.gov> To: coral-list Subject: US Coral Reef Initiative -- US National Science Foundation 16 April 1996 To anyone interested: Attached is a revised compendium that outlines many research and related projects that were supported by the U. S. National Science Foundation with Fiscal Year 1995 funding as part of the US Coral Reef Initiative and as part of the US contribution to the International Coral Reef Initiative. Phillip Taylor, Director Biological Oceanography Division of Ocean Sciences U. S. National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, Virginia 22230 USA prtaylor@nsf.gov 703-306-1587 16 April 1996 Directorate for Geosciences (lead) Population Biology of Caribbean Octocorals Daniel Brazeau, University of Florida Fertilization success among sessile, marine invertebrates is a largely unknown variable bridging those factors which field ecologists can measure (fecundity, organism size, population abundance) and one often difficult to estimate (reproductive success). Using the Caribbean octocoral Baiareum asbestinum as a model animal, this project will examine temporal and spatial variation in reproductive success for male and female colonies. The research will test the specific prediction that female fertilization success is directly proportional to the nearby abundance male colonies. This information is crucial for understanding the abundance and growth of invertebrate populations in coral reef ecosystems and will provide important information for the successful restoration and management of coral reefs worldwide. The Role of Heterotrophic Dinoflagellates in Marine Plankton Dynamics: Growth, Grazing Behavior and Bioluminescence Edward Buskey, University of Texas This study will examine the effects of food quantity and quality on the growth, feeding and bioluminescence of several species of Protoperidinium. Selective feeding of these pallium, feeding dinoflagellates (which capture large food particles extracellualarly) and the role of sensory perception in this selection process will also be examined. In addition, the study will determine the abundance of heterotrophic dinoflagellates in the western Gulf of Mexico, and examine the relationship between growth rate and bioluminescence capacity for field collected Protoperidinium incubated at ambient food concentrations. Hydrodynamic Forcing of Metabolism of Coral Reef Algal Communities Robert Carpenter, California State University Northridge and Susan Williams, San Diego State University The current paradigm explaining how coral reefs maintain high biomass of organisms and extremely high rates of gross primary productivity is that tight recycling of nutrients and organic matter occurs within the reef resulting in zones of net autotrophy alternating with zones of net heterotrophy. Autotrophic upstream communities are thought to support downstream heterotrophic assemblages with the overall balance resulting in ecosystem P/R ratios near unity. According to this paradigm, coral reefs are not coupled significantly to the surrounding oligotrophic ocean. Recent studies suggest that coral reefs may be much more dependent on hydrodynamic processes than currently believed. Although nutrient concentrations of tropical waters are very low, an enormous volume of water is advected across the reef and could result in a large flux of nutrients to benthic primary producers. The major upstream autotrophic zone is the reef flat where algal turf assemblages are responsible for the majority of primary productivi ty. Previous work has demonstrated that rates of primary productivity and nitrogen fixation of algal turf are affected significantly by water flow speed. Furthermore, flow measurements on one reef suggest that algal canopy height significantly alters the local hydrodynamic regime and as a result, metabolic processes of algal turfs may be diffusion-limited for a significant proportion of time. This project will test the hypothesis that rates of primary productivity and nitrogen fixation of coral reef algal turfs are diffusion-limited. Measurements of the flow environment on a reef flat will be made and used to estimate the degree to which algal turfs varying in canopy height are diffusion-limited. The project will then move on to test hypotheses about the specific factors that result in diffusion- limitation. The results of this project should fill a gap on empirical measurements of water flow in coral reef environments and how water flow affects algal metabolism. The results of this research may lead to a si gnificant paradigm shift in understanding how coral reefs function. Demonstration that reefs are open ecosystems that are strongly coupled to the surrounding ocean environment would have important implications for predictions of the effects of global climate change on these unique ecosystems. Recent Variability in the Intertropical Convergence Zone of the Western Atlantic: Seasonal Multicentury Reconstructions from Venezuela Corals Julie Cole, University of Colorado This project will examine stable isotopes in corals collected off Venezuela to look for evidence of changes in ocean circulation and temperature which may correlate with rainfall patterns in Brazil and sub-Saharan Africa. If so, the coral record can be used to extend rainfall records to prehistoric times, in order to discern cyclic or long-term changes. The project also implicitly tests assumptions about the role of cross- equatorial heat transport in controlling tropical Atlantic climate. The Record of ENSO in the Warm Pool of the Western Pacific: Multi-century Reconstruction from the Geochemistry of Long-lived Corals Julie Cole, University of Colorado The western Pacific warm pool provides a major source of water vapor and energy to the global atmosphere and is a "center of action" for the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) system, whose signal permeates the global record of interannual climate variability. ENSO warm extremes originate from the region, and the western Pacific convection anomalies associated with ENSO propagate climate variability throughout the tropics and the world. This award supports a project that will reconstruct multi-century records of variability in the ocean/atmosphere of the western equatorial Pacific, using geochemical records from the skeletons of long-lived corals. The study will extend the limited record to ENSO to span the past few centuries along an equatorial transect from the region of the date line into the heart of the western Pacific warm pool. The resulting records will provide a new understanding of long-term temporal and spatial variability of ENSO and its relation to variations in the western Pacific warm pool an d to external forcings, including the regional response to the Little Ice Age. The proposed paleoclimatic study will place the TOGA/COARE observations in a long-term perspective and delineating the range of natural variability that models must aim to simulate. Population and Community Dynamics of Corals: A Long Term Study. Joseph Connell, University of California The objectives of the present project are several: 1) To extend the detailed long-term monitoring of ecological communities of corals and algae on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia which has been carried on continuously over the past 30 years, the longest such study on any coral reef; 2) to expand the study to include sites on two nearby reefs, and additional replicate sites on Heron Reef; 3) to analyze spatial patterns and dynamics of corals and algae at several scales, from centimeters to tens of meters, both during the course of colonization of patches (opened by disturbances) and after most of the surface has become crowded by many colonies. These analyses should reveal the long-term effects of interactions that may be crucial in determining how natural communities are structured; 4) to test with controlled field experiments some hypotheses about mechanisms: a) that produce the unique species composition of corals at the Inner Reef Flat site, b) that cause contrasting patterns of algae after disturbances , and c) that determine precisely how each colony affects its neighbors; 5) to build mathematical models and computer simulations of the dynamics of these populations and communities of corals and algae: a) to investigate the influence of past and present conditions on future changes, b) to characterize temporal and spatial dynamics, and c) to test hypotheses about the consequences of these dynamics to the community. The models will be also used to asses the degree to which community structure and dynamics may or may not be influenced by details of spatial relationships. The field methods will use the standard sampling techniques used over the past 30 years, to assure continuity in the long-term data base. The experimental methods, using coral transplanting and cages to exclude larger herbivores, have also been used before in this study and are well- established. Larval choice experiments and new recruit transplants have been carried out successfully by the co- investigators elsewhere on the Great Barrier Re ef.. The significance of this proposed research to the advancement of knowledge is that: 1) it deepens the general knowledge of how natural communities of corals and algae (the dominant sessile organisms on tropical and sub-tropical reefs), are assembled and structured in the face of changes in their environment over extended periods of time; 2) it reveals some of the mechanisms that link the environment with these community changes, and how both vary over short and long time periods and between small and larger spatial scales; and 3) it helps to predict the effect of environmental changes, including those caused by human activity, on these natural communities. Ribosomal DNA Sequences in Marine Yeasts: A Model for Identification and Quantification of Marine Eukaryotes Jack Fell, University of Miami Using molecular techniques for rapid and accurate determination of community structure, this research will determine fungal biodiversity and population biomass in tropical caostal ecosystems (principally mangrove ecosystems) of two distinctly different groups of micro-fungi: the basidiomycetous yeasts and the oomycetous genus Halophythophora. Both groups have important roles in detrital based food webs. The research program will include laboratory and field studies. Laboratory studies will complete the data bank of know species as a basis for determining community structure in the field. New procedures will be developed with preliminary emphasis on quantitative PCR (QPCR) using laser detected infrared labeled primers. Field research will center on reef and mangrove habitats. Using a combination of classical microbial techniques and molecular methods, the community structure and relative abundance of known and unknown culturable fungi species will be determined. The identity of these species will be ascertain ed by automated DNA sequence analysis and nucleotide alignment with the data bank. Species-specific regions will be located and primers developed to test the accuracy and sensitivity of PCR techniques in estimating community structure. Through the use of PCR and QPCR, the occurrence of unculturable species and population densities will be estimated. The techniques developed in this research can be applied to population analyses of other micro- or macro-eukaryote communities. Bleaching of Symbiotic Algae (Zooxanthellae) and their Invertebrate Hosts: Causes and Mechanisms William Fitt, University of Georgia Bleaching, the loss of symbiotic dinoflagellates("zooxanthellae" hereafter) of their pigments, of reef corals and other invertebrates has become a world-wide problem in tropical marine ecosystem, linked by some researchers to global warming. The results of bleaching have potentially devastating environmental, ecological and economic effects in the Caribbean, IndoPacific, an other tropical marine areas. Though there is some experimental work showing involvement of both higher than average temperature and light, the mechanisms involved in bleaching are not well understood this project will test three hypotheses. 1. Bleaching in nature is caused by high temperature stress coupled with high energy blue light (and possibly UV-A between 380-400nm). Preliminary evidence shows that while high temperature alone will induce bleaching, natural light exposure during high temperature treatment exacerbates the effect by lowering the temperature threshold and time to bleaching at a given temperature. this study will determ ine which component of light is responsible for this effect and the mechanisms of action. Early theories on bleaching had light playing a major role, but experimental evidence has not yet supported this contention. Potentially harmful chemical alterations associated with high energy wavelengths of blue light (and possibly some near-blue wavelengths of UV-A, that are not adsorbed by UV-protecting pigments found in corals) are not only consistent with field observations of bleaching, but are also supported by both laboratory and field-based preliminary experiments. 2. The mechanisms of temperature-light induced bleaching involves the irreversible dissociation of the chlorophyll-protein associations in the chloroplast. The harmful effects of high temperatures and light on algae include the irreversible separation or inactivation of the chlorophyll-protein complexes associated with reaction centers in the chloroplast. Electron transport activity and eventually carbon fixation decrease markedly. 3. High light and temperatures cause decreases in "protective" pigments which absorb ultraviolet light. The role of different wavelengths of light in conjunction with high temperature in determining concentrations of UV- screening pigments will be determined as well as their relationship with photosynthetic rates. These hypotheses will be tested using cultured and freshly isolated zooxanthellae, and intact hosts both in the laboratory and in field-based experiments. El Nino Impacted Coral Reefs In The Tropical Eastern Pacific Secondary Disturbances, Recovery and Modeling of Population and Community Responses. Peter Glynn, University of Miami This research will continue a long-term study that has focused on ecological disturbances to eastern Pacific coral reefs that accompanied the sever and historically unprecedented 1982-83 El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The study involves international collaboration with host- county research teams and primary field sites in Costa Rica, Panama, and the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador), areas heavily impacted by the 1982-83 ENSO. Dr. Glynn will lead the research to continue (a) with the physical and biotic monitoring of eastern Pacific coral reefs initiated in the early-mid 1970s, (b) investigating the responses of different coral species to ENSO stressors, (c) studying coral reproductive ecology as it relates to recruitment success, and (d) documenting coral community recovery. New research directions include (e) remote sensing, which will attempt to link coral bleaching/mortality with local and global scale sea surface temperatures by means of synoptic and repeated measurements, and (f) modeling of coral pop ulation and community dynamics based on mechanistic relationships between temperature, predation, coral growth, and survivorship derived from field monitoring and experimental results. Because important secondary disturbances are still occurring and reef recovery has been slow, it is necessary to continue this study in order to understand the variety of changes involved and the full impact of a major disturbance on eastern Pacific coral survival and reef building. We are hopeful that ENSO warming disturbances can provide some insight to the probable changes in coral reefs worldwide if projected global warming causes repeated and/or protracted sea temperature increases comparable to the 1982-83 ENSO. Quantitative Aspects of Prey Chemical Defenses Mark Hay, University of North Carolina This project will extend the PI's current investigations on chemical mediation of seaweed-herbivore and invertebrate-predator interactions to include: (1) complex interactions of prey nutritional value with chemical and structural prey defenses, (2) an understanding of how larval and spore defenses differ from those of the adult, and why (exposure to different consumers?, increased exposure to UV without adult structures that provide shade?, etc.), and (3) the role of learned aversion by vertebrate versus invertebrate consumers in affecting both prey and consumer dynamics. Because benthic seaweeds and invertebrates play a trophically and ecologically important role in tropical and sub-tropical near-shore communities and are rich sources of novel secondary metabolites that function as defenses against consumers and have potential applications as pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and growth regulating substances, understanding how these organisms respond chemically to ecological and environmental threats can pro vide fundamental information about how marine systems function, and can suggest strategies for applied uses of marine natural products. Broadcast Spawning and the Population Ecology of Coral Reef Animals Howard Lasker, State University of New York The literature on marine benthic ecology and evolution has generally ignored fertilization rates as an important factor in the life histories of benthic species, many which are important resource species. These rates have implicitly been assumed to be uniformly high and thus not a terribly significant factor in the establishment of the adult populations. There are now a number of data sets which raise doubts about the validity of that assumption. The research will determine rates of fertilization among natural populations and will explore some of the factors controlling these rates in reef communities. Using the Caribbean gorgonian, Plexaura A, as a model system Drs. Lasker and Coffroth will determine rates of fertilization of eggs released in synchronous spawning events. Plexaura A is clonal and often has skewed ratios of male and female colonies on different reefs. This will enable comparison of rates from reefs which differ in current regime and in the density of male colonies. Using random amplified poly morphic DNA (RAPD) from individual planulae larvae, they will conduct paternity analyses, determine the proportion of fertilizations attributable to specific male clones, and determine the effects of clone size and distribution on fertilization. If rates are low and are affected by factors such as population density, then it will be necessary to incorporate fertilization rates in analyses of benthic population animal dynamics and evolution. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Apr 17 07:10:50 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA09937; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 07:10:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id KAA06335; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 10:51:16 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.erl.gov by reef.aoml.erl.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id GAA06330; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 06:51:14 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.erl.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id GAA21190; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 06:51:14 -0400 Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 06:51:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral.aoml.erl.gov To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: US CRI, NSF, Part 2 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Forwarded message, Part 2: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ICRI, Part 2 The Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation on Symbiotic Cnidarians: Action Spectra, Sites of Damage, and Bleaching Michael Lesser, University of New Hampshire The decrease of the stratospheric ozone layer has resulted in an increase in the amount of harmful ultraviolet radiation reaching both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Recent data indicates that this phenomenon will also affect tropical ecosystems. Tropical ecosystems have a long evolutionary history of exposure to fluxes of UV radiation, and can provide considerable insight into evolved mechanisms of protection against the deleterious effects of UV radiation. We presently do not know with confidence the wave length-dependent efficiency (action spectrum) of UV radiation for any physiological function in symbiotic cnidarians. Widespread coral bleaching events have recently been observed following anomolously high sea surface temperatures around the world. If UV radiation synergistically interacts with increased sea water temperatures, action spectra will be required to predict what dose of UV radiation can induce bleaching, with or without an increase in sea water temperature. An important step in understa nding the bleaching phenomenon is to determine the independent and synergistic effects of temperature, visible radiation, and UV radiation on the functional biology of symbiotic associations. A Facility for Research and Education at the Caribbean Marine Research Center, Lee Stocking Island Marine Field Station. Romuald Lipcius, Virginia Institute of Marine Science The Caribbean Marine Research Center (CMRC) is one of six National Undersea Research Centers. CMRC's marine field station on Lee Stocking Island (LSI) in the Exuma Cays, Bahamas comprises 28 buildings, a 915-meter airstrip, nine research vessels, wet and dry submersibles, and recompression chamber and an underwater habitat. The station affords access to a pristine marine environment with a diverse array of tropical habitats including shallow and deep coral reefs, grassbeds, sand flats, mangroves, submerged carbonate terraces, subsea caves, blue holes, tidal channels and stromatolites, a unique bio-geological feature. During 1993, 131 visiting scientists and students conducted research in the fields of benthic ecology, invertebrate biology, fisheries ecology, oceanography, coral reef ecology, paleo-oceanography, macroalgal ecology, aquaculture, global climate change, coral bleaching and marine geology. In addition, a limited number of field courses and workshops were held at LSI. However, the station is hinde red by a paucity of accommodations for visiting scientists, and the lack of a suitable lecture and workshop facility, which prevents CMRC from meeting numerous requests to conduct field courses, workshops and research. The proposed partnership between CMRC, The College of William & Mary (W&M), and NSF would significantly enhanced the utility of one of the most productivity marine field stations in the Caribbean. Specifically this project will provide for the construction of a dormitory and lecture/workshop building at LSI. Key contributions by CMRC include property for the facility, support services, and administrative framework for coordination of activities, and maintenance of the building over the facility's lifetime. Calcification by Hermatypic Corals: Regulation of the Calcium Pathway Erich Mueller, University of South Alabama Reef-building corals display two modes of calcification, that which occurs in the light and that taking place in the dark. Calcium carbonate deposition is greater in the light, a phenomenon attributed to the photosynthetic activity of algal endosymbionts (zooxanthellae). There is evidence that the two modes may differ in mechanism as well as quantitatively. In spite of numerous studies, the link between coral calcification and zooxanthellae photosynthesis remains unresolved. The significance of this link can be succinctly stated: the partnership of corals and their zooxanthellae is essentially responsible for the existence of the world's living (and most fossil) coral reefs. A major question is whether either of the calcium carbonate substrates, calcium and dissolved inorganic carbon dioxide, are limiting to calcification and, if so, under what conditions. The importance of calcium to living systems has led to a variety of well-conserved calcium regulatory mechanisms, however, very little coral research has examined such regulation. This strategy has a large base of information from research on other biomineralizing organisms and in many areas of cellular physiology. Such an approach, coupled with recent advances in coral culture, promises substantial progress in a research area that has made little during the past decade. This research project will focus on whether coral calcification is limited by calcium availability at the site of skeletogenesis (not in seawater) and how availability may be affected by symbiont photosynthetic activity. Using a combination of pharmacologic and kinetic approaches, the calcium pathway from seawater to skeleton will be compartmentally characterized. Calcium movement and regulation between compartments by membrane transport systems and messenger systems (i.e. cAMP, calmodulin ) will be of central interest. While this basic research question may be sufficient justification for this projec t, there are benefits of more practical value as well. Optimization of coral culture could h ave far reaching implications for coral reef conservation. Directly, it offers a means for propagation of corals to repair damaged reefs. Use of coral culture in the aquarium trade could indirectly help natural reefs by reducing the rapidly increasing wild harvest. Understanding the light-enhancement of coral calcification would allow manipulation of culture conditions to produce skeletons with consistent physical properties. Such skeletons would be of value for use in bone reconstruction where natural coral has been successfully employed. Path of Carbon in Photosynthesis and Release of Glycerol by Zooxanthellae Leonard Muscatine, University of California One of the most intriguing, and enigmatic phenomena in the field of coral reef ecology is the symbiotic relationship between the coral polyp and the nutrient producing dinoflagellate that it hosts. This relationship is the key feature in the stability of coral reefs and many of the organisms which reside there. The objective of this project is to study the translocation of carbon from symbiotic dinoflagellates to the coral host cells. This will be achieved by a revolutionary approach to studying this relationship, by artificially altering the biochemical carbon pathways, and evaluating the subsequent metabolism of the coral polyp and the photosynthetic capacities of the dinoflagellates. This shall give us new insights on the nutritional relationship between the two. Dr. Muscatine has a string of success with prior NSF awards and is at the forefront in this field of study. His project will help to achieve two objectives: 1) further contribute to our understanding of the role of coral symbioses, which could po tentially have biotechnological value, and 2) provide another opportunity for collaborative work with Russian scientist in U.S. laboratories. Housing Facility for Visiting Scientists Award Valerie Paul, University of Guam The University of Guam Marine Laboratory will build a housing facility for accommodating visiting researchers including visiting graduate students. The 2000 sq ft building will contain three bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a kitchen, and a living area for dormitory style accommodations and a separate suite with two bedrooms, one bath, and a kitchen for an apartment style unit. Earlier support allowed the university to complete the architectural and engineering plans for this building. Such a facility is considered extremely important because 1) the institution is in an isolated academic environment and visiting investigators are a valuable resource for interactions and new ideas, and 2) skyrocketing rents and a serious housing shortage combine to make it difficult to impossible to find adequate lodging for visitors staying less than 6 months. The University of Guam Laboratory supports the research of 8 full-time faculty, numerous graduate and undergraduate students, as well as visiting investigators. The research dem ands on facility have increased due to the addition of new faculty at the laboratory, the recent establishment of collaborative programs between the Marine Laboratory and the University of Hawaii and the University of the Ryukyus (Okinawa, Japan), and the awareness of the Marine Laboratory as a resource for coral reef research by over 550 scientists who attended the 7th International Coral Reef Symposium on Guam in June 1992. The new building will allow the support of increasing numbers of visiting scientists that wish to conduct research at the laboratory , which will in turn enhance the research environment. Assessing the Chemical Defenses of Caribbean Sponges Joseph Pawlik, University of North Carolina Sponges are important components of benthic marine communities, particularly on coral reefs. Organic extracts of their tissues have yielded a wealth of unusual chemical compounds that are not known to be involved in primary metabolism. These secondary metabolites have a diversity of pharmacological effects in laboratory assays, but it is unclear why sponges produce them. The most commonly held theory is that these compounds are distasteful to potential predators. The proposed research will provide an assessment of the chemical defenses of Caribbean demo sponges, a group whose taxonomy and chemistry is fairly well described. The investigation will proceed within a theoretical framework established by previous research on the chemical ecology of terrestrial plants and marine algae. Overall, this research project represents the first systematic investigation of the chemical defenses of tropical marine sponges. The results will be useful in judging the general applicability of optimal defense theories based on s tudies of terrestrial ecosystems. On the Abundance, Dynamics and Regulation of Damselfish Populations Russell Schmitt and Sally Holbrook, University of California The aim of the work is to understand the dynamics and regulation of structured, open populations, which typify most marine reef fishes and invertebrates. While there is broad agreement among ecologists that attributes of populations are shared by more than an single process (e.g., availability of propagules, competition within and between life stages, competition with other species, predation), there remains considerable disagreement regarding their relative importance. There also is some confusion about what roles various processes have in producing dynamics; few empirical workers have distinguished between processes that regulate populations (i.e., bound fluctuations) as opposed to those that cause variation around the mean abundance. An enormous amount is known about the caused of fluctuations in abundance of reef organisms, but very little is known about what regulates their populations. This work will contribute in several key ways to understanding the general issue of dynamics and regulation. It is one of the first comprehensive, pluralistic evaluations of reef fishes that will distinguish effects of processes on regulation and on variation. Second, it will use for the first time operational definitions and analytical protocols for quantitative assessm ents of the relative importance of various processes. As such, the research could yield standard approaches and procedures to address relative importance. Third, the application of infrared video technology enables the exploration of little studied but cr ucial processes of settlement and early mortality. Zooplankton Capture by Corals: Effects of Water Movement and Prey Escape Kenneth Sebens and Jennifer Purcell, University of Maryland Information on water flow in coral reef environments has generally been done to quantify mass transport across reefs or to identify important processes generating nutrient flux from reefs. This project will investigate the effects of water flow on several aspects of the feeding biology of corals. Field measurements of feeding rates on four species of corals will be made with prey sampling by an automated pump/sampler and field flume that allows concurrent measurements of water flow and prey availability. Feeding experiments will be manipulated by varying flow rate, prey type, and food availability and will be conducted over several days with different flow conditions. Capture events and prey type, and food availability and will be conducted over several days with different flow conditions. Capture events and prey escape behavior will be filmed using underwater video. Another important aspect of feeding biology in coral reefs is the small scale water flow around corals in the field. This will be accomplished with three self- contained underwater thermistors flowmeters with 2 mm spatial resolution, based on the design of LaBarber and Vogel (1976). The data collected will be used to characterize the general flow regime at the site, providing new information about the flow environment of coral reefs in Jamaica and other sites in the Caribbean. Pacific Paleoclimate from Reef Corals in the Eastern and Western Margins: Records from Galapagos, Cocos Island and the Gulf of Papua Glen Shen, University of Washington This award will support a study designed to characterize the paleoclimate of the eastern Pacific over the last 400 years using the best available coral samples and seeks to establish a new geochemical tracer in the far western Pacific - a region for which few marine climatic indicators presently exist. The foci of the eastern Pacific reconstructions will be the Galapagos Islands (0.5oS, 91oW) and Cocos Island ( 5.3oN, 86.9oW). The ratio of barium:calcium in coral argonite, a sensitive indicator of upwelling and fluvial discharge, will be the key measurement using an Inductively-Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS). Records spanning 270- (Cocos) and 400-years (Galapagos) length will be produced at quarter-annual resolution. Additionally, annual determinations of Cd/Ca and Mn/Ca will be made . Developmental effort for a regional precipitation index over Australasia will involve determination of Ba/Ca ratios in a 100- year coral core from the Gulf of Papua, an area markedly influenced by Ba-enriched contin ental runoff. The goal of this work is the development of climatically-relevant datasets which surpass the instrumental record in length yet retain the quality of latter 20th century measurements. Such records will allow a closer examination of recurrent periods (e.g annual, biennial, and three-to-seven year ENSO timescales) which appear to characterize the lower atmosphere and upper ocean, and may reveal the existence of longer time scale variations. Marine Biotechnology Fellowship: Natural Products from Common Shallow-water Soft Corals of Guam: Reproductive Considerations Marc Slattery, University of Mississippi This research project will utilize analytical chemical techniques to evaluate the importance of secondary metabolites and steroids in the reproduction of 3 species of soft corals from Guam. This project builds on ongoing research which has identified and examined the importance of secondary metabolites, organic extracts, and morphological defenses in soft coral predator deterrence. This project will extract, isolate, and determine the structures of new secondary metabolites in adult colonies and their eggs. Temporal changes in concentrations of these compounds will be correlated with reproductive indices to assess the role of the compounds in maturation and spawning. Standard bioassays will be conducted to guide isolation of bioactive compounds and to determine the importance of isolated natural products in egg release, sperm chemotaxis, and feeding deterrence. Novel compounds identified in this project will expand upon a growing database of metabolites that can be used as chemotaxonomic markers and will be incorporated into existing pharmacological programs. Additionally, this project will contribute significant in sights into the reproductive biology and chemical ecology of the common soft corrals on the shallow reefs surrounding Guam. The Physiology of Sclerochronology: Mechanism and Variation in Formation of High Density Bands in the Massive Coral Montastrea Annularis Alina Szmant and Peter Swart, University of Miami; Richard Dodge, Nova University; and James Porter, University of Georgia High density (HD) bands mark annual cycles of growth in X- radiographs of reef coral skeletons and presumably form due to physiological response to seasonal cycles of temperature and light. However, the mechanism of formation has not been established for any coral. The HD band is usually used to define the annual band, and thus understanding its formation, and the controls on variability in its timing is important. In the research, a conceptual model of how density bands form, based on physiological and morphological data obtained with earlier NSF funding, is will be developed. Four specific aspects of the work will include: (1) development of a mechanistic mathematical model for the formation of the HD band of Montastrea annularis, a major coral used in paleoclimate work; (2) conducting an in situ experiment to test the validity of the model; (3) evaluation of the genetic vs. environmental components of variation in time of formation of the HD band; and (4) assessment of the variation among corals in the re lationship between HD bands and stable isotope profiles. This study will provide the type of environmental physiological data needed for the precise use of coral density bands for paleoclimatology. The Temperature History of the Western Pacific Warm Pool Over the Last 30 Ka Frederick Taylor, University of Texas; R. Lawrence, University of Minnesota; and George Burr, University of Arizona This project will collaborate with French scientists to drill coral terraces in the western tropical Pacific. Three sites will span the center and southern margins of the Western Pacific Warm Pool, and will be drilled to about 30,000 yr BP. Samples will be analyzed for stable isotopes, U, Sr and radiocarbon. The project will address two objectives; (1) a record of warm pool thermal stability at several scales of climate change ( with implications for circum-Pacific climate) and (2) calibration of the radiocarbon age scale (relevant to all science which depends on radiocarbon dating). Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation on the Biology of Caribbean Reef Corals Gerard Wellington, University of Houston Recent studies indicate that ultraviolet radiation can penetrate to considerable depths on tropical reefs. Persistent high levels of UV penetration, resulting from extended periods of calm sea conditions, have been shown to induce stress leading to the loss of symbiotic zooxanthellae (i.e., bleaching) in reef-building corals. These conditions may have contributed significantly to the regional mass coral bleaching events observed in the Caribbean during 1987 and 1990. This project will continue monitoring penetration of UV radiation, sea temperatures, and recovery of coral exposed to UV radiation. In addition, the project will be expanded to evaluate the effects of UV radiation on the early life-history stages, namely planula larvae and newly-recruited juveniles, of predominant coral species. While increases in UV radiation are predicted to be minimal at low latitudes, increased frequency of calm sea conditions predicted by global warming will lead to enhanced water column clarity and high UV penetration with subsequent negative effects on reef corals. This project, by experimentally defining the maximum UV intensities that can be tolerated by larval and juveniles corals, will provide insight into the role that current intensities of UV radiation play in limiting recruitment and shaping subsequent coral community structure. Directorate for Biological Sciences (lead) Center for Ultraviolet Radiation Research at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology Paul Jokiel; Robert Kinzie; George Losey, University of Hawaii This project will provide equipment to enable the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology to serve as a center for diverse research on UV radiation in the tropical marine environment. An international workshop on UV radiation in the sea (Aug., 1994) concluded that HIMB's history of such research and its sub- tropical location make it the most logical site in the U.S.A., or the world, for such a center. A scanning spectroradiometer will allow precision measurement of radiation in the laboratory and the field. A UV- sensitive/visible wavelength remote controlled television will allow visual perception and measurement of portions of the sensory world of marine animals of which humans are dismally unaware. Visitors will be encouraged to use these facilities and several leading investigators in the field have firm plans for participation. Optimization Strategies for Reef Restoration Using Cultured Hermatypic Corals Erich Mueller, University of South Alabama Coral reefs are important reservoirs of biodiversity and serve as centers of biological production in low productivity seas. They provide subsistence and commercial fishing and contribute to third world economies by attracting tourism. It has become increasing apparent that reefs are being adversely affected by human activities. The impact of anthropogenic activities, both historical and modern, is damaging reefs to the point whether ecosystem functioning has been compromised. Restoration of reef fisheries and habitats is in its embryonic stages. Lessons learned from terrestrial and near-shore restoration programs are being examined to avoid costly or damaging errors. However, the logistics of working on reefs and their complex nature require new approaches. There is a good foundation of coral physiology and reef ecology research on which to base restoration efforts. This project includes two closely coupled components: 1) examination of coral growth and physiology under laboratory culture conditions and 2) assessment of coral contribution to habitat structural a biological complexity and survival rates of laboratory -raised corals in field test plots. This project will examine the effect of photoperiod and substrates on coral growth rates and metabolic performance (photosynthesis, respiration and calcification). These data will be used to modify culture techniques which have significant advantages over simple transplantation strategies. Corals are generally slow-growing species and optimizing growth rates to attain coral of critical size will be fundamental to the success of a culture approach. The critical size will be assessed in field pilot studies. Test plots will be established in a vessel grounding site. Plots will include corals grown under various culture conditions (explants) and to varying sizes. Their effect on habitat structural complexity and the resulting biodiversity will be compared to corals transplanted from healthy reef areas and to natural control sites. Survivorship and growth rates of cul tured explants and transplanted corals will also be compared. Results obtained from this project should provide both physiological and ecological information for the formulation of viable restoration programs. In addition, the further development of coral culture will assist reef conservation efforts by reducing the increasing wild harvest of corals for commercial trade. Keys Marine Laboratory Research Housing Facility John Ogden; Kenneth Haddad, University of South Florida The Keys Marine Laboratory (KML) commenced academic research and education programs in the 1980's through a public/private partnership between the Florida Institute of Oceanography (FIO) and Sea World of Florida, Inc. Based on the success of that partnership and recognizing the need for these programs and facilities the State of Florida purchased the KML in 1990. With the closure of other residential laboratory facilities in the region and the unprecedented scientific and political attention on the mosaic of South Florida environments, the KML has now assumed an even more critical support role. In the last five years usage by research and education groups has increased steadily and is beginning to exceed some of the capabilities of the current facilities. Particularly urgent is the need for improved and expanded housing accommodations for non-resident researchers. Lodging has been identified as one of the major impediments to conducting research in the region. Laboratory and boat facilities are equally impor tant but at this point in time the KML can reasonably accommodate these needs. This project will provide funding to construct the first unit of a planned three-unit handicapped accessible housing facility which will provide additional lodging space for two to four (2-4) researchers/unit. This facility will help meet the need of regional, national, and international scientists studying the continentally unique systems of South Florida, including coral reefs. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Apr 17 13:59:31 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA24518; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 13:59:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA00389; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 16:21:31 GMT Received: from harpo.grdl.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA00718; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 10:19:09 -0400 Received: from ocean.nos.noaa.gov by harpo.grdl.noaa.gov with SMTP (16.6/15.6) id AA19733; Wed, 17 Apr 96 10:16:50 -0400 Message-Id: Date: 17 Apr 1996 09:18:44 -0500 From: "Haskell, B." Subject: New Web Page To: "Coral list" X-Mailer: Mail*Link SMTP-MS 3.0.0 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I am pleased to announce the posting of a new web page for the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. You can find us at: www.fknms.nos.noaa.gov HAPPY BROWSING! Benjamin Haskell Science Coordinator From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Apr 17 21:54:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA01224; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 21:53:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA02002; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 01:28:20 GMT Received: from axis.scu.edu.au by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA01996; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 21:28:16 -0400 Received: from alsvid.scu.edu.au (root@alsvid.scu.edu.au [203.2.33.1]) by axis.scu.edu.au (8.7.1/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA25322 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 11:26:17 +1000 (EST) Received: from axis.scu.edu.au.scu.edu.au (s1-host3.scu.edu.au [203.2.32.23]) by alsvid.scu.edu.au (8.7.3/8.7.2) with SMTP id LAA16645 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 11:26:14 +1000 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 11:26:14 +1000 Message-Id: <199604180126.LAA16645@alsvid.scu.edu.au> X-Sender: tsmith@pophost.scu.edu.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: tsmith@scu.edu.au (Tim Smith) Subject: nutrients & corals (case studies) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hello, I need some case studies of nutrients degrading coral reefs and other marine life, either directly through a decline in laval settlement etc., or indirectly through coral smothering from stimulated growth of primary producers etc. I would appreciate any help you could give. Thank you. Tim From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Apr 18 13:36:05 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA15633; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 13:35:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA01040; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 16:55:26 GMT Received: from gsosun1 by reef via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA01035; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 12:54:57 -0400 Received: from [131.128.101.87] (hornmac87.gso.uri.edu) by gsosun1 (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12268; Thu, 18 Apr 96 12:49:36 EDT Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 11:56:15 -0500 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: mbrush@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu (Mark J. Brush) Subject: email address Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hi all- Was there recently someone from Columbia looking for information on reef degredation, human impacts, etc.? I had some information for you but no longer have your address. Let me know! Regards, Mark Brush Graduate School of Oceanography University of Rhode Island Narragansett, RI 02882 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Apr 18 13:58:58 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA16281; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 13:57:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA01090; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 17:22:49 GMT Received: from usgcrp.gov by reef via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA01085; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 13:22:44 -0400 Received: from [131.182.242.88] by usgcrp.gov (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA22907; Thu, 18 Apr 96 13:23:15 EDT X-Sender: tsocci@earth.usgcrp.gov Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 13:29:43 -0400 To: aeroso-l@nic.surfnet.nl, amphibiandecline@ucdavis.edu, ARMCHAIR-SCIENCE@areacom.it, bene@straylight.tamu.edu (Bene List), biodiv-l@ftpt.br (Biodiversity List), BIOREGIONAL@csf.colorado.edu, CARRIERPIGEON-L@cornell.edu, ecol-econ@csf.colorado.edu (Clim-Econ List), coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, ecolog-l@umdd.umd.edu (ESA List), environment-L@cornell.edu (Env-L List), gaia-l@listserv.aol.com, groundwater@ias.champlain.edu, hdgec@ciesin.org, infoterra@pan.cedar.univie.ac.at (UN Infoterra List), listserver@webster.rtpnc.epa.gov, NATODATA@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be, palclime@sivm.si.edu (Paleoclimate List), ecology@bluemarble.net, water@umdd.umd.edu From: tsocci@usgcrp.gov (Anthony Socci) Subject: USGCRP Seminar on The Role of Aerosols and Climate Change, April 25th Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: U.S. Global Change Research Program Second Monday Seminar Series The Role of Aerosols in Climate Change What are the sources of aerosols and what are their concentrations in the atmosphere? How much of a climate cooling influence do aerosols presently exert relative to the warming influence exerted by greenhouse gases? What influence will aerosols likely exert in the future? How well do climate models account for the influence of aerosols? What are the uncertainties and how large are those uncertainties? Will cooling due to aerosols counter warming due to greenhouse gases? Public Invited Thursday, April 25, 1996, 3:15-4:45 PM Rayburn House Office Bldg., Room B369 Reception Following INTRODUCTION Dr. John H. Seinfeld, Louis E. Nohl Professor and Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA SPEAKERS Dr. Robert J. Charlson, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Environmental Studies and Geophysics Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Dr. Joyce E. Penner, Atmospheric Science Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA OVERVIEW Aerosol is a term used to describe the many types of small particles in the atmosphere. Aerosol particles vary greatly in size, source, chemical composition, amount and distribution in space and time, and how long they survive in the atmosphere. Only over the past few years has enough become known about aerosol effects on solar radiation that scientists can start to estimate their large-scale influence on climate. While the results are still relatively new and uncertain, what has been learned is providing important new insights about how humans are affecting the climate. Measurements now show that a substantial fraction of the aerosols in the lower atmosphere is a by-product of human activities. The highly visible haze that persists in all of the industrialized regions of the world consists mainly of sulfate and organic compounds from emissions of sulfur dioxide, organic gases, and smoke from the burning of fossil fuels and vegetation. Emissions of sulfur dioxide, mainly from coal combustion, have risen dramatically in the Northern Hemisphere over the last century, and, while now decreasing in the United States, are continuing to rise in the industrializing nations of the Northern Hemisphere. Small aerosol particles affect the natural energy balance of the Earth mainly by reflecting (and in some cases absorbing) solar radiation and by, some evidence suggests, influencing the reflective and absorbing properties of clouds. Larger particles can also affect the fluxes of long-wave terrestrial radiation, but this is generally a smaller effect. Aerosol particles can also affect atmospheric chemistry by providing sites on which chemical reactions can take place-it is this role of aerosols, in this case mainly aerosols created by sulfur dioxide injections from volcanic eruptions that is contributing to depletion of stratospheric ozone and affecting the radiative effects of ozone in the atmosphere. The current mean global warming influence from anthropogenic increases in greenhouse gas concentrations and from associated changes in atmospheric chemistry since the 18th century is estimated to be about +2.5 watts per square meter. By comparison, the continuing emissions of sulfur dioxide from coal combustion and other sources are estimated, with considerable uncertainty, to be causing an average cooling influence of about -1.3 watts per square meter, thus reducing the warming influence of greenhouse gases by about half. Recent projections of increases in global mean surface temperature suggest a best estimate of 2 degrees C temperature rise by the year 2100, with a range from about 0.8 to 3.5 degrees C depending on emissions projections for greenhouse gases and aerosols and climate sensitivity. These projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are roughly one degree lower than similar projections in 1990 because account is being taken of past and future cooling influences from changes in the aerosol concentration. While the radiative effects of aerosols work in the opposite direction of greenhouse gases, their climatic effects are not simply opposing because of the very different spatial and temporal distributions of their influence. Greenhouse gases exert their influence night and day, all year long. By contrast, forcing by anthropogenic aerosols occurs mostly by day, mostly in the summer, and mostly near and downwind of aerosol sources. While the cooling influence of aerosols is thus regional, the climate response can extend hemispherically, and even globally, as the atmospheric circulation patterns adjust to the differential patterns of warming and cooling. The long lifetime of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (typically decades to centuries) and the short lifetime of sulfate aerosols (typically days to weeks) means that the greenhouse gas induced warming will more and more strongly dominate the aerosol cooling influence in the future. Also, because of the health effects of fine aerosol particles, allowing a greater build-up of aerosols cannot be used to continue to offset the greenhouse gas effect without leading to deleterious health and ecological effects. Because of their many influences, improving understanding of aerosols effects is essential. Their effects determine how rapidly or slowly warming will occur, how soon human and natural influences on the climate can be distinguished, and what the regional patterns of climate change will be. This seminar will provide an overview of scientific understanding and of the importance of gaining better estimates of the influence of aerosols on climate. BIOGRAPHIES Dr. Robert J. Charlson began his career as an instrument engineer at the Boeing Company while simultaneously studying meteorology. Upon completion of his Ph.D. in meteorology at Stanford University, Dr. Charlson joined the faculty of the University of Washington. After 21 years in the College of Environmental Engineering, he joined the Atmospheric Sciences and Chemistry faculties. His research interests focus on connecting chemical and physical properties and processes of atmospheric aerosols, focusing especially on the role of sulfur and organic aerosols in climate forcing. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Panel on Aerosol Forcing of Climate, serves on the Science Advisory Committee of the Atmosphere/Ocean Experiment, and was co-lead author of the aerosol section of the 1994 and 1995 IPCC reports. Dr. Charlson is a former Fulbright Scholar and NATO Lecturer in Meteorology. He is also the recipient of the Gerbier-Mumm Award of the World Meteorological Association, and holds an Honorary doctorate degree from Stockholm University. He received his BS and MS degrees in Chemistry from Stanford University, and his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Washington. Dr. Joyce E. Penner is presently Group Leader of the Atmospheric Science Division of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She is responsible for developing, conducting and supervising research programs that are aimed at evaluating the role of fossil fuel emissions in altering chemical cycles and climate. She has over 90 peer-reviewed publications in the scientific literature, including studies of stratospheric chemistry and ozone change, regional and urban air pollution, nuclear war effects on global climate, and chemical and aerosol effects on radiation and climate. She is a leading expert on the interactions of chemistry, aerosols, and their effects on the climate system and has played an active role in recognition of the effect of aerosols on climate, organizing several meetings including, most recently, the 5th International Conference on Carbonaceous Particles in the Atmosphere. She has served on several scientific advisory committees, including the National Academy of Sciences Atmospheric Chemistry Committee and the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Aerosol Forcing and Climate Change. Dr. Penner received a BA degree from the University of California-Santa Barbara, and her MS and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. NEXT SEMINAR: May 20th and 21st, 1996 A Closer Look at Global Satellite and Surface Temperature Records and Trends (Parts I and II) For more information please contact: Dr. Anthony D. Socci, U.S. Global Change Research Program Office 300 D St., SW, Suite 840, Washington, DC 20024 Telephone: (202) 651-8244; Fax: (202) 554-6715 E-Mail: TSOCCI@USGCRP.GOV. Additional information on the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and this Seminar Series is available on the USGCRP Home Page at: http://www.usgcrp.gov. Normally these seminars are held on the second Monday of each month. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Apr 19 20:03:38 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA11412; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 20:03:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id XAA03794; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 23:37:25 GMT Received: from emout10.mail.aol.com by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA03789; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 19:37:24 -0400 From: LPRoerden@aol.com Received: by emout10.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA05013 for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 19:35:32 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 19:35:32 -0400 Message-ID: <960419193532_378759136@emout10.mail.aol.com> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Grand Cayman's reef ecology Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I'm a high school teacher bringing a group of newly NAUI certified students to Grand Cayman this summer for an intensive marine bio course (for the month of July). I've searched the net (unsucessfully!) for information specific to the health of the Cayman Island's reefs (I'm specifically wondering about the incidence of bleaching). Does anyone have any information (or can point me to where I might find this information)? We're designing a research project for the students and want to tailor it to the unique qualities of Grand Cayman's reefs. Any suggestions? From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Apr 22 10:37:40 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA09975; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 10:37:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA06620; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 14:06:24 GMT Received: from aoml.noaa.gov by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA06615; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 10:06:23 -0400 Received: from surf (surf [192.111.123.22]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA09487 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 10:04:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from hendee@localhost) by surf (8.7/8.7.3) id KAA01170; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 10:04:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 10:03:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "James C. Hendee" X-Sender: hendee@surf To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: ICRI Document (June 2, 1995) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The complete document for the International Coral Reef Initiative Workshop, held May 29, 1995 through June 2, 1995, is available in three different formats at the following FTP address: ftp://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/pub/champ/docs/icri/ This link is also available through our ICRI Home Page at: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/icri/icri.html Other documents are forthcoming. Yours, Jim Hendee From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Apr 22 10:37:49 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA09986; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 10:37:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA06603; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 14:00:33 GMT Received: from aoml.noaa.gov by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA06598; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 10:00:31 -0400 Received: from surf (surf [192.111.123.22]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA09362 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 09:58:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from hendee@localhost) by surf (8.7/8.7.3) id JAA01154; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 09:58:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 09:57:11 -0400 (EDT) From: "James C. Hendee" X-Sender: hendee@surf To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Caution on postings. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Greetings, Please note here that the e-mail address for postings to the coral-list has a minor change. Please use: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov instead of: coral-list@reef.aoml.erl.gov Otherwise, your message may not got posted. Thanks, Jim Hendee coral-list administrator From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Apr 22 12:30:57 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA12214; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 12:30:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA06854; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:15:42 GMT Received: from aoml.noaa.gov by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA06849; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 12:15:40 -0400 Received: from surf (surf [192.111.123.22]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA11934 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 12:13:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from hendee@localhost) by surf (8.7/8.7.3) id MAA01418; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 12:13:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 12:12:20 -0400 (EDT) From: "James C. Hendee" X-Sender: hendee@surf To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Reef Encounter deadline Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: This message forwarded for Sue Wells. We are unfortunately having some problems with the list-server. Thank you for your patience. Sincerely yours, Jim Hendee ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 96 14:41:40 BST From: Sue.Wells@wcmc.org.uk To: hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Reef Encounter deadline -------------------------- [Original Message] ------------------------- The next issue of Reef Encounter, the newsletter of the International Society for Reef Studies, will be produced in time for the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium in Panama. The deadline for receipt of copy for this issue has been extended from 15 April (as announced in Reef Encounter No. 18) to 30 April. We apologise for this short notice. Please let us know as soon as possible if you are planning to send an article or news item. This issue will have a larger than normal print-run because of the Panama meeting, so authors will have a good audience. Contributions on all topics will be welcome, but we would particularly like items relating to Central American reefs. We look forward to hearing from you. Sue Wells sue.wells@wcmc.org.uk Callum Roberts cr10@york.ac.uk From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Apr 22 12:36:45 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA12338; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 12:36:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA06877; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:25:52 GMT Received: from coral by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA06872; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 12:25:51 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA04916; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 12:25:50 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 12:25:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: test Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Please ignore this test message. Jim From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Apr 22 13:46:13 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA14094; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 13:46:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA07041; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 17:32:00 GMT Received: from emout14.mail.aol.com by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA07036; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 13:31:58 -0400 From: Mangroveap@aol.com Received: by emout14.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA02938 for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 13:29:50 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 13:29:50 -0400 Message-ID: <960422132950_277991391@emout14.mail.aol.com> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov cc: Kacissna@aol.com Subject: relation between coral and mangroves Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Dear Mark Eskin, I was advised to write you on obtaining information on the shared functions of coral and mangroves. I am the Director of the Mangrove Action Project, based in Seattle, WA. Our organization is a non-profit international network addressing the serious problems of mangrove forest loss. We are trying to make more solid coalition connections with other groups working on coastal resource issues. Your help in clarifying the mutual connections betweenm coral and mangroves would help in this regards. Also, please advise on what it entails to join your list. And send us a mailing address, if you'd like a hard copy of our Spring issue of the MAP newsletter. Or, if you prefer, we can e-mail it. Thank you for your time and consideration. In Peace, Alfredo Quarto, Dorector Mangrove Action Project From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Apr 22 21:51:24 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA20578; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 21:51:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA07416; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 01:31:58 GMT Received: from CGNET.COM by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA07411; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 21:31:56 -0400 Received: from msm.cgnet.com by CGNET.COM (PMDF V4.3-9 #7702) id <01I3UOJ957CG001JOL@CGNET.COM>; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 18:29:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by msm.cgnet.com with Microsoft Mail id <317C32B6@msm.cgnet.com>; Mon, 22 Apr 96 18:30:30 PDT Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 09:27:00 -0700 (PDT) From: John McManus Subject: reply : grand cayman's reef To: "'smtp:coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov'" Message-id: <317C32B6@msm.cgnet.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Regarding stresses affecting Grand Cayman, ReefBase has found only a report by Raymont et.al, 1976, summarized in "Coral Reefs of the World", involving sedimentation stress. The report is Part IV B of "Cayman Islands Natural Resources Study", published by the Ministry of Overseas Development, London. The report may be hard to find, but many libraries have "Coral Reefs of the World". Sincerely, John W. McManus ReefBase Project Leader Aquatic Environments Program International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) PO Box 2631 Makati City 0718 Philippines Tel.No. (63-2) 8180466 Fax No. (63-2) 8163183 EMail: J.McManus@cgnet.com From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Apr 23 03:47:12 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA23467; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 03:47:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id HAA07697; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 07:24:33 GMT Received: from lionfish.jcu.edu.au by reef via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id DAA07692; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 03:24:24 -0400 Received: by lionfish.jcu.edu.au id AA12175 (5.65v3.2/IDA-1.5); Tue, 23 Apr 1996 17:21:54 +1000 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 17:21:54 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Price To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Algal Book Notice Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: From: Assoc. Prof. Ian R. Price Department of Botany and Tropical Agriculture James Cook University Townsville, Qld 4811 AUSTRALIA Phone: National (077) 81 4133/4427 International 61 77 81 4133 Fax: (077) 25 1570 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOK NOTICE Ian R. Price and Fiona J. Scott, 1992, The Turf Algal Flora of the Great Barrier Reef, Part I, Rhodophyta, James Cook University, Townsville, xii + 266 pp. (incl. 81 figs). Softcover. This volume deals with the turf-forming species of red algae recorded from the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Detailed descriptions and illustrations of 75 species and subspecies are provided, with emphasis on vegetative characters. In addition, data on nomenclature, type material, voucher specimens, habitat, seasonality and geographical distribution are given. Genus descriptions, keys to genera and species, a glossary of terms and taxonomic index are also included. This is the first detailed taxonomic treatment of the turf algae which occur on coral reefs, where they are of major importance in trophodynamics. Although written for Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the work should prove useful throughout the tropical Indo-West Pacific region. Available from the Bookshop, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia [phone (077) 814 812, fax. (077) 251 209]. Price Aust$58.45 (incl. packaging and postage in Australia or overseas). Cheques should be made payable to "James Cook University Bookshop". For credit card payment please specify whether Bankcard, Visa or MasterCard, give card number, expiry date and name of card-holder, and include your signature. E-mail orders (addressed to Carina@bookshop.jcu.edu.au) will be accepted if full credit card details are provided. --------------------------------------------------------------------- From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Apr 23 17:13:46 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA06225; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 17:13:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA08311; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 20:44:18 GMT Received: from cantva.canterbury.ac.nz by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA08306; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 16:44:12 -0400 Received: from zool.canterbury.ac.nz ("port 2491"@zool2.canterbury.ac.nz) by csc.canterbury.ac.nz (PMDF V5.0-6 #7295) id <01I3WWJMQM2OSKVMCQ@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 08:40:53 +1200 Received: from DARWIN/MAILQUEUE by zool.canterbury.ac.nz (Mercury 1.13); Wed, 24 Apr 1996 08:39:13 +1200 Received: from MAILQUEUE by DARWIN (Mercury 1.13); Wed, 24 Apr 1996 08:39:05 +1200 Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 08:38:57 +1300 From: "Dr.C.L.McLay" Subject: Job To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Reply-to: c.mclay@zool.canterbury.ac.nz Message-id: <2B0B8310843@zool.canterbury.ac.nz> Organization: Zoology, University of Canterbury X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.1 (R1) Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: LECTURER IN ZOOLOGY (Aquatic Ecology) Applications are invited for the above position in the Department of Zoology. The minimum qualification on appointment is the Ph.D. degree or equivalent, and post-doctoral experience is preferable. The appointee can expect to contribute to the teaching of marine invertebrate zoology, aquatic ecology and general zoology at undergraduate level, and to teach a post-graduate course or courses in their area of specialisation. He or she will be required to develop an active programme of research and to supervise research students. Preference may be given to a candidate with strengths in biometrics and experimental ecology, and interests in the broader fields of environmental science or conservation biology. Academic enquires may be directed to the Head of Department, Professor M.J.Winterbourn, FAX 03-364 2024, or email: job@zool.canterbury.ac.nz The salary for Lectures is on a scale from $42000 - 52000 per annum. Applicants should quote Position No. ZO95 Applications close 30 June, 1996 Dr Colin McLay Zoology Department Canterbury University PB 4800, Christchurch New Zealand. Tel: +64 3 364 2887 FAX: +64 3 364 2024 email: c.mclay@zool.canterbury.ac.nz WWW Home Page: http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/zool/cm.htm From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Apr 23 21:25:30 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA08872; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 21:25:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA08822; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 01:03:14 GMT Received: from emout10.mail.aol.com by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA08817; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 21:03:11 -0400 From: Mangroveap@aol.com Received: by emout10.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA14870 for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 21:00:44 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 21:00:44 -0400 Message-ID: <960423210043_520509739@emout10.mail.aol.com> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov cc: Kacissna@aol.com Subject: The Mangrove Action Project Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Friends, I am taking this opportunity to send out a broadcast announcement about the Mangrove Action Project (MAP). This might be important for our coalition building efforts to alert those listed members to MAP's existence and purpose. If you are interested in receiving copies of our quarterly newsletter and other action alerts, then please respond by e-mail, so that we can transmit these your way. If you would like regular hard copy mailings by postal service, then please include your postal address for "snail mail!" If we do not hear back from you, we will assume that you are not interested in further information from MAP, and will remove your address from our e-mail file. So, please respond soon to this letter of enquiry. The following is a brief description of MAP for your review: A Global Voice For The Mangroves, To Counter The "Blue Revolution" The Mangrove Action Project is an international network addressing the serious problems of mangrove forest loss in tropical and sub-tropical nations. MAP also acts in support of the traditional coastal peoples who reside near the mangrove forests and depend upon these forests for their rich natural resources. MAP links NGOs working around the world with those NGOs working directly with coastal communities where mangroves are threatened. One of MAP's main objectives is to promote local community land-use rights, whereby local people are directly involved in, and responsible for, sustainable management of their own coastal resource base, including mangrove forest resources. Mangrove forests are vital coastal ecosystems which play a major role in world fisheries and coastal health and protection. These forests link sea and land, and provide complex habitats rich in biodiversity and natural resources. Mangroves act as buffers against storms, wind, and wave action, thus protecting both coast and coastal communities from severe damage and loss. Countless traditional coastal fishers and farmers depend on these forests for both their livelihoods and cultures. Also, the mangroves provide many necessary materials for construction, fuel wood for cooking and heat, and essential foods and medicines. Yet, today, these "rainforests of the sea" are highly threatened by modern developments and encroachments. The charcoal and timber industries are partly responsible for the problems of mangrove loss, and also developments for tourism and human settlement play a role in the demise of these important ecosystems. However, the greatest threat to our planet's remaining mangrove forests comes from the unregulated expansion of the shrimp aquaculture industry.. For the sake of a luxury export product, jumbo shrimp, which is sold in Japan, the US, Canada, Europe and other wealthy nations, tens of thousands of hectares of mangrove forests in Asia, Africa, and Latin America have been cleared. Today, less than half the world's mangrove forests remain. With the continued, largely unregulated expansion of shrimp aquaculture, the situation for coastal communities and the environment is critical. Yet, many governments in developing nations have taken the bait, and gotten caught on the hook of promised export earnings via shrimp aquaculture. Even the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has been promoting aquaculture as a means of supplementing a declining wild fishery, not taking into account that this same industry will further degrade the wild fisheries by destroying key coastal habitats and nursery grounds. Basically, the shrimp industry is still in its test phase, where all the "bugs" have not been worked out of the system. Yet, this same highly experimental, and still flawed, industry is being tested through wide-scale application, rather than small-scale research and development. A wise approach would be for the industry to first solve its major technical difficulties in a lab, or controlled test facility, not in a largely disjointed fashion, where there are no effective controls in place. (This disastrous, no-holds-barred production approach could be compared to opening up for public transport a newly designed and untested commercial airplane to unsuspecting passengers on its maiden flight!) The great earnings of shrimp culture are short-lived, while the real costs in terms of consequent environmental ruin and social disruption are astronomical! While the immediate profits may temporarily satisfy an elite few, vast numbers of coastal residents are in the long-term displaced and impoverished. And, now this despoiling industry is moving more determinedly onto the coasts of Africa, again threatening mangrove forests, sea grass beds and coral reefs, while usurping the agricultural lands and resource use rights of traditional farmers and fishers. Because both lands and labor in Africa are comparatively cheap, and governments are struggling to improve their export earnings, the industry which is desperate for new coastlines to re-establish itself will seize on the opportunities presented there. MAP's aim is to counter industry's next moves, by alerting African NGOs, coastal communities, academics and government officials of the risks involved in the impending invasion of the shrimp industry. If you would like to help, please write letters to the FAO, asking that they not promote shrimp aquaculture as a benevolent means of food production. Point out that shrimp farming will instead only further degrade our already over-stressed fisheries. Please write: Director of Fisheries, FAO of the UN, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100, Rome, Italy Our international network has grown to include nearly 300 NGOs and over 100 scientists and academics. We are currently expanding the effectiveness of our coalition work by solidifying our ties with other major environmental and activist groups in both the Southern and Northern Hemispheres. An important gathering of coalition representatives will occur in New York in late April, 1996 to discuss ways to strengthen our mutual efforts to protect the threatened mangrove forests from further destruction by launching a consumer awareness campaign against unsustainable shrimp mariculture. Please become a subscribing member of MAP, and receive our quarterly newsletter. Alfredo Quarto, Director Mangrove Action Project 4649 Sunnyside Ave N., Ste. 321 Seattle, WA 98103 USA phn./fax (206) 545-1137 And, please check out the Mangrove Action Project's webb site: http://www.earthisland.org/ei/. This site is an excellent opportunity for those who wish to broadcast information. Also, recently, MAP has opened a mangrove public conference on econet. The conference name is: map.mangroves@conf.igc.apc.org It's purpose is to stimulate dialogue on mangroves and shrimp issues, solicit research, and disseminate information. Questions or mail specifically for MAP staff can be sent to: mangroveap@aol.com. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Apr 24 21:12:02 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA26072; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 21:11:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id AAA10701; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 00:41:21 GMT Received: from calafia.uabcs.mx by reef via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA10696; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 20:41:14 -0400 Received: by calafia.uabcs.mx (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA12675; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 18:43:47 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 18:43:46 -0500 (CDT) From: "Ayax R. Diaz R." To: Coral-list mailing list Subject: Coral's mucus productivity Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear all Could anybody help me? I'm trying to find some papers about coral's mucus productivity; I heard that Stimpson had published one but I don't have the reference. I'm looking for something related with the energetic value of coral's mucus. I really thank your attention. Ayax R. Diaz R. Reef Fauna Proyect. Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Sur Km 5.5 Carretera al Sur. Apto. Postal 19-B, C.P. 23080 La Paz, B.C.S. Mexico adiaz@calafia.uabcs.mx From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Apr 26 17:50:29 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA26040; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 17:50:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA13224; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 21:31:40 GMT Received: from umigw.miami.edu by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA13219; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 17:31:38 -0400 Received: from aszmant.rsmas.miami.edu (aszmant.rsmas.miami.edu [129.171.104.19]) by umigw.miami.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA12287 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 17:29:23 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 17:29:23 -0400 Message-Id: <199604262129.RAA12287@umigw.miami.edu> X-Sender: szmant@oj.rsmas.miami.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Alina Szmant Subject: 8ICRS Meeting Schedule Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hi All: I thought others of you intending to attend the panama meeting might also like to have this information in order to finalize travel plans. See you there, >Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:29:50 -0400 >From: Mar=A1a Majela Brenes >To: aszmant@rsmas.miami.edu >Subject: 8ICRS Meeting Schedule > >The schedule throughout the Symposium is the following: > > >Sunday, June 23 -(In the evening) The Opening of the Public =20 > Program and Exhibit > >Monday, June 24- Official Opening of 8ICRS > Opening of the Scientific Program > Technical Sessions > >Tuesday, June 25- Technical Sessions > >Wednesday, June 26- Technical Sessions > >Thrusday, June 27- One day field trips > Workshops > Traditional party > >Friday, June 28- Talks > >Saturday, June 29- Talks > Final Banquet > >The Registration desk at Atlapa will open from Sunday June 23 at >10:00 am for early arrivals, up to 10:00 pm.=20 > >We would appreciate if you could inform this to anyone that might be >interested in knowing. > >Thanks for your interest. > >Sincerely, >8th ICRS Office =20 > > > > > ********************************************** Dr. Alina M. Szmant Coral Reef Research Group RSMAS-MBF University of Miami 4600 Rickenbacker Cswy. Miami FL 33149 TEL: (305)361-4609 FAX: (305)361-4600 or 361-4005 E-mail: ASZMANT@RSMAS.MIAMI.EDU ********************************************** From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Wed May 5 21:11:46 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA07053; Sun, 5 May 1996 21:11:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id AAA23703; Mon, 6 May 1996 00:48:01 GMT Received: from axis.scu.edu.au by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA23698; Sun, 5 May 1996 20:47:48 -0400 Received: from alsvid.scu.edu.au (root@alsvid.scu.edu.au [203.2.33.1]) by axis.scu.edu.au (8.7.1/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA07170 for ; Mon, 6 May 1996 10:44:01 +1000 (EST) Received: from [203.2.41.20] (S-L2-Staff-20.scu.edu.au [203.2.41.20]) by alsvid.scu.edu.au (8.7.3/8.7.2) with SMTP id KAA05609 for ; Mon, 6 May 1996 10:43:34 +1000 X-Sender: dbucher@pophost.scu.edu.au Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 10:44:25 +1000 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: dbucher@scu.edu.au (Daniel Bucher) Subject: Open Reply to P Collinson (nubbin growth) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Peter, A friend forwarded your request for information on coral nubbin growth studies to me. You may remember me from the ISRS conference in Townsville. I was just starting up my experiments then as part of the ENCORE program. I now have some results of growth (by weight, linear extension and volume) of Acropora longicyathus and A. aspera nubbins exposed to two levels of N, P and NP pollution over two years at One Tree Island. I have also attempted some measurements of Porites porites whilst on Barbados last year (damned parrot fish thwarted much of that!!). Ove Hoegh-Guldberg at Sydney Uni. has been following growth of Pocillopora damicornis and Andy Steven at the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has data for Acropora palifera from the same experimental design. Contact me if you would like to discuss my results. I have not published yet as the experiment is only just concluding. So far my results support recently-published work from Hawaii that nutrients ALONE may not depress coral growth (indeed they may even enhance it in some circumstances). However, far from being benign (or even beneficial) nutrients do have deleterious effects on other processes important to reef survival and recovery. Selina Ward's work on the same colonies as mine has demonstrated effects on most stages of the sexual reproductive cycle. My own work has hinted at some other processes that might be affected (but it needs a lot more work to confirm it). Danny P.S. can someone tell me how to subscribe to this list? It sounds like there's some useful discussion going on there. ---------------------------------------------------------------- * * * + DANIEL BUCHER * Associate Lecturer in Biology/Ecology Centre for Coastal Management SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY P.O. Box 157, Lismore, N.S.W. Australia, 2480 Phone: +61+66 203665 Fax: +61+66 212669 E-mail: dbucher@scu.edu.au ----------------------------------------------------------------- From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu May 6 08:29:45 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA09034; Mon, 6 May 1996 08:29:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA24182; Mon, 6 May 1996 12:10:14 GMT Received: from coral by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA24177; Mon, 6 May 1996 08:10:13 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA00718; Mon, 6 May 1996 08:10:12 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 08:10:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral Reply-To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Indonesia marine survey Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: This message forwarded from the marine biology list-server: Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 16:30:45 GMT From: Mike Bunyan Subject: Indonesia marine survey Coral Cay Conservation are sending the research team to the Banngai Island (C. Sulawesi) at the end of September. Volunteers can sign on from minimum 4 weeks up to 12 weeks. The work will be marine and terestial ecology surveys. This is going to be a tough expedition so only the brave need apply. Peter Raines will be giving a pre-expedition presentation at CCC London on Saturday 15 June at 2.00pm. If people are interested in joining this expedition, they had better attend - first come, first serve principle rules! or get in touch quick through Pete Raines at ccc@coralcay.demon.co.uk for more info. phone +44 (0) 171 498 6248 fax +44 (0) 171 498 8447 write 154, Clapham Park Road, London, SW4 7DE www.demon.co.uk/coralcay/home.html From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu May 6 08:34:21 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA09107; Mon, 6 May 1996 08:34:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA24175; Mon, 6 May 1996 12:09:51 GMT Received: from coral by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA24170; Mon, 6 May 1996 08:09:49 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA00711; Mon, 6 May 1996 08:09:48 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 08:09:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Maui algae bloom and effects online (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Forwarded message: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 16:49:22 -0400 From: Ursula Keuper-Bennett To: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Maui algae bloom and effects online My husband and I have been diving the same site off Honokowai, West Maui for many years. It was an excellent snorkelling/dive spot until a Cladophora algae bloom smothered many of the area's corals in 1989. Since then the area has been plagued with either more Cladophora or Hypnea musciformis or a combination of both. We have attempted to document the degradation of this ocean environment with particular attention to a bloom's effects on corals. We are both laypeople whose primary interest is turtles. 75% of the animals we see regularly have a disease called fibropapillomas. However, for coral types, the essay also records the fate of a large stand of P. eydouxi from 1988 to its ultimate crumbling in 1994. Algae-essay is 373K and has many online graphics of the bloom and other environmental insults. May your reefs never get like THIS! Address is: http://www.io.org/~bunrab/honohist.htm Best and take care ^ Ursula Keuper-Bennett 0 0 Mississauga, Ontario /V^\ | | /^V\ Email: howzit@io.org /V Turtle Trax V\ /V soon 1 yr old V\ http://www.io.org/~bunrab From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri May 7 18:17:24 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA04751; Tue, 7 May 1996 18:17:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA26801; Tue, 7 May 1996 22:06:19 GMT Received: from bishop.bishop.Hawaii.Org by reef via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id SAA26796; Tue, 7 May 1996 18:06:11 -0400 Received: by bishop.bishop.Hawaii.Org (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA44175; Tue, 7 May 1996 12:05:22 -1000 Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 12:05:21 -1000 (HST) From: Steve Coles To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Oman Coral Book Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I have recently published a field guide to the corals of Oman, which also contains information on the marine environment and sources of stress to corals in this relatively little known region. For those interested, information on the book, a few of its color plates and how to obtain the book can be found at http://www.wco.com/~aecos/coles.html. Steve Coles Bishop Museum From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon May 10 15:35:24 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA23883; Fri, 10 May 1996 15:35:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA00686; Fri, 10 May 1996 19:11:55 GMT Received: from coral by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA00681; Fri, 10 May 1996 15:11:53 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA04605; Fri, 10 May 1996 15:11:52 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 15:11:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Proposed NOAA effort Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The following document, which will show up better at URL =09http://www.noaa.gov/public-affairs/florida.html later today, represents the most recent proposed NOAA effort to sustain, monitor and enhance valuable ecosystems, including coral reef assemblages, in the Florida Bay/Florida Straits area in South Florida. Your opinions on this effort would probably be of great benefit to policy makers who are charged with reviewing this plan. =09Sincerely yours, =09Jim Hendee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | Coral Health and Monitoring Program | | Ocean Chemistry Division | | Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorlogical Laboratory | | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | | Miami, Florida | | USA | | | | Email: coral@coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | World-Wide Web: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D NOAA ESSENTIAL TO RESTORING SOUTH FLORIDA'S ECOSYSTEM FY 1997 ($ 6 M) THE HEALTH OF FLORIDA BAY AND THE FLORIDA KEYS IS DIRECTLY LINKED TO THE HEALTH OF THE EVERGLADES. Before 1900, freshwater flowed from the Kissimmee Lakes through the Everglades and into Florida Bay and coastal waters, where it mixed with seawater and moved onto the Florida Keys coral reefs. This created some of the world's most productive and diverse coastal habitats. From the Everglades grasslands to Florida Bay seagrass beds and Florida Keys coral reefs, the areas are an ecosystem linked together by the flow of freshwater. WATER FLOW IN SOUTH FLORIDA HAS BEEN DRAMATICALLY CHANGED AND THE ECOSYSTEM IS DETERIORATING. Over the past 50 years, canals, dikes and development for agriculture and a growing population changed the direction, quantity and quality of freshwater flow. These changes threaten South Florida's productive inland and coastal habitats, and the economies and people who depend on them. Like the Everglades grasslands, South Florida's coastal habitats are in jeopardy. Coastal waters have changed: increased salinity, increased nutrient concentrations, increased pesticide concentrations, decreased clarity, and changes in water flow. These changes are contributing to ecological deterioration including: =95=09Dieoffs of seagrasses, =95=09Declining fish and shrimp populations, =95=09Increasing blooms of atypical phytoplankton and algae, =95=09Dieoffs of sponges, critical habitat for spiny lobsters (most valuabl= e fishery in Florida), =95=09Dieoffs of mangroves, and =95=09Deterioration of Florida Keys coral reefs, the third largest barrier reef in the world. Large areas of seagrasses in Florida Bay have been dying since the summer of 1987. Seagrass habitats are essential nursery areas for many commercial and recreational fisheries species. The loss of seagrasses has contributed to declines in seagrass-dependent species such as pink shrimp, with significant economic impacts on South Florida's commercial and recreational fisheries. NOAA IS ESSENTIAL TO THE RESTORATION EFFORT IN FY 1997. The South Florida Ecosystem Restoration is an integrated effort among federal, tribal, state and non-governmental partners to halt continued degradation of the South Florida's ecosystem and restore the ecosystem's valuable functions and services from the Kissimmee Lakes through the Everglades, into Florida Bay and the Florida Keys. The restoration effort is depending on NOAA in FY 1997 for research, monitoring, assessments and coastal management. NOAA's effort is (1) the only portion entirely devoted to restoring coastal components of the South Florida ecosystem, and (2) designed to evaluate the effects of "upstream" restoration actions on coastal resources. NOAA requires $ 6 million new funds in FY 1997 to fulfill these commitments necessary for successful restoration of land and coastal parts of the ecosystem. This is a practical, relatively small investment in comparison to the large amount of federal, state and local dollars that will be spent to restore "upstream" portions of South Florida's ecosystem. NOAA HAS IMPORTANT RESPONSIBILITIES IN SOUTH FLORIDA. NOAA is responsible for management of coastal resources in South Florida including fisheries, protected species and the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. NOAA's unique science, management, remote-sensing and on-site capabilities provide information on coastal, ocean and atmospheric conditions critical to the entire restoration effort. NOAA will contribute the information and tools essential to successful restoration of inland and coastal areas by focusing on four areas of critical need: 1.=09ESTABLISH INTEGRATED COASTAL MONITORING IN FLORIDA BAY AND THE FLORIDA KEYS NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY (National Ocean Service $ 1.7 M) Goal: Establish a long-term integrated ecosystem monitoring program and information base on Florida Bay and Florida Keys to enable managers and scientists to assess ecosystem conditions and the effectiveness of management actions. Description: This initiative will develop and implement the first integrated ecosystem monitoring program for South Florida's coastal and marine areas. The project is designed to inventory, integrate and build on the existing, uncoordinated coastal monitoring efforts. Initial efforts with the State of Florida have already inventoried, placed in a geographically-referenced computer information system and made Internet accessible more than 250 existing coastal monitoring programs. 2. RESTORE SOUTH FLORIDA'S LIVING MARINE RESOURCES (National Marine Fisheries Service $ 1.7 M) Goal: Restore and sustainably manage South Florida's fisheries, sea turtles, marine mammals and their habitats and other coastal resources utilizing the best possible research, monitoring and management tools. Description: Florida Bay seagrasses, delta, mangroves, keys and the coral reef communities are critical habitats for commercial and recreational fisheries, sea turtles, marine mammals, and other living marine resources. All of these habitats are showing signs of stress and experiencing dieoffs. While some of the stresses affecting these critical habitats are known (e.g., fishing, nutrient increases), others are not well understood. The ability to recover from these stresses, and the effects of current restoration efforts directed at the Everglades need to be determined. This initiative will provide research, management and education urgently needed to halt the loss and restore these habitats. It will provide information to evaluate the effects of current restoration efforts, and provide sustainable solutions for the species that depend on coastal habitats. Activities include: =95=09Collect information on the effects of changes in South Florida on s= ea turtles and marine mammals to develop adequate multi-species management plans. =95=09Use information from monitoring programs to assess the status, tren= ds and management needs of fisheries and other living resources of the Florida Key's coral reef system. =95=09Use information on resource status and trends in models to predict outcomes and implement restoration and management of critical fisheries habitats (e.g., reef areas and Florida Bay seagrasses). 3.=09DETERMINE CAUSES OF DECLINES AND EFFECTS OF RESTORATION ON COASTAL RESOURCES (Coastal Ocean Program $ 1.7 M) Goal: Provide information and models to predict possible outcomes and best solutions for restoration efforts in South Florida. The goal is to better predict how restoration will proceed and what actions will reverse the decline in coastal resources and allow sustainable use in the future. Description: The initiative will support research and modeling by NOAA and its academic partners on the natural and human components of South Florida's ecosystem. Much of this information and predictive capability is currently not available. The information and predictions will be used to evaluate the effects of the restoration and human demands on the coastal communities, resources and economies that depend on them. Using social, economic and ecological information, models will be developed to predict ecosystem (including human) responses to various human impacts and natural changes including: =95=09Characterize human and natural stresses and responses in Florida Ba= y and the Florida Keys. =95=09Develop an ecosystem model to predict impacts and guide management = of coastal resources and the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. 4.=09RESTORING SOUTH FLORIDA'S CORAL REEFS (NOS, NMFS, COP $ 1.0 M) Goal: Portions of the Florida Key's coral reef system are deteriorating. Fishing, pollution and other human impacts have impacted portions of the reef, but many of the causes of reef degradation are unknown and there is little capacity to monitor reef status. This initiative will focus on restoring and sustainably using South Florida=92s fragile coral reefs. Description: To adequately fulfill its restoration and management responsibilities for this special reef tract, NOAA must increase its efforts to monitor coral resources, manage human uses and determine the effectiveness of these efforts. Using remote-sensing technology and volunteer assistants for on- site monitoring, this initiative will: =95=09Build on existing, but limited coral reef monitoring efforts to complete the system required to provide long-term information on the health of the reef system. =95=09Translate and provide this information to coastal managers. =95=09Build public understanding, participation and local support for sustainable use of the coral reef tract. =95=09Establish a cooperative training and research program to exchange information and build capacity for effective coral reef management at local levels. SOUTH FLORIDA'S ECONOMY DEPENDS ON HEALTHY COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS: Large portions of South Florida's economy are dependent on healthy coastal habitats like Florida Bay and the Florida Keys. Deterioration of South Florida's coastal resources will significantly impact these industries, the people that depend on them, and the people who come to use them from all over the United States. Healthy coral reefs, a healthy Florida Bay and clean coastal waters are the foundation of a healthy economy. More than 3 million tourists/year from all over the U.S. spent an estimated $1.3 billion in 1991. Florida's coral reefs are the #1 diving destination in the world, attracting more than 1.2 million divers per year. Divers bring over $ 220 millon/year into the economy. The asset value of water related recreation in the Keys is estimated at $ 22 billion. Commercial fishing is an important part of South Florida's economy. In good seasons, for example, pink shrimp catches produced over $ 120 million/year. Spiny lobster catches produced $ 24 million/year. Recreational fishing produces more than 23,500 jobs. The economic value of Florida Bay fishing trips exceeds $ 9.0 million per year. BENEFITS OF INVESTING IN NOAA'S STRENGTHS: NOAA brings a unique suite of science and management capabilities to the South Florida ecosystem restoration effort through its expertise in coastal and atmospheric research, predictive modeling and resource management. Successful restoration and sustainable stewardship of South Florida's valuable coastal resources will not be possible without application of NOAA's full capabilities. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Jansen, Office of Legislative Affairs=09=09(202-482-4981) Matthew Stout, Office of Public and Constituent Affairs=09(202-482-6090) From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat May 15 17:35:12 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA17150; Wed, 15 May 1996 17:35:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA00585; Wed, 15 May 1996 20:34:22 GMT Received: from usgcrp.gov by reef via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA00580; Wed, 15 May 1996 16:34:18 -0400 Received: from [131.182.242.88] by usgcrp.gov (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12340; Wed, 15 May 96 16:09:41 EDT X-Sender: tsocci@earth.usgcrp.gov Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 16:17:11 -0400 To: BIOREGIONAL@csf.colorado.edu, CARRIERPIGEON-L@cornell.edu, ecol-econ@csf.colorado.edu (Clim-Econ List), coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, ecolog-l@umdd.umd.edu (ESA List) From: tsocci@usgcrp.gov (Tony Socci) Subject: US Global Change Seminar on the Earth's Temperature Records and Trends May 20th and 21st Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: U.S. Global Change Research Program Second Monday Seminar Series A Close Look at Global Satellite and Surface Temperature Records and Tre= nds (Parts I and II) How is the Earth's temperature measured? What are the historical trends in the Earth's temperature as observed from surface measurements and from satellites? Are these records different? What are the reasons for the differences? Can satellite and surface temperature records be reconciled? Where do the uncertainties lie and how can they be addressed? To what extent do the records indicate that climate is changing due to human influences? What is the evidence that humans are having a discernible influence on the global climate? Public Invi= ted Special Two-Part Seminar: Monday and Tuesday, May 20 and 21, 1996, 3:15-4:45= PM Rayburn House Office Bldg., Room B369, Washington, D= C Reception Following INTRODUCTION Dr. Michael C. MacCracken, Director, Office of the US Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC SPEAKERS Monday, May 20: The Satellite Temperature Record Dr. John R. Christy, Earth System Science Lab, University of Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama, on "The Tropospheric Temperature Record from the Microwave Sounding Units" Dr. Kevin E. Trenberth, Climate Analysis Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, on "Relating the Satellite and Surface Temperature Records" Tuesday, May 21: The Surface Temperature Record Dr. Tom M. L. Wigley, Senior Climate Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, on "Interpreting the Global Warming Record" Dr. Benjamin D. Santer, Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, on "The Search for a "Fingerprint" of Human Activities in Observed Climate Records" OVERVIEW Temperature is perhaps the most common measure of the climate of a region, whether it is the cold temperatures of winter in Minnesota or the hot temperatures of summer in Arizona. Temperature, along with precipitation, also controls many aspects of ecosystems, helping determine spring blooming and the extent of mosquitoes and other vectors for diseases. For these reasons and more, the longest records of climate in many areas are of temperature. Similarly for the globe, records of temperature are the most abundant, provide the longest quantitative record, and can be most readily compiled and compared. Analysis of the temperature record, on scales from regional to global, has thus been a critical part of studies of the patterns and extent of climatic change. While temperature is the most complete record, the measurements and available data sets, nonetheless, have many shortcomings. For surface measurements, these include changes in measurement techniques, limits to the coverage of measurements, changes in the surroundings around a stations, and many more. Efforts are therefore being made to measure the Earth's temperature from space, but again there are many limitations, including, among others, the inability to measure surface temperature, the changing sequence of instruments, and the limited length of the record. This seminar will provide the opportunity to look closely at the records of both satellites and surface stations, to consider their relative strengths and weaknesses, and to consider what these records show and do not show. The Satellite Temperature Record Since 1979, Microwave Sounding Units (MSUs) on NOAA polar orbiting satellites have measured the intensity of upwelling microwave radiation from atmospheric oxygen. The intensity is shown to be proportional to the temperature of broad vertical layers of the atmosphere, as demonstrated by theory and direct comparisons with atmospheric temperatures from radiosonde (balloon) profiles. A record that is now more than 17 years long has been created by merging data from nine different MSUs, each with peculiarities (e.g., time drift of the spacecraft relative to the local solar time) that must be calculated and removed because they can have substantial impacts on the resulting trend. A natural step with such a record is to look for trends over this period, even though it is quite short compared to the surface temperature record. Between 20=9AN-20=9AS, independent view-angle trends in channel 2 and 4 show= a warming trend in the upper troposphere with cooling in the lower troposphere, implying a non-linear vertical temperature adjustment. The greatest differences between the satellite and surface records occur between 30=9AS-30=9AN and 52=9AN-82=9AN. An important aspect of deriving= trends and looking for any human influence, especially over short periods, is accounting for what might be irregular and extraneous natural events. For the MSU record, these include the century's largest El Nino warming in the early 1980s and the century's largest volcanically induced cooling in the early 1990s. The tilt in the trend caused by these two events suggests a cooling trend over the period of record. When the MSU records are adjusted for El Nino events and volcanoes so that the greenhouse/aerosol effect will likely be the dominant influence, the resulting temperature trend is positive, rising at a rate of +0.055 to 0.0110 =9AC per decade. Because the MSU observations are measuring the temperature of the atmosphere and not of the surface, an important question is how the two are related. While the traditional notion has been that they are closely coupled at all times and throughout the world, this has turned out not to be the case. Recent research is starting to provide explanations for the apparent differences and to explain when and where decoupling of the two temperatures occurs, and how this is likely to affect comparison of the two records. At the May 20 seminar, Dr. Christy will describe the MSU record and point out the different indications that it provides of climate change. Dr. Trenberth will describe how the satellite record compares to the surface temperature record and what this means with respect to conclusions that can be drawn. The Surface Temperature Record According to a recently released report from the World Meteorological Organization, the estimated global mean surface air temperature for 1995 was the highest since reliable temperature records began in 1861. The previous warmest year was 1990, which was just before the Mt. Pinatubo volcanic eruption that has suppressed temperatures for the past several years. The warmth in 1995, unlike that for 1990, could not be attributed to an El Nino because the average Equatorial Pacific Ocean temperature anomalies were near the 1961-90 average for 1995. Instead, the warmth was evident over other regions, including the North Atlantic Ocean, where sea surface temperatures were more than 1=9A C warmer in an area centered around the Azores. In addition, parts of Siberia were more that 3=9A C warmer than the 1961-1990 period. However, as would be expected because of year-to-year variations, the warmth was not uniform; Greenland, the northwest Atlantic Ocean, and the mid-latitudes of the North Pacific Ocean were actually cooler than average in 1995. Temperature records for a representative fraction of the Earth go back to 1861. The temperature record since that time suggests an overall warming of 0.3 to 0.6 =9AC from the 1860s to the 1990s, with the early decades of this century being slightly cooler temperatures than in the mid-19th century and with a secondary maximum of temperatures (compared to the 1990s) in the decades around 1940. Proxy records derived from tree rings, ice cores, boreholes, and other indirect measures, combined with the thermometer record, suggest that the most recent decades are the warmest period since at least 1400 AD, and perhaps as far back as the last interglacial (period of warmth) about 80,000 years ago. The IPCC concluded that this combination of factors suggested that climate change is occurring. The fact that there have been natural fluctuations of the climate over the past millennium of about 0.5 =9AC (about a cooler mean temperature) introduces the possibility that the recent warming might be due to natural processes rather than to human activities. To try to distinguish the human influence, model simulations have been used to generate the patterns of climate change to be expected from changes in a range of different factors, both natural and human-induced. Analyses of these characteristic patterns (or "fingerprints") indicate that the patterns of climate change are much more likely to be due to human activities than to natural factors, leading the IPCC to conclude that "the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate." At the May 21 seminar, Dr. Wigley will describe the records of surface temperatures and the climate trends that emerge, and compare these to the model projections of climate change since the 1861s. Dr. Santer will then describe the recent studies to attribute the observed changes to specific causes of change, especially to human activities. BIOGRAPHIES Dr. John R. Christy is Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and has studied global climate issues since 1987. In 1989 Dr. Roy W. Spencer, a NASA/Marshall scientist, and Dr. Christy developed a global temperature data set from microwave data that had been recorded by the MSU instrument on NOAA satellites, beginning in 1979. For this achievement, the Spencer-Christy team was awarded NASA's Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement in 1991. In 1995 Dr. Christy and Dr. Spencer received a Special Award from the American Meteorological Society "for developing a global, precise record of Earth's temperature from operational polar-orbiting satellites, fundamentally advancing our ability to monitor climate." Dr. Christy obtained his B. A. degree from the CA State Univ., =46resno (Mathematics) in 1973, and later taught science as a missionary teacher in Nyeri, Kenya. After earning a seminary degree in 1978, he served four years as a bivocational mission-pastor in South Dakota where he also taught college math. He subsequently received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Illinois (1984, 1987) under Dr. Kevin Trenberth. Dr. Christy has served as a contributing lead author on climate assessment reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (1992, 1994 and 1995), and has also published numerous scientific articles including studies appearing in Science, Nature, the Journal of Climate and the Journal of Geophysical Research. Dr. Kevin Trenberth was born in New Zealand, where he remains a citizen. He is Head of the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO. After completing a first class honors degree in mathematics at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, he obtained his Sc. D. in meteorology in 1972 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following several years in the New Zealand Meteorological Service, he joined the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois as an Associate Professor and became a full Professor in 1984, before moving to NCAR in 1984. He continued as an Adjunct Professor until 1989. From 1991 to 1995 he served as Deputy Division Director of the Climate and Global Dynamics Division at NCAR. Dr. Trenberth has served as Editor of the Monthly Weather Review, Associate Editor for the Journal of Climate, and presently serves as editor of the new electronic scientific journal Earth Interactions. and is the author of many research papers. He serves on the executive committee of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Advisory Panel on Climate and Global Change, the National Academy of Sciences Global Ocean Atmosphere Land System (GOALS) panel, the Atmospheric Observation Panel for Climate of the Global Climate Observing System, and the International Scientific Steering Group for the CLIVAR (Climate Variability and Predictability) Program. Dr. Trenberth has been a prominent author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Scientific Assessment activities and is a lead author for Chapter 1 of the 1995 Scientific Assessment. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society, and was made an Honorary Fellow of the New Zealand Royal Society in 1995. Dr. Tom Wigley was born and educated in Australia. After his undergraduate degree he trained as a meteorologist and worked for a year as a research meteorologist before returning to university to complete a Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics. He then joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. In 1975, he moved to the United Kingdom to the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, becoming Director in 1978. In 1993, he left the Unit to join the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) in Boulder, CO. In 1994, he received a Senior Scientist appointment with the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Dr. Wigley has published widely on diverse aspects of the broad field of climatology; from data analysis, to climate impacts on agriculture and water resources, to climate, sea level and carbon cycle modeling, to paleoclimatology. Dr. Wigley has concentrated recently on facets of the greenhouse problem, and has contributed as a lead author to all of the IPCC assessments of the climate change issue. Dr. Wigley had a major role in the preparation of the 1995 IPCC Working Group I Second Assessment Report, and contributed important information to the reports of the other Working Groups. He was responsible for producing the future concentration profiles for achieving stabilization of CO-2 concentrations used in Working Groups I and III; he produced the global-mean projections for temperature and sea level change given in Working Group I; and he was a lead author for the Working Group I detection chapter. Dr. Benjamin D. Santer is a senior member of the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA. His research interests include detection of anthropogenic climate change and climate model validation. He received his B.Sc. in environmental sciences in 1977, graduating with first class honors, and his Ph.D. in climatology in 1987. Both were obtained at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K. Dr. Santer's doctoral work focused on the use of Monte Carlo methods (randomization) in the regional validation of climate General Circulation Models. Dr. Santer then served as a postdoctoral research scientist (for two years), and later as a research scientist (for three years) at the Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI) in Hamburg, Germany, where he worked closely with Dr. Klaus Hasselmann on climate-change detection. He is the Convening Lead Author for Chapter 8 ("Detection of Climate Change, and Attribution of Causes") of the 1995 Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Dr. Santer is also currently a member of the Science Advisory Group of NOAA's Climate Change, Data and Detection Program, and of the International CLIVAR (Climate Variability and Predictability) Numerical Experimentation Group on anthropogenic climate change. NEXT SEMINAR: Monday, June 10, 1996 Forest Responses to the Changing Composition of the Atmosphere =46or more information please contact: Dr. Anthony D. Socci, U.S. Global Change Research Program Office 300 D St., SW, Suite 840, Washington, DC 20024 Telephone: (202) 651-8244; Fax: (202) 554-6715 E-Mail: TSOCCI@USGCRP.GOV. Additional information on the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and this Seminar Series is available on the USGCRP Home Page at: http://www.usgcrp.gov. Normally these seminars are held on the second Monday of each month. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun May 16 11:07:43 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA25866; Thu, 16 May 1996 11:07:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA01541; Thu, 16 May 1996 14:55:57 GMT Received: from coral by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA01536; Thu, 16 May 1996 10:55:54 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA12072; Thu, 16 May 1996 10:55:53 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 10:55:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Revised NOAA FY97 South Florida Initiative Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Attached is a slight revision of NOAA's FY97 South Florida Initiative. The biggest changes are to Section 4., Restoring South Florida's Coral Reefs. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D NOAA ESSENTIAL TO RESTORING SOUTH FLORIDA'S ECOSYSTEM FY 1997 ($ 6 M) THE HEALTH OF FLORIDA BAY AND THE FLORIDA KEYS IS DIRECTLY LINKED TO THE HEALTH OF THE EVERGLADES. Before 1900, freshwater flowed from the Kissimmee Lakes through the Everglades and into Florida Bay and coastal waters, where it mixed with seawater and moved onto the Florida Keys coral reefs. This created some of the world's most productive and diverse coastal habitats. From the Everglades grasslands to Florida Bay seagrass beds and Florida Keys coral reefs, the areas are an ecosystem linked together by the flow of freshwater. WATER FLOW IN SOUTH FLORIDA HAS BEEN DRAMATICALLY CHANGED AND THE ECOSYSTEM IS DETERIORATING. Over the past 50 years, canals, dikes and development for agriculture and a growing population changed the direction, quantity and quality of freshwater flow. These changes threaten South Florida's productive inland and coastal habitats, and the economies and people who depend on them. Like the Everglades grasslands, South Florida's coastal habitats are in jeopardy. Coastal waters have changed: increased salinity, increased nutrient concentrations, increased pesticide concentrations, decreased clarity, and changes in water flow. These changes are contributing to ecological deterioration including: =09Dieoffs of seagrasses, =09Declining fish and shrimp populations, =09Increasing blooms of atypical phytoplankton and algae, =09Dieoffs of sponges, critical habitat for spiny lobsters (most =09=09valuable fishery in Florida), =09Dieoffs of mangroves, and =09Deterioration of Florida Keys coral reefs, the third =09=09largest barrier reef in the world. Large areas of seagrasses in Florida Bay have been dying since the summer of 1987. Seagrass habitats are essential nursery areas for many commercial and recreational fisheries species. The loss of seagrasses has contributed to declines in seagrass-dependent species such as pink shrimp, with significant economic impacts on South Florida's commercial and recreational fisheries. NOAA IS ESSENTIAL TO THE RESTORATION EFFORT IN FY 1997. The South Florida Ecosystem Restoration is an integrated effort among federal, tribal, state and non-governmental partners to halt continued degradation of the South Florida's ecosystem and restore the ecosystem's valuable functions and services from the Kissimmee Lakes through the Everglades, into Florida Bay and the Florida Keys. The restoration effort is depending on NOAA in FY 1997 for research, monitoring, assessments and coastal management. NOAA's effort is (1) the only portion entirely devoted to restoring coastal components of the South Florida ecosystem, and (2) designed to evaluate the effects of "upstream" restoration actions on coastal resources. NOAA requires $ 6 million new funds in FY 1997 to fulfill these commitments necessary for successful restoration of land and coastal parts of the ecosystem. This is a practical, relatively small investment in comparison to the large amount of federal, state and local dollars that will be spent to restore "upstream" portions of South Florida's ecosystem. NOAA HAS IMPORTANT RESPONSIBILITIES IN SOUTH FLORIDA. NOAA is responsible for management of coastal resources in South Florida including fisheries, protected species and the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. NOAA's unique science, management, remote-sensing and on-site capabilities provide information on coastal, ocean and atmospheric conditions critical to the entire restoration effort. NOAA will contribute the information and tools essential to successful restoration of inland and coastal areas by focusing on four areas of critical need: 1.ESTABLISH INTEGRATED COASTAL MONITORING IN FLORIDA BAY AND THE FLORIDA KEYS NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY =09(National Ocean Service $ 1.7 M) Goal:Establish a long-term integrated ecosystem monitoring program and information base on Florida Bay and Florida Keys to enable managers and scientists to assess ecosystem conditions and the effectiveness of management actions. Description: This initiative will develop and implement the first integrated ecosystem monitoring program for South Florida's coastal and marine areas. The project is designed to inventory, integrate and build on the existing, uncoordinated coastal monitoring efforts. Initial efforts with the State of Florida have already inventoried, placed in a geographically-referenced computer information system and made Internet accessible more than 250 existing coastal monitoring programs. 2.RESTORE SOUTH FLORIDA'S LIVING MARINE RESOURCES =09(National Marine Fisheries Service $ 1.7 M) Goal:Restore and sustainably manage South Florida's fisheries, sea turtles, marine mammals and their habitats and other coastal resources utilizing the best possible research, monitoring and management tools. Description: Florida Bay seagrasses, delta, mangroves, keys and the coral reef communities are critical habitats for commercial and recreational fisheries, sea turtles, marine mammals, and other living marine resources. All of these habitats are showing signs of stress and experiencing dieoffs. While some of the stresses affecting these critical habitats are known (e.g., fishing, nutrient increases), others are not well understood. The ability to recover from these stresses, and the effects of current restoration efforts directed at the Everglades need to be determined. This initiative will provide research, management and education urgently needed to halt the loss and restore these habitats. It will provide information to evaluate the effects of current restoration efforts, and provide sustainable solutions for the species that depend on coastal habitats. Activities include: Collect information on the effects of changes in South Florida on sea turtles and marine mammals to develop adequate multi-species management plans. Use information from monitoring programs to assess the status, trends and management needs of fisheries and other living resources of the Florida Key's coral reef system. Use information on resource status and trends in models to predict outcomes and implement restoration and management of critical fisheries habitats (e.g., reef areas and Florida Bay seagrasses). 3.DETERMINE CAUSES OF DECLINES AND EFFECTS OF RESTORATION ON COASTAL RESOURCES =09(Coastal Ocean Program $ 1.7 M) Goal:Provide information and models to predict possible outcomes and best solutions for restoration efforts in South Florida. The goal is to better predict how restoration will proceed and what actions will reverse the decline in coastal resources and allow sustainable use in the future. Description: The initiative will support research and modeling by NOAA and its academic partners on the natural and human components of South Florida's ecosystem. Much of this information and predictive capability is currently not available. The information and predictions will be used to evaluate the effects of the restoration and human demands on the coastal communities, resources and economies that depend on them. Using social, economic and ecological information, models will be developed to predict ecosystem (including human) responses to various human impacts and natural changes including: Characterize human and natural stresses and responses in Florida Bay and the Florida Keys. Develop an ecosystem model to predict impacts and guide management of coastal resources and the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. 4.RESTORING SOUTH FLORIDA'S CORAL REEFS =09(NOS, NMFS, COP $ 1.0 M) Goal:Portions of the Florida Key's coral reef system are deteriorating. Fishing, pollution and other human impacts have impacted portions of the reef, but many of the causes of reef degradation are unknown and there is little capacity to monitor reef status. This initiative will focus on restoring and sustainably using South Florida=92s fragile coral reefs. Description: To adequately fulfill its restoration and management responsibilities for this special reef tract, NOAA must increase its efforts to monitor coral resources, manage human uses and determine the effectiveness of these efforts. Using remote-sensing technology and volunteer assistants for on-site monitoring, this initiative will: Build on existing, but limited coral reef monitoring efforts to complete the system required to provide long-term information on the health of the reef system. Translate and provide this information to coastal managers. Build public understanding, participation and local support for sustainable use of the coral reef tract. Establish a cooperative training and research program to exchange information and build capacity for effective coral reef management at local levels. SOUTH FLORIDA'S ECONOMY DEPENDS ON HEALTHY COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS: Large portions of South Florida's economy are dependent on healthy coastal habitats like Florida Bay and the Florida Keys. Deterioration of South Florida's coastal resources will significantly impact these industries, the people that depend on them, and the people who come to use them from all over the United States. Healthy coral reefs, a healthy Florida Bay and clean coastal waters are the foundation of a healthy economy. More than 3 million tourists/year from all over the U.S. spent an estimated $1.3 billion in 1991. Florida's coral reefs are the #1 diving destination in the world, attracting more than 1.2 million divers per year. Divers bring over $ 220 millon/year into the economy. The asset value of water related recreation in the Keys is estimated at $ 22 billion. Commercial fishing is an important part of South Florida's economy. In good seasons, for example, pink shrimp catches produced over $ 120 million/year. Spiny lobster catches produced $ 24 million/year. Recreational fishing produces more than 23,500 jobs. The economic value of Florida Bay fishing trips exceeds $ 9.0 million per year. BENEFITS OF INVESTING IN NOAA'S STRENGTHS: NOAA brings a unique suite of science and management capabilities to the South Florida ecosystem restoration effort through its expertise in coastal and atmospheric research, predictive modeling and resource management. Successful restoration and sustainable stewardship of South Florida's valuable coastal resources will not be possible without application of NOAA's full capabilities. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Jansen, Office of Legislative Affairs=09=09(202-482-4981) Matthew Stout, Office of Public and Constituent Affairs=09(202-482-6090) From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon May 17 12:50:38 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA18250; Fri, 17 May 1996 12:50:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA02848; Fri, 17 May 1996 16:29:10 GMT Received: from lendal.york.ac.uk by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA02843; Fri, 17 May 1996 12:29:06 -0400 Received: from mailer.york.ac.uk by lendal.york.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Fri, 17 May 1996 17:22:35 +0100 Received: from eeempc17 by mailer.york.ac.uk via SMTP (950511.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH526/940406.SGI) for id RAA25737; Fri, 17 May 1996 17:23:46 +0100 Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 17:23:45 BST From: Callum Roberts Subject: Urgently seeking nominations for ISRS council To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Message-ID: Priority: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Colleagues, We URGENTLY need nominations for new council members for the International Society for Reef Studies. We are looking for energetic and enthusiastic people involved with reef science (and currently members of ISRS) to help with the development of the society and further the study of coral reefs. If you or any of your colleagues would like to stand for election please reply to Callum Roberts (cr10@york.ac.uk) or Sue Wells (sue.wells@wcmc.org.uk) by Tuesday 21st May!!! We apologise for the short notice but would greatly appreciate your efforts to identify willing people. Please include with your nominations a few lines about the nominee and make sure you have their agreement that they are prepared to stand for election. If everybody can think of one person (self nomination is welcome!) then we will have an excellent field of candidates. Best wishes, Callum Roberts Corresponding Secretary ISRS From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon May 17 19:58:10 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA27138; Fri, 17 May 1996 19:58:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id XAA03126; Fri, 17 May 1996 23:52:10 GMT Received: from relay1.jaring.my by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA03121; Fri, 17 May 1996 19:52:06 -0400 Received: from j4.ktk3.jaring.my (j4.ktk3.jaring.my [161.142.220.226]) by relay1.jaring.my (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id HAA22300 for ; Sat, 18 May 1996 07:49:49 +0800 (MYT) Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 07:49:49 +0800 (MYT) Message-Id: <199605172349.HAA22300@relay1.jaring.my> X-Sender: suniwan@pop1.jaring.my X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: DON BAKER Subject: Spawning Events / WorldWide Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Coral-List Members, I am compiling data on coral spawning events - as best as possible. I need data worldwide rather than from, say, Florida, USA only. The purpose of my efforts is to try to simulate spawning parameters in a mariculture/raceway setting here in Sabah, Malaysia. I have a selection of hard corals thriving in a 4000L open system raceway. Any data on spawning corals in a captive environment would also be of great assistance as well. I am also needing some good pubs on ID coral species - worldwide as well. Any leads & titles? Many thanks, Don Baker Sabah, Malaysia Suniwang Holdings From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu May 20 21:45:17 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA05603; Mon, 20 May 1996 21:45:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA05788; Tue, 21 May 1996 01:30:05 GMT Received: from bock.ucs.ualberta.ca by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA05781; Mon, 20 May 1996 21:29:57 -0400 Received: from [129.128.54.160] by bock.ucs.ualberta.ca with SMTP (8.6.5/UA3.0.0June95) id TAA10770 for ; Mon, 20 May 1996 19:27:42 -0600 Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 19:27:42 -0600 X-Sender: pblancho@pop.srv.ualberta.ca Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: P.Blanchon@UAlberta.CA (Paul Blanchon) Subject: New review posted on the Reef Resource Page Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear list members, I have recently posted a review of the history of reef geology on the Reef Resource Page (http://www.ualberta.ca/~pblancho/index.html). This is the first of many such 'review modules' that I hope to post over the next year or so. They are essentially draft documents that will provide the basis for an up-to-date and integrated review of the biology, ecology, and geology of modern reef systems. If these reviews are to serve any useful purpose, however, they will require the input of as many reef scientists as possible. So it is my hope that, by using the Web and all its multimedia capabilities, I can solicit your candid feedback, reviews and cooperation. All input will be aknowledged and all reviews will be posted (unless otherwise requested). The first 'review module' addresses the historical development of geological reef science -- an important topic where scientific consensus is attainable. It outlines the _major_ reef theories from Darwin to the present, providing succinct critiques of each. I would particularly like feedback on the conclusion that our ideas on reef configuration and architecture have essentially come full circle back to where they started i.e., reefs are fully capable of producing their own morphology with little help from foundations. Also, I would be very interested in hearing from those of you keen to review or with ideas on the history of biological and ecological reef science. Like the geological review, the objective is to outline the major theories, paradigms etc, provide succinct critiques of each, and end with a brief summary of where we are and perhaps were we should go. I sincerely hope that, by pooling our collective knowledge in these reviews, we can establish a framework that will enable us to address the interdisciplinary problems that reefs presently face. The rationale for such an approach is simple: lack of communication and cooperation among scientists who seek to understand the same natural phenomena can only lead to confusion, duplication, misinformation, and ultimately mismanagement. Paul Blanchon. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Dr. Paul Blanchon || Research Fellow Dept. Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, 1-26 Earth Science Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Tel: (403) 492-4205 Fax: (403) 492-2030 E-mail: p.blanchon@ualberta.ca Web: http://www.ualberta.ca/~pblancho/index.html <<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<> From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri May 21 09:33:32 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA11567; Tue, 21 May 1996 09:33:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA06275; Tue, 21 May 1996 13:23:16 GMT Received: from ocean.ocean.fsu.edu by reef via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA06270; Tue, 21 May 1996 09:23:14 -0400 From: mschultz@ocean.ocean.fsu.edu Received: by ocean.ocean.fsu.edu; id AA01465; Tue, 21 May 1996 09:19:35 -0400 Message-Id: <9605211319.AA01465@ocean.ocean.fsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 09:23:49 -0500 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Colleagues, Does anyone have specific information of areas of high ground water seepage and/or submarine springs in and around Florida Bay? Specific Lat/Long information would the most helpful. Also, we were trying to puzzle out some explaination for hypersaline ground water in the area. Any help? Thanks in advance. Mike Mike Schultz Graduate Researcher Department of Oceanography Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306-3048 mschultz@ocean.fsu.edu GO SEMINOLES!!! From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun May 23 04:14:59 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA15845; Thu, 23 May 1996 04:14:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id HAA08246; Thu, 23 May 1996 07:43:59 GMT Received: from extra.ucc.su.OZ.AU by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id DAA08241; Thu, 23 May 1996 03:43:53 -0400 Received: from linnaeus.bio.usyd.edu.au (linnaeus.bio.usyd.edu.AU [129.78.177.10]) by extra.ucc.su.OZ.AU (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA13649; Thu, 23 May 1996 17:41:03 +1000 Received: from a08pc-20.bio.usyd.edu.AU by linnaeus.bio.usyd.edu.au; (5.65/1.1.8.2/12Aug94-0642PM) id AA07725; Thu, 23 May 1996 18:43:26 +1000 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19960523073744.00897b38@mail.bio.usyd.edu.au> X-Sender: oveh@mail.bio.usyd.edu.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 17:37:44 +1000 To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program From: Ove Hoegh-Guldberg Subject: The next generation of underwater survey devices. Cc: mikek@bio.usyd.edu.au (Mike Kingsford), alark@bio.usyd.edu.au (Tony Larkum), Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A The Coral Reef Research Institute is collaborating with an engineering student (Mr. Duncan Burns) on the design of the next generation of underwater survey devices. The project wants input from coral reef biologists who are involved in underwater survey work for management or research. The instrument envisioned is one in which data can be entered directly into a computer and in which other variables like temperature are recorded automatically. YOU CAN HELP IN THE DESIGN PHASE. Please visit the URL and answer the simple form-based questionnaire that is located at the URL: http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/CRRI/LIBRARY/duncan3.html. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ove Hoegh-Guldberg Ph: (02) 351-2389 School of Biological Sciences Fax: (02) 351-4119 Building A08 Mobile: 014 811 935 University of Sydney Country code Australia = 61 2006 NSW Australia OHG: http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/SOBS/ACADEMIC/ACASTAFF/ohg/ohg.html Coral Reef Research Institute: http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/CRRI/crri-ind.html One Tree Island Research Station: http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/OTI/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun May 23 22:22:06 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA02532; Thu, 23 May 1996 22:21:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA09454; Fri, 24 May 1996 01:59:40 GMT Received: from CGNET.COM by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA09449; Thu, 23 May 1996 21:59:37 -0400 Received: from msm.cgnet.com by CGNET.COM (PMDF V4.3-9 #7702) id <01I520JR5A0G007VZK@CGNET.COM>; Thu, 23 May 1996 18:58:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by msm.cgnet.com with Microsoft Mail id <31A517B9@msm.cgnet.com>; Thu, 23 May 96 18:58:17 PDT Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 09:48:00 -0700 (PDT) From: John McManus To: "'coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov'" Message-id: <31A517B9@msm.cgnet.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: TO:Coral-List FROM:John McManus DATE: 24 May 1996 I have just looked through the homepage of Ursula Keuper-Bennett, as she described on May 6. This is a superb use of the Web to convey to the public what is happening to many reefs. Perhaps other people with websites can help give some visibility to the site through cross-listing and recommended site listings. I hope to see some more sites like this. Has anyone done any studies to explain the algal dominance in Honokowai? The website is:http://www.io.org/-bunrab/honolist.htm Sincerely, John McManus From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon May 24 07:07:50 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA05744; Fri, 24 May 1996 07:07:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id KAA09821; Fri, 24 May 1996 10:51:31 GMT Received: from io.org by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id GAA09816; Fri, 24 May 1996 06:51:23 -0400 Received: from dyna-46.net7b.io.org (dyna-46.net7b.io.org [204.92.49.46]) by io.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id GAA17292 for ; Fri, 24 May 1996 06:49:00 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 06:49:00 -0400 Message-Id: <199605241049.GAA17292@io.org> X-Sender: howzit@io.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: From: Ursula Keuper-Bennett Subject: Website Correction & Further Comments Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hello John, You wrote: >The website is:http://www.io.org/-bunrab/honolist.htm That will just give people error messages. The ACTUAL address is: http://www.io.org/-bunrab/honohist.htm Honohist stands for Honokowai history. You wrote: >I have just looked through the homepage of Ursula Keuper-Bennett, as she >described on May 6. This is a superb use of the Web to convey to the public >what is happening to many reefs. My husband and I really appreciate the kind words, thank you. I have snorkelled/dived this Honokowai reef every summer since 1977 and he since 1987. Then it experienced an permanent invasion of Hypnea musciformis punctuated by two devastating Cladophora algae blooms in '89 and 91. Our reef got trashed. Since that time we have watched the resident sea turtles in the area sicken and "disappear" (we can't prove they die) from a disease called fibropapillomas. There is a sewage treatment plant (injection well style) within an easy walk and an impressive amount of the red fertile West Maui mountainside (complete with fertilizers from pineapples) makes its way to the ocean bottom via run off. And we get to go back July 1st and dive the area again. For the several of you wondering, yes, we have pondered what effect diving in such waters might have on us.... John you wrote: > >Has anyone done any studies to explain the algal dominance in Honokowai? Sure. Some. A nutrient run-off study conducted in the dry season comes to mind. Another search for whether effluent from the injection wells made it to the ocean. They found some traces but nothing to get excited about. Read a couple of other papers about the seaweed/algae characteristics and distribution. Most of the studies are what you scientists would refer to as "preliminary". I think the thing that stands out most from all the diving over the years is that one Cladophora bloom - just one - can do in a whole lot of corals. That was the message we wanted to send. I need to repeat again, the website is: http://www.io.org/-bunrab/honohist.htm Best regards ^ Ursula Keuper-Bennett 0 0 Mississauga, Ontario /V^\ | | /^V\ Email: howzit@io.org /V Turtle Trax V\ /V soon 1 yr old V\ http://www.io.org/~bunrab From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri May 28 02:01:16 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA14212; Tue, 28 May 1996 02:01:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id FAA14120; Tue, 28 May 1996 05:36:38 GMT Received: from galadriel.otago.ac.nz by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id BAA14114; Tue, 28 May 1996 01:36:23 -0400 Received: from [139.80.104.184] (MAC104184.otago.ac.nz [139.80.104.184]) by galadriel.otago.ac.nz (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id RAA05342 for ; Tue, 28 May 1996 17:34:10 +1200 (NZST) Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 17:34:10 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199605280534.RAA05342@galadriel.otago.ac.nz> X-Sender: st004593@brandywine.otago.ac.nz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: oliver.gussmann@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Oliver Gussmann) Subject: Halimeda Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear all, Can someone guide me to relevant literature on the occurrence of fossil Halimeda in the Pacific region (and Atlantic?), as well as any studies that have been done assessing terrigenous sedimentation on Halimeda productivity? Cheers, Oliver From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat May 29 10:17:20 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA06247; Wed, 29 May 1996 10:17:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA17268; Wed, 29 May 1996 13:54:17 GMT Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA17263; Wed, 29 May 1996 09:54:14 -0400 Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by ns-mx.uiowa.edu (8.7.5/19950309.1) on Wed, 29 May 1996 08:51:41 -0500 id IAA19083 with SMTP Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 08:51:41 -0500 Message-Id: <199605291351.IAA19083@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> X-Sender: davidson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.1.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Osha Gray Davidson Subject: Sibling species Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I'm interested in the issue of newly discovered sibling species on the reef, as discussed in a January 1994 article in TREE, by Knowlton and Jackson. Can anyone suggest the quintessential example of this, i.e., what was long thought to be one reef species turns out to be many, many sibling species? Thanks, Osha From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat May 29 16:46:36 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA11460; Wed, 29 May 1996 16:46:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA01540; Wed, 29 May 1996 19:52:30 GMT Received: from coral by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA01528; Wed, 29 May 1996 15:52:26 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA02951; Wed, 29 May 1996 10:24:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 10:24:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: MAUI link fix Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Forwarded message: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 17:28:27 -0400 From: Ursula Keuper-Bennett To: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: ****BLUSH***** To: John McManus and other Coral'ers I can't believe this has happened! I entered the address of my own website incorrectly by using a - instead of a ~ . Here it is one more time. For information about the degradation of a reef on Maui (Hawaii), the CORRECT address is: http://www.io.org/~bunrab/honohist.htm (I just swept the address with my mouse and tried it personally. Sorry about that and thank you to Howie and Chris for letting me know my "correction" didn't work either!) Sorry for any inconvenience and confusion this error caused. Best regards ^ Ursula Keuper-Bennett 0 0 Mississauga, Ontario /V^\ | | /^V\ Email: howzit@io.org /V Turtle Trax V\ /V soon 1 yr old V\ http://www.io.org/~bunrab From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat May 29 16:48:29 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA11505; Wed, 29 May 1996 16:48:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA01541; Wed, 29 May 1996 19:52:31 GMT Received: from coral by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA01531; Wed, 29 May 1996 15:52:27 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA01682; Tue, 28 May 1996 14:13:45 -0400 Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 14:13:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: LIZARD ISLAND DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP 1997 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Forwarded message: LIZARD ISLAND RESEARCH STATION Great Barrier Reef, Australia A facility of the Australian Museum LIZARD ISLAND DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP 1997 The Australian Museum, in conjunction with the Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation, is offering a Fellowship to a PhD student to support field work on the Great Barrier Reef based at the Lizard Island Research Station. The recipient will carry out significant field studies in a scientific discipline relevant to coral reefs. The first annual Fellowship was awarded in 1984, and applications are now invited for the 1997 Fellowship. The Fellowship is intended primarily to pay bench fees at the Lizard Island Research Station for several months field work per year over a period of up to three years. It may also be used for travel and freight expenses and to purchase research equipment, but it may not be used for living expenses or salary. Support will be granted for field work at Lizard Island for a maximum of three years; however, applications for funding for one or two years are acceptable. The amount granted in any year of the Fellowship will be a maximum of A$6,000. The project should result in a significant contribution to coral reef science and the data from Lizard Island should form an important part of that work. The Lizard Island Research Station was established in 1972 by the Australian Museum to support research into all aspects of the biology, geology and hydrology of coral reef ecosystems. Airconditioned laboratories, boats, diving equipment, running seawater aquaria, and accommodation units are provided at the Station. Lizard Island is situated in an extraordinarily diverse marine ecosystem which is carefully managed as part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The large size (7 km2) and height (360 m) of Lizard Island and its adjoining smaller islands and reefs provides a wide variety of habitats and ensures that field work can proceed in all but the most extreme weather. Lizard Island (14o40'S 145o28'E) is located near the middle of the 50 km wide continental shelf: near-by habitats include turbid coastal reefs, mid-shelf platform reefs, inter-reef soft-bottoms including extensive Halimeda beds, sheltered lagoons and high-energy ribbon reefs facing the Coral Sea. Access to Lizard Island is easy with many flights into Cairns from international and domestic ports and daily flights from Cairns to Lizard Island. CONDITIONS OF AWARD Each year, the Fellow will be required to make an oral presentation at the Research Station on his/her research and produce a written progress report including revised budget estimates for the coming year(s). Subsequent funding depends upon suitable progress. The Fellow must lodge a bound copy of his/her thesis in the Station's library. Any non- consumable equipment purchased with Fellowship funds becomes the property of the Research Station when field work has been completed. INFORMATION APPLICATIONS Six copies of the application should be sent to: The Directors Lizard Island Research Station Deputy Director PMB 37 Australian Museum CAIRNS QLD 4870 6 College Street AUSTRALIA SYDNEY NSW 2000 AUSTRALIA Internet: lizard@amss.Austmus.oz.au Internet: alixB@ama.Austmus.oz.au Phone and fax: + 61 (0)70 60-3977 Phone: + 61 (0)2 320-6224 Fax: + 61 (0)2 320-6056 CLOSING DATE 1 OCTOBER 1996 Please see application format, selection criteria and information on costs, below. APPLICATION FORMAT RESEARCH PROPOSAL - Name of applicant - University and Department - Name of supervisor(s) - Project title - Objectives (100 words) - Significance (100 words) -Research plan (maximum 5 pages): outline experimental design and methodology; show sequence of tasks on a yearly timescale; indicate work already completed.. -Financial details (maximum 2 pages): indicate number of years for which funding is sought; provide a detailed budget for each year of funding for the whole project (not just the Lizard Island component), including bench fees, travel and other costs (expenditure on equipment exceeding $200 must be detailed); indicate which non-fellowship funding is already guaranteed and how remaining funding (including that for living expenses) will be obtained; justify expenditure in terms of the research. CURRICULUM VITAE As well as the usual personal, educational and professional information, include: a summary of academic record and achievements; list of publications; date of enrolment in PhD program, and; the name of a referee who may be contacted regarding the application. SUPPORTING LETTER A letter approving the project from the head of the university department where the applicant will be enrolled must be included with the application. Overseas students must also include a letter from their supervisor indicating the acceptability of overseas field work to the program at that particular university, and how closely involved the supervisor will be with the project. COSTS To assist in preparing budgets, the following costs involved in field work at the Lizard Island Research Station in 1997 are provided. All amounts are in Australian dollars. Diving: The Station's regulations require that all scuba dives are done by at least two divers; a boat attendant is also required under some circumstances. All projects requiring diving should allow for at least one dedicated assistant, for whom bench fees must be paid. Contact the Research Station for further details. Bench fees: PhD students are offered a highly subsidised bench fee which includes self-catering accommodation, most laboratory and aquarium facilities, use of a small boat, and scuba tanks and weights for qualified divers. In 1997, the rate will be $29 per day for the student and $25 per day for each assistant. For visits of more than 28 consecutive days, the bench fee is reduced by 10% for the entire visit. Food and freight: Food must be ordered from Cairns for delivery by barge every two weeks, or by air. Food costs are not covered by the Fellowship. Air freight from Cairns is expensive at about $3.00 per kg. Freight carried by the fortnightly barge is $9.00 per grocery carton- sized container. Freight expenses may be paid from Fellowship funds. Travel: Return airfare between Cairns and Lizard Island is $380. There is no scheduled surface transport. SELECTION CRITERIA Selection will be based on the following criteria: 1) acceptance of the applicant into a PhD program to undertake research on a topic related to coral reefs; 2) evidence that the applicant has stipend from a scholarship or other source for the duration of the Fellowship; 3) significance, quality and innovation of the proposed research which must be on an aspect of coral reefs; 4) feasibility of the proposed research within the limitations of budget and safety regulations; 5) significant and efficient usage of the Lizard Island Research Station during each year of funding; 6) evidence that sufficient funding will be available to complete the project as planned, or presentation of a contingency plan for amending the project if additional funding does not become available; 7) evidence of the applicant having relevant research and fieldwork experience; 8) the applicant's academic and research record. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun May 30 04:18:22 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA16491; Thu, 30 May 1996 04:18:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id IAA02141; Thu, 30 May 1996 08:11:54 GMT Received: from vale.adm.ku.dk by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id EAA02136; Thu, 30 May 1996 04:11:50 -0400 Received: from garm.adm.ku.dk (garm.adm.ku.dk [130.225.127.34]) by vale.adm.ku.dk (8.7.5/8.7) with SMTP id KAA03196 for ; Thu, 30 May 1996 10:09:33 +0200 (METDST) Received: from AKI.KU.DK (aki.ku.dk [130.225.206.2]) by garm.adm.ku.dk (8.7.5/8.7.2) with SMTP id KAA15063 for ; Thu, 30 May 1996 10:09:33 +0200 (METDST) Received: by AKI.KU.DK with Microsoft Mail id <31AD73C0@AKI.KU.DK>; Thu, 30 May 96 10:09:04 DST From: "Bruce, Niel L. {ZMUC}" To: "'coral-l'" Subject: RE: Sibling species Date: Thu, 30 May 96 10:05:00 DST Message-ID: <31AD73C0@AKI.KU.DK> Encoding: 20 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Osha queried " newly discovered sibling species on the reef". I am not sure what organisms were being referred to, but in the smaller crustaceans there are several such complexes, the most spectacular that I know of being a group of small isopods found on coral reefs around the world, that went from one "pantropical cosmopolite" (Cirolana parva) to currently about 20 species, with a similar number yet to be described. If you want to know more, get in touch with me. Niel L. Bruce Curator of Crustacea Zoologisk Museum, Universitetsparken 15, Copenhagen O, DK 2100 DENMARK Ph: +45 35 32 10 00; +45 35 32 10 21 (direct); FAX: +45 35 32 10 10. e-mail: ; home page: From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun May 30 10:40:01 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA20924; Thu, 30 May 1996 10:39:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA02619; Thu, 30 May 1996 13:56:44 GMT Received: from jazz.san.uc.edu by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA02609; Thu, 30 May 1996 09:56:28 -0400 Received: from dlm1.geo.uc.edu. (dlm1.geo.uc.edu) by UCBEH.SAN.UC.EDU (PMDF V5.0-7 #7238) id <01I5B9G4GB0O8XAYLN@UCBEH.SAN.UC.EDU> for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.GOV; Thu, 30 May 1996 09:50:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 09:52:00 +0100 From: Dave Subject: sibling species To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Message-id: X-Mailer: VersaTerm Link v1.1.1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: id PAA03164; Thu, 30 May 1996 15:00:57 -0400 From: mcall@superaje.com Received: from [204.77.78.108] (port8.superaje.com) by superaje.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07500; Thu, 30 May 96 14:55:10 EDT Date: Thu, 30 May 96 14:55:10 EDT Message-Id: <9605301855.AA07500@superaje.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Papers on sustainable harvesting of corals and coral reef aquarium fishes To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov X-Mailer: SPRY Mail Version: 04.00.06.21 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: My colleague Gary Spiller, who lacks e-mail access, wanted to know if there were any papers on sustainable harvesting of corals and coral reef aquarium fishes, or ones with baseline data before the fishery started and after. He can be reached at: Gary Spiller P.O. Box 3268 Apia, WESTERN SAMOA If it is easier, please just forward replies to me and I will pass them on. Thank you. don Don E. McAllister /& Canadian Centre for Biodiversity Ocean Voice International /Canadian Museum of Nature Box 37026, 3332 McCarthy Rd. /Box 3443, Station D Ottawa, ON K1V 0W0, Canada /Ottawa, ON K1P 6P4 URL: http://www.conveyor.com/oceanvoice.html E-mail: mcall@superaje.com (or: ah194@freenet.carleton.ca) Tel: (613) 264-8986, Fax: (613) 264-9204 <---- End Forwarded Message ----> Don E. McAllister /& Canadian Centre for Biodiversity Ocean Voice International /Canadian Museum of Nature Box 37026, 3332 McCarthy Rd. /Box 3443, Station D Ottawa, ON K1V 0W0, Canada /Ottawa, ON K1P 6P4 URL: http://www.conveyor.com/oceanvoice.html E-mail: mcall@superaje.com (or: ah194@freenet.carleton.ca) Tel: (613) 264-8986, Fax: (613) 264-9204 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun May 30 20:32:39 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA29273; Thu, 30 May 1996 20:32:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id XAA03612; Thu, 30 May 1996 23:28:56 GMT Received: from iegate.forestry.tas.gov.au by reef via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA03606; Thu, 30 May 1996 19:28:18 -0400 From: Laurie.Ferns@forestry.tas.gov.au Received: from ccMail by iegate.forestry.tas.gov.au (IMA Internet Exchange 2.01 Enterprise) id 1AE21070; Fri, 31 May 96 09:28:23 +1100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 09:27:52 +1100 Message-ID: <1AE21070.1521@forestry.tas.gov.au> Subject: Re: Sibling Coral Species To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: cc:Mail note part Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I am aware of a PHD researcher at James Cook University (Australia) who was/is studying the 'species status' of Platygyra sinensis. From what I can gather from coffee table conversation is that P. sinensis may be complex consisting of five separate species. This work has apparently involved genetic studies. My advice is to contact the University through Dr John Collins at the following email: john.collins@jcu.edu.au Dr Collins should be able to give you a contact. Regards Laurie Ferns Conservation Officer Geographic Information Systems Unit Forestry Tasmania 199 Macquarie Street, Hobart, Tasmania 7000, Australia Telephone (002) 338197 Fax (002) 338252 Email l.ferns@forestry.tas.gov.au From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun May 30 22:11:38 1996 Received: from reef (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA29591; Thu, 30 May 1996 22:11:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA03865; Fri, 31 May 1996 01:25:53 GMT Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by reef via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA03860; Thu, 30 May 1996 21:25:38 -0400 Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by ns-mx.uiowa.edu (8.7.5/19950309.1) on Thu, 30 May 1996 20:23:15 -0500 id UAA23699 with SMTP Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 20:23:15 -0500 Message-Id: <199605310123.UAA23699@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> X-Sender: davidson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.1.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Osha Gray Davidson Subject: Summer classes Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I'm considering taking Eugene Kaplan's summer course (10 days) in tropical marine biology in Jamaica. In case the dates don't work out for that, can someone suggest a similar intensive program for a basic grounding in this area (reefs, et. al.)? Thank you. Osha Gray Davidson From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon May 31 22:56:01 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA13347 for ; Fri, 31 May 1996 22:56:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id WAA01017; Fri, 31 May 1996 22:57:54 -0400 Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 22:57:54 -0400 (EDT) From: "James C. Hendee" To: hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Subject: scleractinian coral tissue Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 31 May 96 12:11:18 CDT From: Tonya To: coral-list@aoml.noaa.gov I was wondering if anyone knew of a protocol to isolate intact zooxanthellae from scleractinian coral tissue. I have only found partial or very general protocols. Thanks in advance. Tonya Snell tsnell@lsuvm.sncc.lsu.edu Louisiana State University From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Wed Jun 2 07:10:05 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA19575; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 07:09:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id KAA02217; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 10:57:21 GMT Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id GAA02212; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 06:57:16 -0400 Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by ns-mx.uiowa.edu (8.7.5/19950309.1) on Sun, 2 Jun 1996 05:55:15 -0500 id FAA29880 with SMTP Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 05:55:15 -0500 Message-Id: <199606021055.FAA29880@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> X-Sender: davidson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.1.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Osha Gray Davidson Subject: Ocean and Marine Dictionary Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Anyone know where I can obtain a copy of "Ocean and Marine Dictionary" by David Tver? Seems to be out-of-print. Thanks Osha From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Wed Jun 2 09:59:24 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA20006; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 09:59:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA02351; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 13:49:11 GMT Received: from spider.usp.br by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA02346; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 09:49:07 -0400 Received: (mabel@localhost) by spider.usp.br (8.6.10/SPIDER-CCE2.0) id KAA127013 Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 10:46:22 -0300 From: Mabel Augustowski Message-Id: <199606021346.KAA127013@spider.usp.br> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, davidson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu Subject: Re: Ocean and Marine Dictionary Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hi, Osha I would like to have a copy of this Dictionary, too. Please forward the answers you get to me. Thanks Mabel. Mabel Augustowski Parque Estadual da Ilha Anchieta Caixa Postal 204 - CEP 11680-000 Ubatuba, SP - Brasil e-mail: mabel usp.br From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Jun 3 09:30:51 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA24374; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 09:30:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA03490; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 13:09:03 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA03485; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 09:09:01 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA04984; Thu, 30 May 1996 10:33:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 10:33:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: CHAMP news Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Greetings! The Coral Health and Monitoring Program's Home Page at http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov has recently added about 40 new literature citations to its Abstracts section. It is difficult to do, but we have tried to only list references which are directly related to health or monitoring. Also, we have added the following links to the ICRI Page: 1) Report to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development 2) State of the Reefs Report These reports were released on May 22, 1996 and are very informative. Sincerely yours, Jim Hendee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | Coral Health and Monitoring Program | | Ocean Chemistry Division | | Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorlogical Laboratory | | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | | Miami, Florida | | USA | | | | Email: coral@coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | World-Wide Web: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Jun 4 03:00:09 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA04913; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 03:00:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id GAA04833; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 06:55:12 GMT Received: from sme.univ-mrs.fr by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id CAA04828; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 02:55:09 -0400 Message-Id: <199606040655.CAA04828@reef.aoml.noaa.gov> Received: from [139.124.16.39] (smemac9.univ-mrs.fr) by sme.univ-mrs.fr with SMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA245771152; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 08:52:32 +0200 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 08:52:32 +0200 X-Mailer: EudoraF1.3.1 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: peyrot@com.univ-mrs.fr (Mireille Peyrot) X-Sender: peyrot@sme.univ-mrs.fr Subject: Panama bioerosion worshop Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Proposed format for the Workshop on Bioerosion being held during the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium 1. Initial Welcome by the organisers, Drs Pat Hutchings and Mireille Peyrot-Clausade, and a brief explanation of the structure of the Workshop. Duration of Workshop- half day. 2. All participants will then introduce themselves, and give a brief summary (max time 3 mins) of their current research studies on bioerosion, using an overhead with the following main points covered- (this is designed to save time and help the non native English speakers- it will also help in compiling a summary document on the board if everybody also bought a xerox of this overhead for the organisers). From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Jun 4 04:42:35 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA05453; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 04:42:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id IAA04900; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 08:39:01 GMT Received: from sme.univ-mrs.fr by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id EAA04895; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 04:38:56 -0400 Message-Id: <199606040838.EAA04895@reef.aoml.noaa.gov> Received: from [139.124.16.39] (smemac9.univ-mrs.fr) by sme.univ-mrs.fr with SMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA256967384; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 10:36:24 +0200 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 10:36:24 +0200 X-Mailer: EudoraF1.3.1 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: peyrot@com.univ-mrs.fr (Mireille Peyrot) X-Sender: peyrot@sme.univ-mrs.fr Subject: Panama Workshop bioerosion 2 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Bill Kiene wrote me only the two first message had been cut so I send it again , I hope it"ll arri ve well Proposed format for the Workshop on Bioerosion being held during the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium 1. Initial Welcome by the organisers, Drs Pat Hutchings and Mireille Peyrot-Clausade, and a brief explanation of the structure of the Workshop. Duration of Workshop- half day. 2. All participants will then introduce themselves, and give a brief summary (max time 3 mins) of their current research studies on bioerosion, using an overhead with the following main points covered- (this is designed to save time and help the non native English speakers- it will also help in compiling a summary document on the board if everybody also bought a xerox of this overhead for the organisers). From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Jun 4 05:02:05 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA05562; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 05:01:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id IAA04918; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 08:56:56 GMT Received: from sme.univ-mrs.fr by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id EAA04913; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 04:56:53 -0400 Message-Id: <199606040856.EAA04913@reef.aoml.noaa.gov> Received: from [139.124.16.39] (smemac9.univ-mrs.fr) by sme.univ-mrs.fr with SMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA264628459; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 10:54:20 +0200 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 10:54:20 +0200 X-Mailer: EudoraF1.3.1 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: peyrot@com.univ-mrs.fr (Mireille Peyrot) X-Sender: peyrot@sme.univ-mrs.fr X-Attachments: :Mac MPC:6725:PANAMA.MCW: Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: As it seems it is not possible to send you the complete information by this way , I send it as attachments Amities a tous Mireille (This file must be converted with BinHex 4.0) :#P""6N&035j03eF!9d4#6Ne69d3"!!!!%J!!!!!!44[q0`!M!!!!!!!!!!!!'3! !!!!!!!!!!3!!!!ZR!!!4q!!!!!!!!!UR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!3!!!E!!!3!!!E!!!3'`!!!!!3'`!!!!!3'`!1!!!3+3!J!!!353!!!!!353! !!!!353!!!!!353!+!!!38`!+!!!3A3!!!!!3A3!Z!!!3L`"i!!!353!!!!!4!`! 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In-reply-to: <199606040838.EAA04895@reef.aoml.noaa.gov> Cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Does anybody know if the UV vice president, Al Gore, is expected to speak at the coral reef symp.at panama? Thanks Nadav Shashar From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Jun 4 19:33:45 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA18503; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 19:33:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id XAA05908; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 23:19:03 GMT Received: from canudos.ufba.br by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA05903; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 19:18:39 -0400 Received: by canudos.ufba.br (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA09638; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 20:09:36 -0300 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 20:09:36 -0300 (GRNLNDST) From: Francisco Kelmo O dos Santos To: Tonya Cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <960531.121414.CDT.TSNELL@LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I am interested, too. ******************************************************************* ** Prof.Francisco Kelmo ** ** Departamento de Zoologia do Instituto de Biologia ** ** Universidade Federal da Bahia - Campus de Ondina ** ** Av. Adhemar de Barros s/n. Salvador-Bahia-BRAZIL ** ** cep. 40170-290 ** ** fax:+55 071 2456909 Ph: +55 071 2473810/2473744 ** ** e-mail:Kelmo@ufba.br ** ******************************************************************** On Fri, 31 May 1996, Tonya wrote: > I was wondering if anyone knew of a protocol to isolate intact zooxanthellae > from scleractinian coral tissue. I have only found partial or very general > protocols. > > Thanks in advance. > > Tonya Snell > > tsnell@lsuvm.sncc.lsu.edu > Louisiana State University > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Jun 5 09:02:08 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA23868 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 09:02:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA06572; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 09:04:40 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 09:04:40 -0400 (EDT) From: "James C. Hendee" To: hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Subject: zooxanthellae Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 31 May 96 12:11:18 CDT From: Tonya To: coral-list@aoml.noaa.gov I was wondering if anyone knew of a protocol to isolate intact zooxanthellae from scleractinian coral tissue. I have only found partial or very general protocols. Thanks in advance. Tonya Snell tsnell@lsuvm.sncc.lsu.edu Louisiana State University From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Jun 5 13:43:24 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA28965; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 13:43:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA06993; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 17:22:55 GMT Received: from aix1.segi.ulg.ac.be by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA06988; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 13:21:42 -0400 Received: from windal.maspec.chim (windal.maspec.chim.ulg.ac.be [139.165.204.13]) by aix1.segi.ulg.ac.be (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id TAA19827 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 19:18:54 +0200 Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 19:18:54 +0200 Message-Id: <1.5.4.16.19960605191620.1a0f9628@pop3.student.ulg.ac.be> X-Sender: s911023@pop3.student.ulg.ac.be (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=====================_834027380==_" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: collette caroline Subject: Coral Reef Research and Conservation (From =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jean=2DS=E9bastien_?= Houziaux (aquarium)) X-Attachments: A:\C.V\ENGCVNET.DOC; Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: --=====================_834027380==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Coral Reef Research. To who it may concern, I found the announce for the International Year of the Reef in the UICN's "Shark News", which a French researcher sent me since I am particularly interested in shark ecology and conservation. I made graduate studies in Zoology and post-graduate (Master, 2 years) in Oceanology at University of Li=E8ge (Belgium). I started a major work on a small European species, the Lesser Spotted Dogfish Scyliorhinus canicula, which has become the most important Selachian in the French Fisheries since the recent decay of the Spiny dogfish, Squalus Acanthias. I wanted to continue my first work on the annual cycle of reproduction of this species by a behavioural approach, with a further look on the fishery problem with the framework of 'IFREMER' (France). Unfortunately, I was the only Belgian researcher to start a work in the field of Selachians, and I therefore couldn't get any funding for this Ph.D. project. Our laboratory had to give it up. I am searching for a new project, and this is very hard in Belgium in the field of Marine Ecology. I want to leave Belgium and search in a foreign country. Therefore, I have applied to the 'BAEF' (Belgian American Educational Foundation) in order to get a grant for starting a Ph.D. in the USA. My candidature is accepted on the basis of my academic results. I am now seeking for a project to submit within an American institution. I currently have no idea on how to get other funding for such research in another country. I would like to know if there may be a chance for starting a PhD project dealing with the ecology and conservation of coral reefs, since such a work is actually of a prime interest to me. I am specialized in Fish Ecology and Behaviour, with personal interest to sharks and rays, but my studies gave me a broad approach of general Marine Ecology. I don't know whether it might be useful to do so on this server, but I attach to this message a copy of my C.V., hoping somebody to be interested in it. I thank you for your time and look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely. Jean-S=E9bastien Houziaux (University of Liege: Graduate in Zoology, Master= in Oceanology). N.B. This E-mail was sent from another location than the address given in the C.V. (aquarium@vm1.ulg.ac.be). 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Received: from falco ([161.142.87.130]) by tualang.unimas.my with SMTP (1.37.109.10G/16.2) id AA198157709; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 13:08:29 +0800 Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 13:08:29 +0800 X-Sender: soakley@tualang.unimas.my X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: "Dr. Steve Oakley" Subject: Coral Reef Research in Malaysia Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Attn Coral reef or Marine ecosytem researchers We have funding for 5 one month expeditions during the next 3 years to remote unstudied tropical marine ecosystems off the island of Borneo. These include soft bottoms, coral reefs & mangrove swamps. We should be able to provide the resources for most suitable research topics in taxonomy, ecology, biology, behaviour, resources etc. If you can provide funds for yourself (flights & food mostly), we would be interested in hearing from you. Attn JAPANESE MARINE BIOLOGISTS ONLY We have full funding for Japanese scientists to take part in the expeditions. If you are interested and have any suitable research proposal we will forward to the Japanese evaluation committee. Dr Steve Oakley soakley@tualang.unimas.my Institute of Biodiversity & Environmental Conservation Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, KotaSamarahan 94300 Fax 082 672275 Tel 082 671000 x 260 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Jun 6 04:40:13 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA07636; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 04:40:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id IAA07817; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 08:29:04 GMT Received: from nangka.usc.edu.ph by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id EAA07811; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 04:28:48 -0400 Received: from mangga.usc.edu.ph (mangga.usc.edu.ph [165.220.28.252]) by nangka.usc.edu.ph (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA09071 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 16:32:11 +0800 Received: from MANGGA/SpoolDir by mangga.usc.edu.ph (Mercury 1.21); 6 Jun 96 16:16:58 +800 Received: from SpoolDir by MANGGA (Mercury 1.21); 6 Jun 96 16:16:00 +800 From: "Marine Biology Section, USC, Cebu, Philippi" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 16:15:48 +0000 Subject: Re: Proceedings Philippine Marine Science Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.30) Message-ID: <286306A051A@mangga.usc.edu.ph> Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear All, I am posting an announcement for the Proceedings of the Third National Symposium in Philippine Marine Science, ed. by Filipina Sotto, Jason Young, and Fr. Joseph Baumgartner, SVD. We have only a few limited copies left. This book contains 20 original articles and 67 abstracts from the symposium held in Iloilo, Panay Island, on May 3-4, 1994. The articles are peer-reviewed by international scientists. Cost is only US$ 40.00 including air mail. This book is important since it provides information from a region that is relatively unknown, though containing one of the highest biodiversity in the world. Topics include aquaculture, coastal resource management, molecular biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, ecology, oceanography and pollution. All proceeds go directly to the Philippine Association of Marine Science. Thank you very much for your time and support. Jason Young ____sender's name_____ Marine Biology Section University of San Carlos fax (+63-32) 3460351 Cebu City 6000, Philippines email: mbs@mangga.usc.edu.ph ****** When replying, PLEASE INCLUDE ADDRESSEE'S NAME IN SUBJECT HEADER *** thanks. ******** From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Jun 6 11:20:43 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA11637; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 11:20:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA08267; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 15:08:14 GMT Received: from usgcrp.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA08262; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 11:08:11 -0400 Received: from [131.182.242.88] by usgcrp.gov (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA19606; Thu, 6 Jun 96 11:09:12 EDT X-Sender: tsocci@earth.usgcrp.gov Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 11:02:53 -0400 To: CARRIERPIGEON-L@cornell.edu, ecol-econ@csf.colorado.edu (Clim-Econ List), CNN-NEWSROOM@listserv.aol.com, coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, ecolog-l@umdd.umd.edu (ESA List), een@esa.mhs.compuserve.com (EEN) From: tsocci@usgcrp.gov (Tony Socci) Subject: June 10th USGCRP Seminar Flyer on Forests - Final Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: U.S. Global Change Research Program Second Monday Seminar Series FOREST RESPONSES TO CHANGES IN ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND CLIMATE What is the response of forests to increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide and other gases? What impact has climate change had on forests? What are the combined effects of these influences on soil fertility, forest productivity, and forest ecosystems? Do forests in different regions exhibit different responses to these influences? What is the outlook for forests 25 to 50 years from now, and beyond? Public Invited Monday June 10, 1996, 3:15-4:45 PM Rayburn House Office Bldg., Room B369, Washington, DC Reception Following INTRODUCTION Dr. Jerry Sesco, Deputy Chief of Forest Service for Research, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Washington, DC SPEAKERS Dr. Richard Birdsey, Program Manager, Northern Global Change Program, USDA Forest Service, Radnor, PA Dr. J. G. Isebrands, Project Leader, North Central Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service, Rhinelander, WI. Background Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most important of the greenhouse gases that are influenced directly by human activities. The rising atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide is predicted to enhance photosynthesis of some plants and to warm the climate. The CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is determined by the emissions from combustion of fossil fuels and by CO2 uptake and release by the Earth's oceans, vegetation, and soils. Carbon dioxide is taken up by land plants, which annually consume about twelve times the world's fossil fuel emissions. The biosphere also gives off about the same amout of CO2 through respiration and plant decay. This makes land plants a critical part of the global carbon cycle. Global observations clearly indicate atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are increasing. However, the rate of increase in atmospheric CO2 is not as high as expected based on the increase in fossil fuel emissions. This "missing" carbon is being taken up by either the oceans or the terrestrial biosphere (plants and soils), or both. Understanding these carbon transfers is critical to predicting the importance of global climate change and its consequences. Recent studies have pointed to carbon accumulation in temperate forests of the Northern Hemisphere as a likely explanation for the imbalance in the global carbon budget. It is thought that several factors may be accounting for the increase in the carbon uptake by the terrestrial biosphere - the regrowth of forests in regions where farming is being reduced, increased plant growth due to the increase in the CO2 concentration of the atmosphere, and increased forest productivity as a result of nitrogen deposition. Atmospheric Changes and Forest Responses Trees and ecosystems are affected by an array of environmental factors that vary in space and time, and so a particularly important area of research has been the simultaneous effects of multiple factors on forests. While simple experiments may show the effects of a single factor, it is the timing and intensity of interactions between multiple factors that determine how a tree responds to environmental change. There are also genetic factors that determine the sensitivity of individual trees to stress, and their adaptability to a new environment. It is generally accepted that scientists need to study more natural systems because of significant difficulties with exposure chamber techniques. Under the auspices of the U.S. Global Chnage Research Program, a multi-agency terrestrial ecology program, augmented by funding from private sources, a new chamberless experimental facility is under development at a U.S. Forest Service site in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. This will be the largest "free air CO2 enrichment" (FACE) experimental facility in the U.S., consisting of 12 exposure rings, several different tree species, and the capability to simulate exposures to CO2 and ozone, singly and in combination. In multi-factor, multi-year experiments using exposure chambers, different tree species have shown very different responses to elevated ozone levels, alone and in combination with elevated CO2 levels. For example, aspen is highly sensitive to ozone and there are strong genotypic differences. Ozone reduces biomass production and root growth in aspen, and an increase in the CO2 concentration does not compensate for the reduction. This negative interaction between CO2 and ozone decreases aspen photosynthesis rates more than ozone stress alone. In contrast, white pine and yellow poplar show no significant detectable adverse effects of exposure to ozone, and growth has been stimulated with the simultaneous addition of CO2. Models of Forest Behavior and Response Integrated models of physical, biological, and social systems are being used to address the effects of different scenarios of climate change on forest productivity, carbon storage, and the timber economy. Initial projections from these models suggest that increases in productivity are likely for northern forest types, while southern forest types may show small increases or decreases in productivity. In one extreme scenario for the southeastern U.S., much of the dense pine forest would be replaced by a pine savanna of low productivity. Forests in the western U.S. may be highly sensitive to small climate changes because they often grow at or near the limits of climate tolerated by tree species. When the ecosystem models are linked with economic models, results show that projected increases in productivity may not lead to increases in harvest at the national scale because the market responds to many different factors besides timber growth. The models project some redistribution of harvest among regions, which would in turn lead to some changes in fiber types and the ownership of lands from which wood is harvested. Harvested timber will add to a growing pool of carbon in wood products. Byproducts from timber production, which are burned for energy, reduce the combustion of fossil fuels that adds long-stored carbon back into the atmosphere. Retrospective applications of the models have explored uptake and release of carbon by forests and forest products. Results suggest that U.S. forests are currently a net sink for carbon. Increases in biomass on U.S. forest lands over the last 40 years are estimated to have added 281 million metric tons per year of stored carbon, enough to offset 25 percent of U.S. emissions for the period. Most of this additional carbon is found in regrowing forests on abandoned agricultural land in the eastern U.S. These estimates indeed suggest that some of the "missing" carbon can be accounted for by storage in northern temperate forests. The integrated models are currently undergoing extensive revisions in preparation for another round of projections based on updated forest inventory data, new climate projections, and developments in modeling techniques. An international model intercomparison study known as VEMAP (Vegetation Ecosystem Model Analysis Project) has compared the results of 3 biogeochemistry models for simulating the response of 21 different U.S. vegetation types to climate change scenarios. This exercise has helped the model developers understand the strengths and weaknesses in representing key ecosystems processes, and will facilitate analytical review of uncertainty in projections of vegetation change. Forest Management to Offset CO2 Emissions Opportunities to increase carbon storage above the expected baseline have been identified and are beginning to influence landowner decisions. Studies have shown that CO2 emissions can be effectively offset by sequestering additional carbon at various steps in the life cycle of wood growth, harvest, use, and disposal. Typical practices to offset carbon emissions include (1) tree planting on marginal agricultural land, (2) increasing timber growth on forests now used for timber production, (3) increasing the use of wood in place of fossil fuels, and (4) improving wood utilization. Several U.S. agencies, in partnership with American Forests, a nonprofit organization that represents many land owners, have been quantifying how various management practices used in different regions and forest types may impact carbon storage over long periods of time. This information has been used by utility companies to design carbon offset projects to compensate for CO2 emissions that are a byproduct of energy generation from fossil fuels. Other landowners have begun to use estimates of carbon storage under different forest conditions to quantify accomplishments under the Department of Energy's "Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Reductions" Program. Biographies Dr. Richard Birdsey is Program Manager of the Northern Global Change Research Program within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. He is a specialist in quantitative methods for large-scale forest inventories and has pioneered the development of methods to estimate national carbon budgets for forest lands from forest inventory data. He spent 10 years as team leader for forest inventory research in the Midsouth States. He was a principal contributor to several regional and national assessments of future timber supply in the South and the Nation. He designed the first comprehensive inventories of forest resources in Puerto Rico and St. Vincent, West Indies. He is a contributor to the ongoing inventory of U.S. greenhouse gases and sinks compiled by USDA, EPA, and DOE. He also cooperates with the Sukachev Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in a project to estimate the Russian carbon budget. He was a major contributor to the most recent assessment of climate change impacts on America's forests conducted as part of the decadal Resources Planning Act Assessment. In his current role as Program Manager, Dr. Birdsey is coordinating a national effort to link biological and economic models with atmospheric models to assess the impacts of global change on U.S. forests, and to analyze mitigation and adaptation strategies. He manages a large basic research program involving a dozen U.S. Forest Service Laboratories and Experimental Forests in the Northeast and North Central States, with research emphases on basic plant processes, ecosystem nutrient cycling, and measurement and modeling techniques. Dr. Birdsey has degrees in quantitative methods and world forestry from the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Dr. J. G. Isebrands is Project Leader of a research project in the USDA Forest Service (FS), North Central Forest Experiment Station entitled "Physiological mechanisms of growth and multiple stress responses in northern forests" located in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. His research expertise is tree physiology with emphasis on carbon allocation, tree canopy architecture and physiological growth process modeling. He is currently the FS representative to the Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems Core Project (GCTE) of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) as well as the FS representative to the FAO-sponsored International Poplar Commission. He was involved in the formation of the current FS Global Change Program and is currently on the technical advisory committee of the FS Northern Global Change Program. He has received an award from this group for fostering cooperative research. For 8 years he was the chairman of the International Union Forest Research Organization (IUFRO) Working Group on "Forest tree canopies" and has been the cochairman of the international meetings for that group in Italy, New Zealand, and the U.S. He currently holds adjunct research professorships at four universities including University of Minnesota, Michigan Tech University, University of Washington, and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He holds graduate degrees in forestry and forest science from Iowa State University, Ames, IA and is the author and/or co-author of over 100 scientific publications. PLANNED TOPIC FOR NEXT SEMINAR on Monday, July 15, 1996 A Look at Climate Feedbacks and Controls For more information please contact: Dr. Anthony D. Socci, U.S. Global Change Research Program Office 300 D St., SW, Suite 840, Washington, DC 20024 Telephone: (202) 651-8244; Fax: (202) 554-6715 E-Mail: TSOCCI@USGCRP.GOV. Additional information on the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and this Seminar Series is available on the USGCRP Home Page at: http://www.usgcrp.gov. Normally these seminars are held on the second Monday of each month. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Jun 6 12:53:03 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA12585; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 12:52:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA08338; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 16:42:07 GMT Received: from lendal.york.ac.uk by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA08333; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 12:42:03 -0400 Received: from mailer.york.ac.uk by lendal.york.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Thu, 6 Jun 1996 17:29:54 +0100 Received: from eeempc17 by mailer.york.ac.uk via SMTP (950511.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH526/940406.SGI) for id RAA04679; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 17:23:00 +0100 Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 17:22:57 BST From: Callum Roberts Subject: Nominations for ISRS Council To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Message-ID: Priority: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Colleagues, Thanks to all of you who responded to my recent posting asking for nominations for councillors of the International Society for Reef Studies. This note is to let you know that by a decision of the council of ISRS the deadline for nominations has been extended to the 31st August in order to allow everybody time to have a say in the process. Among the current nominees, the USA and Europe are well represented. However, we are particularly keen to expand the geographic base of ISRS council and so still seek nominations of people from developing countries, Australasia and the Pacific to even the balance out a little. Please give some thought to possible nominees from these areas especially. Those nominating somebody need to obtain their permission and need to forward to me (or get the nominee to forward) a brief paragraph stating interests and experience. Self nominations are welcome. I look forward to receiving your responses. Best wishes, Callum Roberts Corresponding Secretary ISRS EEEM, University of York, York, YO1 5DD, UK Fax: +44 1904 432998 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Jun 6 15:46:53 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA14466; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 15:46:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA08564; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 19:30:06 GMT Received: from LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA08558; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 15:30:03 -0400 Received: from LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU by LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8665; Thu, 06 Jun 96 14:27:35 CDT Received: from LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU (NJE origin TSNELL@LSUVM) by LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 5344; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 14:27:35 -0500 Date: Thu, 06 Jun 96 14:23:18 CDT From: Tonya Subject: spawning 1996 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Mailer: MailBook 95.01.263 Message-Id: <960606.142734.CDT.TSNELL@LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU> Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I would like to witness the coral spawning event this year and was hoping someone could tell me what the expected dates are. If anyone is looking for volunteers to record these events please let me know. I am a grad student at Louisiana State University working on coral genetics and I am SCUBA certified. I hope to here from some of you. Thanks... Tonya From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Jun 7 10:09:15 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA25945; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 10:09:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA09377; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 13:44:24 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA09372; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 09:44:21 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id JAA03832; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 09:44:20 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 09:44:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov cc: huss@aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Online Directory expanded Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Thanks to Dr. C. Mark Eakin of NOAA's Office of Globabl Programs, and the programming efforts of Ms. Betty Huss of NOAA/AOML/OCD, our Online Coral Researchers Directory has been *significantly* expanded to include names and contact information for most of the world's coral reef researchers. The directory, which is updated frequently, can be found as a URL link off our CHAMP home page at: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov If you have any updates or corrections to the list, please drop a line. Many thanks for your interest. Sincerely yours, Jim Hendee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | Coral Health and Monitoring Program | | Ocean Chemistry Division | | Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory | | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | | Miami, Florida | | USA | | | | Email: coral@coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | World-Wide Web: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Jun 7 11:08:38 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA26507; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 11:08:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA09492; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 14:54:26 GMT Received: from medea.gp.usm.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA09486; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 10:54:21 -0400 Received: (swalker@localhost) by medea.gp.usm.edu (8.6.12/8.6.4) id JAA25073; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 09:56:04 -0500 From: "Sharon H. Walker" Message-Id: <199606071456.JAA25073@medea.gp.usm.edu> Subject: coral reef teaching materials sought To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, iyor-l@uriacc.uri.edu Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 09:56:03 -0500 (CDT) Cc: swalker@medea.gp.usm.edu X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: WANTED: CORAL REEF TEACHING MATERIALS FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS. Instructional materials on coral reefs (coral biology, reef structures and features, flora and fauna, ecology, pollution, destruction, conservation, and related topics) geared for high school students or younger are sought for a translation project which will result in a teacher's manual for Spanish-speaking students. THE CORAL REEF CURRICULAR MATERIALS TRANSLATION PROJECT is being funded by E.P.A. and coordinated by the J.L.Scott Marine Education Center in Biloxi, MS. If you are using, or are aware of, exceptional quality instructional resources (concepts/hands-on activities), please reply A.S.A.P to Amanda Newton at (601)374-5550 or swalker@medea.gp.usm.edu. or FAX (601)374-5559. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Jun 7 12:40:21 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA27407; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 12:40:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA09686; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 16:26:11 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA09681; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 12:26:09 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA04454; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 12:26:08 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 12:26:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: AVHRR images of coral reef areas Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Greetings! The Remote Sensing Facility of the Department of Marine Science, University of South Florida, in St. Petersburg, Florida, and NOAA/AOML/OCD's Coral Health and Monitoring Program, are collaborating to provide Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) images to the coral research community. This capability provides researchers with another tool for gaining a better understanding of the influence of water masses on the health of coral assemblages. The images are available as a URL link off the CHAMP Home Page at: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov The AVHRR data has been processed to represent sea surface temperature (SST) fields. Only images which have 20% or better SST coverage over water will be displayed, so the most recent image may not be today's. Past images are archived and available. At the present time, only AVHRR images of Florida Bay and the Florida Straits are available, but if you have other reef areas you'd like to see, or if you have other special requests, please drop a line. Sincerely yours, Jim Hendee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | Coral Health and Monitoring Program | | Ocean Chemistry Division | | Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory | | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | | Miami, Florida | | USA | | | | Email: coral@coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | World-Wide Web: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Jun 7 13:07:24 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA28036; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 13:07:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA09800; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 16:53:25 GMT Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA09795; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 12:53:22 -0400 Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by ns-mx.uiowa.edu (8.7.5/19950309.1) on Fri, 7 Jun 1996 11:51:11 -0500 id LAA19953 with SMTP Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 11:51:11 -0500 Message-Id: <199606071651.LAA19953@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> X-Sender: davidson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.1.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Osha Gray Davidson Subject: UnCover Reveal Alert Service Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Anyone familiar with UnCover's Reveal Alert Service? For $20/year they say they'll e-mail the most recent tables of contents from 50 journals (you pick'em from their list of 17,000 title). AND once a week they'll run a search of user-provided terms of new articles in their database--again, e-mailing you the results. Sounds good; has anyone tried it? Then there's the question of which journals? I'm a science writer new to this field: Can list-serve members suggest which journals are most important to keep posted on? (I won't even get into the question of best search terms at this point!) Thanks Osha Gray Davidson By the way, they're URL is: http://www.carl.org From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Jun 8 11:39:14 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA10009; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 11:39:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA10876; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 15:16:00 GMT Received: from emout14.mail.aol.com by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA10871; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 11:15:57 -0400 From: PRJCOLLI@aol.com Received: by emout14.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA14040 for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 11:13:54 -0400 Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 11:13:54 -0400 Message-ID: <960608111353_409913450@emout14.mail.aol.com> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Reproduction of corals Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Does anyone out there know anything about reproduction in Culicia spp. and Oulastrea spp... (spawn, brood, hermap, gonochoric?). I need this info to link with recruitment data. Many Thanks Peter Collinson The University of Hong Kong From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Jun 8 17:55:43 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA12247; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 17:55:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA11130; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 21:44:29 GMT Received: from io.org by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA11125; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 17:44:27 -0400 Received: from dyna-102.net7b.io.org (dyna-102.net7b.io.org [204.92.49.102]) by io.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA23133 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 17:42:23 -0400 Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 17:42:23 -0400 Message-Id: <199606082142.RAA23133@io.org> X-Sender: howzit@io.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Ursula Keuper-Bennett Subject: Important NOAA resource now online Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear CORALers, I am really a turtle person but I hang around here because I know the welfare of corals and reefs is critical to keeping marine turtles healthy. For the past four months I have been surfing the net trying to locate environmental information on all Green Turtle Fibropapilloma sites reported by Drs. Herbst and Williams. I was doing quite well too. Today is Ocean Day. As if to commemorate it, I came upon a most remarkable resource at a NOAA website. Newly posted on May 30th is Chapter 1 (NOAA document) "State of the Reefs: Regional and Global Perspectives". I was into the third paragraph before I realized I had forgotten to breathe! Neatly presented was much of the environmental information I had been searching for all these evenings! This web document has summarized conditions and trends of the world's reefs. I think this NOAA resource is important for all people interested in corals and reef systems. If you aren't already concerned about much of the world's tropical and sub-tropical coastlines you'll be sounding the alarm after THIS read! You can reach this document DIRECTLY at: http://www.nos.noaa.gov/icri/state.html But also put The Coral Health and Monitoring Program homepage in your bookmarks. It can be reached at: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/ Visiting the NOAA website will only get you Chapter One of this document. What follows is information necessary for people (like me) who want to order the entire thing. Jameson, S.C., J.W. McManus and M.D. Spalding. 1995. State of the Reefs: Regional and Global Perspectives. International Coral Reef Initiative Executive Secretariat Background Paper, US Department of State, Washington, DC, 32 p. For copies of the complete paper contact Stephen C. Jameson, US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, 1305 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA. I thank Drs. Jameson, McManus and Spalding for writing this resource, Jim Hendee (webmaster of NOAA site) for announcing it and NOAA for funding this critical research. Some turtle friends I know back in Hawaii thank them too. ^ Ursula Keuper-Bennett 0 0 Mississauga, Ontario /V^\ I I /^V\ Email: howzit@io.org /V Turtle Trax V\ Visit the Turtle Trax Cartoon at: /V Forever Green V\ http://www.io.org/~bunrab/toon.htm From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Jun 10 00:43:06 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA22796; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 00:42:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id EAA12337; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 04:26:09 GMT Received: from UMBC2.UMBC.EDU by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id AAA12332; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 00:26:02 -0400 From: JSTEIN1@umbc2.umbc.edu Received: from UMBC2.UMBC.EDU by UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (PMDF V4.3-10 #1) id <01I5Q2VMNIN4004HB3@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU>; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 00:23:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 00:23:50 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: UnCover Reveal Alert Service In-reply-to: <199606071651.LAA19953@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> To: Osha Gray Davidson Cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: If you have a University or other affiliation they may already have a site liscense that can carry you and save you the yearly fee. I'm new to the service but people say it works well. James Stein Department of Geography University of Maryland Baltimore County On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Osha Gray Davidson wrote: > Anyone familiar with UnCover's Reveal Alert Service? For $20/year they say > they'll e-mail the most recent tables of contents from 50 journals (you > pick'em from their list of 17,000 title). AND once a week they'll run a > search of user-provided terms of new articles in their database--again, > e-mailing you the results. Sounds good; has anyone tried it? Then there's > the question of which journals? I'm a science writer new to this field: Can > list-serve members suggest which journals are most important to keep posted > on? (I won't even get into the question of best search terms at this point!) > Thanks > Osha Gray Davidson > By the way, they're URL is: http://www.carl.org > > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Jun 10 21:37:03 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA08661; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 21:36:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA00846; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 01:25:12 GMT Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA00841; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 21:25:10 -0400 Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by ns-mx.uiowa.edu (8.7.5/19950309.1) on Mon, 10 Jun 1996 20:22:37 -0500 id UAA13619 with SMTP Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 20:22:37 -0500 Message-Id: <199606110122.UAA13619@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> X-Sender: davidson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.1.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Osha Gray Davidson Subject: Red Sea Marine Peace Park Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I recently read about the possibility of developing a management plan for a Red Sea Marine Peace Park in the northern Gulf of Aqaba. Anyone involved in this--or can tell me more about it? Thanks, Osha From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Jun 11 08:29:19 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA12751; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 08:29:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA01266; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 12:17:02 GMT Received: from UMBC2.UMBC.EDU by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA01261; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 08:16:55 -0400 From: SHASHAR@umbc2.umbc.edu Received: from UMBC2.UMBC.EDU by UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (PMDF V4.3-10 #1) id <01I5RXLBR7AO0059DI@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU>; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 08:14:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 08:14:19 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Red Sea Marine Peace Park In-reply-to: <199606110122.UAA13619@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> To: Osha Gray Davidson Cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, ani Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: There are actually 2 things with similar names 1) The Peace Park. You can get more information about it from Mr. B. Mieremet of NOAA, who runs the project. Phone (301) 713-3155 ext. 127. 2) The Peace Reef. You can get info at an home page which is under construction at http://www2.hawaii.edu/wormlab/peacerf.html I am involved with the latter and wil be happy to follow up if you want. Take care nadav On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Osha Gray Davidson wrote: > I recently read about the possibility of developing a management plan for a > Red Sea Marine Peace Park in the northern Gulf of Aqaba. Anyone involved in > this--or can tell me more about it? > Thanks, > Osha > > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Jun 12 13:55:31 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA03191; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 13:55:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA02969; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 17:19:08 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA02964; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 13:19:06 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA04677; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 13:19:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 13:19:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Reef Awareness Key in Key West, FL Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Forwarded information: Press Release: For Immediate Release June 6, 1996 Contact: DeeVon Quirolo, Reef Relief (305) 294-3100 Reef Awareness Week planned for July 21-27, 1996 Reef Awareness Week, the annual event designed to enhance appreciation and support for the coral reef, is planned for July 21-27, 1996 in the Florida Keys. REEF RELIEF, the non-profit group dedicated to protecting the coral reef, has organized a full week of activities including discounted family snorkel trips to the reefs near Key West, a petition drive for a coral reef license plate, Children's Day activities at Museums at Crane Point Hammock and a reef excursion for children aboard the Discovery Glassbottom Boat, a luncheon at Islamorada's Cheeca Lodge featuring Harold Hudson on coral restoration, a Buoy Splcing Party hosted by Charterboat Reef Chief and Safe Harbor Marina on Stock Island, the Annual Membership Meeting at Pier House Caribbean Spa Featuring Craig Quirolo's State of the Reef Address and Dr. Brian Lapointe on water quality, the airing of environmental films compliments of TCI Channel 5, a magical Journey to Nature with Umi and more! The event is sponsored in part by American Express and Best Western Hibiscus Motel. "We will be celebrating REEF RELIEF's 10th anniversary during Reef Awareness Week and will kickoff our first Capital Campaign. Come out and show your support for saving North America's only living coral barrier reef!" noted Heidi Golightly, Director of Development. For a schedule or to volunteer, call (305) 294-3100 or visit hte REEF RELIEF Environmental Center at the foot of William Street in Key West. Mailing Address: Post Office Box 430; Key West, FL 33041 Environmental Center & Store: 201 William Street; Key West, FL 33040 Telephone: (305) 294-3100 Fax: (305) 293-9515 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Jun 12 16:18:19 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA05003; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 16:18:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA03086; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 19:56:17 GMT Received: from lenzie.cent.gla.ac.uk by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA03081; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 15:56:14 -0400 Message-Id: <22892.199606121953@lenzie.cent.gla.ac.uk> Received: from pc-26.zoology.gla.ac.uk (pc-26.zoology.gla.ac.uk [130.209.46.26] sender 9227421m) by lenzie.cent.gla.ac.uk (8.7.5/UK-2.2a/cent-sparc) with SMTP id UAA22892 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 20:53:32 +0100 (BST) X-Sender: 9227421m@pop-server.cent.gla.ac.uk X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 20:53:35 +0100 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Fran Marubini <9227421m@udcf.gla.ac.uk> Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I am trying to collect comparative information on calcification, photosynthesis and any other physiological parameter between corals on the reef and in laboratory aquaria. Does anyone know of published comparative reports? Looking forward to your replies, thank you Francesca Marubini From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Jun 12 23:26:47 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA08462; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 23:26:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id DAA03363; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 03:19:33 GMT Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id XAA03358; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 23:19:31 -0400 Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by ns-mx.uiowa.edu (8.7.5/19950309.1) on Wed, 12 Jun 1996 22:17:16 -0500 id WAA22621 with SMTP Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960613041725.00696cb4@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> X-Sender: davidson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 22:17:25 -0600 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Osha Gray Davidson Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear fellow list-servers: I'm a free-lancer at the beginning stages of writing a literary natural history book about coral reefs--for lay-people such as myself. (It will be published by Wiley Press in 1998.) While I'm still working out the details, here's a general view of the project: I'm interested in presenting the history of how humans have come to understand the reef and its ecosystem. Also, in what the threats are to this diverse ecosystem, and in what is being done about them. And, of course, about what is THERE: the flora and fauna of the reef ecosystem (including seagrass beds, mangroves and hardwood hammocks). I plan on visiting a several reefs around the world: in the Caribbean, the Great Barrier Reef, the Red Sea, ??? I want to spent some time in each place with people who are doing research and management work. I come to the subject with admittedly little knowledge, but with a great love for coral reefs--at least for the ones I've known in the Florida Keys. I was a "beach-bum" in Key West in the mid-1970s and spent most of my time snorkeling. I will be attending the Panama symposium (and writing a magazine piece on it) to begin getting an idea of the issues and people involved. (I've also signed up for a summer college course on coral reef ecology so as not to remain a completely ignorant journalist. I have written for the usual suspects: the New York Times, the Nation, the New Republic, and have written a few books--but all of them on political/social issues.) Please feel free to approach me at the symposium if you'd like to talk about some issue you feel is relevant to this project--or if you'd just like to chat. I'm not sure of my hotel assignment yet, but I imagine there will be a communications board up at the symposium site and I will check it regularly. And until then (and afterwards) there is always the blessed e-mail. Looking forward to meeting at least some of you in Panama, Osha From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Jun 13 17:35:44 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA18788; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 17:35:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA04184; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 21:13:45 GMT Received: from ns.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA04179; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 17:13:43 -0400 Received: from ogp.noaa.gov (QUICKMAIL.OGP.NOAA.GOV [140.90.171.10]) by ns.noaa.gov (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA13768; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 17:12:07 -0400 Message-ID: Date: 13 Jun 1996 16:26:37 -0500 From: "Mark Eakin" Subject: Re: Red Sea Marine Peace Par To: "Osha Gray Davidson" Cc: "Recipients of coral-list" , "Steve Jameson" , "Ben Mieremet" X-Mailer: Mail*Link SMTP-QM 3.0.2 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Reply to: RE>Red Sea Marine Peace Park Ben Mieremet at NOAA and Steve Jameson of Coral Seas, Inc. are currently in the middle east working on the management plan. Upon their return you can reach them at: bmieremet@coasts.nos.noaa.gov sjameson@coralseas.com Cheers, Mark -------------------------------------- Date: 6/10/96 8:51 PM To: Mark Eakin From: Osha Gray Davidson I recently read about the possibility of developing a management plan for a Red Sea Marine Peace Park in the northern Gulf of Aqaba. Anyone involved in this--or can tell me more about it? Thanks, Osha ------------------ RFC822 Header Follows ------------------ Received: by ogp.noaa.gov with SMTP;10 Jun 1996 20:50:18 -0500 Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA00846; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 01:25:12 GMT Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA00841; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 21:25:10 -0400 Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by ns-mx.uiowa.edu (8.7.5/19950309.1) on Mon, 10 Jun 1996 20:22:37 -0500 id UAA13619 with SMTP Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 20:22:37 -0500 Message-Id: <199606110122.UAA13619@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> X-Sender: davidson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.1.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Osha Gray Davidson Subject: Red Sea Marine Peace Park Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Jun 14 09:52:08 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA25912; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 09:51:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA04781; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 13:39:25 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA04776; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 09:39:22 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA07650; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 09:39:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 09:39:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: UnCover Reveal - Coral reefs. 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From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Jun 15 02:54:31 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA02874; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 02:54:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id GAA05386; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 06:20:18 GMT Received: from relay1.jaring.my by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id CAA05381; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 02:20:04 -0400 Received: from j4.ktk3.jaring.my (j4.ktk3.jaring.my [161.142.220.226]) by relay1.jaring.my (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA11952 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 14:21:59 +0800 (MYT) Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 14:21:59 +0800 (MYT) Message-Id: <199606150621.OAA11952@relay1.jaring.my> X-Sender: suniwan@pop1.jaring.my X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: DON BAKER Subject: Culture of Hard Corals / Thailand Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Coral List, Word was passed to me from the University of Malaysia - Sabah / Dr Ridzwan Abdul Rahman - that there is successful maturation and culture of Acropora & Pocillopora spp. in Thailand. Can anyone reference more info on this effort? Verify such? Many regards to All, Don Baker From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Wed Jun 16 10:05:23 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA05634; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 10:05:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA06350; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 13:51:41 GMT Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA06345; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 09:51:38 -0400 Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by ns-mx.uiowa.edu (8.7.5/19950309.1) on Sun, 16 Jun 1996 08:53:42 -0500 id IAA30352 with SMTP Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960616145335.00676f20@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> X-Sender: davidson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 08:53:35 -0600 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Osha Gray Davidson Subject: Honduras Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hi--Anyone doing work on or know about coral reefs around the island of Roatan, off the Honduran coast? Thanks, Osha From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Jun 17 14:42:37 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA15443; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 14:42:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA00886; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 18:20:04 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA00881; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 14:20:01 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA00988; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 14:20:00 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 14:20:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: CHAMP Web Problems Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Unfortunately, one of the Coral Health and Monitoring Program hard disks that holds ICRI documents (and other items, including AVHRR images) for access over the Web crashed over the weekend. Hopefully it will be up soon. Please note that several important ICRI documents may be obtainable at: http://wave.nos.noaa.gov/icri/csd/report.html (except, of course, ones that link back to the CHAMP server). Thanks for you patience. Sincerely yours, Jim Hendee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | Coral Health and Monitoring Program | | Ocean Chemistry Division | | Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory | | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | | Miami, Florida | | USA | | | | Email: coral@coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | World-Wide Web: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Jun 19 09:25:52 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA29280; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 09:25:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA01240; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 12:34:37 GMT Received: from kuhub.cc.ukans.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA01234; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 08:34:33 -0400 Received: from msmail.kgs.ukans.edu by KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU (PMDF V5.0-6 #13311) id <01I632MX6U408ZQC1T@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU> for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 07:37:08 -0500 (UTC -05:00) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 07:32:42 +0800 (U) From: Bob Buddemeier Subject: Coral Reefs, Global Change, ICRS8 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Message-id: <01I632MX7S0I8ZQC1T@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Return-receipt-to: "Bob Buddemeier" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Coral Reefs, Global Change, and ICRS8 On Thursday June 27 at the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium in Panama there will be a workshop session addressing the topic: Coral Reef Responses to Global Change: The Role of Adaptation. This is intended to provide an opportunity for the larger scientific community to participate in and contribute to the activities of SCOR Working Group 104, which is addressing this topic. The workshop will consist of topical discussion sessions, initiated by BRIEF individual or panel presentations to set the stage for general input and discussion. Details may be modified as the Symposium progresses, but the topical areas will include: 1. The fuzzy borderline between adaptation and acclimation: reproduction, genetics, life histories and evolution -- and the ever-popular species problem. 2. Community structure and function over time and space -- who matters, how obligate are their associations, how do they find each other, and what do they do when single? 3. Organism physiology and endosymbiosis as controls on acclimation -- the problem of locally determined tolerance levels and other untidy details. 4. Stress, synergism, and environmental preference -- nutrients, light, temperature, carbonate saturation state, and other subtly critical environmental variables. The exact schedules of discussion will be determined and posted or circulated at the meeting, in order to minimize conflicts with other workshops and to take advantage of the available expertise. All are welcome and reservations are not required, but anyone with extensive interests in or potential contributions to any of the topics is invited to contact me prior to the event: Robert W. Buddemeier email: Bob_Buddemeier@msmail.kgs.ukans.edu (through June 22) or at the Plaza Paitilla Inn in Panama durig the Symposium From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Jun 19 10:45:17 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA00887; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 10:45:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA01433; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 14:21:29 GMT Received: from unh.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA01427; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 10:21:26 -0400 Received: from christa.unh.edu by unh.edu with SMTP id AA14242 (5.67b+/IDA-1.5 for ); Wed, 19 Jun 1996 10:23:59 -0400 Received: from [132.177.151.156] (zoology-m01.unh.edu [132.177.151.156]) by christa.unh.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA30934 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 10:23:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 10:23:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: mpl@christa.unh.edu (Michael P. Lesser) Subject: Belize Bleaching Update Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Having just returned from Belize at Carrie Bow Cay I wanted to update the reports of widespread bleaching there in 1995 on the coral-list. At this time temperatures have returned to their seasonal norms (27=B0C @ 15-20 m an= d 28-29=B0C at <1m) at mid-day. Surveys of both the outer and inner reefs at Carrie Bow and adjacent areas suggest widespread recovery of corals. An occasional sample of Agaricia lamarki (@15 m or greater) or Montastrea annularis (Morphotype I and II in 1-5 m) still appear to be recovering, or recently bleached, as suggested by their mottled coloration. No widespread mortality of corals, that might be attributable to the 1995 bleaching event, was evident as well. Michael P. Lesser University of New Hampshire Departments of Zoology and Microbiology Durham, NH 03824 (603) 862-3442 (W) (603) 862-3784 (FAX) From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Jun 19 12:20:48 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA01856; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 12:20:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA01591; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 16:07:12 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA01586; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 12:07:09 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA03203; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 12:07:08 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 12:07:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: ICRI Docs available Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The complete document of the ICRI Workshop, May 29 through June 2, 1995 is again available in three different formats at the following URL: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/icri/icri.html Sorry for the inconvenience of its inaccessibility for a short while. Sincerely yours, Jim Hendee From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Jun 19 15:03:22 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA03848; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 15:03:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA01815; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 18:48:52 GMT Received: from gracie.grdl.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA01810; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 14:48:45 -0400 Received: from ocean.nos.noaa.gov by gracie.grdl.noaa.gov with SMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA001530277; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 14:51:17 -0400 Message-Id: Date: 19 Jun 1996 14:51:23 -0500 From: "Haskell, B." Subject: Florida Keys Marine Research at Your Fingertips To: "Coral list" X-Mailer: Mail*Link SMTP-MS 3.0.0 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Florida Keys Marine Research at Your Fingertips After months of intense work compiling abstracts on the broad array of marine research projects conducted here in the Keys, the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is now offering public access to a database of research papers and educational materials on local marine resources. The database includes citations for peer reviewed journals, state and federal reports, and other reference materials. In an effort to provide a broad audience with an efficient means of obtaining information on marine resources, a growing number of documents, ranging from published scientific papers to educational videotapes, have been compiled and catalogued in a computer database. These materials focus on the many different aspects of the biological and physical characteristics of the Florida Keys marine environment. This database project was initiated by the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and The Nature Conservancy utilizing AmeriCorps and other volunteers to collect and enter information. Citations and summaries of over 1,000 documents are now easily accessible by Internet at URL: www.fknms.nos.noaa.gov. Because these citations are computerized, a person can search all the documents for the particular subject of interest, read the summary, and identify where to find the complete document. This database of documents on Keys resources will continue to grow as new information is added. Many of the educational and scientific institutions of the Florida Keys have expressed interest in participating, and it is the project's continuing goal to include as many of their collections as possible in the database. I hope you find this a useful resource. Benjamin Haskell Science Coordinator bhaskell@ocean.nos.noaa.gov From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Jun 19 15:13:30 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA04003; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 15:13:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA01849; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 19:02:45 GMT Received: from usgcrp.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA01844; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 15:02:39 -0400 Received: from [131.182.242.88] by usgcrp.gov (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA14892; Wed, 19 Jun 96 15:09:23 EDT X-Sender: tsocci@earth.usgcrp.gov Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 15:04:45 -0400 To: BIOREGIONAL@csf.colorado.edu, CARRIERPIGEON-L@cornell.edu, ecol-econ@csf.colorado.edu (Clim-Econ List), CNN-NEWSROOM@listserv.aol.com, coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: tsocci@usgcrp.gov (Tony Socci) Subject: US Global Change Seminar Series Questionaire Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: US Global Change Research Program Draft List of Second Monday Sem= inar Series Topics for 1996-97 June 19, 1996 Dear Friends and Colleagues: In our first year, our seminar series has covered a wide range of topics (see list on reverse side). In anticipation of the upcoming year of seminars the U.S. Global Change Research Program Office has compiled a draft list of possible topics to be included in the US Global Change Research Program Second Monday Seminar Series. We would very much appreciate your input regarding this list, and welcome your suggestions as to additional and/or alternative topics. Please indicate your level of interest in the following topics by ranking each of the topics listed below from 0 to 5, with 5 indicating the highest level of interest, 3 general interest, and 0 indicating that the topic is unlikely to be of interest to our primary audience (Congressional staff, reporters and newsletter writers, agency program leaders, NGO's, and those with global and regional environmental interests). Suggestions for additional or alternative topics should also be indicated. Please remember we have only 11 slots each year. Our sincere thanks for your comments, support, and continued interest in the U.S. Global Change Research Program Second Monday Seminar Series. Sincerely Yours, Anthony D. Socci, Ph= .D. Please mail, fax, or e-mail your response to: Dr. Anthony D. Socci U.S. Global Change Research Program Office 300 D St., SW, Suite 840 Washington, DC 20024 Tel. (202) 651-8244 =46ax: (202) 554-6715 E-mail: tsocci@usgcrp.gov Global Change Web Site: http://www.usgcrp.gov Past USGCRP Seminars =46loods and Droughts Climate Models Ice Core Records of Past Climate Changes: Implications for the Future Climate Change and Human Health Signals of Human-Induced Climate Warming Hurricanes Anthropogenic Ozone Depletion: Status and Human Health Implications The Role of Aerosols in Climate Change Coral Reef Bleaching: Ecological and Economic Implications A Close Look at Global Satellite and Surface Temperature Records and Trends Extent and Implications of Land Cover Changes: The View from Space Climate Implications of Abrupt Changes in Ocean Circulation ____________________________________________________________________________= _ Draft Topics for 1996-97 USGCRP Seminars =AE Climate Feedbacks and Controls - What processes are involved in forcing climate change and what are the feedbacks? =AE Possible Economic Paradigms for Assessing the Cost of Climate Change and Mitigation =AE Polar Ice Caps , Mountain Glaciers, and Sea Level Rise: Status, Trends, and Implications =AE The Climate of the Past Few Thousand Years =AE History of the Earth's Climate System - How have Earth's systems and processes operated to bring about climate change over the history of the planet? =AE How Much Atmospheric CO2 Can the Biosphere and the Oceans Absorb? - Wha= t are the climatic implications of nature's limited ability to absorb CO2? =AE Environmental Security in a Climatically-Altered World: The Middle East =AE Climate Change and Water Resources in the Western U.S. =AE Anomalous Absorption of Solar Radiation =AE Emissions Trends and Projections: Possible Pathways into the 21St Centu= ry =AE Climate Surprises - What low probability events could lead to large changes in climate? =AE Assessing the Cost of a Weather-Related Disaster =AE Indicators of Climate Change: The Observational Record =AE An Economic Look at Climate Mitigation Options =AE Barriers to the Use of Renewable Energy and More Energy Efficient Technologies =AE Detection of Global Warming: The Ocean Acoustical Experiment =AE Chemical Feedbacks and Climate Warming: The Case of Methane Hydrates =AE El Nino Forecasting: The Cost and Economic and Social Benefits =AE Tropospheric Ozone: How Is It Changing and What Effects Would It Have? =AE Stratospheric Ozone: When Will the Decline in CFC Concentrations Close the Ozone Hole? =AE Satellites: What Are They Telling Us About the Earth System? =AE Deserts: Are They Expanding? =AE Tropical Forests: How Fast Are They Disappearing? =AE Uncertainties: Perspectives from Effects and Consequences Research =AE Food Production and Global Environmental Change: What Are the Prospects? =AE International and Intergenerational Equity: What's Involved? Additional Suggestions: ___________________________________________ Optional Information: What is your organizational affiliation? =AE Federal or State Agency =AE Non-Government Organization =AE Academic Institution =AE U.S. Congress =AE International Organization =AE Other (Please Specify) ___________________________ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Jun 20 06:50:43 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA09221; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 06:50:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id KAA02429; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 10:27:41 GMT Received: from sme.univ-mrs.fr by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id GAA02424; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 06:27:37 -0400 Received: from [139.124.16.46] (smemac16.univ-mrs.fr) by sme.univ-mrs.fr with SMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA173136596; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 12:29:56 +0200 X-Sender: thomassi@sme.univ-mrs.fr Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Eudora F1.5.1 Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 12:31:12 +0100 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: thomassi@com.univ-mrs.fr (Bernard A. THOMASSIN) Subject: I.C.R.S. 8th - request for reports available Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: To all the 8th ICRS Workshops Organizators, Unfortunatly for me I cannot attemp the Symposium (lack of money...), so please try to gather for me all the informal papers or reports that will be distributed during the worshop you will organize. This is important for me, but also to make copy for various isolated coral reef researchers (as Madagascar, Moyotte I. or other places in the indopacific). Thanks a lot. Have a nice symposium and attractive discussions. Bernard A. Thomassin From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Jun 20 08:26:25 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA10032; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 08:26:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA02602; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 12:00:23 GMT Received: from aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA02597; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 08:00:17 -0400 Received: from wave.aoml.noaa.gov. (wave [192.111.123.25]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA09798; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 08:02:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from hendee@localhost) by wave.aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3.CAR) id IAA02077; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 08:02:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 08:02:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "James C. Hendee" X-Sender: hendee@wave To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov cc: "Bernard A. THOMASSIN" Subject: Re: I.C.R.S. 8th - request for reports available In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: If anyone attending the Symposium has digital copies of presentations, data, images, etc. that they'd like for me to post on the CHAMP Home Page, please see me at the Symposium, FTP the files to our anonymous ftp site at coral.aoml.noaa.gov (subdirectory pub/champ/8icrs), or mail them to me (address below) and I'll make them publicly available. Sincerely yours, Jim Hendee +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ | James C. Hendee | Internet: hendee@aoml.noaa.gov| | Coral Health and | | | Monitoring Program | Voice: 305 361-4396 | | Ocean Chemistry Division | Fax: 305 361-4392 | | NOAA/AOML | | | 4301 Rickenbacker Causeway | | | Miami, FL 33149-1026 | http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov | +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, Bernard A. THOMASSIN wrote: > Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 12:31:12 +0100 > From: Bernard A. THOMASSIN > To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov > Subject: I.C.R.S. 8th - request for reports available > > To all the 8th ICRS Workshops Organizators, > Unfortunatly for me I cannot attemp the Symposium (lack of money...), so please try to gather for me all the informal papers or reports that will be distributed during the worshop you will organize. This is important for me, but also to make copy for various isolated coral reef researchers (as Madagascar, Moyotte I. or other places in the indopacific). > Thanks a lot. Have a nice symposium and attractive discussions. > > Bernard A. Thomassin > > From owner-coral-list Thu Jun 20 13:42:56 1996 Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA02784; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 13:26:54 GMT Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA02779; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 09:26:52 -0400 Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by ns-mx.uiowa.edu (8.7.5/19950309.1) on Thu, 20 Jun 1996 08:29:04 -0500 id IAA12685 with SMTP Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960620142902.00674e80@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> X-Sender: davidson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 08:29:02 -0600 To: coral-list From: Osha Gray Davidson Subject: Contadora Island Sender: owner-coral-list Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hello all--I've been assigned to the Contadora Island one-day field trip at the Symposium. Can anyone tell me what is significant about this one and shouldn't be missed? Or would my time (and not insignificantly, my money) be better spent elsewhere? Thanks, Osha Gray Davidson From owner-coral-list Thu Jun 20 17:48:20 1996 Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA02980; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 17:34:26 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA02975; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 13:34:24 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA05692; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 13:34:23 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 13:34:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list Subject: Image format Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: For those of you who wish to upload image files of 8ICRS presentations to our anonymous site at coral.aoml.noaa.gov (pub/champ/8icrs), we can handle the following formats: GIF JPG TIF BMP PS X11 Bitmap XPM IRIS RGB Targa (24-bit) FITS PM PBM Adobe Illustrator ...and a few more. Thanks for your interest. Sincerely yours, Jim Hendee From owner-coral-list Thu Jun 20 19:07:31 1996 Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA03042; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:52:02 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA03037; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 14:52:00 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA05880; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 14:51:59 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 14:51:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list Subject: Document format Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Sorry, I should have mentioned this before... If you want documents from the 8ICRS to be obtainable in the format in which they were written, you can put them on our site, but it would be useful to use an identifying file suffix, perhaps so: .MW6 MicroSoft Word 6.0 .WP5 WordPerfect 5.1 or 5.2 .ASC ASCII .PS Postscript .WS7 WordStar 7.0 and so on. MicroSoft Word (v6.0 or v7.0) is preferred. If you want the document to be viewable on the Web, I would of course be *extremely* grateful if you could supply the file in HTML format, but we can work something out. Take care... Jim Hendee P.S. Reminder of site address: anonymous ftp at coral.aoml.noaa.gov in subdirectory /pub/champ/8icrs. From owner-coral-list Fri Jun 21 17:27:51 1996 Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA03948; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 17:10:02 GMT Received: from skull.cc.fc.ul.pt by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA03942; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 13:09:38 -0400 Received: from skull.cc.fc.ul.pt by skull.cc.fc.ul.pt id aa05916; 21 Jun 96 18:09 LISBOA Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 18:08:30 +0100 (LISBOA) From: Miguel Repas To: "Michael P. Lesser" cc: coral-list Subject: Field Guide In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Could anyone please advise me on a field guide to the corals of the Indian Ocean? Many thanks Miguel Repas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIGUEL REPAS - Marine Biologist Rua do Balteiro, 11 E-mail: zrepas@cc.fc.ul.pt 2795 LINDA-A-VELHA Telf: +351 1 419 7465 PORTUGAL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From owner-coral-list Sat Jun 22 02:47:24 1996 Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id CAA04758; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 02:34:28 GMT Received: from ripspost.aist.go.jp by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id WAA04753; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 22:34:17 -0400 Received: from gsjrstn.gsj.go.jp ([150.29.130.31]) by ripspost.aist.go.jp (8.7.5/3.4W4) with ESMTP id LAA23054 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 11:36:24 +0900 (JST) Received: from [150.29.134.93] by gsjrstn.gsj.go.jp (8.7.3/6.4J.6-gsj.MASTER) id LAA20829; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 11:36:23 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: X-Mailer: Macintosh Eudora Pro Version 2.1.3-Jr1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-2022-JP" Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 11:33:37 -0400 To: coral-list From: yamamuro@gsj.go.jp (Masumi Yamamuro) Subject: Book Sites Sender: owner-coral-list Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Is there any web sites where I can check the list of new books? In Japan, there is a web site where you can check the informations of all bo oks published every week. It is useful because I can order the books concerning condition of reef ecos ystems, NGO activities on reefs etc. published local small companies. If there is any such sites in your country, please give me the address. It would be wonderful reading popular books concerning coral reefs to know w hat they mean to people in the world. Sincerely, Masumi YAMAMURO --------------------------------- Masumi YAMAMURO Marine Geology Department Geological Survey of Japan Tel.&Fax: 81-298-54-3766 --------------------------------- From owner-coral-list Sat Jun 22 23:59:39 1996 Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id XAA05458; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 23:43:40 GMT Received: from emout13.mail.aol.com by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA05453; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 19:43:37 -0400 From: PRJCOLLI@aol.com Received: by emout13.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA04555 for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 19:45:47 -0400 Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 19:45:47 -0400 Message-ID: <960622194546_336471730@emout13.mail.aol.com> To: coral-list Subject: Coral Recruitment Sender: owner-coral-list Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear All Hi. Im in a bit of a quandry re coral recruitment. Can anyone out there please help? I need to know how fisheries people acertain cohorts from measurements of i.e., length etc... Are cohorts defined by plotting frequencies of all i.e., lengths, and then performing a polynomial function to separate ie., 3 age/size groups? Or is it completely different!!!!? Many thanks Peter Collinson University of Hong Kong From owner-coral-list Mon Jun 24 22:41:05 1996 Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA07151; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 21:49:24 GMT Received: from cantva.canterbury.ac.nz by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA07146; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 17:49:19 -0400 Received: from zool.canterbury.ac.nz ("port 1423"@zool2.canterbury.ac.nz) by csc.canterbury.ac.nz (PMDF V5.0-6 #7295) id <01I6BL2NZU3WWHYFZP@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 09:51:33 +1200 Received: from DARWIN/MAILQUEUE by zool.canterbury.ac.nz (Mercury 1.13); Tue, 25 Jun 1996 09:54:35 +1200 Received: from MAILQUEUE by DARWIN (Mercury 1.13); Tue, 25 Jun 1996 09:54:30 +1200 Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 09:54:29 +1300 From: "Dr.C.L.McLay" Subject: Reef Slide To: coral-list Reply-to: c.mclay@zool.canterbury.ac.nz Message-id: Organization: Zoology, University of Canterbury X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.1 (R1) Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal Sender: owner-coral-list Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: As part of a Marine Biology course I give a lecture on the crown of thorns starfish. I have a nice slide of a pristine coral reef (Paradise) and a nice slide of Acanthaster (The Bad Guy) but I don't have a slide showing devastation of the reef. I wonder if someone has such a slide, perhaps showing Acanthaster in the midst of its destruction? If you have a suitable slide, I'd very much appreciate a copy. Perhaps I can exchange it for a slide of some New Zealand marine animal - let me know. Dr Colin McLay Zoology Department Canterbury University PB 4800, Christchurch New Zealand. Tel: +64 3 364 2887 FAX: +64 3 364 2024 email: c.mclay@zool.canterbury.ac.nz WWW Home Page: http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/zool/cm.htm From owner-coral-list Tue Jun 25 08:59:08 1996 Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id IAA07669; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 08:50:05 GMT Received: from post.tau.ac.il by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id EAA07664; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 04:49:51 -0400 Received: from ccsg.tau.ac.il (nasoli@ccsg.tau.ac.il [132.66.16.2]) by post.tau.ac.il (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA17887; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 11:51:53 +0300 Received: (from nasoli@localhost) by ccsg.tau.ac.il (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA20529; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 11:51:35 +0300 (IDT) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 11:51:35 +0300 (IDT) From: Nissim Sharon To: Miguel Repas cc: "Michael P. Lesser" , coral-list Subject: Re: Field Guide In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: On Fri, 21 Jun 1996, Miguel Repas wrote: > > Could anyone please advise me on a field guide to the corals of the > Indian Ocean? > Dear Miguel, I happened to be in Nissim's lab when your message arrived. I am based at the Oceanograph8ic Research Institute in Durban, South Africa and have written the coral section for a field guide to marine life on the coast of East Africa. This is being edited by Matt Richmond, presently at Bangor (I think), but soon to be back on Zanzibar at the marine lab of Dar university. I will return to SA on July 8 and you can contact me at seaworld@neptune.lia.co.za to obtain his e-mail and other addresses. Kind regards, Michael Schleyer *************************************************************************** * Nissim Sharon E-mail: nasoli@ccsg.tau.ac.il * * Department of Zoology FAX: 972-3-6409403 * * Tel Aviv University TEL: 972-3-6409090 * * Ramat Aviv HOME: 972-3-5041075 * * Tel Aviv 69978 * * ISRAEL * *************************************************************************** From owner-coral-list Fri Jun 28 01:39:41 1996 Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA10547; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 01:24:15 GMT Received: from umd5.umd.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA10542; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 21:24:12 -0400 Received: from annex12-16.dial.umd.edu (annex12-16.dial.umd.edu [128.8.23.160]) by umd5.umd.edu(8.6.13/95Sep13) with SMTP id VAA07244; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 21:26:27 -0400 Message-Id: <199606280126.VAA07244@umd5.umd.edu> From: "Jennifer A. Wheeler" To: coral-list Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 22:00:02 +0000 Subject: Ornamental Reef Fish - Reg.s and Recruitment Reply-to: wheeler@zool.umd.edu Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail/Windows (v1.22) Sender: owner-coral-list Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Two quick questions for those in the know about the marine aquarium trade: 1. Has the European Community adopted regulations with prohibit trade in organisms unlikely to survive in captivity (discussed in Wood 1992 - reprort on the marine aquarium trade). 2. Has there been some sort of major rethinking about which factors limit numbers of reef fish? I believe the traditional view is that shelter or space as well as food are the primary limiting factors, with recruitment out of the planktonic larval stage not really limiting. Is this now thought to be the other way around - for some or many species? (Something I read in the Johannes and Riepen 1995 report on the live reef fish trade makes me ask.) Well, maybe these weren't quick questions, but I would appreciate any feedback. Thank you. Jennifer Wheeler wheeler@zool.umd.edu From owner-coral-list Sun Jun 30 01:41:20 1996 Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA12611; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 01:20:40 GMT Received: from emout19.mail.aol.com by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA12601; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 21:20:37 -0400 From: PRJCOLLI@aol.com Received: by emout19.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA26364 for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 21:24:03 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 21:24:03 -0400 Message-ID: <960629212401_343821286@emout19.mail.aol.com> To: coral-list Subject: Oulastrea crispata..favids Sender: owner-coral-list Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hi all. Please please help! Its 3-00 am on a Saturday night and I cannot find any data as to growth rates of the black favid Oulastrea crispata. If you know about it in general, or more specifically to recruitment and sizes from initial settlement to 2-3 yrs old I would greatly appreciate it..Many thanks. Yours frustratedly Peter Collinson The University of Hong Kong From owner-coral-list Sun Jun 30 01:41:20 1996 Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA12612; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 01:20:40 GMT Received: from emout08.mail.aol.com by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA12602; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 21:20:37 -0400 From: PRJCOLLI@aol.com Received: by emout08.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA11185 for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 21:23:40 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 21:23:40 -0400 Message-ID: <960629212339_343821299@emout08.mail.aol.com> To: coral-list Subject: Terry Done Sender: owner-coral-list Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Dear Terry Hi. I would like to E-mail and chat to you re: survey methodology...if that OK by you!!!!! Thanks Yours Peter Collinson The University of Hong Kong From owner-coral-list Sun Jun 30 03:24:12 1996 Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id DAA12708; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 03:11:12 GMT Received: from mailhost.worldnet.att.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id XAA12703; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 23:11:10 -0400 Received: by mailhost.worldnet.att.net (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id DAA04020; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 03:13:25 GMT Received: from 193.san-francisco-1.ca.dial-access.att.net(165.238.4.193) by mailhost.worldnet.att.net with SMTP id A3976; Sun Jun 30 03:13:10 1996 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960630011241.006ede04@postoffice.worldnet.att.net> X-Sender: greenlife.society@postoffice.worldnet.att.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 20:12:41 -0500 To: coral-list From: GreenLife Society Subject: Occasional Paper on Palau Sender: owner-coral-list Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Latest publication in IELPOPS series The GreenLife Society announces the release of the 11th paper in its International Environmental Law & Policy Occasional Paper Series (IELPOPS), entitled "Paradise Lost? Environmental Prospects And Politics In The Republic of Palau." (GLSNA IELPOPS No. 11, February, 1996) (18p.) The paper, authored by Erica Rosenberg, former Senior Legal Counsel for the House of Delegates, Palau National Congress, focuses on the threat to Palau's flora and fauna species and suggests means to improve the prospects for preserving the nation's rich biodiversity through legal, political and educational initiatives. Copies of the paper are available for $8.00; which includes shipping and handling. Please add $2.00 for orders outside of the United States. Payments should be made in U.S. currency. We will bill academic institutions, NGOs and government agencies. Orders may be effectuated via e-mail, fax, phone or mail. Our mailing address is: GreenLife Society -North American Chapter, 700 Cragmont Ave., Berkeley, CA 94708, USA, Phone/Fax: (510)558-0620, e-mail: greenlife.society@worldnet.att.net William C. Burns Director, GreenLife Society - North American Chapter 700 Cragmont Ave. Berkeley, CA 94708 USA Phone/Fax: (510) 558-0620 WWW site: http://nceet.snre.umich.edu/greenlife/index.html GLSNA Affiliations: Union of Concerned Scientists, Sound Science Initiative The EarthAction Network The Galapagos Coalition Reseau International d'ONG sur la Desertification (RIOD) Accredited NGO Observer, International Whaling Commission European Social Science Fisheries Network -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." -- William James -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From owner-coral-list Sun Jun 30 23:55:41 1996 Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id XAA13423; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 23:45:08 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA13418; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 19:45:06 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA07069; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 19:45:05 -0400 Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 19:45:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list Subject: Coral Reef "Morrocoy SOS" Venezuela (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-coral-list Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: This is a forwarded message from Edgard A. Yerena concerning reef damage in Vensezuela. Sorry I didn't get to it sooner, but I was in Panama at the 8ICRS. =09JCH =09coral-list administrator ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 18:57:44 -0400 From: Edgard A. Yerena To: hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Coral Reef "Morrocoy SOS" Venezuela Dear Dr. Hendee: In January this year a massive coral reef death occurred in Morrocoy National Park in the western coast of Venezuela. This rather odd fatality happened during the last half of the month, most probable dates between the 20th and 25th. The causes are still not clear. Researchers and experts have outlined 2 major hypothesis: 1- an extremely rare, all of a sudden, drop of surface sea temperature in the order of 6 to 8 degrees Celsius, and 2- a plume of an unknown substance and source that some fishermen reported off the coast during those days. The substance of yellow-brownish colour had a strong smell and when collected in plastic buckets or glass containers "glued" to the surfaces of the recipients. A possible explanation for this second theory suggests that when the plume reached the coastline, the breaking waves made it sink and kill most of the present biota from the surface down to 20 meters+, a renowned local dive operator claims it killed everything down to 40 meters, including fish, crustaceans, and 90-95% of the hard corals. The barrier reef is lost, only the 3 small cays located east off the park seem to have survived in a rather good shape. Strange burnt-like scars can be seen in many coral heads, sponges and other living substrata. We need support to conduct a deeper insight at what really happened. At the moment I am trying to get local people organized into an SOS NGO but it is an uphill way up. We also need to ask some questions through the worldwide CORAL REEF FORUM and my friend John R. Clark from Florida suggested your name: 1- Has a massive dissapearance of this magnitude (10 to 12 kms length approx. of coral reef barrier) ever happened on the planet and has it been recorded in any way? 2- What could we expect to happen with the sorrounding ecosystems, mangroves and sea grass beds? 3- What could we expect to happen with the human activities such as tourism and fisheries? I can take my chances and guess on these questions but would like to receive some answers from colleagues round the world. A final point, and I must apologize for extending myself on this, but is there any possibility of getting NOAA's help or any other competent agency to access Landsat or other sat images of the area during the days concerned in order to identify what was happening with the sea surface behavior at the moment? Please answer me at your earliest convenience, I know that the 6th International Coral Reef Conference is going on in Panama and this might be the opportunity to spread this SOS. A colleague from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, Dr. Sheila Pauls Marques is attending the Congress and will probably be presenting a panel regarding the subject. Please answer me through either peter@link7.lat.net (Peter Czeisler) and/or eyerena@ccs.internet.ve since I do not have e-mail access yet. Thanks & regards, jose ram=F3n delgado, oceanographer Edgard Yerena, M.Sc. Regular Mail: Apartado 68409, Altamira, Caracas 1062, Venezuela Fax: 58+2+2860468 E-Mail: eyerena@ccs.internet.ve From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Jul 2 15:30:22 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA19269; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 15:30:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA15594; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 18:56:33 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA15589; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 14:56:31 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA10080; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 14:56:31 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 14:56:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Etiquette Reminder Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Following is an etiquette reminder for the coral-list members, as requested of me by many researchers whom I had the pleasure of meeting at the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium: 1) When responding to a posting to the list, do not respond *back* to the entire list unless you feel it is an answer everyone can benefit from. I think this is usually the case, but responses such as, "Yeah, tell me, too!" to the entire list will make you unpopular in a hurry. Double-check your "To: " line before sending. 2) Do not "flame" (i.e., scold) colleagues via the coral-list. If you feel compelled to chastise someone, please send them mail directly and flame away. 3) Please conduct as much preliminary research into a topic as possible before posting a query to the list. (In other words, you shouldn't expect others to do your research for you.) Please consider: o Your librarian (an extremely valuable resource) o The CHAMP Literature Abstracts area at the CHAMP Web: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov o The CHAMP Online Researcher's Directory (i.e., search for your topic, ask the experts directly) o The CHAMP (and other) Web sites' links page(s) But please do avail yourself of the list when you've exhausted other sources. 4) Please see the CHAMP pages for employment related issues instead of posting job requests to coral-list. 5) Please carefully consider the purpose of the coral-list before posting a message. This is a forum comprised primarily of senior researchers who devote major portions of their work time to the study of corals or coral-related issues. 6) Succinct postings are greatly appreciated by all. This etiquette reminder may be re-sent from time to time. I hope to have separate list-servers for various coral-related issues in the near future, and at that time you may wish to switch lists, or subscribe to them additionally. Thanks for your help and support. JCH From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Jul 5 14:35:02 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA09876; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 14:34:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA18932; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 18:13:51 GMT Received: from wizard.wizard.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA18927; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 14:13:47 -0400 Received: from [206.161.15.41] (pm1-s11.wizard.net [206.161.15.41]) by wizard.wizard.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA07590; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 14:14:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 14:14:22 -0400 Message-Id: <199607051814.OAA07590@wizard.wizard.net> Subject: Re: Important NOAA resource now online From: "Stephen C. Jameson" To: "Ursula Keuper-Bennett" , "Coral-List" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: STATE OF THE REEFS - ORDERING UPDATE In February I retired from NOAA and started my own Integrated Coastal Zone Management consulting company - Coral Seas, Inc. For quicker service, please request copies of Jameson, S.C., J.W. McManus and M.D. Spalding. 1995. State of the Reefs: Regional and Global Perspectives. International Coral Reef Initiative Executive Secretariat Background Paper, US Department of State, Washington, DC, 32 p. from: Dr. Peter Thomas, ICRI Coordinator United States Department of State Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Washington, D.C. 20520 202/647-0658 202/736-7351 (fax) Email: pthomas@state.gov Best regards, Dr. Stephen C. 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Any suggestions as to studies, scientists or NGOs to contact on this subject would be appreciated, as would any faxable studies (415)331-4064. Thank you, Marcy Roth P.S. I am not sure how a scientist's recent request for employment was posted thru our E-mail address, but it was not done intentionally. Coral Forest 400 Montgomery St. Suite 1040 San Francisco, CA 94104 USA Ph: (415)788-7333 Fax:(415)331-4064 E-mail: coral@igc.apc.org web site: http://www.blacktop.com/coralforest From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Jul 10 09:20:18 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA10754; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:20:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA00661; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 12:31:26 GMT Received: from aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA00656; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 08:31:24 -0400 Received: from wave.aoml.noaa.gov. (wave [192.111.123.25]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA09649 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 08:34:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from hendee@localhost) by wave.aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3.CAR) id IAA12510; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 08:34:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 08:34:26 -0400 (EDT) From: "James C. Hendee" X-Sender: hendee@wave To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Bleaching Events in Florida Keys Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: If anybody has any records of coral bleaching in the Florida Keys (including even approximate dates and locations) which have not been published, I would very much appreciate receiving any information you might have. I will make available via the Web any information I receive. Many thanks, Jim Hendee Ocean Chemistry Division NOAA/AOML/OCD 4301 Rickenbacker Causeway Miami, FL 33149-1026 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Jul 10 10:56:01 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA12460; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 10:55:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA00781; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 14:26:45 GMT Received: from vero.com by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA00775; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 10:26:23 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 10:26:23 -0400 X-ROUTED: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 10:58:06 -0500 Received: from s150.vero.com [205.148.203.150] by vero.com with smtp id AKDICKFD ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 10:56:42 -0500 Message-Id: <2.2.16.19960710102658.35774606@vero.com> X-Sender: cmrc@vero.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: "George D. Dennis" Subject: Request for Proposals Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: NOAA National Undersea Research Program CARIBBEAN MARINE RESEARCH CENTER REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Undersea Research on Tropical and Subtropical Marine Systems Funding is available for undersea research in the south Florida and Caribbean area for 1997 through the Caribbean Marine Research Center (CMRC) under the auspices of the NOAA National Undersea Research Program (NURP). CMRC will provide support for research activities that require undersea facilities or equipment such as manned submersible, remotely operated vehicles, or wet diving to accomplish their goals. Three research themes (below) have been selected for 1997 and additional NOAA strategic goals are listed in the proposal guidelines. Sustainable Fisheries - Marine Reserves Marine reserves or protected areas have the potential to protect and maintain fishery resources. There is still limited information on the effectiveness of reserves and little quantitative data are available on the processes by which reserves would operate. CMRC is particularly interested in supporting projects on the use of marine reserves in helping maintain sustainable fisheries. In addition we encourage proposals for study of the role of reserves in protecting threatened and endangered species. Healthy Coastal Ecosystems - Coral Reefs The increased awareness of coral reef degradation throughout the world has prompted CMRC to initiate a coral reef research program centered on the long-term study and understanding of shallow and deep coral reef ecosystems. Areas of interest include: 1) coral bleaching studies in the field and laboratory, including measurements of ambient solar irradiance and fluorescence spectra of coral pigments, relative to stress such as exposure to high temperatures and ultraviolet radiation, and 2) the effects of natural and anthropogenic influences, including pollution, on coral reef health. We especially encourage proposals making use of the comparative approach examining unimpacted and impacted areas in the Florida Keys and Bahamas. This would include building upon the accomplishments of our deep reef studies program in the Bahamas. Mass spawning, a relatively recent discovery in corals, is now documented to occur following the full moon in August/September at our marine field station at Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas, as well as at other sites around the Caribbean and Florida Keys. Little is known about this phenomena. Scientists now have the unique opportunity to study reproduction and early life history stages in corals. Proposals are requested to further study the effects of mass spawning on the dynamics of coral reefs and its implications to coral reef management. Decadal-to-Centennial Change Paleo-oceanography from Coral Reefs The coral reefs provide an unique retrospective record of oceanographic conditions. This information is essential for better modeling of climate change and assessing whether present days conditions are typical or not. CMRC is soliciting proposals to make use of undersea techniques to obtain quality long-term data sets that will improve the understanding of the role of the tropical ocean in global change. Laboratory Facility Use CMRC operates a marine field station at Lee Stocking Island, Exuma Cays, Bahamas. This laboratory is located in a tropical reef environment with relatively pristine conditions. A wide range of habitats including coral reefs, seagrass beds, subtidal stromatolites, ooid shoals and shelf-edge dropoff are in close proximity and easily accessible for study. The relatively unimpacted nature of the environment allows for a unique opportunity for comparative studies with similar heavily impacted reefs in the Florida Keys. Facilities include SCUBA diving support, 24-hr AC power, air-conditioned laboratory space, flow-thru seawater system and vessel support. CMRC will entertain program development (PD) proposals for use of the facilities at the marine laboratory with the goal of developing full proposals for future submittal. Program Development proposals are short research proposals (2-3 pages) reviewed internally that can include transportation to and from Florida to the island, meals and accommodations, SCUBA support, and vessel use. Investigators must provide transportation to Florida, salaries, and any necessary supplies must be obtained from other funding sources. Proposals are accepted for work at any site in the Caribbean though we encourage investigators to first consider use of our excellent facilities at Lee Stocking Island for their projects. If you are interested in submitting a proposal in one of the above research areas please contact CMRC at the address below for further details. A short pre-proposal (2-3 pages) describing research goals and support needs is required by 15 July 1996 (fax if possible). Full proposals will be requested based on internal review of the pre-proposal. Funds for this program are primarily allocated for logistical support. Proposals that have cofunding for data analysis and investigator salaries have the greatest rate of approval. Proposal preparation guidelines can be obtained on request from the address below. Deadline for full proposals is 31 August 1996. Proposals are peer reviewed through a mail and panel review process. Investigators will be notified of the status of their proposals in December 1996. Address proposals, questions, or comments to George Dennis Science Director Caribbean Marine Research Center 805 East 46th Place Vero Beach, FL 32963 561-234-9931 Voice 561-234-9954 FAX cmrc@vero.com Check our web site for more details on our strategic goals, information on proposal preparation, previous research projects, publication list, and present research activities. http://www.cmrc.org -- Regards, George Dennis Caribbean Marine Research Center 561-234-9931 (V) 805 East 46th Pl. 561-234-9954 (F) Vero Beach, FL 32963 gdennis@fit.edu >>>>>>**Note our new area code**<<<<<< From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Jul 11 08:00:19 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA22476; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 08:00:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id LAA01777; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 11:47:46 GMT Received: from aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA01772; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 07:47:44 -0400 Received: from wave.aoml.noaa.gov. (wave [192.111.123.25]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA22347 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 07:50:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from hendee@localhost) by wave.aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3.CAR) id HAA18326; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 07:50:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 07:50:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "James C. Hendee" X-Sender: hendee@wave To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Diadema antillarum Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The following message, orginally posted to the marine biology list-server (marbio), might be of interest to coral-listers interested in the dynamics of Diadema populations on patch reefs: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: John Ogden Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 15:35:26 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: marbio: Diadema antillarum Dear Mr Sosa: It was interesting to get your message and to recall that in spite of the widespread mass mortality of Diadema in the western Atlantic in 1983-84, they did not die in the eastern Atlantic. We did many Diadema removal experiments from patch reefs in the early 1970's at the West Indies Laboratory in the Virgin Islands. They were kept from moving into cleared areas with difficulty so it was helpful to choose a patch reef rather remote from controls. At any rate, the results of removal experiments were always dramatic, algae virtually sprang from the reef surface, often smothering corals. In one case, a cleared patch reef did not "recover" (that is, recolonize with Diadema) for many years. Our theory was that the algae that covered the cleared reef prevented the recruitment of juveniles by mechanical interference, and prevented adults from moving back by interfering with their ability to hold on by wedging their spines into reef cracks. Another urchin, Tripneustes, moved up from surrounding seagrass beds onto the cleared reefs. This urchin using its tube feet to grab vegetation to hold on. I never liked the taste of Diadema compared to Tripneustes, but they may be an acquired taste. Best wishes with your work. John C. Ogden Director Phone: 813/893-9100 Florida Institute of Oceanography Fax: 813/893-9109 830 First Street South St. Petersburg, Florida 33701 On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Nicolas Sosa wrote: > Here, in the Canary Islands, the sea urchin Diadema antillarum is extremely > abundant. In some places, a density greater than 10 individuals per square > meter has been reported. It is assumed (but not verified) that this is due > to overfishing of its natural predators. > > A group of students of the University of La Laguna would like to perform two > experiments: > > 1. Eliminate all the individuals in a well delimited zone, to monitor the > recolonization process. > > 2. Investigate commercial exploitation of the urchins. We plan to do some > biochemical, bacteriologic and toxicologic analysis as well as biometric > measures (i.e. gonadosomatic index, etc). We think of possible uses like > food for humans or for fish in aquaculture. > > Does anybody have any experience with this kind of experiments with urchins? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated > > Many thanks in advance > > Nicolas Sosa > Universidad de La Laguna > nsg@iac.es > Tel: 34 22 60 53 21 > FAx: 34 22 60 52 10 > > ------------------------------ From: Mike Marshall Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 21:51:38 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: marbio: Diadema antillarum Just wondering if there are any other areas in the Atlantic/Caribbean with sizeable populations of Diadema. Just spent 10 days diving around the Miskito Cays of Nicaragua and I didn't see any. Lots of algae and no urchins seemed to be the general condition. Mike Marshall ------------------------------ End of marbio-digest V1 #209 **************************** From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Jul 11 17:26:48 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA29204; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 17:26:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA02474; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 21:09:18 GMT Received: from usgcrp.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA02469; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 17:09:15 -0400 Received: from [131.182.242.88] by usgcrp.gov (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA25023; Thu, 11 Jul 96 17:16:23 EDT X-Sender: tsocci@earth.usgcrp.gov Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 17:12:46 -0400 To: CNN-NEWSROOM@listserv.aol.com, coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, ecolog-l@umdd.umd.edu (ESA List), environment-L@cornell.edu (Env-L List), eon@world.std.com, Land-and-Water@FAO.ORG From: tsocci@usgcrp.gov (Tony Socci) Subject: USGCRP July17th Seminar: "Greenhouse Concerns: Lessons from the Past" Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: U.S. Global Change Research Program Second Monday Seminar Series Greenhouse Concerns: Lessons from the Past What geological insights do the records of climate change provide regarding the potential influence on climate of the increases in greenhouse gas concentrations? How well do we understand what has caused past changes in climate? How well do models reproduce these past climate changes? What do these studies tell us about how sensitive the climate is to changes in the composition of the atmosphere? Public Invited Wednesday July 17, 1996, 3:15-4:45 PM Rayburn House Office Bldg., Room B354 Reception Following Please Note the Change in Room Location INTRODUCTION Dr. Herman Zimmerman, Program Director for Paleoclimatology, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA SPEAKERS Dr. Thomas J. Crowley, Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX - Title: "Greenhouse Lessons from the Geologic Record" Dr. Eric Barron, Director of the Earth System Science Center, Pennsylvania State University, College Park, PA - Title: "Climate Sensitivity: A Perspective from Paleoclimate Model Applications" Overview The importance of studying Earth History stems from the unique insights that can be drawn. Such studies can document the natural climate and its rates of change and variability prior to human activity; can be used to estimate the sensitivity of the Earth's climate system to changes in carbon dioxide, volcanic eruptions, and changes in the land surface; can be used to test the reliability of climate models by evaluating their simulations for conditions very different from the modern climate; and can be used to examine the integrated climate, chemical, and biological responses of the Earth to a variety of perturbations. Studies of Earth system history are best done by combining and reconciling the findings from observational and analytical studies with integrating studies using numerical models of the climate. Paleoclimate Observations The geological history of the Earth provides strong evidence that climate has changed on time scales of decades to millions of years. Understanding this history can provide a basis for evaluating projections of climate change due to anthropogenic greenhouse perturbations and provide a context for human influences amongst the archive of natural perturbations of climate. Dr. Crowley will provide examples of how climate has changed on a variety of timescales and will highlight some of the lessons that can, and have, been learned by examining past records of climate change. For example, projections of warming for the next century suggest that temperatures will approach levels that have not occurred in many millions of years. The rapidity of this projected warming is greater than has occurred in the past and will lead to a very different climate state than exists today. The Earth's geological record also suggests that changes in the atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have contributed significantly to past climate changes, underscoring the importance of the role of CO2 in determining the climate state. Paleoclimate Models Two aspects of the study of Earth history with models (referred to as paleoclimatic modeling) are particularly valuable. First, comparison of climate model simulations of past climatic periods with geologic data suggest that for some variables (e.g., storm tracks) the climate models evidently yield robust predictions even for conditions very different from the present day climate. For other variables, such as regional precipitation, the model predictions are not yet representing the estimated regional patterns that have been developed from the geological record. Second, a variety of past climatic periods can be utilized as "case studies" of climate sensitivity. For these cases, the consistency of the estimates of climate sensitivity to carbon dioxide variations described in the recent IPCC Second Assessment report are comparable to the sensitivities required to explain the geologic record. In other words, the geologic record offers the opportunity to assess some of the limitations and strengths of climate model predictions, as well as to assess climate sensitivity to changes such as increases in greenhouse gases. While uncertainties exist, in each case analyzed to date, the geologic record suggests that the mid to upper range of climate sensitivity given by the IPCC report is most reasonable. Biographies Dr. Thomas J. Crowley has held a number of positions in paleoclimatology: assistant professor at the University of Missouri - St. Louis, program director in climate dynamics at the National Science Foundation, National Research Council Fellow at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, senior scientist for the Applied Research Corporation, and most recently Professor of Oceanography at Texas A&M University. Although his early work involved the study of the North Atlantic Ocean circulation during the last ice age, he has subsequently become interested in the effects of the movement of continents on climate, both from a modeling and observational viewpoint. Dr. Crowley has also been involved in several studies synthesizing paleoclimate data, especially with respect to its relevance to better understanding future climate projections due to the anthropogenic greenhouse perturbation. He is the author of a number of articles on past climates and is co-author of a recent book on the subject. Dr. Crowley received his Ph.D. in marine geology from Brown University in 1976. Dr. Eric Barron is Professor of Geosciences and Director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University in College Park PA. He also serves as chair of the Climate Research Committee of the National Research Council, chair of the National Science Foundation Advisory Committee on Earth System History, and editor of Global and Planetary Change. Dr. Barron has degrees in geology from Florida State University and in oceanography and climate from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Miami. He has been awarded the Smith Prize (University of Miami), the Wilson Research Award and the Provost's Award for Innovation in Teaching (PSU), and is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Dr. Barron served as Chair of the U. S. Global Change Research Program's Forum on Global Change Modeling held in October 1994. The Next Seminar is scheduled for Monday, September 16, 1996 Watch the USGCRP home page for information on the topic. For more information please contact: Dr. Anthony D. Socci, U.S. Global Change Research Program Office 300 D St., SW, Suite 840, Washington, DC 20024 Telephone: (202) 651-8244; Fax: (202) 554-6715 E-Mail: TSOCCI@USGCRP.GOV. Additional information on the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and this Seminar Series is available on the USGCRP Home Page at: http://www.usgcrp.gov. Normally these seminars are held on the second Monday of each month. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Jul 12 14:01:42 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA07903; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 14:01:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA03570; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 17:46:16 GMT Received: from innet.meta.fr by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA03565; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 13:46:03 -0400 Received: by innet.meta.fr (5.65/1.2-eef) id AA13647; Fri, 12 Jul 96 19:48:24 +0100 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 96 19:48:24 +0100 Message-Id: <9607121848.AA13647@innet.meta.fr> X-Mailis: C87 From: pecheux@eureka.meta.fr To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: BLEACHING SIGNS IN PANAMA Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: After the 8 ICRS, I collected large foraminifers in the Caribbean coast of Panama at Maria Chiquita and Isla Grande , 80 and 60km west from San Blas. Strong shell abnormalities were observed in Amphistegina, Heterostegina, and Sorites (diatom and Symbiodinium symbionts). Abnormalities are worldwide associated with mass bleaching (Hallock team work, my Review on Reef Bleaching) due to CO2 rise as I presented evidences. Such abnormalities were unknown in sub-present and geological time apart the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary. Cheers From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Jul 12 16:42:08 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA12029; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 16:41:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA03710; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 20:23:15 GMT Received: from bishop.bishop.Hawaii.Org by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA03705; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 16:23:09 -0400 Received: by bishop.bishop.Hawaii.Org (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA62976; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 10:25:32 -1000 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 10:25:31 -1000 (HST) From: Pacific Science Assn To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Fiji Coral Reef Symposium Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Symposium on Coral Reef during IYOR at the VIII Pacific Science Inter-Congress in Fiji One of the major scientific events during the International Year of the Reef (IYOR) is a joint symposium of the Pacific Science Association's Scientific Committee on Coral Reefs (PSA-SCCR) and the 1997 Annual Meeting of the International Society of Reef Studies (ISRS) in Suva, Fiji, at the VIII Pacific Science Inter-Congress, 13-19 July 1997. This coral-reef symposium will take place one year after the launching of the IYOR at the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium in Panama. Among IYOR projects which are already scheduled for presentation at the Inter-Congress in Fiji are the results of the PSA-SCCR assessment of the state of the coral reefs in teh Pacific, a project funded by the U.S. Department of State's (DOS) International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI). Ten representatives of regions in the Pacific will present papers that will be published in a book on the status of reefs in the Pacific; the publication is being funded by the University of Hawaii Sea Grant Program. This book should be available at the symposium in Fiji. A complementary project called GLOCOR (Global Coral Reef Assessment), funded by a Winslow Foundation grant, will also be presented at the symposium. A major focus of GLOCOR is to resurvey the quantative transects which were surveyed decades ago in order to quantitatively assess changes in Pacific reefs over the past decades. Contributed papers on all aspects of coral-reef science are welcome, but we are extending a special invitation to papers in which examples are given for successful management programs for coral-reef resources. We feel that the most effective method of promoting wise managment of reef resources is not by outlining steps to take (telling people what to do) or giving alarming news about the state of the reefs. Rather, we urge the demonstration of case histories of methods which have proven successful, such as the well know results of marine reserves at Apo and Sumilon Islands in the Philippines. For comparative observations, dive excursions are planned on one-day field trips in or near Suva Bay and Beqa Reef. To obtain the Second Circular for the VIII Pacific Science Inter-Congress including registration forms, abstract forms, information on accom- modation, due dates, and field trips, please contact: VIII Pacific Science Inter-Congress Secretariat School of Pure and Applied Sciences The University of the South Pacific P.O. Box 1168 Suva, Fiji FAX: (679) 314-007 e-mail: psa@usp.ac.fj [best means of communication] Web site for the Inter-Congress is: http://www.usp.ac.fj/~psa Participants intending to present a paper or poster are required to submit abstract(s) to the Secretariat by January 1997. In order that we may organize the symposium, please also send a copy of the abstract to: Dr. Charles Birkeland Dr. Richard W. Grigg UOG Marine Laboratory Department of Oceanography University of Guam 1000 Pope Road Mangilao, Guam 96923 Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 FAX (671) 734-6767 FAX (1) 808-956-9225 e-mail: birkelan@uog9.uog.edu e-mail: rgrigg@soest.hawaii.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Jul 13 22:13:44 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA18649; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 22:13:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA05065; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 01:44:46 GMT Received: from igc7.igc.org by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA05060; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 21:44:38 -0400 Received: from igc3.igc.apc.org (igc3.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.33]) by igc7.igc.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA20849 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 18:39:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ppp6-3.igc.org (pcis@ppp6-3.igc.org [198.94.3.3]) by igc3.igc.apc.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA28180 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 18:36:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 18:36:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <2.2.16.19960713183417.106f54f4@pop.igc.org> X-Sender: pcis@pop.igc.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: GreenLife Society Subject: Middle Eastern NGOs Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: We are interested in establishing a relationship with NGOs or academic institutions in the Middle East for the purpose of drafting educational materials related to the importance of coral reef ecosystems in the Middle East and means to protect these resources. It is envisioned that said materials would be distributed to tourists, divers, members of the aquarium industry and others who may have an adverse impact on reefs. In the long term, we also hope to work with Middle Eastern NGOs and academics on curriculum materials for schools in the region. William C. Burns Director, GreenLife Society - North American Chapter 700 Cragmont Ave. Berkeley, CA 94708 USA Phone/Fax: (510) 558-0620 WWW site: http://nceet.snre.umich.edu/greenlife/index.html GLSNA Affiliations: Union of Concerned Scientists, Sound Science Initiative The EarthAction Network The Galapagos Coalition Reseau International d'ONG sur la Desertification (RIOD) Accredited NGO Observer, International Whaling Commission European Social Science Fisheries Network -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." -- William James -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Jul 15 03:12:45 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA23220; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 03:12:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id GAA06125; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 06:48:41 GMT Received: from CGNET.COM by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id CAA06120; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 02:48:24 -0400 Received: from msm.cgnet.com by CGNET.COM (PMDF V4.3-9 #7702) id <01I72XWXK7U80024EL@CGNET.COM>; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 23:50:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by msm.cgnet.com with Microsoft Mail id <31E9EA66@msm.cgnet.com>; Sun, 14 Jul 96 23:51:18 PDT Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 14:43:00 -0700 (PDT) From: John McManus To: "'coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov'" Message-id: <31E9EA66@msm.cgnet.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A TO:Coral List FROM:John McManus DATE:15 July 1996 Could the author of the note on forans and bleaching dated 12 July please let us know who he or she was and leave and email address? Sincerely, John W McManus ICLARM From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Jul 15 12:31:38 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA27415; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 12:31:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA06647; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 15:56:55 GMT Received: from ns.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA06642; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 11:56:52 -0400 Received: from ogp.noaa.gov (QUICKMAIL.OGP.NOAA.GOV [140.90.171.10]) by ns.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA00078 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 11:56:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: 15 Jul 1996 11:13:14 -0500 From: "Mark Eakin" Subject: Bleaching Video? To: "Recipients of coral-list" X-Mailer: Mail*Link SMTP-QM 3.0.2 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Subject: Time: 11:58 AM Bleaching Video? Date: 7/15/96 Does anyone have a bit of underwater video of coral bleaching that could be used (with full acknowledgment, of course) in an educational CD-ROM product being developed on the causes and consequences of El Nino? The developers of the CD-ROM need a few seconds of underwater video. The priorities are: 1) bleached eastern Pacific reef 2) bleached Pacific reef 3) bleached Pocillopora or Porites corals 4) any bleached reef Please let me know if you have something that you could provide. Thanks, C. Mark Eakin, Ph.D. NOAA/Global Programs, 1100 Wayne Ave., Suite 1210 Silver Spring, MD USA 20910-5603 Voice: 301-427-2089 ext. 19 Fax: 301-427-2073 Internet: eakin@ogp.noaa.gov From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Jul 16 10:36:24 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA06702; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:36:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA07974; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 14:06:35 GMT Received: from emout07.mail.aol.com by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA07969; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:06:33 -0400 From: LizMat@aol.com Received: by emout07.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA06760 for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:09:36 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:09:36 -0400 Message-ID: <960716100936_361213305@emout07.mail.aol.com> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Coral Reef Bibliography Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hello, everyone. I am compiling a comprehensive bibliography of coral reef related research for the GreenLife Society as part of the International Year of the Reef. We're looking for citations of published articles that you have written about coral, reefs and their associated biota. We would like to make this as complete as possible - so all fields and aspects of reef research will be included. Our goal is to make this bibliography useful for scientists, management people, and researchers in other fields (law, policy, etc.). I hope you will contribute. Please send your citations along with 3 or 4 keywords, and complete bibliographic info to me via e-mail, fax or regular old mail. Abstracts are helpful to us in the sorting of material, but will not be included in the final bibliography. Any suggestions of other articles to include - especially those of historical (last 50 years) or other particular interest - are most welcome. Thank you for your help. Liz Matthews 565 Morgan Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11222 USA Lizmat@aol.com Fax: 212-286-0819 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Jul 16 13:37:19 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA09225; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 13:37:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA08422; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 17:11:33 GMT Received: from igc7.igc.org by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA08417; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 13:11:28 -0400 Received: from igc3.igc.apc.org (igc3.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.33]) by igc7.igc.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA20356; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:04:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ppp6-3.igc.org (pcis@ppp6-3.igc.org [198.94.3.3]) by igc3.igc.apc.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA15670; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:02:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:02:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <2.2.16.19960716100147.54b7e852@pop.igc.org> X-Sender: pcis@pop.igc.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: LizMat@aol.com, coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: GreenLife Society Subject: Re: Coral Reef Bibliography Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Liz: Looks great. However, we have decided to conduct this project as a discrete project of GreenLife; thus, when we refer to IYOR in the future it should be "as part of GreenLife's contribution to the International Year of the Reef campaign." We should get some good responses from this. If people make inquiries about IYOR itself, refer them to Stephen Colwell at the Coral Reef Alliance: coralreefa@aol.com At 10:09 AM 7/16/96 -0400, LizMat@aol.com wrote: >Hello, everyone. > >I am compiling a comprehensive bibliography of coral reef related research >for the GreenLife Society as part of the International Year of the Reef. > We're looking for citations of published articles that you have written >about coral, reefs and their associated biota. We would like to make this as >complete as possible - so all fields and aspects of reef research will be >included. Our goal is to make this bibliography useful for scientists, >management people, and researchers in other fields (law, policy, etc.). I >hope you will contribute. > >Please send your citations along with 3 or 4 keywords, and complete >bibliographic info to me via e-mail, fax or regular old mail. Abstracts are >helpful to us in the sorting of material, but will not be included in the >final bibliography. Any suggestions of other articles to include - >especially those of historical (last 50 years) or other particular interest - >are most welcome. > >Thank you for your help. > >Liz Matthews >565 Morgan Avenue >Brooklyn, NY 11222 USA > >Lizmat@aol.com > >Fax: 212-286-0819 > > > > > William C. Burns Director, GreenLife Society - North American Chapter 700 Cragmont Ave. Berkeley, CA 94708 USA Phone/Fax: (510) 558-0620 WWW site: http://nceet.snre.umich.edu/greenlife/index.html GLSNA Affiliations: Union of Concerned Scientists, Sound Science Initiative The EarthAction Network The Galapagos Coalition Reseau International d'ONG sur la Desertification (RIOD) Accredited NGO Observer, International Whaling Commission European Social Science Fisheries Network -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." -- William James -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Jul 16 20:27:40 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA14976; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 20:27:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id AAA08809; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 00:06:08 GMT Received: from umigw.miami.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA08804; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 20:06:06 -0400 Received: from gnsbrg.rsmas.miami.edu (gnsbrg.rsmas.miami.edu [129.171.103.80]) by umigw.miami.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA11900 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 20:09:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 20:09:09 -0400 Message-Id: <199607170009.UAA11900@umigw.miami.edu> X-Sender: ginsburg@oj.rsmas.miami.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: robert ginsburg Subject: Coral Reef Bibliography Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear readers of the List Server: This is to explain that this request is not a part of the International Year of the Reef. Robert N. Ginsburg Chairperson, IYOR Research >From: LizMat@aol.com >Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:09:36 -0400 >To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov >Subject: Coral Reef Bibliography >Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov > >Hello, everyone. > >I am compiling a comprehensive bibliography of coral reef related research >for the GreenLife Society as part of the International Year of the Reef. > We're looking for citations of published articles that you have written >about coral, reefs and their associated biota. We would like to make this as >complete as possible - so all fields and aspects of reef research will be >included. Our goal is to make this bibliography useful for scientists, >management people, and researchers in other fields (law, policy, etc.). I >hope you will contribute. > >Please send your citations along with 3 or 4 keywords, and complete >bibliographic info to me via e-mail, fax or regular old mail. Abstracts are >helpful to us in the sorting of material, but will not be included in the >final bibliography. Any suggestions of other articles to include - >especially those of historical (last 50 years) or other particular interest - >are most welcome. > >Thank you for your help. > >Liz Matthews >565 Morgan Avenue >Brooklyn, NY 11222 USA > >Lizmat@aol.com > >Fax: 212-286-0819 > > > > > > Robert N. Ginsburg, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami. Mail: University of Miami/RSMAS/MGG Phone: (305) 361-4875 4600 Rickenbacker Cswy. FAX: (305) 361-4094 or 4632 Miami. FL 33149 rginsburg@rsmas.miami.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Jul 16 23:28:55 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA15387; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 23:28:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id DAA08959; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 03:12:24 GMT Received: from igc7.igc.org by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id XAA08954; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 23:12:17 -0400 Received: from igc3.igc.apc.org (igc3.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.33]) by igc7.igc.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA20145 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 19:50:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ppp6-2.igc.org (pcis@ppp6-2.igc.org [198.94.3.2]) by igc3.igc.apc.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA19329 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 19:43:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 19:43:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <2.2.16.19960716194304.0e6fc238@pop.igc.org> X-Sender: pcis@pop.igc.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: GreenLife Society Subject: Apologies Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Our apologies for any confusion engendered by our message, re: our coral reef bibliography project. We are conducting this project as a contribution to the International Year of the Reef campaign. However, we are NOT members of IYOR. Inquries about IYOR should be directed to Stephen Colwell of the Coral Reef Alliance: coralreefa@aol.com Thanks. William C. Burns Director, GreenLife Society - North American Chapter 700 Cragmont Ave. Berkeley, CA 94708 USA Phone/Fax: (510) 558-0620 WWW site: http://nceet.snre.umich.edu/greenlife/index.html GLSNA Affiliations: Union of Concerned Scientists, Sound Science Initiative The EarthAction Network The Galapagos Coalition Reseau International d'ONG sur la Desertification (RIOD) Accredited NGO Observer, International Whaling Commission European Social Science Fisheries Network -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." -- William James -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Jul 18 09:05:59 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA28458; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:05:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA10913; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 12:44:17 GMT Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA10908; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 08:44:10 -0400 Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by ns-mx.uiowa.edu (8.7.5/19950309.1) on Thu, 18 Jul 1996 07:46:46 -0500 id HAA22318 with SMTP Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960718134658.00673f5c@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> X-Sender: davidson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 07:46:58 -0600 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Osha Gray Davidson Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Greetings-- Could I ask those who have responded (and those planning to respond) to the message below to also send me a copy of your citations? I will be using them for my own research and will also include them in the bibliography of my natural history book about coral reefs (Wiley Press, 1998). Thanks, Osha PS: I am not affiliated with EITHER GreenLife OR IYOR PPS: Thanks to all those who endured my interviews at the ICRS--it was a tremendously helpful start to a rather daunting project! Osha Gray Davidson 14 South Governor St. Iowa City, IA 52242 USA Ph: (319) 338-4778 Fax: (319) 338-8606 e-mail: davidson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I am compiling a comprehensive bibliography of coral reef related research for the GreenLife Society as part of the International Year of the Reef. We're looking for citations of published articles that you have written about coral, reefs and their associated biota. We would like to make this as complete as possible - so all fields and aspects of reef research will be included. Our goal is to make this bibliography useful for scientists, management people, and researchers in other fields (law, policy, etc.). I hope you will contribute. Please send your citations along with 3 or 4 keywords, and complete bibliographic info to me via e-mail, fax or regular old mail. Abstracts are helpful to us in the sorting of material, but will not be included in the final bibliography. Any suggestions of other articles to include - especially those of historical (last 50 years) or other particular interest - are most welcome. Thank you for your help. Liz Matthews +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Jul 18 09:09:35 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA28570; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:09:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA10923; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 12:54:33 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA10918; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 08:54:31 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA08934; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 08:54:30 -0400 Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 08:54:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Archived bleaching/spawning events Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The archived list of coral bleaching and spawning events, which were destroyed in a system crash, have been restored to the CHAMP Web Page. If you observe any incidences of these events, or if you have any records which you would like included in the online archives, please let me know and I will include them in the lists; or, post them to this list-server. Thanks for your help and cooperation. Sincerely yours, Jim Hendee coral-list administrator From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Jul 19 10:19:15 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA15627; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 10:19:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA12543; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 13:56:41 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA12538; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 09:56:39 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA10651; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 09:56:38 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 09:56:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: The Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: An official description of the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN), including offical contacts, has been posted at: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/themes/gcrmn.html and may also be reached through the "Miscellaneous coral-related themes or projects" link at the CHAMP Home Page at http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov. For more information please contact: Dr Clive Wilkinson Coordinator, Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network c/o Australian Institute of Marine Science PMB No. 3, TOWNSVILLE MC 4810 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 77 534 372 or +61 77 724 314 Fax: +61 77 722 808 or +61 77 725 852 e-mail: c.wilkinson@aims.gov.au or Dr John McManus ReefBase Project Leader International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management, MCPO Box 2631 0718 MAKATI, Metro Manila PHILIPPINES Tel: +63 2 818 0466 or +63 2 817 5255 Fax: +63 2 816 3183 e-mail: j.mcmanus@cgnet.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Coral Health and Monitoring Program | | Ocean Chemistry Division | | Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory | | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | | 4301 Rickenbacker Causeway | | Miami, Florida 33149-1026 | | USA | | | | Email: coral@coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | World-Wide Web: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Jul 19 10:24:31 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA15669; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 10:24:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA12569; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 14:07:16 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA12564; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 10:07:10 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA10704; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 10:07:10 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 10:07:09 -0400 (EDT) From: "James C. Hendee" X-Sender: hendee@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Apologies re: GCRMN Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Sorry, the GCRMN is part of the International Coral Reef Initiative; hence, it is also listed at the ICRI Chronology Page at: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/icri/icri.html jch From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Jul 19 11:24:29 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA16990; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 11:24:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA12653; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 15:03:29 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA12648; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 11:03:27 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA10865; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 11:03:27 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 11:03:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Reef Awareness Week Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: In response to several enquiries concerning the Reef Awareness Week in the Florida Keys, I have posted the information at the CHAMP bulletins page: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/bulls/bulls.html jch From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Jul 19 13:51:28 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA19574; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 13:51:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA12898; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 17:31:10 GMT Received: from dub-img-5.compuserve.com by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA12893; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 13:31:04 -0400 Received: by dub-img-5.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) id NAA17900; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 13:33:43 -0400 Date: 19 Jul 96 13:32:47 EDT From: Harry McCarty <73261.2212@compuserve.com> To: Subject: coral disease outbreak Message-ID: <960719173246_73261.2212_FHO63-3@CompuServe.COM> Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Colleagues, During the post-8th International Coral Reef Symposium field trip to the eastern Caribbean region of Panama 3-5 July 1996, Esther Peters and Jim Porter observed an extensive outbreak of yellow-blotch disease (YBD) on Montastraea spp. This disease, also known as yellow-band disease, was discovered off Key West, Florida, by Craig Quirolo (Underwater USA, 11(8):15, 1994), and has appeared on only a few colonies of M. faveolata there. Monitoring of this disease is continuing in the Keys (C. Quirolo) and histopathological and microbiological studies were recently initiated on samples from the Keys (Deborah Santavy and Esther Peters). Similar signs of disease have been observed occasionally on colonies of M. faveolata elsewhere, but on reefs off the Salar Islands group approximately three-quarters of the largest (100-300 years old) M. faveolata colonies were affected by YBD. Disease signs were seen less often on smaller colonies and on colonies of M. annularis. YBD is characterized by: * Circular to irregularly-shaped patches or wide streaks of lightened tissue, occurring in no particular pattern on the surface of the colony. * Color of affected tissue is yellowish, not pale brown to bright white as occurs in the condition known as coral bleaching, although we found a few bright white bleached patches adjacent to yellowish ones (Tissues are translucent and histologically symbiotic algae remain in affected tissues, although reduced in number). * Affected tissues otherwise appear normal. * The lightened patches frequently, but not always, are adjacent to or forming a perimeter around algal/sediment accumulations on dead coral skeleton. The algal/sediment accumulation is immediately adjacent to living tissue, no "band" of clean, denuded, skeleton is apparent. We are interested in learning more about the incidence and prevalence of this disease in the western tropical Atlantic and in collaborating on further studies to investigate its etiology. We would appreciate learning of your observations. Please send reports to Esther Peters at 73261.2212@compuserve.com. THANK YOU! From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Jul 22 12:45:31 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA11177; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 12:45:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA15832; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 16:14:13 GMT Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA15827; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 12:14:10 -0400 Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by ns-mx.uiowa.edu (8.7.5/19950309.1) on Mon, 22 Jul 1996 11:16:31 -0500 id LAA13862 with SMTP Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960722171638.0067be3c@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> X-Sender: davidson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 11:16:38 -0600 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Osha Gray Davidson Subject: COTS Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Greetings--I have a question for list-servers who care to step into this old debate: I've been surveying much of the back-and-forth debate in the literature on Crown-of-Thorns starfish (Acanthaster Planci), about whether its spread was due to anthropogenic causes and whether reefs can recover from A. planci devastation in a relatively short time (i.e., within a decade or so). Is there any emerging consensus on these questions or are they still in the "needs more research" category? Thanks for any comments. Osha Gray Davidson Center for International and Comparative Studies University of Iowa, USA davidson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Jul 24 07:15:52 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA02341; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 07:15:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id KAA17890; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 10:49:16 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id GAA17885; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 06:49:14 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id GAA01467; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 06:49:13 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 06:49:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: CORAL BLEACHING IN VANUATU Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 23 Jul 96 08:51:01 GMT From: Coral Cay Conservation To: hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Jim Hendee CORAL HEALTH & MONITORING PROGRAMME REF: CORAL BLEACHING - VANUATU I have recently returned from undertaking a preliminary assessment of reefs at Vanuatu, as part of an EU-funded development project. I was able to dive three locations: Port Vila Harbour, Efate Island Maskeline Islands, SE Malekula Island Dixon Reef, W Malekula Island Reefs at all three locations showed some level of coral bleaching (most notably Acropora sp.). Bleeching was most severe (50% of coral cover) along reefs west of Port Vila. Regards, Peter Raines Director From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Jul 26 10:25:15 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA06359; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 10:25:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA03361; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 13:59:49 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA03356; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 09:59:46 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA04338; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 09:59:46 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 09:59:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral Reply-To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: bleaching in Philippines (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Forwarded message: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 08:03:39 +0800 From: CEMRINO To: hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Subject: bleaching in Philippines Dear Dr. Hendee, Pete Raines at Coral Cay in London said you would be interested in any observations of bleaching. I have been in the Philippines for a year, and not seen anything but a few scattered background bleached colonies until just this week. We have just a few, mostly massives- I've noticed mostly massive Porites, a couple Playgyra, someone else has noticed some Favids. Last week the water seemed particularly warm, this week cool due to clouds and rain. We have no thermometers or hydrometers, but Coral Cay on Danjugan does. -Doug Fenner Center for the Establishment of Marine Reserves, Dumaguete, Negros Oriental, Philippines. Centre for the Establishment of Marine Reserves in Negros Oriental (CEMRINO) 109 San Jose Extension Dumaguete City 6200 Negros Oriental Philippines Tel: (+63 35) 225 3961 Fax: (+63 35) 225 5563 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Jul 29 08:07:28 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA27419; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 08:07:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id LAA19461; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 11:42:58 GMT Received: from lilserv.univ-lille1.fr by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA19456; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 07:42:55 -0400 Received: from omega.univ-lille1.fr (omega.univ-lille1.fr [134.206.1.35]) by lilserv.univ-lille1.fr (8.7.1/jtpda-5.1) with SMTP id NAA22556 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 13:48:44 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by omega.univ-lille1.fr; id AA07111; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 13:45:38 +0200 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19960729114547.0066344c@pop.univ-lille1.fr> X-Sender: feinard@pop.univ-lille1.fr X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 13:45:47 +0200 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Alexis Feinard Subject: Studentships Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A I am currently working on molecular ecology of the red algae with Dr Christophe Destombe and Dr Myriam Valero at the University of Lille, France. As a post-graduate student, I would like to find a PhD on algae in Europe with the financial support of a MAST III grant (MArine Sciences and Technologies research program ) or with the financial support of a french grant for international mobility . I am interested in Field and Molecular Ecology of algae and also cultivated seaweeds biology. I would be grateful if somebody could give me any information that may help me. Thank you in advance for any assistance you can offer. Alexis Feinard, G‰n‰tique et Evolution des populations v‰g‰tales, USTL, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France TEL :20436748 FAX : 20436979 E-mail : Alexis.Feinard@univ-lille1.fr From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Jul 30 22:50:33 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA23761; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 22:50:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id CAA21037; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 02:25:50 GMT Received: from tula.cura.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id WAA21032; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 22:25:40 -0400 Received: from ecosense.cura.net (dppp08.cura.net [206.160.180.108]) by tula.cura.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA24661 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 21:52:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199607310152.VAA24661@tula.cura.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "EcoSense" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 21:53:15 -04:0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Spawning Alert Southern Caribbean Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.33) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Coral reef spawning alert for the Southern Caribbean 1996 Potential spawning dates for the Southern Caribbean (Aruba, Bonaire & Curacao): 31 August - 2 September & 29 September - 1 October 1996 14.00 - 17.30 pm: Neofibularia nolitangere - Do Not Touch Me Sponge 3 - 5 September & 2 - 4 October 1996 19.00 - 24.00 pm: Mass spawning of corals and other reef organisms (see list below): Species observed spawning during these periods on Curacao, Aruba and Bonaire between 1991 and 1995: Echinodermata: Echinometra viridis; Eucidaris tribuloides;Ophioderma rubicundum; Ophioderma appressum Gorgonia: Plexaura spp., Pseudoterogorgia spp. Polychaeta: Spirobrancus giganteus, Anamobaea orstedii Mollusca: Lima scaba Scleractinia: Diploria clivosa, Diploria strigosa, Eusmilia fastigiata, Madracis mirabilis, Montastrea annularis complex, Montastrea cavernosa (male & female), Siderastrea siderea (male & female), Stephanocoenia michillini Spongia: Ircinia campana Spawning observations in 1996 on Curacao: Sponges (spicula identification is pending): March 3, 1996: Aplysina archeri, 16.00 h., 3 individuals July 14, 1996: ?Pseudoceratina crassa (Yellow variety), 14.30 h., 1 individual July 21, 1996: ?Diplastrella spp., 14.00 h., 1 individual EcoSense Dr. Manfred L.J. van Veghel PO Box 3187 Curacao, Netherlands Antilles Phone and Fax: +599 9 613196 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Aug 1 08:34:46 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA11100; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 08:34:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA22339; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 12:12:11 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA22334; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 08:12:09 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA20254; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 08:12:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 08:12:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Updated Jobs-List Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: There have been several updates to the Employment Listings at the CHAMP Home Page, including a couple of openings in the Florida Keys and a couple of resumes. The URL is: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/jobs/jobs.html Hope this helps! Cheers, JCH From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Aug 1 16:51:48 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA19706; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 16:51:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA22803; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 20:34:12 GMT Received: from umigw.miami.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA22798; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 16:34:05 -0400 Received: from aszmant.rsmas.miami.edu (aszmant.rsmas.miami.edu [129.171.104.19]) by umigw.miami.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA26047 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 16:37:01 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 16:37:01 -0400 Message-Id: <199608012037.QAA26047@umigw.miami.edu> X-Sender: szmant@oj.rsmas.miami.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Alina Szmant Subject: coral spawning Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A I am expecting Acropora palmata (and possibly A. cervicornis) to spawn on one or more nights of August 2 - 4th, from 10 - 11 pm. Diploria strigosa might also spawn this month but probably a few nights later and earlier in the evening (9 - 10 pm). I am not expecting Montastraeas to spawn, but would welcome observations August 4 - 6th, 10 pm -12 am. If anyone observes spawning by any of these species I would greatly appreciate it if you could either notify me (information in my signature) or post it on Coral-List. Types of observations that are important and useful include: percent of population spawning, patterns of within-colony spawning, multiple night observations of individual colonies (whether individual colonies spawn more than once, and if so, is it the same part of the colony each night), detailed description of colony morphology (for species such as A cervicornis and A prolifera: same or different spawning patterns?; also for Montastraeas). Many thanks! Alina Szmant ********************************************** Dr. Alina M. Szmant Coral Reef Research Group RSMAS-MBF University of Miami 4600 Rickenbacker Cswy. Miami FL 33149 TEL: (305)361-4609 FAX: (305)361-4600 or 361-4005 E-mail: ASZMANT@RSMAS.MIAMI.EDU ********************************************** From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Aug 2 10:34:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA29816; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 10:33:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA23420; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 13:58:20 GMT Received: from aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA23415; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 09:58:17 -0400 Received: from wave.aoml.noaa.gov. (wave [192.111.123.25]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA29433; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 10:00:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from hendee@localhost) by wave.aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3.CAR) id KAA16803; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 10:00:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 10:00:55 -0400 (EDT) From: "James C. Hendee" X-Sender: hendee@wave To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov cc: Alina Szmant Subject: Re: coral spawning In-Reply-To: <199608012037.QAA26047@umigw.miami.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: In addition to any mention of spawning information Dr. Szmant has requested, it would be helpful to know any other supporting information you might have such as temperature, salinity, depth, time, sea-state, etc. Many thanks... +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ | James C. Hendee | Internet: hendee@aoml.noaa.gov| | Coral Health and | | | Monitoring Program | Voice: 305 361-4380 | | Ocean Chemistry Division | Fax: 305 361-4582 | | NOAA/AOML | COASTAL RBBS: 305 361-4524 | | 4301 Rickenbacker Causeway | | | Miami, FL 33149-1026 | http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov | +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Aug 3 15:40:15 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA14547; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 15:39:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA24407; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 18:38:55 GMT Received: from spider.uspnet.usp.br by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA24402; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 14:38:48 -0400 Received: (mabel@localhost) by spider.uspnet.usp.br (8.7.2/MAIL-CCE2.0) id PAA49388 Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 15:42:27 -0300 From: Mabel Augustowski Message-Id: <199608031842.PAA49388@spider.uspnet.usp.br> To: LizMat@aol.com, coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Coral Reef Bibliography Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hello, Liz, Your compilation will be very useful to me, please forward it when you finish. I am specially interested in reef research methodologies. Thanks, Mabel. Mabel Augustowski Research Leader Parque Estadual da Ilha Anchieta C.P. 204 - Ubatuba, SP Brasil e-mail: mabel@usp.br From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Aug 5 08:54:26 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA23203; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 08:54:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA25655; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:25:30 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA25650; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 08:25:28 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA25324; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 08:25:27 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 08:25:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Bleaching information (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 15:02:03 +0500 (GMT) From: Posg. Biol. arina - Unal/Invemar To: hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Bleaching information Santa Marta, August 2nd of 1996 Dear Doctor, In the last months of 1995 a coral-bleaching event was detected along the Caribbean region. We have monitored the extension of this phenomenon in the Santa Marta area, and the recovery of some of the affected colonies. We found an interesting relation between the event and the high in situ temperatures. We are interested in obtaining information about this phenomenon in your area in terms of date of the beggining, affected species, percent of coral cover affected, recovery of colonies, and possibly associated factors. Any information will be welcome at this adress: Gabriel R. Navas S. Universidad Nacional de Colombia-INVEMAR Punta de Betin Apartado Aereo 1016 Santa Marta Colombia Sur America Tels: (57)(954)214774 (57)(954)214775 (57)(954)211380 Fax: (57)(954)211377 e-mail: pbiomar@santamarta.cetcol.net.co Best regards, Gabriel R. Navas S. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Aug 5 18:23:44 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA00972; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 18:23:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA26076; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 22:05:39 GMT Received: from umigw.miami.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id SAA26071; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 18:05:38 -0400 Received: from aszmant.rsmas.miami.edu (aszmant.rsmas.miami.edu [129.171.104.19]) by umigw.miami.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA26800 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 18:08:34 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 18:08:34 -0400 Message-Id: <199608052208.SAA26800@umigw.miami.edu> X-Sender: szmant@oj.rsmas.miami.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Alina Szmant Subject: Acropora spawning Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: We did observe Acropora palmata spawning the night of Aug. 2nd, with bundle formation from ca. 10 pm to 10:45 pm, and bundle release for ca. 30 after that. The night of Aug. 3rd we some spawning but very minor compared to the nite before. We welcome learning of observations by others, especially whether anyone observed spawning by this species on Aug. 1st. Alina Szmant ********************************************** Dr. Alina M. Szmant Coral Reef Research Group RSMAS-MBF University of Miami 4600 Rickenbacker Cswy. Miami FL 33149 TEL: (305)361-4609 FAX: (305)361-4600 or 361-4005 E-mail: ASZMANT@RSMAS.MIAMI.EDU ********************************************** From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Aug 6 10:08:57 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA06554; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 10:08:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA26605; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 13:17:18 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA26600; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 09:17:16 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA26724; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 09:17:15 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 09:17:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Coral bleaching in Belize Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Forwarded bleaching information: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 01 Aug 96 15:32:20 GMT From: Coral Cay Conservation To: hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Cc: ccc@coralcay.demon.co.uk Subject: Coral bleaching Dear Jim, My colleague Peter Raines has passed on your correspondence regarding coral bleaching and asked me to send you CCC's bleaching records from Belize. Through our baseline survey work we have a number of records of bleaching but the data are rather qualitative. From personal observations I have seen a number of bleached colonies on Turneffe Atoll. However, we did one limited quantitative study which gave the following results from Calabash Cay, Turneffe Atoll: Agaricia lamarcki (3 normal, 9 partially bleached, 0 completely bleached) Meandrina meandrites (30, 6, 7) Siderastrea siderea (36, 0, 0) Stephanocoenia michelenii (7, 0, 0) Agaricia agaricites (1, 0, 2) This survey was done along the top of the escarpment (around 15m) in October 1994. The water temperature was 29.5 deg C (surface) and 29 at 40m. These temperatures are typical for this area. As I am sure you are aware CARICOMP have more detailed information on bleaching in Belize. I hope this information is useful and please do not hesitate to contact me again for further details, Best wishes, Alastair Harborne Science Coordinator. -- Coral Cay Conservation Ltd. 154 Clapham Park Road, London, SW4 7DE, UK. Tel: +44 (0)71 498 6248 Fax: +44 (0)71 498 8447 E-Mail: ccc@coralcay.demon.co.uk WWW: http://www.demon.co.uk/coralcay/home.html From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Aug 6 14:13:02 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA12615; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 14:12:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA26764; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 16:56:03 GMT Received: from ic.si.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA26759; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 12:55:56 -0400 Received: from SIWP01-Message_Server by ic.si.edu with Novell_GroupWise; Tue, 06 Aug 1996 12:55:39 -0400 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1 Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 11:36:40 -0400 From: Peter Collison To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Permanent transects.quadrapods Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear All Does anyone out there know anything on the construction of uw camera frames forquantitave quadrat photography? There was an excellent design for a 0.5m2 frame in Coyer and Witman....but I do not have the book. Any info would be excellent Many thanks Peter Collinson From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Aug 9 21:13:53 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA28037; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 21:13:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id AAA01344; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 00:51:10 GMT Received: from emout12.mail.aol.com by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA01339; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 20:51:07 -0400 From: CoralReefA@aol.com Received: by emout12.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA28925 for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 20:54:05 -0400 Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 20:54:05 -0400 Message-ID: <960809205405_596094784@emout12.mail.aol.com> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: IYOR Update Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear IYOR and Coral List Participants This is an update about the International Year of the Reef (IYOR) It is divided into several categories: 1. Background on IYOR and Frequently Asked Questions 2. Brief description of formal launch of IYOR at the Panama ISRS Symposium 3. Coming Events (by country/region) and Resources 4. Contact addresses for further infromation. As always, we encourage (constructive) comments, revisions etc. Please remember to use the listserver only if you message is of general interest (otherwise send indivdual messages). Thanks for your interest in IYOR. All the best, Sue Wells Robert Ginsburg Vanessa Guest Stephen Colwell NEWS OF THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE REEF, 1997 For those not familiar with the goals of IYOR, this is a major effort in capacity building for reef management, outreach and education, research on reef degradation and its causes, assessment of reef condition and sustainable reef management. It will provide a global context for national and regional efforts and will promote collaboration between organisations and programmes with common interests, providing an umbrella for a wide variety of reef-related activities in research, education, management, tourism etc. IYOR is not a top-down organisation with a large central office; it is instead a grass-roots effort with emphasis on regional and local initiatives, and is relying on individuals and groups to achieve its aims. Groups are encouraged to establish their own committees and develop initiatives appropriate to their locations. IYOR groups have been formed or are being formed in several parts of the world already (see below). Suggestions for organizing a committee appear in the current issue of Reef Encounter. Updates on IYOR activities will be provided from time to time on relevant List Servers. At this time, IYOR does not have a full-time resource person to answer all inquiries, but our volunteer leaders will do their best to answer questions and provide advice. Most of us will be away for extended periods during August and thus there will be delays in responding. The IYOR Web page is being updated and hotlinks to other relevant Web pages are being created; contact Stephen Colwell for further information (address below). FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF IYOR IN PANAMA IYOR was formally announced at the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium in Panama, at the end of June this year. Almost all of the 1400 participants,from numerous countries, including most of the world's leading reef scientists signed the IYOR Pledge of support for conservation, education and assessments of reef condition. An IYOR booth attracted continuous attention throughout the meeting, and distributed a range of materials. A press event attracted television stations, magazines and newspapers and IYOR received good coverage in Latin America and the Caribbean. Copies of the press release are available from Stephen Colwell. The handsome IYOR logo designed by the Scripps Institute was a big hit with participants as it appeared on buttons and a T-shirt. Organisations wishing to use the logo in connection with IYOR activities should ask for an application form from one of the people listed below. An English leaflet on IYOR has been produced and is being distributed. Further print-runs in other languages, as well as country- and region-specific versions, are being planned. IYOR was designated a sanctioned activity of the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) and assigned responsibility for public awareness of the Initiative's 1997 Program. The all-day IYOR Symposium on rapid assessments of benthos and fishes and various impacts was well received. Some 20 researchers from around the Western Atlantic met during the symposium and enthusiastically endorsed the idea of assessing the condition of reefs remote from centres of population. Information on this inititiative, termed WARRS (Western Atlantic Remote Reef Survey) will be posted on the Coral List Server. Two meetings of those interested in education were well attended and the participants voiced strong support for developing a clearing house with information on all available teaching aids (see below). IYOR-related activities also promoted at Panama included: ReefBase, the global database on coral reefs, now available from ICLARM on CD-Rom together with a comprehensive manual. For information contact John McManus, J.MCMANUS@CGNET.COM The Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCMRN) was launched and is developing plans for a network of monitoring sites worldwide. Information brochure available from Clive Wilkinson: C.Wilkinson@pearl.aims.gov.au A poster map of the world's coral reef and mangroves, prepared by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, is available in English or Spanish from Alastair Grenfell: a.grenfell@wcmc.org.uk COMING EVENTS: INTERNATIONAL October,1996 Montreal: A special session on IYOR, ICRI and coral reefs is being organized at the World Conservation Congress by IUCN - The World Conservation Union. Further information from Paul Holthus, IUCN Marine Program, e-mail: PFH@HQ.iucn.ch PACIFIC: The Pacific Year of the Reef (PYOR) will be launched on 11 February 1997. It is being led by the South Pacific Regional Environmental Program and to date 17 countries are participating; others are expected to join. The PYOR slogan is "Coral Reefs: Their Health, Our Wealth". National campaign plans are being developed. An artwork competition is being held to design a logo, the deadline for entries being 1 October 1996. Plans are also being made to produce a video for the campaign. Further information from Lucille Overhoff e-mail: lucille@pactok.peg.apc.org The 8th Pacific Science Association's Intercongrress to be held in Fiji July 13-19,1997 will feature a full report on the status of coral reefs in the Pacific and the results of resurveys of reefs after some decades, both of which are central themes ofIYOR Additional papers on IYOR themes are being solicited. For information contact Dr. Charles Birkeland, UOG Marine Laboratory, Mangilao, Guam 36923 birkelan@uog9.uog.edu or Dr. Richard W. Grigg, Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Mana, 1000 Pope Rd. Honolulu, Hawii, 96822 rgrigg@soest.hawaii.edu UNITED STATES A wide variety of projects have been planned by government and non-governmental particpants in IYOR. A recent meeting sponsored by NOAA and the AZA in Washington DC explored common themes for IYOR and allowed networking of many of the interested groups. A summary of that meeting will be made available over the IYOR listserv when it is edited by NOAA. These are a few of the events currently planned. Please describe your own plans on the IYOR listserv so that they can be added to the calendar of events that will be displayed on the IYOR Web Site: www.coral.org/iyor/ September 1996: Hawaii launch: How zoos and aquariums can best participate in IYOR will be discussed at the AZA Annual meeting, sponsored by the Waikiki Aquarium. A preview of the IYOR Coral Reef Photography Exhibition - organized by CORAL - will be presented at the Waikiki Aquarium. November 1996: Press Club - background briefing for science writers. IYOR activities will be highlighted and information on the need for coral reef conservation will be distributed to correspondents from major newspapers, magazines and television stations to prepare them for IYOR; sponsored by NOAA and Baltimore Aquarium January 1997; Inauguration of IYOR with a Gala (plans underway in Miami and San Francisco - other sites encouraged) January 1997: The IYOR them will be included at the DEMA dive show, in Orlando Florida 1996/97: ongoing activities at National Aquarium, Baltimore; information from Chris Andrews e-mail: candrews@clark.net Other Aquariums: a number of aquariums are focusing on coral reef education and conservation during IYOR. Individual aquariums (and zoos) are invited to discuss their plans on the IYOR listserv. Color calendar for 1997 IYORproduced by CORAL (Coral Reef Alliance) is available for immediate distribution; information on availability from Stephen Colwell address below. IYOR Coral Reef Photography Exhibition - a collection of underwater photographs by the world's top underwater photographers - will travel to major zoos and aquariums throughout 1997-98 - organized by CORAL Public Service Announcements - on redio and television are planned throughout 1997 to raise the public awareness about IYOR and coral reefs. IYOR Poster contest for children will be held throughout the United States during IYOR. It will be coordinated by the AZA, The Waikiki Aquarium and other participating zoos and aquariums. UNITED KINGDOM September-November 1997: Natural History Museum/Coral Cay Conservation joint exhibition on coral reefs and children's educational weekend February 1997: UK launch at London Zoo, in conjunction with Sea Life Centres, with David Bellamy 1997: BP/Birdlife International/Fauna and Flora International special award for coral reef expeditions BBC programme on coral reefs as part of forthcoming 'Oceans' series Other activities are being developed by the UK IYOR Committee. Further information (as well as copies of the UK-IYOR newsletter) from Vanessa Guest e-mail 101341.16@CompuServe.COM and Liz Wood e-mail ewood@mail.globalnet.co.uk WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: An IYOR-affiliated Program to develop research and conservation initiatives for the Western Indian Ocean is being established in Kenya by Tim McClanahan with support from the Pew Charitable Trust. It will be headquartered in Mombassa under the Cora Reef Conservation Project of The Wildlife Conservation Society and will focus on education-outreach and coordination of activities in the region and research on ways to restore degraded reefs and the effects of multiple anthropogenic impacts. GERMANY October 1996: German Research Foundation meeting on 'Global and Regional Controls on Biogenic Information'; IYOR information will be distributed. Further information from Felix Gunkel e-mail: fgunkel@gwdg.de AUSTRALIA Programs being developed through Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Australian Marine Conservation Society, and University of Sydney. MEXICO Various activities underway, and plans for establishment of IYOR Mexican Committee. COLOMBIA Plans for establishment of IYOR committee underway. EDUCATION MATERIALS Several initiatives are underway to assemble information on existing materials and to produce new education and outreach materials through Steve Ladd, Coral Forest and the UK IYOR Committee. This information will be made available through one of the Listservers shortly, and will also be distributed at the World Conservation Congress.. SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES Re-survey of reefs previously impacted by excess sediment -El Nido/Bacuit Bay, Philippines; September, 1996 led by Gregor Hodgson. Initial assessments of coral community condition, Bahamas Barrier Reef (Andros Island); July-August, 1996 led by William Kiene. Re-survey of coral community condition off Abaco Island, Bahamas studied some 30 years ago; September 1996; Robert Ginsburg and RSMAS colleagues A Workshop on research and conservation of coral reefs in the Western Indian Ocean will be held in late February, 1997 in Mombassa, Kenya. Futher information from Tim McClanahan, Coral Reef Conservation Project, The Wildlife Conservation Society, P.O. Box 99470, Mombassa, Kenya FAX: 254 (11) 472215. Further information about IYOR from: Robert N. Ginsburg, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami FL 33149; Phone: (305) 361-4875; FAX: (305) 361-4094 or 4632; rginsburg@rsmas.miami.edu Stephen Colwell, CORAL, 809 Delaware St, Berkeley CA 94710, Phone 510-528-2492, Fax 510-528-9317; e-mail: IYOR1997@aol.com Vanessa Guest, IYOR-UK, Fax (44) 1326-316-836; e-mail: 101341.16@compuserve.com From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Aug 10 13:00:48 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA00030; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 13:00:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA01884; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 16:41:39 GMT Received: from igc7.igc.org by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA01879; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 12:41:30 -0400 Received: from igc3.igc.apc.org (igc3.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.33]) by igc7.igc.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA24453 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 09:10:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ppp6-7.igc.org (pcis@ppp6-7.igc.org [198.94.3.7]) by igc3.igc.apc.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA20740 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 09:07:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 09:07:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <2.2.16.19960811090725.7d8f3216@pop.igc.org> X-Sender: pcis@pop.igc.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: GreenLife Society Subject: Re: IYOR Update Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: IYOR looks like it's going to be a fantastic program, avoiding the do-nothing approach of some past "year of" campaigns, which has engendered cynicism about the efficacy of such campaigns in the past few years. However, distressfully absent so far are any outreach efforts in the Middle East, the site of some of the most important coral reef ecosystems from the perspective of biodiversity and degree of threat. Hopefully, cooperation between IYOR participants and NGOs/governments/academic institutions in the region will be developed pursuant to the campaign. At 08:54 PM 8/9/96 -0400, CoralReefA@aol.com wrote: >Dear IYOR and Coral List Participants > >This is an update about the International Year of the Reef (IYOR) >It is divided into several categories: >1. Background on IYOR and Frequently Asked Questions >2. Brief description of formal launch of IYOR at the Panama ISRS Symposium >3. Coming Events (by country/region) and Resources >4. Contact addresses for further infromation. >As always, we encourage (constructive) comments, revisions etc. Please >remember to use the listserver only if you message is of general interest >(otherwise send indivdual messages). >Thanks for your interest in IYOR. >All the best, >Sue Wells >Robert Ginsburg >Vanessa Guest >Stephen Colwell > > NEWS OF THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE REEF, 1997 > >For those not familiar with the goals of IYOR, this is a major effort in >capacity building for reef management, outreach and education, research on >reef degradation and its causes, assessment of reef condition and >sustainable reef management. It will provide a global context for national >and regional efforts and will promote collaboration between organisations >and programmes with common interests, providing an umbrella for a wide >variety of reef-related activities in research, education, management, >tourism etc. > >IYOR is not a top-down organisation with a large central office; it is >instead a grass-roots effort with emphasis on regional and local >initiatives, and >is relying on individuals and groups to achieve its aims. Groups are >encouraged to establish their own committees and develop initiatives >appropriate to their locations. IYOR groups have been formed or are being >formed in several parts of the world already (see below). Suggestions for >organizing a committee appear in the current issue of Reef Encounter. > >Updates on IYOR activities will be provided from time to time on relevant >List Servers. At this time, IYOR does not have a full-time resource person >to answer all inquiries, but our volunteer leaders will do their best to >answer questions and provide advice. Most of us will be away for extended >periods during August and thus there will be delays in responding. The >IYOR Web page is being updated and hotlinks to other relevant Web pages are >being created; contact Stephen Colwell for further information (address >below). > > FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF IYOR IN PANAMA > >IYOR was formally announced at the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium >in Panama, at the end of June this year. Almost all of the 1400 >participants,from numerous countries, including most of the world's leading >reef scientists signed the IYOR Pledge of support for conservation, >education and assessments of reef condition. > >An IYOR booth attracted continuous attention throughout the meeting, and >distributed a range of materials. A press event attracted television >stations, magazines and newspapers and IYOR received good coverage in Latin >America and the Caribbean. Copies of the press release are available from >Stephen Colwell. The handsome IYOR logo designed by the Scripps Institute >was a big hit with participants as it appeared on buttons and a T-shirt. >Organisations wishing to use the logo in connection with IYOR activities >should ask for an application form from one of the people listed below. An >English leaflet on IYOR has been produced and is being distributed. Further >print-runs in other languages, as well as country- and region-specific >versions, are being planned. > >IYOR was designated a sanctioned activity of the International Coral Reef >Initiative (ICRI) and assigned responsibility for public awareness of the >Initiative's 1997 Program. > >The all-day IYOR Symposium on rapid assessments of benthos and fishes and >various impacts was well received. Some 20 researchers from around the >Western Atlantic met during the symposium and enthusiastically endorsed the >idea of assessing the condition of reefs remote from centres of population. > Information on this inititiative, termed WARRS (Western Atlantic Remote >Reef Survey) will be >posted on the Coral List Server. > >Two meetings of those interested in education were well attended and the >participants voiced strong support for developing a clearing house with >information on all available teaching aids (see below). > >IYOR-related activities also promoted at Panama included: > >ReefBase, the global database on coral reefs, now available from ICLARM on >CD-Rom together with a comprehensive manual. For information contact John >McManus, J.MCMANUS@CGNET.COM > >The Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCMRN) was launched and is >developing plans for a network of monitoring sites worldwide. Information >brochure available from Clive Wilkinson: C.Wilkinson@pearl.aims.gov.au > >A poster map of the world's coral reef and mangroves, prepared by the World >Conservation Monitoring Centre, is available in English or Spanish from >Alastair Grenfell: a.grenfell@wcmc.org.uk > > COMING EVENTS: > >INTERNATIONAL > >October,1996 Montreal: A special session on IYOR, ICRI and coral reefs is >being organized at the World Conservation Congress by IUCN - The World >Conservation Union. Further information from Paul Holthus, IUCN Marine >Program, e-mail: PFH@HQ.iucn.ch > >PACIFIC: > >The Pacific Year of the Reef (PYOR) will be launched on 11 February 1997. >It is being led by the South Pacific Regional Environmental Program and to >date 17 countries are participating; others are expected to join. The PYOR >slogan is "Coral Reefs: Their Health, Our Wealth". National campaign plans >are being developed. An artwork competition is being held to design a >logo, the deadline for entries being 1 October 1996. Plans are also being >made to produce a video for the campaign. Further information from Lucille >Overhoff e-mail: >lucille@pactok.peg.apc.org > >The 8th Pacific Science Association's Intercongrress to be held in Fiji >July 13-19,1997 will feature a full report on the status of coral reefs in >the Pacific and the results of resurveys of reefs after some decades, both >of which are central themes ofIYOR Additional papers on IYOR themes are >being solicited. For information contact Dr. Charles Birkeland, UOG Marine >Laboratory, Mangilao, Guam 36923 birkelan@uog9.uog.edu or Dr. Richard W. >Grigg, Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Mana, 1000 Pope >Rd. Honolulu, Hawii, 96822 rgrigg@soest.hawaii.edu > >UNITED STATES >A wide variety of projects have been planned by government and >non-governmental particpants in IYOR. A recent meeting sponsored by NOAA and >the AZA in Washington DC explored common themes for IYOR and allowed >networking of many of the interested groups. A summary of that meeting will >be made available over the IYOR listserv when it is edited by NOAA. These >are a few of the events currently planned. > >Please describe your own plans on the IYOR listserv so that they can be added >to the calendar of events that will be displayed on the IYOR Web Site: > www.coral.org/iyor/ > >September 1996: Hawaii launch: How zoos and aquariums can best participate in >IYOR will be discussed at the AZA Annual meeting, sponsored by the Waikiki >Aquarium. A preview of the IYOR Coral Reef Photography Exhibition - >organized by CORAL - will be presented at the Waikiki Aquarium. > >November 1996: Press Club - background briefing for science writers. IYOR >activities will be highlighted and information on the need for coral reef >conservation will be distributed to correspondents from major newspapers, >magazines and television stations to prepare them for IYOR; sponsored by NOAA >and Baltimore Aquarium > >January 1997; Inauguration of IYOR with a Gala (plans underway in Miami and >San Francisco - other sites encouraged) > >January 1997: The IYOR them will be included at the DEMA dive show, in >Orlando Florida > >1996/97: ongoing activities at National Aquarium, Baltimore; information >from Chris Andrews e-mail: candrews@clark.net > >Other Aquariums: a number of aquariums are focusing on coral reef education >and conservation during IYOR. Individual aquariums (and zoos) are invited to >discuss their plans on the IYOR listserv. > >Color calendar for 1997 IYORproduced by CORAL (Coral Reef Alliance) is >available for immediate distribution; information on >availability from Stephen Colwell address below. > >IYOR Coral Reef Photography Exhibition - a collection of underwater >photographs by the world's top underwater photographers - will travel to >major zoos and aquariums throughout 1997-98 - organized by CORAL > >Public Service Announcements - on redio and television are planned throughout >1997 to raise the public awareness about IYOR and coral reefs. > >IYOR Poster contest for children will be held throughout the United States >during IYOR. It will be coordinated by the AZA, The Waikiki Aquarium and >other participating zoos and aquariums. > > >UNITED KINGDOM > >September-November 1997: Natural History Museum/Coral Cay Conservation >joint exhibition on coral reefs and children's educational weekend > >February 1997: UK launch at London Zoo, in conjunction with Sea Life >Centres, with David Bellamy > >1997: BP/Birdlife International/Fauna and Flora International special award >for coral reef expeditions > >BBC programme on coral reefs as part of forthcoming 'Oceans' series > >Other activities are being developed by the UK IYOR Committee. Further >information (as well as copies of the UK-IYOR newsletter) from Vanessa >Guest e-mail 101341.16@CompuServe.COM and Liz Wood e-mail >ewood@mail.globalnet.co.uk > >WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: > >An IYOR-affiliated Program to develop research and conservation initiatives >for the Western Indian Ocean is being established in Kenya by Tim >McClanahan with support from the Pew Charitable Trust. It will be >headquartered in Mombassa under the Cora Reef Conservation Project of The >Wildlife Conservation Society and will focus on education-outreach and >coordination of activities in the region and research on ways to restore >degraded reefs and the effects of multiple anthropogenic impacts. > >GERMANY > >October 1996: German Research Foundation meeting on 'Global and Regional >Controls on Biogenic Information'; IYOR information will be distributed. >Further information from Felix Gunkel e-mail: fgunkel@gwdg.de > >AUSTRALIA > >Programs being developed through Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, >Australian Marine Conservation Society, and University of Sydney. > >MEXICO > >Various activities underway, and plans for establishment of IYOR Mexican >Committee. > >COLOMBIA > >Plans for establishment of IYOR committee underway. > > EDUCATION MATERIALS > >Several initiatives are underway to assemble information on existing >materials and to produce new education and outreach materials through Steve >Ladd, Coral Forest and the UK IYOR Committee. This information will be made >available through one of the Listservers shortly, and will also be >distributed at the World Conservation Congress.. > > SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES > >Re-survey of reefs previously impacted by excess sediment -El Nido/Bacuit >Bay, Philippines; September, 1996 led by Gregor Hodgson. > >Initial assessments of coral community condition, Bahamas Barrier Reef >(Andros Island); July-August, 1996 led by William Kiene. > >Re-survey of coral community condition off Abaco Island, Bahamas studied >some 30 years ago; September 1996; Robert Ginsburg and RSMAS colleagues > >A Workshop on research and conservation of coral reefs in the Western >Indian Ocean will be held in late February, 1997 in Mombassa, Kenya. Futher >information from Tim McClanahan, Coral Reef Conservation Project, The >Wildlife Conservation Society, P.O. Box 99470, Mombassa, Kenya FAX: 254 >(11) 472215. > >Further information about IYOR from: > >Robert N. Ginsburg, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, >University of Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami FL 33149; Phone: >(305) 361-4875; FAX: (305) 361-4094 or 4632; >rginsburg@rsmas.miami.edu > >Stephen Colwell, CORAL, 809 Delaware St, Berkeley CA 94710, Phone >510-528-2492, Fax 510-528-9317; e-mail: IYOR1997@aol.com > >Vanessa Guest, IYOR-UK, Fax (44) 1326-316-836; e-mail: >101341.16@compuserve.com > > > William C. Burns Director, GreenLife Society - North American Chapter 700 Cragmont Ave. Berkeley, CA 94708 USA Phone/Fax: (510) 558-0620 WWW site: http://EELINK.umich.edu/greenlife/index.html GLSNA Affiliations: Union of Concerned Scientists, Sound Science Initiative The EarthAction Network The Galapagos Coalition Reseau International d'ONG sur la Desertification (RIOD) Accredited NGO Observer, International Whaling Commission European Social Science Fisheries Network -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." -- William James -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Wed Aug 11 11:35:12 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA02557; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 11:35:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA02603; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 15:11:16 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA02598; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 11:11:14 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA04398; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 11:11:11 -0400 Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 11:11:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: IYOR & Coral List Update Correction Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 10 Aug 96 23:43:08 EDT From: John Rewald <100353.164@compuserve.com> To: Coral Reef Owner Cc: Lucille Apis-Overhoff Subject: IYOR & Coral List Update Concerning the IYOR update posted on Friday, 9 August 1996. Coming Events for the Pacific Region. The regional campaign is called "1997 Pacific Year of the Coral Reef" (PYOCR), all participants agreed on the coral reef theme. The campaign slogan is "Coral Reefs: Their Health, Our Future!" the Our Wealth is a mistake and circulars have been sent out from SPREP rectifying this. John Rewald Head of Department Motupore Island Research Department University of Papua New Guinea Box 320 University P.O. National Capital District Papua New Guinea 134 Phone: (675) 3258093 Fax: (675) 3258093 Telex: NE22366 Email: 100353.164@compuserve.com jrewald@peg.apc.org From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Aug 14 22:11:29 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA12122; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 22:11:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA05618; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 01:50:14 GMT Received: from cbl.cees.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA05613; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 21:50:12 -0400 Received: from [199.75.0.130] (anisoptera.cbl.cees.edu [199.75.0.130]) by cbl.cees.edu (8.7.5/8.7.1) with SMTP id VAA19952 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 21:50:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 21:50:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: mattia@cbl.cees.edu (Christopher M. Mattia) Subject: Non-Destructive Coral Health Monitoring Home Page Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: As part of my Senior Thesis at St. Mary's College of Maryland I have created a page on the WWW. Please take a look at it and send me your comments and suggestions. The Non-destructive Coral Health Monitoring Home Page http://www.cbl.cees.edu/~mattia/SMProject/ as with all web pages some parts are still under construction so watch out for falling bricks...:) Christopher M. Mattia CBL-CEES-UMD P.O. Box 38 Solomons MD 20688 Phone (410) 326-7345 Fax (410) 326-7419 mattia@cbl.cees.edu http://www.cbl.cees.edu/~mattia/ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Aug 16 04:22:10 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA28713; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 04:22:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id HAA06737; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 07:43:13 GMT Received: from server3.syd.mail.ozemail.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id DAA06732; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 03:43:07 -0400 From: edrew@ozemail.com.au Received: from oznet16.ozemail.com.au (oznet16.ozemail.com.au [203.2.192.109]) by server3.syd.mail.ozemail.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA00874 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 17:43:25 +1000 (EST) Received: from oznet02.ozemail.com.au (oznet02.ozemail.com.au [203.2.192.124]) by oznet16.ozemail.com.au (8.7.4/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA22909 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 17:43:19 +1000 (EST) Received: from LOCALNAME (sltow1p20.ozemail.com.au [203.15.161.36]) by oznet02.ozemail.com.au (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA23659 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 17:43:16 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 17:43:16 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199608160743.RAA23659@oznet02.ozemail.com.au> X-Sender: edrew@ozemail.com.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: another new web site Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Those of you addicted to the World Wide Web might like to check out the new web site I am putting together. It has progressed beyond the foundations and you can now get an idea of its eventual splendour. The emphasis is very much marine botany, but, as those who know me could have guessed, Halimeda and the Great Barrier Reef feature extensively. The URL is http://www.ozemail.com.au/~edrew Inevitably, it looks and works best with Netscape 2.0 or above, particularly as JavaScript already features in one interactive page and there is an animated GIF on another. Feedback about potential content will be welcome, but no complaining about some of the pages being empty at present! All will be revealed in the fullness of time........ Ed ------------------------- Dr Edward A Drew ----------------------- | PO Box 361, Castletown, Hyde Park, Townsville, Q 4812, Australia | | TEL +61-077-724452 FAX +61-077-213538 MOBILE +61-014-879869 | | EMAIL edrew@ozemail.com.au WWW http://www.ozemail.com.au/~edrew | ------------------------------------------------------------------ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Aug 16 04:39:04 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA28763; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 04:38:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id IAA06757; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 08:06:37 GMT Received: from extra.ucc.su.OZ.AU by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id EAA06752; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 04:06:32 -0400 Received: from linnaeus.bio.usyd.edu.au (linnaeus.bio.usyd.edu.AU [129.78.177.10]) by extra.ucc.su.OZ.AU (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA20929 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 18:05:58 +1000 Received: from a08pc-20.bio.usyd.edu.AU by linnaeus.bio.usyd.edu.au; (5.65/1.1.8.2/12Aug94-0642PM) id AA09670; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 19:10:18 +1000 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19960816075730.006f8b80@mail.bio.usyd.edu.au> X-Sender: oveh@mail.bio.usyd.edu.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 17:57:30 +1000 To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program From: Ove Hoegh-Guldberg Subject: Invest in art for coral reefs! Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Visit the "save the reef" Internet Art Auction! As an event leading up to the "International Year of the Reef" (1997), the Coral Reef Research Institute (CRRI) is running an Internet art auction. This event begins August 15th and runs for two weeks at http://artauction.aust.com. At this site you can visit a gallery of over 50 works of art by internationally acclaimed artists. A novel program allows you to bid for art at the site. The aim of this art auction is to bring awareness of the challenges that face coral reefs world-wide. It will also function to pursue crucial support for One Tree Island research station which is currently being threatened with closure by reduced institutional funding. The loss of One Tree Island (the site of projects like ENCORE) would be a huge blow to coral reef research and conservation. Log in and make an investment in art and the future of coral reefs worldwide! Please disseminate this message electronically to all your email and Internet contacts. An attractive button is attached for putting up at WWW sites. Where: http://artauction.aust.com. When: August 15th to 30th, 1996 Who: Coral Reef Research Institute (research and conservation) SUPPORT THE ART AUCTION! : http://www.artauction.aust.com Aug 15th - 30th. Log in and bid!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ove Hoegh-Guldberg Ph: (02) 351-2389 School of Biological Sciences Fax: (02) 351-4119 Building A08 Mobile: 014 811 935 University of Sydney Country code Australia = 61 2006 NSW Australia OHG: http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/SOBS/ACADEMIC/ACASTAFF/ohg/ohg.html Coral Reef Research Institute: http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/CRRI/crri-ind.html One Tree Island Research Station: http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/OTI/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Aug 20 11:29:56 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA10834; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 11:29:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA10339; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 14:56:25 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA10334; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 10:56:24 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA17619; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 10:56:20 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 10:56:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: FIO-enhanced C-MAN data Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: An update to Florida Institute of Oceanography (FIO) enhanced Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) data from C-MAN stations in the Florida Straits has been made available on the CHAMP Home Page, specifically at: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/cman/cman_menu.html Data are available through June, 1996, and include measurements for salinity and photosynthetically active radiation. Header files for these data are the same as for previous years. Near real-time data are available at the same site, although some of the NDBC and/or FIO instruments are in the process of being replaced or repaired. NDBC data (only) may be retrieved from their Home Page at: http://seaboard.ndbc.noaa.gov/ndbc.html For further information, contact Chris Humphrey, who maintains the FIO-enhanced C-MAN sites. He may be reached at (305) 664-9101. His e-mail address is humphrj1@firnvx.firn.edu. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Aug 21 09:34:51 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA21966; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 09:34:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA11231; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 13:23:07 GMT Received: from cbl.cees.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA11226; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 09:23:05 -0400 Received: from [199.75.0.130] (anisoptera.cbl.cees.edu [199.75.0.130]) by cbl.cees.edu (8.7.5/8.7.1) with SMTP id JAA05973 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 09:23:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 09:23:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: mattia@cbl.cees.edu (Christopher M. Mattia) Subject: Coral Health Monitoring Method Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: For those of you who are actively involved with coral health monitoring. I am interested in finding out by what method are you attempting to assess coral health? One example would be: by using video transects we determine percent cover, and species diversity while monitoring pH, salinity, temperature...etc... The results from this query will be posted on the Non-Destructive Coral Health Monitoring Home Page http://www.cbl.cees.edu/~mattia/SMProject/ Thanks, chris Christopher M. Mattia CBL-CEES-UMD P.O. Box 38 Solomons MD 20688 Phone (410) 326-7345 Fax (410) 326-7419 mattia@cbl.cees.edu http://www.cbl.cees.edu/~mattia/ Non-Destructive Coral Health Monitoring Home Page: http://www.cbl.cees.edu/~mattia/SMProject/ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Aug 21 19:34:43 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA01242; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 19:34:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id XAA12185; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 23:15:06 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA12180; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 19:15:03 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA01032; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 19:15:02 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 19:15:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Coral Spawning/Gulf of Mexico (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 21 Aug 1996 16:32:25 -0400 From: "Deslarzes, Ken" To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program Subject: Coral Spawning/Gulf of Mexico From: Gregory S. Boland, Dept. of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA. Ph. 409-845-8387 -Copy of a Press Release- Seven evenings after the full moon of July; Flower Gardens Banks National Marine Sanctuary (NW Gulf of Mexico), August 6, 1996. The corals continue to surprise all the coral reef biologists, including this one after five years of observation and research. I would have bet, along with virtually every one else, that the odds were very small of seeing any spawning at the Flower Gardens this early in August, but the Flower Gardens surprised us yet again. On the night of August 6th, seven evenings after the full moon of July 30, the Flower Gardens impressed a large number of volunteer research divers from Oceanographic Expeditions with a mass spawning event (albeit very reduced in comparison to previous year's events). In comparison to other sites throughout the Atlantic and Caribbean during normal events, even a reduced mass spawning at the Flower Gardens appears quite spectacular. The first witnessed coral spawning occurred at 20:55 hrs CDT from both male and female Montastraea cavernosa. One dive team also recorded a mass egg bundle release from a single Diploria strigosa head at 21:30 hrs. This author entered the water at 21:45 and shortly after came across the head of a female M. cavernosa releasing rather loose aggregations of tiny eggs. In previous years, this diecious species extruded much more agglutinated egg masses than what was seen this year in August. Individual eggs rapidly separated from each other as they were expelled from each polyp. A total of three different species were seen spawning between a narrow time window of 20:55-22:20 hrs. These included D. strigosa, Montastraea franksi and both sexes of M. cavernosa. People on the vessel also reported a limited presence of a spawn slick on the water's surface roughly during the same period. Ten divers entered the water for a third dive sequence on the evening of August at 23:55 hrs. None observed any evidence of spawning during their dive of approximately 35 minutes and no other coral eggs were observed on the surface for the rest of the evening up to at least 02:00 hrs of 7 August. The second night of the cruise did not result in any diver observations of spawning between the hours of 20:30-21:30 hrs but there were observations of coral egg bundles on the surface. The species producing the egg bundles was not positively identified but appeared to be from a M. franksi. Several heads of D. strigosa were observed and photographed by this author underwater in pre-spawning "setting stage". The vast majority (>95%) of the other D. strigosa heads did not show any signs of a setting stage. A very brief appearance of egg bundles also appeared on the surface at 21:30 hrs during the night of 8 August, 9 evenings after the full moon. This is the time frame for the spawning of Colpophyllia natans, but the observed egg bundles were much smaller that the normal baby pea-sized C. natans egg bundles. The observed bundles could have been from a single head due to the very short duration (2-3 min) the spawn drifted past the vessel. There is little doubt that the 3 or 4 September coral spawning event will be quite spectacular, but then, we have been fooled before. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Aug 22 23:01:40 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA19682; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 23:01:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id CAA01269; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 02:31:54 GMT Received: from durian.usc.edu.ph by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id WAA01264; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 22:31:18 -0400 Received: from mangga.usc.edu.ph (mangga.usc.edu.ph [165.220.28.252]) by durian.usc.edu.ph (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA06861 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 10:31:46 +0800 Received: from MANGGA/SpoolDir by mangga.usc.edu.ph (Mercury 1.21); 23 Aug 96 10:32:21 +800 Received: from SpoolDir by MANGGA (Mercury 1.21); 23 Aug 96 10:31:38 +800 From: "Marine Biology Section, USC, Cebu, Philippi" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 10:31:31 +0000 Subject: Re: water seepage Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Message-ID: <1AA1C60558@mangga.usc.edu.ph> Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Dear everyone, Hi! I am planning to conduct a study on how a reef community structure is modified by ambient nutrient levels. The study area has high levels of PO4 and NO3 and I have good reason to think that inputs are from the adjacent resort. In-puts possibly come from water used to spray on lawns and mini-golf courses, which seeps through the ground, is nutrient-loaded, and finds its way into the immediate coastal area. I would like to know how to go about quantifying this water that ends up in the sea. I have come across studies using "piezometers" and "seepage meters"-- how do these work? Are there other ways of quantifying seepage? In addition, if anybody of you is working on a study related to mine, reprints will be more than welcome. Thank you very much and have a nice day! cheers, Chona ____sender's name_____ Marine Biology Section University of San Carlos fax (+63-32) 3460351 Cebu City 6000, Philippines email: mbs@mangga.usc.edu.ph ****** When replying, PLEASE INCLUDE ADDRESSEE'S NAME IN SUBJECT HEADER *** thanks. ******** From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Aug 23 05:15:28 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA21094; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 05:15:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id IAA01539; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 08:59:20 GMT Received: from crab.jcu.edu.au by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id EAA01534; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:59:16 -0400 Received: from localhost by crab.jcu.edu.au with SMTP id AA24740 (5.65v3.2/IDA-1.5); Fri, 23 Aug 1996 19:01:44 +1000 Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 19:01:43 +1000 (EST) From: Sharifah Syed Ibrahim To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: salinity and El Nino Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear all, Hi. I am a student, and new to this list. My project is trying to investigate the effects of hyposalinity on scleractinian and octocorals. 1. I am wondering if anyone has contemplated the El Nino effects as being not just temperature but also, with the change in climate (hurricanes, high rainfall, etc), the likelihood of hyposalinity as a major stress factor. 2 Any leads to recent materials on hyposalinity and corals would be appreciated (the searches I did yielded dated stuff which is useful but not up to date). 3. As well, any one who has worked on HELIOPORA COERULEA in terms of tolerances, requirements in nature, problems in keeping in aquaria, etc? I would greatly appreciate your kind inputs on any one of the above query. Thanking you in advance, nora ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nora SyedIbrahim Postgraduate student Marine Biology Dept. James Cook University Townsville, Queensland 4811 A U S T R A L I A. Ph: ++61-077- 815718 Fax: ++61-077- 251570 Email: Sharifah.SyedIbrahim@jcu.edu.au From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Aug 23 12:34:23 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA25109; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:34:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA00787; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 15:51:48 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA00782; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 11:51:45 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA02339; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 11:51:45 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 11:51:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral Reply-To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Marine Biology CD Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: This message from the marbio listserver may be of interest to some of you. Sorry if you've already seen this, we've just installed a new hard drive for the list-server and this may be the 2nd go-round... jch ================================ From: Jeff Levinton Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 16:27:35 -0400 (EDT) Subject: marbio: MARINE BIOLOGY EXPLORATIONS CD COMING SEPTEMBER 13 FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS "MARINE BIOLOGY EXPLORATIONS" by Jeffrey Levinton (State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook NY 11794 USA) A CD with nearly 300 images of marine environments and organisms. Produced as a companion to "Marine Biology: Function, Biodiversity, Ecology" by Jeffrey Levinton, Marine Biology Explorations (MBE) gives the student an opportunity to examine images and explanatory text for the following subject areas: (1) The Voyage of the Challenger Expedition (2) Marine Plankton (3) Salt Marshes (4) Mangals (5) Coral Reefs (6) Soft Bottom Shores (7) Rocky Shores (8) Marine Invertebrate Larvae (9) Subtidal Bottoms (10) Hot Vent Environments (11) Kelp Forests Complete Picture Index Images are from both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America. Each subject area allows the student to "wander" and encounter new organisms and ecological features. Text boxes describe organisms or illuminate ecological processes. Other features: (1) A multiple choice test module, keyed to chapters of Levinton's book. Over 250 questions are provided. (2) Digital images of nearly all figures from Levinton's text "Marine Biology: Function, Biodiversity, Ecology." All figures are in Adobe Acrobat format, which allows figures to be converted, for example into classroom presentables, such as overhead transparencies and digitally projectible images (e.g., from a laptop connected to a computer-compatible projector). Hardware Required: Macintosh Computer with CD-ROM, MACOS version 6.0 and above Estimated Cost: $24.95 or comes free to instructor who adopts Levinton's text. To order, contact Oxford University Press at: Order Department, Oxford University Press 2001 Evans Road Cary, North Carolina 27513 tel. 800-451-7556 For inspection copies and further information, please contact Chris Johnson at Oxford University Press. His email address is: cpj@oup-usa.org Jeff Levinton Department of Ecology and Evolution State University of New York Stony Brook NY 11794-5245 tel 516 632 8602 fax 516 632 7626 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Aug 26 13:35:57 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA16837; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 13:35:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA01098; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 17:03:44 GMT Received: from localhost by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA01093; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 13:03:39 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 13:03:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "James C. Hendee" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: reef@aoml maintenance Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: We are currently installing a new hard drive and other items of hardware on the workstation which holds the coral-list listserver software (majordomo), so if you have trouble posting messages, we would appreciate your patience. Usually, if a message doesn't make it across the Internet the first time, the message will automatically be resent at a prespecified interval. Cheers, Jim Hendee coral-list administrator From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Aug 28 19:24:10 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA02718; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 19:24:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA03828; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 22:52:53 GMT Received: from servidor.dgsca.unam.mx by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id SAA03823; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:52:51 -0400 Received: by servidor.dgsca.unam.mx (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA23755; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 17:54:44 +0600 Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 17:54:43 -0600 (CST) From: Horta Puga Guillermo Javier-ENEPIZ To: Yedid Hilu Aaron-ENEPIZ Cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Coral list In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Burro no enviaste completo el mensaje Me parece que la direccion es majordomo@reef.aoml.noaa.gov colocas el siguiente mensaje en el texto: Subcribe coral-list sino checa pues nimodo, ojala alguien mas te conteste. Guillermo On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Yedid Hilu Aaron-ENEPIZ wrote: > If someone could help me how to suscribe to coral reef list I would > appreciate the h > > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Aug 29 10:37:18 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA09886; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 10:37:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA04986; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 14:07:18 GMT Received: from bbcgate.bbc.co.uk by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA04981; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 10:07:10 -0400 Received: from mail.radio.bbc.co.uk (rimfall.radio.bbc.co.uk [132.185.47.21]) by bbcgate.bbc.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.2) with SMTP id PAA01026 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 15:08:19 +0100 (BST) Received: from nr-comms.radio.bbc.co.uk by mail.radio.bbc.co.uk with SMTP id AA14698 (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Thu, 29 Aug 1996 15:08:17 +0100 X-Nvlenv-01Date-Transferred: 29-Aug-1996 15:01:26 +0100; at link1.bbc X-Nvlenv-01Date-Posted: 29-Aug-1996 15:07:51 +0000; at bs1.bbc Date: 29 Aug 96 15:06:49 GMT From: Sue.Flood@bbc.co.uk (Flood,Sue) To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Message-Id: <"F3B1253281902C79@bs1.bbc"@-SMF-> Subject: Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear All The BBC Natural History Unit is producing a major new documentary series called 'The Blue Planet', 8 x 50-minute programmes about the natural history of the world's oceans, encompassing a breadth and depth (quite literally!) of habitats, e.g coral reefs, rocky shores, mangroves, temperate waters, open ocean, polar seas and the deep. We are keen to find highly visual stories to present in this series and would very much like to hear from you if you have any interesting/unusual/spectacular behaviours and/or locations that you feel would be worthwhile including - from the size of zooxanthellae up to humpbacks at Silver Banks! It would be particularly useful if you were able to include information on any of the following points: 1. Is there any visual material of this story in existence, either in the form of stills or video footage? 2. Is there any good reference material (review articles, books etc.) dealing with the subject, especially those with accompanying photographs? 3. Can you suggest anybody (perhaps yourself?!) whom we could contact regarding the practicalities and feasibility of filming this subject? We hope that with your help we can ensure that 'The Blue Planet' will be a hallmark series of which both the BBC and the scientific community can be proud. Any help that you can give us would be very much appreciated. I'd also be very grateful for information about any forthcoming conferences on anything marine, which may be helpful. Finally, apologies to those of you reading this whom I've already spoken to in Panama! (and many thanks again for your kind help). With many thanks for any help that you can give me, Sincerely Sue Flood Sue Flood BBC Natural History Unit Whiteladies Road Bristol BS8 2LR UK Tel 44-117-9746763 Fax 44-117-9237708 E-mail Sue.Flood@bbc.co.uk From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Aug 30 15:04:08 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA01326; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 15:04:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA06349; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 18:41:48 GMT Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA06344; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 14:41:43 -0400 Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by ns-mx.uiowa.edu (8.7.5/19950309.1) on Fri, 30 Aug 1996 13:44:30 -0500 id NAA13507 with SMTP Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960830184449.00687e80@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> X-Sender: davidson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 13:44:49 -0500 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Osha Gray Davidson Subject: Great Barrier Reef contacts Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I'm in the process of planning a trip to the Great Barrier Reef, to take place some time in the next few months, for work on a book (for lay-persons) about coral reefs and associated ecosystems. Are there any list-members down under who would be willing to serve as contacts for this trip--explaining their work and suggesting places to visit? I'd greatly appreciate the help! Thanks, in advance, Osha Osha Gray Davidson 14 S. Governor St. Iowa City, IA 52240 USA PH: (319) 338-4778 FAX: (319) 338-8606 e-mail: davidson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu Center for International and Comparative Studies, University of Iowa From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Sep 2 11:41:21 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA18981; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 11:41:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA08485; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 15:03:05 GMT Received: from www2.digiserve.com by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA08480; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 11:02:57 -0400 Received: from rickmart (ppp016.accessnv.com [206.29.25.116]) by www2.digiserve.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA06005; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 10:52:56 -0400 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19960902145636.00675be0@aquarium.net> X-Sender: aquatic@aquarium.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 07:56:36 -0700 To: FISHFOLK@mitvma.mit.edu, aqua-l@upei.ca, marine@aqualink.com, fisheries@biome.bio.dfo.ca, crust-l@vims.edu, coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, marine-l@upei.ca, fish-junior@oj.rsmas.miami.edu, FISH-ECOLOGY@segate.sunet.se, marbio@marinelab.sarasota.fl.us From: "D.R. Martin" Subject: Aquarium.net magazine writers Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Sorry for the cross posting. For all who have an interest in aquariums there is a monthly magazine now online at www.aquarium.net. We are also looking for new material related to aquariums. If you have material or are interested in writing, please contact me. http://www.aquarium.net Sept Issue articles Treatment of Invertebrete pathogens Dana Riddle A Discussion on Algae Dr Ron Shimek The Great Barrier Reef Alf J Nilsen Corals and Bacterial Infections Albert Thiel Stray Voltage in the Aquarium Bruce Davidson Natural Nitrate Reduction Samm Gamble Thanks >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> D.R. Martin sales@aquarium.net Aquarium.Net Cyber-Magazine <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Sep 3 10:08:04 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA26669; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 10:08:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA09386; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 13:27:01 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA09381; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 09:26:56 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA05894; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 09:26:55 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 09:26:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: coral planula development Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 12:48:19 -0700 From: andalusi@dephut.cbn.net.id To: hendee@coral.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: coral planula development I would like to know whether anyone have had anyone done a research on the competition on the planula development of coral and the effect of mariculture on the adjacent reef area. I am working for the government of Indonesia as management authority of coral reef conservation area and at the moment would like to develop a policy why such activity is considered to be harmfull for the environment especially in conservation area even if the parent stock is native to the area. I would really appreciate the information or litterature concerning this activities. Yours sincerely N. Andalusi From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Sep 3 10:08:58 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA26699; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 10:08:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA09379; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 13:22:12 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA09374; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 09:22:08 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA05878; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 09:22:07 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 09:22:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Coral Reef Damage in Jamaica (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 29 Aug 1996 18:25:32 -0400 From: "Deslarzes, Ken" To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program Subject: FW: Coral Reef Damage _______________________________________________________________________________ From: Dodie Guffy on Thu, Aug 29, 1996 15:11 Subject: Coral Reef Damage Coral Reef Damage. In mid-August 1996, Jamaica's Natural Resources Conservation Authority confirmed reports that a fiber optic cable had fallen across the popular Widow Makers Cave coral reef dive site and damaged coral. Telecommunications of Jamaica, Ltd., agreed to move a section of their Cayman-Jamaica cable to a sand channel and avoid further contact with live coral formations. [Assoc Press] --------------------------------------------------- Dodie Guffy, Resource Center Supv. dodie@ariel.tamu.edu Texas A&M University Tel: 409/845-7327 Oceanography & Meteorology Depts. Fax: 409/862-4466 (Met) Working Collection Fax: 409/845-6331 (Ocng) College Station, TX 77843-3146 Oceanography Dept. Home Page http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/ Meteorology Dept. Home Page http://www.met.tamu.edu/ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Aug 30 12:34:35 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA29101; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 12:34:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA06072; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 16:02:00 GMT Received: from emout18.mail.aol.com by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA06067; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 12:01:57 -0400 From: LizMat@aol.com Received: by emout18.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA19058 for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 12:04:51 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 12:04:51 -0400 Message-ID: <960830120450_397662500@emout18.mail.aol.com> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Coral reef bibliography - update Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Thanks to everyone for sending me lists and lists of coral reef related references. I wanted to provide a brief update of the status of our work. We (GreenLife Society) have decided to focus our bibliography on management and policy related references. There are 2 main reasons for this: first, the shear volume of scientific work that has been and is being done is way beyond our scope; and second, we found several organizations already working on very similar projects. Rather than re-do what has already been done, we have been discussing ways to collaborate and consolidate the information collected. ICLARM has recently completed the first version of ReefBase, a comprehensive CD-ROM database (contact ReefBase@cgnet.com for further information). We will be helping to update their references list by sending all of the bibliographic info that we have received. The Earth Policy Center at Columbia University is also developing a reef-related database that will be accessible through the Internet. Thank you all again for your contributions. Liz Matthews Reseach Associate GreenLife Society Lizmat@aol.com From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Sep 3 15:03:51 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA03976; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 15:03:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA09569; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 18:19:41 GMT Received: from oj.rsmas.miami.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA09564; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 14:19:39 -0400 Received: (from roche@localhost) by oj.rsmas.miami.edu (8.7.1/8.6.9) id OAA21922; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 14:17:03 - 0400 Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 14:17:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Mary Roche To: Osha Gray Davidson cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Great Barrier Reef contacts In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960830184449.00687e80@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I had the great opportunity to dive the GBR 13 times last Septmber. I had a great time and saw incredible diversity among the corals. Their size was tremendous and state of health seemed very good with minimal bleaching. Mortality was extremely minimal, at least in the area where I was. The dive operator was Pro Dive in Cairns, Queensland where I found the staff to be very professional and conscientious. They cater to the experienced "scuba" diver as opposed to most of the operators who cater to the tourists and snorklers with little or no diving (let alone snorkling) experience at all. I recommend them highly. I hope this helps. Regards, Mary Roche UM/RSMAS On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Osha Gray Davidson wrote: > I'm in the process of planning a trip to the Great Barrier Reef, to take > place some time in the next few months, for work on a book (for lay-persons) > about coral reefs and associated ecosystems. Are there any list-members down > under who would be willing to serve as contacts for this trip--explaining > their work and suggesting places to visit? I'd greatly appreciate the help! > Thanks, in advance, > Osha > Osha Gray Davidson > 14 S. Governor St. > Iowa City, IA 52240 > USA > PH: (319) 338-4778 > FAX: (319) 338-8606 > e-mail: davidson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu > Center for International and Comparative Studies, University of Iowa > > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Sep 4 05:21:29 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA09365; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 05:21:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id JAA10106; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 09:01:38 GMT Received: from durian.usc.edu.ph by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id FAA10101; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 05:01:27 -0400 Received: from mangga.usc.edu.ph (mangga.usc.edu.ph [165.220.28.252]) by durian.usc.edu.ph (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA16300 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 16:58:18 +0800 Received: from MANGGA/SpoolDir by mangga.usc.edu.ph (Mercury 1.21); 4 Sep 96 16:58:17 +800 Received: from SpoolDir by MANGGA (Mercury 1.21); 4 Sep 96 16:57:16 +800 From: "Marine Biology Section, USC, Cebu, Philippi" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 16:57:11 +0000 Subject: horseshoe crabs Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Message-ID: <9C0BD3203@mangga.usc.edu.ph> Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Dear All, Does anyone have any information on the habit of the horseshoe crabs. Where and how they live? We have a few of these on the island and I would like to know more about them. Also, if anyone can point me to the right persons who have done or tried to culture these species would be most helpful. Thanks very much. Peter Bargayo Marine Biologist ____sender's name_____ Marine Biology Section University of San Carlos fax (+63-32) 3460351 Cebu City 6000, Philippines email: mbs@mangga.usc.edu.ph ****** When replying, PLEASE INCLUDE ADDRESSEE'S NAME IN SUBJECT HEADER *** thanks. ******** From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Sep 4 23:45:28 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA02111; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 23:45:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id DAA01353; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 03:10:04 GMT Received: from nicole.upd.edu.ph by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id XAA01348; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 23:09:56 -0400 Received: by nicole.upd.edu.ph (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA17912; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 11:11:11 +0800 Received: from xenia.msi.upd.edu.ph (xenia.msi.upd.edu.ph [192.168.1.3]) by msi.msi.upd.edu.ph (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id KAA18949 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 10:07:12 +0800 Message-Id: <199609050207.KAA18949@msi.msi.upd.edu.ph> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Andre Uychiaoco" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Date: Wed, 5 Sep 1996 10:36:15 +0800 Subject: Bolinao cement plant - Thanks! Reply-To: andreu@msi.upd.edu.ph Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Thank you very much to all who supported us against the plan to put up a cement factory near the coral reefs of Bolinao and Anda! The Department of Environment and Natural Resources of the Philippines has decided not to issue an Environmental Compliance Certificate to the Pangasinan Cement Corporation for: (a) unacceptable environmental risks, (b) serious land and resource use conflict, and (c) problems of social acceptability. Marine Science Institute University of the Philippines (Official letter of thanks from our director Edgardo D. Gomez will follow) From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Sep 5 07:47:19 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA04048; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 07:47:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id LAA02262; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 11:27:55 GMT Received: from relay5.jaring.my by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA02257; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 07:27:44 -0400 Received: from tkp (j5.jhb2.jaring.my [161.142.3.243]) by relay5.jaring.my (8.6.13/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA00998 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 19:24:45 +0800 Message-ID: <322EB9EB.1B18@pc.jaring.my> Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 19:30:51 +0800 From: "Mr. Tang Ka-Poh" Reply-To: tkp@pc.jaring.my Organization: -------------------- X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5a (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: enquiry Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: To all the subscribers out there . I would like to acquire more notes on zooxanthellae especially regarding their nutrients uptake, reproduction and their role in the calcification process in reef building corals and giant clams. All notes will contribute to my research on the role of zooxanthellae in respect to coloration and growth rates in corals and giant clams in a controlled artificial environment - stimulant such as lighting conditions and nutrients are currently being carried out. Looking forward to replies. Mr. Tang K.P. Malaysia Email : tkp@pc.jaring.my From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Sep 5 17:55:57 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA13314; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 17:55:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA02677; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 20:30:04 GMT Received: from server.net4you.co.at by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA02672; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 16:29:52 -0400 Received: from schmidt.carnica.or.at (her8.net4you.co.at) by server.net4you.co.at with SMTP id AA23838 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Thu, 5 Sep 1996 20:26:41 GMT Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19960905202524.00669090@net4you.co.at> X-Sender: schmidtn@net4you.co.at X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 22:25:24 +0200 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Norbert Schmidt Subject: coral spawning Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Is there anything known about coral spawning in the Maldive Islands? Is there a specific time? From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Sep 5 18:31:55 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA13625; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 18:31:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA02701; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 21:03:46 GMT Received: from dub-img-4.compuserve.com by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA02696; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 17:03:44 -0400 Received: by dub-img-4.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) id RAA11177; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 17:00:45 -0400 Date: 05 Sep 96 16:59:28 EDT From: John Rewald <100353.164@compuserve.com> To: Coral Reef List Subject: Cyanide Damage - Information Required Message-ID: <960905205928_100353.164_JHC82-1@CompuServe.COM> Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I have received a request for information and advice on cyanide damage to reefs and the marine environment from Fiji. Curly Carswell President Fiji Dive Operators Association Fiji Email: seafijidive@is.com.fj He asked the following, "Due to an open caste NEW GOLD MINE CALLED MOUNT KASI in Savusavu (my home) deliberately breaking its tailing dam in near flood conditions and co-incidently over the same period many fish and turtles ending up DEAD!! We are therefore trying to get a Coral Monitoring course done immediately. We've also arranged for a Satellite pass through Prof. Le Drew, Waterloo University for Savusavu Bay to obtain Data. He has pre-mine time data so hopefully we can identify if we have a problem. On the Mine subject how could I get info on OKTED MINE (don't know spelling). Apparently they had similar problems. I thought that knowing their problems it may help us in Savusavu to anticipate or deal with a possible major environmental problem. DO YOU KNOW IF WE CAN ACCESS THROUGH INTERNET INFO ON OPEN CASE MINE - DESIGNS - USE OF CYANIDE, HOW TO DISPOSE OF TAILINGS ETC???" I have supplied some details but would appreciate any one with more detailed information or suggestions to contact Curly Carswell direct. John Rewald Motupore Island Research Department University of Papua New Guinea Box 320 University P.O. National Capital District Papua New Guinea 134 Phone: (675) 3258093 Fax: (675) 3258093 Telex: NE22366 Email: 100353.164@compuserve.com jrewald@peg.apc.org From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Sep 6 10:40:48 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA22306; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 10:40:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA03801; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 12:47:48 GMT Received: from osceola.gate.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA03796; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 08:47:41 -0400 Received: from LOCALNAME (miafl2-34.gate.net [199.227.2.161]) by osceola.gate.net (8.6.13/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA39700; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 08:44:26 -0400 Message-ID: <323044E0.59DF@pop.gate.net> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 08:36:00 -0700 From: Steven Miller Organization: NURC/UNCW Florida Program X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win16; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov CC: smiller@gate.net Subject: Graduate research funding opportunity Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Sollins Graduate Fellowship for Coral Reef Ecosystem Studies: 1997 Announcement Students are encouraged to take advantage of this unique opportunity to acquire international experience during their graduate studies of coral reefs. The fellowship and application materials are described below. SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 30, 1996. Coral reefs are among the most diverse ecosystems on the planet, they are globally distributed, and they support various aspects of coastal economies. Yet coral reefs are widely recognized to be in decline and studies are needed to provide information to manage and understand processes that cause coral reef change. Funds are available, approximately US$12,000 annually, to support one student to work toward a Ph.D. in the general area of coral reef ecosystem research. The focus of the Sollins Fellowship is to understand and predict coral reef response to management or disturbance-caused change (human-caused or natural). Research supported by the fellowship should emphasize an ecosystem approach, recognizing the complex interplay among many processes that shape the way coral reefs look and function. Work that identifies controls on productivity, nutrient dynamics, carbonate accretion or erosion, or water circulation are examples of suitable topics. Work is not restricted to these topics, but controls should be emphasized because this information is important in construction of models that predict reef response to disturbance. Studies that include development or testing of such models are a priority. Who can apply? The Sollins Fellowship is available to graduate students, worldwide. The intent of the fellowship is to help students develop skills and to address problems related to relevant applications of coral reef ecosystem research and management. The fellowship is payable directly to the graduate student (or their institution) and can be used to support salary, travel, fieldwork, or laboratory analyses. The fellowship is awarded annually and renewal for several years is possible but dependent on satisfactory progress. The student can work entirely at the host university, or can split time between developed and developing country universities. The fellowship is available to students already admitted to a graduate program at an accredited university. The fellowship is available to graduate students worldwide to study at accredited universities, anywhere. A goal of the fellowship is to provide international support for coral reef ecosystem research. Application materials A two page application letter, in English, is required from prospective fellowship candidates that outlines the research program, emphasizing the mix of applied and basic issues addressed in the program, availability of facilities critical to successful completion of the work, and a time schedule to complete the work. An official college transcript is also required. The student's major professor is required to submit a CV and a support letter, in English, that details cost sharing and facility support. If work will be conducted at a second university, a support letter is required from the sponsoring institution and professor. Application materials will be reviewed by an ISRS/CMC panel; evaluation criteria include scientific merit, feasibility, cost sharing, and relevancy to the Sollins Fellowship guidelines. The International Society for Reef Studies and the Center for Marine Conservation The Society (ISRS) and the Center (CMC) support the Sollins Fellowship through professional and administrative contributions. The mission of the ISRS is to promote for the benefit of the public, the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge and understanding concerning coral reefs, both living and fossil. The mission of the CMC is to conserve the health and wealth of marine life. Its programs focus on eliminating four major threats to the health of the marine environment: pollution, physical alteration of marine ecosystems as a result of human activity, overexploitation of marine resources, and loss of marine biodiversity. Application materials should be submitted to the ISRS Recording Secretary, UNCW, 514 Caribbean Drive, Key Largo, Florida 33037 For questions: 305-451-0233 telephone smiller@gate.net e-mail Submission Deadline for 1997 support is September 30, 1996 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Sep 6 18:43:21 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA28321; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 18:43:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA04131; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 21:13:18 GMT Received: from swan.uspnet.usp.br by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA04126; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 17:13:15 -0400 Received: from localhost (lucituca@localhost) by swan.uspnet.usp.br (8.7.2/MAIL-CCE2.0) id NAA46004 Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 13:35:45 -0300 (GRNLNDST) From: Luciana Paes de Andrade X-Sender: lucituca@swan.uspnet.usp.br To: aemigott@usp.br cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Voce ja ouviu falar nisso? In-Reply-To: <323044E0.59DF@pop.gate.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Alvaro, Olha essa mensagem, voce ja ouviu falar nesse programa, sabe como funciona? On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Steven Miller wrote: > Sollins Graduate Fellowship for Coral Reef > Ecosystem Studies: 1997 Announcement > > Students are encouraged to take advantage of this unique opportunity to acquire > international experience during their graduate studies of coral reefs. The fellowship > and application materials are described below. > > SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 30, 1996. > > Coral reefs are among the most diverse ecosystems on the planet, they are > globally distributed, and they support various aspects of coastal economies. Yet coral > reefs are widely recognized to be in decline and studies are needed to provide > information to manage and understand processes that cause coral reef change. Funds are > available, approximately US$12,000 annually, to support one student to work toward a > Ph.D. in the general area of coral reef ecosystem research. The focus of the Sollins > Fellowship is to understand and predict coral reef response to management or > disturbance-caused change (human-caused or natural). Research supported by the > fellowship should emphasize an ecosystem approach, recognizing the complex interplay > among many processes that shape the way coral reefs look and function. Work that > identifies controls on productivity, nutrient dynamics, carbonate accretion or erosion, > or water circulation are examples of suitable topics. Work is not restricted to these > topics, but controls should be emphasized because this information is important in > construction of models that predict reef response to disturbance. Studies that include > development or testing of such models are a priority. > > Who can apply? > > The Sollins Fellowship is available to graduate students, worldwide. The intent > of the fellowship is to help students develop skills and to address problems related to > relevant applications of coral reef ecosystem research and management. The fellowship > is payable directly to the graduate student (or their institution) and can be used to > support salary, travel, fieldwork, or laboratory analyses. The fellowship is awarded > annually and renewal for several years is possible but dependent on satisfactory > progress. The student can work entirely at the host university, or can split time > between developed and developing country universities. The fellowship is available to > students already admitted to a graduate program at an accredited university. The > fellowship is available to graduate students worldwide to study at accredited > universities, anywhere. A goal of the fellowship is to provide international support > for coral reef ecosystem research. > > Application materials > > A two page application letter, in English, is required from prospective > fellowship candidates that outlines the research program, emphasizing the mix of applied > and basic issues addressed in the program, availability of facilities critical to > successful completion of the work, and a time schedule to complete the work. An > official college transcript is also required. The student's major professor is required > to submit a CV and a support letter, in English, that details cost sharing and facility > support. If work will be conducted at a second university, a support letter is required > from the sponsoring institution and professor. Application materials will be reviewed > by an ISRS/CMC panel; evaluation criteria include scientific merit, feasibility, cost > sharing, and relevancy to the Sollins Fellowship guidelines. > > The International Society for Reef Studies > and the > Center for Marine Conservation > > The Society (ISRS) and the Center (CMC) support the Sollins Fellowship through > professional and administrative contributions. The mission of the ISRS is to promote > for the benefit of the public, the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge > and understanding concerning coral reefs, both living and fossil. The mission of the > CMC is to conserve the health and wealth of marine life. Its programs focus on > eliminating four major threats to the health of the marine environment: pollution, > physical alteration of marine ecosystems as a result of human activity, overexploitation > of marine resources, and loss of marine biodiversity. > > Application materials should be submitted to the ISRS Recording Secretary, UNCW, 514 > Caribbean Drive, Key Largo, Florida 33037 > > For questions: > > 305-451-0233 telephone > smiller@gate.net e-mail > > Submission Deadline for 1997 support is September 30, 1996 > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Sep 9 17:48:45 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA27098; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 17:48:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA03028; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 16:12:35 GMT Received: from gsosun1 by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA03023; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 12:12:27 -0400 Received: from [131.128.108.236] by gsosun1 (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06128; Mon, 9 Sep 96 12:05:50 EDT Date: Mon, 9 Sep 96 12:05:49 EDT Message-Id: <9609091605.AA06128@gsosun1> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: swells@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu (Sue Wells) X-Sender: swells@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu Subject: Reef Encounter deadline Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: NEXT ISSUE OF REEF ENCOUNTER (newsletter of the International Society of Reef Studies) Issue no. 20 will be produced in December 1996. The deadline for contributions for this is 1st October 1996. Please send us news, comments, announcements and articles. Contributions and queries should be sent to Maggie Watson, Department of Biology, University of York. e-mail: mw101@york.ac.uk We look forward to hearing from you! Sue Wells Maggie Watson David Obura From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Sep 9 21:49:37 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA28960; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 21:49:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA03381; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 01:08:45 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA03376; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 21:08:43 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA16664; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 21:08:42 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 21:08:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Coral spawning in Key Largo Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 20:17:52 -0400 From: REEF003@aol.com To: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: coral spawning Hello All, Just a few notes from the field. On the evening of Wednesday Sept. 04, mass spawning of numerous M. annularis colonies were observed. Both fast and slow release of bundles were observed between 11:11pm and 11:59 (EST) at Key Largo Dry Rocks ( 25 07.45 N, 80 17.80 W). The majority of colonies located at this site are in shallow water (<4m) and very large in size. Although some activity was witnessed on the evening of September 03, most colonies spawned in a mass event on the 4th. One item of interest came about while looking at slides taken during the event. Macro photography of a slow release M. annularis colony revealed what appears to be release of a white milky substance following release of its egg bundle. Numerous slides show different polyps exhibiting this behavior. I was under the impression that M. annularis bundles contained both eggs and sperm that would not be visible until the bundle had broken. The photography also shows bundles in the process of breaking (partially due to predation by fireworms). No white substance is visible in the breaking bundles, only small eggs. Any ideas? No other species were observed spawning on either the 3rd or 4th, though there were not many other species present in the area we dived. Predation by Silversides, brittle stars, fireworms, very small worms of unknown species and unknown herring-like fish was heavy during the entire spawning event. The Silversides and Herring like fish seeming most voracious. No reports from this area have been heard from the night of the 5th. Anyone else see anything good? Laddie Akins Executive Director REEF reef003@aol.com From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Sep 10 16:45:39 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA13764; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 16:45:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA00916; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 19:45:28 GMT Received: from bishop.bishop.Hawaii.Org by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA00911; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 15:45:18 -0400 Received: by bishop.bishop.Hawaii.Org (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA16797; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 09:37:38 -1000 Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 09:37:38 -1000 (HST) From: Pacific Science Assn To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Symposium Announcement Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Symposium Annoucement A symposium on Marine/Aquatic Introduced Species in the Pacific will be held during the VIII Pacific Science Inter-Congress, July 13-19, 1997, Suva, Fiji. Papers on the ecology, biology, biogeography, environmental and human impacts, and management of introduced species are welcome, as are papers documenting new invasions, transport mechanisms (such as ballast water), and intentional releases. The symposium is being co-sponsored by the CSIRO Centre for Research on Marine Pests (CRIMP) and the Pacific Science Association (PSA), and Ronald Thresher (CRIMP) and L. G. Eldredge (PSA) will Co-Chair the session; James T. Carlton will be the keynote speaker. The date will be announced later. For further information contact L. G. Eldredge [psa@bishop.bishop.hawaii.org] if you would like to present a contributed paper. Participants intending to present a paper are required to submit an abstract to the Inter-Congress Secretariat by January 31, 1997. To obtain the Inter-Congress Second Circular which includes general program of the Inter-Congress, along with information on paper submission, accommodation, excursions, etc. contact: VIII Pacific Science Inter-Congress Secretariat c/o School of Pure & Applied Sciences P.O. Box 1168 The University of the South Pacific Suva, Fiji FAX: (679) 314007 e-mail: psa@usp.ac.fj From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Sep 11 11:03:56 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA24945; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:03:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA02212; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 13:39:01 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA02207; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 09:39:00 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id JAA19884; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 09:38:57 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 09:38:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov cc: MARBIO List-Server Subject: "Destructive fishing practices: Asia's growing curse" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- -------------------------- [Original Message] ------------------------- Original Message date: 9/3/96 3:07 PM Original from: owner-seas-alert@panda.org@NOAA http://www.panda.org -- WWF Global Network Update Destructive fishing practices: Asia's growing curse By Someshwar Singh* Gland, Switzerland: Appearances can be deceptive. Who would have believed that the enchanting fish shimmering their way through aquariums actually bespeak an unfortunate tale of plunder and ruin. Or that the delectable reef fish that end up on gourmet tables across the world spell certain ecological disaster. The fact is that the cancer of dynamite and cyanide fishing is spreading relentlessly in the coastal regions of South-East Asia and the Asia Pacific waters. Coral reefs become the first casualties as they are blasted into rubble by dynamite fishing, or are left intact but dead by cyanide poisoning. Even the spectacular coral reefs of the disputed Spratley Islands have not been spared. They are today referred to as "skeleton" reefs on account of the blast-damage suffered in recent years. Over 30 per cent of the world's coral reefs are found in South-East Asia alone. The reef flora and fauna of the Indo-Pacific region are particularly rich, abounding with about 500 coral species and 2000 fish species. The most diverse reefs lie in the area bounded by northern Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, where a single reef may have as many as 3000 different species. Indonesia, with its 81,000 square kilometres of coastline and over 17,000 islands, is of critical importance as the centre of coral reef ecosystem biodiversity. But these are under severe threat now. Spurred by quick bucks, fisherfolk in South-East Asia are wreaking havoc on coral reef systems to catch fish for the aquarium trade and for food. Rising demand has encouraged unscrupulous traders to use often illegally-obtained sodium cyanide, chlorine, liquid surfactant, and explosives to harvest reef fish. Even though the use of cyanide may be illegal, as it is in the Philippines, it has not really prevented fishermen and traders from using it. Earlier, marine reef fish were harvested by hand-held butterfly-type nets that were selective and not damaging to the environment. Today, however, fisherfolk are resorting to the more effective technique of cyanide poisoning. Dissolved in quart-sized plastic containers, sodium cyanide is used to stun hard-to-catch reef fish that seek cover in coral holes and crevices. The milky fluid causes the fish to lose their equilibrium, swim in crazy loops out of their coral refuge, and become easy targets. The use of dynamite, on the other hand, actually kills most of the impacted fish so that they are used mainly for food. The supply of explosives does not appear to be a problem with fishermen sometimes actually retrieving unexploded bombs from the Second World War. Unfortunately, the growing international demand for reef fish has only given a spurt to these disastrous practices. The aquarium trade caters to the pet industry in North America and Europe while reef fish is a delicacy among the increasingly rich Asian populations with a taste for seafood. The current boom in live fish commerce in Hong Kong, Taiwan and other centres of Chinese prosperity has only aggravated the problem. In the Philippines alone, over 6,000 cyanide divers squirt an estimated 150,000 kg of dissolved poison on some 33 million coral heads annually. During the first eight months of 1995, a catch of 2.3 million kg of live groupers and humphead wrasses worth over US$180 million were exported to Hong Kong and Taiwan. Another 1.9 million kg of decorative fishes worth US$800,000 were shipped to Europe and North America. In Indonesia, there has been a proliferation of cyanide in local fisheries in Irian Jaya and Sulawesi, areas that are rich in global marine biodiversity. Misuse of cyanide in local fisheries is also spreading in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, the Maldives, Solomon Islands and other Pacific coastal states. The impact of destructive fishing activities extends beyond merely the health of target species. Entire reef systems in the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, and the Caribbean are endangered. The Mediterranean region, particularly Greece and Turkey, are likewise plagued by the use of explosives in fishing. In Greece, although dynamite fishing is illegal, it is difficult to crack down on the dubious dynamite supplies circuit. When used inside closed protected bays, explosives cause intense damage as they kill even juveniles in the spawning grounds. Among the Mediterranean species thus affected are the red snapper (Dentex dentex) and the sea bream (Oblada melanura). There is obviously much at a stake, making it imperative to find a solution quickly. "Alternatives to the use of cyanide need to be promoted urgently," says Carel Drijver, Manager, Development Cooperation at WWF-Netherlands. "We would like to see the market and trade in reef fish put on a sustainable path. But that cannot happen unless the extremely harmful fishing practices are changed. Without coral reefs, their spawning ground, reef fishes have a bleak future." WWF has been trying actively to reverse this threat. It has been involved in coral reef protection in the South-East Asian region, and now plans to launch a major policy initiative that will focus on the international dimension of the dynamite and cyanide fishery in Indonesia. The objective is to get fishermen to use alternative, more sustainable, fishing techniques. WWF is also coordinating its effort by pooling together its expertise from the trade monitoring offices in the region and its networks in Hong Kong and the Philippines. Partnerships have been forged in particular with the International Marinelife Alliance in the Philippines and the Nature Conservancy. Education and awareness are the key to the problem and need to be spread not only among fishermen actually engaged in cyanide and dynamite fishing, but other connected sectors like the fisheries trade and industry. Without that, there is little hope for the dying 'rainforests of the sea'. *Someshwar Singh is a Press Officer at WWF-International in Gland, Switzerland http://www.panda.org/ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Sep 11 17:27:14 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA02928; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 17:27:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA02709; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 20:07:47 GMT Received: from usgcrp.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA02704; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 16:07:39 -0400 Received: from [131.182.242.88] by usgcrp.gov (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA28052; Wed, 11 Sep 96 16:08:35 EDT X-Sender: tsocci@earth.usgcrp.gov Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 16:07:47 -0400 To: BIOREGIONAL@csf.colorado.edu, CARRIERPIGEON-L@cornell.edu, ecol-econ@csf.colorado.edu (Clim-Econ List), CNN-NEWSROOM@listserv.aol.com, coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: tsocci@usgcrp.gov (Tony Socci) Subject: September 16th USGCRP Seminar on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Scenarios Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: U.S. Global Change Research Program Second Monday Seminar Series Greenhouse Gas Emissions Scenarios: Their Content, Assumptions, and Implications What are present levels and mix of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions? Which countries are the largest GHG emitters now and which will be the largest emitters in the future? What does it mean to stabilize emissions at a certain level versus stabilizing emissions at a certain concentration? What will it take to reduce emissions?. What options are available for reducing emissions on a scale that would be effective? Public Invited Monday, September 16, 1996, 3:15-4:45 PM Rayburn House Office Bldg., Room B369 Reception Following INTRODUCTION Jane Leggett Emil, Director of the Climate, Policy, and Programs Division, Office of Economy and Environment, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC SPEAKERS Gregg Marland, Ph.D., Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN William J. Pepper, Senior Vice President, ICF Kaiser International, Inc., Fairfax, VA Overview The atmospheric concentration of the greenhouse gas CO2 is increasing, and it is increasing now largely because of the combustion of fossil fuels. Since the beginning of the fossil fuel era, we have released over 250 billion metric tons of carbon (C) from fossil fuels to the atmosphere as CO2, and the rate of release now exceeds 6 billion tons of C per year. Prior to the fossil fuel era the atmosphere contained about 600 billion tons of C as CO2. Emissions in 1995 were greater than the sum of all emissions prior to 1883 and fully half of all emissions have been since 1972. In 1950 the US, USSR, and UK were the top three fossil-fuel-burning countries and contributed 62% of global total CO2 emissions from fossil fuels. By 1990, these three countries contributed 42% of the total, while the UK had dropped to 7th behind more rapidly growing China, Japan, Germany, and India. From 1950 to 1990 global, per capita emissions of CO2 from fossil fuels increased by a factor of 1.8 while global population increased by a factor of 2.1. These two factors caused annual CO2 emissions to go up by a factor of 3.7. Historical Perspective on CO2 Emissions In this seminar Dr. Marland will describe the history and pattern of CO2 emissions, where they come from in the economy and where they come from in the world. Dr. Marland will also discuss some rules for estimating national CO-2 emissions and the significance and accuracy of the estimates. There are four primary conclusions: (1) anthropogenic emissions, dominantly from the burning of fossil-fuels, are responsible for the increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere; (2) current emissions are dominantly from a small number of developed and/or large, populous countries; (3) there are wide disparities in per capita emissions rates around the world; and (4) growth rates of emissions and the potential for growth in emissions are very large in some developing parts of the world. The Future of CO2 Emissions Mr. Pepper will describe the emissions scenarios prepared in support of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 1992 and 1995 assessment reports. He will also describe the size of emissions reductions required to meet various CO2 emission concentration targets. These scenarios were developed as part of the IPCC assessment process so that the science community would have a consistent set of emissions profiles to use in evaluating and comparing their more detailed climate models and they have been used by the IPCC and others for projections of future changes in concentrations of greenhouse gases. These scenarios do not represent political commitments or negotiating positions. Mr. Pepper will describe the sources of greenhouse gas emissions and the key variables and assumptions expected to influence future emissions levels. He will summarize the results of the scenarios and the uncertainties surrounding the emissions estimates. He will then consider several hypothetical concentration targets and describe the reductions in emissions that would be required to meet them. The impacts on emissions of changes in energy use or use of alternatives to carbon-based fuels will also be addressed. Biographies Gregg Marland is a Senior Research Staff Member in the Environmental Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. For over 20 years he has been involved in analyses of global change and the environmental impacts of energy systems. He has studied the sources and some of the potential mitigation strategies for greenhouse gas emissions and has helped define the methodologies and emissions coefficients now in use for estimating CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. He is currently convener for the Global Emissions Inventory Activity (GEIA), an activity within the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) project. Among other activities, Dr. Marland has served on the National Academy of Sciences panel on "Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming", the Council on Agricultural Science and Technology panel on "Preparing U.S. Agriculture for Global Climate Change", the National Technical Advisory Committee of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC), and has been reviewer, contributor, and lead author for various portions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) first and second assessment reports. He is co-editor of a recent volume on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Response Policies in Central and Eastern Europe, co-author of the Graz/Oak Ridge Carbon Assessment Model (GORCAM), an integrated forest/ forest-products model designed to evaluate the impact of forest management alternatives on net flows of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, and the U.S. team leader on an International Energy Agency, Biomass Agreement, task on biomass fuels and greenhouse gas emissions. Dr. Marland received a BS from Virginia Tech, and a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Minnesota. William J. Pepper is a Senior Vice President of ICF Kaiser International, Inc. with more than seventeen years of experience in analyzing and modeling environmental and energy issues. Mr. Pepper started at ICF in 1979 and specialized in modeling U.S. and international oil and gas markets for both federal and private clients. Since 1987, he has specialized in modeling future emissions of greenhouse gases. Mr. Pepper developed the Atmospheric Stabilization Framework (ASF) for the U.S. EPA. He developed emissions scenarios for the IPCC in 1990 and also assisted the IPCC Energy and Industry Subgroup with developing their integrated analysis of options to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Mr. Pepper was a key author of the 1992 scenarios for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Mr. Pepper has a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Maryland and an M.A. in Mathematics fromTemple University. The Next Seminar is scheduled for Monday, October 21, 1996 Topic - Ecological Indicators of Climate Change For more information please contact: Anthony D. Socci, Ph.D., U.S. Global Change Research Program Office 300 D St., SW, Suite 840, Washington, DC 20024 Telephone: (202) 651-8244; Fax: (202) 554-6715 E-Mail: TSOCCI@USGCRP.GOV. Additional information on the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and this Seminar Series is available on the USGCRP Home Page at: http://www.usgcrp.gov. Normally these seminars are held on the second Monday of each month. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Sep 12 06:19:41 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA07206; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 06:19:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id IAA03238; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 08:59:09 GMT Received: from vale.adm.ku.dk by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id EAA03233; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 04:58:58 -0400 Received: from garm.adm.ku.dk (garm.adm.ku.dk [130.225.127.34]) by vale.adm.ku.dk (8.7.5/8.7) with SMTP id KAA01477 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 10:55:53 +0200 (METDST) Received: from AKI.KU.DK (aki.ku.dk [130.225.206.2]) by garm.adm.ku.dk (8.7.5/8.7.2) with SMTP id KAA20525 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 10:55:52 +0200 (METDST) Received: by AKI.KU.DK with Microsoft Mail id <3237EC23@AKI.KU.DK>; Thu, 12 Sep 96 10:55:31 DST From: "Bruce, Niel L. {ZMUC}" To: "'CORAL-L'" Subject: POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 10:30:00 DST Message-ID: <3237EC23@AKI.KU.DK> Encoding: 65 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Position as tenured invertebrate systematist: Associate professor & curator at the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A position for an invertebrate zoologist to carry out research on the systematics, phylogeny and zoogeography of annelids or echinoderms is open at the Department of Marine Invertebrates of the Zoological Museum. Candidates must have a Ph.D. degree, postdoctoral research experience, as well as experience in managing collections. Beginning January 1997 or soon thereafter. Duties: 1) Curation and administration of the Zoological Museum's collections of one or more of the larger invertebrate groups, including field work aiming at collection development. 2) Supervision of Masters and Ph.D. students, and teaching courses on marine invertebrates. 3) Participation through research, administration and teaching in national and international programmes in which the Zoological Museum is involved, including the initiation and development of such programmes. 4) Participation in institutional administration. Desirable experience: 1) Global or large-scale systematic revisions. 2) Documented knowledge of modern systematic and phylogenetic methodology. 3) Broad biological knowledge of the group in question so as to enable participation in teaching on the North-Atlantic and Arctic fauna. 4) Demonstrable field experience. The application must provide relevant information on the teaching experience. Non-Danish applicants are obliged to learn the language to such a degree that they are able to teach and take part in commissional work in Danish after about 2 years. Terms of employment and salary-level follows the agreement between the State and the relevant union. The applicants' qualifications will be evaluated by a specially appointed Committee, and the entire report of the Evaluation Committee will be sent to all applicants, who must treat material about other applicants confidentially. The Evaluation Committe may ask for supplementary material, which the applicant must provide in the requested number of copies. The application proper should be marked 5224 L/15-96, adressed to The Rector, University of Copenhagen, and sent together with a curriculum vitae and list of publications to Det naturvidenskabelige Fakultet, Oster Voldgade 3, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark. Three copies of the above-mentioned documents and relevant publications and manuscripts should be sent to: Zoological Museum, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. In the case of co-authored publications co-author statements are required. For further information look up the home page of the Zoological Museum (http://www.aki.ku.dk/zmuc/zmuc.htm), or contact Dr. Reinhardt M. Kristensen, e-mail rmkristens@zmuc.ku.dk. The deadline for applications is 15. October, 1996. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Sep 12 06:19:54 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA07236; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 06:19:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id JAA03806; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:27:05 GMT Received: from iniki.soest.hawaii.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id FAA03801; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 05:27:02 -0400 Received: from bio-ocean.soest.hawaii.edu (bio-ocean [128.171.154.56]) by iniki.soest.hawaii.edu (8.7.4/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA13945 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 23:24:00 -1000 (HST) Received: from localhost (hochberg@localhost) by bio-ocean.soest.hawaii.edu (8.7.4/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA00345 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 23:24:01 -1000 (HST) X-Authentication-Warning: bio-ocean.soest.hawaii.edu: hochberg owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 23:24:00 -1000 (HST) From: Eric Hochberg X-Sender: hochberg@bio-ocean To: coral list Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Can anyone point me in the direction of a book that lists reefs of the world and their lat/long coordinates? Thanks. Eric Hochberg From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Sep 12 09:38:05 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA10437; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:37:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA03997; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:59:39 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA03992; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 08:59:29 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA22092; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 08:59:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 08:59:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: "Destructive fishing practices: Asia's growing curse" (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 12 Sep 96 06:47:42 EDT From: Robert Murray <100773.3633@compuserve.com> To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program Subject: Re: "Destructive fishing practices: Asia's growing curse" A dramatic and mindful piece of narrative. It may be appropriate to note however that Tonga has reduced its aquarium trade suppliers to one (Walt Smith), and the only reason he is allowed to operate is because his few collecters use non-destructive stick and net methods catching non-juveniles. Smith's holding facilities and transport methods are also the most sophisticated I have seen in this trade when I visited in 1995. They are regularly checked and regulated by Australian/New Zealand conservation officers on behalf of the local governement. Dynamiting is also thing of the past in this Kingdom. I cannot speak for any other areas. For verification or further information contact; Fisheries Department, Royal Government Offices, Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga, SOUTH PACIFIC. or; Walt Smith, PO Box 1949, Nuku 'alofa Kingdom of Tonga, (Tel. 676 22404) (Fax. 676 23143) From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Sep 12 09:46:33 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA10540; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:46:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA03989; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:57:44 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA03984; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 08:57:43 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA22085; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 08:57:42 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 08:57:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: RE: Coral spawning in Key Largo (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 22:33:32 -0800 (PST) From: Aileen Morse To: coral@aoml.noaa.gov Subject: RE: Coral spawning in Key Largo Hi! I was on the NOAA vessel at this site on both 9/3 and 9/4. We were netting coral heads to collect egg bundles. On 9/3 there were only egg bundles in 2 of our collecting vessels (none in any of our others, or in those put out by Prof. Alina Szmant's group). The 2 colonies that released on that night were both A. annularis. Then on 9/4 we and Alina's group both collected multiple releases from both A. annularis and A. faveolata colonies. Collections by both groups indicated that more A. annularis colonies went off than A. faveolata. But in neither case could the number of colonies releasing be considered a "major" spawn. Our aim was to fertilize large numbers of gametes from both species and also to try an inter-species cross fertilization. In this we were successful. However, both research groups observed that there was an unusually high heterogeneity in the early stages of larval development for both species (and in our cross). I cannot speak further for Alina's results, only our own. By the second day the cultures of A. faveolata became much more homogeneous with respect to developmental stage, as did the cross, and have remained so. However, the cultures of A. annularis remain highly heterogeneous and have developed much more slowly (even the most advanced stages). Although fertilization success appeared to be relatively high, development of subsequent larval stages seems to be relatively retarded. As to your question re. the white substance being released fron colonies, perhaps this was coral mucus. Corals tend to respond to "stress" by mucus release. When working with my Japanese colleagues at their lab off Okinawa colonies were placed in containers for egg bundle release. Very commonly coral mucus is seen mixed in with the bundles. Anyway that is my best guess. Best regards, Aileen Morse Aileen N.C. Morse Marine Biotechnology Center Marine Science Institute University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 PHONE: 805-893-4277 FAX: 805-893-8062 E-mail: a_morse@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Sep 12 09:35:20 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA10367; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:35:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA04008; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:00:37 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA04003; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:00:35 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA22102; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:00:34 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:00:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Coordinates of the world's coral reefs (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 12:53:51 BST From: Mark.Spalding@wcmc.org.uk To: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Coordinates of the world's coral reefs Dear Eric (and interested others) The best "book" for your purposes is the new global coral reef database ReefBase Version 1.0, produced on CD-ROM and released for the first time in Panama this year. This has lat/longs for over 6000 named reefs. The World Conservation Monitoring Centre has worked closely with ICLARM in developing maps of coral reefs and we now have a global coverage of coral reefs on a GIS with source material ranging in scale from 1:20,000 to 1:1,000,000. This includes hundreds of thousands of arcs and polygons describing reefs worldwide, too many, I fear, for you to use to get a list of lat/longs, but the same maps are presented on ReefBase and will also soon go on-line on the World Wide Web. For more info on reefbase e-mail direct to reefbase@cgnet.com Mark D. Spalding E-mail: mark.spalding@wcmc.org.uk World Conservation Monitoring Centre 219 Huntingdon Rd Cambridge, CB3 0DL Fax: +44 1223 277136 United Kingdom Tel: +44 1223 277314 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Sep 12 09:31:59 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA10298; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:31:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA03982; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:53:46 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA03977; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 08:53:44 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA22068; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 08:53:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 08:53:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: "Destructive fishing practices: Asia's growing curse" (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 96 12:52:58 EDT From: mcall@superaje.com To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program Subject: Re: "Destructive fishing practices: Asia's growing curse" The posting on cyanide fisheries and use of dynamite has considerable factual content, though the manner of presentation will lead to misconstruing some of that information. It also omits some information. The impression is given that nothing is being done. Ocean Voice International of Ottawa and the Haribon Foundation for Conservation of Natural Resources of Manila has had a program going in the Philippines for over six years. We have trained 1000 collectors to use small environmentally friendly nets instead of cyanide, provided coastal communities with knowledge about managing their own coral reefs in the form of videos and our 126 page English-language manual, SAVE OUR CORAL REEFS with 100 figures, and are right now trying to establish an export facility for the graduates of our community courses. An Indonesian version of our manual has already been published, and we hope to publish two Filipino language versions this year. One should also mention that the IMA (an NGO) and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (government agency) have instituted a cyanide detection test for exports. For person wishing more information or wishing to support our program, see our home page: http://www.ovi.ca For persons wishing reading materials our quarterly bulletin, Sea Wind, now going into its 10th volume has a number of articles on cyaniding, dynamiting, sedimentation and other human impacts on reefs and the marine environment. For an overview of the sea, read our STATUS OF THE WORLD OCEAN AND ITS BIODIVERSITY, in a special 72-page issue of SEA WIND. Sincerely, don Don E. McAllister /& Canadian Centre for Biodiversity Ocean Voice International /Canadian Museum of Nature Box 37026, 3332 McCarthy Rd. /Box 3443, Station D Ottawa, ON K1V 0W0, Canada /Ottawa, ON K1P 6P4 URL: http://www.ovi.ca E-mail: mcall@superaje.com (or: ah194@freenet.carleton.ca) Tel: (613) 264-8986, Fax: (613) 264-9204 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Sep 12 13:24:29 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA15508; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:24:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA04695; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:16:59 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA04690; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:16:56 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA22513; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:16:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:16:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Octocoral Spawn (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:51:13 -0400 From: REEF003@aol.com To: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Octocoral Spawn The Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) hosted their annual Field Survey in Belize the week of September 1st through 7th. The survey team did two dives beginning at dusk and then a later night dive in order to watch for the coral spawn and monitor any occurrences. As part of that team I witnessed the following: 9/1/96 6:45pm Northwest Crawl Caye,Turneffe Reef, Belize ( 17 36.35N, 87 48.35W ) Spawning of the Ruby Brittle Star. Many brittle stars were seen mounting sea fans, arching high and releasing bundles and sperm, in some cases this continued for longer than twenty minutes.The isolated spawning of these brittle stars was seen again on subsequent evenings but not massed as it appeared on this evening. 9/4/96 6:45pm Que Brada, Lighthouse Reef, Belize (17 13.04N, 87 36.65W) Two heads of brain coral (species not yet identified) spawning bundles for approx. 25 minutes after being located. The release was slow, there was no current. Bundles drifted slowly upwards and two Four-Eye Butterflyfish as well as species of brittle star were seen feeding on the bundles. The colony was about 2ft in diameter and was located about 25ft from the drop-off of a deep wall. 9/4/96 10:05pm Que Brada, Lighthouse Reef, Belize I located a single colony of octocoral (species not yet identified, probably genus Eunicea) releasing bundles for approx. twenty minutes after being located in a depth of 35ft. The release was slow, the bundles drifted up and there was no current. Nothing was seen feeding on the bundles. The colony was approx. 2.5ft tall located in a sandy patch about 60ft from the drop-off of a deep wall. 9/5/96 6:10pm Dead Mans Point, Turneffe Reef, Belize (17 10.91N, 87 51.87W) A small colony (approx 1ft in diameter) of brain coral (species not yet identified) was found smoking at 6:10pm just before dusk. The quick release was at timed intervals about a minute apart and the smoking continued for approx. twenty minutes after the colony was located. The colony was on a high ridge of star coral next to a large sand channel and about 60ft from a deep wall drop-off. I am interested to hear of other observations during the coral spawn week and to know whether the spawning of octocorals has been witnessed and/or documented elsewhere. Deena Wells REEF From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Sep 12 14:21:08 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA16836; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:21:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA04846; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:08:47 GMT Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA04841; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:08:43 -0400 Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by ns-mx.uiowa.edu (8.7.5/19950309.1) on Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:05:41 -0500 id MAA13822 with SMTP Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960912170608.0069f4a4@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> X-Sender: davidson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:06:08 -0500 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Osha Gray Davidson Subject: Indonesia visit Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I'm planning a trip to Indonesia in late November, to do research for a book for lay-persons on the importance of coral reefs and associated ecosystems (mangroves and seagrass beds) and the anthropogenic problems these systems are facing--over-fishing, sedimentation, cyanide, dynamite blasting, etc. Are there list-members in Indonesia who would be willing to serve as contacts for this trip--explaining their work and suggesting places and people to visit? I'd greatly appreciate the help! Thanks, Osha Gray Davidson 14 S. Governor St. Iowa City, IA 52240 USA +++++++++++ PH: (319) 338-4778 FAX: (319) 338-8606 e-mail: davidson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu Center for International and Comparative Studies, University of Iowa From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Sep 12 18:11:24 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA20049; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 18:11:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA05208; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 21:29:37 GMT Received: from tula.cura.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA05203; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:29:32 -0400 Received: from ecosense.cura.net (dppp29.cura.net [206.160.180.129]) by tula.cura.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA27433 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:57:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199609122057.QAA27433@tula.cura.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "EcoSense" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:56:28 -04:0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Spawning Curacao Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.33) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hello Coral Spawning Fans, Coral Spawning observations from Curacao, Netherlands Antilles 1996 Reefs on Curacao were monitored on with Reef Care Volunteers: August 30 through September 2 from 21.00 - 22.15 pm August 31 & September 1 from 16.00 - 17.00 pm September 3 through September 5 from 19.30 - 23.00 pm Spawning observations: Date Location Species Time # % 31 Aug Seaquarium Gorgonia ventalina? 21.30-22.15 10 25% 04 Sept Slangenbaai Montastrea annularis Columnar 21.20 1 <5% Massive 22.12-22.20 2 <5% Montastrea cavernosa 21.45-22.05 3 (2male; 1 female) 5% 05 Sept Slangenbaai Ruby Brittlestar 21.20-21.17 3 (2 male; 1 female) Montastrea cavernosa 21.50 1 (male) <5% This is the 6th consecutive year we are monitoring the spawning on Curacao. Never before we saw so little spawning in either one of the months of this `split-spawning-event'. May be a consequence of last years bleaching! A major spawning is expected from 2 to 4 October. Observations from Aruba, Bonaire and Saba are pending. Manfred van Veghel EcoSense Dr. Manfred L.J. van Veghel PO Box 3187 Curacao, Netherlands Antilles Phone and Fax: +599 9 613196 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Sep 12 18:11:24 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA20049; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 18:11:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA05208; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 21:29:37 GMT Received: from tula.cura.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA05203; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:29:32 -0400 Received: from ecosense.cura.net (dppp29.cura.net [206.160.180.129]) by tula.cura.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA27433 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:57:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199609122057.QAA27433@tula.cura.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "EcoSense" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:56:28 -04:0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Spawning Curacao Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.33) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hello Coral Spawning Fans, Coral Spawning observations from Curacao, Netherlands Antilles 1996 Reefs on Curacao were monitored on with Reef Care Volunteers: August 30 through September 2 from 21.00 - 22.15 pm August 31 & September 1 from 16.00 - 17.00 pm September 3 through September 5 from 19.30 - 23.00 pm Spawning observations: Date Location Species Time # % 31 Aug Seaquarium Gorgonia ventalina? 21.30-22.15 10 25% 04 Sept Slangenbaai Montastrea annularis Columnar 21.20 1 <5% Massive 22.12-22.20 2 <5% Montastrea cavernosa 21.45-22.05 3 (2male; 1 female) 5% 05 Sept Slangenbaai Ruby Brittlestar 21.20-21.17 3 (2 male; 1 female) Montastrea cavernosa 21.50 1 (male) <5% This is the 6th consecutive year we are monitoring the spawning on Curacao. Never before we saw so little spawning in either one of the months of this `split-spawning-event'. May be a consequence of last years bleaching! A major spawning is expected from 2 to 4 October. Observations from Aruba, Bonaire and Saba are pending. Manfred van Veghel EcoSense Dr. Manfred L.J. van Veghel PO Box 3187 Curacao, Netherlands Antilles Phone and Fax: +599 9 613196 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Sep 12 18:58:17 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA20481; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 18:58:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA05262; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 22:20:51 GMT Received: from relay1.Hawaii.Edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id SAA05257; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 18:20:46 -0400 Received: from uhunix1.its.Hawaii.Edu ([128.171.44.6]) by relay1.Hawaii.Edu with SMTP id <586827(6)>; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:14:59 -1000 Received: from localhost by uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu with SMTP id <17252>; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:17:41 -1000 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:17:39 -1000 From: Dave Alan Gulko X-Sender: gulko@uhunix1 To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: "Coral Bleaching Event in Hawai'i" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A major coral bleaching event began in late August in the south basin of Kane'ohe Bay, O'ahu in response to high temperature. A long period of hot, calm weather drove temperatures into the 29 - 30 degrees centigrade range in the restricted basin (this is 1 - 2 degrees centrigrade higher than oceanic temperatures). The return of trade winds and cloud cover during the second week of September lowered surface water temperatures into the "safe" range. If the temperatures continue at normal levels, we expect most of the coral to recover within 1-3 months. The event is under investigation by Paul Jokiel of the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (jokiel@hawaii.edu). From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Sep 12 19:26:54 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA20733; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 19:26:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA05278; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 22:44:28 GMT Received: from saul6.u.washington.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id SAA05273; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 18:44:22 -0400 Received: from localhost by saul6.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW96.08/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA29084; Thu, 12 Sep 96 15:41:27 -0700 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:41:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Preston Hardison To: Osha Gray Davidson Cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Indonesia visit In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960912170608.0069f4a4@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Some useful contacts (I can't guarantee they'll all want to talk to you!) are: Bapedal-Environmental Impact Agency Gedung Arthaloka Lt. 6 Jl. Jend. Sudirman No. 2 Jakarta Pusat Indonesia Tel: (62 21) 251 1533 Fax: (62 21) 251 1547 Mr. Muhammad Yunus. Participating in the International Coral Reef Initiative East Asian Seas (EAS) Program (ICRI, July, 1996). Center for Research and Development for Geotechnology Indonesian Institute of Sciences Jl. Sangkuriang Bandung 40135 Indonesia Tel: (62 22) 250 3054 Fax: (62 22) 250 4593 Email: hautous@geotele.lipi.go.id Mr. Wahyoe Suprihantoro: Researcher. Participating in the International Coral Reef Initiative East Asian Seas (EAS) Program (ICRI, July, 1996). CEPI Project Canadian International Development Agency Jl. Merdeka Barat 15 Jakarta 10110 Indonesia Tel: (62 21) 380 7566 Fax: (62 21) 345 1515 Mr. John Boers Marine and Coastal Advisor CIDA/LH. Participating in the International Coral Reef Initiative East Asian Seas (EAS) Program (ICRI, July, 1996). Forum Biologi Unri Biological Forum Universitas Riau Fakultas Perikanan Jalan Pattimura 9 Pekanbaru 28131 Indonesia Tel: (62 761) 23 742 (62 761) 21 341 Fax: (62 761) 37 556 Dr. Syamaruddin Siregar (1996). Indonesia Department of Foreign Affairs Jl. Taman Pejambon 6 Jakarta 10110 Tel: (62 21) 384 8626 (62 21) 351 9615 Fax: (62 21) 385 7315 Mr. Dewa Made Sastrawan: Economic and Environment Officer. Participating in the International Coral Reef Initiative East Asian Seas (EAS) Program (ICRI, July, 1996). Indonesia Directorate for Human Settlement Technology and Environment BPPT Bld. II Jl. Thamrim No. 8 20th Floor Jakarta 10340 Indonesia Tel: (62 21) 314 9786 Fax: (62 21) 314 9760 Email: kwidjaja@btig.pt.bppt.go.id Mr. Wage Komarawidjaja Participating in the International Coral Reef Initiative East Asian Seas (EAS) Program (ICRI, July, 1996). Indonesia Directorate of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation Gedung Manggala Wanabhakti Block VII LT. 7 Jl. Gatot Subroto Jakarta Indonesia Tel: (62 21) 572 0227 Fax: (62 21) 572 0227 Mr. Adi Susmianto: Senior Staff. Participating in the International Coral Reef Initiative East Asian Seas (EAS) Program (ICRI, July, 1996). Indonesian Institute of the Sciences - Bureau of Information and Oceanography Puslitbang Oseanologi - LIPI Jl. Pasir Putih I, Ancol Timur Jakarta 11048 Indonesia Tel: 62 21 683 850 Fax: 62 21 681 948 Dr. Malikusworo Hutomo: Chief (ICRI, May, 1995). Indonesia Ministry of State for Environment Bureau for International Cooperation Jl. Merdeka Barat No. 15 Jakarta 10110 Indonesia Tel: (62 21) 384 7082 Fax: (62 21) 385 9671 Mr. Dana Kartakusuma: Director. Participating in the International Coral Reef Initiative East Asian Seas (EAS) Program (ICRI, July, 1996). Indonesia Ministry of State for Environment Jl. Merdeka Barat No. 15 Jakarta 10110 Indonesia Tel: (62 21) 344 1035 (62 21) 384 7082 (62 21) 345 4956 Fax: (62 21) 384 7075 (62 21) 384 6031 (62 21) 385 9671 Mr. Sarwono Kusumaatmadja: Indonesia Minister of State. Participating in the International Coral Reef Initiative East Asian Seas (EAS) Program (ICRI, July, 1996). Ms. Ina Pranoto < pranoto@idola.net.id>: Staff to the Assistant Minister I . Participating in the International Coral Reef Initiative East Asian Seas (EAS) Program (ICRI, July, 1996). Mr. Tommy H. Purwaka: Deputy Assistant Minister. Participating in the International Coral Reef Initiative East Asian Seas (EAS) Program (ICRI, July, 1996). Mr. Sudarsono: Secretary. Participating in the International Coral Reef Initiative East Asian Seas (EAS) Program (ICRI, July, 1996). Tel: (62 21) 384 6652. Mr. Sudaryono: < dariyono@idnmenlh.menlh.go.id > Deputy Assistant Minister. Participating in the International Coral Reef Initiative East Asian Seas (EAS) Program (ICRI, July, 1996). Ms. Wati Umirusyanawati: Staff to the Assistant Minister I . Participating in the International Coral Reef Initiative East Asian Seas (EAS) Program (ICRI, July, 1996). Mr. Henk Uuktolseya: Senior Staff. Participating in the International Coral Reef Initiative East Asian Seas (EAS) Program (ICRI, July, 1996). Oceanology Research and Development Centre National Institute of Science Jalan Gondangdia Lama 39 Jakarta Pusat Indonesia Tel: (62 21) 683 850 (62 21) 391 7616 Fax: (62 21) 681 948 (62 21) 314 8779 Email: moosa295@cbn.net.id Mr. Mohammad Kasim Moosa: Researcher. Participating in the International Coral Reef Initiative East Asian Seas (EAS) Program (ICRI, July, 1996). The Nature Conservancy - Indonesia - Coastal and Marine Program Jalan Radio IV, No. 5 Kebayaran Baru Jakarta Selatan 12001 Indonesia Tel: 62 21 7206484 Fax: 62 21 7245092 Dr. Marty Fujita: Director, Indonesia Program. Mr. Charles W. Cook: Director, Coastal and Marine Program. Participated in COP-II of the Convention on Biological Diversity, November, 1995. Mr. Herling Sanger: Coordinator, Coastal and Marine Program. Participated in COP-II of the Convention on Biological Diversity, November, 1995. Mr. Rili Hawari Djohani: Assistant Director. Participated in COP-II of the Convention on Biological Diversity, November, 1995. Research and Development Centre for Oceanology Indonesian Institutes of Sciences Jalan Pasir Putih No.1 P.O. Box 580 Dak Ancol Timur Jakarta Utara 11001 Indonesia Tel: (62 21) 683 850 Fax: (62 21) 681 948 Mr. Malikusworo Hutomo Mr. Suharsono: Senior Researcher International Coral Reef Initiative East Asian Seas (EAS) Program Rinjani Marine Foundation Jl. Pemuda 25 Mataram 83125 Lombok Indonesia Tel: 62 364 36040 Fax: 62 364 33972 Ms. Nant. Participated in COP-II of the Convention on Biological Diversity, November, 1995. Mr. Nefo Ginting. Participated in COP-II of the Convention on Biological Diversity, November, 1995. Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia - WALHI Jalan Perjernihan 1 Komplek Keuangan 15 Pejompongan 10210 Jakarta Indonesia Tel: (62 21) 586 820 Fax: (68 21) 573 8416 Email: walhi@peg.apc.org cansea@peg.apc.org (Climate Action network, Southeast Asia) Indonesian Forum for the Environment (FoE Indonesia) Wetlands International - Indonesia Programme JI. Arzimar III No. 17 [P.O. Box 254 BOO 16001] Bogor 16152 Indonesia Tel: (62 251) 312 189 Fax: (62 251) 325 755 Email: wi-ip@.server.indo.net.id Internet: (On-line, but I don't seem to have the URL) Mr. Prianto Wibowo: Wetland Ecologist. Participating in the International Coral Reef Initiative East Asian Seas (EAS) Program (ICRI, July, 1996). Bas E. vanHelvoort (1996). World Wide Fund for Nature - Indonesia Programme - Marine Conservation Jl. Kramat Pela No. 3, Gandaria Utar Kebayoran Baru P.O. Box 29 JKSKM Jakarta Selatan 12001 Indonesia Tel: (62 21) 790 3095 Fax: (62 21) 739 5907 Caroline Raymakers (1996). Support for national parks and protected areas planning. Assists in park zoning, alternative economic development and community collaboration. Coral reef protection in parks planning for Thousand Islands National Park, Java; Taka Bone Rate Atoll, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. (Source: International Coral Reef NGO Directory, 1996) Ms. Novia Andalusi: Marine Conservation. Participated in COP-II of the Convention on Biological Diversity, November, 1995. Yayasan Kehati (BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION) Jalan Jenderal Gatot Subroto Kav. 32-34 Jakarta 12950 Indonesia Tel: 62 21 522 8031 Fax: 62 21 255 8033 Mr. Koesnadi Hardjasoemantri: Vice Chairman. YLLI-Laut Lestari Foundation Jl. Talaud 4 Roxy Jakarta Indonesia Tel: (62 21) 385 9187 (62 21) 345 0695 Fax: (62 21) 384 6575 Ms. Ida Ayu Purbasari. Participating in the International Coral Reef Initiative East Asian Seas (EAS) Program (ICRI, July, 1996). I've got a number of more, but this is what came up on a quick search and dump of the ICONS database. You might also want to look up: Kelleher, Graeme, Chris Bleakley and Sue Wells (Principle Eds.)(1995). A Global Representative System of Marine Protected Areas Vol III: Central Indian Ocean, Arabian Seas, East Africa and East Asian Seas. Great Barrier Marine Park Authority/The World Bank/The World Conservation Union (IUCN), The World Bank, Washington, DC. --------------------- Preston Hardison pdh@u.washington.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Sep 12 20:30:32 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA21376; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 20:30:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id XAA05333; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 23:37:19 GMT Received: from aurora.alaska.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA05328; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 19:37:14 -0400 Received: by aurora.alaska.edu; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14May95-1234AM) id AA18234; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:34:02 -0800 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:34:02 -0800 (AKDT) From: "Brian C. Paust" To: marine@aqualink.com, crust-l@vims.edu, coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, marine-l@upei.ca Subject: Agenda - Live Seafood Shipping Conference Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The Live Seafood Shipping Conference: A Conference and Exhibition on the Marketing and Shipping=20 of Live Seafood and Ornamentals - Finfish, Shellfish, and=20 Plants MARKETING & SHIPPING LIVE AQUATIC=20 PRODUCTS '96 October 13 - 15, 1996 Seattle, Washington USA EXHIBITORS INFORMATION & REGISTRATION Conference Lectures - October 14 - 15, 1996 Suppliers Exhibit - October 13, 1996 If your business or specialty is involved with the holding or=20 shipping of live seafood and ornamental products, this is=20 an important conference for you. Speakers and posters will=20 describe practical methods for the live holding of products=20 from Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, and other regions of=20 the world. =20 This conference will not soon be repeated in this region. For=20 additional information, contact: John Peters (103243.675@compuserve.com) or Brian Paust (ffbcp@aurora.Alaska.edu). AGENDA SUNDAY October 13 Noon-7pm EXHIBITION HALL REGISTRATION - Conference Center Lobby EXHIBITORS=20 Aqua Logic, Inc., San Diego, California Aquatic Eco-Systems, Apopka, Florida Grabber International, Grand Rapids, Michigan Novalek, Inc., Hayward, California Point Four Systems, Port Moody, B.C. Canada TechPak - Peabody Massachusetts U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Silver Springs, Maryland Ryan Instruments, Redmond, Washington POSTERS =20 DOMESTIC REGULATORY BARRIERS TO THE=20 MARKETING OF LIVE AQUATIC PRODUCTS FROM=20 AND WITHIN THE NORTH PACIFIC REGION OF THE=20 UNITED STATES. Gleyn Bledsoe, Ph.D., Sheldon Jackson College, Sitka, Alaska NORTH PACIFIC SPECIES APPROPRIATE FOR LIVE=20 FISH MARKETING Gleyn Bledsoe, Ph.D., Sheldon Jackson College, Sitka,=20 Alaska DISPLAY AND DEMONSTRATION OF A STATE-OF- THE-ART SALMON RESEARCH FACILITY AND=20 RECIRCULATING SYSTEM, WITH COMPUTER CONTROL=20 AND MONITORING. Mike Rust, Ph.D., National Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle,=20 Washington A NOVEL METHOD FOR THE STORAGE OF LIVE=20 Nephrops norvegicus DURING LIVE SHIPMENT. Andre Schmitt, PH.D., Department de Ciencias Fisiologicas. =20 Universidade do Rio Grande - FURG THE NEW ZEALAND AND IKE DAI LIVE TRANSPORT=20 SYSTEM. Barry Torkington, Fish Transport Systems, Ltd. Canada and=20 New Zealand THE APPLICATION OF COX TEMPERATURE RECORDERS=20 IN THE LIVE INDUSTRY. James Cox, Cox Recorders Inc., Upland, California LIVE HOLDING AND TRANSPORT OF MONKFISH. Ben Baxter, Marine Live Products/Marine Machines, Inc.,=20 Bernard, Maine BREAKING INTO THE LIVE TRADE: THE TRIALS &=20 TRIBULATIONS OF A TRUCKER. Stu Craig, Continental Truck Freight Brokers, Ellensburg,=20 Washington. INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LIVE MARKETING=20 AND AQUACULTURE-COMMERCIAL FISHERIES. K.C. Dochtermann, Rock Bottom Seafoods, Seattle,=20 Washington ANIMAL HEALTH REQUIREMENTS FOR LIVE=20 AQUATICS EXPORTS. Ralph Elston, Pacific Shellfish Institute, Carlsborg,=20 Washington THE EXPERIENCE OF SHIPPING LIVE EGGS. Per Heggelund, Aqua Seed Corp, Seattle, Washington DESCRIPTION OF AN INNOVATIVE PACKAGING=20 SYSTEM: THE CLOUD PACK STORY. Leonard LaRosa, Rose Seafood Industries, Woburn,=20 Massachusetts VIABLE ALTERNATIVES ON THE ROAD TO=20 SUSTAINABILITY. Alfredo Quarto, Mangrove Action Project, Seattle,=20 Washington HOLDING AND TRANSPORT OF THE PACIFIC=20 OYSTER: THE ALASKA PERSPECTIVE. Ray RaLonde, University of Alaska, Anchorage THE NEW ZEALAND AND IKE DAI LIVE TRANSPORT=20 SYSTEM. Barry Torkington, Fish Transport Systems Ltd., Canada and=20 New Zealand SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES FOR THE TRADE IN WILD=20 AND CULTURED AQUARIUM SPECIES. Leonard Young, Aqaculture Development Program, Hawaii=20 Dept. of Land & Water Resources, Honolulu MONDAY October 14 7:00am-6:45pm AUDITORIUM 7:00 -- BREAKFAST - Conference Center Lobby 8:00 -- WELCOME - John B. Peters, Nor'Westerly Food=20 Technology Services, =09=09Conference Manager -- INTRODUCTIONS - Brian Paust, Chairman=20 Program Committee, University =09=09of Alaska, Petersburg, Alaska GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE LIVE FISH TRADE. Jerome E. Erbacher, International Trade Specialist, National=20 Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Springs, Maryland THE ORNAMENTAL FISH TRADE: STATUS, TRENDS=20 AND SHIPPING TECHNIQUES. Paul Olin, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Rosa EXOTIC SPECIES AND THE LIVE AQUATICS TRADE. Annette Olson, Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle,=20 Washington DESTRUCTIVE FISHING PRACTICES IN THE=20 ORNAMENTAL AND LIVE SEAFOOD INDUSTRIES. Bob Johannes, and Bob Gillett, Lami, Fiji ANIMAL WELFARE CONSIDERATIONS IN LIVE=20 AQUATIC TRANSPORT. Donald Boisvert, Ph.D., Canadian Council on Animal Care,=20 Ottawa 10:15-10:40 -- Refreshment Break in Lobby 10:40- 1:00 AQUATIC ANIMAL HEALTH CERTIFICATION FOR=20 INTERNATIONAL TRADE. Richard Fite, Otis Miller, USDA Animal and Plant Inspection=20 Service, Riverdale, Maryland TRANSBOUNDARY REGULATIONS OF LIVE INDUSTRY=20 (ALASKA CASE HISTORY) Jim Cochran, Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game, Juneau, Alaska FEDERAL REGULATORY CONCERNS IN=20 AQUACULTURE PRODUCT. Michael Goza, U.S. Food & Drug Administration.,=20 Seattle, Washington RESTRAINTS OF SHIPPING LIVE: LESSONS TO BE=20 LEARNED FROM THE AQUASEED EXPERIENCE. Per Heggelund, AquaSeed Corp., Seattle, Washington MAINTAINING THE INTRINSIC QUALITY OF LIVE- MARKETED SHELLFISH BY SUPPLYING THEIR=20 PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS. Roger Uglow, Ph.D., University of Hull, United Kingdom FUNDAMENTAL DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT OF LIVE=20 AQUATIC HOLDING SYSTEMS WITH AN EMPHASIS ON=20 MODERATING THE EFFECTS OF SHOCK LOADING. Mark Francis, Aquaneering, Inc., San Diego, California 1:00-2:30 Lunch -- Harborside Dining Room BROKER PERSPECTIVE ON THE LIVE SHELLFISH=20 IMPORT/EXPORT BUSINESS Bill Marinelli, Marinelli Shellfish Company, San Francisco 2:30 - 4:25 LIVE SHELLFISH FISHERIES OF CALIFORNIA'S=20 SOUTH-CENTRAL COAST: HARVESTING, HANDLING,=20 AND SHIPPING OF HIGH-VALUE CRUSTACEANS AND=20 MOLLUSKS. John Richards, California Sea Grant Extension Program, Santa=20 Barbara, and Rick Gutierrez, San Pedro Fish Company, Santa Barbara and Robert J.=20 Price, Ph.D., Dept. of Food Science and Tech., University of California,=20 Davis, California DELIVERING A QUALITY PRODUCT: POST-HARVEST=20 TREATMENTS OF WILD-CAUGHT SHELLFISH FOR THE=20 UK LIVE EXPORT MARKET. =20 Roger Uglow, Ph.D., University of Hull , United Kingdom LIVE SHIPPING OF AQUATIC PRODUCTS IN THE=20 NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES. John W. Ewart, College of Marine Studies, University of=20 Delaware, Lewes, Delaware FROM HARVEST TO MARKET: MAINTAINING THE=20 QUALITY AND VALUE OF LIVE MANILLA CLAMS=20 (tapes philippinaru) William A. Heath, Ph.D., B.C. Ministry of Agriculture,=20 Fisheries & Food, Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada. SCALLOP HANDLING AND LIVE SHIPMENT. Jon Agosti, Qutekcak Shellfish Hatchery, Seward, Alaska 4:25-4:50 -- Refreshment Break in Lobby 4:50-6:45 THE TAYLOR UNITED WET STORAGE SYSTEM FOR=20 BIVALVES Bill Dewey, Taylor United, Shelton, Washington LIVE MARKET GEODUCKS: EXPORT PACKAGING &=20 ADEC REGULATIONS. Stephen La Croix, Nelson Products, Ketchikan, Alaska CULTURE, HOLDING, AND AIR TRANSPORT OF=20 GIANT CLAMS (tridachna) FROM THE SOUTH PACIFIC. Idris Lane, International Center for Living Aquatic Resources=20 Management, Honiara, Solomon Islands SHIPPING ADULT AND LARVAL ABALONE (haliotis=20 spp.) FOR RESEARCH OR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES. Susan McBride, California Sea Grant, Eureka, California LIVE HOLDING AND TRANSPORT OF SEA URCHINS. Ben Baxter, Marine Live Products/Marine Machines, Inc.,=20 Bernard, Maine THE USE OF INNOVATIVE PLASTIC "BREATHING=20 BAGS" FOR THE TRANSPORT OF LIVE AQUATICS. Robert Rofen, Ph. D., Novalek Inc. and Aquatic Research=20 Institute, Hayward, California 6:45 - ADJOURN TUESDAY October 15 7am-6pm AUDITORIUM 7:00-8:00 -- BREAKFAST in Conference Center Lobby 8:00 -- INTRODUCTIONS - Brian Paust 8:10 - 10:15 LIVE HANDLING AND TRANSPORT OF DUNGENESS=20 CRAB. Roger Brock, Trilogy Pacific, Inc. Bellingham, Washington LIVE FLOUNDER IN NORTH CAROLINA: METHODS=20 OF A GROWING INDUSTRY. Skip Kemp, Sea Grant Program, Atlantic Beach, NC LIVE SHIPMENT OF THE MARINE SHRIMP, Penaeus=20 vannamei, WITHOUT WATER. Craig L. Browdy, Ph.D., South Carolina Department of=20 Natural Resources, U.S. Marine Shrimp Farming Program THE EFFECTS OF FRESHWATER SHRIMP SURVIVAL=20 DURING WATERLESS SHIPMENT USING A ZEOLITE=20 PACKAGING ENVIRONMENT. Carol Harper, Ph.D., Ruben Perz Sijo and John M. Kubaryk, =20 University of Puerto Rico, Mayagez, P.R. AIR TRANSPORT OF LIVE KURUMA PRAWNS (Penaeus=20 japonicus) TEMPERATURE CONTROL IMPROVES=20 SURVIVAL. Bruce Goodrick, Senior Food Technologist, AAIFST,=20 Queensland, Australia 10:00 - 10:30 -- Refreshment Break in Lobby 10:30 - 1:00 THE HOLDING AND LIVE SHIPPING OF LOBSTER:=20 THE CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE. Colin MacDonald, Clearwater Fine Foods Inc., Bedford,=20 Nova Scotia, Canada SHIPPING & HANDLING OF LIVE LOBSTERS: THE=20 AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE. John Riley, Bio-Resource Engineering Department=20 University of Maine, Orono, Maine DEVELOPMENT OF THE BRITISH COLUMBIA LIVE=20 FINFISH INDUSTRY. Mike Hamer, Vancouver, B.C., Canada AN INSIDE LOOK AT CATCHING, TRANSPORTING,=20 AND MARKETING LIVE ROCKFISH. Richard Larson, Powak Fishing Co., Salt Spring Island, BC, =20 Canada THE BRITISH COLUMBIA LIVE FINFISH FISHERY=20 FROM THE SMALL BOAT HARVESTER PERSPECTIVE. Valentyn deLeeuw and Hilde Harrison, Duncan, British=20 Columbia, Canada RAPID CHANGES AND GROWTH OF CALIFORNIA'S=20 LIVE FINFISH FISHERY. Kimberly McKee-Lewis, California Dept. of Fish & Game,=20 Santa Barbara, California LIVE FISH TECHNOLOGY: HISTORICAL CONVENIENCE=20 TO MODERN MULTISPECIES STRATEGY IN NORWAY. Kjell Midling, Norwegian Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture,=20 Tromsoe, Norway 1:00-2:30 Lunch -- Harborside Dining Room TRANSPORT OF KILLER WHALE FROM MEXICO CITY=20 TO NEWPORT, OREGON Mark Dickens, United Parcel Service, Atlanta, Georgia 2:30 - 3:55 THE DESIGN AND OPERATION OF LIVE SEAFOOD=20 HOLDING SYSTEMS. Jerry Lang, Majestic Seafood Products, Inc., Richmond BC,=20 Canada DEVELOPMENT OF IMPROVED TECHNIQUES FOR THE=20 TRANSPORT OF LIVE FISH. Mike Rimmer, Finfish Aquaculture Research Group, Cairns, =20 Queensland, Australia MAJOR ELEMENTS OF A LIVE FISH TRANSPORT=20 SYSTEM USING PURE OXYGEN Rob and Tjarda Barratt, Point Four Systems Inc., Port Moody, =20 BC, Canada AQUAHAUL: DEVELOPMENT OF HAULING TANK=20 TREATMENT FOR FOOD FISH. James Fajt, AquaHaul, Manhattan, Kansas 3:55 - 4:20 -- Refreshment Break - in Lobby 4:20-6:00 DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATION OF AQUI-S. Jan Holland, Fish Transport Systems Ltd. Canada and=20 New Zealand THE NEW ZEALAND AND IKE DAI LIVE TRANSPORT=20 SYSTEM. Barry Torkington, Fish Transport Systems Ltd., Canada and=20 New Zealand LIVE TRADE IN CALIFORNIA FROM THE=20 WHOLESALER'S PERSPECTIVE. Henry Cheung, Charlie Seafood, San Francisco, California=20 and Paul Olin, Ph.D., University of California REVIEW OF THE LIVE FISH INDUSTRY: A=20 CALIFORNIA RESTAURANT OWNER'S PERSPECTIVE. John Ho, Ming Dynasty Restaurant, Santa Barbara,=20 California and Deborah McArdle, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 6:00 -- Brian Paust CLOSING REMARKS ***ADJOURN*** =C5 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Sep 13 10:24:21 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA26286; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:24:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA05897; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 13:10:48 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA05892; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:10:46 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA24289; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:10:44 -0400 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:10:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Spawning at FGBNMS Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:42:15 -0400 From: CBAggie@aol.com To: coral@aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Octocoral Spawn (fwd) On the night of Sept 3, 4, &5 A mass spawning event was again observed at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. In addition the the many colonies of Diploria and Montastrea species obsreved releasing gametes, a single small (approx. 15cm diameter) colony of Porites astreoides was observed slowly releasing a milky white substance similar to the sperm release previously seen in male M. cavernosa species. This seems somewhat unexpected, as I understand P. astreoides to be a brooding species. Could someone shed some light on this for me. Carl Beaver Center for Coastal Studies Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Sep 13 10:50:12 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA26872; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:50:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA05916; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 13:31:11 GMT Received: from charleston.nadn.navy.mil by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA05911; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:31:08 -0400 Received: from localhost (strong@localhost) by charleston.nadn.navy.mil (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA08269; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:33:04 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: charleston.nadn.navy.mil: strong owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:33:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Prof Alan E Strong X-Sender: strong@charleston To: Dave Alan Gulko cc: Coral Health and Monitoring Program , coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, CoralBleach , E_WILLIAMS@rumac.upr.clu.edu, eakin@ogp.noaa.gov, fholt@nesdis.noaa.gov, michael=crosby%DIR%NORM@oaservera2.ssmc.noaa.gov, rfeden@nesdis.noaa.gov, rhayes@access.howard.edu Subject: Re: "Coral Bleaching Event in Hawai'i" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dave Gulko - Coral bleaching enthusiasts[?]: You may now get up to date SST anomaly info that should help in locating potential high-SST related coral bleaching areas of possible concern from our WebSite at: http://psbsgi1.nesdis.noaa.gov:8080/PSB/EPS/SST/climo.html Let us know what you think. Hawaii has been in an area of high SSTs for the past month or so... Cheers, Al Strong ***************************************************************************** Alan E. Strong Physical Scientist/Oceanographer Adj. Asst. Professor NOAA/NESDIS/ORA/ORAD -- E/RA3 US Naval Academy NOAA Science Center -- RM 711 Oceanography Department Camp Springs, MD 20233 Annapolis, MD 21402 301-763-8102 410-293-6566 [v-mail] astrong@nesdis.noaa.gov strong@nadn.navy.mil FAX: 301-763-8020 FAX: 410-293-2137 http://www.nadn.navy.mil/Oceanography/FACULTY/AES_resume.html ***************************************************************************** On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Dave Alan Gulko wrote: > A major coral bleaching event began in late August in the south > basin of Kane'ohe Bay, O'ahu in response to high temperature. A long > period of hot, calm weather drove temperatures into the 29 - 30 degrees > centigrade range in the restricted basin (this is 1 - 2 degrees > centrigrade higher than oceanic temperatures). The return of trade winds > and cloud cover during the second week of September lowered surface water > temperatures into the "safe" range. If the temperatures continue at > normal levels, we expect most of the coral to recover within 1-3 months. > The event is under investigation by Paul Jokiel of the Hawai'i Institute > of Marine Biology (jokiel@hawaii.edu). > > > > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Sep 13 12:38:50 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA29173; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 12:38:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA06016; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 14:20:32 GMT Received: from gracie.grdl.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA06011; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:20:28 -0400 Received: from ocean.nos.noaa.gov by gracie.grdl.noaa.gov with SMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA140674250; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:17:30 -0400 Message-Id: Date: 13 Sep 1996 10:19:02 -0400 From: "Gittings, S." Subject: Coral spawning@Flower Gardens To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov X-Mailer: Mail*Link SMTP-MS 3.0.2 Content-Type: x-uuencode-apple-single X-Attachments: "Spawn 1996 Rept" (type: uuencode-apple-single) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A For those of you interested in spawning and spawning-related research, the enclosed report will be of interest. We had very intense spawning at the Flower Gardens this year, with an interesting split between two consecutive nights. I'm not sure exactly what that means, but it may have to do with the timing of the full moon, which was around noon on August 28. Some corals may have seen the 28th as the first evening following the full moon; others may have used the 29th as the first evening after the full moon. Also, the split between species formerly seen to spawn on the same night may mean that chemical cues are not all that important in triggering mass spawning among multiple species. 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I suggest to include in all future reports lunar phase and currentconditions as well.(Can figure out moon phase of specific dates of course,but who has such a calender at hands? Currents are a lot more difficult to reconstruct). In my observations in Maldives virtually everything is related to currents (or is it the moon causing the currents?) Norbert Schmidt From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Sep 13 16:59:13 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA05826; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 16:59:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA06463; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 19:28:16 GMT Received: from uwimona.edu.jm by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA06458; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 15:27:08 -0400 Received: by uwimona.edu.jm (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA08481; Fri, 13 Sep 96 13:55:17-050 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 13:55:17 -0500 (GMT-0500) From: Jeremy Woodley To: EcoSense Cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Spawning Curacao In-Reply-To: <199609122057.QAA27433@tula.cura.net> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A quick question: did you check for spawning at the Last Quarter in early August? In Jamaica, we though that would be too early this year: as they did at the Flower Gardens, but were then surprised by the amount of spawning. Jeremy Woodley On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, EcoSense wrote: > Hello Coral Spawning Fans, > > Coral Spawning observations from Curacao, Netherlands Antilles 1996 > > Reefs on Curacao were monitored on with Reef Care Volunteers: > August 30 through September 2 from 21.00 - 22.15 pm > August 31 & September 1 from 16.00 - 17.00 pm > September 3 through September 5 from 19.30 - 23.00 pm > > Spawning observations: > Date Location Species Time # % > 31 Aug Seaquarium Gorgonia ventalina? 21.30-22.15 10 25% > 04 Sept Slangenbaai Montastrea annularis > Columnar 21.20 1 <5% > Massive 22.12-22.20 2 <5% > Montastrea cavernosa 21.45-22.05 3 (2male; 1 female) 5% > 05 Sept Slangenbaai Ruby Brittlestar 21.20-21.17 3 (2 male; 1 female) > Montastrea cavernosa 21.50 1 (male) <5% > > This is the 6th consecutive year we are monitoring the spawning on > Curacao. Never before we saw so little spawning in either one of the > months of this `split-spawning-event'. May be a consequence of last > years bleaching! A major spawning is expected from 2 to 4 October. > > Observations from Aruba, Bonaire and Saba are pending. > > Manfred van Veghel > EcoSense > Dr. Manfred L.J. van Veghel > PO Box 3187 > Curacao, Netherlands Antilles > Phone and Fax: +599 9 613196 > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Sep 13 23:45:24 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA09912; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 23:45:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id DAA06793; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 03:23:53 GMT Received: from relay1.Hawaii.Edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id XAA06788; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 23:23:49 -0400 Received: from uhunix3.its.hawaii.edu ([128.171.44.52]) by relay1.Hawaii.Edu with SMTP id <587058(1)>; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:17:46 -1000 Received: from localhost by uhunix3.its.Hawaii.Edu with SMTP id <188151>; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:20:40 -1000 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:20:36 -1000 From: Cindy Hunter X-Sender: cindyh@uhunix3 Reply-To: Cindy Hunter To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: "Coral Bleaching Event in Hawai'i" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The current coral bleaching event in Hawaii is not limited to Kane'ohe Bay. Corals in Kailua Bay, a shallow but more open-coast environment southeast of Kane'ohe Bay on Oahu, have shown exceptional bleaching responses over the past two weeks. The bleaching in Kailua Bay was first evident on Labor Day weekend--just after a period of very warm, nearly windless weather conditions. Near-shore seawater temperature in Kailua Bay on September 2nd was 31 degrees C. Up until that time (over the past four years), we had not measured temperatures higher than 29.5 degrees in Kailua Bay [on 9/7/95]. All coral species (large massive bommies=Porites evermanni and P. lobata; rice and lavendar coral=Montipora verrucosa and M. flabellata; rose and lace coral=Pocillopora meandrina, P. ligulata, and P. damicornis) were bleached to varying extent, except the common finger coral, Porites compressa; bleaching in this species didn't appear for another three to four days. Of note is that colonies of Montipora patula, an encrusting species found in the same habitat and often adjacent to bleached Montipora verrucosa and M. flabellata, has _not_ bleached. As of yesterday (September 12th), nearly every coral in Kailua Bay from shore to about 1.5 km out--in depths to 5 m--appeared bleached, with most colonies being white or very pale. In the past 10 years of our studies on corals in Kailua Bay, we have not seen anything close to such a bleaching response, both in terms of extent of pigment loss and numbers of species involved. Seawater temperatures returned to normal (about 28 degrees) rapidly (within a week). Since we have not previously observed such an extreme bleaching event in Hawaii, we cannot predict how long corals will take to recover. Some mortality is already apparent in colonies of the most rapidly bleached species-- Pocillopora damicornis and P. meandrina (lace and rose coral). Cindy Hunter Celia Smith Botany Dept. University of Hawaii From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Sep 14 13:14:57 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA12128; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 13:14:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA07375; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 16:35:26 GMT Received: from sun.lclark.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA07370; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 12:35:23 -0400 Received: (from brosnan@localhost) by sun.lclark.edu (8.6.11/8.6.11) id JAA10804; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 09:31:20 -0700 Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 09:31:20 -0700 (PDT) From: "Dr.Deborah M. Brosnan" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: jetty impacts Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I am looking for any information on the impacts of constructing jetties and marinas on coral reef communities. I'm interested in effects of the actual construction process, e.g. increased turbidity, sedimentation etc. from disturbing the sediment. I'm also interested in teh secondary and longterm effects. For instance, a new jetty or marina means more boat traffic and there is greater potential for anchor damage, and oil pollution (often runoff from discarded oil). If anyone has any information, or knows of publications or reports I'd appreciate hearing from you. Thanks Deborah Brosnan From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Sep 16 09:59:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA25466; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 09:58:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA09217; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 12:18:02 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA09212; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 08:18:00 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA00790; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 08:18:00 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 08:17:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Spawning at FGBNMS (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:14:23 -0400 From: Alina Szmant To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program Subject: Re: Spawning at FGBNMS Porites astreoides is a brooder, but that means it broods it's eggs. if it is to outcross with other individuals, each colony must release sperm, which is likely what you saw. Alina Szmant At 09:10 AM 9/13/96 -0400, you wrote: >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:42:15 -0400 >From: CBAggie@aol.com >To: coral@aoml.noaa.gov >Subject: Re: Octocoral Spawn (fwd) > >On the night of Sept 3, 4, &5 A mass spawning event was again observed at >the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. In addition the the many >colonies of Diploria and Montastrea species obsreved releasing gametes, a >single small (approx. 15cm diameter) colony of Porites astreoides was >observed slowly releasing a milky white substance similar to the sperm >release previously seen in male M. cavernosa species. This seems somewhat >unexpected, as I understand P. astreoides to be a brooding species. Could >someone shed some light on this for me. > >Carl Beaver >Center for Coastal Studies >Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi > > > ********************************************** Dr. Alina M. Szmant Coral Reef Research Group RSMAS-MBF University of Miami 4600 Rickenbacker Cswy. Miami FL 33149 TEL: (305)361-4609 FAX: (305)361-4600 or 361-4005 E-mail: ASZMANT@RSMAS.MIAMI.EDU ********************************************** From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Sep 18 08:55:30 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA09899; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 08:55:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id LAA11329; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:58:41 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA11324; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 07:58:38 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA02341; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 07:58:38 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 07:58:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: NOAA/EPA Coral Reef Symposium (1/95) on Web Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The symposium entitled, A Coral Reef Symposium on Practical, Reliable, Low Cost Monitoring Methods for Assessing the Biota and Habitat Conditions of Coral Reefs (January 26-27, 1995; Annapolis, Maryland) can now be viewed on the Web at the following URL: http://www.epa.gov/OW/coral/symposium.html From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Sep 18 17:46:13 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA24209; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 17:46:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA11661; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 20:36:01 GMT Received: from jaws.marine.usf.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA11656; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 16:35:58 -0400 Received: from localhost (jogden@localhost) by jaws.marine.usf.edu (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id QAA29392; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 16:46:59 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: jaws.marine.usf.edu: jogden owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 16:46:58 -0400 (EDT) From: John Ogden To: Coral-List cc: osoricks@aol.com, John Ogden Subject: Coral harvest for bone restoration Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Does anyone have any information on the harvest of corals for orthopedic surgery and bone restoration? I am particularly interested in where and how such coral collection is done, what species are taken, and whether or not it is damaging to coral reefs. Does anyone know the companies that prepare the material for medical use? Thanks. John C. Ogden Director Phone: 813/893-9100 Florida Institute of Oceanography Fax: 813/893-9109 830 First Street South St. Petersburg, Florida 33701 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Sep 18 23:40:51 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA27333; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 23:40:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id DAA11857; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 03:06:28 GMT Received: from iniki.soest.hawaii.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id XAA11852; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 23:06:21 -0400 Received: from localhost (carlson@localhost) by iniki.soest.hawaii.edu (8.7.4/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA06566; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 17:03:00 -1000 (HST) X-Authentication-Warning: iniki.soest.hawaii.edu: carlson owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 17:03:00 -1000 (HST) From: Bruce Carlson X-Sender: carlson@iniki To: John Ogden cc: Coral-List , osoricks@aol.com Subject: Re: Coral harvest for bone restoration In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: John, Can't add much insight to help answer your question, except that Goniopora and, I think, Porites are both used for bone grafts. But I want to add that I would be interested in receiving the same information. Most corals are fairly easy to cultivate in captivity and if there is a demand the Waikiki Aquarium (and other "coral farmers") might be able to provide cultured material. Bruce Carlson Waikiki Aquarium On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, John Ogden wrote: > > Does anyone have any information on the harvest of corals for orthopedic > surgery and bone restoration? I am particularly interested in where and > how such coral collection is done, what species are taken, and whether or > not it is damaging to coral reefs. Does anyone know the companies that > prepare the material for medical use? Thanks. > > John C. Ogden Director Phone: 813/893-9100 > Florida Institute of Oceanography Fax: 813/893-9109 > 830 First Street South St. Petersburg, Florida 33701 > > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Sep 19 11:31:23 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA06403; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:31:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA12302; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 13:56:51 GMT Received: from aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA12297; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 09:56:49 -0400 Received: from wave.aoml.noaa.gov. (wave [192.111.123.25]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA02913 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 09:54:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from hendee@localhost) by wave.aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3.CAR) id JAA12651; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 09:54:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 09:54:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "James C. Hendee" X-Sender: hendee@wave To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: More on coral and bones Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The following should be more helpful. They mention, "Surgeons use Porites and Goniopora corals for such grafts." FitzGerald, Lisa M. Building coral bones. Sea Frontiers v. 38 (Feb. '92) p. 13 il. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Sep 19 11:46:01 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA06653; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:45:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA12291; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 13:43:50 GMT Received: from aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA12286; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 09:43:48 -0400 Received: from wave.aoml.noaa.gov. (wave [192.111.123.25]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA02633 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 09:41:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from hendee@localhost) by wave.aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3.CAR) id JAA12552; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 09:41:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 09:41:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "James C. Hendee" X-Sender: hendee@wave To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: coral and bones Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The following references may be of help for at least locating the Principal Investigators; then you can ask them more about where they got their coral. Pool, Robert. 1995. Coral chemistry leads to human bone repair. Science 267(Mar 24): 1772. Mora, F; Ouhayoun, J P. 1995. Clinical evaluation of natural coral and porous hydroxyapatite implants in periodontal bone lesions: Results of a 1-year follow-up. Journal of clinical periodontology. Volume 22, Number 11: 877 Arnaud, E.; Morieux, C.; Wybier, M.; De Vernejoul, M.-C. Osteogenesis induced by the combination of growth factor, ilbrin glue and coral. Development of a substitute for autologous bone graft. Experimental study in the rabbit. Annales de chirurgie plastique et esthetique. 39(4): 491. Doherty, M. J.; Schlag, G.; Schwarz, N.; Mollan, R.A.B.. Biocompatibility of xenogeneic bone, commercially available coral, a bioceramic and tissue sealant for human osteoblasts. Biomaterials 15(8): 601. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Sep 19 12:43:14 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA08159; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 12:43:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA12319; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 14:08:04 GMT Received: from is1.hk.super.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA12314; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 10:07:56 -0400 From: gregorh@hk.super.net Received: from 202.64.22.159 (max6-159.hk.super.net [202.64.22.159]) by is1.hk.super.net (8.7.6/8.7.1) with SMTP id WAA27959; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 22:03:40 +0800 (HKT) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 22:03:40 +0800 (HKT) Message-Id: <199609191403.WAA27959@is1.hk.super.net> Subject: Re: Request for Info on Coral Implants To: Coral-List Cc: John Ogden , Bruce Carlson X-Mailer: AIR Mail 3.X (SPRY, Inc.) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: In 1989, I did a story on coral implants for Asia Technology magazine. At that time, the major company in Asia marketing coral implants was a French company called SOFAMOR. They were purchasing their corals in New Caledonia and Tonga. Their contact numbers were: SOFAMOR Asia Pacific Ltd Room 1910 Asian House 1 Hennessy Road Wanchai, Hong Kong Fax (852) 2865-2237 Tel (852) 2528-1363 Given the time since this story, it is quite likely that they have moved. So if anyone has trouble tracking them down, let me know and I can try to see if they are still here in HK. The company is large and sells many other products. Closer to home (for those in US) is a US manufacturer: INTERPORE International 18008 Skypark Circle Irvine California (800) 722-4489 In california (800) 722-4488 The technology of turning coral into implants was developed by Dr. John Weber, Prof. Marine Geology and Prof. Eugene White, Solid State Science Dept. at Penn State Univ. USA Hope this helps. Gregor Hodgson Institute for Environmental Studies Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clearwater Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong gregorh@hk.super.net Fax: (852) 2358-1582 Tel: (852) 2358-8568 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Sep 19 12:52:29 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA08401; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 12:52:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA12347; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 14:17:06 GMT Received: from gatewy.worldbank.org by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA12340; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 10:16:58 -0400 Received: from mb.worldbank.org by worldbank.org (PMDF V5.0-7 #7413) id <01I9NQRJHRDC000YXJ@worldbank.org>; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 10:10:52 -0500 (EST) Received: with PMDF-MR; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 14:11:16 +0000 (GMT) MR-Received: by mta WBHQB1; Relayed; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 14:11:16 +0000 MR-Received: by mta GATEWY; Relayed; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 14:10:23 +0000 Alternate-recipient: prohibited Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 14:06:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Marea Hatziolos Subject: RE: Coral harvest for bone restoration In-reply-to: To: John Ogden Cc: Coral-List , osoricks , John Ogden Message-id: <"B1349ZWMKEJNEC*/R=WBHQB/R=A1/U=MAREA HATZIOLOS/"@MHS> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Posting-date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 14:10:00 +0000 (GMT) Importance: normal Priority: normal UA-content-id: B1349ZWMKEJNEC X400-MTS-identifier: [;61114191906991/1423332@WBHQB] A1-type: MAIL Hop-count: 2 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: John, I don't have a specific reference for you, but you may wish to get in touch with Dr. David Newman at the National Cancer Institute who does bioprospecting in marine species. His address is: Dr. David Newman Division of Cancer Treatment National Cancer Institute Cancer REsearch and Development Center P.O. Box B Frederick, MD 21702-1201 Tel: (301) 846-5387 FAX: (301) 846-6178 e-mail: Newman@dtpvx2.ncifcrf.gov If you find out anything, I'd really be interested in hearing about it. Thanks and good luck! Marea From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Sep 20 04:53:12 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA17292; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 04:53:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id HAA01451; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 07:55:11 GMT Received: from sme.univ-mrs.fr by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id DAA01446; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 03:55:07 -0400 Message-Id: <199609200755.DAA01446@reef.aoml.noaa.gov> Received: from smepc15.univ-mrs.fr by sme.univ-mrs.fr with SMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA265725939; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 09:52:19 +0200 Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 09:52:19 +0200 X-Sender: lcharpy@sme.univ-mrs.fr X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Loic Charpy Subject: Marine Cyanobacteria Symposium Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: MARINE CYANOBACTERIA and related organisms With the exiting developments in the field of marine cyanobacteria and related organisms over recent years it has become clear that there is a pressing need to draw the diverse interests together for a general symposium. This international symposium will focus on the new techniques which have become available over the past few years such as molecular phylogeny and cell sorting to bring experts in a diversity of fields together to address the important results but are just now becoming available. Organizers L. Charpy (ORSTOM, France) & A.W. Larkum (University of Sydney, Australie) Organizing Committee L. Charpy (ORSTOM, COM), A.W. Larkum (University of Sydney), C. Charpy-Roubaud (ORSTOM, COM), T. Le Campion-Alsumard (CNRS, COM), S. Maestrini (CNRS, CREMA), J.-F. Pavillon (Institut Oc‰anographique) Scientific committe L. Charpy (France), A.W. Larkum (Australia), L.J. Borowitzka (Australia), M. Borowitzka (Australia), C. Charpy-Roubaud (France), R.D. Fox (France), M. Furnas (Australia), S. Golubic (USA), M. Herdman (France), T. Le Campion-Alsumard (France), S. Maestrini (France), Balobe M. (Lettonie), J. O'Neal (Australia), D. Vaulot (France). For information contact Dr. Loc Charpy, OSTOM, Centre d'Oc‰anologie de Marseille, Rue de la Batterie des Lions, 13007 France. Fax : (33) 91.04.16.35 E-mail : charpy@orstom.rio.net Scope of the Symposium The symposium will be organized in a set of symposia and workshops to address the most important issues. A list of symposia is set out below. The proceedings of the symposium will be published as " Marine Cyanobacteria ". List of Symposia 1 Taxonomy and Phylogeny 2 Environment : Ecology and Global changes 3 Nutrient relations 4 Productivity 5 Harmful blooms and Natural products 6 Aquaculture and Genetic manipulation The home page french an english versions are located in : htpp://com.univ-mrs.fr/orstom/charpy.html and http://com.univ-mrs.fr/orstom/charpy_e.html Loic Charpy Centre d'Oc‰anologie de Marseille Traverse de la Batterie des Lions F-13007 Marseille France Tel. 91.04.16.00 Fax 91.04.16.35 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Sep 20 12:40:18 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA25022; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:40:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA01849; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:45:31 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA01844; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 11:45:29 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id LAA06955; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 11:45:24 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 11:45:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral Reply-To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov cc: Steve Morrison Subject: Coastweeks Celebration Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:23:17 GMT From: Steve Morrison Subject: Coastweeks smorrison@ocean.nos.noaa.gov (Steve Morrison) sent the following: ------------------------------------------------------------ I'm writing you to alert you to this year's Coastweeks Celebration. As you may or may not know, Coastweeks activities include beach clean-ups, nature walks and programs to educate us all on the importance of our coasts. We at NOAA's National Ocean Service have created a web site that lists various Coastweeks activities state-by-state. In order to disseminate this information as widely as possible, could you please link to our page and let your colleagues and other know about it as well. Thank you for your time. The address is: http://www.nos.noaa.gov/coastweeks/into.html Steve Morrison smorrison@ocean.nos.noaa.gov ------------------------------------------------------------ Server protocol: HTTP/1.0 Remote host: fjord.nos.noaa.gov Remote IP address: 140.90.168.129 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Sep 20 12:41:01 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA25059; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:40:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA01836; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:40:50 GMT Received: from kuhub.cc.ukans.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA01831; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 11:40:45 -0400 Received: from KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU by KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU (PMDF V5.0-6 #13311) id <01I9P6227UY88ZMOGZ@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU>; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 10:37:49 -0500 (UTC -05:00) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 10:37:49 -0500 (UTC -05:00) From: "DAPHNE G. FAUTIN" Subject: ICRS To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Cc: FAUTIN Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Is the list of participants at the June ICRS in Panama available electronically? If so, where? From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Sep 20 16:42:52 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA29080; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 16:42:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA02053; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 19:52:01 GMT Received: from bishop.bishop.hawaii.org by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA02048; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:51:54 -0400 Received: from slcoles.bishop.hawaii.org by bishop.bishop.hawaii.org (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA53734; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 09:44:46 -1000 Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 09:44:46 -1000 Message-Id: <9609201944.AA53734@bishop.bishop.hawaii.org> X-Sender: slcoles@bishop.bishop.hawaii.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Steve Coles Subject: More Coral Bleaching in Hawaii Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Yesterday (19Sep96) I observed moderate coral bleaching on the reefs of leewad Oahu, Hawaii from Nanakuli to Kahe Point and to depths of 8 m. From these observations, it can be assumed that this condition extends to the entire western side of Oahu, the first time that it has been reported from this area. In contrast to the total zooxanthellar pigment loss reported last week for corals in two areas in embayments on windward Oahu, the present bleaching is partial and limited to three species. Pocillopora meandrina is most affected, with about 5% of the colonies observed having lost pigmant on their branches but retaining some zooxanthellar pigment in their branch bases, resulting in a pale coral with the pink to rose coral characteristic of coral tissue pigments. Encrusting Montipora capitata (=verrucosa), present in low abundandance, is totally bleached, while encrusting Montipora patula ranges bleached to normal. The dominant coral in the area, Porites lobata, with a few exceptions, is generally unchanged. This is the first time this phenomenon has been observed in this area in 25 years of monitoring. This is a completely open coastline with no opportunity for restriction of circulation that would promote localized heating of ambient water. Temperature measured at the time was 27.0-27.2 deg. C. Intake temperatures continuously monitored by the nearby Kahe Power Station will provide a record for the last month which can be correlated with this event. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Sep 21 22:07:51 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA04626; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 22:07:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA03113; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 01:16:14 GMT Received: from homer.bethel.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA03108; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:16:12 -0400 Received: from [140.88.1.127] (a01-7f.acs.bethel.edu [140.88.1.127]) by homer.bethel.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA29684 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 20:13:27 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 20:13:27 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199609220113.UAA29684@homer.bethel.edu> From: "Ian S. Johnston" Reply-To: "Ian S. Johnston" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Search for a textbook Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: POPmail 2.3b7 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: During January '97 I will be teaching a course ("Human Impacts on Coral Reefs") in the Philippines and Hawaii for a small group of students from here in the Mid West. In previous years I have used Sue Wells and Nick Hanna's "The Greenpeace Book of Coral Reefs" as a required textbook .... it was not only technically ideal (covering the material at the right level) but also a beautifully illustrated "keep-sake" for my students. Unfortunately the book is out of print so I am looking for suggestions for a substitute (one that is currently in print, or due out by the beginning of November) .... or alternatively, does anyone know of a stache of 15 copies of the Greenpeace book that I could buy on behalf of my students? Any advice will be gratefully received .... thanks Ian S. Johnston, Ph.D. Department of Biological Sciences Bethel College, St.Paul, MN 55112, USA Office phone & Voice Mail (612) 638 6198 Home phone (612) 633 0703 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Sep 23 00:39:02 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA09887; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 00:38:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id DAA03868; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 03:39:38 GMT Received: from ultra.ultra.net.au by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id XAA03863; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 23:39:28 -0400 Received: from sppp23.ultra.net.au (sppp23.ultra.net.au [203.20.237.123]) by ultra.ultra.net.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA06324 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 13:41:26 +1000 Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 13:41:26 +1000 Message-Id: <199609230341.NAA06324@ultra.ultra.net.au> X-Sender: edrew@mailhost.ultra.net.au (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: ed drew Subject: Surplus Halimeda sediment samples Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Now that I have finished sieving the 1100 sediment samples collected for studies of the Halimeda banks of the GBR, at last, I am left with a small mountain of surplus back-up duplicates which may soon be consigned to the local dump. However, since most sedimentology educators and alike will not have access to this type of material, anyone seriously interested in acquiring some should e-mail me for further details. I have in mind a cross-shelf set of four samples, sieved to gravel, sand and mud fractions and complete with location map. They would then be directly referable to my < Atlas of GBR Halimeda Banks > when it finally sees the light of day. Ed ------------------------- Dr Edward A Drew ----------------------- | PO Box 361, Castletown, Hyde Park, Townsville, Q 4812, Australia | | TEL +61-077-724452 FAX +61-077-213538 MOBILE +61-014-879869 | | EMAIL edrew@ultra.net.au - or - edrew@ozemail.com.au | | WWW http://www.ozemail.com.au/~edrew | ------------------------------------------------------------------ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Sep 23 02:37:18 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA10699; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 02:37:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id GAA03960; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 06:02:42 GMT Received: from sv10.batelco.com.bh by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id CAA03955; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 02:02:35 -0400 From: rogeru@batelco.com.bh Received: from as08p11.access.batelco.com.bh ([193.188.98.140]) by sv10.batelco.com.bh (post.office MTA v1.9.3b ID# 0-13092) with SMTP id AAA9900 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 08:59:44 +0300 X-Sender: rogeru@batelco.com.bh (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Coral bleaching in Bahrain, Arabian Gulf Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 08:59:44 +0300 Message-ID: <19960923055943.AAA9900@as08p11.access.batelco.com.bh> Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A This summer we observed several areas of coral bleaching. Areas were adjacent to the main island of Bahrain, as well as up to 15 miles offshore. Water temperature during July and August this year regularly reached 37 degrees C inshore (also at the fish hatchery intake). Water temperatures were also once recorded about 20 miles offshore. It was 35 degrees C, even in 13 m of water. Informal discussions with fish hatchery staff here indicate that water temperture this year may have been up to 4 degrees C higher than that recorded last year. Things are cooling down a bit now. Water is down to about 30 degrees C now. Bleached corals are beginnning to foul with algae. Roger Uwate, Ph.D. Advisor Directorate of Fisheries P.O. Box 20071 Bahrain From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Sep 25 13:10:47 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA17345; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:10:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA06779; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 16:05:20 GMT Received: from server.indo.net.id by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA06774; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 12:05:14 -0400 From: kudalaut@indo.net.id Received: from ppp-026.denpasar.indo.net.id by server.indo.net.id (SMI-8.6/ED1-ID) id XAA17052; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 23:00:09 -0700 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 23:00:09 -0700 Message-Id: <199609260600.XAA17052@server.indo.net.id> X-Sender: kudalaut@server.indo.net.id X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Coral reef monitoring project in Indonesia Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Dear everybody, I am managing, together with 3 colleagues, a diving center in Manado, Indonesia. Being all biologists, we are doing our best for education and conservation in our area. At present we are writing a protocol for operational procedures for a reef monitoring program. We would be very grateful to any scientist involved in similar programs who like to look at it and to give some criticism. We think it could be some activity proposed for International Year of the Reef 1997. What is your opinion? The document is actually a Microsoft Word 6.0 for Windows file (.doc) that I can send to you as attachment via e-mail. Can you read this format? If anybody of you is interested in receiving the file, please, let me know. Looking forward for hearing from you. Best Regards Massimo Boyer * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Manado Seagarden Adventures * * Kuda Laut Project * * P.O. Box 1535 * * Manado 95001 * * North Sulawesi * * Indonesia * * Phone and fax: +62 431 61100 * * E mail: kudalaut@indo.net.id * * Internet site: http://www.wp.com/kudalaut * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Sep 25 15:17:49 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA20308; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 15:17:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA06894; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 18:32:15 GMT Received: from iniki.soest.hawaii.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA06889; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 14:32:09 -0400 Received: from localhost (carlson@localhost) by iniki.soest.hawaii.edu (8.7.6/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA16484 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 08:29:27 -1000 (HST) X-Authentication-Warning: iniki.soest.hawaii.edu: carlson owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 08:29:27 -1000 (HST) From: Bruce Carlson X-Sender: carlson@iniki To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Solomons Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Folks returning from dive trips to the Solomon Islands have reported extensive damage to corals due to heat stress. Apparently the effect is very widespread. I cannot confirm this from first-hand observation but the reports come from people who have been there "before" and "after" so I consider them highly reliable. Bruce Carlson Waikiki Aquarium From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Sep 25 15:48:55 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA20913; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 15:48:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA06885; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 18:27:14 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA06880; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 14:27:12 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA16067; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 14:27:11 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 14:27:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: FGBNMS Spawning text Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-1066435821-1121076680-843676031=:16063" Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. ---1066435821-1121076680-843676031=:16063 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On September 13, 1996, Steve Gittings circulated a message concerning spawning at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. That message contained a uuencoded document which was not easily translated by some of you. Therefore, I have attached that document here in text format. 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MAA17741; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 12:39:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 12:39:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: FGBNMS Spawn text location Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: If you wish to retrieve the FGBNMS '96 text via ftp, you can get it via anonymous ftp at coral.aoml.noaa.gov in the following subdirectory: pub/champ/docs/misc Cheers, JCH From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Sep 26 17:22:35 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA09968; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 17:22:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA07924; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 20:37:50 GMT Received: from jaws.marine.usf.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA07919; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:37:43 -0400 Received: from localhost (jogden@localhost) by jaws.marine.usf.edu (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id QAA18909; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:48:25 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: jaws.marine.usf.edu: jogden owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:48:25 -0400 (EDT) From: John Ogden To: Rosa Elisa Rodriguez cc: coral-list , "A.J. Edwards" Subject: Re: Management courses (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: In my view the best course in this field is the M.Sc. in Tropical Coastal management at Newcastle, UK: Dr. Alasdair J. Edwards, Course Director Centre for Tropical Coastal Management Department of Marine Sciences and Coastal Management University of Newcastle Newcastle NE1 7RU UNITED KINGDOM John C. Ogden Director Phone: 813/893-9100 Florida Institute of Oceanography Fax: 813/893-9109 830 First Street South St. Petersburg, Florida 33701 On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Rosa Elisa Rodriguez wrote: > > Hello, > > Does anyone have information about Integral Coast Management Courses that > give enfasis to Coral Reefs? > > Any information will be helpful. > > Thank you > > Rosa Rodriguez > Ap. Postal 1174 > 77500 Cancun, Q. Roo > MEXICO > > Tel (987)102-19 > Fax (987) 101-38 > > e-mail: rosaer@mar.icmyl.unam.mx > > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Sep 26 17:47:09 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA10262; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 17:47:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA07962; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 21:07:04 GMT Received: from igc7.igc.org by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA07957; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 17:07:01 -0400 Received: from igc3.igc.apc.org (igc3.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.33]) by igc7.igc.org (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA21306 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 13:54:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 198.94.3.43 (coral@ppp6-43.igc.org [198.94.3.43]) by igc3.igc.apc.org (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA21915; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 13:25:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <324AF620.72A9@igc.apc.org> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 13:31:12 -0800 From: coral Reply-To: coral@igc.apc.org Organization: Coral Forest X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Macintosh; I; 68K) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: coral reef education Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: If you are interested in knowing about recently released coral reef=20 educational materials, please read the rest of this message. Thank you. Marcy Roth Campaign Manager --=20 Coral Forest 400 Montgomery Street, Suite 400 San Francisco, CA 94104 USA (415) 788-REEF (7333) Fax (415) 331-4064 E-mail: coral@igc.apc.org Web site: http://www.blacktop.com/coralforest CORAL FOREST TEACHER'S GUIDE Much of CORAL FOREST's mission to preserve coral reef ecosystems is accomplished through education. As a part of our organizational strategy and in response to numerous requests from teachers around the world, CORAL FOREST has developed an interdisciplinary, hands-on Teacher's Guide for grades K-5, 6-8, and 9-12. With more than 160 pages, it is currently the most extensive and comprehensive coral reef teacher's guide available in the United States. CORAL FOREST's Executive Director Wendy Weir recruited master teachers experienced in curriculum development to help produce this spirally integrated guide. It was first written and tested in the classroom by our team of teachers, then edited and field-tested by other teachers, educators from major aquariums and scientific institutions, scientific advisors, and CORAL FOREST staff. The guide is contained in a three-ring binder making it easy to add information and lesson plan updates. A full-color interpretive poster - The Coral Forest: Diversity of Life on the Coral Reef, a scripted slide presentation, and several books are also available as supplementary references, along with our web site located at http://www.blacktop.com/coralforest The objective of the Teacher's Guide is to present students and teachers with highly informative yet interesting educational material that will encourage them to think about the complexity of coral reefs and their surrounding environment, the threats reefs are facing, and the possible solutions to these threats. The guide also presents students with different ways to take action to save reefs, thereby instilling in them the understanding and confidence that they can improve the world in which they live. Organization of the Materials The Teacher's Guide is divided into three sections: =80 Background Information =80 Lesson Plans: K-5, 6-8, and 9-12 =80 Resources All information contained in these sections may be reproduced for classroom use only. Background Information - The Background Information provides teachers of all grades with extensive information about coral reefs, so that they can effectively instruct their students and use the lesson plans. It addresses three major areas. =80 What and Where are the Coral Reefs? describes the anatomy,reproduction and feeding behaviors of coral polyps, as well as their geographic location and formation. =80 Life on the Coral Reef explains the biodiversity of the coral reef ecosystem and describes the protection and predation techniques of the myriad of marine life that makes up the coral reef food chain. This section also introduces four native coastal peoples and shows how they are taking action to protect their marine environment. =80 Benefits, Threats, and Solutions emphasizes the economic and ecological importance of coral reefs to both humans and ecosystems. It demonstrates the anthropogenic threats reefs are facing and possible solutions to these problems. Lesson Plans: K-5, 6-8, and 9-12 - The lesson plans, with activities, masters, and assessment instruments, correlate with the three major areas discussed in the Background Information. Each lesson provides the teacher with clear educational objectives and an interdisciplinary index to relate the curriculum to pertinent subject areas, such as science, math, geography, art and language arts. It also provides guidelines for presentation of the material, and suggestions for follow-up and extension of the lessons. The lesson plans are formatted as follows: objective, interdisciplinary index, vocabulary, materials, presentation, and follow-up/extension. Where relevant, they also contain review information. Resources - At the end of the Teacher's Guide is a resource section containing a glossary, bibliography, references for students, list of coral reef-related organizations, educational merchandise, and action programs. This material supports and enhances the teacher's ability to present information about coral reefs in an efficient and thorough manner, and to expand the students' study and involvement with reefs if desired. CORAL FOREST is currently having the Teacher's Guide adapted and translated into Spanish and Hindi, and is working with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute to develop educational programs based upon this material for use in Central and South American countries. CORAL FOREST EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTS BARU BAY: AUSTRALIA Children's book and audio cassette tape with narration. By Bob Weir and Wendy Weir. 40 pages, 9" x 12" hardcover. #302 $20 =20 Also available: PANTHER DREAM #303 $20 THE CORAL FOREST Diversity of Life on the Coral Reef. Full color poster with key to the illustration and information. 25" x 36" #904 $10 Teacher's Guide Coral reef teacher's guide with detailed background information, interdisciplinary lesson plans for K-5, 6-8, and 9-12 and resources. 158 pages in white 3-ring binder. #800 $22 Slide Presentation Scripted slide presentation which corresponds to Background Information in Teacher's Guide. 40 full color coral reef slides. #801 $27.50 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Sep 28 12:12:28 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA01015; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 12:12:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA09730; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:20:56 GMT Received: from igc7.igc.org by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA09725; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 11:20:51 -0400 Received: from igc3.igc.apc.org (igc3.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.33]) by igc7.igc.org (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA06635; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 08:05:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ppp6-14.igc.org (pcis@ppp6-14.igc.org [198.94.3.14]) by igc3.igc.apc.org (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA20708; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 08:02:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 08:02:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <2.2.16.19960928080606.852fd576@pop.igc.org> X-Sender: pcis@pop.igc.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, ecology@bluemarble.net, marine@vmsvax.simmons.edu, ENVIRONMENT-L@cornell.edu, infoterra@cedar.univie.ac.at, spufahl@uclink2.berkeley.edu, traffic@wcmc.org.uk, unep@unep.org, jwaugh@iucnus.org, kingfshr@northcoast.com From: GreenLife Society Subject: New List on the Middle East Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: As part of our Middle Eastern Environmental Project, we are launching a new list devoted to the discussion of environmental issues in the Middle East, MIDEASTENVIRO. It is our hope to focus more attention on critical environmental issues in the region, including threats to marine and terrestrial biodiversity; desertification, and destruction of coral reef ecosystems and to increase the interface among researchers working for solutions. To subscribe: 1. Send an e-mail message to listproc@environlink.org; 2. Leave the subject line blank 3. In the body of your message, type subscribe mideastenviro YOUR NAME (this is your real name, not your e-mail address). William C. Burns Director, GreenLife Society - North American Chapter 700 Cragmont Ave. Berkeley, CA 94708 USA Phone/Fax: (510) 558-0620 E-mail: pcis@igc.apc.org WWW site: http://EELINK.umich.edu/greenlife/index.html GLSNA Affiliations: Union of Concerned Scientists, Sound Science Initiative The EarthAction Network The Galapagos Coalition Reseau International d'ONG sur la Desertification (RIOD) Accredited NGO Observer, International Whaling Commission European Social Science Fisheries Network -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." -- William James -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Wed Sep 29 02:44:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA03627; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 02:43:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id GAA10179; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 06:05:25 GMT Received: from igc7.igc.org by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id CAA10174; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 02:05:12 -0400 Received: from igc3.igc.apc.org (igc3.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.33]) by igc7.igc.org (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA19121; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 22:56:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ppp6-1.igc.org (pcis@ppp6-1.igc.org [198.94.3.1]) by igc3.igc.apc.org (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA23282; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 22:52:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 22:52:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <2.2.16.19960928225619.6e678e0c@pop.igc.org> X-Sender: pcis@pop.igc.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, ecology@bluemarble.net, marine@vmsvax.simmons.edu, ENVIRONMENT-L@cornell.edu, infoterra@cedar.univie.ac.at, spufahl@uclink2.berkeley.edu, traffic@wcmc.org.uk, unep@unep.org, jwaugh@iucnus.org, kingfshr@northcoast.com From: GreenLife Society Subject: New List on the Middle East Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: My apologies; there was an error in the instructions for subscribing to the list. The correct address to send your requests is listproc@envirolink.org, not environlink.org. As part of our Middle Eastern Environmental Project, we are launching a new list devoted to the discussion of environmental issues in the Middle East, MIDEASTENVIRO. It is our hope to focus more attention on critical environmental issues in the region, including threats to marine and terrestrial biodiversity; desertification, and destruction of coral reef ecosystems and to increase the interface among researchers working for solutions. To subscribe: 1. Send an e-mail message to listproc@envirolink.org; 2. Leave the subject line blank 3. In the body of your message, type subscribe mideastenviro YOUR NAME (this is your real name, not your e-mail address). William C. Burns Director, GreenLife Society - North American Chapter 700 Cragmont Ave. Berkeley, CA 94708 USA Phone/Fax: (510) 558-0620 E-mail: pcis@igc.apc.org WWW site: http://EELINK.umich.edu/greenlife/index.html GLSNA Affiliations: Union of Concerned Scientists, Sound Science Initiative The EarthAction Network The Galapagos Coalition Reseau International d'ONG sur la Desertification (RIOD) Accredited NGO Observer, International Whaling Commission European Social Science Fisheries Network -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." -- William James -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Wed Sep 29 21:25:48 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA07697; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 21:25:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id AAA10724; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:47 GMT Received: from cyber2.servtech.com by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA10719; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 20:54:44 -0400 Received: from 204.181.8.33.tor.servtech.com (nme1.tor.servtech.com [204.181.8.33]) by cyber2.servtech.com (8.7.6/8.7.5) with SMTP id UAA22382; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 20:51:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <324EFA14.7D36@servtech.com> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 18:37:08 -0400 From: "Nabil M. El-Khodari" Reply-To: fits@servtech.com Organization: FITS (Falcon International Teleco./Translation Services) X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: GreenLife Society CC: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, ecology@bluemarble.net, marine@vmsvax.simmons.edu, ENVIRONMENT-L@cornell.edu, infoterra@cedar.univie.ac.at, spufahl@uclink2.berkeley.edu, traffic@wcmc.org.uk, unep@UNEP.ORG, jwaugh@iucnus.org, kingfshr@northcoast.com Subject: Re: INFOTERRA: New List on the Middle East References: <2.2.16.19960928080606.852fd576@pop.igc.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: GreenLife Society wrote: > > As part of our Middle Eastern Environmental Project, we are launching a new > list devoted to the discussion of environmental issues in the Middle East, > MIDEASTENVIRO. Congratulations to GLSNA on its initiative. The Middle East needs some attention particularly when all activities seem centered around Eatern and Central Europe and Latin America. It seems that the concept of sharing one global village, where any pollution in one area affects the whole world, is ignored. Hope to see more initiatives towards the Middle East and Africa. GLSNA has been the first organizations to encompass my earlier posts about Arabic posting on the WWW. You can visit the GLSNA Arabic Site at http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/3285/arabic.htm Sincerely, -- Nabil M. El-Khodari HTML Writers Guild mailto:fits@servtech.com Web designer Software Contractors' Guild Tel.: (416) 762-5135 http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/3285/ Fax.: (416) 762-3490 President, FITS (Falcon International Teleco./Translation Services) From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Sep 30 17:55:34 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA19449; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 17:55:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA11584; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 21:23:18 GMT Received: from cieamer.conacyt.mx by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA11579; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 17:23:10 -0400 Received: from reef ([148.207.253.106]) by cieamer.conacyt.mx (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11504; Mon, 30 Sep 96 15:59:05 CST Date: Mon, 30 Sep 96 15:59:05 CST Message-Id: <9609302159.AA11504@cieamer.conacyt.mx> X-Sender: earias@kin.cieamer.conacyt.mx (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: earias@kin.cieamer.conacyt.mx (Ernesto Arias Gonzalez) Subject: Coral species Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I am looking for the total number of coral species in coral reefs of the next geographic regions: Philippines, New Guinea, GBR Australia, Seychelles, One three reef southern GBR, Marshalls and Marianas, Alligator reef florida, Bahamas, Venezuela, Hawaii, Barbados, California Bay, Mafia Arch eastern Africa, Fanning atoll, Johnson atoll Pacific Ocean,Western Coast of Florida I was looking for this information in different references but I didnt arrive to find all information. If someone could help me how to get this information I would appreciate it. Thanks J. Ernesto Arias Gonzalez Lab. Ecologia de Ecosistemas Arrecifales CINVESTAV-Merida A.P. 73-CORDEMEX 97310 Merida, Yucatan, Mexico TE: (99) 812903 EXT 283 Fax: (99) 812917 e-mail earias@kin.cieamer.conacyt.mx From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Sep 30 21:33:06 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA20569; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 21:32:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id AAA11763; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 00:56:32 GMT Received: from jaring.my by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA11758; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 20:56:23 -0400 Received: from Jaring (j16.ktk4.jaring.my [161.142.220.222]) by jaring.my (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA14304; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 08:53:37 +0800 Message-Id: <199610010053.IAA14304@jaring.my> From: biusing@ppps.po.my (Rooney Biusing) To: fish-net@sfu.ca, rayner@pc.jaring.my, godfery@pc.jaring.my, coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, bancht@mozart.inet.co.th Subject: Regional Workshop on Sustainable Aquaculture and Biodiversity Conservation of Coral Reefs Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 01:08:11 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Workshop Title : Regional Workshop on Sustainable Aquaculture and Biodiversity Conservation of Coral Reefs Organisers : DOF (Department of Fisheries Sabah), IDS (Institute of Development Studies Sabah), NACA (Network of Aquaculture Centers in Asia-Pacific), UMS (Universiti Malaysia Sabah), Sabah Parks Location :- The East Asian Seas area is a global centre of marine biodiversity and within this area the coastal waters around the State of Sabah in Malaysia have a particularly rich and diverse marine community. The workshop will be held in Kota Kinabalu, the capital of the State of Sabah, Malaysia. Workshop Date :- 4-8th December 1996 (tentative date, subject to change) Venue :- to be decided later (tentatively at Kota Kinabalu) refer to http:\\www.jaring.my\sabah for more information!! The workshop will cover two main topics :- i) status of the breeding and grow-out technology of groupers, wrasses and other coral-reef associated fish species; and ii) resource management issues, including environmental impacts of the collection of wild grouper/coral-reef associated fish fries/juveniles, and management of adverse interactions on the environment, etc. Background NACA is cooperating with DOF, IDS, UMS and Sabah Parks in organising a regional workshop on the aquaculture of groupers and coral reef-associated marine fish. The workshop is organised in response to the increasing regional interest in the aquaculture of high value tropical marine fishes (e.g. groupers and wrasses), and increasing concern over the environmental impacts of the marine live fish trade. The workshop is intended to: i. review the present status of culture of groupers and coral reef associated fishes, particularly the captive breeding of major reef fishes; ii. review the social, economic and ecological impacts, including those on biodiversity, related to the live reef fish fishery and aquaculture; iii. identify specific needs for promoting aquaculture and sustainable management of reef fish resources, such as research, information, policy development and training for the responsible development of the industry; and iv. identify common problems related to reef fish aquaculture in the Asian region, and to explore ways for regional cooperation to overcome such common problems. Participants :- Workshop participants will include Malaysian and regional experts involved in grouper or reef fish breeding and aquaculture, and coral reef fishery management. Topics to be covered include: status of breeding of groupers and other candidate coral-reef associated fish species; reef fish aquaculture management practices (feeding, stocking, harvests); social/economic/environmental impacts of reef fish aquaculture; impacts associated with capture of wild seed and the live fish trade; marketing aspects; and management of grouper and reef fish resources and integration into coastal area management planning. Workshop outputs : The workshop proceedings will be published under a joint publication of DOF, NACA, IDS, UMS and Sabah Parks. It is expected that the publication would provide guidance to aquaculturists, scientists, policy makers and coastal resource managers involved in reef fish aquaculture and coral reef and coastal resources management. REGISTRATION FEES : F.O.C. (participants however have to pay for their own lodging, food will be provided at the venue) ENQUIRIES : Please contact : Rooney Biusing (organising secretary) Fisheries Research Center, 89400 Likas, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. e-mail : biusing@ppps.po.my Kota Kinabalu, Sabah,Malaysia. e-mail : biusing@ppps.po.my From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Oct 1 04:28:15 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA22152; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 04:28:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id HAA12077; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 07:49:47 GMT Received: from nangka.usc.edu.ph by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id DAA12072; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 03:46:55 -0400 Received: from mangga.usc.edu.ph (mangga.usc.edu.ph [165.220.28.252]) by nangka.usc.edu.ph (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA04924 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 14:54:05 +0800 Received: from MANGGA/SpoolDir by mangga.usc.edu.ph (Mercury 1.21); 1 Oct 96 14:56:46 +800 Received: from SpoolDir by MANGGA (Mercury 1.21); 1 Oct 96 14:55:52 +800 From: "Marine Biology Section, USC, Cebu, Philippi" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 14:55:22 +0000 Subject: current meter Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Message-ID: <6E3B914DF6@mangga.usc.edu.ph> Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear All, Can anyone recommend a good current, cheaply, that can log data automatically and able to transfer it to a computer? Please include contact address, too. Thanks. Jason Young ____sender's name_____ Marine Biology Section University of San Carlos fax (+63-32) 3460351 Cebu City 6000, Philippines email: mbs@mangga.usc.edu.ph ****** When replying, PLEASE INCLUDE ADDRESSEE'S NAME IN SUBJECT HEADER *** thanks. ******** From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Oct 1 21:41:02 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA06221; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 21:40:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id AAA12753; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 00:38:50 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA12748; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 20:38:47 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA27128; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 20:38:42 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 20:38:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: 52 Coral Reef Stories for the World Press Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE REEF (IYOR) MEDIA OUTREACH PROPOSAL IUCN/NOAA/IYOR PROPOSE HIGHLIGHTING WEEKLY STORY IDEAS IN INTERNATIONAL MEDIA IUCN/World Conservation Union, U.S. Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the International Year of the Reef (IYOR) invite your contribution to an international media strategy to highlight the urgent need for conservation and sustainable use of coral reefs. IUCN, NOAA and IYOR propose a coordinated 52 weekly story idea calendar to be distributed to international media outlets throughout the year to promote the outreach and educational goals of IYOR. To implement this strategy, a true partnership is required among agencies, IUCN members, and IYOR if the heightened public awareness is to encourage action at local, national, regional and international levels. IUCN requests its marine-oriented members to submit story ideas to NOAA by October 30. Each group that responds with ideas will be responsible for drafting a release for the story idea, providing background materials and for listing a contact on the subject matter. See attached format. NOAA will assist in distributing these story ideas to the international media. ~~~ TIMELINE ~~~ -- SEPTEMBER -- * IUCN and IYOR will solicit story ideas and submit to contact points by October 30. * The first 1997 quarter's set of stories are agreed upon in November by IUCN, NOAA and IYOR and the parties responsible are notified of selection and due date of release, background and contact person. -- OCTOBER through DECEMBER -- * The remaining 52 week calendar stories are proposed and release dates are sent to all participating groups. * Press releases and background information for the first two months are due December 1. * NOAA will contact media outlets and begin promoting the 52-week program for the coral reef initiative in late December. * The release calender is made available to the media outlets. -- JANUARY 1997 -- * Beginning January 6, 1997, every Monday morning, a new story idea is sent to local, national and international media markets interested in coral reefs and the IYOR. * NOAA's Office of Public and Constituent Affairs will facilitate media outreach on story ideas including distribution of materials and background information. WHAT IS A CORAL REEF STORY IDEA? A story idea or "tip sheet" is a media teaser. It is not a press release or news article. It is a paragraph or two that gives a broad outline of a newsworthy topic and gives the reporter the name and number of the person to contact for more information. The contact person will provide the reporter the background information and expert list needed to write the article. WHAT IS A NEWSWORTHY CORAL REEF TOPIC? Diverse newsworthy story ideas will be considered addressing the broad range of themes of the International Coral Reef Initiative and IYOR: coastal zone management, capacity building, research and monitoring. Some examples might include the launch of new coastal area management planning at a site, project successes/failures, cyanide fishing and other destructive fishing practices, research, e.g., human impacts on ecosystems, regional monitoring networks supporting the global coral monitoring network, public involvement and empowerment, application of a new technology, ecotourism and carrying capacity, transforming paper parks into operational coastal/marine parks, etc. EXAMPLE: CORAL BLEACHING IN BELIZE IS CAUSED BY WARMER WATERS Coral bleaching caused by environmental stresses is threatening the Western Hemisphereas well as other areas of the western Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. The same warm waters that spawned or strengthened hurricanes in the western Atlantic last year also are associated with this occurrence of coral bleaching. From August through October, NOAA satellites detected elevated sea surface temperatures spanning much of the Gulf of Mexico and the western Caribbean basin from Belize to Jamaica, Honduras and Venezuela. FOR MORE INFORMATION AND LIST OF SUBJECT EXPERTS, PLEASE CONTACT: Matt Stout National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Voice: (202) 482-6090 (U.S.) Fax: (202) 482-3154 Email: mstout@rdc.noaa.gov or, Paul Holthus Voice: 41-22-999-0251 Fax: 41-22-999-0025 Email: pfh@hq.iucn.org From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Oct 2 06:18:53 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA08043; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 06:18:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id JAA13132; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 09:37:58 GMT Received: from nangka.usc.edu.ph by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id FAA13127; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 05:37:33 -0400 Received: from mangga.usc.edu.ph (mangga.usc.edu.ph [165.220.28.252]) by nangka.usc.edu.ph (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA03071 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 15:25:20 +0800 Received: from MANGGA/SpoolDir by mangga.usc.edu.ph (Mercury 1.21); 2 Oct 96 15:29:43 +800 Received: from SpoolDir by MANGGA (Mercury 1.21); 2 Oct 96 15:27:59 +800 From: "Marine Biology Section, USC, Cebu, Philippi" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 15:27:31 +0000 Subject: Request for literature Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Message-ID: <86C55319F6@mangga.usc.edu.ph> Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: 3 October 1996 Dear ALL, Greetings! I would appreciate getting any published articles from coral-list members on "the effect of sedimentation on corals, coral reefs and coral reef organisms". I am particularly interested in simple hydrographic models which can predict the amount of sediments from a dredged area and "raining" to a nearby coral reef. Thank you very much for your kind attention. Cheers... Danilo T. Dy ____sender's name_____ Marine Biology Section University of San Carlos fax (+63-32) 3460351 Cebu City 6000, Philippines email: mbs@mangga.usc.edu.ph ****** When replying, PLEASE INCLUDE ADDRESSEE'S NAME IN SUBJECT HEADER *** thanks. ******** From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Oct 2 07:51:28 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA08507; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 07:51:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id LAA13236; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 11:09:19 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA13231; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 07:09:17 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA27839; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 07:09:14 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 07:09:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Belize coral spawning request (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 27 Sep 96 13:55:51 CST From: Coral Cay Conservation Subject: coral spawning Deena, Hello from sunny Belize, our Science Officer Julie Robinson is wondering if you could let us know when the next coral spawning will occur in Belize. We know that you did some surveys on coral spawning in Belize and would appreciate if you could send us copies of your findings or any useful information that you may have. thanks, Henry Lanza Coral Cay Conservation BLZ OFFice --------------------------------------------+-------------------- University College of Belize, PO Box 990, | Tel: +501 2 32787 Belize City, BELIZE, Central America. | Fax: +501 2 32787 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Oct 2 10:15:13 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA10469; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 10:15:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA13350; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 13:08:56 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA13345; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 09:08:54 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id JAA28137; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 09:08:51 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 09:08:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov cc: mstout@rdc.noaa.gov Subject: "52 Stories" format and URL Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The format for preparing any ideas for the IUCN/NOAA/IYOR Media Outreach call for papers was inadvertently left out of the previous message. The entire text, including the format, for the Media Outreach Proposal can be found at the following URL: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/bulls/52final.html This URL includes links to IUCN, NOAA Headquarters and the IYOR Home Page. Following is the format: Story Theme/Working Title Relevant Dates (if any) Summary. Two paragraphs outlining the following: Problem/Urgency Solutions/Conservation and sustainable use measures Local/regional/international angles Proposing Organization/Individual Phone/facsimile/e-mail and mailing address Author Background Information (for organizer's purpose, to keep a folder on each topic idea) .............. For further information, please contact: Matt Stout National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Voice: (202) 482-6090 (U.S.) Fax: (202) 482-3154 Email: mstout@rdc.noaa.gov or, Paul Holthus Voice: 41-22-999-0251 Fax: 41-22-999-0025 Email: pfh@hq.iucn.org Cheers, Jim Hendee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | Coral Health and Monitoring Program | | Ocean Chemistry Division | | Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory | | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | | Miami, Florida | | USA | | | | Email: coral@coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | World-Wide Web: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Oct 2 10:31:06 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA10929; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 10:30:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA13398; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 13:35:37 GMT Received: from charleston.nadn.navy.mil by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA13393; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 09:35:34 -0400 Received: from localhost (strong@localhost) by charleston.nadn.navy.mil (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA02845; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 09:34:36 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: charleston.nadn.navy.mil: strong owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 09:34:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Prof Alan E Strong X-Sender: strong@charleston To: rogeru@batelco.com.bh cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, CoralBleach , E_WILLIAMS@rumac.upr.clu.edu, eakin@ogp.noaa.gov, fholt@nesdis.noaa.gov, michael=crosby%DIR%NORM@hq.noaa.gov, rfeden@nesdis.noaa.gov, rhayes@access.howard.edu, arthur.e.paterson@noaa.gov, roger.b.griffis@noaa.gov Subject: Arabian Gulf Bleaching Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Roger Uwate - Saw your note 23 Sep on bleaching off Bahrain due to SSTs some 4 deg C higher than last year during July-August. We are developing new, twice-weekly, hi-res SST anomaly charts to aid in the monitoring for areas of high temperature stress that might lead to coral reef bleaching. New Climatology/Anomaly: http://psbsgi1.nesdis.noaa.gov:8080/PSB/EPS/SST/climo.html When we were spinning this new product up the end of July, as I now look back, SSTs during much of Aug were several degrees above climatology in the Arabian Sea. Past data have shown that when SSTs exceed the max monthly climatology by 1 deg C, bleaching can be expected....paper at recent Panama ICRS...it looks like you saw evidence of that. Thanks for your report. Hope the reef have recovered with cooling temps this fall. Cheers, Al Strong ***************************************************************************** Alan E. Strong Physical Scientist/Oceanographer Adj. Asst. Professor NOAA/NESDIS/ORA/ORAD -- E/RA3 US Naval Academy NOAA Science Center -- RM 711 Oceanography Department Camp Springs, MD 20233 Annapolis, MD 21402 301-763-8102 410-293-6566 [v-mail] astrong@nesdis.noaa.gov strong@nadn.navy.mil FAX: 301-763-8020 FAX: 410-293-2137 http://www.nadn.navy.mil/Oceanography/FACULTY/AES_resume.html ***************************************************************************** From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Oct 2 13:22:42 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA13859; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 13:22:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA13532; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 15:55:39 GMT Received: from router.cei.org by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA13527; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 11:55:20 -0400 Received: from pc17.cei.org (pc17.cei.org [206.181.102.19]) by router.cei.org (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA00305 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 11:51:09 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 11:51:09 -0400 Message-Id: <199610021551.LAA00305@router.cei.org> X-Sender: dealessi@router.cei.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: dealessi@cei.org (Michael De Alessi) Subject: private reef conservation? Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hi. I am looking for any leads or information on private conservation of coral reefs, anywhere around the world. Ideally, an instance where either common or private property rights have empowered either a community or individuals to control access to and conserve reef habitat, for whatever reason -- fishing, tourism, or merely preservation. The rights need not be formal (for example an isolated community without any formal rights to an area that still sets rules to encourage conservation). I am quite familiar with other instances of private stewardship, e.g. habitat protection and pollution fighting activities undertaken by the owners of oyster beds, but do not know of any coral reefs that have been protected in this way. Any help would be much appreciated; please reply to me directly. Thanks and cheers, Michael De Alessi Center for Private Conservation Washington, D.C. dealessi@cei.org From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Oct 2 21:13:09 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA21264; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 21:13:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id AAA13880; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 00:24:03 GMT Received: from x12.boston.juno.com by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA13875; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 20:24:01 -0400 Received: (from pizzaburger@juno.com) by x12.boston.juno.com (queuemail) id TAA00387; Wed, 02 Oct 1996 19:49:32 EDT To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 17:57:37 EST Subject: Science Journals Message-ID: <19961002.175512.10982.0.Pizzaburger@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 1.15 X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 4-9 From: pizzaburger@juno.com (Jason Mass) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Does anyone know of any science journal articles that pertain to Pollution and Coral reefs? If you do, then please e-mail me with the bibliographical information if possible. I need these because I am doing a report on the effects of pollution on the coral and one of the requirements of my report is to get 10 Scientific journal sources. Cheers, Jason Mass From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Oct 7 08:14:56 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA10400; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 08:14:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id LAA17638; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 11:07:57 GMT Received: from mail.whoi.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA17633; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 07:07:54 -0400 Received: from mail.whoi.edu ([128.128.16.150]) by mail.whoi.edu (Netscape Mail Server v2.0) with SMTP id AAA6144; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 07:05:24 -0700 Received: from cc:Mail by mail.whoi.edu id AA844697341; Sun, 06 Oct 96 13:09:52 est Date: Sun, 06 Oct 96 13:09:52 est From: acohen@whoi.edu (acohen) Encoding: 4 Text Message-Id: <9609078446.AA844697341@mail.whoi.edu> To: earias@kin.cieamer.conacyt.mx (Ernesto Arias Gonzalez), coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Coral species Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Johnston Atoll hosts about 30 known scleratinian species, though there might be more. see Maragos and Jokiel 1986 in Coral Reefs. hope this helps. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Oct 7 08:57:45 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA11131; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 08:57:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id LAA17673; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 11:55:11 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA17668; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 07:55:09 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA08597; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 07:55:09 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 07:55:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: KUDA LAUT PROJECT FOR BUNAKEN Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 23:40:11 -0700 From: Kuda Laut To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program Subject: Re: 52 Coral Reef Stories for the World Press KUDA LAUT PROJECT FOR BUNAKEN (NORTH SULAWESI, INDONESIA) CORAL REEF MONITORING. Bunaken marine park is one of the most interesting areas of the world for the marine biodiversity. The park is completely assigned to the scuba diving tourism, and, due to the quick tourism development of the area, it will probably undergo some change in the few next years. Manado Seagarden is a diving centre operating in the area, managed by four Italian instructors and marine biologists. The centre is launching the Kuda Laut project, including 3 different marine biology courses and a program for valuation and monitoring of the reef community health status using mostly overseas volunteer divers. Spending a lot of time daily in the water enable the personnel and the costumers of the diving centre to gather a large number of data for an effective monitoring of the reef's conditions and for early detection of any change. For further information, and if you are interested in receiving the complete protocol for reef monitoring produced by us, please contact: Massimo Boyer, Paola Bearzi, Sergio Cotta, Lorenzo Pacciardi Kuda Laut Project - Manado Seagarden Adventures P.O. Box 1535 95001 Manado (Sulut) Indonesia phone & fax +62 431 61100 E-mail: or: Massimo Boyer, Paola Bearzi via Chiodo 10/24 17100 Savona Italy phone +39 19 853148 E-mail: Best regards Massimo Boyer * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Manado Seagarden Adventures * * Kuda Laut Project * * P.O. Box 1535 * * Manado 95001 * * North Sulawesi * * Indonesia * * Phone and fax: +62 431 61100 * * E mail: kudalaut@indo.net.id * * Internet site: http://www.wp.com/kudalaut * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Oct 7 13:36:41 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA17000; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 13:36:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA18000; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 15:58:47 GMT Received: from LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA17995; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 11:58:42 -0400 Received: from LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU by LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 3195; Mon, 07 Oct 96 10:55:19 CDT Received: from LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU (NJE origin TSNELL@LSUVM) by LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 2055; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:55:19 -0500 Date: Mon, 07 Oct 96 10:50:51 CDT From: Tonya Snell Subject: Agaricia taxonomy To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Mailer: MailBook 95.01.263 Message-Id: <961007.105518.CDT.TSNELL@LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU> Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A I am in need of a taxonomist to positively identify a species of Agaricia for me. I have some frozen samples or I could send bleached specimens. If anyone knows who I should contact, please email me at: tsnell@lsuvm.sncc.lsu.edu. Many thanks in advance!! Tonya Snell Louisiana State University From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Oct 7 17:37:07 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA20724; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 17:37:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA18249; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 20:40:56 GMT Received: from smtp.utexas.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA18244; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 16:40:44 -0400 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 0); 7 Oct 1996 20:38:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.utexas.edu) (128.83.126.1) by smtp.utexas.edu with SMTP; 7 Oct 1996 20:38:22 -0000 Received: from [146.6.58.14] (mac12-lfh.vpd.utexas.edu [146.6.58.14]) by mail.utexas.edu (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA08092 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 15:38:20 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 15:38:20 -0500 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: bmetzger@mail.utexas.edu (Bridget Metzger) Subject: writer seeks stories Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Writer in Austin, Texas, would greatly appreciate sea-life and success stories from divers and anglers with experiences at artificial reef sites, preferably those off Texas' Gulf Coast, dormant oil and gas rig sites, concrete pipes, car graveyards, and sunken ship sites. Other data helpful. Send via e-mail your name and telephone number to: bmetzger@mail.utexas.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Oct 10 03:38:10 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA02948; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 03:37:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id EAA20348; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 04:43:00 GMT Received: from nicole.upd.edu.ph by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id AAA20343; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 00:42:44 -0400 Received: by nicole.upd.edu.ph (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA25118; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 12:45:16 +0800 Received: from xenia.msi.upd.edu.ph (xenia.msi.upd.edu.ph [192.168.1.3]) by msi.msi.upd.edu.ph (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id GAA00165 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 06:46:36 +0800 Message-Id: <199610092246.GAA00165@msi.msi.upd.edu.ph> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Andre Uychiaoco" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Date: Wed, 10 Oct 1996 07:25:18 +0800 Subject: Evaluation of Effective Coastal Management Survey Form Reply-To: andreu@msi.upd.edu.ph Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Hi, we have drafted a simple form of some 120 questions for use to evaluate effectiveness of coastal management with special reference to coral reefs. Most of the questions are such that you pick an answer from 1 to 3 as an answer for what is the state or what has been done for your particular management site. We are looking for volunteers to review this form. We can send an Excel file as an attachment. This is an effort of the Coral Reef Information Network of the Philippines. Please send me mail if you want to help us by reviewing the form (andreu@msi.upd.edu.ph). Thank you very much. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Oct 10 14:03:52 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA20043; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 14:03:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA21727; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 16:46:30 GMT Received: from santamarta.cetcol.net.co by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA21722; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 12:46:10 -0400 Received: (from colref@localhost) by santamarta.cetcol.net.co (8.7.2/8.7.2) id LAA12224; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 11:36:33 +0500 (GMT) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 11:36:29 +0500 (GMT) From: Coleccion de referencia - Invemar To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: J. Ernesto Arias Gonzales Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Im Alberto Acosta, I think that you can contact Dr. Ernesto Weill (see directory of the last Symposium of coral reefs) because he has a very good list of coral species. If there are some other think, please contact me Sincerely Alberto Acosta From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Oct 11 06:43:46 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA27454; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 06:43:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id JAA22363; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:23:02 GMT Received: from CGNET.COM by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id FAA22358; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 05:22:59 -0400 Received: from msm.cgnet.com by CGNET.COM (PMDF V4.3-9 #7702) id <01IAI0TL52V4000HPR@CGNET.COM>; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 02:21:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by msm.cgnet.com with Microsoft Mail id <325E1317@msm.cgnet.com>; Fri, 11 Oct 96 02:27:51 PDT Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 16:42:00 -0700 (PDT) From: John McManus Subject: Re: More coral bleaching in Hawaii To: "'coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov'" Message-id: <325E1317@msm.cgnet.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: October 11, 1996 TO: Coral-list I refer to the interesting report on bleaching in Oahu posted to Coral list on Friday, September 20, 1996, but no author was given. It would help if we could get the name and email of the sender. Sincerely, John W McManus ReefBase Project Leader Aquatic Environments Program ICLARM Manila, Philippines From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Oct 11 09:13:48 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA29132; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:13:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA22491; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 12:22:03 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA22486; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 08:22:01 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA18512; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 08:22:01 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 08:22:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral Reply-To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Coral Jobs Bulletin Update Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: For those who have expressed an interest in seeking employment in coral research, please remember to check the "Employment Opportunities for Coral Researchers" Page at http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/jobs/jobs.html from time to time. If you would like to post information (seeking or offering employment), please send a message to coral@coral.aoml.noaa.gov and I will post the information. If you have previously posted information which is no longer valid or useful, please let me know so I can delete it. Many thanks, JCH From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Oct 11 09:20:55 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA29287; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:20:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA22477; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 12:09:37 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA22472; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 08:09:36 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA18458; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 08:09:35 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 08:09:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: bleachings and spawnings Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Coral-Listers, I've been trying to keep a running list of all coral-list messages that announce coral bleachings and spawnings on the C.H.A.M.P Web site at: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov (See right under Bulletins: Archives of coral spawning, bleaching...) If you observe any spawning or bleaching events, or if you have any tabulated data on previous bleaching or spawning events, I would very much appreciate it if you could either post them to the coral-list, or send them directly to this e-mail address so that I may include them in the list for others to make use. Any environmental, location, date and time data you might be able to include would be *extremely* beneficial. Thank you so very much for your help and cooperation. Cheers, Jim Hendee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | Coral Health and Monitoring Program | | Ocean Chemistry Division | | Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory | | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | | Miami, Florida | | USA | | | | Email: coral@coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | World-Wide Web: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Oct 11 10:41:25 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA01106; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 10:41:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA22620; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 13:31:47 GMT Received: from eagle.anheuser-busch.com by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA22615; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:31:45 -0400 Received: (from smap@localhost) by eagle.anheuser-busch.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id IAA13053 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 08:26:07 -0500 (CDT) Received: from stlabcexg001.anheuser-busch.com(151.145.101.151) by eagle.anheuser-busch.com via smap (V1.3) id sma013047; Fri Oct 11 08:25:49 1996 Received: by stlabcexg001.anheuser-busch.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.993.5) id <01BBB74E.16D599D0@stlabcexg001.anheuser-busch.com>; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 08:27:50 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Mohan, Pete" To: "'Coral Health Server Posting List'" Subject: Coral Bleaching Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 08:27:39 -0500 X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.993.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I'm successfully propagating various stony corals for use in our reef exhibits. I'm getting ready to start up a greenhouse system and am interested in avoiding a bleaching event due to elevated temperatures. Anecdotal reports of maximum acceptable temperatures vary considerably. I normally avoid temperatures above 26 C, but believe I'm acting conservatively. I'd appreciate receiving actual observed critical temperatures from various parts of the world. Sincerely, Pete Mohan Curator of Fishes Sea World of Ohio 1100 Sea World Dr. Aurora, OH 44202 Voice: (216) 995-2158 Fax: (216) 995-2117 Internet: Pete.Mohan@Anheuser-Busch.com From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Oct 11 13:38:30 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA05222; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 13:38:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA22746; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 16:39:43 GMT Received: from mail.tamu.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA22741; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 12:39:40 -0400 Received: from ocean.tamu.edu (ocean.tamu.edu [128.194.70.85]) by mail.tamu.edu (8.6.9/8.6.10) with SMTP id LAA11047 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 11:37:09 -0500 Received: from ppp16-15.rns.tamu.edu by ocean.tamu.edu (5.65v3.2/1.1.10.5/30Sep96-0834AM) id AA05402; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 11:36:19 -0500 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 11:41:13 -0700 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: gboland@ocean.tamu.edu (Gregory S. Boland) Subject: coral list addition request Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A I would like to be added to your coral reef information network. I am an active coral reef biologist, among other special interests, and I am also currently involved in the monitoring studies at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. I have been a Biological Oceanographer for the past 21 years. Other credentials: Diving Safety Officer for College of Geoscience and Department of Oceanography Work at the Flower Garden coral reefs since 1975. Active in coral spawning research since its discovery in the Gulf of Mexico Thank you for your attention. Gregory S. Boland Senior Research Associate Texas A&M University Department of Oceanography From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Oct 11 20:34:56 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA01725; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 20:34:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA22984; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 22:45:46 GMT Received: from UA1VM.UA.EDU by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id SAA22979; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 18:45:31 -0400 Received: from UA1VM.UA.EDU by UA1VM.UA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with BSMTP id 6875; Fri, 11 Oct 96 17:43:00 CDT Received: from ua1vm.ua.edu (NJE origin KKASSEM3@UA1VM) by UA1VM.UA.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 8005; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 17:43:00 -0500 Date: Fri, 11 Oct 96 17:36:43 CDT From: NEWS Organization: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL Subject: Preserves around the World To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov X-Mailer: MailBook 95.01.263 Message-Id: <961011.174259.CDT.KKASSEM3@ua1vm.ua.edu> Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hi Everybody! I have looked far and wide with no luck (short of pounding the pavement from embassy to embassy), for a list (partial or comprehensive) of marine preserves in existance around the world. I am trying to get a feel for who is doing something about marine conservation and who is not. I will look at other indicies such as support for the UN's Law of the Sea and economic factors. If anyone knows of such a list or has any ideas, please let me know. Thank you in advance! Ken Kassem Ken Kassem Dept. of Geography University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Al 35401 kkassem3@ua1vm.ua.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Oct 11 20:35:26 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA01754; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 20:35:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA22905; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 20:39:37 GMT Received: from Alice.Wonderland.Caltech.EDU by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA22900; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 16:39:34 -0400 Received: by Alice.Wonderland.Caltech.EDU (4.1/1.2) id AA28609; Fri, 11 Oct 96 13:34:50 PDT Date: Fri, 11 Oct 96 13:34:50 PDT From: laurence@alice.wonderland.caltech.edu (Dustin L. Laurence) Message-Id: <9610112034.AA28609@Alice.Wonderland.Caltech.EDU> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Coral Bleaching Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: >Anecdotal reports of maximum acceptable temperatures vary considerably. >I normally avoid temperatures above 26 C, but believe I'm acting >conservatively. If you are interested in amateur anecdotes, I have one, if not, feel free to ignore this and I'll return to lurking. I'd say you are acting extremely conservatively, if you can control the temperature with reasonable accuracy. This summer we have been running around 27C--this would have been a bit higher, perhaps 28C, but the temperature was adjusted low following a bleaching episode which I will describe. I have not dialed the temperature up since then because I have not been here to observe the tank continuously. We see better growth as temperatures increase, even up to within a degree or so of what we regard as maximum (and it's cheaper to run the chiller too, a useful bonus on a rather limited budget). Common wisdom among advanced amateurs is to expect bleaching around 29 or 30C, which is what we observed. Early this summer a thermometer failed, reading about 2 degrees low, and our tank was running around 30C instead of an intended 28C. This persisted for perhaps three weeks, since lighting was changed to higher Kelvin-rated metal halides around the same time and I was looking at possible UV-induced bleaching instead of temperature (and since the temperature read OK). I think the lighting was a contributing factor, at least as a trigger, but I don't think it could have happened without the elevated temperature. After about a week of these elevated temperatures we began to notice bleaching. The hardest hit were small fragments. We lost two fragments of Seratiopora hystrix (I'm spelling these things from memory, and these are amateur NOT professional ids so beware) which had also been recently shipped, one unidentified Acropora fragment, and probably a couple of other that have slipped my mind. A larger Stylophora pistilata fragment bleached completely but survived azooxanthellate for a month or two before dying. I feel particularly bad about this specimen because if I had been here enough I think I would have had a good chance of saving it by feeding it in that critical month. Another unidentified Acropora sp. fragment from the same parent colony as the dead one just mentioned bleached but did not show tissue loss and has made a complete recovery, and a third partially bleached but survived car transport from Los Angeles to Sacramento and has reportedly also completely recovered. A fourth, the largest, did not bleach and was also transported. Two unidentified Acropora sp. fragments from a different parent (of a different species) which were fragmented at the same time as the earlier four also did not bleach and easily survived transport. Both parent colonies showed no obvious signs of stress. An Acropora humilis suffered total bleaching but only about 50% of the tissue subsequently died--it has since completely recovered its symbionts on the remaining tissue and is doing well. A Millepora sp. suffered maybe 90% tissue loss--I believe there is a small amount of still living tissue still but I doubt it can recover. The larger and better established Acropora and the other non-Acroporids were not noticably affected. In addition to the two parent colonies mentioned above, another small Acropora colony and an Acropora fragment (both unidentified) survived without problems, as did two sibling Pavona cactus fragments, a Porites cylindrica, and a Montipora digitata. There were only two large polyped corals in the tank at the time, both Catalyphilia. The larger and long-established one was damaged, but I think would have survived if I had been here to keep an eye on it and if it had not been subsequently heavily harassed by a Z. veliferum tang. This coral was on the extreme opposite end from the halide fixture that was upgraded and should have received very little from that light, so I think this must have been a purely temperature effect. A small Catalyphilia that would have received some light from the upgraded bulb was unaffected. >I'd appreciate receiving actual observed critical temperatures from >various parts of the world. It would also be interesting to me to know if the critical temperature is significantly different in captivity. Dustin From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Oct 12 16:04:46 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA07270; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 16:04:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA23704; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 19:19:56 GMT Received: from igc7.igc.org by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA23699; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 15:19:48 -0400 Received: from igc3.igc.apc.org (igc3.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.33]) by igc7.igc.org (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA24862; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 12:13:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ppp6-26.igc.org (pcis@ppp6-26.igc.org [198.94.3.26]) by igc3.igc.apc.org (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA05520; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 12:10:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 12:10:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <2.2.16.19961012120947.98afa838@pop.igc.org> X-Sender: pcis@pop.igc.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: mideastenviro@envirolink.org, COASTNET@uriacc.uri.edu, coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: GreenLife Society Subject: New Publication Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: As part of our Middle Eastern Environmental Project (MEEP), we are in the process of launching a new newsletter that will address issues related to coral reef degradation in the Middle East from both a scientific and policy perspective. The Editor-in-Chief of this new publication will be Dr. Steven Coles, a zoologist with the Bishop Museum in Hawaii. At this point we are: 1. Seeking articles for the first issue, which we expect to be released in the spring of 1997. Articles should be approximately 750-950 words; 2. Announcements and other relevant materials for the newsletter; 3. Subscriptions to the newsletter. The newsletter will be published quarterly and will cost $20.00 per year. Subscription inquiries should be sent to our attention. Articles and other materials may be directed to Steve at: slcoles@bishop.bishop.hawaii.org, though we'd appreciate a cc: here at GLSNA also. GreenLife Society - North America 700 Cragmont Ave. Berkeley, CA 94708 USA (510) 558-0620 (Ph./Fax) E-mail: pcis@igc.apc.org WWW: site: http://EELINK.umich.edu/greenlife/index.html From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Oct 12 21:24:55 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA08340; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 21:24:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id AAA23887; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 00:59:46 GMT Received: from wizard.wizard.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA23882; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 20:59:43 -0400 Received: from [206.161.15.57] (pm1-s27.wizard.net [206.161.15.57]) by wizard.wizard.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA04721; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 20:53:24 -0400 Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 20:53:24 -0400 Message-Id: <199610130053.UAA04721@wizard.wizard.net> Subject: Re: Preserves around the World From: "Stephen C. Jameson" To: "NEWS" , "Coral-List" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Ken, The most comprehensive list of marine protected areas can be found in: A Global Representative System of Marine Protected Areas 1995 (four volumes). For copies contact: Environment Department The World Bank Room S 5-143 1818 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20433 USA Also check out the World Conservation Monitoring Center Home Page on Marine Protected Areas: http://www.wcmc.org.uk/~dynamic/pavl/index.html Best regards, Dr. Stephen C. Jameson, President Coral Seas, Inc. - Integrated Coastal Zone Management 4254 Hungry Run Road The Plains, VA 20198-1715 USA 703/754-8690, 703/754-9139 (FAX) Internet: sjameson@coralseas.com From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Oct 12 23:49:19 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA08849; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 23:49:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id DAA23964; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 03:15:23 GMT Received: from is1.hk.super.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id XAA23959; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 23:15:20 -0400 From: gregorh@hk.super.net Received: from 202.64.20.20 (max4-20.hk.super.net [202.64.20.20]) by is1.hk.super.net (8.7.6/8.7.1) with SMTP id LAA04444; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 11:12:35 +0800 (HKT) Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 11:12:35 +0800 (HKT) Message-Id: <199610130312.LAA04444@is1.hk.super.net> Subject: Reef Check 97 Update To: International Year of the Reef List , X-Mailer: AIR Mail 3.X (SPRY, Inc.) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: **REEF CHECK 1997** an IYOR Activity Reef Check 1997 will be an exciting international event involving collaboration between recreational divers and scientists. The concept of Reef Check is a one-day rapid survey of as many reef sites as possible throughout the world using very basic "tried-and-true" techniques such as counting indicator species such as grouper, sea urchins, measuring coral cover ratio live/dead etc. The work will be done in one day at each site by combined teams of recreational divers with a knowledge of marine biology and at least one professional marine scientist per team who will be responsible for ensuring the scientific quality of the work. The objective will be to report on the basic "health" of a minimum of 100 reef sites from around the world. It is thought that this strategy will help achieve one of the major aims of IYOR -- to build awareness of coral reefs and problems affecting them. The goal will be to disseminate the information gained from this snapshot "Reef Check" by having a live video satellite link among a number of representative sites throughout the world. In this way, we hope to focus the attention of the public, politicians and government leaders on the status of the world's coral reefs. The date of Reef Check 1997 will be the first two weeks of June 1997, and we hope to be able to announce the results on Ocean Day 14 June 1997. We are now looking for diver group/lead scientist combination teams to join our list of Reef Check 1997 participants. If your group would like to particpate in Reef Check 1997, please send your contact information to: Reef Check 1997 Coordinator Mr Shaun Waddell The Hong Kong Marine Conservation Society Fax: (852) 2548-9464 e-mail: HRDUBWD@hkucc.hku.hk Once we have a consolidated list of participants, we will send you more information about the survey protocols and reporting arrangements in November/December. For your information, there will be a basic Reef Check "core" protocol that we will require all groups to follow. In addition, groups will be able to add whatever additional survey parameters that may be most appropriate for their part of the world or interests. Gregor Hodgson Hong Kong University of Science and Technology From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Wed Oct 13 01:40:34 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA09195; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 01:40:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id FAA24042; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 05:20:00 GMT Received: from walawe.stanford.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id BAA24037; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 01:19:58 -0400 Received: from lkmor.learn.ac.lk (root@colombo1-tty2.slt.lk [204.143.96.34]) by walawe.stanford.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA03180 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 23:58:43 -0700 Received: from ites by lkmor.learn.ac.lk with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0vBfbI-00059DC; Fri, 11 Oct 96 16:47 SLT Received: by ites.ac.lk (UUPC/extended 1.11q); Fri, 11 Oct 1996 15:41:38 SLT Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 15:41:13 SLT From: "Rohan Harindra Wickramasinghe" Message-ID: <325e6ab2.ites@ites.ac.lk> Organization: Institute for Tropical Environmental Studies To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Buona Vista Coral Reef Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The town of Galle is situated on the southwestern coast of Sri Lanka. Galle harbour is several centuries old and has played a very important role in the foreign trade of the island. It is proposed to extend Galle harbour and this is expected to greatly benefit the economy and employment generation of the region and thereby the country as a whole. While the economic and employment generation benefits arising from the increased shipping etc are essential to the economic and political wellbeing of the country, a problem which will arise when the project is implemented is the envisaged impact on the Buona Vista Coral Reef. The Buona Vista Coral Reef at Rumassala, Galle is small (500 by 200 metres; within the 8 metre contour) but is extremely rich in both fish species as well as invertebrate forms. It would be a great pity if it were to be lost. The purpose of this posting is to inquire whether: 1) If it is possible to avoid the harbour construction from physically damaging the reef, would it be possible to erect a " curtain "-like structure to isolate the reef from pollution caused by increased operational activity in the harbour ? 2) Have similar structures been successful anywhere else ? This is just a preliminary (and naive) inquiry but any information would be greatly appreciated - particularly any references to published material or relevant reprints. Thank you. Rohan H. Wickramasinghe, Ph.D., Institute for Tropical Environmental Studies, 41 Flower Road, Colombo 7, Sri Lanka (email: rohan@ites.ac.lk) From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Oct 14 19:44:52 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA21200; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 19:44:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA25406; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 22:50:02 GMT Received: from uwimona.edu.jm by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id SAA25401; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 18:49:34 -0400 Received: by uwimona.edu.jm (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA14789; Mon, 14 Oct 96 17:47:04-050 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 17:47:03 -0500 (GMT-0500) From: Jeremy Woodley To: EcoSense Cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: October spawning in Jamaica In-Reply-To: <199607310152.VAA24661@tula.cura.net> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Encouraged by your suggestion last month, Judith Mendes and I looked for coral spawning on the night of October 3rd at Drunkenman's Cay, Port Royal, Jamaica. Between 2130 and 2200 (EST) we saw spawning by Montastraea annularis (columnar) and M. Faveolata (massive). More, we thought, than in September, but the corals were less abundant at the site we studied then. Uncorrected Hobotemp data show a max of 30.7 on September 14. I was surprised to see the brittle-star Ophiopsila totally emerged and, in one case, adopting a "pentapod" posture, shown by some b-s when spawning. Usually one sees only the slender arms, at night, fishing from a crevice. A touch, in the dark, prompts a green luminescent display. Jeremy Woodley. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Oct 15 09:43:25 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA00856; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 09:43:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA26111; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:39:26 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA26106; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 08:39:24 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA00729; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 08:39:22 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 08:39:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Spawing at Soufriere, St. Lucia Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 11:34:20 -0500 From: Allan Smith To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program Subject: Re: bleachings and spawnings For the record, dive operators at Soufriere, St. Lucia, reported that colonies of Diploria strigosa were spawning between 7:00 and 7:30 last night (10th). They did not see any spawning on either the 1st or 3rd October, at least up to 8:00 pm. Allan Smith Caribbean Natural Resources Institute Vieux Fort St. Lucia, West Indies. Tel +(758) 454 6060 Fax +(758) 454 5188 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Oct 15 10:04:38 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA01587; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 10:04:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA26125; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:45:47 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA26120; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 08:45:45 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA00753; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 08:45:45 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 08:45:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Preserves around the World (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: [ Please send any responses directly to Mark.Spalding@wcmc.org.uk. Thanks.] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 96 10:21:49 BST From: Mark.Spalding@wcmc.org.uk To: owner-coral-list@aoml.noaa.gov Subject: re: Preserves around the World For Ken Kassem (and interested others) You probably came across the 4-volume World Bank Series "A Global Representative System of Marine Protected Areas" (1995, Eds: Kelleher, G, Bleakly, C and Wells, S.), available from the Environment Department, The World Bank, Room S 5-143, 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA. This includes lists of exsisting protected areas and areas proposed for protection. Linked to this work was the updating of the global database on marine protected areas at the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC) and an agreement with the IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas that WCMC would act as the main holder of these data. The database forms a part of a much larger database listing over 35,000 protected areas worldwide. Definitions of 'marine' and of 'protected area' vary enormously, so that depending on your definition there are about 3-4000 marine protected areas worldwide of which there are only about 350 containing coral reefs. Hope this is useful, Best wishes Mark D. Spalding E-mail: mark.spalding@wcmc.org.uk World Conservation Monitoring Centre 219 Huntingdon Rd Cambridge, CB3 0DL Fax: +44 1223 277136 United Kingdom Tel: +44 1223 277314 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Oct 15 11:02:53 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA03686; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:02:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA26199; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 14:09:09 GMT Received: from CGNET.COM by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA26194; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 10:09:07 -0400 From: CEDINTERN@conservation.org Received: from ccmail.cgnet.com by CGNET.COM (PMDF V4.3-9 #7702) id <01IANVY8D54G002BEU@CGNET.COM>; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 07:07:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 09:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Info request on coral in bone transplants To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Message-id: <01IANVYJJV52002BEU@CGNET.COM> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Dear Coral-listers: I am currently investigating sustainable uses of marine products. A colleague indicated to me that recently members of the list discussed the application of coral in bone transplants. If this is correct, I would greatly appreciate it if someone who has the messages saved could forward them to me. Or if someone runs across other relevant or interesting examples of sustainable uses of marine resources, please let me know. Thanks in advance for your help. Yours truly, Carlos V. Pineda Marine Products Analyst Conservation International From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Oct 15 13:24:19 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA07118; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 13:24:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA26290; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 16:41:10 GMT Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA26285; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:41:08 -0400 Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by ns-mx.uiowa.edu (8.7.5/19950309.1) on Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:38:21 -0500 id LAA09602 with SMTP Message-Id: <2.2.32.19961015163902.00979fcc@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> X-Sender: davidson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:39:02 -0500 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Osha Gray Davidson Subject: Umbgrove Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Greetings--Does anyone know of English versions of the following documents (by Umbgrove, J. H. F.): 1928. De Koraalriffen in de haai van Batavia. Wetenschappelijke Mededeelingen Nr. 7. 1939. Madreporaria from the Bay of Batavia. Zoologische Mededeelingen XXII: 1-64. Also, anything else about the Jakarta Bay area IN ENGLISH by the same author would be of great interest. Cheers Osha Gray Davidson 14 S. Governor St. Iowa City, IA 52240 USA +++++++++++ PH: (319) 338-4778 FAX: (319) 338-8606 e-mail: davidson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu Center for International and Comparative Studies, University of Iowa From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Oct 12 17:40:15 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA07625; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 17:40:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA23751; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 20:59:32 GMT Received: from igc7.igc.org by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA23746; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 16:59:29 -0400 Received: from igc3.igc.apc.org (igc3.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.33]) by igc7.igc.org (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA03031; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 13:39:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ppp6-26.igc.org (pcis@ppp6-26.igc.org [198.94.3.26]) by igc3.igc.apc.org (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA08725; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 13:30:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 13:30:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <2.2.16.19961012132950.5237a246@pop.igc.org> X-Sender: pcis@pop.igc.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: mideastenviro@envirolink.org, COASTNET@uriacc.uri.edu, coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: GreenLife Society Subject: New Publication Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: As part of our Middle Eastern Environmental Project (MEEP), we are in the process of launching a new newsletter that will address issues related to coral reef degradation in the Middle East from both a scientific and policy perspective. The Editor-in-Chief of this new publication will be Dr. Steven Coles, a zoologist with the Bishop Museum in Hawaii. At this point we are: 1. Seeking articles for the first issue, which we expect to be released in the spring of 1997. Articles should be approximately 750-950 words; 2. Announcements and other relevant materials for the newsletter; 3. Subscriptions to the newsletter. The newsletter will be published quarterly and will cost $20.00 per year. Subscription inquiries should be sent to our attention. Articles and other materials may be directed to Steve at: slcoles@bishop.bishop.hawaii.org, though we'd appreciate a cc: here at GLSNA also. GreenLife Society - North America 700 Cragmont Ave. Berkeley, CA 94708 USA (510) 558-0620 (Ph./Fax) E-mail: pcis@igc.apc.org WWW: site: http://EELINK.umich.edu/greenlife/index.html From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Oct 16 10:43:26 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA21249; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 10:43:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA27294; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 13:39:30 GMT Received: from rmpsparc.mms.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA27289; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 09:39:28 -0400 From: Kenneth_Deslarzes@smtp.mms.gov Received: from mmspub.mms.gov ([161.160.220.24]) by rmpsparc.mms.gov (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA03967; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 07:35:22 +0700 Received: from smtp.mms.gov by mmspub.mms.gov (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA02753; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 09:27:28 +0500 Received: from ccMail by smtp.mms.gov (SMTPLINK V2.11.01) id AA845483752; Wed, 16 Oct 96 08:25:59 EST Date: Wed, 16 Oct 96 08:25:59 EST Message-Id: <9609168454.AA845483752@smtp.mms.gov> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: EIS/reefs Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear coralers, I would much appreciate knowing where I could obtain info on EIS's involving Coral Reefs, any upcoming workshops, conferences, symposia involving EIS's and reefs, or related topics. Best wishes, Ken Deslarzes (Kenneth_Deslarzes@smtp.mms.gov) USDOI/Minerals Management Service 1201 Elmwood Park Blvd, MS 5410 New Orleans, LA 70123-2394, USA Phone: 504-736-5705 N.B. I tried reaching Gregor Hodgson using the following address but with little success (address not recognized) gregorh@hk.super.net From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Oct 16 11:40:54 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA22749; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 11:40:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA27316; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 14:04:27 GMT Received: from is1.hk.super.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA27311; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 10:04:24 -0400 From: gregorh@hk.super.net Received: from 202.64.20.77 (max4-77.hk.super.net [202.64.20.77]) by is1.hk.super.net (8.7.6/8.7.1) with SMTP id WAA22322 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 22:02:50 +0800 (HKT) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 22:02:50 +0800 (HKT) Message-Id: <199610161402.WAA22322@is1.hk.super.net> Subject: More about Reef Check 97 To: "Coral-List" X-Mailer: AIR Mail 3.X (SPRY, Inc.) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The Reef Check 97 organizers would like to thank the 60 or so mainly experienced coral reef scientists from around the world who have so far offered to lead a group of divers to carry out Reef Check protocols. Based on this response, my guess is that we will be able to survey up to 200 individual sites around the world. I also thank those who have offered to Beta test the core protocols. Bill Alevizon is an experienced coral reef field man who has raised some concerns about Reef Check. For those of you who were not party to some of the IYOR planning sessions during the past years or in Panama, you may have similar concerns. The good news is that after we explained to Bill in more detail the history and goals of Reef Check 97, he has thrown his considerable expertise in to support us, and has offered to lead a Reef Check in the Bahamas next summer! Thanks Bill. For those of you who are still in the dark, a brief background and goals of IYOR Reef Check 97 is given below. GOALS OF IYOR and REEF CHECK As Sue Wells has drummed into us, IYOR is an awareness building campaign, not a scientific expedition. The idea behind Reef Check, is to promote public awareness of coral reefs and potential threats by using a few very basic parameters that we are comfortable that HS students could do. The results should be scientifically sound, and should provide clear, although partial, answers to the question of "What shape is the reef in?" Each Reef Check group is required to have a designated scientific leader who is someone with field experience and a member of the coral reef scientific community who can vouch for the scientific quality of the work. A number of us have quietly been doing testing for a Reef Check type operation for many years now. Earthwatch projects are one successful example that this process works, and there are many others around the world. There is no question that the type of survey we have in mind can be done by amateurs given appropriate guidance. What kind of survey do we have in mind? The actual protocols that we are working with as our "core" are very simple -- e.g. counting the number of Diadema in a 20 sq meter patch, presence/absence of trash, fish nets or dynamite blast craters. Any high school student could do these with after training. To be doubly sure, we are Beta testing each protocol here in HK, in the Solomons (Daphne Fautin) and other locations with amateur groups to ensure that none of the 10 protocols are inappropriate, before we include them as a "core" procedure. If we have problems with any of the protocols, we will simply toss them. As Bill correctly noted: "The scientific community is still a long way from agreeing on the most appropriate ecological indicators of the health or integrity of reef systems in any part of the world." This is an intractable problem, and if we wait for a consensus there wont be many decent reefs left to argue about. The whole purpose of IYOR is an "awareness campaign" -- it is not to decide what the best technique is for determining reef health (although that would be nice). Based on the overwhelming response we have gotten so far, dozens of extremely experienced field-based coral reef scientists feel that Reef Check is not only feasible, but is also an excellent method of promoting coral reefs and threats to them. What will require some careful thought is how to rank the results with respect to what we think we should expect to find at each site e.g. for edible animals. How many Trochus "should" be found on "pristine" reef in Palau? In some cases, the answers will be clear cut, and these are the ones that the media will no doubt focus on -- eg. 45 sites that should have Tridacna have almost none, or 180 out of 200 sites have ghost fish nets and evidence of dynamite blasts. These results will be the most valuable for the PR angle. It is the borderline cases that will be more difficult to interpret, and although the data will be quantitative, we will need to rely on historical knowledge ala Jeremy Jackson to report this from a qualitative perspective. In any case, the data will be available for all to play with. We have no doubt that we will not get Reef Check 100% right the first time round. With everyone's help, we will generate significant new public and media awareness that could translate into action to devote more resources in more places to study and conserve coral reefs. Phew! Gregor Hodgson Institute for Environmental Studies Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clearwater Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong Fax: (852) 2358-1582 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Oct 16 15:51:02 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA28503; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 15:50:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA27497; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 18:14:00 GMT Received: from syspo.univ-perp.fr by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA27492; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 14:13:53 -0400 Received: by syspo.univ-perp.fr (MX V3.3 VAX) id 28531; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 20:14:09 EDT Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 20:14:06 EST From: pol@syspo.univ-perp.fr Reply-To: pol@univ-perp.fr To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov CC: pol@univ-perp.fr Message-ID: <009A9F27.0BA8E500.28531@syspo.univ-perp.fr> Subject: Coral Reef ecology course Offerings Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: POSTGRADUATE COURSE IN CORAL REEFS ECOLOGY As part of its teaching programme, the Department of Oceanology of Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), University of Perpignan, France, is offering an advanced course in coral reef ecology at University 5th year (PhD course) level. The course will consist of lectures (approximately 40 hours) spread over 6 days, during the week 6-11 January 1997. Lectures, which will be complemented by the screening of relevant videotapes, will cover the following topics. - Specific characteristics of Coral Reef Ecosystems - Physical Oceanography of Coral Reefs - Scleractinian Coral Biology and Ecology - Community Structure and Zonation - Primary producers and reef Trophodynamics - Carbon flows in reef Ecosystems - Reef fish Ecology and Biogeography - Reef and lagoonal Fisheries - Natural and Anthropic Disturbances - Management of Coral Reef Ressources Lectures will be given by Faculty staff of Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and reef experts from other French or foreign Universities. The majority of lectures will be delivered in French. Admission to the course is free. The number of places is limited and persons interested must register as soon as possible with EPHE Secretariat (closing date 15 December 1996). To obtain additional information or the registration form, please contact the EPHE Secretariat at the University of Perpignan by Tel.: 33 (04) 68662055, Fax: 33 (04) 68503686 or by Email : pol@univ-perp.fr -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Biologie Marine et Malacologie/Ichtyoecologie tropicale et Mediterraneenne ECOLE PRATIQUE DES HAUTES ETUDES Centre de Biologie et d'Ecologie Tropicale et Mediterraneenne Universite de Perpignan, 52 Av. de Villeneuve, F-66860 - PERPIGNAN CEDEX Tel.: +33 4 68 66 20 55, Fax: +33 4 68 50 36 86, e-mail:pol@univ-perp.fr -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Oct 17 04:35:24 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA02664; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 04:35:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id HAA27981; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 07:40:35 GMT Received: from CGNET.COM by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id DAA27976; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 03:40:32 -0400 Received: from msm.cgnet.com by CGNET.COM (PMDF V4.3-9 #7702) id <01IAQB2G2ZOG00683P@CGNET.COM>; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 00:41:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by msm.cgnet.com with Microsoft Mail id <3265E497@msm.cgnet.com>; Thu, 17 Oct 96 00:47:35 PDT Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 15:22:00 -0700 (PDT) From: John McManus To: "'coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov'" Cc: sos Message-id: <3265E497@msm.cgnet.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A TO:Coral List cc.: Carl Stepath FROM:Dr John W McManus/ICLARM DATE:17 October 1996 Someone recently asked me for some leads into the field of coral reef monitoring. As I get that kind of inquiry frequently, I though it might be useful to others if I put my reply on coral-list. The courage is very patchy and I don't have all the complete references at hand. However, the leads may be generally useful, and, to roughly paraphrase Charles Darwin, my colleagues may take great delight in pointing out the shortcomings. Many apologies for all the important work that I left out. Sincerely, John W McManus ICLARM email:< J.McManus@cgnet.com> From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Oct 17 05:43:50 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA03001; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 05:43:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id IAA28030; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 08:40:37 GMT Received: from CGNET.COM by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id EAA28025; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 04:40:34 -0400 Received: from msm.cgnet.com by CGNET.COM (PMDF V4.3-9 #7702) id <01IAQD60YAPS006698@CGNET.COM>; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 01:41:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by msm.cgnet.com with Microsoft Mail id <3265F2B1@msm.cgnet.com>; Thu, 17 Oct 96 01:47:45 PDT Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 16:27:00 -0700 (PDT) From: John McManus To: "'coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov'" Cc: sos Message-id: <3265F2B1@msm.cgnet.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: TO:Coral List cc.: Carl Stepath FROM:Dr John W McManus/ICLARM DATE:17 October 1996 Someone recently asked me for some leads into the field of coral reef monitoring. As I get that kind of inquiry frequently, I though it might be useful to others if I put my reply on coral-list. The courage is very patchy and I don't have all the complete references at hand. However, the leads may be generally useful, and, to roughly paraphrase Charles Darwin, my colleagues may take great delight in pointing out the shortcomings. Many apologies for all the important work that I left out. -------------------- Dear Colleagues: To understand monitoring on reefs, you should look at its roots, which are in phytosociology. The best summary is: Mueller-Dombois, D. and Ellenberg, H. 1974. Aims and Methods of Vegetation Ecology. Wiley. 547 p. Other references include the historically important: Braun-Blanquet, J. 1932. Plant Sociology: the study of Plant Communities. Reprint 1983 Koeltz Scientific Books. P.O. Box 1360, D-6240 Koenigstein/West Germany. and the collection of papers in: McIntosh, R.P. 1978. Phytosociology. Benchmark Papers in Ecology V.6. Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Inc. You would want to look into the history of continuous vs discrete and releve vs. random approaches to community analysis in: McIntosh, R.P. (?). Background of Ecology. and from the system view in: Golley, F.B. 1993. A history of the Ecosystem Concept in Ecology. Yale University Press. New Haven. 254 p. There are several recent books on Plant Ecology, Community Ecology and Landscape Ecology that discuss sampling. An important environmental sampling book is that of Roger Green. The line transect method for coral reefs was an application of a particular vegetation method. It, and some other methods were reviewed in the green UNESCO book on Coral Reef Methods. There are several papers on errors associated with line transects in the ICRS volumes and Coral Reefs. A nice statistical analysis of fish transects is: Samoilys, M.A. and Carlos, G. 1992. Development of an underwater visual census method for assessing shallow water reef fish stocks in the South West Pacific. Final Report. ACIAR. (Available from the Department of Primary Industries, PO Box 1085, Townsville, Qld, 4810, Australia). McManus, J. et.al. discuss reef sampling in "Chapter 5. Coral Reef Fishery Sampling Methods" in the 1996 CRC book on "Stock Assessment:quantitative Methods and Applications for Small-Scale Fisheries" (Galluci et.al. eds.) The social science side of reef sampling and monitoring is less well-documented. See chapters by Ruddle and by McManus in: Polunin, N.V.C. and Roberts, C.M. 1996. Reef Fisheries. Chapman and Hall. London. 477 p. A fairly comprehensive manual for this kind of sampling by Richard Pollnac is in preparation. It relates directly to ReefBase, covering about half of ReefBase's 250 tables. An IUCN protocal has also been developed -- contact Ian Dight or Rodney Salm. Back on the ecological side, the ASEAN-Australian Manual is under revision. Contact Clive Wilkinson. We have just drafted a ReefBase Aquanaut Manual aimed at volunteer divers. It will be out in a few months. There are some good expedition protocols for volunteer divers available from several groups listed in the Greenpeace International Coral Reef NGO Directory. Be sure to look through past papers by Robert Johannes on how to interview to get ecological and management information, starting with his book "Words of the Lagoon". Biochemical sampling is covered in the EIA literature and many articles. I have just listed a small part of a massive literature, emphasizing some sources which are oftern overlooked. In particular, it is very important to know the history of the methods, in part to avoid re-living debates carried out in the 1920's to 1950's. Most of the methods we now use were developed to understand community structure or ecosystem function. Both of these are useful in, but do not directly address, managing coral reefs. The concerns in management are mostly Ecosystem Health, Risk Assessment, Impact Assessment, Impact Abatement, Multiobjective Optimization Cross-field Cross-sectoral Decision Analysis, and other aspects of Integrated Coastal Zone Management. The ecological side of monitoring nowadays (which can never be fully separated from the social science sides) is focused primarily on ecosystem health. We are currently developing quantitative working definitions of coral reef ecosystem health which can be used to help focus both the sampling and the analysis of the data in monitoring programs. If you want to get involved in that aspect, you might want to subscribe to the journal "Ecosystem Health" and read the book of the same title by Robert Costanza. Good luck! Sincerely, John W McManus ReefBase Project Leader ICLARM, Philippines email: J.McManus@cgnet.com From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Oct 17 09:47:51 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA05452; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 09:47:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA28480; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:06:52 GMT Received: from is1.hk.super.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA28475; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 09:06:46 -0400 From: gregorh@hk.super.net Received: from 202.64.22.141 (max6-141.hk.super.net [202.64.22.141]) by is1.hk.super.net (8.7.6/8.7.1) with SMTP id VAA14305 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 21:06:29 +0800 (HKT) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 21:06:29 +0800 (HKT) Message-Id: <199610171306.VAA14305@is1.hk.super.net> Subject: Info on quinaldine effect on corals To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov X-Mailer: AIR Mail 3.X (SPRY, Inc.) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: > >My name is Bruce Davidson I am working with the American Marinelife Dealers >Association (AMDA). This is an organization of people that derive the majority >of their income from the sale of marine life. Our goal is to impose self >regulation on the marine fish and invertebrate wholesale and retail industry. > > One of the things we are looking into is the effects quinaldine has on the >living corals when it is used to collect marine fish. If you have any >information on this topic please forward me a copy e-mail >76773.2763@compuserve.com or regular mail. > > Bruce Davidson > 212 Saguaro Dr > Louisville KY USA > 40229-6139 > > If you know of anyone that has done work in this area please forward them >a copy of this letter. > > Thanks in advance From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Oct 17 09:53:52 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA05636; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 09:53:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA28448; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 12:56:33 GMT Received: from aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA28443; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 08:56:31 -0400 Received: from wave.aoml.noaa.gov. (wave [192.111.123.25]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA04753; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 08:56:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from hendee@localhost) by wave.aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3.CAR) id IAA13847; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 08:56:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 08:56:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "James C. Hendee" X-Sender: hendee@wave To: John McManus , coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: coral reef monitoring inquiries In-Reply-To: <3265E497@msm.cgnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Those who are intested in coral reef monitoring may wish to view the Charter Document of the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) at the following URL: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/gcrmn/gcrmn.html Those who are interested in actually following the GCRMN protocol may wish to contact the Director of the GCRMN, Dr. Clive Wilkinson, at: c.wilkinson@aims.gov.au I believe some of the members of the GCRMN will soon be posting (via the CHAMP Home Page, coral-list, and elsewhere) protocols that they have found to be effective for their areas. Some of these protocols (such as that of the Kuda Laut Project, http://www.wp.com/kudalaut) have been already been announced on coral-list, but a comprehensive list of protocols will hopefully be available in the near future. Cheers, Jim Hendee +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ | James C. Hendee | Internet: hendee@aoml.noaa.gov| | Coral Health and | | | Monitoring Program | Voice: 305 361-4380 | | Ocean Chemistry Division | Fax: 305 361-4582 | | NOAA/AOML | COASTAL RBBS: 305 361-4524 | | 4301 Rickenbacker Causeway | | | Miami, FL 33149-1026 | http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov | +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, John McManus wrote: > TO:Coral List > cc.: Carl Stepath > FROM:Dr John W McManus/ICLARM > DATE:17 October 1996 > > Someone recently asked me for some leads into the field of coral reef > monitoring. As I get that kind of inquiry frequently, I though it might be > useful to others if I put my reply on coral-list. The courage is very > patchy and I don't have all the complete references at hand. However, the > leads may be generally useful, and, to roughly paraphrase Charles Darwin, my > colleagues may take great delight in pointing out the shortcomings. Many > apologies for all the important work that I left out. > > Sincerely, > > John W McManus > ICLARM > email:< J.McManus@cgnet.com> > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Oct 17 10:37:19 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA06444; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 10:37:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA28539; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:43:31 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA28534; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 09:43:29 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA04999; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 09:43:28 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 09:43:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Coral Reefs FAQ Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Greetings, Pursuant to Dr. John McManus' very informative posting of coral reef ecosystem monitoring, I thought it might be worthwhile if "we" (read: you coral-listers!) helped to construct an FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) list, which I can post on the CHAMP Home Page and/or periodically circulate via the coral-list. This should be helpful for all of us, as well as to people new to coral reef study, and should also helpfully give you a little slack in answering all those questions all the time. If this idea meets with your approval, perhaps we could proceed thus: -> For now, let's just try to answer the most common, broadly appealing, questions. After we get the basics down, then perhaps we can address the more esoteric issues. -> Send questions you feel should be in the FAQ to this address (coral@coral.aoml.noaa.gov). I'll collect the questions for awhile, and if there are no answers accompanying them, I'll post the questions to the coral-list for your (hopefully!) informative answers. -> If you *know* the answers to the questions, please send them along with the questions, or at least help by providing a resource to find the answer. -> It might be helpful if you could provide, in your answers, further references for research, such as Dr. McManus did in his recent reply concerning coral reef monitoring. If you have any orther suggestions (or even if you think this isn't a workable idea), please drop a line. Cheers, Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | Coral Health and Monitoring Program | | Ocean Chemistry Division | | Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory | | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | | Miami, Florida | | USA | | | | Email: coral@coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | World-Wide Web: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Oct 17 12:01:19 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA07970; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 12:01:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA28669; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 15:02:58 GMT Received: from wizard.wizard.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA28663; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:02:49 -0400 Received: from [206.161.15.56] (pm1-s26.wizard.net [206.161.15.56]) by wizard.wizard.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA23472; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 10:58:27 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 10:58:27 -0400 Message-Id: <199610171458.KAA23472@wizard.wizard.net> Subject: Re: EIS/reefs From: "Stephen C. Jameson" To: , "Coral-List" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Ken, Jim Maragos and Gregor Hodgson conducted a seminar on Coral Reef EIA's at the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium in Panama this June. They are in the process of preparing the final report of the workshop. They could probably send you some of the handouts from the symposium. They can be reached at the following addresses. Jim Maragos East-West Center Honolulu, Hawaii 808-944-7272, 808-944-7298(FAX) Gregor Hodgson Institute for Environmental Studies Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clearwater Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong gregorh@hk.super.net Fax: (852) 2358-1582 Tel: (852) 2358-8568 Best regards, Dr. Stephen C. Jameson, President Coral Seas, Inc. - Integrated Coastal Zone Management 4254 Hungry Run Road The Plains, VA 20198-1715 USA 703/754-8690, 703/754-9139 (FAX) Internet: sjameson@coralseas.com From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Oct 17 16:01:19 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA12818; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 16:01:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA28841; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 18:48:59 GMT Received: from iniki.soest.hawaii.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA28836; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 14:48:47 -0400 Received: from localhost (carlson@localhost) by iniki.soest.hawaii.edu (8.7.6/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA16586; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 08:47:54 -1000 (HST) X-Authentication-Warning: iniki.soest.hawaii.edu: carlson owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 08:47:54 -1000 (HST) From: Bruce Carlson X-Sender: carlson@iniki To: gregorh@hk.super.net cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Info on quinaldine effect on corals In-Reply-To: <199610171306.VAA14305@is1.hk.super.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The State of Florida did some research on the effects of quinaldine on the captured fish and on corals. As I recall, they found no significant negative effects if used "properly". My memory of that report could be faulty, but that is my recollection. I could probably dig up the report unless someone else has ready access to it. Bruce Carlson Waikiki Aquarium ******************************************************************** On Thu, 17 Oct 1996 gregorh@hk.super.net wrote: > > > >My name is Bruce Davidson I am working with the American Marinelife Dealers > >Association (AMDA). This is an organization of people that derive the > majority > >of their income from the sale of marine life. Our goal is to impose self > >regulation on the marine fish and invertebrate wholesale and retail industry. > > > > One of the things we are looking into is the effects quinaldine has on the > >living corals when it is used to collect marine fish. If you have any > >information on this topic please forward me a copy e-mail > >76773.2763@compuserve.com or regular mail. > > > > Bruce Davidson > > 212 Saguaro Dr > > Louisville KY USA > > 40229-6139 > > > > If you know of anyone that has done work in this area please forward them > >a copy of this letter. > > > > Thanks in advance > > > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Sep 26 13:36:36 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA04881; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 13:36:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA07734; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:39:22 GMT Received: from nangka.usc.edu.ph by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA07729; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 12:38:44 -0400 Received: from mangga.usc.edu.ph (mangga.usc.edu.ph [165.220.28.252]) by nangka.usc.edu.ph (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id WAA22470 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 22:31:34 +0800 Received: from MANGGA/SpoolDir by mangga.usc.edu.ph (Mercury 1.21); 26 Sep 96 22:33:55 +800 Received: from SpoolDir by MANGGA (Mercury 1.21); 26 Sep 96 22:31:57 +800 From: "Marine Biology Section, USC, Cebu, Philippi" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 22:31:43 +0000 Subject: Eritrea or Red Sea info Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Message-ID: <66288F0441@mangga.usc.edu.ph> Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear All, Can anyone please refer me to persons who have done marine studies in Eritrea and the Red Sea region. I'd appreciate if you can point me in the right direction or contacts. Thank you so much. ____sender's name_____ Marine Biology Section University of San Carlos fax (+63-32) 3460351 Cebu City 6000, Philippines email: mbs@mangga.usc.edu.ph ****** When replying, PLEASE INCLUDE ADDRESSEE'S NAME IN SUBJECT HEADER *** thanks. ******** From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Sep 26 13:56:34 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA05385; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 13:56:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA07804; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 17:16:52 GMT Received: from mar.icmyl.unam.mx by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA07799; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 13:16:42 -0400 Received: by mar.icmyl.unam.mx (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA07657; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 12:14:03 +0600 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 12:14:03 -0600 (CST) From: Rosa Elisa Rodriguez X-Sender: rosaer@mar To: coral-list Subject: Management courses (fwd) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hello, Does anyone have information about Integral Coast Management Courses that give enfasis to Coral Reefs? Any information will be helpful. Thank you Rosa Rodriguez Ap. Postal 1174 77500 Cancun, Q. Roo MEXICO Tel (987)102-19 Fax (987) 101-38 e-mail: rosaer@mar.icmyl.unam.mx From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Oct 18 08:50:40 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA19755; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 08:50:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA29643; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 12:08:12 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA29638; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 08:08:06 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA07160; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 08:08:06 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 08:08:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: effects of quinaldine In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Bruce, Gregor, Here is at least one recent reference on quinaldine and its effect on larval fish, but I couldn't find anything for effects on coral: Massee, K C; Rust, M B; Hardy, R W; Stickney, R R. 1995. The effectiveness of tricaine, quinaldine sulfate and metomidate as anesthetics for larval fish. Aquaculture 134(3-4): 351. Hope this helps... JH From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Oct 18 11:14:39 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA23528; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 11:14:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA29755; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:11:36 GMT Received: from xaway.ciqro.conacyt.mx by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA29750; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 10:11:28 -0400 Received: from [148.207.52.46] (cabra.ciqro.conacyt.mx [148.207.52.46]) by xaway.ciqro.conacyt.mx (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA16568 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 09:13:55 -0600 Date: Fri, 18 Oct 96 08:57:02 CST From: "Juan P. Carricart-Ganivet" Message-Id: <18351.jpcarri@xaway.ciqro.conacyt.mx> X-Minuet-Version: Minuet1.0_Beta_11 X-POPMail-Charset: English To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Info request Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Greetings from Chetumal to everyone! Does anybody has info about Manicina areolata recruiting and/or larval settling of this species? Many advanced thanks, Saludos! Juan Pablo |-----------------------------------------------| | Juan P. Carricart-Ganivet | | Departamento de Ecologia Acuatica, ECOSUR | | Zona Industrial No. 2, Carr. Chetumal-Bacalar | | Apdo. Postal 424, Chetumal, Q. Roo. 77000. | | MEXICO | | Tel: (983) 2-16-66 | | Fax: (983) 2-04-47 | | e-mail: jpcarri@xaway.ciqro.conacyt.mx | |-----------------------------------------------| From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Oct 18 12:30:54 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA24616; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 12:30:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA29804; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 15:30:03 GMT Received: from aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA29799; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 11:30:01 -0400 Received: from wave.aoml.noaa.gov. (wave [192.111.123.25]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA23792; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 11:27:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from hendee@localhost) by wave.aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3.CAR) id LAA18999; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 11:27:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 11:27:41 -0400 (EDT) From: "James C. Hendee" X-Sender: hendee@wave To: "Juan P. Carricart-Ganivet" cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: *Manicina areolata* In-Reply-To: <18351.jpcarri@xaway.ciqro.conacyt.mx> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Juan, There was an excellent Ph.D. thesis published in December, 1991, called "Population Ecology of a Free-Living Coral: Reproduction, Population Dynamics, and Morphology of *Manicina areolata* (Linneaus)" by Kenneth George Johnson, Graduate College of The Univesity of Iowa. It probably has most everything you need, including a wealth of great references, tables, photographs and graphs. Your librarian should be able to check it out for you on Interlibrary Loan. This library reference might be of help: QL 377 .C5j67 1991 Don't know what there might be that is more recent. Hope this helps... Cheers, Jim Hendee On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Juan P. Carricart-Ganivet wrote: > Date: Fri, 18 Oct 96 08:57:02 CST > From: Juan P. Carricart-Ganivet > To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov > Subject: Info request > > Greetings from Chetumal to everyone! > > Does anybody has info about Manicina areolata recruiting and/or larval > settling of this species? > > Many advanced thanks, > > Saludos! > > Juan Pablo > |-----------------------------------------------| > | Juan P. Carricart-Ganivet | > | Departamento de Ecologia Acuatica, ECOSUR | > | Zona Industrial No. 2, Carr. Chetumal-Bacalar | > | Apdo. Postal 424, Chetumal, Q. Roo. 77000. | > | MEXICO | > | Tel: (983) 2-16-66 | > | Fax: (983) 2-04-47 | > | e-mail: jpcarri@xaway.ciqro.conacyt.mx | > |-----------------------------------------------| > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Oct 18 21:29:58 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA00787; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 21:29:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id AAA00140; Sat, 19 Oct 1996 00:38:25 GMT Received: from igc7.igc.org by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA00135; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 20:38:17 -0400 Received: from igc3.igc.apc.org (igc3.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.33]) by igc7.igc.org (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA10328; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:33:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 198.94.4.19 (coral@ppp4-20.igc.org [198.94.4.20]) by igc3.igc.apc.org (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA26216; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:22:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <32680788.3F71@igc.apc.org> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:41:12 -0800 From: coral Reply-To: coral@igc.apc.org Organization: Coral Forest X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Macintosh; I; 68K) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gregorh@hk.super.net CC: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Info on quinaldine effect on corals References: <199610171306.VAA14305@is1.hk.super.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Regarding quinaldine, my understanding is that its use does have some negative impacts on reefs and reef fishes. It stands to reason that any poison used to stun a fish is potent and will impact delicate ecosystems. Contact Nancy Daves at NMFS (301) 713-2319, and Georgia Kranmore (813) 570-5305 at NMFS for their studies. Marcy Roth Coral Forest -- Coral Forest 400 Montgomery Street, Suite 400 San Francisco, CA 94104 USA (415) 788-REEF (7333) Fax (415) 331-4064 E-mail: coral@igc.apc.org Web site: http://www.blacktop.com/coralforest From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Oct 18 23:32:44 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA01235; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 23:32:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id CAA00253; Sat, 19 Oct 1996 02:53:06 GMT Received: from iniki.soest.hawaii.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id WAA00248; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 22:53:01 -0400 Received: from localhost (carlson@localhost) by iniki.soest.hawaii.edu (8.7.6/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA09591; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 16:49:45 -1000 (HST) X-Authentication-Warning: iniki.soest.hawaii.edu: carlson owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 16:49:45 -1000 (HST) From: Bruce Carlson X-Sender: carlson@iniki To: coral cc: gregorh@hk.super.net, coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Info on quinaldine effect on corals In-Reply-To: <32680788.3F71@igc.apc.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Marcy, Your statement, on the face of it, does not "stand to reason". The blue ringed octopus releases poison into the environment to stun and kill shrimp. Does that impact delicate ecosystems? I am not convinced that quinaldine in small doses has any negative "permanent" effect on the environment. It does have a very beneficial effect when collecting small, delicate and hole-dwelling fishes. There is far less stress and potential harm to these fishes when handled in an anesthetised state rather than thrashing around in a net. There are safe anethestics used for all other creatures, and for now, quinaldine is the anesthetic of choice among scientists and aquarium professionals. That said, I am not an advocate of the wholesale release of this anesthetic to the general public and fish collectors. Highly concentrated solutions and heavy doses can be detrimental (in the extreme, we can say with 100% certainty that corals will not live in pure quinaldine!). The use of quinaldine should be regulated but allowed for scientific and related purposes. I will call the folks you mentioned and read their reports. The more data that is available the better for making an objective conclusion. Bruce Carlson On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, coral wrote: > Regarding quinaldine, my understanding is that its use does have some > negative impacts on reefs and reef fishes. It stands to reason that any > poison used to stun a fish is potent and will impact delicate > ecosystems. Contact Nancy Daves at NMFS (301) 713-2319, and Georgia > Kranmore (813) 570-5305 at NMFS for their studies. > > Marcy Roth > Coral Forest > -- > Coral Forest > 400 Montgomery Street, Suite 400 > San Francisco, CA 94104 USA > (415) 788-REEF (7333) > Fax (415) 331-4064 > E-mail: coral@igc.apc.org > Web site: http://www.blacktop.com/coralforest > > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Oct 19 21:02:02 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA06155; Sat, 19 Oct 1996 21:01:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id AAA00999; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 00:22:13 GMT Received: from iniki.soest.hawaii.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA00994; Sat, 19 Oct 1996 20:22:08 -0400 Received: from localhost (carlson@localhost) by iniki.soest.hawaii.edu (8.7.6/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA14552 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 1996 14:20:21 -1000 (HST) X-Authentication-Warning: iniki.soest.hawaii.edu: carlson owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 14:20:21 -1000 (HST) From: Bruce Carlson X-Sender: carlson@iniki To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Info on quinaldine effect on corals (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 13:59:04 -1000 (HST) From: Bruce Carlson To: Nicolas James Pilcher Subject: Re: Info on quinaldine effect on corals Nicolas, OK, that was a bit terse. Sorry. I just get more and more upset at conclusions tossed out without data to substantiate them. Quinaldine has been such a subject for decades. Most of the arguments that I have seen have been based on emotion and assumption, whereas most of the scientific data have indicated that it has little if any environmental impact -- and no impact on the fish if applied correctly. Now the subject comes up again and the same baseless arguments arise. I'd like to see some real data. My own experience with the anesthetic indicates that it has little if any effect on surrounding organisms. Yes, occasionally other fishes ares stunned, but either I collect them too or they just recover on their own in a minute or two and swim away. I have not used any qunialdine in a long time, but it is very useful in collecting Cirripectes blennies and some deep reef fishes, or to anesthetize them prior to handling during tag and release studies, such as the research I conducted. Some of the fish I studied were captured and released multiple times using quinaldine. This fish feeds on live coral and I photographed the coral during the study. There was no effect on the coral due to the quinaldine -- there was, however, a significant negative effect on the coral due to the fish feeding upon it! I would hazard a guess that quinaldine and MS-222 are on the shelves of many(most?) ichthyologists who work on coral reefs who have to safely capture their fish and release them for study. Nets can be used but too often damage the fish. By the way, I do not condone nor advocate breaking of coral to capture fish. And, as I stated before, I would advocate regulations or licensing of people who intend to use quinaldine on a reef to ensure that they know how to mix it and use it properly. In my opinion, it should be used only for research. Virtually all aquarium fish that hobbyists might want can be collected by an experienced collector using nets. Bruce ********************************************** On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Bruce Carlson wrote: > > Nicolas > > Prove it. > > Bruce > > On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Nicolas James Pilcher wrote: > > > In reply to Bruce's recent comments, and in light of the fact that this is > > now warming up to the extent of actually sidestepping the original request > > for info, my I draw your attention ot the following: > > > > I AM convinced that quinaldine in any dosage has an effect on these delicate > > ecosystems, no matter how permenent, and THAT (the fact that there IS an > > effect) is the real issue. Quinaldine in small doses to catch other small > > fish -aside from that it was not what was originally in question - has an > > adverse effect on the nearby small fish that were not intended for capture. > > In many cases these are then helpless to defend themselves, and get eaten by > > the larger, not anaethesised fishes. That IS permanent. Removing coral fish > > that are asleep inside coral crevices in many cases also results in the > > breakage of corals to get to them (not always, but it definitely happens), > > and again, that IS permanent. Standing to reason is that we are all in this > > for the longevity of the reefs and their inhabitants - incuding those who > > want to remove the fish for whatever purposes, and ANY man-made effect on > > the reef should be out of the question! Let's face, if the reefs were > > supposed to have little squirts of quinaldine, don't you think they'd have > > figured it out by now? > > > > Happy ruminating this one..... > > > > Nick > > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > Nicolas J. Pilcher > > > > Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation > > Universiti Malaysia Sarawak > > 94300 Kota Samarahan > > Sarawak, Malaysia > > > > Tel ++ 60 82 671 000 Ext. 181 > > Fax ++ 60 82 672275 > > E-mail nick@tualang.unimas.my > > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > > > > > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Oct 21 00:18:22 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA11521; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 00:18:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA01718; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 01:47:59 GMT Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA01713; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 21:47:56 -0400 Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by ns-mx.uiowa.edu (8.7.5/19950309.1) on Sun, 20 Oct 1996 20:45:51 -0500 id UAA40975 with SMTP Message-Id: <2.2.32.19961021014732.00674840@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> X-Sender: davidson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 20:47:32 -0500 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Osha Gray Davidson Subject: Bali Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Any coral/mangrove/seagrass scientists and/or managers/NGOs, etc. on Bali who would be willing to talk with a journalist doing research on these ecosystems? I will be there 12-13 November, staying in Sanur at the Laghawa Beach Inn. Tel: (0361) 288494. Fax: 62-361-289353. Or contact me by return e-mail, phone or fax at the addresses below before I depart the States on 1 November. Or, anyone with recommendations for important sites to visit there (relative to the above interests)? Thanks. Cheers, Osha Osha Gray Davidson 14 S. Governor St. Iowa City, IA 52240 USA +++++++++++ PH: (319) 338-4778 FAX: (319) 338-8606 e-mail: osha@pobox.com Center for International and Comparative Studies, University of Iowa From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Oct 21 12:11:38 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA18908; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:11:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA02170; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 15:13:44 GMT Received: from wcmc.org.uk by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA02165; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:13:41 -0400 From: Mark.Spalding@wcmc.org.uk Received: from RAPHUS.wcmc.org.uk by wcmc.org.uk (4.1/SMI-4.1(D-2.1.4b)) id AA23743; Mon, 21 Oct 96 16:11:50 BST Message-Id: <9610211511.AA23743@wcmc.org.uk> Received: by RAPHUS.wcmc.org.uk with VINES ; Mon, 21 Oct 96 16:11:47 BST Date: Mon, 21 Oct 96 16:07:23 BST To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A (Sent this last week, but suspect it never got through as I never got a copy back!) Users will be pleased to know that, as of this week, the World Conservation Monitoring Centre has placed some 150 maps of coral reefs onto the Web. These are the same maps which are in ReefBase Version 1.0 (although they are georeferenced in the latter and can thus be linked to other data). The maps include simple bathymetry, mangrove and coral reef data. All are fully referenced and users are asked to look at these references as an integral part of the maps! http://www.wcmc.org.uk:80/marine/data/ Other marine data on this site include lists of marine protected areas by country and other marine statistics. Please note that our Coral Reef Mapping Initiative and ReefBase are ongoing. If you are able to supply better, newer, or more detailed information please contact myself (for maps) or the ReefBase team in Manila (e-mail: reefbase@cgnet.com). I hope this information is useful and look forward to your comments. Cheers Mark D. Spalding E-mail: mark.spalding@wcmc.org.uk World Conservation Monitoring Centre 219 Huntingdon Rd Cambridge, CB3 0DL Fax: +44 1223 277136 United Kingdom Tel: +44 1223 277314 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Oct 22 12:47:30 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA09654; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:47:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA03323; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:14:17 GMT Received: from pluto.sfsu.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA03318; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:14:13 -0400 Received: from slip-103.sfsu.edu (slip-103.sfsu.edu [130.212.1.103]) by pluto.sfsu.edu (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id IAA07694 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 08:12:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 08:12:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199610221512.IAA07694@pluto.sfsu.edu> X-Sender: didak@pluto.sfsu.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Dida Kutz Subject: Banda Is. Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hi- I'm currently investiogating the possibility of doing some basic survey research in the Banda Is. next March. I understand there is a dive operation there. Can anyone give me the name of the outfit, and/or any info about them? Any other comments about doing work there would be deeply appreciated also. Thank you, Dida Kutz didak@sfsu.edu didak@sfsu.edu Director Pacific Cetacean Group - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - San Francisco State University Graduate Student--Dept. of Biology San Francisco, CA 94132 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Oct 22 13:51:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA10604; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 13:50:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA03380; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 16:35:59 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA03375; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:35:56 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA15134; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:35:56 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:35:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Info on quinaldine effect on corals Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Forwarded message: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 12:35:50 -0500 (EST) From: "Walt, Jaap" To: OWNER-CORAL-LIST@aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Info on quinaldine effect on corals - Reply A copy of a report titled Observations on Florida reef corals treated with fish-collecting chemicals. is available from the librarian at the Florida Marine Research Institute, 100 8th Ave SE, St. Petersburg, FL 33701. Ask for FMRP number 10. I worked on the study and we did note that some corals bleached from application of quinaldine to their tissues. We also found that small cryptic fauna were stupefied by quinaldine and were very easy prey for the blueheads that trailed us during the experiments. We ran a literature search on quinaldine and similar chemicals this spring. The results did not provide any conclusive new evidence that would ban its use. Walt Jaap From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Oct 23 23:06:22 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA08724; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 23:06:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA04581; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 01:18:07 GMT Received: from hk.super.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA04576; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 21:18:01 -0400 Received: from ces.ces.linuxhk.com (root@annex5-39.hk.super.net [202.64.10.39]) by hk.super.net (8.7.6/8.7.1) with SMTP id JAA02518 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:16:43 +0800 (HKT) Received: from mm.ces.linuxhk.com (mm.ces.linuxhk.com [192.168.19.70]) by ces.ces.linuxhk.com (8.6.11/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA01106 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:06:06 +0800 Message-Id: <199610240106.JAA01106@ces.ces.linuxhk.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Maria Justine MILICI" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:14:57 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: tracking down an elusive map!! Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear List Members, I hope someone out there might be able to help me. I'm trying to find a map that a colleague has told me exists but he can't remember where he saw it!! Its a world map that details the damaged coral reefs around the world and identifies them by colour coding according to the type of damage. Apparently there are about 4-6 categories, listing things such as destructive fishing, overfishing, mining, bad water quality.... If anyone can help me with this I would sure appreciate it. I want to use it for presentation at an Asian Hotel Forum in a couple of weeks where I aim to outline what resort developments may be able to do for coral reefs etc.... By the way, I visitied Paul Blanchons site yesterday and was most impressed. The geology essay is excellent and having taught a few lectures on that topic in a general tropical marine biology course, I was excited by the material for teaching purposes as well as for my own education. And the access to other sites is excellent. The address is: http://www.ualberta.ca/~pblancho/index.html thanks Maria Dr. Maria Milicich Senior Scientist CES (ASIA) LTD Room 1201 Tai Yau Building, 181 Johnston Rd Wanchai fax: 28910305 ph: 28931551 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Oct 24 01:09:30 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA09182; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 01:09:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id CAA04625; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 02:08:05 GMT Received: from coastal.intercoast.com.au by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id WAA04620; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 22:08:00 -0400 Received: from timn (timn.intercoast.com.au [203.22.113.56]) by coastal.intercoast.com.au (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA30091; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 12:08:42 +1000 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19961024021125.006ad5e8@intercoast.com.au> X-Sender: timn@intercoast.com.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 12:11:25 +1000 To: coastnet@uriacc.uri.edu, coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Tim Norman Subject: Coral reef viability Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I would like to make contact with anyone who is conducting research into the long-term management of coral reefs. I am particularly interested in management strategies that have "sustainable bioconstruction" as their objective - a timeframe of decades to centuries. My angle is conservation biology and reserve selection strategies but I am also investigating the socio-economic and political implications of long-term management strategies. I don't want to burden the list with a long message so I am happy to provide further details on the research I am undertaking on request. Many thanks Tim Norman Phone: (+612) 9949 1428 Fax: (+612) 9380 6964 e-mail: timn@intercoast.com.au timn@amsg.austmus.gov.au From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Oct 24 13:08:22 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA25396; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:08:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA05391; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 15:29:52 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA05386; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:29:50 -0400 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA19469; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:29:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:29:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: McManus list (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:40:51 -0500 (EST) From: Walt, Jaap To: HENDEE@aoml.noaa.gov Subject: McManus list John McManus' list was a nice stimulant to stir up some action. I offer a few items to add to your literature list for monitoring and sampling methods. I could spend days adding other items, it is a forever task. I will get you a few more on a later date. We have an unpublished manual that Porter, Dustan, Jaap and Wheaton developed for the EPA coral reef and hard bottom monitoring project in the keys that empahasizes video. PAX Walt Jaap SELECTED METHODS LITERATURE Braun-Blanquet, J. 1932. Plant sociology: the study of plant communities. Koeltz Scientific Books (reprint). Box 1360 D-6240 Koenigstein, Germany. Andrewartha, H.G. 1971. Introduction to the study of animal populations. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 283 pp. Elliott, J.M. 1973. Some methods for the statistical analysis of samples of benthic invertebrates. Pub. 25, Freshwater Biological Association, Ferry House, Ambleside, Westmoreland. LA22 0LP, United Kingdom. 148 pp. Mueller-Dombois, D and H. Ellenberg 1974. Aims and methods of vegetation ecology. Wiley, New York. 547 pp. Pielou, E.C. 1975. Ecological diversity. Wiley-Intersience, New York. 165 pp. McIntosh, R.P. 1978. Phytosociology. Benchmark papers in ecology. Vol. 6. Hutchinson and Ross, Inc. Dowden. Stoddart, D.R. and R.E. Johanes (editors) 1978. Coral reefs: research methods. UNESCO, Paris. 581 pp. Pickett, S.T.A. and P.S. White (editors) 1985. The ecology of natural disturbance and patch dynamics. Academic Press, Orlando. 472 pp. Likens, G.E. (editor) 1988. Long-term studies in ecology: approaches and alternatives. Springer Verlag, New York. 214 pp. Jaap, W.C., J.L. Wheaton, and K.B. Donnelly 1990. Materials and methods to establish multipurpose, sustained ecological research stations on coral reefs at Dry Tortugas. Pp 193 to 203 in. Proc. AAUS Tenth annual Scientific Diving Symposium, St. Petersburg. Golley, F.B. 1993. A history of the ecosystem concept in ecology. Yale Univ. Press, New Haven. 254 pp. English, S., C. Wilkerson, and V. Baker. (editors) 1994. Survey manual for tropical marine resources. Australian Inst. Of Mar. Sci. 368 pp. Rogers, C.S. (editor) 1994. Coral Reef monitoring manual for the Caribbean and western Atlantic. Virgin Islands National Park, St. John, USVI. 107 pp. Committee on biological diversity in marine systems, National research Council 1995. Understanding marine biodiversity. National Academy Press, Washington. 114 pp. Lessios, H. 1996. Methods for quantifying abundance of marine organisms. Pp 149 to 157 in. Proc. AAUS 1996 Scientific Diving Symposium, Washington. Polunin N.V.C. and C.M. Roberts (editors) 1996. Reef fisheries Chapman and Hall, London. 477 pp. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Oct 24 14:36:32 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA28286; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 14:36:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA05494; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:58:03 GMT Received: from noc.belwue.de by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA05489; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 12:57:45 -0400 Received: from [141.58.142.101] (webmaster.geologie.uni-stuttgart.de [141.58.142.101]) by noc.belwue.de with SMTP id SAA08287 (8.6.13/IDA-1.6); Thu, 24 Oct 1996 18:55:10 +0200 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 18:55:10 +0200 X-Sender: igolein@po.uni-stuttgart.de Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: IYOR-L@uriacc.uri.edu, coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: reinhold.leinfelder@po.uni-stuttgart.de (Reinhold Leinfelder) Subject: IYOR Germany takes off! Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: (if you subscribed to both the IYOR and the CORAL-listserver, we apologize for the inconvenience of receiving this message twice) INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE REEF 1997: ACTIVITIES IN GERMANY IYOR-Germany took some time for preparations. But now we are taking off like a rocket! This mail is from the official organizing group for IYOR-Germany. We would like to inform you about the German activities for the International Year of the Reef (1997). You may also check our web page on general IYOR aims and German IYOR activities at: http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/UNIuser/igps/IYOR The German IYOR initiative was officially launched at a meeting of the German Science Foundation (DFG) in G÷ttingen in Oct. 1996. The DFG meeting was held on the occasion of the closure of the Research Priority Programm on Modern and Ancient Reefs. The great majority of German reef researchers attended the meeting and support the initiative. GERMAN IYOR COMMITTEE: Organizing team: Prof. Dr. Reinhold Leinfelder, Institute of Geology and Paleontology, University Stuttgart, reinhold.leinfelder@po.uni-stuttgart.de PD Dr. Franz Br’mmer, Institute of Biology, University Stuttgart, bruemmer@po.uni-stuttgart.de Dipl.-Biol. Moshira Hassan, GEOMAR, Kiel, mhassan@geomar.de Dipl.-Biol. Felix Gunkel,fgunkel@gwdg.de and Dipl.-Geol. Gert Woerheide, gwoerhe@gwdg.de, both Institute of Geology and Paleontology, University G÷ttingen The curatorium consists of: Prof. Dr. Helmut Schuhmacher, Institute of Ecology, University of Essen (probably the most renowned German reef zoologist) Prof. Dr. Erik Fluegel, Institute of Paleontology, University of Erlangen (probably the most renowned German reef geoscientist) Prof. Dr. Fritz Steininger, Director of the Senckenberg Museum at Frankfurt (probably the most renowned German museum on Natural History and Biology) GERMAN IYOR ACTIVITIES German IYOR activities particularly focus on the following: 1. Exhibitions 2. Diving associations 3. Schools 4. General public information in various media. The following activities are already completed or under direct preparation: 1. EXHIBITIONS * IYOR-OPENING BY HANS HASS: The largest European exhibition/fair on water sports, the BOOT (translated: 'boat', taking place in Dusseldorf in January 1997) is, among other things, the top exhibition for all national and international diving associations (sport divers, research divers). We are proud to announce that the opening public talk will be held by HANS HASS (our most charismatic diving biologists, Austrian, born in 1919, who made many books and films which ANY Austrian or German knows) and this WILL BE THE OFFICIAL OPENING FOR IYOR IN GERMANY. There will be a booth with informations on IYOR as well. *MUSEUM TOUR EXHIBITION ON REEFS: The outcome of the 6-years DFG-priority program on reefs (with more than 150 colleages involved, see above) will be presented in a public reef exhibition (sponsored by the DFG, and also official part of the German IYOR-activities). We will also particularly focus on the importance of reefs for mankind. This exhibition will be starting at the renowned Senckenberg Museum (Frankfurt am Main) and probably will go on tour to a variety of other museums and exhibition halls in the course of 1997. 2.DIVING ASSOCIATIONS * Many different diving associatons (both German and International) support IYOR. German diving tourists are widespread across the globe and this is why we will particularly focus on these associations. Activities will include articles in diving and tourism journals as well as new information material for instructors. Franz Bruemmer, from the IYOR-group, Germany, is vice president or committee member of a variety of diving associations and head associations, so we do have good possibilities. See below for the associations involved to date. 3. SCHOOLS * In Spring 1997, Moshira Hassan, GEOMAR, Kiel will give informative courses on coral reefs for selected high schools in Northern Germany. The courses will include slide shows, excursions to the Baltic Sea and an introductory scuba dive. Similar activities with other schools are in preparation at a larger scale. We are also preparing course material for distribution to school teachers. 4. GENERAL PUBLIC ACTIVITIES * Press conferences at various occations. The first one was during the reef meeting mentioned above (G÷ttingen). Outcome: IYOR presented in the press in a friendly way * The "Jurassic Reef Park", a popular educational science internet article (by Reinhold Leinfelder), both in English and German, informs on modern and ancient reefs, and also on their possible importance for mankind. (URL http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/UNIuser/igps/Jurassic_Reef_Park) * The German IYOR web page not only lists the activities of IYOR, but also gives informations on the importance of reefs and suggestions what everyone can contribute to the protection of reefs.URL: http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/UNIuser/igps/IYOR (maintained by Reinhold Leinfelder, send your info on IYOR- activities in Germany to him, this e-mail's address) ( mostly in German) * Various information brochures on the importance of reefs will be produced The reef exhibition mentioned above will be accompanied by a catalogue including similar informations. * Colleagues will prepare popular science articles for selected popular journals, including diving journals. We will also try to launch articles in the mass media. * Public talks and guided tours will be given in museums, zoological gardens and aquariums, as well as other institutions. SUPPORTERS Who supports IYOR-Germay till now? University Institutions * GEOMAR-Kiel (Prof. Dullo, Dipl.-Biol. Moshira Hassan - e-mail: mhassan@geomar.de) * Institut f’r Geologie und Pal„ontologie der Universit„t Stuttgart (incl. its reefgroup: Prof. Dr. R. Leinfelder et al., e-mail: reinhold.leinfelder@po.uni-stuttgart.de). * Institut f’r Biologie der Universit„t Stuttgart, (Privatdozent Dr. Franz Br’mmer, e-mail: Bruemmer@po.uni-stuttgart.de, Prof. Dr. H.-D. Goertz) * Institut und Museum f’r Geologie und Pal„ontologie der Universit„t G÷ttingen (Prof. Reitner, Dipl.-Biol. Felix Gunkel - e-mail: fgunkel@gwdg.de, gwoerhe@gwdg.de) * Institut f’r Pal„ontologie der Universit„t Erlangen-N’rnberg (Prof. Fl’gel) * Institut f’r Ùkologie, Universit„t GH Essen (Prof. Schuhmacher) * Institut und Museum f’r Geologie und Pal„ontologie der Universit„t T’bingen (Dr. Gischler). (additionally we have a long signature list of supporting reef researchers from Germany) Museums * The Senckenberg Museum of Natural Science Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main (Director Prof. Steininger) * Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart (Director Dr. K÷nig) Zoological Gardens * Wilhelma Stuttgart Diving organisations * WITUS: Scientific Diving Group of the University of Stuttgart (as part of the Association of Research Diving Biologists) (ARDB) * F÷rderkreis Sporttauchen e.V. * Verband deutscher Sporttaucher, e.V. (VDST, member of CMAS) * W’rttembergischer Landesverband f’r Tauchsport e.V. (WLT) * Baltic Dive Center (Oliver Wolf) * PADI Europe -PROJECT AWARE Schools * Integrierte Gesamtschule L’tjenmoor/Kiel Others * Technisches Hilfswerk Kiel (with many others we are in negociations) Regards to all of you, the German IYOR organizing team Moshira, Franz, Gert, Felix and Reinhold (e-mail- and full addresses see above) PS: IYOR GERMANY HAS OPENED A BANK ACCOUNT FOR SPONSORS. If you want to contribute ask Reinhold or check out the IYOR-Germany webpage ******************************************** Reinhold Leinfelder Institut fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie der Universitaet Stuttgart Herdweg 51 D-70174 Stuttgart Germany e-mail: reinhold.leinfelder@po.uni-stuttgart.de phone: ++49-711-1211340 or -1339 fax: ++49-711-1211341 WorldWideWeb: Institute: http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/UNIuser/igps/ Reef Group Stuttgart: http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/UNIuser/igps/reefgroup/ German activities to the International Year of the Reef 1997: http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/UNIuser/igps/IYOR Dive into the Jurassic Reef Park! http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/UNIuser/igps/Jurassic_Reef_Park/ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Oct 24 16:16:51 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA04517; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:16:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA05576; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 19:05:54 GMT Received: from jaguar1.usouthal.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA05571; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 15:05:47 -0400 Received: by jaguar1.usouthal.edu (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA28155; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 14:09:51 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 14:09:50 -0500 (CDT) From: "Richard B. Aronson" Subject: Reef Methods To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: To follow up on Walt Jaap's recent message, here is another reference on video monitoring techniques for coral reef ecology: Aronson, R. B., et al. 1994. Large-scale, long-term monitoring of Caribbean coral reefs: simple, quick, inexpensive techniques. Atoll Research Bulletin 421: 19 pp. We've also got a paper on multivariate applications of video transect methods coming out in the proceedings of the Panama symposium Rich Aronson ______________________________________________________________________________ Richard B. Aronson Dauphin Island Sea Lab P. O. Box 369-370 Dauphin Island, AL 36528 Voice: (334) 861-7567 Fax: (334) 861-7540 email: raronson@jaguar1.usouthal.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Oct 25 01:03:02 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA09269; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 01:02:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id DAA05850; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 03:53:21 GMT Received: from tualang.unimas.my by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id XAA05845; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 23:53:02 -0400 Message-Id: <199610250353.XAA05845@reef.aoml.noaa.gov> Received: from falco ([161.142.87.130]) by tualang.unimas.my with SMTP (1.37.109.10G/16.2) id AA269637415; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 12:23:35 +0800 Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 12:23:35 +0800 X-Sender: soakley@tualang.unimas.my X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: "Dr. Steve Oakley" Subject: Expeditions in Borneo Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Attn Coral reef or Tropical Marine ecosytem researchers We are organising 5 one month expeditions during the next 2 years to remote unstudied tropical marine ecosystems off the island of Borneo. These include soft bottoms, coral reefs & mangrove swamps. We should be able to provide the resources for most suitable research topics in taxonomy, ecology, biology, behaviour, resources etc. If you can provide funds for yourself (flights & food mostly), we would be interested in hearing from you. BODGAYA ISLANDS 6 th April - 9th May 1997 Bodgaya Islands Offshore from Semporna reefs & islands mostly on the continental shelf, Various ecosystems mostly reefs. Includes Sipadan (National park) and Mabul which are dive resorts as well as other reefs and islands which are outside the national park. KUDAT BAY 1st - 30th June 1997 Extreme NE of Borneo. sediment and dynamite impacted reefs? Complete range of ecosystems from muddy shores, mangrove, & seagrass to coral reefs. Likely to include extensive seagrass beds and hopefully dugongs. LAYANG LAYANG ATOLL 16th Aug. - 19th Sept. Layang Layang atoll in Spratley islands, 320km Nw of Kota Kinabalu, Dive resort This is an untouched, pristine, oceanic atoll, visibility of up to 70m. More details on the web page http://www.unimas.my/%7Enick/ Dr. Steve Oakley, Institute of Biodiversity & Environmental Conservation Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, 94300 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia soakley@tualang.unimas.my Fax 082 672275 Tel 082 671000 x 260 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Oct 25 18:29:53 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA03513; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 18:29:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA00820; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 21:15:53 GMT Received: from ns.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA00815; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 17:15:50 -0400 Received: from ogp.noaa.gov (QUICKMAIL.OGP.NOAA.GOV [140.90.171.10]) by ns.noaa.gov (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA24070 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 17:09:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: 25 Oct 1996 17:22:01 U From: "Mark Eakin" Subject: Coral Reef Status Paper On- To: "Recipients of coral-list" X-Mailer: Mail*Link SMTP-QM 3.0.2 Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Subject: Time: 17:06 Coral Reef Status Paper On-line Date: 10/25/96 The paper on coral reef status that I presented at the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium (co-authored with John McManus, Mark Spalding and Stephen Jameson) is now available on-line. It can be found at http://www.ogp.noaa.gov/misc/coral/8icrs The abstract follows. ----------------------------- CORAL REEF STATUS AROUND THE WORLD: WHERE ARE WE AND WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? C.M. Eakin, J.W. McManus, M.D. Spalding and S.C. Jameson ABSTRACT The Philippines-hosted International Coral Reef Initiative Workshop, June 1995, began a concise global summary of coral reef ecosystem status. State of the Reefs and six regional status reports evaluated environments, threats and opportunities for improved management. Regional meetings, held Jun. 1995 - Feb. 1996, provided greater focus on the regions and improved regional assessments. The ICRI Framework for Action calls for regular reviews of these important ecosystems and of actions toward the goal of increasing sustain-ability to be shared with international bodies and conventions. Global and regional programs must coordinate efforts to help countries relieve human pressure on reef ecosystems around the globe. This presentation will introduce the status reports, discuss the interrelationships between these organizations and plans for developing the global monitoring network and delivering future assessments. __________________________________________________________ C. Mark Eakin, Ph.D. NOAA/Global Programs, 1100 Wayne Ave., Suite 1210 Silver Spring, MD USA 20910-5603 Voice: 301-427-2089 ext. 19 Fax: 301-427-2073 Internet: eakin@ogp.noaa.gov From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Oct 26 21:06:21 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA10212; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 21:06:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id XAA01713; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 23:52:25 GMT Received: from wgs1.btl.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA01708; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 19:52:15 -0400 Received: from jpowell ([206.27.238.35]) by wgs1.btl.net (Netscape Mail Server v2.0) with SMTP id AAA13804; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 17:47:28 -0500 Message-ID: <327299AA.2BA7@btl.net> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 17:07:22 -0600 From: "James A Powell" Reply-To: jpowell@btl.net Organization: Wildlife Conservation Society X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: marbioo , coral list , consbio Subject: Glover's Reef Marine Research Station Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Glover's Reef Marine Research Station Belize, Central America Wildlife Conservation Society P.O. Box 2310 Belize City, Belize Tel: 501-2-33855 FAX: 501-2--31963 E-mail: jpowell@btl.net Please take a look at our WWW page at: http://www.une.edu/glover/glovindx.html Glover's Reef atoll and marine reserve is located approximately 50 km off the coast of central Belize. It is considered to be one of the most pristine and important coral reef sites in the Caribbean. Due to the isolation of Glover's Reef atoll, there is little influence from coastal sedimentation or pollution. It is considered to be one of the most ideal sites in the world to conduct coral reef research (Dahl, MacIntyre & Antonius. 1974. A comparative survey of coral reef research sites. In: Marie-Helene Sachet and Arthur Dahl. Atoll Research Bulletin. 172: 37-75.). Consequently, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in cooperation with the Government of Belize has established a permanent research station at Middle Cay located on Glover's Reef. WCS along with the Government of Belize would like to invite scientists and graduate level students who are interested in working at Glover's Reef to contact James Powell at jpowell@btl.net for more information. The marine reserve at Glover's Reef atoll is a major component of a general comprehensive program for coastal zone management for Belize, Central America. In a broad sense the reserve was established to maintain ecological processes, preserve genetic diversity, achieve sustainable yields of its resources through wise management of species and their habitats, maintain natural areas for education and research and provide social, and economic benefits through ecologically sensitive recreation and tourism. Keenly aware of the need to protect this world class resource, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) purchased the island of Middle Cay, situated at the southern end of the atoll, for the purposes of providing a marine park headquarters for the Government of Belize and to establish a marine research field station. WCS has completed construction of this facility and now provides a base of operations for park rangers and scientists alike. WCS's over-arching mission is to provide for the long-term conservation and protection of Glover's Reef atoll. To accomplish this goal, WCS is working in close collaboration with the government of Belize to develop a coordinated research and management program for the atoll. WCS's primary responsibility in this partnership is scientific research. In the coming years, we hope that the research on Glover's Reef atoll will lead to a better understanding and management of this coral reef. The Comparative Investigations of Tropical Reef Ecosystems (CITRE) program identified Glover's Reef as the most preferred site in the Caribbean for "long-term, multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional investigation of coral reef ecosystems" (Dahl, MacIntyre & Antonius. 1974. A comparative survey of coral reef research sites. In: Marie-Helene Sachet and Arthur Dahl. Atoll Research Bulletin. 172: 37-75.). The authors reported, "In contrast to the other reefs surveyed in the Caribbean area, Glover's Reef atoll appears to offer the greatest variety of reef types, and the optimum reef development in terms of population density and species diversity of reef corals and associated organisms". In addition to Glover's Reef, Belize's extensive barrier reef is 30 km away. The WCS research station on Glover's Reef atoll is located on Middle Cay. The present facility includes a ranger station and visitor's centre, a dry laboratory and work area, dining and cooking facilities (meals are provided) and housing for eight scientists and/or students. There are boats, air compressor and SCUBA tanks for researcher support. Aquarium facilities are available. The station is completely self- sufficient with full-time electricity (110 vac) provided by a complementary system of wind and solar power. Fresh water is available through a de-salination plant and rain-water catchment. Refrigeration is available. Toilet facilities are state-of-the-art pollution-free, containment composition type. One aim of the station is to utilize non-polluting and energy efficient technology. WCS invites any scientists or students interested in using the Glover's Reef Research Station to please contact: Glover's Reef Marine Research Station, P.O. Box 2310, Belize City, Belize or Tel. 501-2-33855 or fax 501-2-31963. E-mail messages can be sent to: jpowell@btl.net. -- James A. Powell Director Glover's Reef Marine Research Station P.O. Box 2310 Belize City, Belize Tel./Fax 501-233855 Middle Cay tel: 501-148474 E-mail: jpowell@btl.net From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Wed Oct 27 01:13:39 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA11269 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 01:13:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for gcrmn-stac-outgoing id FAA01900; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 05:13:48 GMT Received: from aims.gov.AU by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id BAA01893; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 01:13:40 -0400 Received: from cwhome.aims.gov.au by aims.gov.AU (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA24546; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 15:12:12 +1000 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19961027050736.006f8f98@email.aims.gov.au> X-Sender: cwilkins@email.aims.gov.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 15:07:36 +1000 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Clive Wilkinson Subject: GCRMN Pilot Monitoring Study Cc: gcrmn-stac@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, gcrmn@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Sender: owner-gcrmn-sc@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: GLOBAL CORAL REEF MONITORING NETWORK (GCRMN) Pilot Monitoring Programme of the IOC-UNEP-IUCN Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network: we are launching a one-off pilot programme to monitor reefs around the world. We invite you to participate. This call is to marine research groups, senior researchers and others who have experience in monitoring coral reefs, particularly in several different coral reef regions. Our goals are to: establish a cooperative network; demonstrate to governments, donors and the science community that a network can function; and assist developing countries get started in reef monitoring. We shall ask you to monitor at least one site in your country and a parallel one with developing country scientists between December 1996 and May 1997; then pool the data so that we can report a snapshot view of reef status as part of the International Year of the Reef in June 1997. Methods and protocols will either be provided by electronic mail or are in the Manual (see below) now being revised for a 2nd printing. It is probable that sites monitored this time will constitute the basis for a global system of regular long-term monitoring. HISTORY The concept of global coral reef monitoring has been discussed for many years. It culminated in June 1992 in Guam, at the 7th International Coral Reef Symposium when many reef scientists and managers reported their willingness to participate in a 'snapshot' global reef monitoring programme. But there was no money to get it started. METHODS Methods from the Survey Manual for Tropical Marine Resources (Eds. English, Wilkinson and Baker, published by AIMS) from the ASEAN-Australia Living Coastal Resources Project will form the basis for monitoring. These were chosen as the 'standards' by the UNEP-IOC-WMO-IUCN Meeting of Experts on a Long-Term Global Monitoring System of Coastal and Near-Shore Phenomena Related to Climate Change, Pilot Projects on Mangroves and Coral Reefs, December 1991, and confirmed by the UNEP-IOC-IUCN-ASPEI Global Task Team on the Implications of Climate Change on Coral Reefs in 1992. However, during this Pilot project, any comparable methods will be acceptable. These biophysical monitoring methods include: manta tow (or equivalent for a broad perspective); line intercept transect with identification at a minimum of 'lifeform' level (or equivalent transect method to gather % cover data); and fish censusing, with emphasis on fisher target species and indicator fish, like butterfly (chaetodont) fish. Reporting should also include specific events and activities e.g. bleaching, predators, dynamite damage, urchin populations etc. Data on these are being accumulated by several groups, coordinated by Bob Ginsburg in Miami, Gregor Hodgson in Hong Kong, and John McManus of ReefBase in Manila. A comparable set of socioeconomic parameters are being assembled. THE GCRMN The GCRMN was activated by the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) to provide Research and Monitoring information on coral reefs and related ecosystems for more efficient management and long-term conservation. The GCRMN has 3 co-sponsors (IOC, UNEP and IUCN), two hosts (AIMS and ICLARM) and interacts closely with the ICRI Secretariat. The overall objectives of the GCRMN are to: improve the conservation, management and sustainable uses of coral reefs and related ecosystems for peoples of the tropics and the world through assessing the trends in biophysical status and social, cultural and economic values of these ecosystems; provide many people with the capacity to assess their resources and integrate these people into a global network to document and disseminate data on reef status and trends. The GCRMN is based on the following principles: emphasise the involvement of local communities; put equal emphasis on biophysical and social, cultural and economic data; function through existing organisations, networks, and monitoring programmes, not create new bodies; offer a standard methodology, but be responsive to wishes of participants; often focus monitoring in current or planned Marine Protected Areas and adjacent unprotected areas; ensure that data are accessible to all in an understandable format. CONTACT If you want more information, please look up the web site - http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/gcrmn/gcrmn.html to sign up contact - Dr Clive Wilkinson, Coordinator, Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, c/o Australian Institute of Marine Science PMB No. 3, TOWNSVILLE MC 4810, AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 77 534 372 or +61 77 724 314 Fax: +61 77 722 808 or +61 77 725 852 e-mail: c.wilkinson@aims.gov.au or Dr John McManus, ReefBase Project Leader International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management, MCPO Box 2631, 0718 MAKATI, Metro Manila, PHILIPPINES Tel: +63 2 818 0466 or +63 2 817 5255 Fax: +63 2 816 3183 e-mail: j.mcmanus@cgnet.com Clive Wilkinson, Coordinator Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network Tel: +61 77 724314; Fax: +61 77 722808 or 725852 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Wed Oct 27 16:54:09 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA15115; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 16:54:02 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA02374; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 21:16:56 GMT Received: from tula.cura.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA02369; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 16:16:47 -0500 Received: from ecosense.cura.net (dppp07.cura.net [206.160.180.107]) by tula.cura.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA29372 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 14:55:17 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199610271955.OAA29372@tula.cura.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "EcoSense" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 15:53:25 -04:0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: Quoted-printable Subject: Field Trip Offering Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.33) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: **** FIELD TRIP OFFERING **** Rerun field trip to Cura=E7ao - Bonaire The Cura=E7ao-Bonaire field trip which was organized as part of the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium was an enormous success for both participants, local scientists and the organizers. Therefor the organizers are considering to rerun the field trip from June 29 - July 6 1997. We need a minimum of 15 participants (max. 18) to run the field trip. During the field trip, which is orientated on both biology and geology, we will visit about 10 SCUBA-dive localities and 16 geological sites. For transportation from Cura=E7ao to Bonaire and back we will use a 36 m Sailing Ship. For more information and application form contact: Manfred van Veghel EcoSense, P.O. Box 3187, Cura=E7ao, Netherlands Antilles Phone/Fax: + 599 9 613196; E-mail: ecosense@cura.net EcoSense Dr. Manfred L.J. van Veghel PO Box 3187 Cura=E7ao, Netherlands Antilles Phone and Fax: +599 9 613196 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Oct 28 09:43:12 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA22347; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 09:43:06 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA02911; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 13:20:26 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA02906; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 08:20:24 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA27041; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 08:20:23 -0500 Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 08:20:22 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Congressional Research Service Reports available Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 14:06:28 -0400 From: "Comm. for the NIE" Subject: Congressional Research Service Reports available CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE REPORTS AVAILABLE Hello, I would like to invite you to visit the Committee for the National Institute for the Environment's (CNIE) web site. http://www.cnie.org We are developing a prototype National Library for the Environment, an on-line source of environmental information. 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Message-Id: <9610281413.AA21377@dino.conicit.ve> Subject: spawning Montastrea in Venezuela To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 10:13:41 -0400 (AST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov I did observe Montastrea annularis spawning the night of September 4th, 1996 (10:40 pm) at Dos Mosquises Key, Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela (Southern Caribbean). Sheila M. Pauls ******************* Sheila M. Pauls Instituto de Zoologia Tropical Universidad Central de Venezuela A.Postal 47058 Caracas 1041-A - Venezuela E-mail: spauls@conicit.ve ******************* From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Oct 28 10:34:27 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA23418; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 10:34:21 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA02949; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 14:09:03 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA02944; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 09:09:01 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA27192; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 09:09:01 -0500 Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 09:09:00 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: New charter document for GCRMN Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The new charter document of the GCRMN can be found at: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/gcrmn/gcrmn.html and is also included here: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) INTRODUCTION Coral reefs around the world are being damaged and destroyed at an increasing rate. But we cannot be precise about how much and where, because of the special difficulties of monitoring underwater. Thus, there is a need to assess how, where and why damage is occurring and determine the best methods for prevention. By harnessing the interest and skills of all users in reef assessment and management, the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) has been established to tackle these problems and to provide valid management data. The GCRMN's major product will be the facilitation of networks of people trained to look closely at coral reefs and to monitor their progress over time. This will also provide knowledge and data on reef status and trends. Essentially, the GCRMN is a bottom-up network which aims to tap into the current knowledge about coral reefs in order to advance reef management. BACKGROUND Global reef monitoring has been discussed seriously for some time. When the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) was launched at the United Nations Global Conference on Sustainable Development of Small Islands Developing States in Barbados in 1994, there was renewed emphasis on monitoring coral reefs. In 1995 ICRI called on many nations to commit themselves towards increasing research and monitoring of reefs to provide the data for effective management. IOC,UNEP,WMO and IUCN have joined forces to co-sponsor the GCRMN, which is hosted jointly by AIMS (Australian Institute of Marine Science) and ICLARM (International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management). These bodies, along with the ICRI Secretariat, form the GCRMN Management Group. Advice is provided by a widely representative Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (GCRMN-STAC). WHERE IS GCRMN LOCATED The GCRMN will function through fifteen independent networks, or sub-nodes, in six regions around the world. These networks will contain many different groups of people, all collaborating to monitor coral reefs and share data. The regions are: * Western Indian Ocean islands and East African States * Middle East Gulfs (those countries bordering the Red Sea around to the Persian/Arabian Gulf) * South Asia (India, Sri Lanka and Maldives) * East Asian Seas (from Burma/Myanmar and Japan to Indonesia/Philippines * Pacific Island states * Caribbean and Intra-Americas, including countries with reefs bordering the Atlantic Ocean Regions will be divided by the participant countries into smaller sub-nodes, each of which will employ a team of trainers and database operators to assist a small group of countries Funding for each of these sub-nodes will be requested from country, development bank and agency donors, with the responsibility of funding monitoring to devolve to the countries, after about five years. Donors are invited to assist in developing the networks and funding proposals in regions where their Regions will be divided by the participant countries into smaller sub-nodes, each of which will employ a team of trainers and database operators to assist a small group of countries Funding for each of these sub-nodes will be requested from country, development bank and agency donors, with the responsibility of funding monitoring to devolve to the countries, after about five years. Donors are invited to assist in developing the networks and funding proposals in regions where their interests are paramount. interests are paramount. Thus, the GCRMN will emphasise the involvement of local communities. Wherever possible, the GCRMN will use existing organisations and networks, integrate existing monitoring programmes, and maintain flexibility to incorporate different methods of monitoring, other than the standard methodology. GCRMN OBJECTIVES The GCRMN aims to improve management and sustainable conservation of coral reefs for people by assessing the status and trends in the reefs and how people use and value the resources. It will do this by providing many people with the capacity to assess their own resources, within a global network, and to spread the word on reef status and trends. In summary, the core objectives are: * To link existing organisations and people to monitor biophysical and social, cultural and economic aspects of coral reefs within interacting regional networks. * To strengthen the existing capacity to examine reefs by providing a consistent monitoring program, that will identify trends in coral reefs and discriminate between natural, anthropogenic, and climatic changes. * To disseminate results at local, regional, and global scales by providing annual reports on coral reef status and trends to assist environmental management agencies implement sustainable use and conservation of reefs. Data will also aid preparation of predictive global climate change models for the GOOS Coastal Zone Module. HOW DOES THE GCRMN WORK? The strategy to establish the global network is to employ a team of monitoring trainers in each GCRMN sub-node and use this team to train similar trainers in participating countries. The training will continue throughout the region with the focus on monitoring by local communities. Monitoring will continue over time at key national sites, to gather data and develop skills. Experienced marine institutes will assist in training, establishing of databases and problem resolution. A range of reef types will be monitored along line transects, assessing easily recognisable lifeforms and total fish counts, with specific counts of 'target' fish of commercial or recreational value. As people gain more experience, monitoring will be upgraded using the same methods, but to species level. Local communities will be questioned on their use and knowledge of reef resources and how management may be improved. The Network will be responsive to reef users and provide information back in an understandable format. Much of the monitoring will be in current or planned Marine Protected Areas and adjacent unprotected areas. This will be coordinated with the World Bank, IUCN/CNPPA, and GBRMPA Global Representative System of Marine Protected Areas project. Monitoring data will be accumulated in each sub-node for distribution within the region and to ReefBase (ICLARM, Manila). These will be combined, by the GCRMN Coordinator, into annual global reef status summaries and disseminated to international forums, organisations and the media. Two special monitoring projects will be supported by the GCRMN: a pilot programme undertaken simultaneously by research institutes around the world to give a snapshot of reef status; and the development of a tourist monitoring programme coordinated through tourist operators. * Ensure that your organisation or country is informed of the GCRMN and its objectives. * Inform the GCRMN Coordinator about organisations and individuals who wish to be part of the International Coral Reef Initiative and the GCRMN. * Recommend the possibility of funding by donors to assist a sub-node or country, or through the direct funding of training workshops or publications. * Assist us to provide training or equipment to countries to monitor and operate their own databases. For further information, please contact: Dr Clive Wilkinson Coordinator, Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network c/o Australian Institute of Marine Science PMB No. 3, TOWNSVILLE MC 4810 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 77 534 372 or +61 77 724 314 Fax: +61 77 722 808 or +61 77 725 852 e-mail: c.wilkinson@aims.gov.au or Dr John McManus ReefBase Project Leader International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management, MCPO Box 2631 0718 MAKATI, Metro Manila PHILIPPINES Tel: +63 2 818 0466 or +63 2 817 5255 Fax: +63 2 816 3183 e-mail: j.mcmanus@cgnet.com From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Oct 29 15:54:22 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA21450; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 15:54:16 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA04097; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 19:34:10 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA04092; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 14:34:08 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA00058; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 14:34:07 -0500 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 14:34:07 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral Reply-To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: South Florida Ecosystem Success Indicator - 11 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY=------------30E32FB74E01 Content-ID: Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. --------------30E32FB74E01 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Content-ID: Greetings, The attached message is a prologue to a larger document by Dr. Michael P. Crosby, "South Florida Ecosystem Success Indicator - ll: Improvement of Coral Reef Conditions." The entire document may be read on the Web at: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/themes/indicators.html It is also available as a postscript document in the following anonymous FTP subdirectory on coral.aoml.noaa.gov: pub/champ/docs/sfl ----------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, As part of my responsibilities and interests both within NOAA and as a representative on the South Florida Restoration Intergovernmental Science Working Group I have drafted the following short description of the "Ecological Success Criteria" for the improvement of coral reef condition. This very succinct description is the product of numerous discussions, meetings and e-mails (most of which began on Jim Hendee's coral listserver earlier this year). I greatly appreciate the input and ideas that I received from many of you with expertise in this broad ecosystem. I was NOT looking for verbose treatise on the subject of what is "healthy" versus "non-healthy". What I was attempting to do was to identify specific variables (i.e., biomass, diversity, presence/absence, physico-chemical, indicator species) that should increase or decrease, and in what magnitude, in order to say the system is improving in overall condition. I also want to emphasize that I was seeking criteria to measure significant improvement, not total restoration (that is another kettle of fish altogether!) Some variable that had earlier been suggested (although in many cases still requiring some degree of being quantitative) are: - Nutrients and suspended sediments reduced - Macro algae bloom and coverage decrease - Increase sea urchin population - Tortugus shrimp harvests restored to recent historic levels to support a MSY of 10 million pounds annually - Increase in population of common snook - Increase in recruitment of Gray Snapper - Restoration of larval and juvenile spiny lobster habitat (loggerhead sponges) to their historic range - Increase in sighting of jewfish - Increase in sighting of sea turtles - An increase in coral cover by 15-20% - Restore coverage and species composition of seagrasses to mid-1980s level - Increase in wading bird, osprey and brown pelican populations The input of many of you, as well as an initial review (by the Everglades Partnership and Center for Marine and Environmental Analyses at their Workshop on Ecological sustainability Criteria for South Florida in April, 1996) of draft ESI criteria developed for the entire South Florida Region has led to the following ESI for the condition of coral reefs in South Florida. You will note an absence of criteria pertaining directly to fishes, birds, turtles, etc and a strong focus on the coral reef itself. This is in direct response to the recommendations from several of you and specifically the above mentioned workshop. The more mobile species associated with coral reefs (Yes, we all know that coral have mobile life stages, but we are dealing with adults here) are addressed in other sections of the South Florida Ecological Success Criteria document that should be available in early December, 1996 from the South Florida Restoration Intergovernmental Science Working Group. I have asked Jim Hendee to post this "final draft version" of the Coral Reef Chapter of that document on the CHAMP Home Page and the coral listserver in order to get this out ASAP and pre-final publication. I still have time to make some changes to this Chapter prior to the middle of November, 1996. I would also be greatly appreciative to hear back from anyone who has any kind of data sets and monitoring or research sites that can assist with creating the baseline for either the existing and previous condition of the identified variables. Please feel free to either send you comments directly to my internet address or use the coral listserver. And once again, Many Thanks to all of you who have helped with your comments, suggestions and encouragement. Cheers, Michael --------------------------------------------------- Dr. Michael P. Crosby National Research Coordinator Ocean and Coastal Resource Management NOAA, SSMC-4, Rm 11437 1305 East West Highway Silver Spring, MD 20910 phone:301-713-3155, ext. 114 fax: 301-713-4012 Internet: mcrosby@coasts.nos.noaa.gov --------------30E32FB74E01-- From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Oct 30 08:32:01 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA00487; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 08:31:55 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA04764; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 12:34:34 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA04759; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 07:34:32 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA01683; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 07:34:31 -0500 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 07:34:30 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: CHAMP down today Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The coral-list listserver and the CHAMP Home Page will be down today for operating system upgrades. Thank you for your patience. JCH From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Oct 30 08:36:43 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA00554; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 08:36:36 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA04772; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 12:35:45 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA04767; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 07:35:43 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA01690; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 07:35:42 -0500 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 07:35:42 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: bleachings and spawnings (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 15:03:03 -0600 (CST) From: Rosa Elisa Rodriguez To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program Subject: Re: bleachings and spawnings Coral Bleaching in the Mexican Caribbean was observed in October 1995. Personal observations were done in the rear-reef of Puerto Morelos Reef. Quatitative data are as follows 1: 1-20% of the colonies were bleached 2: 21-40% 3: 41-60% 4: 61-80% 5: 81-100% Site 1 Site 2 Montastrea annularis 5 4 Diploria strigosa 1 - Meandrina meandrites 5 - Porites porites 3 3 P. astreoides 1 - Isophyllastrea rigida 3 - Isophyllia sinuosa 3 - Acropora palmata 0 1 A. cervicornis - 1 A. prolifera - 5 (only 2 colonies present) Agaricia agaricites 5 - A. tennuifolia 5 - M. complanata 5 5 M. alcicornis 3 - Palythoa sp. and many species of gorgonacea were also bleached Other sites reported by locals were Punta Nizuc (Cancun), Manchones Reef (Isla Mujeres), Mahaual (South of Quintana Roo). Observations conducted in March, 1996 revealed no bleaching in Site 2 and two other sites. In site 1 only M. annularis colonies remained pale on the top part of the colony, the sides had recovered their original color. Although we have no quantitative data no severe mortality appeared to have happened due to the bleaching event. Biol. Rosa Rodriguez Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Estacion Puerto Morelos, Lab. Arrecifes Coralinos Tel (987) 102-19 Fax (987) 101-38 e-mail: rosaer@mar.icmyl.unam.mx From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Oct 31 03:52:45 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA16075 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 03:52:44 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for gcrmn-stac-outgoing id IAA05943; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 08:49:34 GMT Received: from nusunix2.nus.sg by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id DAA05934; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 03:44:24 -0500 Received: from leonis.nus.sg (sbsclm@leonis.nus.sg [137.132.1.18]) by nusunix2.nus.sg (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA18967; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 16:42:38 +0800 Received: from localhost (sbsclm@localhost) by leonis.nus.sg (8.6.10/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id QAA17420; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 16:42:35 +0800 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 16:42:35 +0800 (SST) From: Chou Loke Ming To: Clive Wilkinson cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, gcrmn-stac@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, gcrmn@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: GCRMN Pilot Monitoring Study In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961027050736.006f8f98@email.aims.gov.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-gcrmn-sc@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Clive, Yes, we will participate in the pilot monitoring programme. Will select a few reef sites in Singapore for the monitoring. Loke Ming ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Chou Loke Ming School of Biological Sciences National University of Singapore 10 Kent Ridge Crescent Singapore 119260 e-mail: sbsclm@nus.sg tel: (65) 772 2696 fax: (65) 779 6155 ------------------------------------------------ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Oct 31 09:26:09 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA18524; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 09:26:02 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA06130; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 12:44:50 GMT Received: from coral by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA06125; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 07:44:43 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA04299; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 07:44:43 -0500 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 07:44:42 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program X-Sender: coral@coral To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: GCRMN Membership Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Greetings, Individuals, institutions and agencies who are actively engaged in monitoring coral reefs and recording data, or who plan to do so, may wish to join the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network. The charter document describing the GCRMN may be found at: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/gcrmn/gcrmn.html Because policy, organizational and operational issues of the GCRMN may not be of general interest to the members of coral-list, a separate listserver has been instituted for members of the GCRMN. The intention of this list is to foster information transfer among those actively engaged in recording data for the benefit of the GCRMN and its goals. All list members may contribute to discussions, which primarily are intended to support the goals of the GCRMN. For general coral discussions, postings may be made to the coral-list open discussion group. To subscribe to the GCRMN listserver, send e-mail to majordomo@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, with the following message (only!) in the body of the text: subscribe gcrmn For specific questions concerning the GCRMN itself, please contact Dr. Clive Wilkinson at c.wilkinson@aims.gov.au. If you have any problems concerning the listserver itself, please feel free to drop a line to Jim Hendee at NOAA: hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Cheers, Jim Hendee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | Coral Health and Monitoring Program | | Ocean Chemistry Division | | Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory | | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | | Miami, Florida | | USA | | | | Email: coral@coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | World-Wide Web: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Nov 1 16:31:01 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA03256; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 16:30:54 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA01487; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 20:16:01 GMT Received: from santamarta.cetcol.net.co by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA01482; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 15:15:27 -0500 Received: (from carola@localhost) by santamarta.cetcol.net.co (8.7.2/8.7.2) id PAA24462; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 15:07:42 +0500 (GMT) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 15:07:40 +0500 (GMT) From: Carola To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: towards sustainable publishing (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hi: This message is to alert everybody. There is a virus in the e-book "toward sustainable publishing" so if you get it trow it away!!!!! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 30 Sep 96 13:57:49 EDT From: martin charter <101336.3560@compuserve.com> To: BlindCopyReceiver: ; Subject: towards sustainable publishing Towards Sustainable Publishing by Dr Martin Woodhouse ----------------------------------------------------- This report compares the total environmental impact of a book created on a diskette (e-book) for reading from the screen with that of the identical book printed traditionally on paper. The book chosen for comparison is a novel -- "The Harp That Once" -- by Patrick Hall -- which has 220 pages in paper form, and 260 pages when published "Illumination" format on diskette. The report uses Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) to compare the overall impacts of the manufacture, use, and disposal of these two items. It discusses in detail the difficulties, both practical and conceptual, encountered when setting up this calculation. Despite these difficulties, it shows that the conclusion it reaches is a valid one; which is that, for identical books and documents, publishing electronically on diskette has far less environmental impact than doing so on paper. Apart from its immediate application, "Towards Sustainable Publishing" is intended as an introduction to the more general field of assessing comparative environmental impacts, a discipline which is of rapidly growing importance for environmental managers and product designers. For a free copy of the e-book "Towards Sustainable Publishing", please re-email your full postal address. Martin Charter, Director, Eco-Innovations Publishing (an imprint of Epsilon Press Ltd) From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Nov 2 08:57:30 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA08253; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 08:57:23 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA02680; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 13:17:52 GMT Received: from superaje.com by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA02675; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 08:17:49 -0500 Received: from login.superaje.com (port11.superaje.com) by superaje.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA18950; Sat, 2 Nov 96 08:11:21 EST Message-Id: <327B4A66.3EA6@superaje.com> Date: Sat, 02 Nov 1996 08:19:34 -0500 From: Don McAllister Organization: Linn-Tarn; Canadian Museum of Nature; Ocean Voice International X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; U) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Cc: mcall@superaje.com Subject: Reputed virus in sustainable publishing References: <9611020458.AA27873@Alice.Wonderland.Caltech.EDU> <327B4926.407D@superaje.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: > > Hi coral-listers, > I have installed a copy of this diskette on my computer. There has been > no catastrophic failure. My virus checking program (not up to date > admittedly) has not found any viruses when I power up. I did however > develop a general protection fault in the e-mail part of my Internet in > a Box subsequently, but that point problem is not the general symptom I > hear you get from most viruses. > > So I suspect Justin is right. > > don mcallister > > Dustin L. Laurence wrote: > > > > >This message is to alert everybody. > > > > > >There is a virus in the e-book "toward sustainable publishing" so if you > > >get it trow it away!!!!! > > > > No offense to the original sender, but it doesn't help anyone to > > spread these sorts of rumors. *Very* few reported viruses are > > viruses, so on the face of it there isn't much reason to worry. > > > > Second, this report comes with NO indication of what the symptoms > > are, which makes it even more likely to be an (unwitting, I'm sure) > > hoax. People who know what they're about tend to back up their > > statements, hoaxes characteristically come with either no info or > > patently bogus info. > > > > Again, I mean no offense to the original sender, but without better > > info the overwhelming likelihood is that this is yet another of the > > many, many virus hoaxes that propagate around the net like wildfire. > > I hate to see these things get started or propagated without at > > least some credible reasons given. > > > > If anyone is very worried about this and doesn't have any local help, > > I guess I am willing to check at least a couple of disks mailed to > > me to to resolve any doubt, or tell someone else how to do it. I > > don't really have time for it, but better that than have people > > acting on an unverified rumor. > > > > Dustin > > -- > Don E. McAllister /& Canadian Centre for Biodiversity > Ocean Voice International /Canadian Museum of Nature > Box 37026, 3332 McCarthy Rd. /Box 3443, Station D > Ottawa, ON K1V 0W0, Canada /Ottawa, ON K1P 6P4 > URL: http://www.ovi.ca E-mail: mcall@superaje.com > (or: ah194@freenet.carleton.ca) Tel: (613) 264-8986, Fax: (613) > 264-9204 -- Don E. McAllister /& Canadian Centre for Biodiversity Ocean Voice International /Canadian Museum of Nature Box 37026, 3332 McCarthy Rd. /Box 3443, Station D Ottawa, ON K1V 0W0, Canada /Ottawa, ON K1P 6P4 URL: http://www.ovi.ca E-mail: mcall@superaje.com (or: ah194@freenet.carleton.ca) Tel: (613) 264-8986, Fax: (613) 264-9204 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Wed Nov 3 22:38:49 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA16567; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 22:38:38 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id CAA04302; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 02:28:49 GMT Received: from hk.super.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA04297; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 21:24:06 -0500 Received: from ces.ces.linuxhk.com (root@annex5-32.hk.super.net [202.64.10.32]) by hk.super.net (8.7.6/8.7.1) with SMTP id KAA28146 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 10:22:37 +0800 (HKT) Received: from mm.ces.linuxhk.com (mm.ces.linuxhk.com [192.168.19.70]) by ces.ces.linuxhk.com (8.6.11/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA02031 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 10:11:40 +0800 Message-Id: <199611040211.KAA02031@ces.ces.linuxhk.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Maria Justine MILICI" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 10:20:41 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Elusive Map Found!! Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hi Coral-List, Many people asked me to pass on the information about the elusive map I was looking for if I ever found it (the one detailing the damage to coral reefs around the world), so here goes: 1. There are maps in the back of a report titled: Jameson, S.C., JW McManus and MD Spalding 1995. State of the Reefs:Regional and Global Perspectives. ICRI Executive Secretariat Background Paper, US Department of State, Washington DC 32p I have a hard copy of this now (I picked it up at ICRS in Panama in July) and it says you should contact Stephen Jameson at sjameson@ocean.nos.noaa.gov to get a copy. These maps were produced from REEFBASE. I have tried various ways of ordering this cd over the past couple of weeks but, as yet, have had absolutely no luck at all. I have tried emailing John McManus directly (Reefbase project leader), emailing the reefbase team (Reefbase@cgnet.com) and am now in the process of telephoning ICLARM directly in the Philippines to try to obtain a copy. I suspect this might be the best way to go as they may not be contactable thru their email all the time. Fair enough. 2. I also got some feedback about another map that sounded pretty good. Its a World Resources Institute (1995) map of Marine Protected Areas Threatened by Development and the Coastal Ecosystems Threatened by Development. They do not list coral reefs as such. They are in colour and show different LEVELS of risk. It is part of a document entitled Coastlines at Risk: An index of Potential Development-Related Threats to Coastal Ecosystems (D. Bryant, E. Rodemburg, T. Cox & D. Nielson) 1995. Address is: World Resource Institute 1709 New York Ave. N.W., Washington D.C. 20006 Tel 202-638-6300 I visited their website and tried to order a copy but have had no response. The website is at: igc.apc.org/wri but I haven't been able to get thru to them for a couple of days. thats it...thanks to all the people who helped me with this...i really appreciate it.... maria ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Dr. Maria Milicich Senior Scientist CES (ASIA) LTD Room 1201 Tai Yau Building, 181 Johnston Rd Wanchai fax: 28910305 ph: 28931551 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Nov 2 00:40:58 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA05980; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 00:40:49 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id FAA01836; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 05:00:40 GMT Received: from Alice.Wonderland.Caltech.EDU by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id AAA01831; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 00:00:34 -0500 Received: by Alice.Wonderland.Caltech.EDU (4.1/1.2) id AA27873; Fri, 1 Nov 96 20:58:24 PST Date: Fri, 1 Nov 96 20:58:24 PST From: laurence@alice.wonderland.caltech.edu (Dustin L. Laurence) Message-Id: <9611020458.AA27873@Alice.Wonderland.Caltech.EDU> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: towards sustainable publishing (fwd) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: >This message is to alert everybody. > >There is a virus in the e-book "toward sustainable publishing" so if you >get it trow it away!!!!! No offense to the original sender, but it doesn't help anyone to spread these sorts of rumors. *Very* few reported viruses are viruses, so on the face of it there isn't much reason to worry. Second, this report comes with NO indication of what the symptoms are, which makes it even more likely to be an (unwitting, I'm sure) hoax. People who know what they're about tend to back up their statements, hoaxes characteristically come with either no info or patently bogus info. Again, I mean no offense to the original sender, but without better info the overwhelming likelihood is that this is yet another of the many, many virus hoaxes that propagate around the net like wildfire. I hate to see these things get started or propagated without at least some credible reasons given. If anyone is very worried about this and doesn't have any local help, I guess I am willing to check at least a couple of disks mailed to me to to resolve any doubt, or tell someone else how to do it. I don't really have time for it, but better that than have people acting on an unverified rumor. Dustin From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Nov 7 14:36:18 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA17822; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 14:36:12 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA02479; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 18:25:06 GMT Received: from nic.cerf.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA02474; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 13:24:59 -0500 Received: from [198.94.3.71] (ppp6-86.igc.org [198.94.3.86]) by nic.cerf.net (2.1.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA11088 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 10:24:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 10:24:42 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: reefnet@cerf.net (Wendy Holland) Subject: http://www.reefnet.org Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Introducing Reefnet.org Coral Reef Cyberzine Current issue of Reefnet includes: REEF RESEARCH In an interview with Dr. Robert R. Warner, plenary speaker at the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium, Dr. Warner talks about his research in the Caribbean. NGO NEWS Dr. Elliot A. Norse introduces the Marine Conservation Biology Institute and the symposium planned for June 1997. FIELD REPORTS Report on the Bolinao-Anda reef. Smithsonian review of the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium. CONSERVATION STRATEGIES President Fidel Ramos explains his conservation plans for Philippine reefs. ******************************************************************************* Questions or comments should be sent to reefnet@cerfnet.com From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Nov 7 22:17:54 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA24038; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 22:17:47 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id CAA02765; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 02:17:36 GMT Received: from dns1.uga.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA02760; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 21:17:33 -0500 Received: from cellmate.cb.uga.edu (cellmate.cb.uga.edu [128.192.13.2]) by dns1.uga.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA19098 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 21:17:26 -0500 Received: (from spater@localhost) by cellmate.cb.uga.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA16191; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 21:17:26 - 0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 21:17:25 -0500 (EST) From: Shane To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Underwater research opportunity in Papua New Guinea, 1997 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Social behavior of sympatric barracuda species - EARTHWATCH VOLUNTEER field research in papua New Guinea, 1997 First, I apologize for any repetitious cross-postings for those of you who happen to subscribe to the same mailing lists as I. I'd like to put the word out about an upcoming Earthwatch project I will be leading, a program of underwater research to be conducted during June, July, and August of 1997. The setting for this research will be the prolific reefs of Papua New Guinea's Madang Province, which lies smack at the center of marine biodiversity. We will gather data through intensive underwater observation of barracuda behavior, utilizing SCUBA diving and snorkeling, and stay at the Christensen Research Institute, a research center which shares a peninsula and 22 acres of former coconut plantation with Jais Aben Resort. Twenty species of barracuda prowl the world's seas, including species classified as predominantly solitary in nature and those of a typically more gregarious bent, which often form huge schools. We know next to nothing about the behavior, and even the basic biology, of most barracuda species. My previous research has focused upon the great barracuda (*Sphyraena barracuda*), largest and most cosmopolitan of these predators. Next year's study in Madang, which essentially examines and contrasts the social behavior of several barracuda species occurring in the same geographic area (sympatric species), will contribute to an understanding of group formation and persistence in marine predators. Results from this study may have broader application and significance in approaching questions dealing with the evolution of sociality. For further information, please contact EARTHWATCH directly by telephone or through their WWW site (which also includes information on membership, more information about this particular project, and other volunteer opportunities for field research). Earthwatch telephone: (800) 776-0188 Earthwatch website: http://www.earthwatch.org Thanks for your interest. Shane Paterson PhD student, University of Georgia http://cellmate.cb.uga.edu/~spater/earthwatch.html From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Nov 8 00:38:43 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA24919; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 00:38:36 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id EAA02847; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 04:46:52 GMT Received: from tula.cura.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id XAA02842; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 23:46:41 -0500 Received: from ecosense.cura.net (dppp33.cura.net [206.160.180.133]) by tula.cura.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA08678 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 21:16:28 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199611080216.VAA08678@tula.cura.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "EcoSense" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 21:16:39 -04:0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Spawning Curacao - Aruba 1996 X-Confirm-Reading-To: "EcoSense" X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.33) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear spawning fans, More spawning data from Curacao and Aruba: New spawning observations from last week: Curacao: Neofibularia nolitangere October 30 & 31; Pseudoceratina crassa? November 7 (see information below) Bonaire: Montastrea annularis November 1 (3 individuals no further details available at this moment) New spawning observations from October: see overview of 1996 data below Species*Date(Month/day)**Time (h)***Location****n***** % (Month/day) Echinodermata Ophioderma rubicundum (male) *09/05**21.20-21.24***1****2 Ophioderma rubicundum (female) *09/05**21.27***1****1 Gorgonia ? *10/02**22.15***1****1 *10/03**22.35***1****1 Gorgonia ventalina? *08/31**21.30-22.15***3****10*****~25% Polychaeta Unidentified species *10/03**21.15***1****>>100 *09/28**19.15-19.45***1****>>100 Scleractinia Eusmilia fastifiata *10/02**22.35***1****1 *10/03**22.25***1****1 *10/04**21.30-22.43***1****4 Montastrea annularis *10/02**21.25-22.08***1****3*****<10% *09/04**21.20-22.20***1****6*****<5% *09/04**22.30-22.45***9****1 *10/02**21.40-22.40***1****11 *10/03**21.00-22.30***1****15 *10/04**22.00-22.30***1****6 - massive *09/04**21.20***1****1*****<5% *10/02**21.35-22.22***1****16*****~20% - columnar *09/04**21.12-22.20***1****2*****<5% Montastrea cavernosa (male) *09/04**21.10-22.12***1****5***** <5% *09/04**21.45-22.05***1****4 *09/05**21.50-22.46***1****2***** <5% *09/28**19.30***1****1 *10/02**21.45-22.00***1****4 Montastrea cavernosa (female) *09/04**21.45-22.05***1****1*****<5% *10/04**22.05***1****1 Spongia Aplisina vulva *03/03**16.00***5****3*****<30% Neofibularia nolitangere (male) *10/30**16.00-17.00***7****>10*****>50% *10/31**16.05-17.35***2****10 *****~50% Neofibularia nolitangere (female) *10/31**16.05-17.35***2****2 Pseudoceratina crassa? *07/21**14.28***6****1 *11/07**16.00-16.20***8****2 female ;5 male Diplastrella sp. ? *07/21**14.00***4****1 -Locations on Curacao (and Aruba) 1=Slangenbaai; 2=CARMABI-Buoy 0; 3=Seaquarium Reef ; 4=Lagun ; 5=Vaersenbaai;6=Porto Mari ; 7= Boca Sami; 8= Westpunt; 9 = Rocky Beach (Aruba) -Full moon dates in 1996:01/05 - 02/04 - 03/05 - 04/03 -05/03 - 06/01- 06/30 - 07/30 - 08/28 - 09/26 - 10/25 - 11/25 - 12/12. -Tidal data is collected by `Curacao Havendienst'; analyzed data for 1996 is not available, for more information on spawning and tidal relationship on Curacao see Van Veghel 1994, Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 109:209-219 -The major part of the data was collected during the 6th Annual Reef Care Coral Spawning Event and by students and colleagues on Curacao. For more information feel free to contact me at the address below! Best regards, Manfred. EcoSense Dr. Manfred L.J. van Veghel PO Box 3187 Curacao, Netherlands Antilles Phone and Fax: +599 9 613196 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Nov 9 02:00:16 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA11801; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 02:00:09 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id FAA04736; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 05:55:17 GMT Received: from iniki.soest.hawaii.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id AAA04731; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 00:55:07 -0500 Received: from localhost (carlson@localhost) by iniki.soest.hawaii.edu (8.7.6/8.6.6) with SMTP id TAA02605; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 19:54:51 -1000 (HST) X-Authentication-Warning: iniki.soest.hawaii.edu: carlson owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 19:54:51 -1000 (HST) From: Bruce Carlson X-Sender: carlson@iniki To: coral@igc.apc.org cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: coral/bacteria In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Observations re: bacterial infections of captive corals Aquarists around the country who maintain corals in home aquariums have observed a syndrome dubbed Rapid Tissue Necrosis (RTN) where corals rapidly degenerate. Small polyp corals such as Acropora spp. seem to be most susceptible. Usually this begins at the base of the coral as a white area and rapidly spreads over the entire coral within 24 hours or so. The tissue in the white areas peels off or otherwise degenerates, ie, it is not a simple bleaching event. Under the microscope the usual protozoa (cf. Helicostoma sp.) associated with other cases of RTN in large polyp corals (e.g.Euphyllia spp.) are NOT observed. Craig Bingman in New York has tested an antibiotic treatment which worked in his aquarium. I wish to report that we have had similar success. This may be of interest to those studying corals diseases in the field. IN our case, one of our exhibit aquariums was accidentally overdosed with an iodine solution. This (or something else) we surmise stressed the acroporid corals in the exhibit. All of the acroporids in this exhibit were cloned and the parent colonies in separate aquarium systems remained healthy. Acropora microphthalma and A. austera both deteriorated rapidly and were lost. The remaining acroporids were treated when signs of the RTN appeared. These species included A. cytheria, A. grandis, A. palifera, A. gemmifera,and A. sp. Following Bingman's recommendation, these corals were isolated in a 16 liter aquarium and treated with 5mg/liter chloramphenicol. An airstone was added to the tank. After 24 hours the treatment was repeated. Water from the "infected" tank was used to treat the corals rather than "clean" water from our main source. After 48 hours the corals were moved to our outdoor facilities. The RTN had "consumed" up to 50% of some of these colonies before they were treated. The treatment completely halted the progress of the "disease" and all of these corals remain alive. We did not conduct a test for bacteria but the lack of any other visible pathogen and the fact that the progress of the RTN was halted by the use of chloramphenical strongly suggests that bacteria were the primary pathogen. The fact that we used "infected" water in the treatment tank helps us rule out the possiblity that simply transferring the corals to a different tank with different water elliminated the problem. Additionally, Craig Bingman reports that he treated his entire aquarium system with chloramphenicol with the similar results, ie, the RTN disappeared. I am reporting this partly to benefit those who are maintaining corals in either aquariums or laboratory conditions. It may or may not have any applicability to field situations. I am not familiar with the literature on bacterial infections in corals but I assume that this in itself is nothing new. Finally, just a warning to anyone using chloramphenicol -- it is considered very hazardous and should be used with extreme caution. Other antibiotics may be safer and just as effective in treating corals. For those who may be wondering: effluent from our coral systems flows into the sanitary sewer system, not into the ocean. Bruce Carlson Waikiki Aquarium From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Tue Nov 9 16:32:41 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA13763; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 16:32:34 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA06202; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 20:25:32 GMT Received: from post.metrolink.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA06197; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 15:25:29 -0500 Received: from mlb2037.metrolink.net ([207.31.127.37]) by post.metrolink.net (post.office MTA v2.0 0813 ID# 0-12688) with SMTP id AAA238 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 15:25:47 -0500 From: "Paul Hutley" To: "Coral List" Date: Sat, 09 Nov 96 16:29:46 Reply-To: "Paul Hutley" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Paul Hutley's Registered PMMail 1.52 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Plankton Bloom in Caribbean Message-ID: <19961109202542875.AAA238@mlb2037.metrolink.net> Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Here is a E-Mail notice from my friend John Birk about a plankton bloom in the Caribbean Sea. I think this would be useful to someone. >>I noticed a plankton bloom covering every dive site > >in Antigua starting mon. oct. 28 , it has not yet > >abated as of nov. 6. This is the worst I have seen > >during my 25 years in Antigua. We have checked > >with other dive shops in the Caribbean, and this > >thing stretches at the very least from StVincent to > >StMartin and as wide as Antigua Barbuda, StKitts > >Nevis and to Barbados. > >1...Is this of interest to anyone? > >2...How far does this thing stretch? > >3...Are we seeing something new related to global > > warming. > >4...I would appreciate any info. > > > >John Birk > >Dive Antigua > >c/o Rex Halcyon Cove Resort > >P/O Box 251 Antigua > >West Indies > > > >Tel: 268-462-3483 > >Fax: 268-462-7787 > >email: birkj@candw.ag > > > Please also send any respones to me and John. John's email address is above. Thanks Paul Hutley *** paulh@metrolink.net /// Sysop FarPoint Station 91 BBS 1:374/98.9 /// From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Wed Nov 10 16:42:01 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA16656; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 16:41:53 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA07763; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 20:51:15 GMT Received: from col2.caribsurf.com by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA07758; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 15:51:11 -0500 Received: from [205.214.210.198] by col2.caribsurf.com; (5.65/1.1.8.2/15Jun95-1157AM) id AA10494; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 16:51:06 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 16:51:06 -0400 Message-Id: <9611102051.AA10494@col2.caribsurf.com> X-Sender: kido-ywf@mail.caribsurf.com (Unverified) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: kido-ywf@caribsurf.com (kido) Subject: Re:Greenish water-reply from Grenadines X-Mailer: Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: >To: birkj@candw.ag >From: kido-ywf@caribsurf.com (kido) >Subject: Re:Greenish water-reply from Grenadines > >>To: paulh@metrolink.net (Paul Hutley) >>From: kido-ywf@caribsurf.com (kido) >>Subject: Re:Greenish water-reply from Grenadines >> >>Paul, >>Dr.David Patriquin of Dalhousie sent me your message >>Some info about what we know so far about the 'green water'. >>We will be happy to network with you, exchange data and information on environment etc at any time. >> >>Regards >>Dario Sandrini >> >>Kido Project Bio/Environmental Station >>Sanctuary, Carriacou, (Grenada) >>email kido-ywf@caribsurf.com >>Web page http://members.aol.com/ywf/home/kido.html >> >>>To: patriqui@is.dal.ca (David Patriquin) >> >>>From: kido-ywf@caribsurf.com (kido) >>>Subject: Re:Greenish water-reply from Grenadines >>> >>>Dave, >>>we can confirm the presence of the plankton and weeds in the area of the Grenada Bank. >>>This year unusually for the second time. >>>We are used to this yearly flow of greenish water: the phenomenon here is known to be related to the flooding of the Orinoco river during the rainy season from July: the mass of freshwater collects mud, nutrients and weeds etc from the inundated fields (Llanos) near the river proper and is pushed north past Trinidad to Tobago. In September we get bits and pieces of weeds, wood, and in 1910 an Orinoco crocodile landed in Grenada; in 1928 an exhausted alligator was beached in Windward, Carriacou, Grenadines of Grenada. >>> >>>This year we had the green water twice. Last week fishermen in the South of Grenada reported that it had already cleared, quite possibly currents took the lot up further North than usual, probably undergoing some biological changes. >>>Tanky, the Dive Operator in Carriacou reported of encountering murky, almost black water, mixed with plankton and algae, between 2 and 10 meters thick , like a wall; once past the bottom edge of the liquid wall the sea was perfectly clear again. >>> >>>It would be interesting to photograph/video tape the extent of the flow from our ultralight craft, and keep a detailed record of the changes every year. >>> >>>I am passing on the info to the other parties. >>> >>>Thanks and regards >>>Dario >>> >>> >>> >>> > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Wed Nov 10 19:20:20 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA17031; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 19:20:13 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id XAA07859; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 23:49:36 GMT Received: from solarnum.itd.uts.edu.au by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id SAA07854; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 18:49:31 -0500 Received: from iris.bio.uts.edu.au (iris.bio.uts.edu.au [138.25.240.2]) by solarnum.itd.uts.edu.au (8.8.2/8.8.2/1.3) with SMTP id KAA03671 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 10:47:56 +1100 (EADT) Received: from [138.25.241.44] by iris.bio.uts.edu.au via SMTP (911016.SGI/900605.SGI) (for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov) id AA00376; Mon, 11 Nov 96 10:54:35 +1100 Date: Mon, 11 Nov 96 10:54:35 +1100 Message-Id: <9611102354.AA00376@iris.bio.uts.edu.au> X-Sender: dbooth@mailbox.uts.edu.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Coral List" From: David Booth Subject: plankton bloom in Caribbean... Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Large scale plankton blooms affected the US and British Virgin Islands around this time of year in 1992 that were attributed to the plume of the Orinoco River (yes that far away from Venezuela). The folks at Virgin Islands National Park (St. John, USVI) have more information on this phenomenon. I believe (if my memory is correct) that NOAA had some satalitte images tarcking the extent of the plume during 1992. I'll pass your message on to friends at VINP who will be able to fill you in on details. Gigi Beretta Here is a E-Mail notice from my friend John Birk about a plankton bloom in the Caribbean Sea. I think this would be useful to someone. >>I noticed a plankton bloom covering every dive site > >in Antigua starting mon. oct. 28 , it has not yet > >abated as of nov. 6. This is the worst I have seen > >during my 25 years in Antigua. We have checked > >with other dive shops in the Caribbean, and this > >thing stretches at the very least from StVincent to > >StMartin and as wide as Antigua Barbuda, StKitts > >Nevis and to Barbados. > >1...Is this of interest to anyone? > >2...How far does this thing stretch? > >3...Are we seeing something new related to global > > warming. > >4...I would appreciate any info. > > > >John Birk > >Dive Antigua > >c/o Rex Halcyon Cove Resort > >P/O Box 251 Antigua > >West Indies > > > >Tel: 268-462-3483 > >Fax: 268-462-7787 > >email: birkj@candw.ag > > > Please also send any respones to me and John. John's email address is above. Thanks David J. Booth Dept. of Environmental Biology and Horticulture University of Technology, Sydney Westbourne Street, Gore Hill NSW 2065 AUSTRALIA 'ph 02/9514 4053 Fax: 02/9514 4003 http://www.bio.uts.edu.au/people/dbooth/index.html From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Nov 11 09:14:41 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA18762; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 09:14:34 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA09344; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 13:12:32 GMT Received: from alf.uac.pt by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA09339; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 08:11:59 -0500 Received: from dop by alf.uac.pt (5.4.1/140.2) id AA10412; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 12:36:32 GMT Received: from ricardo.uac.pt by dop.uac.pt (8.6.10/200.8.1.3) id NAA05464; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 13:10:25 GMT Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 13:10:25 GMT Message-Id: <199611111310.NAA05464@dop.uac.pt> X-Sender: carla@dop.uac.pt Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: carla@dop.uac.pt (Carla Correia) Subject: Ophioblennius research? X-Mailer: Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: My name is Carla Correia, and I`m a portuguese Marine Biology student. Currently I am preparing my graduation thesis at the Department of Oceanography and Fisheries of the University of the Azores (Portugal). My area of research has been the Behavioral Ecology of Ophioblennius atlanticus atlanticus, in particular alloparental care. I would like to know if any of you out there have been working (or have worked) in anything similar. Best regards Carla Correia From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Nov 11 15:24:16 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA20621; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 15:24:04 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA09602; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 19:15:14 GMT Received: from carbon.marine.usf.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA09597; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 14:15:11 -0500 Received: from localhost (carib@localhost) by carbon.marine.usf.edu (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id OAA03130; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 14:16:53 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: carbon.marine.usf.edu: carib owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 14:16:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Frank Muller-Karger (U. South FLorida / Marine Sci.)" X-Sender: carib@carbon To: David Booth cc: Coral List Subject: Re: plankton bloom in Caribbean... In-Reply-To: <9611102354.AA00376@iris.bio.uts.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: David Booth is correct in stating that the Orinoco River plume reaches far and wide over the eastern Caribbean, especially during September-NOvember every year. We have clear evidence from satellite images from the Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) for the years 1979-1985 (the device stopped working in June 1986). The NOAA AVHRR is probably not useful to examine the Orinoco plume far off the coast of Venezuela, because it only has red and near-infrared channels. However, the Japanese launched the Ocean Color Temperature Sensor (OCTS) on their ADEOS satellite in August 1996. This device should have caught the phenomenon in the Caribbean. It would definitely be useful to tell whether the blooms described in the messages below are localized (or autochthonous), or whether they are associated with the dispersal of the Orinoco's water. We published the satellite data showing these patterns in several papers, in particular: Muller-Karger, F. E., C. R. McClain, T. R. Fisher, W. E. Esaias, and R. Varela. 1989. Pigment distribution in the Caribbean Sea: Observations from Space. Progress in Oceanography. 23. 23-69. Muller-Karger, F. E., C. R. McClain, and P. L. Richardson. 1988. The dispersal of the Amazon's water. Nature. 333. 56-59. Muller-Karger, F. E., and R. J. Varela. 1988. Variabilidad de la biomasa de fitoplancton en aguas superficiales del Mar Caribe: Una perspectiva desde el espacio con el CZCS. Memoria. Soc. Ciencias Naturales La Salle. Vol XLVIII. Supplement No. 3. 179-201. Muller-Karger, F. E. 1988. Pigment Variability in the Caribbean Sea: A study using the Coastal Zone Color Scanner. PhD. Dissertation. Horn Point Environmental Laboratories. University of Maryland. 218 pp. Muller-Karger, F. E., and R. Varela. 1990. Influjo del Rio Orinoco en el Mar Caribe: observaciones con el CZCS desde el espacio. Memoria. Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle. Caracas, Venezuela. Tomo IL, numero 131-132; Tomo L, numero 133-134. 361-390. Muller-Karger, F. E. 1993. River discharge variability in the wider Caribbean region including plume dispersal patterns observed with the Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS). In: The Impact of Climate Change on the Wider Caribbean Region. G. Maul (editor). UNEP. Muller-Karger, F. E., and R. Aparicio. 1994. Mesoscale Processes Affecting Phytoplankton Abundance in the Southern Caribbean Sea. Continental Shelf Research. Continental Shelf Research. (14:2/3). 199-221. __________________________________ FMK ________________________________________ Frank Muller-Karger Remote Sensing/Biological Oceanogr. Department of Marine Science University of South Florida Phone: (813) 553-3335 (Off.) 140 7th Ave. South (813) 893-9186 (Lab.) St Petersburg, FL 33701 FAX: (813) 893-9103 << carib@carbon.marine.usf.edu >> _______________________________________________________________________________ On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, David Booth wrote: > Large scale plankton blooms affected the US and British Virgin Islands > around this time of year in 1992 that were attributed to the plume of the > Orinoco River (yes that far away from Venezuela). The folks at Virgin > Islands National Park (St. John, USVI) have more information on this > phenomenon. I believe (if my memory is correct) that NOAA had some > satalitte images tarcking the extent of the plume during 1992. I'll pass > your message on to friends at VINP who will be able to fill you in on details. > > Gigi Beretta > > > Here is a E-Mail notice from my friend John Birk about a plankton bloom in > the Caribbean Sea. I think > this would be useful to someone. > > >>I noticed a plankton bloom covering every dive site > > >in Antigua starting mon. oct. 28 , it has not yet > > >abated as of nov. 6. This is the worst I have seen > > >during my 25 years in Antigua. We have checked > > >with other dive shops in the Caribbean, and this > > >thing stretches at the very least from StVincent to > > >StMartin and as wide as Antigua Barbuda, StKitts > > >Nevis and to Barbados. > > >1...Is this of interest to anyone? > > >2...How far does this thing stretch? > > >3...Are we seeing something new related to global > > > warming. > > >4...I would appreciate any info. > > > > > >John Birk > > >Dive Antigua > > >c/o Rex Halcyon Cove Resort > > >P/O Box 251 Antigua > > >West Indies > > > > > >Tel: 268-462-3483 > > >Fax: 268-462-7787 > > >email: birkj@candw.ag > > > > > > > Please also send any respones to me and John. John's email address is above. > > Thanks > > David J. Booth > Dept. of Environmental Biology and Horticulture > University of Technology, Sydney > Westbourne Street, Gore Hill NSW 2065 > AUSTRALIA > 'ph 02/9514 4053 Fax: 02/9514 4003 > http://www.bio.uts.edu.au/people/dbooth/index.html > > > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Nov 11 23:48:13 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA22375; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 23:48:06 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id DAA09915; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 03:34:02 GMT Received: from CGNET.COM by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id WAA09910; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 22:33:53 -0500 Received: from msm.cgnet.com by CGNET.COM (PMDF V4.3-9 #18290) id <01IBQBW5ASGG003K8P@CGNET.COM>; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 19:33:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by msm.cgnet.com with Microsoft Mail id <3287F055@msm.cgnet.com>; Mon, 11 Nov 96 19:34:45 PST Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 11:17:00 -0800 (PST) From: John McManus Subject: Reply to: Maria Milicich To: "'coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov'" Message-id: <3287F055@msm.cgnet.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: TO: Maria Milicich c/o Coral List FROM:Dr John W McManus, ReefBase Project Leader, ICLARM DATE:12 November 1996 Dear Maria, Thank you for your inquiries to ReefBase and to myself. We received all of them and replied to each within one working day, as is our usual policy. Unfortunately, it appears that there is some problem with your receiving email, at least from CGNET, our service. This may also explain your lack of response from WRI, although they use a different service. Fortunately, you included a mailing address. The answer to your inquiries have been mailed, and we have sent you a copy of the ReefBase CD-ROM and User's Guide, even if payment has not been received. Sincerely, Dr John W McManus ReefBase Project Leader Aquatic Environments Program ICLARM, Makati City P.S. For ALL CORAL-LIST READERS - please note that most inquiries regarding ReefBase should be addressed (as were some of Maria's) to : . Responses to email addressed to may be delayed while I am on duty travel. Thank you. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Nov 13 21:02:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA26558; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 21:01:54 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA01246; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 01:03:24 GMT Received: from CGNET.COM by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA01241; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 20:03:21 -0500 Received: from msm.cgnet.com by CGNET.COM (PMDF V4.3-9 #18290) id <01IBSZ87S6CW0093CL@CGNET.COM>; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 17:02:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by msm.cgnet.com with Microsoft Mail id <328A700A@msm.cgnet.com>; Wed, 13 Nov 96 17:04:10 PST Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 08:35:00 -0800 (PST) From: John McManus To: "'coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov'" Message-id: <328A700A@msm.cgnet.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A TO All Coral-Listers: ReefBase just put up a new section to its webpage which allows one to search our tables of references (over 6,400) and reef locations (over 6,500). It also displays the reef maps prepared by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre at global, regional and country levels. Ultimately we will put the entire database on the web, but there are still some technical difficulties awaiting the release of new programming tools. In the meantime, we would appreciate helpful suggestions as to how we can improve our web page. You can find the web page at . Please send your suggestions to Sincerely, Dr John W McManus ReefBase Project Leader Aquatic Environments Program International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) 205 Salcedo Street, Legaspi Village, Makati City, 1229 Metro Manila Philippines Tel.No.: (63-2) 8180466; Fax No.: (63-2) 8163183 Email: From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Nov 14 13:01:42 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA06222; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 13:01:21 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA00717; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 16:43:10 GMT Received: from usgcrp.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA00712; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 11:43:07 -0500 Received: from [131.182.242.88] by usgcrp.gov (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA24957; Thu, 14 Nov 96 11:47:44 EST X-Sender: tsocci@earth.usgcrp.gov Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 11:49:52 -0500 To: CARRIERPIGEON-L@cornell.edu, ecol-econ@csf.colorado.edu (Clim-Econ List), CNN-NEWSROOM@listserv.aol.com, coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, ecolog-l@umdd.umd.edu (ESA List) From: tsocci@usgcrp.gov (Tony Socci) Subject: Nov. 18th USGCRP Seminar on Sustainable Water Resources and Global Climate Change: With Emphasis on the Western U.S. Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: U.S. Global Change Research Program Second Monday Seminar Series Sustainable Water Resources in the Next Century, With Special Reference to Global Climate Change and the Western U.S. What critical water issues face us as the 21st century approaches? How is the western U.S. particularly affected by projected trends in water availability, water use, and water partitioning? How might projected climate changes affect these trends and the economy in the western U.S.? Are there signs that climate change has already begun to alter water supplies in the West? What can we do to better prepare for the regional impacts of climate change on water resources? Public Invited Monday, November 18, 1996, 3:15-4:45 PM Rayburn House Office Bldg., Room B369, Washington, DC Reception Following INTRODUCTION Dr. Robert Hirsch, Chief Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, Reston, VA. SPEAKERS Dr. Peter H. Gleick, Co-Founder and President, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, Oakland, CA. Dr. W. James Shuttleworth, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. Overview State of the World's Water and the Implications for the Western U.S. As of 1990 nearly 2 billion people worldwide lacked access to what the UN defines as clean drinking water and adequate sanitation services. The lack of these basic services led to an estimated 250 million cases of water-related disease annually, and between 5 and 10 million deaths, mostly of infants and small children. Yet we are falling behind in our race to provide these services and between 1990 and 2000 an estimated 900 million more people will be born in regions without access to adequate clean water. In addition, agricultural production is constrained by a lack of irrigation water or systems. Unless these problems are addressed, human suffering in the future will worsen. At the same time, nearly half of the world's land area is in an international river basin and most of these basins lack even the most fundamental agreements on equitable water sharing. This greatly increases the risks of conflicts over scarce water. There are also signs that we are falling behind in the race to provide adequate food for the world's growing population. The amount of land per capita that is under irrigation is falling for the first time in this century; this raises serious questions about our ability to provide food for a world of eight or nine or ten billion people, when we cannot reliably do so for a world of about six billion. While the United States is relatively water-rich, the western U.S. is a water-scarce region that is experiencing increasing competition for limited water supplies. Over the next several years, difficult decisions will have to be made about water allocations for agricultural production, urban development, and environmental protection. At the same time, new concerns about global climatic change and the possible consequences for regional water supplies and quality are complicating the challenge of planning and management. While the debate about global climate changes continues, there is a growing consensus that among the most significant impacts will be effects on water resources and water management. To date, however, there has been relatively little recognition of the potential for changes among water agencies and planners. Dr. Peter Gleick will offer an overview of critical global and regional water issues and place them in the context of achieving sustainable water management in the western United States in the next century. Managing a Changing World: A Personal Perspective As a follow-on perspective, Dr. James Shuttleworth will make the case that progress in global change research over the last decade has brought about the realization that at least some aspects of global climate change are likely to be manageable. This suggests that it would be productive and timely to refocus research within the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) so as to provide an understanding of how to manage sustained development more effectively, recognizing that the world's climate will change. He will argue that the USGCRP is overly focused on predicting long term change in the globally-averaged surface temperature and that this is beyond the time horizon of those managing sustained development for the future. Dr. Shuttleworth will argue, therefore, that greater emphasis should be given to understanding and predicting phenomena such as regional precipitation patterns and characteristics. He will suggest that focusing research on predicting likely changes in precipitation statistics over the next 30 years and on predicting precipitation for the next 18 months would directly align the USGCRP with sustainable development needs. On the basis of these arguments, Dr. Shuttleworth will propose that the USGCRP take the following actions: First, develop predictions of the rate of changes in water resources for the US and the rest of the world. Second, encourage use of a planning period for all US water development projects that recognizes the relative magnitudes of the predicted gradual change in regional precipitation and the predicted short term variability in precipitation. Third, define as a policy goal maintaining the rate of global change such that the human-induced change in precipitation remains small compared to natural variability. Finally, refocus global change research on predicting the variability and change in regional precipitation over the next 30 years. Biographies Dr. Peter H. Gleick is Co-Founder and President of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland, California. Dr. Gleick was educated at Yale University and the Energy and Resources Group of the University of California, Berkeley. He is a leading expert on global freshwater issues, environmental security problems, and the impacts of climatic change on fresh water resources. His research includes work on the sustainable use of water, water conflicts in the Middle East, water planning in California, the western US, and internationally, and the connections between water, population, and development. He serves on a variety of national and international environmental panels, including the Scientific Advisory Group of the President's Council on Sustainable Development, the Global Environmental Change Committee of the American Geophysical Union, and the Comprehensive Freshwater Assessment of the United Nations. Dr. Gleick received a MacArthur Foundation post-doctoral fellowship in 1986 to study the impacts of the greenhouse effect on water resources, and a MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Fellowship in 1988 to explore the implications of global environmental changes with respect to water and international security. He currently directs programs at the Pacific Institute looking at the links between global environmental issues and international security and at a wide range of water-resources problems, including the sustainable use of water, basic water requirements for human and environmental use, water quality, and the history and nature of disputes over water in the Middle East and the western U.S. His book, Water in Crisis: A Guide to the World's Fresh Water Resources, was published by Oxford University Press in late 1993. Dr. W. James Shuttleworth is an internationally recognized expert in the theory and modeling of land surface-atmosphere interactions. Over the last decade he has led two major Anglo-Brazilian field experiments in the Amazon basin. As member and then Chair of the IGBP/WCRP Joint Working Group on Land Surface Experiments, he coordinated large-scale, multinational field experiments in France, Spain and the Sahel. His current interests include research into the improved representation of land surface interactions in General Circulation Models and, in particular, on developing methods to assimilate remotely sensed soil moisture into hydrological models and on using remotely sensed data to improve the description of mixed vegetation. He is presently engaged in collaborative research projects with both the National Center for Environmental Prediction and the European Center for Medium-range Weather Forecasting to improve weather and climate prediction and to facilitate the interpretation of predictions in water resource applications. Dr. Shuttleworth obtained his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Manchester (UK) where, in 1993, he was awarded an honorary doctorate degree in science. He later served as Head of the Hydrological Processes Division at the UK Institute of Hydrology. Since 1993, he has served as Professor of Hydrometeorology at the University of Arizona. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the Royal Meteorological Society and the European Geophysical Society. Professor Shuttleworth serves on the National Research Council's (NRC) Committee on Global Change Research and on the NRC's Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Panel. He is active in the International Geosphere Biosphere Program (IGBP) as Focus Chair in their core project 'Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle', and in the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) as leader of the research initiative on Coupled Hydrologic-Atmospheric Models within the Global Energy and Water-Cycle Experiment Continental-Scale International Project. The Next Seminar is scheduled for Monday, December 9, 1996 Planned Topic - The Economics of Climate Change Impacts and Mitigation: The Importance of Values and Assumptions For more information please contact: Anthony D. Socci, Ph.D., U.S. Global Change Research Program Office Code YS-1, 300 E St., SW, Washington, DC 20546 Telephone: (202) 358-1532; Fax: (202) 358-4103 E-Mail: TSOCCI@USGCRP.GOV. Additional information on the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and this Seminar Series is available on the USGCRP Home Page at: http://www.usgcrp.gov. Normally these seminars are held on the second Monday of each month. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Nov 14 18:02:12 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA11443; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 18:02:06 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA00962; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 22:06:15 GMT Received: from postoffice2.mail.cornell.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA00957; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 17:06:13 -0500 Received: from [132.236.111.152] ([132.236.111.152]) by postoffice2.mail.cornell.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA09450 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 17:06:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 17:06:09 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: ljr5@postoffice4.mail.cornell.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: ljr5@cornell.edu (Laurie Jeanne Raymundo) Subject: coral disease in the Philippines Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: To anybody out there: I am currently transplanting fragments of Porites attenuata (a branching sp.) between two reefs in the central philippines. I seem to have come across a disease in some of my fragments (about 10%) in one site. Symptoms are: initial white bleachy spots, about 4-5mm in diameter, followed (weeks to a month later, but not always) by nodules of about the same size which develop and grow outward from the area of the spots. The fragments then take on a lumpy, misshapen appearance. No mortalities so far. I have also seen the spots on a massive porites. I have no information on this at all and would appreciate any comments/suggested readings/ information that anyone could pass on. thanks Laurie Raymundo From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Nov 15 16:40:33 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA04510; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 16:40:26 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA01552; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 13:41:42 GMT Received: from wwfgate.wwfnet.org by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA01547; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 08:41:35 -0500 Received: by wwfgate.wwfnet.org; id OAA25466; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 14:41:32 +0100 (MET) Received: from wwfsmtp.wwfnet.org(10.99.30.12) by wwfgate.wwfnet.org via smap (3.2) id xma025464; Fri, 15 Nov 96 14:41:18 +0100 Received: from WWF-Message_Server by wwfnet.org with Novell_GroupWise; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 14:40:56 +0100 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1 Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 14:40:23 +0100 From: Susan WELLS To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: IYOR update - November Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE REEF ACTIVITIES COMPLETED OR UNDERWAY - NOVEMBER 1996 The following is a selection of IYOR linked-activities that are underway or being planned worldwide. The October update missed out a number of important ones. Please also note change of e-mail address if you need IYOR information from the Coral Reef Alliance: IYOR1997@aol.com If your activities are not included, contact one of the organisers (see below). International June 1996: IYOR introduced at the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium in Panama; over 1400 participants, including many of the world's top coral reef scientists, signed the IYOR pledge of support. A press event provided coverage for IYOR in Latin America and the Caribbean. 1996: Several thousand IYOR leaflets are being or have been distributed worldwide, including 2000 at the 8th International Coral Reef Congress, Panama, 8000 through the UK-based Marine Conservation Society's mailing list, 1500 through Coral Cay Conservation's list of past volunteers, 1400 through the Natural History Museum, London, and several hundred through the American Zoo and Aquarium Association and the IUCN Marine and Coastal Programme. 1996: IYOR information packs distributed at World Conservation Congress, Montreal (see below), at through WWF network; plans for broader dissemination being made. 1996: IYOR Web Page established: http://www.coral.org/IYOR/ 1996: Educational poster map on *Coral Reefs and Mangroves of the World'produced by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, in English and Spanish, and distributed worldwide. Contact: Mark Spalding, WCMC, Fax (44) 1223-277136; e-mail: mark.spalding@wcmc.org.uk October 1996 - IUCN World Conservation Congress, Montreal - IYOR and ICRI evening event held to inform and encourage the involvement of NGOs around the world; press briefing on coral reefs and IYOR. The IUCN Marine and Coastal Programme web site includes ICRI and IYOR information and links which can be contacted either through: * the IUCN Site at http://iucn.org looking for "Marine and Coastal Programme" under "Themes" * the IUCN Marine and Coastal Programme Site directly at http://iucn.org/themes/coast_and_marine.html 1996: ReefBase, a global database on coral reefs, made available on CD-ROM, with a comprehensive manual. Contact: John McManus, ICLARM, fax (63) 2-816-3183; e-mail: J.MCMANUS@CGNET.COM 1996: Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCMRN) launched. Brochure and further information is available from: C.Wilkinson@pearl.aims.gov.au 1997: a series of 52 coral reef story ideas will be syndicated through major international media channels, through a joint initiative of IUCN and the US Dept of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The text for this Media Outreach Proposal can be found at the following URL: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/bulls/52final.html For more information and, if you would like to submit a story idea, please contact: Matt Stout, NOAA, Tel. (202) 482-6090; Fax (202) 482-3154; e-mail: mstout@rdc.noaa.gov or Paul Holthus, IUCN, Tel: (41) 22-9990251; Fax (41) 22-999-0025; e-mail: pfh@hq.iucn.org 1997: Reef Check 97 - a one day, rapid survey of basic coral reef health parameters by non-scientist diver groups at over 100 sites globally. The results will be presented via a live international satellite video link-up. 70 groups have already agreed to participate. Protocols are currently being tested in Hong Kong, the Solomons and other locations. Further details available after 1 December 1996 from: Shaun Wadell, The Hong Kong Marine Conservation Society Mail: PO Box 10165, Central, Hong Kong Fax: (852) 2548-9464 e-mail: HRDUBWD@HKUCC.HKU.HK 1997: Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), an 18 member forum on trade and cooperation, will be holding a technical workshop on the 'upstream' causes of reef destruction in the fisheries sector and potential solutions, at the Eighth APEC Fisheries Working Group meeting (Mazatlan, Mexico) and a four-day workshop on the 'downstream' impacts of reef destructive fishing in Hong Kong (October ). Pacific February 1997: launch of the *1997 Pacific Year of the Coral Reef' (PYOCR), as part of the ICRI Pacific Regional Strategy, in conjunction with IYOR, and with the assistance of the South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme. 17 countries are participating and more are expected to join. The PYOR slogan is *Coral Reefs: Their Health, Our Future* and a competition is being held to design the logo. Further information from Lucille Overhoff or Iosefatu Reti, SPREP, Apia, Western Samoa, Fax 685-20231. E-mail: lucille@pactok.peg.apc.org 1997: The 8th Pacific Science Association's Intercongress in Fiji will feature a report and review of assessment work and surveys carried out in the Pacific under the auspices of IYOR. Contact: Dr Charles Birkeland, UOG Marine Laboratory, Guam. E-mail: birkelan@uog9.uog.edu Australia August 15-30 1996: *Save the Reef' internet art auction, with works of art donated by prominent Australian artists, organised by Sydney University to raise money for the Coral Reef Research Institute, and its research on the Great Barrier Reef. 1997: programmes expected to be developed through the Great Barrier Reef Aquarium and Australian Marine Conservation Society Further information on IYOR activities in Australia from: Will Jones, Coral Reef Research Institute, University of Sydney. Tel: (61) 2 9351 5636; Fax (61) 2 9351 4119; e-mail: esi@bio.syd.edu.au Western Indian Ocean 1997: research and conservation programme to be established through the Coral Reef Conservation Project of the Wildlife Conservation Society, based out of Mombasa, with funding from the Pew Charitable Trust. A workshop to develop the programme will be held in February 1977. Contact: Tim McClanahan, Coral Reef Conservation Project, WCS, Mombasa, Kenya Fax (254) 11 472215. South-east Asia Philippines September 1996: First IYOR Philippines organizational meeting organised by ICLARM; attended by 34 representatives from academia, government, NGOs and the private sector. An interim coordinating council was established, composed of representatives from the Haribon Foundation, NAUI Philippines, UP Marine Science Institute, the Philippine Council for Aquatic and Marine Resources Development (PCMARD), and the Philippine Sports and SCUBA Diving Association. For further information contact: ICLARM, e-mail: ICLARM@CGNET.COM or Dir. Cesario R. Pagdilao, PCMARD, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines. FAX: 094-536-1582 November 1996: resurvey of reefs previously impacted by sediment at El Nido/Bacuit Bay. Contact: Gregor Hodgson, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Fax: e-mail: rcgregor@usthk.ust.hk Hong Kong October 1996: IYOR to be promoted at First International Marine Conservation Symposium. 1997: Reef Check 97 event being organised For information on activities in Hong Kong, contact: Gregor Hodgson, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Fax: (852) 2358-1582; e-mail: rcgregor@usthk.ust.hk or Shaun Wadell, The Hong Kong Marine Conservation Society Fax: (852) 2548-9464 e-mail: HRDUBWD@HKUCC.HKU.HK Malaysia IYOR Steering Committee has been established, chaired by Department of Fisheries and with NGO participation; WWF Malaysia head a Task Force on Education. Further information from: Lim Li Ching, WWF Malaysia. E-mail: wwfmal@pop.jaring.my Fax: (603) 7035157 USA September 1996: IYOR information distributed at American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) Annual Congress, Waikiki Aquarium, Honolulu, Hawaii, with preview of Coral Reef Photography Exhibition. November 1996: Press Club - *Coral Reef Media Forum' background briefing for science writers and correspondents on major US newspapers, magazines and television stations, sponsored by NOAA and Baltimore Aquarium, and with CORAL, TNC and WWF-US. Further information from National Aquarium in Baltimore. Tel. 410-659-4248; Fax 410-659-4253. December 1996: "Nuestros Arrecifes/Unidos por el Caribe; Our Reefs/Caribbean Connections", the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's bilingual traveling exhibit (see Panama below) is expected to open for three months at the Miami International Airport. 1996: IYOR Educational Resource List prepared by Coral Forest. For information, contact: coral@igc.apc.org or fax 415-398-0385 1996/97: Ongoing activities at National Aquarium, Baltimore. Contact: Chris Andrews, Fax: (410) 576 1080; e-mail: candrews@clark.net 199671997: Center for Ecosystem Survival, San Fransico. *Adopt-a-Reef' programme, started 1995, will be holding fundraising drives at schools, aquariums, zoos etc throughout IYOR. Contact Norman Gershenz: Tel 415-338-3393; e-mail: gershenz@sfsu.edu January-March 1997: IYOR inaugurations in Miami and San Francisco January 1997: IYOR booth/event at DEMA dive show, Orlando, Florida 1997: PBS half hour episode on coral reefs in the series *The Visionaries'; will show work underway in Palau and through CORAL. 1997 IYOR Calendar produced by CORAL (Coral Reef Alliance) 1997: Events organised through public aquariums will include: * Poster contest for children, sponsored by AZA, Waikiki Aquarium and others, * Munson Foundation award to be given for best coral reef conservation displays at public aquaria; * public service announcement, organised through AZA, on coral reefs for kids featuring TV stars *The Kratz Brothers'. * joint program on marine conservation 1997: travelling coral reef photography exhibition will visit zoos and aquariums, organized by CORAL. June 1997: Clean Oceans 97 conference in Hawaii on Oceans Day will focus on reefs in order to promote IYOR, with Bobby Kennedy Jr. as keynote speaker. Further information from: Carl Stepath, Fax (808) 826-7770; e-mail: sos@ALOHA.NET Further information on US activities from Stephen Colwell (address below) Europe United Kingdom 21 September- 17 November 1996: Natural History Museum/Coral Cay Conservation photographic exhibition Coral Reefs, Threats and Conservation, with children's 2-day educational weekend at the museum with presentations, film shows and educational activities 1996: IYOR T-shirt produced by Seven-Tenths dive wear company, with proportion of sales to go to reef conservation projects. 1996-97: Marine Conservation Society is producing a series of leaflets and educational materials specifically for IYOR January 1997: national launch of IYOR at London Zoo, in conjunction with Sea Life Centres, with David Bellamy (British conservationist and TV personality). Simultaneous events at other locations. January 1997: IYOR publicity at *Destinations *97' (the UK's biggest travel show), with David Bellamy, to encourage the travel industry to support IYOR 1997: Coral Reef Award: a special award for a coral reef project in the BP Conservation Programme, run by Royal Geographical Society /Birdlife International/Fauna and Flora International. Information from: Expeditions Officer, Birdlife International, Wellbrook Court, Girton Rd, Cambridge CB3 ONA, UK. Tel. 44-1223-277318; Fax: 44-1223-277200. 1997: the British Society of Underwater Photographers will stage a special competion for a portfolio of six slides devoted to a theme relevant to IYOR and coral reefs. 1997: The BBC will be preparing a programme on coral reefs a part of its forthcoming *Oceans' series 1997: production of reef survey method handbook for volunteer programmes. For further information, contact: Nick Dulvy, University of East Anglia, e-mail: N.DULVY@UEA.AC.UK Further information on UK activities from UK Organising Committee; contact Vanesssa Guest (e-mail: 101341.16@compuserve.com) and Liz Wood, Marine Conservation Society, Hollybush, Chequers Lane, Eversley, Hook, Hants RG27 ONY. Tel. (44) 1734-734127; Fax: (44) 1734-731832; e-mail: ewood@globalnet.co.uk Germany October 1996: IYOR initiative launched at German Science Foundation (DFG) meeting on *Global and Regional Controls on Biogenic Information', Goettingen and a German IYOR Committee has been formed with the support of the Universities of Stuttgart, Goettingen, Essen, and Erlangen, GEOMAR, and the Senckenberg Museum. Other organisations supporting IYOR include the Zoological Gardens, WITUS (Scientific Diving Group of Univ. Stuttgart), PADI Europe, Baltic Dive Center, and other dive organisations, schools etc. January 1997: launch of IYOR in Germany at the *BOOT' diving exhibition with public lecture by Hans Hass. 1997: reef exhibition, based on work of DFG, at Senckenberg Museum; subsequently to tour other museums and exhibitions halls Spring 1997: courses on reefs at selected high schools in northern Germany; similar activities at other schools in preparation. A German Web page has been set up http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/UNIuser/igps/IYOR Further information on activities in Germany from: Moshira Hassan, GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences, Kiel Fax: (49) 431-6002941; e-mail: mhassan@geomar.de Reinhold Leinfelder, University of Stuttgart, Fax (49) 711-1211341; tel. (49) 711-1211340; e-mail: reinhold.leinfelder@po.uni-stuttgart.de Felix Gunkel, Univeristy of Gottingen, e-mail: fgunkel@gwdg.de Caribbean and Latin America Bahamas 1996: assessment of the Andros Barrier Reef and re-survey of reefs studied in 1960s at Abaco Island. 1997: One day *Reef Check 97' event, to participate in global event (see above). Contact: Bill Alevizon e-mail:alevizon@IGC.APC.ORG Colombia 1996: IYOR committee being established through INVEMAR and Museo del Mar; plans to produce poster, stickers, colouring book and atlas of reefs of Colombia. Further information from: Juan M. Diaz, INVEMAR, Fax: (57) 54-211377: e-mail: jmdiaz@santamarta.cetcol.net.co Mexico 1996: Plans for IYOR Committee to be established through CINVESTAV Panama June 1996: "Nuestros Arrecifes/Unidos por el Caribe; Our Reefs/Caribbean Connections", the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's bilingual (Spanish/English) traveling exhibit, with its focus on attempts to preserve or restore regional marine ecosystems, opened in Panama City at the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium. August-November 1996: "Caribbean Connections" is relocated to the Centro de Exhibiciones Marinas, Punta Culebra, and is open to the public. April 1997: The "Caribbean Connections" exhibit is expected to initiate its travels throughout Central America and the Caribbean. If you need further information on the events listed above, please contact the organisers directly where details have been provided. Further general information on IYOR is available from: Stephen Colwell, Co-chair, IYOR Public Awareness and Conservation Committee, c/o Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL), 809 Delaware St, Berkeley, CA 94710, USA. Fax 510-528-9317; Tel: 510-528-2492; e-mail: IYOR1997@aol.com Robert Ginsburg, Chair, IYOR Organising Committee, University of Miami/RSMAS, 4600 Rickenbacker Cswy., Miami, FL 33149, USA. Fax 305-361-4094; Tel. 305-361-4875. E-mail: rginsburg@rsmas.miami.edu Sue Wells, Co-Chair, IYOR Public Awareness and Conservation Committee, WWF-International, Ave du Mont Blanc, 1196 Gland, Switzerland. Fax: (41) 22-364-5829; Tel: (41) 22-364-9545; e-mail: swells@wwfnet.org From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Nov 18 17:50:04 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA02930; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 17:49:55 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA04202; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 21:20:42 GMT Received: from relay1.Hawaii.Edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA04197; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:20:30 -0500 Received: from uhunix4.its.Hawaii.Edu ([128.171.44.54]) by relay1.Hawaii.Edu with SMTP id <587443(5)>; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 11:09:42 -1000 Received: from localhost by uhunix4.its.Hawaii.Edu with SMTP id <216710>; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 11:09:39 -1000 Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 11:09:38 -1000 From: Greta Smith Aeby X-Sender: greta@uhunix4 To: Laurie Jeanne Raymundo cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: coral disease in the Philippines In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Laurie, I work on a trematode which encysts in Porites coral and does produce abnormalities within the coral. Do the spots ever turn pink? How big do the nodules eventually become? Is the lumpy appearance due to the coral polyp swelling up? If it is the parasite I work on you can take a pair of forceps and scrape the swollen, infected tissue off and smear it on a microscope slide and you should be able to find a small, distinct 'bubble'. This is the encysted trematode. Let me know if it is. If you are interested I have published some stuff on this system. Greta On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Laurie Jeanne Raymundo wrote: > To anybody out there: I am currently transplanting fragments of Porites > attenuata (a branching sp.) between two reefs in the central philippines. > I seem to have come across a disease in some of my fragments (about 10%) in > one site. Symptoms are: initial white bleachy spots, about 4-5mm in > diameter, followed (weeks to a month later, but not always) by nodules of > about the same size which develop and grow outward from the area of the > spots. The fragments then take on a lumpy, misshapen appearance. No > mortalities so far. I have also seen the spots on a massive porites. I > have no information on this at all and would appreciate any > comments/suggested readings/ information that anyone could pass on. > > thanks > > Laurie Raymundo > > > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Nov 18 22:52:22 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA04979; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 22:52:15 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id CAA04406; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 02:58:25 GMT Received: from io.org by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA04401; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 21:58:07 -0500 Received: from dyna-87.net7b.io.org (dyna-87.net7b.io.org [204.92.49.87]) by io.org (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA02432 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 21:57:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 21:57:55 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1.5.4.16.19961118230156.0d47bbe0@io.org> X-Sender: howzit@io.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: From: Ursula Keuper-Bennett Subject: Deadman's Bay, British Virgin Islands Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hello, My primary interest is sea turtles. I hang out here because I recognize how important coral reef research is to the animals I care about. I have made it a goal to learn more about the environment in certain parts of the world where green sea turtles are sick. Another new site just came to my attention. The area is called Deadman's Bay, British Virgin Islands. It is described as "a large bay and includes vast areas of sea grass". I have spent most of this evening surfing the Net for the state of the reefs in this particular area. All I got is just the faintest hint there might be some problems environmentally. Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks in advance. ^ Ursula Keuper-Bennett 0 0 Email: howzit@io.org /V^\ I I /^V\ /V Turtle Trax V\ http://www.turtles.org PLEASE SUPPORT Green Turtle Fibropapilloma RESEARCH From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Nov 19 10:06:43 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA10622; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 10:06:37 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA04831; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 13:44:04 GMT Received: from mar.icmyl.unam.mx by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA04826; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 08:44:01 -0500 Received: by mar.icmyl.unam.mx (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA07168; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 07:43:48 +0600 Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 07:43:48 -0600 (CST) From: Rosa Elisa Rodriguez X-Sender: rosaer@mar To: coral-list Subject: Need a video for IYOR educational program (fwd) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: In the State of Quintana Roo, Mexico several NGO's are organizing an educational program for the International Year of the Reef. We are looking for a video that can help us explain the following subjects: What is a coral reef. What is a coral Why are coral reefs important What human activities are detrimental to coral reefs How can we help to conserve coral reefs Any information will be helpful. Please reply directly to me. Biol. Rosa Rodriguez Ap. Postal 1174 Cancun, Q. Roo, Mexico Tel (987) 102-19 Fax (987) 101-38 e-mail: rosaer@mar.icmyl.unam.mx From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Nov 19 16:12:57 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA18456; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 16:12:48 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA05180; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:30:21 GMT Received: from RT-MAIL2.RTPTOK.EPA.GOV by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA05175; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 14:30:14 -0500 Received: from RTPMAINHUB-Message_Server by RT-MAIL2.RTPTOK.EPA.GOV with Novell_GroupWise; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 14:31:02 -0500 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1 Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 14:27:54 -0500 From: KENNARD POTTS To: rosaer@mar.icmyl.unam.mx, coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Need a video for IYOR educational program (fwd) -Reply Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: One film you may wish to consider was produced under the International Coral Reef Initiative (US). It was produced by the United States Information Agency for international distrubition only. It is not available for domestic distribution, by law. This is intended to be an educational film on corals worldwide. It is titled "The Fragile Ring of Life" and is 54 minutes in length. Contact: Meyer Odze United States Information Agency Producer Worldnet Television and Film Service Washington DC 20547-0001 Ken Potts Oceans and Coastal Protection US Environmental Protection Agency potts.kennard@epamail.epa.gov From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Nov 19 17:00:09 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA20610; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 17:00:02 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA05226; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:32:14 GMT Received: from sj.znet.com by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA05221; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 15:32:12 -0500 Received: from [207.167.87.19] (capts-19.znet.com [207.167.87.19]) by sj.znet.com (8.8.3/8.8.3/jjb-sj) with SMTP id MAA14553 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 12:32:05 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 12:32:05 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: nolan@sj.znet.com (Unverified) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list From: nolan@cyberlearn.com (Ron S. Nolan) Subject: re: Coral Reef Education Videos Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Greetings, Although not a video, we have a CD-ROM called Coral Kingdom which thematically explores the ecology of coral reefs as well as human impacts. This title synthesizes much of my understanding of reefs based upon doctoral studies at Enewetak and later work in Hawaii--before becoming a producer rather than researcher. Coral Kingdom comes with a 180 page teacher guide and is actively used by a very wide range of educators from middle school through college level courses. If you belong to the NABT, the last issue carried a review. You can check it out at. The CyberLearning Collection, http://www.cyberlearn.com Regards nolan Digital Studios/CyberLearning Collection From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Nov 19 17:00:56 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA20650; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 17:00:34 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA05242; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:55:35 GMT Received: from relay1.Hawaii.Edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA05237; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 15:55:30 -0500 Received: from uhunix5.its.Hawaii.Edu ([128.171.44.55]) by relay1.Hawaii.Edu with SMTP id <587932(6)>; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 10:53:05 -1000 Received: from localhost by uhunix5.its.Hawaii.Edu with SMTP id <188974>; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 10:52:55 -1000 Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 10:52:54 -1000 From: W Douglas Crompton X-Sender: crompton@uhunix5 To: Ursula Keuper-Bennett cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Deadman's Bay, British Virgin Islands In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19961118230156.0d47bbe0@io.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Aloha Ursula, You might try to contact Joe Giocinto at one of his shops. He runs several dive shops in the BVI. The company is called "Dive BVI" ofcourse. He advertises in most diving magazines. He should have a good idea of the reefs condition. He's been diving those waters since the sixties. Say hello for me. Douglas Crompton From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Nov 19 18:38:37 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA22276; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 18:38:30 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA05325; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 22:12:37 GMT Received: from wgs1.btl.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA05319; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 17:12:31 -0500 Received: from [206.27.238.47] by wgs1.btl.net (Netscape Mail Server v2.0) with ESMTP id AAB3219 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 16:08:25 -0500 X-Sender: trath@btlmail.btl.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 16:12:56 -0600 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: "Tony Rath" Subject: Re: Need a video for IYOR educational program (fwd) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: >>In the State of Quintana Roo, Mexico several NGO's are organizing an >>educational program for the International Year of the Reef. We are >>looking for a video that can help us explain the following subjects: >> >> >>What is a coral reef. >>What is a coral >> >>Why are coral reefs important >>What human activities are detrimental to coral reefs >>How can we help to conserve coral reefs >> >>Any information will be helpful. >> >>Please reply directly to me. We have two videos designed for the gradeschool market and one for the high school market. The images all come from the Belize Barrier Reef which is in your neck of the woods. They are available through the Earth Foundation. They can be reached at: EarthFound@aol.com Good Luck and let me know if you have any trouble. I might have a spare copy lying around here to lend you. Tony Rath Creative Director -------------------------------------------------------------- Visit Belize by Naturalight at: http://www.belizenet.com/ for your complete source of information about coral reefs, rainforest, Mayan ruins, ecotourism, weather, weekly newspaper, and so much more. 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From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Nov 20 00:24:30 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA24208; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 00:24:20 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id EAA05588; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 04:18:06 GMT Received: from crispin.i-manila.com.ph by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id XAA05583; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 23:17:54 -0500 Received: from basil (ip132.i-manila.com.ph [203.172.14.132]) by crispin.i-manila.com.ph (8.7.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA32644 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 12:16:10 +0800 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19961120121507.00687b7c@i-manila.com.ph> X-Sender: basil@i-manila.com.ph X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 12:16:09 -0800 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Basil Reyes Subject: Giant Clams Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hi! I'm Ly-ann and I am doing my masteral thesis on the reproduction of giant clams at the Marine Science Inst. of the University of the Phils. This study is aimed to check on the effects of dissolved inorganic nitrogen and live algae on the reproductive development of giant clams. I would just like to ask for some references that deal with the the use of protein, carbohydrates and lipid concentrations in relation to the stage of gonad development, in particular on bivalves. I used Tetraselmis sp. as the live algal supplement, so, if there are papers around on its nutritional value, I would appreciate a copy. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Nov 20 11:32:40 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA03347; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 11:32:31 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA06061; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 15:09:11 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA06056; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 10:09:09 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/930416.SGI) for id KAA14781; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 10:09:07 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 10:09:07 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: IYOR: Guidelines, Handbooks and 'Tools' Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Sue Wells' extremely informative "Guidelines, Handbooks and 'Tools' for Coral Reef Management", produced in support of the International Year of the Reef, may now be found on the Web at: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/themes/themes.html From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Nov 20 12:01:06 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA04521; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 12:01:01 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA06029; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 14:32:16 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA06024; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 09:32:09 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/930416.SGI) for id JAA14665; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 09:32:08 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 09:32:07 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: cfp: RECOVERIES '97 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 09:36:55 +0100 From: Petr Cejchan To: hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Subject: cfp: RECOVERIES '97 Please forward this message to your colleagues or other persons of interest! FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - CALL FOR PAPERS %%%%%%%%%%%%%% RECOVERIES '97 %%%%%%%%%%%%%% The final meeting of the UNESCO IGCP Project 335 "Biotic Recoveries from Mass Exctinctions" September 12-14, 1997 Prague, Czech Republic _______________________________________ _________ PLEASE, POINT YOUR WWW BROWSER TO: http://www.gli.cas.cz/conf/recovery/recovery.ht m _______________________________________ _________ About the project In the history of the Earth (including the recent), numerous events of ecosystem collapses occurred that were followed by recoveries and origination of new ecosystems. This significant transformation could be realised in numerous ways. The project aims to be a platform for the study of survival and recovery of the biosphere, and restructuring of global environments, following mass extinctions. The project outlines are: (1) to study patterns of extinction/survivorship of organisms during the mass extinction events; (2) to analyse the evolutionary and ecological strategies that allowed clades and communities to survive and initiate subsequent biotic recoveries; (3) to study the structure of the deep-crisis ecosystem; (4) to elucidate the recovery initiation mechanisms; (5) to find the time, space and functional patterns of the recovery; (6) to refine the data and tools for this discipline; (7) to develop general models by means of comparison of individual global crises in Earth's history; (8) to apply these (predictive) models to better understanding the modern environmental and biodiversity crises. This international project is headed by Douglas H. Erwin, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and Erle G. Kauffman, University of Colorado, Boulder. Over sixty countries are involved in the project. Audience The meeting should bring together palaeobiologists, palaeontologists, biologists, ecologists, systems theorists, and other persons that are interested in the topic. Organisers The conference is held under the auspices of the Geological Institute, Academy of Sciences, and is organised by: Petr Cejchan & Jindrich Hladil Geological Institute, Academy of Sciences Rozvojova 135 CZ 165 02 Praha 6 Lysolaje Czech Republic Venue The conference will be held at the new IKEM Conference Building, Videnska 800, Prague 4, Czech Republic, two bus-stops away from the Metro line C station "Kacerov", ca. 20 minutes off the city centre. Programme September 10 registration of pre- excursionists (afternoon) September 11 pre-session excursion to the Cretaceous of Bohemia; registration (afternoon) September 12 sessions September 13 sessions; banquet in the evening September 14 sessions September 15 -16 post-session excursion to the Palaeozoic of the Barrandian Accommodation (US$ per person & night) To reserve the hotel room, you will be asked to pay for accommodation before July 31, 1997. high-level **** A - single 185 B - double 111 medium *** C - single 70 D - double 50 E - apartment double 57 F - apartment triple 44 cheap ** G - single (in 2x single apartment ) 27 H- double (in 2x double apartment ) 20 I - apartment double 27 Deadlines pre-registration (WWW or printed form) January 31, 1997 abstracts May 31, 1997 following items are valid only when paid before the specified date: early registration and excursions May 31, 1997 late registration and excursions September 12, 1997 hotel reservation & payment July 31, 1997 Payments (US$) early registration (before May 31, 1997) late registration (after May 31, 1997) registration fee 250 300 registration student fee 175 210 pre-session excursion 50 60 post-session excursion 100 120 accompanying persons 150 180 Contacts Please, direct all your correspondence related to the conference to the Conference Manager: Petra Hovorkova, Recoveries '97 Eurocongress Centre Budejovicka 15 CZ 140 00 Praha 4 fax +42-2-61211247 For conference update and details on the programme please consult: http://www.gli.cas.cz/conf/recovery/recovery.ht m e-mail: recovery@gli.cas.cz Equipment The conference hall will be professionally equipped, including: two projection screens two 35 mm slide projectors one overhead projector computer presentation projection (Windows 95 + MS Power Point) video projection (VHS only) microphones. The poster presentation room will be equipped with poster panels and will be available during all the session days. Abstracts Abstracts should be submitted before May 31, 1997, preferably as plain text on a DOS- formatted diskette. The abstract book will be included with the conference materials. Persons interested in obtaining the abstracts in advance can order the DOS-formatted diskette with abstracts for US$ 25 (after July 1, 1997). Contributions The conference will result in a refereed proceedings book (not included with the conference materials). Authors should submit their contributions to the conference proceedings book by September 12, 1997, i.e., by the beginning of the sessions. Authors are asked to provide the text on a DOS-diskette, together with a paper proof. Student support 3% of the conference budget will be used to support a limited number of student participants at lower fee. Students (undergraduate & graduate) must supply a certificate of their student status together with the pre-registration form. Pre-register soon to take the advantage of student support. Banquet is not included in student fee, however, other aspects do not differ from ordinary participants' ones. Pre-registration Please, use the pre-registration form included here, or the electronic pre-registration feature at http://www.gli.cas.cz/conf/recovery/preform.htm to let us know about your interest and your preferences. You will be included with our mailing list. Your pre-registration will help us to estimate the real needs of the conference, as well as keep you informed. Second announcement The responders to the first announcement will obtain the second announcement (registration form, hotel reservation form & call for papers) during February, 1997. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% PRE-REGISTRATION FORM %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Please complete and return to: Petra Hovorkova Recoveries '97 Eurocongress Centre Budejovicka 15 CZ 140 00 Praha 4 fax +42-2-61211247 Forename: Initial(s): Surname: Title: Sex [M/F]: Affiliation: Address[street]: City: Post/Zip code: Country: State/Province: Phone: Fax: E- mail: Please tick: I shall attend possibly probably almost certainly, and I intend to be accompanied by one two three more accompanying persons [x $150] I want to apply for a student fee [$175] and I am enclosing a copy of my student status certificate (required) yes - no I intend to give a lecture yes - no I want to present a poster yes - no I intend to submit an abstract entitled: I intend to join the one-day pre-session field trip [$50] yes - no I intend to join the two-days post-session field trip [$100] yes - no I would like to have dinners at the Conference Restaurant [booking only] yes - no I would like this type of accommodation (see above): A B C D E F G H I Other requirements (please specify): I agree with putting my name onto a publicly accessible electronic list of participants on the Web yes - no Please forward this message to your colleagues or other persons of interest! From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Nov 21 09:41:53 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA21312; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 09:41:44 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA00637; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 13:33:06 GMT Received: from aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA00632; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 08:33:04 -0500 Received: from wave.aoml.noaa.gov. (wave [192.111.123.25]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA20022 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 08:33:02 -0500 (EST) Received: (from hendee@localhost) by wave.aoml.noaa.gov. (8.7.3/8.7.3.CAR) id IAA05851; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 08:33:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 08:33:02 -0500 (EST) From: "James C. Hendee" X-Sender: hendee@wave To: Coral Health and Monitoring List Subject: fwd: Greenwire 11/18 story on coral reefs (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ------------- Original Text From: Howard S. Marks@LA@NOAA, on 11/19/96 4:48 PM: To: Arthur E. Paterson@IntlAff@NOAA Cc: David S. Jansen@LA@NOAA *23 PHILIPPINES: CORAL REEFS RAVAGED BY IMPOVERISHED FISHERS "Local poverty and local politics" are working together to cause the destruction of coral reefs in the Philippines, as poor fishers are forced to rely on environmentally damaging fishing methods for survival, reports US NEWS & WORLD REPORT. Impoverished fishers in the Philippines often catch fish in coral reef areas by detonating dynamite, spraying cyanide and pounding reefs with rocks and crowbars to scare fish out (GREENWIRE, 10/31/95). The methods are "horrifically effective,"yielding huge amounts of fish, but ruining reefs. Although the Philippine government "long ago" outlawed blast and cyanide fishing, the practices continue because of a lack of enforcement and a fear of retribution from illegal fishers. Also, because of extreme poverty and population pressures, "the choice for many [fishers] each day is not between illegal and legal fishing methods but between eating and going hungry." USAID PROGRAM AIMS TO HELP The US Agency for Int'l Development has begun a $21 million Coastal Resources Management Project to help combat the problem. It aims to put 10, 000 miles of Philippine coastline under sustainable management, and eventually "create a local political coalition with a common interest in preserving the coastal environment and strong enough to defeat those who make money destroying it" (Steven Butler, US NEWS & WORLD REPORT, 11/25 issue). From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Nov 21 09:42:28 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA21354; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 09:42:21 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA00645; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 13:36:04 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA00640; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 08:36:03 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/930416.SGI) for id IAA17628; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 08:36:01 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 08:36:01 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Septic Graywater & Reef Health (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Forwarded message: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 08:06:42 +0800 From: DON BAKER To: coral@aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Septic Graywater & Reef Health Dear CoralList Members, With the increase of tourist resort development throughout the tropical world - even though these resorts may stress being "eco-friendly" - there is a problem with a simple fact of human existence near a reef; flushing toilets. Certainly a few people may be acceptable but add a resort with 80 rooms situated on a reef platform without a suitable "graywater" distribution and collection system - and having 80% annual occupancy....... In ref. [Walker and Ormond 1982]; eutrophication because of wastewater affection....can anyone else on this list present their brief comments on this subject? Perhaps give some examples of how a resort has "wasted" a nearby reef with this graywater or outright direct discharge? Any "best fit" systems? Companies that specialize in this type of waste system application? Please EMail me direct rather than on this ListServe as long comments may not be of interest to other members. Many thanks, Don Baker suniwan@po.jaring.my From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Nov 21 12:58:40 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA25685; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 12:58:32 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA00792; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:15:23 GMT Received: from cheviot.ncl.ac.uk by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA00787; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 11:13:07 -0500 Received: from fungia.ncl.ac.uk by cheviot.ncl.ac.uk id (8.6.12/ for ncl.ac.uk) with SMTP; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:12:52 GMT Message-Id: <199611211612.QAA26653@cheviot.ncl.ac.uk> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Nathalie Stevenson" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:12:42 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Eritrean Reefs Reply-to: n.j.stevenson@ncl.ac.uk CC: paul.mapson@ncl.ac.uk, t.m.daw@ncl.ac.uk Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.01) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: re ERITREAN REEFS Dear Coral list members, I am writing to you all to ask whether anyone has experience of the coral reefs in Eritrea, or in Yemen, or can put me in touch with anyone who has worked on the reefs of the southern Red Sea. Background: Myself and 3 colleagues are planning an expedition to Eritrea in Sept-Oct 1997 to survey the reefs around Massawa. We already have the support of the Ministry of Natural Resources and they are providing 2 collaborators, and also the backing of the staff of the Centre for Tropical Coastal Management, here in Newcastle, who are acting as advisers. There is a Eritrean student here on the MSc course (also from the Ministry Natural Resources), who is helping with background info, contacts and so on. We also have the backing of Chris Hillman from the ODA in Eritrea and some help from staff at the University of Asmara (mainly Dr. Henrich Bruggemann) So you can see we are serious in this endeavour. Only 2 of us have previous overseas coral experience and as the Scientific leader (by dubious virtue of my MSc standing!!), it is my job to sort out methodology and so on. We have been asked to examine the effects of anthropogenic inputs on the corals around Massawa, and to our knowledge, there has been no previous survey work conducted in this area, except for an expedition from Oxford University. The Ministry have not conducted any coral surveys themselves. We will be there for 2 months and have set aside a week of orientation and species familiarisation and a week at the end for the preliminary write up so that only gives us 6 weeks for survey work. The expedition leader Tim Daw went out to Massawa earlier this year and is familiar with the industry etc in the area and it appears that there are no point sources of input (other than one cement factory). Consequently it may be difficult to identify pollution gradients, but we are going to try. Obviously we have nothing to compare against other than other sites further north and south of Massawa, (and this has dubious validity). The Eritreans want us to pass on as much useful information and technology as possible and i had thought that if we could train some of the ministry staff in methodology (they are already trained as novice divers but are lacking in confidence to conduct surveys themselves) then we would be able to set up permanent monitoring sites to provide information that we will not be able to provide in 2 months, and provide information which could be used for REEFBASE. So I was hoping to incorporate some baseline survey work further north and south of Massawa, in addition to our anthropogenic studies, which are likely to be limited to nutrient analysis and sediment analysis, as well as the usual diversity, coral cover, fish counts and diadema counts (or similar). HELP NEEDED: Can anyone advise on identification guides that may be of use which we can go though before departure, so that we can spend more time concentrating on species level identification on arrival. We particularly need information on algal reefs. Has anyone attempted studies into the effects of anthropogenic inputs on algal reefs anywhere? or could anyone suggest simple methods that could be used to investigate effects, preferably methods that can be passed on to the Ministry of Natural Resources and which require minimal equipment or inexpensive equipment. Although we are going in late 1997 we need to identify the main techniques we will employ so that we can then set about obtaining the necessary equipment. For instance, the Ministry only has one (very old) binocular microscope, and so we cannot rely on much from the other end. Any information, advice, contacts etc. gratefully recieved. Regards Nathalie Stevenson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Miss Nathalie Stevenson Centre for Tropical Coastal Management, Dept Marine Sciences and Coastal Management, The Ridley Building, University of Newcastle, NE1 7RU tel: +44 191 222 6659 fax: +44 191 222 7891 email n.j.stevenson@newcastle.ac.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Nov 21 16:07:40 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA00416; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:07:33 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA00996; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 20:05:43 GMT Received: from sheppard.torfree.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA00991; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:05:33 -0500 Received: by sheppard.torfree.net (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0vQfKi-000QweC; Thu, 21 Nov 96 15:02 EST Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:02:47 -0500 (EST) From: Amanuel Melles Subject: Re: Eritrean Reefs To: n.j.stevenson@ncl.ac.uk cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, Amanuel Melles In-Reply-To: <199611211612.QAA26653@cheviot.ncl.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Nathalie, You'll be surprised to learn that I'm an Eritrean marine ecologist (ecology and taxonomy of corals and coral reefs) who has done coral reef research in the past in Massawa. Mehari Gilagaber, the student from the Ministry who's currently in Newcastle was my student. I'll be replying to your mail in detail sometime soon, after I relieve myself of work that has piled up during my absence here. For now, I just want to drop you few lines to inform you that indeed there's info on Massawa reefs which needs to be published (limited part has been published). We might meet in Eritrea in 1997 and perhaps cooperate in joint projects. Bye for now. Amanuel Melles Toronto, Canada From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Nov 21 19:16:27 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA04293; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 19:16:21 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id XAA01135; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 23:13:53 GMT Received: from santamarta.cetcol.net.co by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id SAA01130; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:13:34 -0500 Received: (from colref@localhost) by santamarta.cetcol.net.co (8.7.2/8.7.2) id SAA29519; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:05:44 +0500 (GMT) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:05:44 +0500 (GMT) From: Coleccion de referencia - Invemar To: Multiple recipients Subject: Sea anemones-Colombia-Caribbean In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: We are currently involve in sea anemone taxomony and ecology research in the caribbean coast of Colombia. We would like to know whether someone has ever worked with colombian material, whether this material has been deposited in any Natural Museum, and if so how to contact the museum. We are also very much interested in composing a list with the anemona species and their ocurrences in the caribbean and the pacific coast of central and South America.. Thanks for any information. Javier Reyes y Lina M. Barrios INVEMAR. Colombia Suramerica. colref@santamarta.cetcol.net.co From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Nov 22 08:58:26 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA12423; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 08:58:19 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA01729; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 12:48:13 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA01724; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 07:48:11 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/930416.SGI) id HAA20105; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 07:48:05 -0500 Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 07:48:05 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov cc: Coral Jobs List Subject: Executive Director position Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: >From the Ecology List-Server: ================================================== Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 23:09:05 -0500 From: "Monroe J. Singer" Subject: POSITION Executive Director Executive Director for the Bahamian Field Station, a not-for-profit educational and research institution on the remote island of San Salvador, Bahamas. PhD in the Natural Sciences, with good communication, mechanical and business skills required. As head administrator, responsibilities include overall organization and management of the Field Station and the physical plant, designing of programs, grantsmanship, coordination of research, planning and management of supply and travel logistics, and overall supervision of the Bahamian staff. Send request for more detailed information by December 15, 1996 to Dr. Donald T. Gerace, 3616 Peace River Dr., Punta Gorda, FL 33983, or e-mail to: peace@flnet.com. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Nov 22 09:09:57 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA12572; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 09:09:50 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA01768; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 13:09:02 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA01763; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 08:08:56 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/930416.SGI) for id IAA20169; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 08:08:55 -0500 Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 08:08:55 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Greenwire 11/18 story on coral reefs (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 11:50:23 -0500 From: Don McAllister To: "James C. Hendee" Cc: mcall@superaje.com Subject: Re: fwd: Greenwire 11/18 story on coral reefs (fwd) > > *23 PHILIPPINES: CORAL REEFS RAVAGED BY IMPOVERISHED FISHERS > "Local poverty and local politics" are working together to cause the > destruction of coral reefs in the Philippines, as poor fishers are forced > to rely on environmentally damaging fishing methods for survival, reports > US NEWS & WORLD REPORT. > > Impoverished fishers in the Philippines often catch fish in coral > reef areas by detonating dynamite, spraying cyanide and pounding reefs > with rocks and crowbars to scare fish out (GREENWIRE, 10/31/95). The > methods are "horrifically effective,"yielding huge amounts of fish, but ruining reefs. Although the Philippine government "long ago" outlawed blast and cyanide fishing, the practices continue because of a lack of enforcement and a fear of retribution from illegal fishers. Also, because of extreme overty and population pressures, "the choice for many [fishers] each day s not between illegal and legal fishing methods but between eating and going hungry." Ocean Voice International of Ottawa and the Haribon Foundation for Conservation of Natural Resources of Manila has been working since 1989 on community education, training, fisher organizations, etc. on the cyanide collection of marine aquarium fishes and increasing understanding of what it takes to conserve a reef or restore it. An educational manual, SAVE OUR CORAL REEFS, available in English since 1993, has just been published in Tagalog. And we have a video, CORAL DIVERS SAY 'NO' TO CYANIDE, to increase awareness of the problems. The US program will be helpful, especially if it can address the many land-based sources of reef stress - agriculture, deforestation, pollution, etc. You can learn a bit more about our program at our home page: http://www.ovi.ca -- Don E. McAllister /& Canadian Centre for Biodiversity Ocean Voice International /Canadian Museum of Nature Box 37026, 3332 McCarthy Rd. /Box 3443, Station D Ottawa, ON K1V 0W0, Canada /Ottawa, ON K1P 6P4 URL: http://www.ovi.ca E-mail: mcall@superaje.com (or: ah194@freenet.carleton.ca) Tel: (613) 264-8986, Fax: (613) 264-9204 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Nov 22 09:44:27 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA13395; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 09:44:21 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA01775; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 13:12:47 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA01770; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 08:12:45 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/930416.SGI) for id IAA20175; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 08:12:40 -0500 Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 08:12:40 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Philippine reefs (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 10:49:38 +0800 From: CEMRINO Subject: Coralist: Philippine reefs Coralist Subscribers, The recent message entitled "PHILIPPINES: CORAL REEFS RAVAGED BY IMPOVERISHED FISHERS" presents a popular, and somewhat oversimplified picture of the problems with Philippine coral reefs. A similar article appeared in the June 3, 1996 Asian edition of TIME, entitled "Reef Killers" (p. 49). They state that "But in the Philippines, which has 33,000 sq km of reef, 90% of the coral is dead or deteriorated,..." The popular decision among environmental groups that it is better to err on the side of spreading alarm, may deter scientists and dive tourists from finding out for themselves the state of the reefs, and thus providing an economic reason for their presevation (tourism). Yes, blast fishing, cyanide use for aquarium fishes, cyanide fishing for the live food fish trade for Taiwan and Hong Kong, and other destructive fishing practices do go on in parts of the Philippines (See the excellent Nature T.V. program, "The Coral Triangle"). John McManus has termed the increasingly desperate fishermen's use of destructive fishing coupled with rapid human population growth as "Malthusian Overfishing"- see his extensive report on Bolinao, where blast fishing continues. At the same time, I work in the middle of the Philippines, in the Province of Negros Oriental, where blast fishing was sucessfully eliminated 20 years ago, there is no cyanide fishing, there are currently about 20 marine preserves including the most successful marine reserve (Apo Island) in the Philippines. Coral cover ranges up to 60% on some reefs, and fish populations are recovering toward high densities and sizes in the preserves. In some areas, huge silt loads from land runoff may be increasing and present the greatest threat to the reefs. An American company logged the ancient forests of the island I am on (Negros), reducing virgin forest from 46% to 6% from 1970 to 1990. Greg Hodgson conviced a logging company on Palawan that the economic losses to fishing and dive tourism from silt runoff far outweighed the profits from cutting an area of timber- he wrote an excellent report. In most aspects of Philippine life there is no enforcement of the generally excellent and extensive set of laws, because taxes are collected only from wage earners- only about 5% of the total taxes due are collected (the wealthy largely escaping, typical of many poor countries), so there is no tax money for enforcement or all of the infrastructure needed for development. The money is here, but it stays in the hands of the wealthy and powerful. There are a wide variety of excellent aid projects here, including the Haribon Foundation working to eliminate cyanide fishing, a wide variety of German aid workers in my area funded by the European Union, Coral Cay Conservation, the Peace Corps, and many others. A strong and traditional Catholic organization here discourages family planning, but President Ramos, who is Protestant, has a family planning program, as does the Province I am in. The average number of children is down to 4 per family- less in urban areas, more to many more among fisherfolk. The race between food supply and human population is a very close race we are perilously close to loosing in the rural areas- the Philippines currently imports rice from Vietnam and India, among others. There was a rice shortage last fall, and many children could not go to school because they didn't have enough to eat. The press blamed "hoarders" and there seems to be no concern among the population that they are close to disaster. The men in rural areas often spend extra earnings on gambling on cockfights or on liquor, the wealthy love to drive new cars costing about US$60,000- as they dodge potholes, diseased dogs, and children in rags. Many common practices here do not speed development, though there are some very hopeful developments. The general impression that all the reefs have been destroyed, though, is not true. On a general level, the U.S. spends much less per capita on foreign development aid than many countries (even though the public thinks it is a large part of the budget, it is not), and frequently ties it to military sales or the purchase of goods for development from US suppliers. The biggest chunk of US aid goes to Israel and Egypt. Removing trade barriers to goods produced in developing countries would provide twice as much support as aid, and it would support usefull work instead of asking for handouts. -personal opinions of Doug Fenner Centre for the Establishment of Marine Reserves in Negros Oriental (CEMRINO) 109 San Jose Extension Dumaguete City 6200 Negros Oriental Philippines Tel: (+6 35) 225 3961 Fax: (+6 35) 225 5563 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Nov 22 13:18:30 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA23892; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 13:18:24 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA02026; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 17:14:28 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA02021; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 12:14:26 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/930416.SGI) for id MAA20733; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 12:14:24 -0500 Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 12:14:24 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Philippine reefs (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 12:15:06 -0500 From: Don McAllister To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program Cc: mcall@superaje.com Subject: Re: Philippine reefs (fwd) Doug Fenner responded: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 10:49:38 +0800 > From: CEMRINO > Subject: Coralist: Philippine reefs > > Coralist Subscribers, > The recent message entitled "PHILIPPINES: CORAL REEFS RAVAGED BY > IMPOVERISHED FISHERS" presents a popular, and somewhat oversimplified > picture of the problems with Philippine coral reefs. A similar article > appeared in the June 3, 1996 Asian edition of TIME, entitled "Reef > Killers" (p. 49). They state that "But in the Philippines, which has > 33,000 sq km of reef, 90% of the coral is dead or deteriorated,..." I think Doug has given a more holistic picture of the situation in the Philippines. There is no doubt that coastal fishers contribute to the unhappy condition of the reefs, but for the most part in the struggle to live and through having few other options on so low an income to change. But land-based marine sources of pollution, sedimentation, eutrophication, and pollution from agriculture, deforestation, industries and municipalities are primary and often chronic sources of degradation. Involvement, education and empowerment of citizens, giving them a bigger voice in governance is one approach. Another is education of industries, eco-labelling and giving citizens a choice in the market-place, and providing a more pluralistic society where coops, NGOs, churches and peoples organizations to offer a counterpoise to strictly short-term profit oriented products. But governance by the rich as opposed to democracy is not just a problem in the Philippines. Here in Canada the tobacco industry lobby has just managed to kill legislation that would have provided stronger regulation of marketting tobacco, over the wishes of most citizens - corporatocracy won over democracy. don don Don McAllister, Ocean Voice International From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Nov 22 19:57:53 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA29208; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 19:57:46 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id AAA02428; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 00:04:35 GMT Received: from guilder.ucdavis.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA02423; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 19:04:32 -0500 Received: from Anthony by guilder.ucdavis.edu (8.8.3/UCD3.8.1) id QAA08492; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 16:04:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3296407D.33@ucdavis.edu> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 16:08:29 -0800 From: Anthony Horsley Reply-To: avhorsley@ucdavis.edu X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Data Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: My name is Anthony Horsley and I am a student at the University of California at Davis. I am preparing a project proposal in one of my enivonmental statistics classes and I was wondering if you could help me find data for my project. I am looking for data that can support the idea that environmental restictions increases biodiversity in coral reef ecosystems. Any relevant data would do. I would greatly appreciate any help! Thank You Sincerely Anthony Horsley From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Wed Nov 24 05:37:34 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA04240; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 05:37:27 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id JAA03840; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 09:43:07 GMT Received: from nangka.usc.edu.ph by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id EAA03835; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 04:42:49 -0500 Received: from mangga.usc.edu.ph (mangga.usc.edu.ph [165.220.28.252]) by nangka.usc.edu.ph (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA10071; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 17:40:26 +0800 Received: from MANGGA/SpoolDir by mangga.usc.edu.ph (Mercury 1.21); 24 Nov 96 17:19:18 +800 Received: from SpoolDir by MANGGA (Mercury 1.21); 24 Nov 96 17:18:32 +800 From: "Marine Biology Section, USC, Cebu, Philippi" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, TAXACOM@cmsa.berkeley.edu, AQUA-L@listserv.ifmt.nf.ca, marbio@marinelab.sarasota.fl.us Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 17:18:23 +0000 X-Total-Enclosures: 1 X-Enclosure-Info: DOS,"emailann.txt",,,,Text Subject: 16th International Seaweed Symposium Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Message-ID: Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear All, This might be of interest to the group. Thanks for the space. Jason Young ____sender's name_____ Marine Biology Section University of San Carlos fax (+63-32) 3460351 Cebu City 6000, Philippines email: mbs@mangga.usc.edu.ph ****** When replying, PLEASE INCLUDE ADDRESSEE'S NAME IN SUBJECT HEADER *** thanks. ******** -------------- Enclosure number 1 ---------------- Preliminary Announcement The 16th INTERNATIONAL SEAWEED SYMPOSIUM will be held in Cebu City, Philippines, on April 12 - 17, 1998. The 16th ISS is hosted by the University of the Philippines, University of San Carlos, and the Seaweed Industry Association of the Philippines. Full paper and poster presentations are invited on all aspects of seaweed research and utilization, including, but not limited to: applications, molecular biology, chemical ecology, community ecology, taxonomy, chemistry, physiology, resource management, biogeography, pollution, diseases, microalgae, aquaculture. Those wishing to organize special sessions or topics, please contact immediately the organizers. Cebu is the Philippines' oldest city, and is located in the middle of the archipelago. International direct flights from major cities in the world are served: Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Sydney, Singapore, and Hong Kong. There are daily air links with many Philippine cities and several daily flights from Manila (1 hour). Ship travel by overnight ferries or by fast-speed catamarans (2 - 4 hours) to several cities are available. Cebu is a major tourist destination for scuba diving and island travel. A range of accommodations are available. Eucheuma culture farms are within reach by boat in less than a day. The 3rd International Seagrass Biology Workshop will follow right after the 16th ISS, in 19 - 24 April 1998, in Palawan. For further information, please contact: Dr. Gavino Trono, Jr. Marine Science Institute University of the Philippines 1101 Diliman, Q.C., Philippines fax. (+63-2) 921-5967; 922-3958 email: trono@msi.upd.edu.ph From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Nov 25 09:09:54 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA13240; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:09:48 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA05131; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:35:06 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA05126; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 07:35:05 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/930416.SGI) for id HAA00948; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 07:35:04 -0500 Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 07:35:04 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program Reply-To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: IYOR/ICRI Palawan Philippines Resurvey (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Forwarded message. If you wish to respond, please do so to Gregor, or to the list. Thanks... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 20:30:42 +0800 (HKT) From: gregorh@hk.super.net To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program Subject: IYOR/ICRI Palawan Philippines Resurvey I have just returned from a resurvey of coral reefs in Bacuit Bay, El Nido, Palawan. I originally surveyed these reefs in 1985/86 as summarized in Global Aspects of Coral Reefs (Ginsburg, 1993). Below I give a very brief summary of the qualitative results which are pertinent to the recent posts on Philippine reefs. Bacuit Bay is an official Marine Reserve. The resident human population (22,000) is still relatively low compared to other areas of the Philippines. Following our study of the value of logging versus tourism and fisheries (Hodgson and Dixon, 1989), Palawan banned commercial logging. In addition, the Dept. of Natural Resources has taken a hard line on slash and burn agriculture. Enforcement of both regulations has clearly worked. Logged, and old slash and burn areas have new vegetative cover. The coral reefs previously damaged by sedimentation in 1996 appear to have recovered nicely. To balance this encouraging news, the marketable marine resource populations have been decimated by small-scale artisanal overfishing. Previously common organisms such as Tridacna are now rare, and of small sizes only, while lobster, Trochus, green snails and edible holothurians are gone. Where previously there were large specimens of grouper, sweetlips, parrotfish, bumphead wrasse etc, there are now a small number of small-sized animals -- even at the most remote dive spots. I interviewed a number of new immigrant fishermen from neighboring provinces. They had left their home provinces due to a lack of fish stocks. They were already experiencing serious difficulties catching sufficient fish in Palawan, and were fully expecting the situation to deteriorate quickly. Dynamite fishing occurs (two fishermen were blown up while I was there) but was not yet common. Cyanide fishing was reportedly not common. There are two explanations for the rapid loss of fisheries stocks: 1) Exponential population growth of local residents from 11,600 in 1980 to 22,000 in 1995 creating a large increase in local demand for fish. 2) The establishment of an exporter in the town who can operate due to the availability of ice, and increased wealth of people in Manila who can now afford to pay for fish shipped on ice from the province. 15-20 tonnes/month of iced fish alone, not counting dried. There are a number of NGOs and Government departments working in El Nido, however, they do not appear to be working together. There is no attempt being made to control fishing other than trawling. This strategy needs to be re-examined. Conclusions: This location is relatively isolated -- there is no road access most of the year. Fish stocks were previously plentiful. If a Marine Reserve cannot successfully be managed in El Nido where the human population density is relatively low, what are the chances for success in other places? The excellent condition of the corals themselves shows that controlling land use can successfully prevent damage to marine resources. But the result is, borrowing Bob Ginsburg's analogy, a city under the sea without people. Gregor Hodgson Research Centre HK University of Science and Technology From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Nov 25 09:11:10 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA13281; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:11:04 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA05123; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:30:25 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA05118; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 07:30:23 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/930416.SGI) for id HAA00943; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 07:30:22 -0500 Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 07:30:21 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: RE: Septic Graywater & Reef Health (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Forwarded message: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 96 18:13:57 UT From: Pascal Collotte To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program Subject: RE: Septic Graywater & Reef Health (fwd) In response to Don Baker's concern about rejects from human activity on a resort close to the reef, I am not a specialist in that area but I can only give you some direction and example of my own experience. In the late 80's (88-89) a floating resort had been anchored on the reef barrier some 70 miles from Townsville, Queensland - Australia. The experiment went well as far as the reef was concerned. It was a commercial failure due to several reasons, amongst which the cost of 2 cyclone damages 2 years on the raw. I believe that the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (Townsville) was monitoring very closely that experiment from the reef environment stand point. I would encourage you to contact them at GBRMPA, PO Box755, Tonwsville - QLD, Australia (I hope the address is still valid). Pascal Collotte pascalpc@msn.com ---------- From: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov on behalf of Coral Health and Monitoring Program Sent: Thursday, November 21, 1996 5:36 AM To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Septic Graywater & Reef Health (fwd) Forwarded message: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 08:06:42 +0800 From: DON BAKER To: coral@aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Septic Graywater & Reef Health Dear CoralList Members, With the increase of tourist resort development throughout the tropical world - even though these resorts may stress being "eco-friendly" - there is a problem with a simple fact of human existence near a reef; flushing toilets. Certainly a few people may be acceptable but add a resort with 80 rooms situated on a reef platform without a suitable "graywater" distribution and collection system - and having 80% annual occupancy....... In ref. [Walker and Ormond 1982]; eutrophication because of wastewater affection....can anyone else on this list present their brief comments on this subject? Perhaps give some examples of how a resort has "wasted" a nearby reef with this graywater or outright direct discharge? Any "best fit" systems? Companies that specialize in this type of waste system application? Please EMail me direct rather than on this ListServe as long comments may not be of interest to other members. Many thanks, Don Baker suniwan@po.jaring.my From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Nov 25 09:25:15 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA13562; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:25:09 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA05161; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:11:17 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA05156; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 08:11:15 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/930416.SGI) for id IAA01032; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 08:11:14 -0500 Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 08:11:14 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: President Clinton's remarks Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The complete text of U.S. President Bill Clinton's remarks concerning the International Coral Reef Initiative and other topics, delivered on November 22, 1996 at Port Douglas Park, Australia, may be found at the following URL: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/bulls/clinton.html From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Nov 26 10:31:02 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA06657; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:30:55 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA06190; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 14:31:32 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA06185; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 09:31:29 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/930416.SGI) for id JAA04591; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 09:31:29 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 09:31:28 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Greenwire 11/18 story on coral reefs (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 22:17:21 +0000 From: Marine Biology Section, USC, Cebu, Philippi Subject: Re: fwd: Greenwire 11/18 story on coral reefs (fwd) Last Nov. 22 I saw the mail you forwarded and is as follows; USAID PROGRAM AIMS TO HELP The US Agency for Int'l Development has begun a $21 million Coastal Resources Management Project to help combat the problem. It aims to put 10, 000 miles of Philippine coastline under sustainable management, and eventually "create a local political coalition with a common interest in preserving the coastal environment and strong enough to defeat those who make money destroying it" (Steven Butler, US NEWS & WORLD REPORT, 11/25 issue). .... I live here in Cebu Philippines and although there is this USAID funding worth millons of dollars, I do not see any difference it has created regarding the ecological state of my country. Personally, I think that this would just be a waste of money on the USA part If you want to know more details, just reply Francis Freire Research Assistant ____sender's name_____ Marine Biology Section University of San Carlos fax (+63-32) 3460351 Cebu City 6000, Philippines email: mbs@mangga.usc.edu.ph ****** When replying, PLEASE INCLUDE ADDRESSEE'S NAME IN SUBJECT HEADER *** thanks. ******** From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Nov 26 19:20:14 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA16888; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 19:20:07 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id XAA06543; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 23:32:59 GMT Received: from gilbert.ucc.hull.ac.uk by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id SAA06538; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 18:32:50 -0500 Received: from chopin.ucc.hull.ac.uk by gilbert.ucc.hull.ac.uk with SMTP local (PP); Tue, 26 Nov 1996 19:35:34 +0000 Received: from mailhub1-remote.hull.ac.uk by mailhub1.hull.ac.uk id ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 18:02:14 +0000 Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 18:02:12 +0000 (GMT) From: "A.M.Moore" Reply-To: A.M.Moore@biosci.hull.ac.uk To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: data request (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I am new to the list, and I would very much appreciate it if anyone can help me. I am looking for satellite images of the Tukanbesi Islands, which are SE of SE Sulawesi, Indonesia. This is to use as input to a GIS system, to work out info for a research project and management plan for the area. The whole project is being run on a very tight budget, and so I cannot afford any expensive sources of material. I am an MSc student in Global Biodiversity, Monitoring and Conservation at Hull University, UK. If you can help, you can contact me direct: Abigail Moore A.M.Moore@biosci.hull.ac.uk From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Nov 27 05:17:06 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA19243; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 05:16:59 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id JAA06967; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:12:26 GMT Received: from VTBIT.CC.VT.EDU by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id EAA06962; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 04:12:23 -0500 Received: from VTBIT.CC.VT.EDU by VTBIT.CC.VT.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 2030; Wed, 27 Nov 96 04:12:02 EST Received: from SAKACS00.KACST.EDU.SA (NJE origin MAILER@SAKACS00) by VTBIT.CC.VT.EDU (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 9713; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 04:12:02 -0500 Received: from SAUPM00.BITNET (NJE origin MAILBOX@SAUPM00) by SAKACS00.KACST.EDU.SA (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 3209; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 11:58:18 +0000 Received: (from SAUPM00 for @ <@SAUPM00.DPC.KFUPM.EDU.SA:yfadlal@dpc107.dpc.kfupm.edu.sa> via BSMTP) Received: (from SAUPM00 for MAILBOX@SAUPM00 via NJE) (UCLA/Mail V1.500 M-SMTP-8071-51); Wed, 27 Nov 96 12:00:05 SAT Received: from dpc.kfupm.edu.sa by SAUPM00.DPC.KFUPM.EDU.SA (IBM MVS SMTP V3R1) with TCP; Wed, 27 Nov 96 11:59:46 LCL Received: from dpc107.dpc.kfupm.edu.sa (dpc107.dpc.kfupm.edu.sa [196.15.32.8]) by dpc.kfupm.edu.sa (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA27142 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:54:23 GMT Received: (from yfadlal@localhost) by dpc107.dpc.kfupm.edu.sa (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA59516 for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 11:56:12 +0300 Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 11:56:12 +0300 From: YUSEF FADLALLAH Message-Id: <199611270856.LAA59516@dpc107.dpc.kfupm.edu.sa> To: coral-list%reef.aoml.noaa.gov%SAKACS00.BITNET@vtbit.cc.vt.edu Subject: Coral Bleaching - Saudi Arabia/Gulf Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Extensive geographic and multi-species coral bleaching was observed in the summer and early fall of 1996 in nearshore coral communities along the Saudi Gulf coast. Less extensive bleaching was also observed in the offshore island of Jana, and some offshore coral communities north of Bahrain. Seawater temperatures exceeded 37 degrees C in nearshore habitats, and reached 35 C or higher at offshore locations. A report by Roger Uwate (23 Sep 1996; Coral bleaching in Bahrain, Arabian Gulf) describes similar phenomena. Extreme temperature excursions are normal for summer months in the Gulf (Coles, 1988 Proc. 6th ICRS 3:211-216; Coles and Fadlallah, 1991 Coral Reefs, 9:231-237), but corals appear to succumb when the temperature extremes hold for long periods. In the summer of 1996, nearshore (central coast) seawater temperature held between 33.5 - 37 C for no less than 90 days. I'd like to make contact with Roger Uwate (if he reads this), and anyone in the Gulf who might have documented similar events. I have a second hand anecdotal report of bleaching from the United Arab Emirates, and would like to corroborate that. Any inforamation from Kuwait and Qatar is welcome. Please post only appropriate responses to the list. Otherwise contact me directly. I would be happy to provide additional information on bleaching and mortality rates for various species. Yusef Fadlallah Voice: 966-3-860-3237 Research Institute - KFUPM Fax: 966-3-860-3220 Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia Internet: yfadlal@dpc.kfupm.edu.sa Saudi Arabia From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Nov 27 05:17:33 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA19273; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 05:17:27 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id JAA06987; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:33:12 GMT Received: from VTBIT.CC.VT.EDU by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id EAA06982; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 04:33:09 -0500 Received: from VTBIT.CC.VT.EDU by VTBIT.CC.VT.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 2072; Wed, 27 Nov 96 04:32:44 EST Received: from SAKACS00.KACST.EDU.SA (NJE origin MAILER@SAKACS00) by VTBIT.CC.VT.EDU (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 9911; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 04:32:41 -0500 Received: from SAUPM00.BITNET (NJE origin MAILBOX@SAUPM00) by SAKACS00.KACST.EDU.SA (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 3311; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 12:26:26 +0000 Received: (from SAUPM00 for @ <@SAUPM00.DPC.KFUPM.EDU.SA:yfadlal@dpc107.dpc.kfupm.edu.sa> via BSMTP) Received: (from SAUPM00 for MAILBOX@SAUPM00 via NJE) (UCLA/Mail V1.500 M-SMTP-8071-39); Wed, 27 Nov 96 12:28:10 SAT Received: from dpc.kfupm.edu.sa by SAUPM00.DPC.KFUPM.EDU.SA (IBM MVS SMTP V3R1) with TCP; Wed, 27 Nov 96 12:27:52 LCL Received: from dpc107.dpc.kfupm.edu.sa (dpc107.dpc.kfupm.edu.sa [196.15.32.8]) by dpc.kfupm.edu.sa (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA19022 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:22:47 GMT Received: (from yfadlal@localhost) by dpc107.dpc.kfupm.edu.sa (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA32365 for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 12:24:36 +0300 Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 12:24:36 +0300 From: YUSEF FADLALLAH Message-Id: <199611270924.MAA32365@dpc107.dpc.kfupm.edu.sa> To: coral-list%reef.aoml.noaa.gov%SAKACS00.BITNET@vtbit.cc.vt.edu Subject: Black band disease - Acropora / Gulf-Saudi Arabia Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: An outbreak of BBD was documented during August-September 1996 in a patch reef (27 39'49"N/49 42'10"E) which is primarily comprised of Acropora clathrata thickets. The outbreak coincided with prolonged exposure to high seawater temperature. Coral motality due to BBD proceeded with the even-paced progress of the bands, from the bases to the tips of branches. Mortalitity that was apparently in direct response to thermal stress was less orderly. Coral tissue sloughed off in a haphazard manner from all areas of a colony. To my knowledge this is the first report of BBD from the Arabian/Persian Gulf, and the only other reported case for Acropora outside the GBR. Yusef Fadlallah Voice: 966-3-860-3237 Research Institute - KFUPM Fax: 966-3-860-3220 Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia Internet: yfadlal@dpc.kfupm.edu.sa From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Nov 27 12:22:55 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA27085; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 12:22:48 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA07351; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 15:54:14 GMT Received: from santamarta.cetcol.net.co by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA07346; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 10:53:58 -0500 Received: (from colref@localhost) by santamarta.cetcol.net.co (8.7.2/8.7.2) id KAA19994; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 10:45:52 +0500 (GMT) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 10:45:51 +0500 (GMT) From: Coleccion de referencia - Invemar To: multiple recipients Subject: Slides hardware In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I would like to know whether any of you can suggest the proper equipment to get slides from computer images and the other way would to get computer images from slides. Thanks for any information, Gabriel R. Navas S. colref@santamarta.cetcol.net.co From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Nov 27 17:11:15 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA02746; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 17:11:08 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA08103; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 21:07:41 GMT Received: from wgs1.btl.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA08098; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 16:07:32 -0500 Received: from [206.27.238.32] by wgs1.btl.net (Netscape Mail Server v2.0) with ESMTP id AAA24175; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 15:03:14 -0500 X-Sender: trath@btlmail.btl.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 15:08:21 -0600 To: colref@santamarta.cetcol.net.co, coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: "Tony Rath" Subject: Re: Slides hardware Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: >I would like to know whether any of you can suggest the proper equipment >to get slides from computer images and the other way would to get >computer images from slides. > Gabriel, Getting slides from computer images can take a high tech expensive route or a low tech route. I'll tell you the low tech route: Use a 35mm camera to shoot the computer screen. The trick is to make your exposure at least a 15th of a sec or longer so that the picture will not pick up the computer screen in mid draw. If you shoot faster than a 15th, you will get a break in the image. You might also want to shoot with an f-stop of 5.6 or greater so that your image is sharp. Because of the long exposure times, you should have a steady tripod, and if you are on a wood floor, don't let others walk nearby while taking the image, the vibrations will cause the image to be soft. Getting computer images from slides is a bit easier. If you have a flatbed scanner, you have to have a transparency adaptor to scan in the image. You are usually restricted to the lower resolutions this way. there are scanners built specifically for scanning 35mm film which do a good job also. This route will cost you about $2000US. The alternative is to have the images scanned onto a CD-ROM by a company that has a drum scanner and specializes in this service. I'd recommend this route as it is cheap, produces high resolution scans, and the images are very easy to work with. The images are also archived if you take care of the CD. Of course it is problematic if you don't have a CD-ROM reader, but they are quite cheap these days. I can supply you or others on the list with some addresses of photo labs that scan to CD-ROM if you like. Good Luck. Tony Rath Creative Director -------------------------------------------------------------- Visit Belize by Naturalight at: http://www.belizenet.com/ for your complete source of information about coral reefs, rainforest, Mayan ruins, ecotourism, weather, weekly newspaper, and so much more. Not just another website... but a work of art. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Nov 27 19:32:11 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA01237; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 19:32:00 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA08182; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 22:59:07 GMT Received: from galadriel.otago.ac.nz by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA08177; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 17:58:46 -0500 Received: from [139.80.104.160] (MAC104160.otago.ac.nz [139.80.104.160]) by galadriel.otago.ac.nz (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id LAA12722 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:58:28 +1300 (NZDT) X-Sender: st004593@brandywine.otago.ac.nz Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 12:11:20 +0000 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: oliver.gussmann@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Oliver Gussmann) Subject: conferences Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Where can I find out about 'coral' reef-related conferences and obtain information on registration fees etc. for 1997? Thannks, Oliver =9C7=00#=00=00=00=00=00=00=04=00=00=19=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=01=00=00=00= =01=87=00=00=07R=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=87=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00= =00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=00=06=00=00$=00=00=06=00=00$ =00=00=06$=00=00=00=00=06$=00=00=00=00=06$=00=0E=00=00=062=00=12=00=00=06D= =00=00=00=00=06D=00=00=00=00=06D=00=00=00=00=06D=00=00=00=06N=00=00=00=06X= =00=00=00=00=06X=00=12=00=00=06j=00x=00=00=06D =00=00=00=00=06=92=00 =00=00=07=02=00=1A=00=00=07(=00*=00=00=07R=00=00=00=00=06$=00=00=00=01=00=01= =00=00=07(=00=00=00=00=07=1C=00=0C=00=00=07(=00=00=00=00=07(=00=00=00=00=07R= =00=00=00=00=07(=00=00=00=00=07(=00=00=00=00=07(=00=00 =00=00=07(=00=00=00=00=07(=00=00=00=00=07(=00=00=00=00Oliver Gussmann University of Otago Department of Marine Science PO Box 56 Dunedin, New Zealand =46ax: (64)-3-479 8336 Tel.: (64)-3 479 8306 email: oliver.gussmann@stonebow.otago.ac.nz =11u=00x=02=B7{=02=B7|=06*=C9=02=B7=D1=02=B7=9D=00=00=9D=00=00=9D=9D=00=00= 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Wed, 27 Nov 1996 22:51:34 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id DAA08373; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 03:11:40 GMT Received: from io.org by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id WAA08368; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 22:11:37 -0500 Received: from dyna-123.net7a.io.org (dyna-123.net7a.io.org [204.92.48.123]) by io.org (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA14869 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 22:11:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 22:11:26 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1.5.4.16.19961127231531.21b7d80c@io.org> X-Sender: howzit@io.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Ursula Keuper-Bennett Subject: Happy Thanksgiving, CORALers Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Dear U.S. Coral Researchers, Just want to wish you a happy and safe Thanksgiving tomorrow. Because this is a time for Giving Thanks, I want to thank ALL coral researchers for the dedication you put into studying and monitoring the world's reefs. I have some friends of the reptile persuasion whose well-being depend on clean ocean and healthy reef systems. Fact is, they even sleep among your corals. What you do is very important and I just want to acknowledge that this evening. Also I want to take this time to thank NOAA for providing this excellent forum that facilitates communication among researchers and scientists and also to thank those of you who have helped me (a layperson) with questions I have had this past year. Lastly, I want to thank Jim Hendee for sysop'ing this coral-list and keeping things running smoothly. His efforts are very much appreciated by this turtle person. All the best ^ Ursula Keuper-Bennett 0 0 Email: howzit@io.org /V^\ I I /^V\ /V Turtle Trax V\ http://www.turtles.org PLEASE SUPPORT Green Turtle Fibropapilloma RESEARCH From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Nov 28 20:24:36 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA07365; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 20:24:29 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id AAA09279; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 00:12:48 GMT Received: from mar.icmyl.unam.mx by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA09274; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 19:12:41 -0500 Received: by mar.icmyl.unam.mx (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA25877; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 18:12:26 +0600 Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 18:12:25 -0600 (CST) From: Rosa Elisa Rodriguez X-Sender: rosaer@mar To: coral-list Cc: Marinelife , coastnet Subject: Coral Reef Educational Videos Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A few days ago I asked for information about coral reef videos that can be used in an educational program. This is a summary of the information I received: 1) Corals Forever (Corales para Siempre). General video on corals and coral reef and current threats to coral reef ecosystems . (15 min, English and Spanish Versions). PEMEX Video Servicios Profesionales S.A. de C.V. Medellin # 321 Col. Roma, Mexico Tel (5) 564-6869 Fax (5) 574-5685 2) UNESCO Coral Reef Taxonomy. Contact Dr. Troost at UNESCOS Marine Division in Paris. 3) 2 videos, one for gradeshcool market and one for hisghschool. Available through Earth Foundation. EarthFound@aol.com 4) "Their Health, Our Wealth" (24 min) produced by Bob Richmond, University of Guam (didn't give any address). 5) "The Great Barrier Reef" available from: Films for the humanities and Sciences. P.O. Box 2053 Princeton NJ 08543-2053 6) "Fragile Ring of Life" (54 min.) Meyer Odze United States Information Agency Producer Worldnet Television and Film Service Washington DC 20547-0001 En Espan~ol: Ofna. de Informacion Publica de la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Mexico. 7) "Coral Grief". A Canadian Company TV Ontario. Coral Issues in the Caribbean Islands and Belize (English). (No address available). 8) Coral Sea Imagery has a 12 min. video on Indopacific reefs. Information: Steve Gardner Digital Underwater Production & Speciality Marine Publications Science media Consultancy P.O. Box 2186 Townsville 4810 Australia coralsea@ozemail.com.au http://www.ozemail.com.au/~coralsea 9) "Coral Reefs, Rain Forest of the Sea" showed in Discovery Channel. (No data available). 10) International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) Educational Video. (No data available). 11) "Encounter with the Reef" Information with Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. Also There is a CD-Rom named "Coral Kingdom" with a 180 pate teacher guide, from: Digital Studios 209 Santa Clara Ave Aptos CA 95003 and Ocean Voice Internationa has a Coral Reef Educational Manual "Save our Coral Reefs" 126 pp + 100 illustrations. $20.00 plus $5 air mail. Information mcall@superaje.com If someone has any additional information I will appreciate it. Gracias, Biol. Rosa Rodriguez Ap. Postal 1174 77500 Cancun, Q. Roo Mexico Tel (987) 102-19 Fax (987) 101-38 e-mail: rosaer@mar.icmyl.unam.mx From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Nov 28 22:43:16 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA07789; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 22:43:06 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id DAA09417; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 03:09:22 GMT Received: from igc7.igc.org by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id WAA09412; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 22:09:19 -0500 Received: from igc3.igc.apc.org (igc3.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.33]) by igc7.igc.org (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA10047; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 17:18:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from ppp4-14.igc.org (pcis@ppp4-14.igc.org [198.94.4.14]) by igc3.igc.apc.org (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA27319; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 07:41:05 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 07:41:05 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <2.2.16.19961128074042.8fb79d1c@pop.igc.org> X-Sender: pcis@pop.igc.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: oliver.gussmann@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Oliver Gussmann), coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: GreenLife Society Subject: Re: conferences Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Oliver, et al. The International Year of the Reef people seem to have a lot of that information. I would suggest you contact Stephen Colwell at the Coral Reef Alliance: coralreefa@aol.com At 12:11 PM 11/28/96 +0000, Oliver Gussmann wrote: >Where can I find out about 'coral' reef-related conferences and obtain >information on registration fees etc. for 1997? > >Thannks, Oliver > >=9C7 William C. Burns =09 Director, GreenLife Society - North American Chapter=20 700 Cragmont Ave. Berkeley, CA 94708 USA =09 Phone/Fax: (510) 558-0620=09 E-mail: pcis@igc.apc.org =09 WWW site: http://EELINK.umich.edu/greenlife/index.html =09 GLSNA Affiliations: The EarthAction Network The Galapagos Coalition Reseau International d'ONG sur la Desertification (RIOD) Accredited NGO Observer, International Whaling Commission European Social Science Fisheries Network -=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D= -=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D- The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. -- William James -=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D= -=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D- From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Nov 29 02:59:20 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA08666; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 02:59:14 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id HAA09617; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 07:19:07 GMT Received: from uxmail.ust.hk by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id CAA09612; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 02:19:02 -0500 Received: from RCZ032 ([143.89.112.197]) by uxmail.ust.hk with SMTP id <102387-23569>; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 15:17:39 +0800 Message-ID: <329E8E5C.4025@usthk.ust.hk> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 15:18:52 +0800 From: Gregor Hodgson Organization: Institute for Environmental Studies X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: US$10,000 Grouper Meal Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Here is a news report that sheds some light on the economics of cyanide and other forms of fishing around coral reefs. **************************************** 28 November, 1996 South China Morning Post - Hong Kong A 230 kg grouper was netted by Indonesian fishermen and has been sold to a Hong Kong restaurant for US$10,256. "But when it arrived at Newton Court Seafood Restaurant, its size created a headache for managers and chefs. Our fish tanks are too small for the fish -- its three metres long, said restaurant manager Kwan Ping-chiu. We have asked an expert to choose an auspicious day for chopping up the grouper. And we'll hold a small ceremony before our chef wields his chopper, said Mr Kwan. The chef said the tail, skin and fins were considered most tasty when stewed with shark fin; the bones would provide a soup base and the flesh could be stir-fried. Within 24 hours of the grouper's arrival yesterday, the restaurant had received more than 20 reservations for the fish feast on Sunday. In April, a rare 250 kg grouper also caught by Indonesian fishermen was bought by a Sai Kung (HK) seafood stall." *********************************************** Comment: Many of us eat lots of fish. But with this kind of money involved -- there is a relatively large incentive to catch every single large fish out there, and this could put a dent in overall stocks. Questions: Who can start an international educational campaign regarding the comparative reproductive advantage of large fish over small? Jim Bohnsack has a nice diagram of this. Can reef scientists band together to suggest that national fisheries agencies restrict catch at the top-end of fish sizes for some species? Please post comments/responses to the coral-list server. Gregor Hodgson, PhD Institute for Environmental Studies, Research Centre Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clearwater Bay, Kowloon, HONG KONG e-mail: rcgregor@usthk.ust.hk fax: (852) 2358-1582 tel: (852) 2358-8568 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Nov 29 04:59:53 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA09057; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 04:59:44 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id JAA09720; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 09:29:04 GMT Received: from tualang.unimas.my by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id EAA09715; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 04:28:32 -0500 Message-Id: <199611290928.EAA09715@reef.aoml.noaa.gov> Received: from Nick ([161.142.87.122]) by tualang.unimas.my with SMTP (1.37.109.10G/16.2) id AA072321906; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:05:06 +0800 Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:05:06 +0800 X-Sender: nick@tualang.unimas.my X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Nicolas James Pilcher Subject: An expensive meal Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear all. In response to Gregor's message, I offer my amateur insights for mastication. No offence is aimed at anybody. Only realism. Yes, you could get an awareness campaign going, but you have to put yourself in the Asian mindframe. Sitting in the UK (or elsewhere for that matter) one doesn't get the reality of the picture, or understand where the need for these fish originates. This is not meant as an insult, please do not take it that way. Just consider though, the following: Note that this does not occur in western countries, only in Asia. Now wonder why. Also wonder why it occurs in Hong Kong, one of the most developed Asian nations. Then think about whether the demand is based on the ability of the everyday consumer, or a select few. The wonder if that select few care. Don't be remotely surprised that most of them know exactly how much more valuable that fish would be to the fish population rather than the human one (many of them descend from generations of fisherman and have only recently made it big financially). Your public awareness campaign may reach the everyday consumer, but these are not the origins of the demand for the big berthas. To target the rich, you have to offer them an alternative that will still allow them to 'save-face' and still act rich. This is Asia. Welcome to a new mindset. The need to entertain guests and provide them with a large live fish is cemented now as an important tradition - modern it may be, but it's there and we have to live with it. These people don't eat this at home. Ever! It is only to show off politely that it is done. These are aspects to consider when tackling this issue. Hope the above will give you a new perspective. Best regards, Nick - an amateur !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nicolas J. Pilcher Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation Universiti Malaysia Sarawak 94300 Kota Samarahan Sarawak, Malaysia Tel ++ 60 82 671 000 Ext. 181 Fax ++ 60 82 671903 E-mail nick@tualang.unimas.my !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Nov 29 06:02:53 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA09303; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 06:02:45 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id KAA09765; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 10:15:00 GMT Received: from tualang.unimas.my by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id FAA09759; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 05:11:30 -0500 Message-Id: <199611291011.FAA09759@reef.aoml.noaa.gov> Received: from falco ([161.142.87.130]) by tualang.unimas.my with SMTP (1.37.109.10G/16.2) id AA073883735; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:35:35 +0800 Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:35:35 +0800 X-Sender: soakley@tualang.unimas.my X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Gregor Hodgson , coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: "Dr. Steve Oakley" Subject: Re: US$10,000 Grouper Meal Cc: nick@tualang.unimas.my Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: These large groupers must be the most likely marine fish to actually become endangered. 1 They are rare 2 They have a sex change life history so that small fish cannot reproduce together 3 They have restricted ranges Coral reefs with good food & caves amongst others How frequently do they find a mate? Do they have a spawning ground and associated migration or are they a solitary rare beast with one or 2 per 100km2? Does anyone know? >comparative reproductive advantage of large fish over small? Jim Bohnsack has >a nice diagram of this. Gregor -- email address or reference please Can reef scientists band together to suggest that >national fisheries agencies restrict catch at the top-end of fish sizes for >some species? That's the role of protected areas to allow some to grow to max potential size. unfortunately at a probable natural maximum of 2 per km2. Marine reserves are going to have to be huge to sustain a viable population How do we get this across to fishermen, politicians, the general public? How do we police areas of 100km2? Dr. Steve Oakley, Shell Prof. of environmental Science, Institute of Biodiversity & Environmental Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, 94300 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia soakley@tualang.unimas.my Fax 082 671903 Tel 082 671000 x 254 or 260 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Nov 29 07:35:43 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA09627; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 07:35:37 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id LAA09869; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 11:47:29 GMT Received: from lendal.york.ac.uk by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id GAA09864; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 06:47:26 -0500 Received: from mailer.york.ac.uk by lendal.york.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Fri, 29 Nov 1996 11:46:53 +0000 Received: from eeempc17 by mailer.york.ac.uk via SMTP (950511.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH526/940406.SGI) id LAA11655; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 11:46:53 GMT Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 11:46:48 GMT From: Callum Roberts Subject: Re: US$10,000 Grouper Meal To: soakley@tualang.unimas.my cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Message-ID: Priority: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/PLAIN; CHARSET="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Using Yvonne Sadovy's length fecundity relationship for groupers, taking the length of the beast as accurately measured at 3 metres, and assuming a 1kg fish is 38cm long, the 230kg grouper would have carried the same number of eggs as 523 1kg fishes. Of course, this old fish was probably a male and may have been getting too long in the tooth to chase those younger and smaller than itself...! It is a fair point though that the economics of the large, live food fish fishery are such that reefs will be strip mined of the biggest fish unless the trade is regulated against. Such values make it cost effective to fly or ship in live reef fish from even the remotest regions of the world and the appetite for them is growing. This was a key reason why fish like the Napoleon or humphead wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus), and Bumphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum) were placed on the IUCN Red List early this year as being vulnerable throughout their (large) ranges. People like Jim Bohnsack have been talking for some time about implementing maximum size limits for take of some reef fishes. There may already be some examples. I would love to see the use of marine reserves, fully protected from fishing, become a commonplace feature of fisheries management globally. Such reserves provide critical refuges for large and long-lived species and may be one of the only effective ways of maintaining populations of them. Throughout large areas of the Caribbean the biggest groupers have either disappeared or become very rare due to overfishing (straightforward artisanal exploitation - no big bucks profits here). We also Red Listed a number of them as vulnerable. Increasingly I can see that the conservation lobby will become much more involved and vocal about fisheries management issues. If we don't act soon, global extinctions may follow the many local extinctions that have already occurred. Best wishes, Callum Roberts Ref: Sadovy, Y. (1996) Reproduction of reef fishery species. Chapter 2 in N.V.C. Polunin and C.M. Roberts (eds), Reef Fisheries, Chapman and Hall, London. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr Callum Roberts Dept of Environmental Economics and Environmental Management University of York York, YO1 5DD UK Tel: +44 (0)1904 434066; Fax: +44 (0)1904 432998; email cr10@york.ac.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Nov 29 10:18:11 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA10746; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 10:18:04 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA10081; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 14:26:34 GMT Received: from wgs1.btl.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA10076; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 09:26:30 -0500 Received: from [206.27.238.37] by wgs1.btl.net (Netscape Mail Server v2.0) with ESMTP id AAA15073; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 08:22:13 -0500 X-Sender: trath@btlmail.btl.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 21:11:16 -0600 To: aa608@freenet.toronto.on.ca, coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: "Tony Rath" Subject: Re: Slides hardware Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: >Hi Tony, > >I would be interested in knowing about the type of material one requires to >have slides on CDROMs. I shall appreciate if you can send me any contact >addresses. Thanks. > >Amanuel Melles http://www.kodak.com/digitalImages/piwSites/piwSites.shtml The above Kodak web page allows you to search all Photo CD sites (worldwide) by region and type of service. You can also get all the information you need about CD's at: http://www.kodak.com/daiHome/products/photoCD.shtml Good Luck and let me know if this is what you need. Tony Rath Creative Director -------------------------------------------------------------- Visit Belize by Naturalight at: http://www.belizenet.com/ for your complete source of information about coral reefs, rainforest, Mayan ruins, ecotourism, weather, weekly newspaper, and so much more. Not just another website... but a work of art. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Nov 29 18:02:28 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA14109; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:02:21 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA10535; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 22:32:58 GMT Received: from charleston.nadn.navy.mil by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA10530; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 17:32:56 -0500 Received: from localhost (strong@localhost) by charleston.nadn.navy.mil (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA14534; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 17:38:06 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: charleston.nadn.navy.mil: strong owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 17:38:06 -0500 (EST) From: Prof Alan E Strong X-Sender: strong@charleston To: Ursula Keuper-Bennett cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Happy Thanksgiving, CORALers In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19961127231531.21b7d80c@io.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Yes!! I second all of Ursula's thanks & praises!! Happy Thanksgiving! AE Strong ***************************************************************************** From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Wed Dec 1 14:04:55 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA22045; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 14:04:48 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA12310; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 17:43:45 GMT Received: from col2.caribsurf.com by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA12305; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 12:43:42 -0500 Received: from [205.214.210.198] by col2.caribsurf.com; (5.65/1.1.8.2/15Jun95-1157AM) id AA11534; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 13:43:38 -0400 Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 13:43:38 -0400 Message-Id: <9612011743.AA11534@col2.caribsurf.com> X-Sender: kido-ywf@mail.caribsurf.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: kido-ywf@caribsurf.com (kido) Subject: Greetings from Planet KIDO! X-Mailer: Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: The KIDO Team wishes you a Happy and GREEN 1997 ! We welcome you to visit our Internet Web site, to exchange links and relevant networking information at: http://members.aol.com/ywf/home/kido .html The KIDO PROJECT Bio-Environmental Research Station in Carriacou, Grenadines of Grenada and our WHALE and DOLPHIN WATCHING operations are described with an Introduction to YACHTING WITHOUT FRONTIERS, our non-profit organization. We work in conjunction with scientific researchers, NGOs, government departments and individuals developing projects, consulting and networking on environmental Issues, our focus is on tropical Small Islands and their ecological and cultural vulnerability. In occasion of the Year of the Reef 1997, we have presented a reef reconstruction project to the local gov. but the main problem is the lack of funds. To promote Environmental Awareness and get the message across effectively, KIDO has authored and produced a new EXHIBITION of ENVIRONMENTAL CARTOONS, some of which you may enjoy in the CARTOON GALLERY section of our Webpage, also available for sale as GREETING CARDS. Our worldwide itinerant Cartoons Exhibition can be part of your 1997 environmental programmes (enhancing your conferences, seminars, international meetings and educational events): the KIDO display offers more than 60 poster-size Eco-Toons on all the "hot" subjects, from Waste to Endangered Species and Whales, Ocean Life, 'Overdevelopment', habitat destruction and Global Awareness . Environmentally yours KIDO For more information contact: Dr.Marina Fastigi Kido Project Sanctuary, Carriacou (Grenada) West Indies Tel/fax 809 443 7936 email: kido-ywf@caribsurf.com Internet Webpage address http://members.aol.com/ywf/home/kido.html From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Dec 2 08:38:32 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA28202; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 08:38:25 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA13261; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 12:59:24 GMT Received: from UMBC2.UMBC.EDU by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA13256; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 07:59:21 -0500 Received: from UMBC2.UMBC.EDU by UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (PMDF V5.0-6 #1) id <01ICIZRQU2KG001XNE@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU> for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Mon, 02 Dec 1996 07:59:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 07:59:17 -0500 (EST) From: shashar@umbc2.umbc.edu Subject: Corals and UV book To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hi there I just wanted to let you know of a new book coming out that presents a collections of papers about UV and coral reefs, from methods, to reproduction, to vision, that came out of a workshop with the same name held in Hawaii a few years a go. Enclosed is the table of contents, for your scanning. The book's cost is $35 and that includes postage within the U.S. Well, for further info- contact the editors Dave Alan Gulko Paul L Jokiel At the Hawaii Inst. of Marine Biology ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ultraviolet Radiation and Coral Reefs D. Gulko & P. L. Jokiel (eds) Table of Contents: Introduction: An Introduction to the Study of UV on Coral Reefs P. L. Jokiel Ultraviolet Light and the Origin of Life D. Mauzerall Oh No, Not Another Workshop: A Summary of Previous UV Workshops M. P. Lesser General Overview of Instrumentation, Experimental Methods, and Attenuation of UV Radiation into Natural Waters M. P. Lesser Introduction to Materials and Methods Used by Participants in the 1994 HIMB Summer Program on 'UV and Coral Reefs' D.Gulko, M. P. Lesser & M. Ondrusek An Introduction to the UV Environment of Kane'ohe Bay, O'ahu D. Gulko Attenuation in Kane'ohe Bay as Interpreted from PUV Profiles K. W. Patterson Plankton: The Influence of Solar UV-B Radiation on Copepods in the Lagoon at Coconut Island, Hawai'i H. Saito & S.Taguchi A Biological Weighting Function for Phytoplankton Growth Inhibition P. J. M. Peterson, R. C. Smith, K. W. Patterson & P. L. Jokiel Physiological and Biochemical Effects of UV Radiation on the Marine Phytoplankton _Nannochloropsis_ sp. and _Dunaliella_ sp. B. Butow & T. Fisher Corals: Horizontal and Vertical Distribution of MAA's in Hawaiian Corals: A Depth Profile and a Survey I. Kuffner, M. E. Ondrusek & M. Lesser Response of a Pacific Stony Coral to Short- term Exposure of Ultraviolet and Visible Light S. K. Lewis Bleaching and Lipids in the Pacific Coral _Montipora verrucosa_ A. G. Grottoli- Everett Uneven Bleaching Within a Coral Colony in Response to Differing Levels of Solar Radiation A. G. Grottoli- Everett & I. Kuffner The Metabolic Response of _Fungia scutaria_ to Elevated Temperatures Under Various UV Radiation Regimes S. V. Hohlbach Preliminary Report of the Occurance of Mycosporine-like Amino Acids in the Eggs of the Hawaiian Scleractinian Corals _Montipora verrucosa_ and _Fungia scutaria_ D. A. Krupp & J. Blanck Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation on Fertilization in the Hawaiian Coral _Fungia scutaria_ D. Gulko The Effect of UV on Settlement of the Planula of _Pocillopora damicornis_ A. Baker Zooxanthellae: Ultraviolet Radiation: Helpful or Harmful to Zooxanthellae Culture Growth S. R. Santos Seaweeds: Survey of Mycosporine-like Amino Acids in the Macrophytes of Kane'ohe Bay A. T. Banaszak & M. Lesser Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation and Nitrogen Enrichment on Growth in the Coral Reef Chlorophytes _Dictyosphaeria cavernosa_ and _Dictyosphaeria versluysii_ S. Larned Phototoxicity: Phototoxicity in a Coral Reef Flat Community R. Peachey & D. Crosby UV & Vision: UV Vision by Marine Animals: Mainly Questions N. Shashar Polarization Vision as a Mechanism for Detection of Transparent Objects N. Shashar, L. Addessi & T. W. Cronin Designs for Submersible Imaging Polarimeters N. Shashar, T. W. Cronin, G. Johnson & L. B. Wolff Ultraviolet Imagery G. Losey, C. W. Hawryshyn, W. N. McFarland, E. R. Lowe, T. W. Cronin & D. Fiore Conclusions: Workshop Roundtable Discussion on "Directions in Marine UV Research" From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Dec 2 08:44:12 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA28362; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 08:44:06 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA13306; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 13:05:11 GMT Received: from winnie.fit.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA13301; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 08:05:09 -0500 Received: from localhost (shenker@localhost) by winnie.fit.edu (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id IAA06609 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 08:02:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 08:02:52 -0500 (EST) From: Jonathan Shenker To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Fishery for Marine Ornamental Tropical Fishes Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I've been trying, without much success, to find current information about the commercial fishery for marine fishes for the aquarium trade. I'm particularly interested in the techniques used by fisheries around the world, the impacts of fishing on reef ecosystems, the magnitude of the fisheries in different locations, and their economic values. Any information would be appreciated. Please reply directly to me rather than the net. Thanks. Jon Shenker Florida Institute of Technology From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Dec 2 12:21:09 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA03921; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 12:21:03 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA13520; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 16:36:04 GMT Received: from kronos.nchgr.nih.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA13515; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 11:36:02 -0500 Received: from [165.112.150.88] by kronos.nchgr.nih.gov (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA03295; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 11:36:00 -0500 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 11:40:54 -0500 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: hwelchli@nchgr.nih.gov (Heidi Welchlin) Subject: mitochondrial genetics of coral Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: My name is Heidi Welchlin and I am a molecular biologist at the National Institutes of Health. I am interested in finding out more about the field of mitochondrial genetics of coral and find out who may be doing research in this field. Of particular interest would be researchers in the Miami/Florida Keys area as I am considering relocating to Key Largo. Any help that anyone could provide me would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Heidi L. Welchlin Gene Transfer Technology Section Clinical Gene Therapy Branch National Center for Human Genome Research National Institutes of Health 10 Center Drive 10/10C107 MSC 1851 Bethesda, MD 20892-1851 e-mail: hwelchli@nchgr.nih.gov phone: (301)435-2827 fax: (301)496-7184 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Dec 2 16:01:04 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA08161; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 16:00:55 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA13669; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 19:31:11 GMT Received: from obelix.cica.es by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA13664; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 14:30:57 -0500 From: meugenia@cica.es Received: from lbm1.us.es (lbm1.us.es [150.214.146.83]) by obelix.cica.es (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA03659; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 20:18:23 +0100 (GMT-1:00) Message-Id: <199612021918.UAA03659@obelix.cica.es> Comments: Authenticated sender is To: CRUST-L@vims.edu Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 20:22:58 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: ZOEA - ANNOUNCEMENT / TAN CC: MARBIO@marinelab.sarasota.fl.us, AQUA-LIST@listserv.ifmt.nf.ca, CORAL-LIST@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, TAXACOM@cmsa.berkeley.edu X-Confirm-Reading-To: meugenia@pop.cica.es X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.42a) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Sorry for cross-posting ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ZOEA is a Newsletter intended for all workers interested in crustacean larval development. ZOEA is a newsletter rather than a scientific journal. Publication started in January 1994. Since this moment, more than 1000 issue copies have been distributed to worldwide. At present, it is published twice yearly, in spring and autumn. Primary contents of ZOEA include short communications, announcements, request for information, lists of recent publications, posters and oral presentations in meetings, works in progress, abstracts of doctoral theses, and a research directory. ZOEA will hopefully serve as both "a platform for fruitful discussion and exchange of ideas among carcinologists interested in aspects of larval development", as Klaus Anger proposed in ZOEA's inaugural issue, and a clearinghouse of information regarding both research and researchers. At present, most of ZOEA members are working on decapod larvae (61 %), followed those studying copepod larvae (8.4 %), zooplankton (5.2 %), cirripeds (3 %), mysids (1 %) and others (20 %). Geographically, they are distributed as follows: Europe (38 %), Asia (29 %), North-America (21 %), South-America (11 %), Oceania (4%) and Africa (3 %). As you can see, it would be desirable that ZOEA Newsletter arrives to a wider of specialists interested in the larval biology of different crustacean groups. So, it may be a good idea to make ZOEA known to other colleagues and promote the creation of a major forum for many aspects of the larval development in crustaceans. ZOEA's scope is very broad with respect to taxonomy (all of Crustacea), geography (worlwide) and biological discipline. Subscriptons to ZOEA (15 U.S. $ or 1000 Spanish pesetas per year) is possible by: personal check (U.S. Bank), international postal giro, or credit card (VISA, MASTER-CARD). For more information, please don't hesitate to contact the editors or regional editors. Editors Jose A. Cuesta Dept. Ecologia, Fac. Biologia, Apdo. 1095, 41080-Sevilla (Spain) e-mail: mariscal@cica.es Dr. Pablo J. Lopez-Gonzalez Laboratorio Biologia Marina, Fac. Biologia, Apdo. 1095, 41080-Sevilla (Spain) e-mail: meugenia@cica.es J.I. Gonzalez-Gordillo Inst. Cienc. Mar. Andalucia, Apdo. Oficial, 11510-Puerto Real, Cadiz (Spain) e-mail: nacho.gonzalez@icman.csic.es Reginal Editors North America Dr. A.H. Harvey Dept. Invertebrates. American Museum of Natural History, 79th Street at Central Park West, New York, NY 10024, USA e-mail: aharvey@amnh.org South America Dr. A. Fransozo & Dr. M.L. Negreiros-Fransozo Dept. Zoologia, NEBECC, IB, UNESP, Campus de Botucatu, Caixa Postal 502, Cep 18618-000, Botucatu, Sau Paulo, Brazil. FAX: +55-149213744 North Africa & Near East Dr. A.M. Al-Aidaroos Fac. Marine Science, King Abdulaziz Univ. P.O. Box 1540, Jeddah 21441, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. FAX: +966-26401747 Looking forward to hearing from you, with your contributions and suggestions. Sincerely The Editors From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Dec 2 17:46:54 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA09028; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 17:46:47 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA13790; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 22:04:57 GMT Received: from smtp.hboi.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA13785; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 17:04:54 -0500 Received: by smtp.hboi.edu with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.993.5) id <01BBE073.91F89970@smtp.hboi.edu>; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 17:09:25 -0500 Message-ID: From: Clay Cook To: Coral-list Subject: Harbor Branch post-doc position Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 17:06:00 -0500 X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.993.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Greetings all, Our apologies for not getting this out more quickly. I had thought we had posted it earlier, but apparently not. The application forms are available on our HBOI website (www.hboi.edu). Clay Cook Clayton B. Cook Senior Scientist, Marine Science Division Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution 5600 US 1 North Ft Pierce, FL 34946 USA e-mail ccook@hboi.edu phone (407) 465-2400I, ext. 301 fax (407) 468-0757 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN MARINE SCIENCE HARBOR BRANCH OCEANOGRAPHIC The Division of Marine Sciences, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Inc., has an opening for a Postdoctoral Fellow, to begin as soon as January 1, 1997. Postdoctoral Fellows work closely with one of the Principal Investigators in the Division. While research can be conducted in any discipline within marine science, three PI+s have identified specific interests for postdoctoral research: *Bioluminescence (Dr. Edie Widder, PI) has an opportunity for a post doctoral fellow to work on a project involving the development of a 3D mapping technique which uses computer image analysis and tracking algorithms to identify midwater zooplankton based on their bioluminescent signatures. Applicants should have a strong background in mathematical ecology. Some experience with C++ programming preferred. The successful candidate will receive training in bioluminescence, quantitative light measurements and submersible based data collection techniques. *Marine Botany (Dr. Dennis Hanisak, PI) has an opportunity for a post-doctoral fellow to work on the ecology or physiology of marine macroalgae or seagrasses. Of particular interest would be candidates with interest and expertise in nitrogen or carbon ecophysiology of seagrasses, or macroalgae - nutrient interactions. *Symbiosis and Coral Biology (Dr. Clay Cook, PI) has opportunities in two areas of research: (1) the effect of inorganic nutrients on the biology of reef building corals, and (2) the influence of host cell habitat on physiology and gene expression of symbiotic dinoflagellates, using the sea anemone Aiptasia pallida as a model. Applicants who have received their Ph.D. within the last five years are eligible to apply (the degree must be in hand before beginning the fellowship). This fellowship is for 18 months, with an annual stipend of $25,000 ($37,500 total stipend); health benefits are available. To receive additional information and application materials, contact: Postdoctoral Fellowship Committee, Division of Marine Science, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, 5600 U.S. 1 North, Fort Pierce, FL 34946; Phone: (407) 465-2400, x321; FAX: (407) 468-0757; e-mail: dumas@hboi.edu. Potential applicants may wish to directly contact the PI of their interest: widder@hboi.edu, hanisak@hboi.edu, or ccook@hboi.edu. Final review and selection of the fellow will be made ca. December 13, 1996. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Dec 3 12:52:40 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA07115; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 12:52:34 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA14546; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 15:50:01 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA14541; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 10:50:00 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/930416.SGI) for id KAA01209; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 10:49:59 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 10:49:59 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Cyanide And Dynamite Fishing Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 18:31:09 +1100 From: michael aw To: hendee@coral.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: (no subject) Cyanide And Dynamite Fishing - Who's really responsible? By Michael AW The coral reefs in the Asia Pacific islands are under siege by coastal dwellers using cyanide and dynamite to procure fish. This practice has been a vehemently condemned by conservation agencies , scuba diving magazines, dive resorts, NGOs (non governmental organizations) and marine scientists as well as all that have their vested interest in the coral reef environment. If the practice continues, it is estimated by the year 2020, all coral reefs in the region will be destroyed. Spurred by quick bucks and the demand of aquariums and a live fish trade supplying restaurants throughout the region, unscrupulous traders employ agents / locals to harvest reef fishes with sodium cyanide. According to reports from the WWF, over 6000 cyanide divers squirt an estimated 150,000 kg of dissolved poison on some 33 million coral heads annually. Beside the distinct possibility of causing the extinction of these fish species in the region by such a selective culling process , cyanide is not selective. It also indiscriminately kills coral polyps, symbiotic algae and other small reef organisms required for the sustenance of a healthy reef, which will eventually cause the entire ecosystem of the reef to collapse. During the first eight months of 1995, a total catch of 2.3 million kg of live groupers and humped wrasse worth over US$180 million was exported to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. Another 1.9 million kg of decorative fishes worth US$800,000 was shipped to Europe and North America. During Ocean N Environment expeditions to Indonesia, I have come to encounter these raiders of the reef. Collectors who expose their life to the risk of cyanide poisoning and decompression sickness due to extended exposure under pressure. They comprise solely of boys from local tribes and sea gypsies. From small collection centres scattered among remote islands, each of these outposts gathers an average of 250 tons of Napoleon wrasse and grouper to meet the demand of their middleman in the principal towns of Ujung Pandang and Manado. This selective culling of a specie that may live up to 50 years in the wild is considered totally unsustainable by marine scientists. In the short term however, a dinner plate sized Napoleon wrasse which may fetch up to US$800 in a Chinese restaurant in Hong Kong, makes good business acumen for the entrepreneur. Gourmet diners in Hong Kong are willing to part with thousands of dollars for a live fish and will go as far as checking out the freshness of their dinner by viewing swathes of flesh skillfully removed to show the fish's beating heart. Millions of dollars are invested by numerous environmental agencies mostly donated by the concerned public and corporate sponsors, to research, educate and 'retrain' fisherman to use other forms and methods of fishing. One of these organizations, Haribon Foundation for Conservation of Natural Resources, a leading Philippines NGO has as early as 1990 began a realistic effort to educate local fisherman on the sustainable development of the reef environment by protective netting and methods of collection. Coral Reef Alliance, another conservation agency for the reef, is also promoting retraining as a solution to the cyanide problems. However, on the other end of the scale, the simple principal of marketing still applies. Whenever there is a demand, someone out there will be sourcing for supply. In Asian culture, consumption of a Napoleon wrasse is not simply a dietary concern, but the status of being able to afford the luxury - to many it is a sign of wealth and status symbol. The South East Asian counties have undoubtedly become a financial power, where a gastronomical feast of Napoleon wrasse and the 'thousand-dollar-a-bowl shark-fin soup mark a successful business transaction. In this regard, the demand for these delicacies is indeed a serious threat to the marine environment. All governments in the South East Asian countries have excellent laws that declare fishing with both cyanide and dynamite illegal, but implementation and enforcement are two separate issues altogether. Governments in these countries can do nothing to restrict the dietary habits of their own citizens nor a business venture that engages in cyanide fishing by say a Singaporean in Sulawesi, Indonesia for example. In a hypothetical situation, the obvious solution that would inevitably cause the cyanide fishing industry to collapse is for the governments of Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and even Australia to impose bans on the sale of live Napoleon Wrasse and grouper. If the aquarium trade for ornamental fishes in the USA is causing the degradation of reefs in the Philippines, then ban the tropical fish vendors in that country. Without the demand, there will no call for supply. In the real world, this is not as simple. When I checked with Dr. Howard Latin, an international conservation law professor from New Jersey, on the possibility of a ban on the sale of live Napoleon wrasse,, his immediate comment was "since the markets for live groupers & Napoleon Wrasse are mainly in Asian countries without strong environmental laws, my analysis wouldn't work and we'd need to find more economical disincentive measures such as boycotts, information disclosure, etc." Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia and Singapore have a long history of allowing trade in endangered species and it will be unrealistic to expect these importing nations to restrain the businessmen and consumers who want to have these "luxury" fish for consumption. Take Singapore for instance, world renown for law enforcement on its bans on everything from illegal drugs to chewing gum - imposing effective controls would mean the demand of some cyanide free import certificates from merchants and random testing of live fish - the cost and legalities of which may well offend neighboring nations, does not justify the benefits. Singapore does not have much of her own coral reef resources. In another context, what can these governments offer the poor fishermen who are making considerably higher wages (at the risk of their lives and health) using cyanide to catch a few species in high demand? Take Indonesia as an example. This nation is an archipelago comprised of over 170000 islands, with a population of over 190 million - a high percentage of these people live by and are sustained by the sea and aid is next to non -existent. In our expedition to Tukang Besi, thought to be one of the few remaining untouched coral reef environments we found obvious evidence of frequent dynamite fishing used for the collection of fish to feed the people of it's overpopulated water villages. A spokesman of Operation Wallacea, told me that they have received over 2million US dollars in aid from Hong Kong Bank for their research project at Tukang Besi. The operation is charging volunteers up to $3000 to help them document the bio-diversity there in an effort to declare the area a marine reserve. Despite all the good intentions, the crux of the problems has not been addressed. There are simply too many people , and these people need to live. Wouldn't it be much better to spend the 2 million dollars either relocating these people or to help them develop a form of sustainable aqua culture ? In a nut shell, if we were to focus our effort on feeding these people that are practicing dynamite and cyanide fishing, by providing them with resources and skills to improve their quality of life, wouldn't they help us save our reef? The question I posed at my recent presentation on the environment at DEMA Asia in Kuala Lumpur is "What have businesses that profit from the pristineness of coral reefs done for these people whose livelihood has been sustained by the reef's resources?" The messages scuba and geographical magazines, instruction agencies, resorts and live-aboard vessels promote are environmentally friendly - 'don't touch the reef, don't take anything' . The new breed of divers are a conscious lot. Most divers do little damage to coral reefs, don't remove shells and frown on those who do. One afternoon last year, while on Bunaken island with a group of divers from Australia ,we were approached by a young girl, barely eight years old, carrying a basket of shells to sell. She did not yield a response from any of us. My point to this is simple - while each of us must have paid up to US$150 per day for the privilege of diving in this girl's 'backyard', she did not reap a single cent - while her father was probably out in an outrigger canoe waiting to bring in their next meal. As long as there are poverty stricken people that are sustained by the sea and as long as there is demand by the rich and wealthy for 'luxury' fish, dynamite and cyanide will continue to send our coral reef to irreversible degradation. We are not ruling out the prospect of having Napoleon wrasse banned from the restaurants of Asia - Pacific countries, but the businesses and responsible divers need to take a closer look at their contribution to the problems. I cite Goodwin's (1996)definition of ecotourism to illustrate my point, as most operators in the diving businesses believe that they provide. " low impact nature tourism which contributes to the maintenance of species and habitats either directly through a contribution to conservation and/or indirectly by providing revenue to the local community sufficient for local people to value, and therefore protect their wildlife heritage area as a source of income. To this end I have not seen many such contributions by either operators or participants, in my last six years of extensive travel. If every operator in the region would start by adopting a village or local community near their operation, providing them with education and a source of income, it shall be a positive start to eliminating dynamite and cyanide off our coral reefs. A boycott by every diver and their friends in Asia from restaurants that serve shark-fin soup and live Napoleon wrasse will also create headlines with the news media. The preservation of the quality of our coral reefs is more than just wearing a Save the Reef T-shirt or sticking a "Responsible Diver" sticker on the family car. Michael AW Life's short...play hard The Ocean is Our Playground! Note our new email address: oneocean@comcen.com.au Michael AW of Ocean N Environment Ltd P.O. Box 2138, Carlingford Court Post Office Carlingford NSW 2118, Australia Tel / Fax: 61 2 9 686 36 88 also 9686 6838 Mobile: 61 (0) 418 203 238 email: oneocean@comcen.com.au http://www.OceanNEnvironment.com.au From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Dec 3 12:10:37 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA06523; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 12:10:29 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA14539; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 15:47:31 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA14534; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 10:47:28 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/930416.SGI) for id KAA01206; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 10:47:23 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 10:47:23 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: An expensive meal and the Chinese (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 06:53:46 -0500 (EST) From: Ursula Keuper-Bennett To: owner-coral-list@aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: An expensive meal and the Chinese Nicolas J. Pilcher wrote: "to target the rich, you have to offer them an alternative that will still allow them to 'save-face' and still act rich. This is Asia. Welcome to a new mindset. The need to entertain guests and provide them with a large live fish is cemented now as an important tradition - modern it may be, but it's there and we have to live with it. These people don't eat this at home. Ever! It is only to show off politely that it is done. These are aspects to consider when tackling this issue." ---- Perhaps a start might be for a few of the rich to take leadership roles and instead of offering a large live fish at a gathering offer to show video of the large live fish that was actually found, stalked and spared, complete with footage of the divers, holding up a sign in Chinese beside the behemoth (gives guests an excellent idea of the size of the animal) that says "This creature has been spared through the wisdom and generosity of [name of host]." The fish could also be tagged and the host given its number. Full colour posters of the fish could be given to each guest upon leaving. They could still eat live fish, just something a lot less damaging to future stocks. The rich could still spend their $10 000 but now it is to pay two divers to photograph, video and tag this large beast with the rest of the money going to fisheries maintenance. If that didn't work, there is always international condemnation of the practice. The rich used to enjoy fox hunting until there was sufficient public outrage. Very few people can wear fur coats now and feel fully comfortable. But that should be an option only after the first was tried. It is always better to approach people cooperatively than through coercion. Dr. Archie Carr (sea turtle champion) taught me the power or one or two (--through his writings, I never met the man) and I believe all it might take is a few of Hong Kong's elite to set the example and a new tradition could be started. That kind of responsibility spread through the media would do far more for international opinion of both Hong Kong and the Chinese, than its present reputation of buying up the world's resources and taking advantage of the poor in the poorest of nations. Best regards ^ Ursula Keuper-Bennett 0 0 Email: howzit@io.org /V^\ I I /^V\ /V Turtle Trax V\ http://www.turtles.org PLEASE SUPPORT Green Turtle Fibropapilloma RESEARCH From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Dec 3 17:10:36 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA10478; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 17:10:28 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA14805; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 20:34:36 GMT Received: from usgcrp.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA14800; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 15:34:34 -0500 Received: from [131.182.242.88] by usgcrp.gov (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA18553; Tue, 3 Dec 96 15:39:35 EST X-Sender: tsocci@earth.usgcrp.gov Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 15:42:37 -0500 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, ecolog-l@umdd.umd.edu (ESA List), EIA@pan.cedar.univie.ac.at, environment-L@cornell.edu (Env-L List), eon@world.std.com, Land-and-Water@FAO.ORG From: tsocci@usgcrp.gov (Tony Socci) Subject: December 9th USGCRP Seminar on "The Economics of Climate Chnage Impacts and Mitigation: The Importance of Values and Assumptions" Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: U.S. Global Change Research Program Second Monday Seminar Series The Economics of Climate Change Impacts and Mitigation: The Importance of Values and Assumptions What is the basis of cost/benefit analyses of projected climate change impacts and mitigation options? What are the values and assumptions that have gone into these analyses? How significantly do cost/benefit analyses change in instances where one makes different assumptions and value judgments? Public Invited Monday, December 9, 1996, 3:15-4:45 PM Rayburn House Office Bldg., Room B369, Washington, DC Reception Following INTRODUCTION The Honorable Mark Chupka, Acting Assistant Secretary for the Office of Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC SPEAKERS Dr. Richard B. Norgaard, Professor of Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley, CA Dr. Robert Costanza, Director, University of Maryland Institute for Ecological Economics, College Park, MD Overview As we move from a world that was relatively empty of humans and their influences on the environment to one that is relatively full, interactions between the ecological life support system and the economic subsystem become increasingly important. Of particular importance is the integration of the three broad goals of ecological sustainability, social fairness, and allocative efficiency. The potential for global change to damage irreversibly the ecological life support system and reduce the well-being of our descendants is a key concern in this context. To address the complex set of issues that arise, improved methods are needed for: the valuation of natural capital, national income and welfare accounting, integrated modeling and assessment, dealing with uncertainty, and the intertemporal allocation of resources. To address these issues, and their implications for global change in an integrated way requires moving beyond the standard approaches in both ecology and economics (while not discarding the best elements of each). "Ecological economics," is helping to develop a new "habit of mind" that can provide the basis for understanding and managing the planet in a sustainable way. Within this broad framework, a number of important issues are being considered. These include: 1) the advantages and disadvantages of an early response to predicted climate change; 2) the value of reducing the uncertainties surrounding the environmental processes, ecological impacts, and economic consequences of climate change; 3) the mix of mitigation and adaptation that may ultimately prove the best strategy; and 4) the augmented benefits of mitigation that result from the environmental gains that can be captured through decreased greenhouse gas emissions and increased protection of forests and other biomass sources. Findings from approaches based on ecological economics generally suggest the need for earlier action than do economic studies that do not consider ecological perspectives. These findings are based on studies that focus on system limits, thresholds, and dynamic complexities. When considering ecological connections, the Index of Social and Economic Welfare (also called the Genuine Progress Indicator) suggests, for example, that the increases in GDP per capita over the past quarter century are largely illusory. Economic models that do not fully include consideration of the complexity of our environment then tend to extrapolate these illusory gains for future generations and improperly weight these against the real benefits of investing in climate change mitigation. Analyzing the societal impacts of climate change also highlights the importance of considering equity along with efficiency in reaching an appropriate solution. What is efficient for this generation is not necessarily equitable for the next and doing what is efficient for the industrialized countries may have major adverse impacts on poor countries and on global stability in the longer run. Ecological economics also allows for a coupling of climate change to related issues such as biodiversity loss and the local and regional problems of environmental quality. Improving understanding of and capabilities for considering environmental complexity in association with economic efficiency is thus an essential research task needed to support policy development. Biographies Dr. Richard B. Norgaard is Professor of Energy and Resources, University of California at Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 1971, assisted in the creation of the Energy and Resources Group as a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Berkeley, and joined the core faculty of the Energy and Resources Group in 1987. Dr. Norgaard has contributed to the economic theory of intergenerational equity and the economics of energy development, climate change, and biodiversity loss. He also writes on how environmental complexity has modified our understanding of how science works. He has over one hundred publications including a book that provides an epistemological explanation of our environmental crisis and explores how a coevolutionary understanding of process can be used to envision a more sustainable future ("Development Betrayed: The End of Progress and a Coevolutionary Revisioning of the Future", Routledge, London and New York, 1994). Dr. Norgaard helped found and is currently President-elect of the International Society for Ecological Economics. He is a member of the U.S. Committee of the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) hosted in the U.S. by the National Research Council. He participated in the founding and serves as chairman of the board of Redefining Progress, an NGO based in San Francisco engaged in research and public education on greening the system of national accounts and on resource and environmental taxation. Dr. Robert Costanza is director of the University of Maryland Institute for Ecological Economics, and a professor in the Center for Environmental and Estuarine Studies at Solomons, MD, and in the Zoology Department at College Park, MD. His academic research has focused on the interface between ecological and economic systems, particularly at larger temporal and spatial scales. This includes landscape level spatial simulation modeling, analysis of energy flows through economic and ecological systems, valuation of ecosystem services and natural capital, and analysis of dysfunctional incentive systems and ways to correct them. He is the author or co-author of over 200 scientific papers and 11 books. Dr. Costanza is co-founder and president of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) and chief editor of the society's journal: "Ecological Economics." He serves on the editorial board of five other international academic journals. He is also vice president of the newly formed International Society for Ecosystem Health. In 1982 he was selected as a Kellogg National Fellow; in 1992 he was awarded the Society for Conservation Biology Distinguished Achievement Award; and in 1993 he was selected as a Pew Scholar in Conservation and the Environment. He has served on the EPA National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT); the National Research Council's Board on Sustainable Development, Committee on Global Change Research; the National Research Council's Board on Global Change; and the U.S. National Committee for the Man and the Biosphere Program. Dr. Costanza received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1979 in systems ecology with a minor in economics. He also has a masters degree in Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning, also from the University of Florida. Before coming to Maryland in 1988, he was on the faculty at the Coastal Ecology Institute and the Department of Marine Sciences at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Next Seminar is scheduled for Monday, January 13, 1997 Planned Topic: Food, Agriculture, and Climate Change: The International and U.S. Outlook For more information please contact: Anthony D. Socci, Ph.D., U.S. Global Change Research Program Office Code YS-1, 300 E St., SW, Washington, DC 20546 Telephone: (202) 358-1532; Fax: (202) 358-4103 E-Mail: TSOCCI@USGCRP.GOV. Additional information on the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and this Seminar Series is available on the USGCRP Home Page at: http://www.usgcrp.gov. Normally these seminars are held on the second Monday of each month. From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Dec 3 17:21:49 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA10584; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 17:21:39 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA14874; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 21:26:34 GMT Received: from relay1.Hawaii.Edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA14869; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 16:26:30 -0500 Received: from uhunix3.its.hawaii.edu ([128.171.44.52]) by relay1.Hawaii.Edu with SMTP id <587289(9)>; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:25:08 -1000 Received: by uhunix3.its.Hawaii.Edu via suspension id <188158(9)>; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:26:02 -1000 Received: from localhost by uhunix3.its.Hawaii.Edu with SMTP id <188198(10)>; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:21:22 -1000 Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:21:18 -1000 From: Deborah Gochfeld X-Sender: gochfeld@uhunix3 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: coral-feeding nudibranchs Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Coral-listers, Has anyone working on reefs in the Pacific (other than Hawaii) had experiences with mortality of Porites corals due to the nudibranch, Phestilla sibogae? I am looking for information on Phestilla predation on corals either in situ on the reef, transplanted to different habitats, or in flow-through tanks in a laboratory setting. If you have had any experiences with these nudibranchs (or any other coral-feeding nudibranchs!), please contact me directly at: gochfeld@hawaii.edu. Cheers, Deborah Gochfeld Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology P.O. Box 1346 Kaneohe, HI 96744 Phone: (808) 236-7432 Fax: (808) 236-7443 gochfeld@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Dec 4 05:58:36 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA12761; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 05:58:24 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id JAA15363; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 09:49:02 GMT Received: from lisa.univ-perp.fr by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id EAA15358; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 04:48:55 -0500 Received: by lisa.univ-perp.fr (MX V3.3 VAX) id 8701; Wed, 04 Dec 1996 10:49:38 EST Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 10:49:34 EST From: pol@lisa.univ-perp.fr Reply-To: pol@univ-perp.fr To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov CC: criobe@tahiti.rio.net, pol@univ-perp.fr Message-ID: <009AC559.4CD91F60.8701@lisa.univ-perp.fr> Subject: Incentive for Reef Research In French Polynesia Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Reef research opportunities at the Centre for Insular Research and Observatory for the Environment (CRIOBE), Moorea, French Polynesia : In order to stimulate coral reef research in French Polynesia, and to develop international cooperation with research teams operating from CRIOBE, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (CRIOBE mother Institution) is lauching the CRIOBE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP INCENTIVE Starting 1st January 1997, all graduate students and scientists who will work at CRIOBE for a minimum of 14 days during any calendar year will have, subject to their prior approval, their name entered in a draw . The prize will be drawn at the end of each calendar year ( 1st draw December 1997) in a foreign research institution, in the presence of the institution's head. The winner will receive a return ticket from his/her home institution to Moorea to be used during the following calendar year, for a further research period at CRIOBE of 14 days minimum. Two categories of Fellowship incentive exist : - One for French citizens - One for nationals of other countries For more detailed information on CRIOBE, application procedures, facilities available and bench fees, please contact : The Director CRIOBE/EPHE BP 1013 Papetoai MOOREA, French Polynesia Fax 689 56 28 15 Email : criobe@tahiti.rio.net -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Biologie Marine et Malacologie/Ichtyoecologie tropicale et Mediterraneenne ECOLE PRATIQUE DES HAUTES ETUDES Centre de Biologie et d'Ecologie Tropicale et Mediterraneenne Universite de Perpignan, 52 Av. de Villeneuve, F-66860 - PERPIGNAN CEDEX Tel.: +33 4 68 66 20 55, Fax: +33 4 68 50 36 86, e-mail:pol@univ-perp.fr -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Dec 4 08:08:33 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA13949; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 08:08:26 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA15461; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 12:15:56 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA15456; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 07:15:54 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/930416.SGI) for id HAA03200; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 07:15:53 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 07:15:53 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Cyanide And Dynamite Fishing (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 14:12:50 -0600 From: "Judith C. Lang" To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program Subject: Re: Cyanide And Dynamite Fishing Michael AW has noted: >If every operator in the region would start by adopting a village or >local community near their operation, providing them with education and a >source of income, it shall be a positive start to eliminating dynamite and >cyanide off our coral reefs..... Not just every diving tourism or dive shop operator , but also every amateur and university diving club in your region could be asked to participate. And don't forget your schoolchildren....you have an opportunity to extend those wonderful teaching materials for GBR coral reefs to real-world actions. (Incidentally, my experience here in the southwestern US is that an excellent "hooker", to divers and school teachers alike, is an age-appropriate project which allows them to feel as though they are participating in IYOR.) Please folks also remember there are also lots of Asian SCUBA divers, dive operators, students and scientists with deep concerns for the integrity of their own and the region's coral reefs and coastal communities....perhaps some of whom could share with us their ideas about how best to reverse current trends. Judy Lang From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Dec 4 13:51:13 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA19832; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 13:51:07 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA00791; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 17:24:38 GMT Received: from sme.univ-mrs.fr by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA00785; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 12:23:35 -0500 Message-Id: <199612041723.MAA00785@reef.aoml.noaa.gov> Received: from smepc12.univ-mrs.fr by sme.univ-mrs.fr with SMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA119420145; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 18:22:25 +0100 Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 18:22:25 +0100 X-Sender: lebris@sme.univ-mrs.fr X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: lebris@com.univ-mrs.fr (LE BRIS Sylvain) Subject: sharm el sheik Sender: owner-sfl@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I am trying to find information about sea water temperature in Sharm El Sheik bay (Red Sea, Egypt) and information about the weather at the end of december. Sylvain LE BRIS Sylvain Station Marine d'Endoume rue batterie des Lions 13007 Marseille (France) Tel: 04 91 04 16 00 from abroad Tel: +33 4 91 04 16 00 Fax: 04 91 04 16 35 Fax: +33 4 91 04 16 35 E-mail: lebris@com.univ-mrs.fr From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Dec 4 15:46:06 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA22058; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 15:45:59 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA00631; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 19:18:40 GMT Received: from cayman.ucs.indiana.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA00626; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 14:18:35 -0500 Received: from ophelia.ucs.indiana.edu (blanchon@ophelia.ucs.indiana.edu [129.79.10.44]) by cayman.ucs.indiana.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3/1.12IUPO) with ESMTP id OAA00498 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 14:18:30 -0500 (EST) Received: (from blanchon@localhost) by ophelia.ucs.indiana.edu (8.7.6/8.7/regexp($Revision: 1.3 $) id OAA09459; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 14:18:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 14:18:29 -0500 (EST) From: "Paul A. Blanchon" X-Sender: blanchon@ophelia.ucs.indiana.edu To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Cyanide And Dynamite Fishing - Who's really responsible? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I read with interest, as perhaps most of you did, Michael's thoughts on the important question of who's responsible for overfishing and reef degradation. And I whole heartedly agree that the solution is to reduce DEMAND for live fish. However, I was rather surprised to find that the rest of the piece went on to explain the difficulties of reducing demand for live fish in far east restaurants and made no further mention of the European and N. American aquarium trade which, according to the figures, apparently makes up 50% of the problem (or did I miss something?). As I see it, there's absolutely no way we can play the role of reef guardians for poor marginalized fishing communities until we put our own house in order. To this end, I think a revealing project for concerned students would be a survey of local pet stores to see how many of them were selling live fish caught from reefs around the world. Anyone interested? Cheers, Paul. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul Blanchon | Research Associate Department of Geological Sciences Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-1403 | Tel:(812) 855-9729 Fax:0646 Visit the 'New' Reef Resource Page at... http://www.indiana.edu/~reefpage/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Dec 4 17:18:19 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA23679; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 17:18:11 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id VAA00713; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 21:06:50 GMT Received: from netcom13.netcom.com by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA00708; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 16:06:43 -0500 Received: (from cbingman@localhost) by netcom13.netcom.com (8.6.13/Netcom) id NAA18177; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 13:06:38 -0800 Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 13:06:37 -0800 (PST) From: Craig Bingman Subject: Re: Cyanide And Dynamite Fishing - Who's really responsible? To: cbingman@netcom.com cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Paul A. Blanchon wrote: > However, I was rather surprised to find that the rest of the piece went on > to explain the difficulties of reducing demand for live fish in far > east restaurants and made no further mention of the European and > N. American aquarium trade which, according to the figures, apparently > makes up 50% of the problem (or did I miss something?). Are you claiming that 50% of the damage to reefs from dynamite and cyanide fishing occurs because of attempts to catch ornamental fish? My understanding is that dynamite just isn't used to collect ornamental fish. I would be interested in solid, verifiable information indicating that it is. Cyanide is, unfortunately still used to collect ornamental fish, and that is an abhorent practice. Pragmatically, though, it seems that food fish are the target when entire reefs are destroyed by dumping drums of cyanide into the water. Again, I would be most interested in information indicating that ornamental marine fish are a primary or secondary target of such practices. And that the concentrations of cyanide required to stun a hundred pound grouper don't kill small ornamental fish outright. Craig From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Dec 4 21:34:17 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA24903; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 21:34:10 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA00885; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 01:33:57 GMT Received: from superaje.com by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA00880; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 20:33:54 -0500 Received: from login.superaje.com (port7.superaje.com) by superaje.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA25506; Wed, 4 Dec 96 20:26:19 EST Message-Id: <32A6271C.7837@superaje.com> Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 20:36:28 -0500 From: Don McAllister Organization: Linn-Tarn; Canadian Museum of Nature; Ocean Voice International X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; U) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Cc: mcall@superaje.com Subject: Re: Cyanide And Dynamite Fishing - Who's really responsible? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Craig Bingman wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Paul A. Blanchon wrote: > > Are you claiming that 50% of the damage to reefs from dynamite and > cyanide fishing occurs because of attempts to catch ornamental fish? > > My understanding is that dynamite just isn't used to collect ornamental > fish. I would be interested in solid, verifiable information indicating > that it is. >Craig is right. Dynamite is not used to collect ornamental fishes. Stunning aquarium fishes (and incidentally killing some on the spot or by subsequent post-exposure mortality) by spraying coral heads with cyanide is used to collect ornamentals in the Philippines and in Indonesia. Most other countries use small fence nets, fish traps or other more environmentally friendly methods. And the Haribon Foundation for Conservation of Natural Resources of Manila and Ocean Voice International of Ottawa have been training ornamental collectors to use small nets, empower them with knowledge of coral reef ecology, foster creation of marine reserves and fisher coops or community organizations since 1989. See our home page below. don -- Don E. McAllister /& Canadian Centre for Biodiversity Ocean Voice International /Canadian Museum of Nature Box 37026, 3332 McCarthy Rd. /Box 3443, Station D Ottawa, ON K1V 0W0, Canada /Ottawa, ON K1P 6P4 URL: http://www.ovi.ca E-mail: mcall@superaje.com (or: ah194@freenet.carleton.ca) Tel: (613) 264-8986, Fax: (613) 264-9204 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Dec 5 12:23:25 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA05504; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 12:23:18 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA01438; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 16:10:48 GMT Received: from cayman.ucs.indiana.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA01433; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 11:10:44 -0500 Received: from ophelia.ucs.indiana.edu (blanchon@ophelia.ucs.indiana.edu [129.79.10.44]) by cayman.ucs.indiana.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3/1.12IUPO) with ESMTP id LAA00486 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 11:10:36 -0500 (EST) Received: (from blanchon@localhost) by ophelia.ucs.indiana.edu (8.7.6/8.7/regexp($Revision: 1.3 $) id LAA00197; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 11:10:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 11:10:35 -0500 (EST) From: "Paul A. Blanchon" X-Sender: blanchon@ophelia.ucs.indiana.edu To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Cyanide And Dynamite Fishing - Who's really responsible? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Just to clear up the confusion for those of you who obviously did not read Michaels commentary, here is the part I was referring to: >During the first eight months of 1995, a total catch of 2.3 million kg of >live groupers and humped wrasse worth over US$180 million was exported to >Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. Another 1.9 million kg of decorative fishes >worth US$800,000 was shipped to Europe and North America. (ie nearly 50% of the fish taken from reefs are for the aquarium trade) The point here is that whether you destroy a reef quickly by dumping cyanide over it, or destroy it slowly be removing the fish so that they can adorn your living room, the effect is the same...a dead reef. Cheers, Paul. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul Blanchon | Research Associate Department of Geological Sciences Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-1403 | Tel:(812) 855-9729 Fax:0646 http://www.indiana.edu/~reefpage/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Dec 5 16:45:21 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA12964; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 16:45:14 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA01669; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 20:18:27 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA01664; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 15:18:26 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/930416.SGI) for id PAA06675; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 15:18:25 -0500 Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 15:18:25 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: Cyanide And Dynamite Fishing (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 04 Dec 96 23:20:48 EST From: "John R. CLARK" <103325.3644@compuserve.com> To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program Subject: Re: Cyanide And Dynamite Fishing Michael AW, I admired your comments and thought you might be interested in my recent book. Regards, John Clark Publication Announcement COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK by John R.Clark 1996. Lewis/CRC Publishers, Boca Raton, Florida. 694 p Price: $89.95 in US, $108.00 outside US Order from Lewis/CRC Publishers 2000 Corporate Blvd. N.W. Boca Raton, Florida 33431-9868 Telephone: 800-272-7737 (US) 407-994-0555 (outside US) Fax: 800-374-3401 E-mail: Internet:orders@crcpress.com Worldwide Web:http://www.crcpress.com CONTENTS: This is the first comprehensive practioners guide for coastal zone management. It embraces the various aspects of coastal resources planning and management technology in four major sections: 1. Management Strategies: (62 p) Describes the integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) approach and provides a complete format for planning and management from strategy planning to preparation of the Master Plan. Includes policy, legal, administrative, scientific, and participatory aspects of ICZM program development. 2. Management Methods: (159 p) Describes 46 methodologies for conserving coastal natural resources, preserving biodiversity, and protecting communities from natural disasters like cyclones. Describes administrative techniques, planning methods, management approaches, environmental measurements, coastal boundaries, land-water interactions, community participation, and use zoning. 3. Management Information: (256 p) Presents a compilation of basic information about coastal resources planning and management. The 110 individual discussions include such subjects as resource types and sensitivities, sources of impact, conservation concepts, environmental indicators, databases, sustainable use of resources, traditional uses and controls, and restoration of ecosystems. 4. Case Histories: (152 p) Examines 47 different cases of coastal zone planning and management attempts around the world. The purpose of the mini-cases is to compare a variety of ICZM management trials and to suggest reasons for the successes and failures and to propose approaches that offer a higher level of success. Each one discusses the background of the mini-case and identifies problems, solutions, and lessons learned From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Dec 5 19:58:55 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA14923; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 19:58:48 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id XAA02091; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 23:45:16 GMT Received: from bigbird.itd.nps.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id SAA02086; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 18:45:14 -0500 Received: from ccmail.itd.nps.gov by bigbird.itd.nps.gov (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17902; Thu, 5 Dec 96 18:35:25 EST Received: from ccMail by ccmail.itd.nps.gov (IMA Internet Exchange 1.04b) id 2a75bd80; Thu, 5 Dec 96 18:33:44 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 19:02:46 -0500 Message-Id: <2a75bd80@nps.gov> From: BISC_Science@nps.gov (BISC Science) Subject: Marine Protected Areas To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Cc: Sharon_Cleary@nps.gov (Sharon Cleary), envsolutions@igc.apc.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: cc:Mail note part Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Coral Reef Managers and Scientists; In an effort to develop, and host. an international conference of Marine Protected Area Managers, Biscayne National Park is trying to identify all of the marine parks, preserves and protected areas located in, or in close proximity to, the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and the Bahama Plateau. What we need are the names, addresses (including email if possible) and phone numbers of the managers or the person directly in charge of these areas. If you know of a marine park in any of these areas please let me know at the address (or email) below. Richard W. Curry Science Coordinator Biscayne National Park Phone (305)230-1144 P.O. Box 1369, Homestead, Fl 33090-1369 FAX (305)230-1190 email: BISC_Science@nps.gov <- Preferred rcurry@umiami.ir.miami.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Dec 6 08:39:32 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA17704; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 08:39:26 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA02627; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 12:49:30 GMT Received: from UMBC2.UMBC.EDU by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA02622; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 07:49:28 -0500 Received: from UMBC2.UMBC.EDU by UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (PMDF V5.0-6 #1) id <01ICOKLMDI9S002X5Q@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU> for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Fri, 06 Dec 1996 07:49:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 07:49:12 -0500 (EST) From: shashar@umbc2.umbc.edu Subject: Universities along the Red Sea In-reply-to: Cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hi There I'm looking for mailing adresses (s-mail) of universities in Sudan, Yamen (north and south), Arithrea Ethiopia that offer some type of marine biological/ecological eduaction. Any takers? Thanks Nadav Shashar From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Dec 6 09:36:38 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA18536; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 09:36:31 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA02689; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 13:35:43 GMT Received: from sheppard.torfree.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA02684; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 08:35:41 -0500 Received: by sheppard.torfree.net (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0vW0PL-000Qw0C; Fri, 6 Dec 96 08:33 EST Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 08:33:39 -0500 (EST) From: Amanuel Melles Subject: Re: Universities along the Red Sea To: shashar@umbc2.umbc.edu cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Nadav, Ethiopia, with the independence of Eritrea (and not "Arithrea"), has become landlocked and the only University which offers a B.Sc. in Marine Biology & Fisheries is the University of Asmara, Asmara, Eritrea. The University of Alexandria (Oceanography) in Egypt, the University of Khartoum (Port Sudan, Marine Science) and King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia (Jeddah, Marine Sciences) also run academic programs. I've no info whatsoever about Yemen. Hope this helps. Amanuel Melles Toronto From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Dec 6 11:12:49 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA19792; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 11:12:43 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA02797; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 15:32:11 GMT Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA02792; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 10:32:08 -0500 Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by ns-mx.uiowa.edu (8.7.5/19950309.1) on Fri, 6 Dec 1996 09:31:53 -0600 id JAA29485 with SMTP Message-Id: <2.2.32.19961206153436.00687b34@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> X-Sender: davidson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 09:34:36 -0600 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Osha Gray Davidson Subject: locating people Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I'm trying to get in contact with the people below. Does anyone have their current e-mail addresses? 1) Colin Limpus (biologist with Queensland Dept. of Environment and Heritage, AU) 2) Peter Bell (University of Queensland 3) Judith Wright, Australian poet, environmental activist and author of "The Coral Battleground" 4) Miguel Fortes, Marine Science Institute, the Philippines Thanks, Osha Gray Davidson 14 S. Governor St. Iowa City, IA 52240 USA +++++++++++ PH: (319) 338-4778 FAX: (319) 338-8606 e-mail: osha@pobox.com Center for International and Comparative Studies, University of Iowa From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Dec 6 19:12:42 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA25059; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 19:10:43 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for rfp-outgoing id XAA03170; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 23:42:27 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id SAA03165; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 18:42:25 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/930416.SGI) id SAA09389; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 18:42:24 -0500 Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 18:42:24 -0500 (EST) From: South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Prediction and Modeling To: rfp@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, marbio@marinelab.sarasota.fl.us, ECOLOG-L@umdd.umd.edu Subject: Request for Proposals: SFERPM Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-rfp@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: SOUTH FLORIDA ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION PREDICTION AND MODELING ANNOUNCEMENT OF AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS 1. Introduction The NOAA South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Prediction and Modeling (SFERPM) program under the sponsorship of the NOAA Coastal Ocean Program announces an opportunity for Environmental Research and Modeling studies of the Florida Bay and surrounding environments. Since 1994, the NOAA role within the Interagency Program has been a focus upon the larger oceanographic, atmospheric, geological and fisheries context within which Bay restoration will proceed. This implied studying the Bay's interaction and exchange with the adjacent Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastal marine ecosystems (specifically including fisheries species) and its regulation by large scale atmospheric and meteorological processes that so intimately link the coastal marine to the coastal terrestrial systems in South Florida. The NOAA South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Prediction and Modeling program will conduct empirical studies, develop and run models, assess risks and evaluate the ecological response of the South Florida coastal marine ecosystem. Evaluation of the ecological response will provide federal, state and regional restoration managers and policy-makers the most accurate and relevant technical information available. Approximately $2M dollars has been made available to fund Environmental Research and Modeling activities to be initiated in March 1997. The FY1997 Implementation Plan for the overall SFERPM program can be obtained from the World-Wide Web at the following address: http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/ocd/sferpm.html II. Guidance On the advice of its Oversight Panel the Interagency Florida Bay Science Program has recently developed a Strategic Science Plan. This will be in final form and available to the public from the Interagency Florida Bay Program Management Committee ca. mid- January 1996. Proposals must address one or more of the central questions articulated in the Strategic Plan of the Interagency Florida Bay Science Program. These include: How and at what rates do storms, changing freshwater flows, sea level rise and local evaporation/precipitation patterns influence circulation and salinity patterns within Florida Bay and the outflow from the Bay to adjacent waters? What is the relative importance of the import of exogenous nutrients and internal nutrient cycling in determining the nutrient budget of Florida Bay? What mechanisms control the sources and sinks of the Bay's nutrients? What regulates the onset, persistence and fate of planktonic algal blooms in Florida Bay? What are the causes and mechanisms for the observed changes in seagrasses and the hardbottom community of Florida Bay? What is the effect of changing salinity, light and nutrient regimes on these communities? What is the relationship between environmental change, habitat change and the recruitment, growth and survival of animals in Florida Bay? III. Areas of Interest All proposals should demonstrably contribute to answering the above scientific questions. Planning letters are encouraged on topics consistent with the expected NOAA contribution to addressing those questions. The NOAA Florida Bay Program FY96 Implementation Plan relying principally upon the Standing Panel review of the October 1995 Annual Principal Investigators meeting, began the process of changing direction and refocusing its program about a central theme. As expressed therein: How and why has the Florida Bay ecosystem (and its function as a nursery for commercially and recreationally significant species) changed as a result of seagrass die off and the consequent shift from a purely seagrass dominated benthic system to a semi-pelagic system experiencing dense episodic plankton blooms? This general question specifically includes the question: what is the cause, consequence and fate of plankton blooms?. In fact, an area that has received comparatively little attention in the overall Interagency effort is the "effect of changing species composition, both plants and animals, on ecosystem processes and trophic pathways". Bloom mechanisms are but one aspect of a more general and fundamental phenomenon, ecosystem shift. From a NOAA perspective the fundamental ecosystem shift, its causes and consequences, is a critical issue since it is directly relevant to the two most significant regional management concerns of NOAA - i.e., the commercially and recreationally significant living resources for whom the Bay represents a nursery ground and the adjacent Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and its fragile coral reef systems. The former since those resources depend upon the underlying ecosystem and the primary productivity that supports it and the latter in light of reports that the reef ecosystem is being deleteriously affected by the quality of the Florida Bay waters that exit through the passes between the Keys and contact the reefs. Over the last few months the Interagency Florida Bay PMC has convened three workshops directly germane to the Research and Modeling Program. The expert outside panel reports submitted to the PMC after these workshops supplemented by the specific input we have received from our agency partners on the Interagency Florida Bay Program Management Committee in the course of drafting the Strategic Science Plan have been the major significant determinants of the substantive content of this announcement. Modeling efforts will continue to be a major emphasis. These have included a Regional Circulation Model which provides tides and advective inputs to the Bay Circulation Model being developed by the Army Corps of Engineers (ACoE) while our Atmospheric Model is intended to provide the Everglades Hydrology Model with rainfall and the Bay Circulation Model with both rainfall and wind fields. Proposals are solicited to continue to fulfill these modeling obligations. Proposals are solicited to determine how and to what degree the ecological and physical changes associated with Ecosystem Restoration will affect micro-climates within the South Florida peninsula. We intend to initiate a pelagic habit/lower trophic level (plankton) ecosystem modeling effort that will integrate the research results of SFERPM biological and physical process projects. It would rely upon the ACoE Florida Bay Circulation and Water Quality models and couple to the ecological modeling planned by the National Biological Service (NBS/DOI), SFWMD and the NMFS Living Marine Resources program. An explicit emphasis of the pelagic plankton model should be implications for the health and sustainability of the adjacent coral reef tracts of the FKNMS. Physical oceanographic field proposals are solicited with particular emphasis upon the linkage between the west Florida Shelf and the western Bay, the region immediately offshore of the Keys and the southwesterly flow connecting the Bay to the FKNMS reef tract. As recommended by the Circulation Model Panel in regard to Bay modeling, "boundary conditions are inadequately addressed at this time... [they recommended] that the western boundary be extended over the shelf and northward of the Shark River inflow point and, offshore of the Keys". Physical studies will have to be closely integrated with the ACoE modeling effort which has been extended both to the west and the south and now includes the FKNMS. NOAA has agreed to take a lead role in providing the requisite physical data for parameterizing and validating the Bay Circulation Model. Proposals are solicited on cycling and transformation of nutrients, and upon mechanisms and fluxes rather than upon monitoring of nutrient distributions. These should address previously unmeasured parameters and processes such as the availability of Bay sediment nutrient loads to phytoplankton, the exchange and transformation between available and unavailable chemical species and physical states, limitation by micro- nutrients, and the relative roles of bacteria and phytoplankton (delineating the significance of the so-called microbial loop). One of the major nutrient input fluxes (atmospheric deposition) will be a high priority. Multidisciplinary process and modeling studies to simultaneously assess production and loss terms over appropriate time and space scales throughout the Bay will also be a high priority. Moreover, as noted by the Nutrient Dynamics Panel "an important determinant of the supply of nutrients to the Bay is water flow and circulation, the most poorly quantified element of which is the exchange between western and central Florida Bay". Interdisciplinary field studies addresses these issues are solicited. Limited paleoecological studies are solicited. Accurate knowledge of the historical sequence of environmental change is essential to make predictions (and help understand) the sequence of change observed as Bay restoration proceeds and water flow (and related parameters) are altered. From the interagency perspective paleoecology is essential to defining the restoration objectives for Florida Bay. Multidisciplinary proposals explicitly linking the Bay and the reef tract are solicited. The former should specifically include monitoring outflow from and exchange between the Bay and the FKNMS reef tract. Coral Reef Initiative-related activities would specifically include additional fixed moorings in and near inlets and enhancing instrumentation on present and planned fixed stations in and near inlets as well as provision of a central real time WWW site that will assimilate and distribute the data from these fixed sites to the scientific user community. Experimental studies relating to ecosystem shifts are solicited as are collection of biological and physical field data coupled to physiological experiments upon planktonic organisms. Studies quantitatively defining trophic trophic linkages connecting Bay communities are also solicited as are physical/biological studies of the processes relating to algal bloom formation and maintenance. The establishment and maintenance of explicit collaborations between field scientists, experimentalists and ecosystem modelers will be strongly encouraged by the SFERPM program. The collaborative web must include all the mutually dependent projects in the interagency Florida Bay program and is facilitated by the formal structure of that program and mutual reliance upon a common Strategic Science Plan in establishing individual agency priorities. IV. Planning Letter and Proposal Submission Process A. The SFERPM program is a cooperative effort meant to encompass both NOAA line organizations, its' agency partners and the academic community. Cooperative proposals between NOAA scientists and academic, state or other federal scientists are strongly encouraged but not specifically required. In some cases, the submission of an individual investigator or single institution proposal may be more appropriate. The decision is left to the investigators. Proposals from traditionally under- represented groups and institutions (e.g. - women or minority principals or institutions) are encouraged. All investigators must follow the procedures described below: Applicants should submit a short (no more than 3 page) planning letter to the Program Office of the SFERPM program at NOAA/AOML/OCD in Miami. Electronic submissions will facilitate review. If this mechanism is chosen please supply text as plain vanilla ASCII (not word processor specific) and associated figures as either *.GIF or Postscript files. See VII below for email address. Hardcopy submissions should be single spaced, typewritten on 8 2 x 11 inch paper. All planning letters are to include rationale, brief research plans including methods and a preliminary budget. A one page curriculum vitae of each of the Principal Investigators must be attached. These planning letters will be reviewed with the assistance of the SFERPM Technical Advisory Panel. B. Only when evaluation of planning letters has been completed and decisions as to program priorities have been made, will the PMC send requests for more detailed (8-10 pages of text) proposals to principal investigators. All requests for preparation of proposals will include specific technical and budgetary guidance. Suggestions will also be made concerning collaboration with other investigators (and agencies) where appropriate. Proposal submissions should then be directed to research plans and technical approaches rather than justifying the significance of the proposed research. Both external peer review and the SFERPM Technical Advisory Panel will be used to assist the PMC in determining whether the proposals received have been responsive to the requests. Funding decisions will be reported to the Interagency Florida Bay Program Management Committee for their review prior to final funding decisions. Each full proposal should include the following: 1. Cover page As required by the sponsoring organization. 2. Brief Introduction Describe how the proposal relates to this announcement and the implementation plan. 3. Brief Background/Justification 4. Research Work plan [the bulk of the proposal] a. Objectives to be achieved or hypotheses to be tested. b. Detailed sequence of tasks and activities including individual responsibilities in multiple investigators proposals. c. Methods 5. Coordination, collaborations with other projects and principal investigators. Describe the relationship and interdependence of the projects. 6. Special Budget Items Describe and justify any special budget items such as: o Permanent equipment over $1,000, travel, subcontracts, etc. o Subcontracts should have a separate budget page. 7. Budget Each Principal Investigator should have a budget page as well as a cumulative budget for the entire proposal. Annual work plans and budgets should be prepared for the duration of the proposed study. A Sea Grant 90-4 form is required for investigators from academic institutions. C. How to Submit Principal Investigators in multi-investigator proposals should submit an original and two copies of the entire proposal with appropriate budget sheets to their sponsoring organization (SO) and simultaneously to the SFERPM (PMC). For NOAA scientists, the SO is their NOAA line organization. For academic scientists the SO is either the Sea Grant Program in your state or the NOAA/academic cooperative institute if one has been established at your institution. V. Obligations of Principal Investigators Investigators participating in the program must agree to undertake the following: 1. Participate in meetings for planning and coordination of program activities. This includes participation in the Annual Interagency Florida Bay Science Program Conference and technical workshops sponsored by the Interagency PMC. 2. Promptly quality control data and make it available through the SFERPM program data manager to other Florida Bay investigators supported by NOAA and its agency partners. 3. Deposit processed field data, if appropriate, in NODC within two years of acquisition. 4. Participate in the synthesis and interpretation of research results and the development of products of value to restoration and resource managers. 5. Publish research results in the peer-reviewed literature for the benefit of the scientific community. VI. Schedule (absolutely no extensions can be granted): 1. December 24, 1996 - Closing date for Planning letters in the SFERPM Program Office 2. January 15, 1997 - Planning Letter Review Complete 3. January 22, 1997 - Request for proposals with specific directions based on Planning Letter review 4. February 14, 1997 - Closing date for Requested proposals submitted to PMC and local Sea Grant Offices 5. March 7, 1997 - Notification of awards VII. Letter Submissions to: The South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Prediction and Modeling Program Office c/o Dr. Peter B. Ortner AOML/OCD 4301 Rickenbacker Cy. Miami, FL 33149 Voice: (305) 361-4380 (AOML/OCD secretary) FAX: (305) 361-4392 (AOML/OCD) email: "ortner@aoml.noaa.gov" From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Dec 9 07:35:18 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA05129; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 07:34:52 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id KAA05410; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 10:40:15 GMT Received: from tualang.unimas.my by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id FAA05405; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 05:40:02 -0500 Message-Id: <199612091040.FAA05405@reef.aoml.noaa.gov> Received: from falco ([161.142.87.130]) by tualang.unimas.my with SMTP (1.37.109.10G/16.2) id AA188810264; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 19:17:44 +0800 Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 19:17:44 +0800 X-Sender: soakley@tualang.unimas.my X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: FISH-ECOLOGY@segate.sunet.se, coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, NACA Secretariat , vinced@univ-perp.fr, criobe@tahiti.rio.net, bobjoh@netspace.net.au, johnr@gbrmpa.gov.au, m.balgos@cgnet.com, seafdec@mozcom.com, annadelc@ums.edu.my, biusing@ppps.po.my From: Dr Steve Oakley Subject: CYANIDE, DYNAMITE & LIVE FISH in SE ASIA Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I have just caught up with the thread on Cyanide and Dynamite and the live fish trade. I have just returned from a South East Asia regional workshop on just that. Some of the observations and information are relevant to anyone who cares about the state of our coral reefs. Please let me share my thoughts and observations and since this is wide ranging please reply to the whole list (coral-list or Fish ecology) unless your comment is directed only to me personally. The workshop on aquaculture of coral fishes and sustainable reef fisheries was held in Kota Kinabalu and ended on Saturday 7th Dec. Representatives were there from fisheries, aquaculture, conservation and the live fish trade. The organisers and sponsors did a great job and for that I thank them. Some of the important points that came out of talks, discussion and workshop sessions were as follows, these are my impression only and I do not want to represent anyone else. I hope that there is someone out there who thinks this is wrong, more positive news would be nice. 1 Overfishing is the problem There is severe overfishing for groupers and humphead wrasse from the maldives to west pacific islands, from hongkong down to the Australian border. There are few reefs in the Philipines and Indonesia that have viable populations of Humphead wrasse (Mauri Wrasse, Napoleon wrasse), while grouper can only be caught in very deep water. In many areas both are locally extinct, on the accessible reefs from local overfishing and on remote reefs from the livefish trade. Spawning populations of groupers and wrasse are at great risk, they can be wiped out very quickly. They are being wiped out in Micronesia and even in Australia they are under threat. The reefs are under heavy pressure from hook and line and catches have declined. If the conventional fishing is difficult, for instant gratification many fishers use Dynamite (actually fertiliser with an explosive cap plus a fuse). They generally know how destructive this is but it also gives them good catches... for a while! The live fish trade for food fish uses cyanide as a stunning agent and the fishers use it only when there is a mechanism to get the fish to market. There is also some use of cyanide for food fish to supply the local market. However the fishers know how poisonous this is so for food they generally stick to the less destructive dynamite. Cyanide for live fish is usually used in squeezy bottle quantities but it definitely kills the surrounding corals, there are many reefs which have not been dyanamited so are structurally intact but are completely dead. Cyanide is also occasionally used for food fish (not Live) in 45gallon oil drum quantities, and spread across the whole reef. There is a social aspect to cyanide use as well as the fisheries aspect, there are many decompression accidents and crippled divers, 60m plus on air by poor young untrained philipinos often using compressors lubricated with engine oil not silicone. Silicone oil is expensive!! Plus the risk of cyanide poisoning from the daily handling!! 2 Aquaculture is a solution but not yet some species of grouper can be cultured in good numbers but not the most popular, estimates range from 3-10 years to close the cycle. There has been lots of work but survival rates below 8% and disease and other problems occur. Wild fry are caught in large numbers to supply fish farms and this is a problem but without the aquaculture there will be even greater pressure on the wild. And at least aquaculture doesn't use cyanide! There is hope in the form of new capture techniques to catch the fry at younger ages at which point their natural mortaility is so high that removal from the population to aquaculture would be much less significant. The humphead wrasse Cheilinus undulatus is the most prefered species There is serious ovefishing, it is most popular fish for live fish trade in Singapore & Hongkong, lips sell for $60 per plate, fish sells for $60-90 per kg tastes superb so I've been told The species is now apparently included in the iucn red data book as vulnerable and apparently is being considered for cites, (can anyone confirm these). They spawn in aggregations at fixed locations so are very vulnerable then. They are big fish, with a sex change from female to male, sexually mature to female at 11kg doesn't get to male before 20kg (approx =75cm). None in the phillipines are sexually mature very few reefs in indonesia have mature females & few males, overfished in micronesia, maldives, thailand and sri Lanka. Regulations exist in most places but enforcement is very difficult. Malaysia has banned both cyanide and dynamite but cannot enforce it unless the police find the caps in the boat. Indonesia has banned the capture and export of Chelinius but cannot enforce it. Philippines has set up cyanide detection labs and that seems to be working to some extent. They are a solution for any airflown or port exported fish, There apparently is some good progress towards a better test for cyanide. Aquaculture of Chelinius is not yet possible, the first report of spawning in captivity was this year at the fisheries dept in Indonesia. They had a 0.01% survival by day 15, the eggs and larvae are very small and therefore difficult to rear in hatchery conditions. There is a strong incentive for the hatchery which develops the techniques so there is a lot of interest. Aquaculture for less valuable species was well established and hopefully can be introduced at the community level as a source of food and a cash crop to take some of the pressure from the coral reef ecosystems. 3 Banning the trade is not the solution The more expensive the fish the greater the showoff value and thus banned fish would just make more money for the middle man because they would just be smuggled. It is not possible to control the export and regulating of the import is impossible in HongKong until there is a test for cyanide caught fish. Once there is such a test, some of the the fish will be smuggled and the HK fisheries dept will loose it's information on the scale of the problem. 40% of the fish only pass through Hong Kong on the way to Mainland China, and we cannot realistically expect the rich cantonese to stop eating their favorite foods. I don't think I heard any comment that we should ban the live fish trade, the fishers need it to make a living. And if their reefs are given a chance to recover then they can catch the prefered fish on hand lines at which point the fishery becomes sustainable. The fishers need to catch less because they get paid more. The Australian GBR example is evidence for sustainability. The trade is very valuable but is strictly controlled and all capture is done on hook and line. 4 Aquarium fish Banning Aquarium fish is not the solution, becaude it is not the problem. On a devastated, dynamited cyanide killed reef aquarium fish can still be caught, admittedly only the plankton or algal feeders. The fishermen need to eat and if they cannot sell the butterfly's & angels then they will cook them! Further, most aquarium fish are caught without cyanide. Cyanide caught fish die 4-6 weeks after capture and the aquarium industry and many concerned aid agencies have worked hard to educate collectors. Some villages which catch aquarium fish are active conservationists, It's their livelyhood. This trade can be made sustainable it only requires education so don't anyone suggest that it is wrong until they can suggest an alternative form of income. 5 Marine reserves Marine reserves are part of the solution, they can provide larvae and adults to heavil;y fished areas and there need to be many more than there are. Big & small are both needed but unfortunately policing and enforcement are not easy and the only method that really seeems to work is when the villages that use the resource are also the reserve protectors. They need the ownership of the fishing rights and with it the responsibility of conservation, the tragedy of the commons has demonstrated that only too well. 6 Outside Help Outsiders supporting reefs, education, enforcement are all part of the solution but the biggest problem is poverty combined with no ownership of the resource. How does a remote village stop a life fish transport vessel from using cyanide on it's reefs. Especially when the LFT pays more than the villagers have seen. That's more pairs of shoes, more T shirts, a second hand engine. These are hard to resist and once some of the village have accepted then it doesn't matter what the rest do, the LFT will catch all the fish it wants and then move on leaving behind a dying reef. ------------------------------------ So what is the solution: S1 Yes to more international awareness, more eduction and more support from those who have to those who don't. S2 We also need to find alternative income for these marginalised fishers so that their reefs can recover, here I think we need to promote aquaculture at the community level. S3 The other pressing need is for governments to release enforcement of fishing laws to the resource users. S4 And we need to urgently protect and preserve as much of the regions reefs as possible especially where the regulations can be enforced. S5 and of course we need research because what is known is only the tip of the iceberg. ----------------------------------------------------------- As I said the observations are mine, the organisers hope to have the proceedings out early next year. More details on the live fish trade is available from Carol Fox, Nature Conservancy, 1116 Smith St Honolulu, HI 96817 Contact Rooney Buising for details of the proceedings at biusing@ppps.po.my Rooney Biusing Fisheries Research Center, 89400 Likas, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, MALAYSIA. Tel : 088-717077 (h),425677 (o) 425890 (fax regards Dr. Steve Oakley, Shell Prof. of environmental Science, Institute of Biodiversity & Environmental Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, 94300 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia soakley@tualang.unimas.my Fax 082 671903 Tel 082 671000 x 254 or 260 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Dec 9 16:30:50 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA11646; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 16:30:43 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA05911; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 19:57:01 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA05906; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 14:56:59 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/930416.SGI) for id OAA02160; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 14:56:59 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 14:56:59 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Hofstra job posting Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 10:15:00 -0500 From: Clay Cook Subject: Hofstra job posting The Hofstra University Marine Laboratory (HUML), in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica, West Indies, is searching for a pair of qualified persons to run the laboratory from 1 October 1997 to 31 August 1998 (11 months). The successful candidates will be responsible for assisting as many as 35 visiting professors with their courses by giving guest lectures to their classes and accompanying them on field trips. They will also have full responsibility for teaching 12-day classes of mature persons (Elderhostels). They will maintain our seawater system and will participate in our ongoing research program. They will have full administrative responsibilities, and will be the only Hofstra staff on site. HUML will be entering its 18th year and has grown into a major field station. It consists of a two-story, three-classroom laboratory building, a wet laboratory building with a circulating seawater system, a library/equipment building, and a 30-room hotel. The facility is served by a fleet of three boats, several buses, and a SCUBA shop. The lab is surrounded by an extraordinary array of habitats, from the three-kilometer long coral reef just offshore to miles of pristine rocky shores with extraordinary zonation, to a nearby mangrove swamp. A tiny island lies just offshore. A short boat ride brings classes to a cave containing bats, which can be entered only by snorkeling, a sunken shipwreck, walls of live coral, beautiful, palm-fringed coves, and other spectacular sites. This is primarily a teaching facility and the successful candidates should have teaching skills and a personality appropriate to the jobs. The salary for the 11-month positions is $6,000 each + all benefits including an apartment, board, medical insurance, a 12-day training course (in Jamaica), and airfare. In other words, all expenses are paid and the total salary may be saved. The positions are usually filled by couples without children. For further information send a letter indicating why you believe that you are of the "star" calibre capable of assuming this major responsibility to: Dr. Eugene Kaplan Director, HUML Biology Department 114 Hofstra University Hempstead, NY 11550-1090 USA e-mail: bioehk@hofstra.edu ---------------------------------------- John F. Morrissey Assistant Professor Department of Biology 114 Hofstra University Hempstead, NY 11550-1090 516-463-5517; FAX 516-565-0098 E-mail: biojfm@hofstra.edu From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Dec 9 16:34:00 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA11688; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 16:33:54 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA05918; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 19:57:54 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA05913; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 14:57:52 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/930416.SGI) for id OAA02163; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 14:57:52 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 14:57:52 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: reefs and gis (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 14:39:40 -0800 From: brooke peelle Subject: reefs and gis To whom it may concern: I am working on a project that entails digitizing and analizing coral reefs on Geographic Information System hardware. I collected species composition data on reefs off of South Caicos, British West Indies, and I am using this data to create the maps. If anyone knows of other coral reef work being done with GIS please email me at bsp6@cornell.edu. I would like some outside references for my project and I would also like to know if there are any job opportunities for this type of research, since I'm going to be graduating in the spring. Please forward this message top anyone who might have some relevant information concerning coral reef monitoring. Thank you. Sincerely, Brooke Peelle From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Fri Dec 10 21:40:47 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA28280; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 21:40:41 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id BAA07216; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 01:18:20 GMT Received: from tualang.unimas.my by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA07211; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 20:18:02 -0500 Message-Id: <199612110118.UAA07211@reef.aoml.noaa.gov> Received: from falco ([161.142.87.130]) by tualang.unimas.my with SMTP (1.37.109.10G/16.2) id AA188879342; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 09:55:42 +0800 Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 09:55:42 +0800 X-Sender: soakley@tualang.unimas.my X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: ACN-L@pinetree.org, coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov, FISH-ECOLOGY@segate.sunet.se From: Dr Steve Oakley Subject: Re: CYANIDE, DYNAMITE & LIVE FISH in SE ASIA Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: you may be interested in the comment i got personally from gregor in Hong Kong! my replies are in CAPITALS regards steve oakley >From: gregorh@HK.Super.NET > >>I agree with S1-2, especially 2. But in some cases a combination of command >>and control enforcement and local enforcement might work best. For example, >>Sumilon is often used as a model park, but in fact, when it was turned over to >>the local people for a period, they plundered it. The best conservation >>occured when there was an armed guard from Siliman University stationed on the >>island. Sometimes the local pressure for short term gains, particularly when >>the benefits accrue to a few powerful people, outweighs any reasoned approach. >>I think S 4 and 5 are really important too. We need to start building some >>serious protection ala African game parks. This funding must come from the >>west. > > AGAIN AGREED, MY PAPER AT THE WORKSHOP SAID JUST THAT. > >The point on research I think should be to encourage more applied >>research. The question for example of what effects cyanide fishing has on >>coral reefs in actual usage has not been satisfactorily addressed. We keep >>hearing about destroyed reefs by cyanide. In my experience, this is not >>common. How can we encourage these dusty academics to get out and do something >>useful before Rome burns to the ground? > >I DON'T KNOW ABOUT DUSTY BUT I HAVE 3 ONE MONTH EXPEDITIONS AND 4 ONE WEEK TRIPS BETWEEN JAN & SEPT TO TRY AND DOCUMENT THE DAMAGE TO THE REEFS OF SABAH, I ALSO HAVE A TV CREW ALONG FOR EACH OF THE 3 ONE MONTH TRIPS, ANY CHANCE YOU OR YOUR STUDENTS WOULD BE INTERESTED >SEE OUR WEB PAGE > >http://www.unimas.my/~nick/marres.htm > > > >REGARDS > > >STEVE > > > Dr. Steve Oakley, Shell Prof. of environmental Science, Institute of Biodiversity & Environmental Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, 94300 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia soakley@tualang.unimas.my Fax 082 671903 Tel 082 671000 x 254 or 260 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Dec 11 18:47:21 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA06256; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 18:47:15 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA08079; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 22:51:52 GMT Received: from sj.znet.com by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA08074; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 17:51:40 -0500 Received: from [207.167.87.28] (capts-16.znet.com [207.167.87.16]) by sj.znet.com (8.8.4/8.8.4/jjb-sj) with SMTP id OAA15383 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 14:51:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 14:51:31 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: nolan@sj.znet.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: nolan@cyberlearn.com (Ron S. 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Happy Holidays nolan From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Dec 11 23:48:26 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA06968; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 23:48:20 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id EAA08258; Thu, 12 Dec 1996 04:17:05 GMT Received: from emout01.mail.aol.com by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id XAA08251; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 23:17:03 -0500 From: SeaPhD@aol.com Received: by emout01.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA14635 for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 23:17:01 -0500 Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 23:17:01 -0500 Message-ID: <961211231700_1187456696@emout01.mail.aol.com> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: flow velocity meter Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A I am in the early stages of assessing the feasibility of adapting a new portable acoustic doppler flow velocity meter to a version that can be used by divers. I have been relating some of my reef research experiences to the factory engineers, but I would like to have feedback from other researchers who might have additional opinions. In my opinion, there is a need for better portable instrumentation for flow measurements, and the manufacturer of this instrument seems to be interested in working with scientists. I suppose that the best thing to do would be to give some of the capabilities of the present instrument, which is presently used while wading. The meter presently has... a 7.6 m cable a telescoping (0.5 m to 1.8 m) wading rod for the sensor an ultrasonic doppler sensor (38 mm x 38 mm x 25 mm) a receiving unit/digital display (11.4 cm x 17.8 cm x 15.2 cm) a rechargeable battery for up to 12 hours of continuous use a velocity range of 0.015 to + or - 3 m/s (bidirectional) a velocity resolution of 0.003 m/s minimum particulate level of 100 micron @ 100 ppm overall weight (minus the carrying case) 1.4 kg I would appreciate any comments on the suitability of the size, weight, measurement capabilities, etc. to underwater use by a diver. I would also be interested in what people consider to be a reasonable cost for such an instrument. The wading model will sell for about $3500 (US), but the diving model could differ considerably, depending on demand and features. Please feel free to e-mail comments to me directly, or, if you are aware of a similar instrument, I would like to know about it. Thanks, Randy, J. Runnels (e-mail: SeaPhD@aol.com) Marine Education & Research Specialties, Inc. P.O. Box 10517 Tampa, Florida 33679-0517 Phone (813)254-5970 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Dec 11 23:48:59 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA06998; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 23:48:54 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id EAA08266; Thu, 12 Dec 1996 04:22:32 GMT Received: from emout14.mail.aol.com by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id XAA08261; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 23:22:31 -0500 From: SeaPhD@aol.com Received: by emout14.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA14206 for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 23:22:29 -0500 Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 23:22:29 -0500 Message-ID: <961211232226_1254451400@emout14.mail.aol.com> To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: correction on flow meter Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: My apologies for some incorrect information on that acoustic doppler flow meter. The estimated cost of the wading version is around $2500, not $3500. Randy Runnels From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Dec 12 01:15:28 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA07580; Thu, 12 Dec 1996 01:15:21 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id FAA08326; Thu, 12 Dec 1996 05:50:12 GMT Received: from tornado.netspace.net.au by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id AAA08321; Thu, 12 Dec 1996 00:50:09 -0500 Received: from [203.12.52.9] (dialup-m1-5.Hobart.netspace.net.au [203.12.52.5]) by tornado.netspace.net.au (8.8.3/8.7.1) with SMTP id QAA03194; Thu, 12 Dec 1996 16:50:18 +1100 (EST) Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 16:50:18 +1100 (EST) X-Sender: bobjoh@pop.netspace.net.au Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: bobjoh@netspace.net.au (Bob Johannes) Subject: cyanide and the live reef fish trade Cc: Fisheries Social Science Network Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Those following the current discussion among coral-list and Fisheries Social Science Network members concerning cyanide and the live reef fish trade may be interested in the following sources of information. 1.A 33,000 word review, entitled ENVIRONMENTAL, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE LIVE REEF FISH TRADE IN ASIA AND THE WESTERN PACIFIC by Robert E. Johannes and Michael Riepen is available via internet. Go to http://www.tnc.org/infield/State/Hawaii Double click on the "Asia/Pacific Programs" button. A synopsis of the report will appear along with the phrase: "For more technical information about the live reef fish trade, see (the report title)." Double click on the title and the full report will come up. The user can either print it or save it. 2.The subject has received a crescendo of publicity during the past year (a 4-page spread in TIME, several CNN interviews, major coverage in the New York Times and LA Times, 2 pages in New Scientist, two programs on Voice of America, many articles in dive magazines etc.etc.) As a result, efforts to combat the deplorable environmental and social effects of this billion-dollar-plus trade and put it on a sustainable basis are accelerating on various fronts. (There is no cause for complacency, however; the challenges are complex and prodigious). To help people keep up with developments, the South Pacific Commission and The Nature Conservancy now produce a twice-yearly Information Bulletin on Live Reef Fish (focussing on the environmental impacts of the capture, culture and trade of not only live reef food fish, but also marine aquarium fish). Anyone wishing receive this publication free should contact Jean Paul Gaudechoux . Anyone interested in making written contributions to it should contact me. Bob Johannes R. E. Johannes Pty Ltd. 8 Tyndall Court, Bonnet Hill, Tasmania 7053, Australia Phone 03 62298 064 - Fax 03 62298 066 >From overseas, Phone 61 3 62298 064 - Fax 61 3 62298 066 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Dec 12 14:43:09 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA14870; Thu, 12 Dec 1996 14:43:03 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id SAA00696; Thu, 12 Dec 1996 18:56:39 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA00691; Thu, 12 Dec 1996 13:56:37 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/930416.SGI) for id NAA09646; Thu, 12 Dec 1996 13:56:37 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 13:56:37 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Marine Protected Areas (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 12 Dec 96 12:04:21 GMT From: Mark.Spalding@wcmc.org.uk Subject: re: Marine Protected Areas Regarding the request for marine protected areas info in the Caribbean: You can get lists of marine protected areas by country for the entire region (or anywhere else in the world) from the WCMC Protected Areas Database. These lists can be generated on the web at: http://www.com.org:80/marine/data/ If anyone notices mistakes or ommissions in these lists please forward corrections to me. Best wishes Mark D. Spalding E-mail: mark.spalding@wcmc.org.uk World Conservation Monitoring Centre 219 Huntingdon Rd Cambridge, CB3 0DL Fax: +44 1223 277136 United Kingdom Tel: +44 1223 277314 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Dec 13 12:35:53 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA24576; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 12:35:47 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA01537; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 16:00:49 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA01532; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 11:00:47 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/930416.SGI) for id LAA11771; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 11:00:46 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 11:00:46 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: replying to messages Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Greetings! I would like to ask that all coral-listers please double-check on their "To: " line when they respond to messages posted on coral-list, before posting them. Simply pressing "R" for "Reply", depending on your news-reader, may send the message to the majordomo trash-heap instead of to your intended recipient, whether it be a single person, or the coral-list itself. Thank you very much for your cooperation. Cheers, JCH From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Mon Dec 13 16:05:04 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA27011; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 16:04:57 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA00722; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 20:20:09 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA00717; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 15:20:08 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/930416.SGI) for id PAA12453; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 15:20:07 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 15:20:06 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: LANDSAT Postdoc: coastal/aquatic remote sensing position (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 15:03:43 -0500 (EST) From: Frank Muller-Karger (U. South FLorida / Marine Sci.) Subject: LANDSAT Postdoc: coastal/aquatic remote sensing position (fwd) ________________________________________________________________________ PLEASE POST AND/OR PASS ON ________________________________________________________________________ Postdoctoral Position available to work on the NASA-LANDSAT Science Team: Coastal Applications Component University of South Florida NASA has provided support for a Postdoctoral Fellow to work with the LANDSAT Science Team component addressing remote sensing applications of the coastal zone. The position is available at the University of South Florida, and the Postdoctoral Fellow would work with Frank Muller-Karger and Kendall Carder of the Department of Marine Science (St. Petersburg, Florida). Interested applicants should have a strong background in radiative transfer theory, remote sensing applications, and in developing and carrying out validation campaigns. Applicants with a working and programming knowledge of Unix C, C++, and FORTRAN are encouraged to apply. Familiarity with IDL, ERDAS Imagine, and ARC-INFO is a definite plus. The incumbent will have the opportunity to work on atmospheric as well as aquatic issues relevant to processing of the LANDSAT data in coastal zones, will work using field as well as airborne and satellite hyperspectral data, and participate in defining the requirements for future LANDSAT systems. The Postdoctoral Fellow will participate in LANDSAT activities which are an integral component of the Earth Observing System, a program within NASA's Mission to Planet Earth. The University of South Florida is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. For information, please contact: Frank Muller-Karger carib@carbon.marine.usf.edu (813) 893-9186 / FAX: (813) 893-9103 or Kendall Carder kcarder@marine.usf.edu (813) 893-9148 Address: University of South Florida Department of Marine Science 140 7th Ave. South St Petersburg, FL 33701 http://marine.usf.edu __________________________________ FMK ________________________________________ Frank Muller-Karger Remote Sensing/Biological Oceanogr. Department of Marine Science University of South Florida Phone: (813) 553-3335 (Off.) 140 7th Ave. South (813) 893-9186 (Lab.) St Petersburg, FL 33701 FAX: (813) 893-9103 << carib@carbon.marine.usf.edu >> _______________________________________________________________________________ From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Dec 16 09:09:50 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA05209; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:09:42 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id MAA00589; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 12:54:32 GMT Received: from soli.inav.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA00568; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 07:54:25 -0500 Received: from exclusive.com.exclusive.com (dip28.inav.net [199.120.107.218]) by soli.inav.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA17677 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 10:39:20 -0600 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19961215164217.0067bc2c@soli.inav.net> X-Sender: osha@soli.inav.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 10:42:17 -0600 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Osha Gray Davidson Subject: Indonesian corals Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Greetings--I'm trying to get information on studies of reefs around Nusa Lembongan (just east of Bali) and immediately around Sarappo in the Spermonde Archipelago off of Ujung Pandang (Sulawesi). In Nusa Lembongan things appeared surprisingly good with many healthy-looking areas of what I think were Goniopora. Can anyone confirm this (or set me right)? Sarappo looked pretty bad--not unexpectedly--but I'd like to know if someone has done recent work there quantifying conditions. Cheers, Osha Gray Davidson 14 S. Governor St. Iowa City, IA 52240 USA +++++++++++ PH: (319) 338-4778 FAX: (319) 338-8606 e-mail: osha@pobox.com Center for International and Comparative Studies, University of Iowa From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Dec 16 09:24:41 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA05379; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:24:35 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA00686; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 13:13:41 GMT Received: from is1.hk.super.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA00680; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 08:13:38 -0500 From: gregorh@hk.super.net Received: from 202.64.19.196 (max3-196.hk.super.net [202.64.19.196]) by is1.hk.super.net (8.7.6/8.7.1) with SMTP id IAA17485 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 08:50:09 +0800 (HKT) Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 08:50:09 +0800 (HKT) Message-Id: <199612150050.IAA17485@is1.hk.super.net> Subject: Reef Check Error Correction To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov X-Mailer: AIR Mail 3.X (SPRY, Inc.) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: For the Reef Check protocol, the cumulative length of transects and inter-transect spaces is 95 m (not 105 m as posted). Gregor Hodgson reply to: rcgregor@usthk.ust.hk From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Dec 16 09:43:32 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA05525; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:43:26 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA00691; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 13:13:43 GMT Received: from is1.hk.super.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA00685; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 08:13:40 -0500 From: gregorh@hk.super.net Received: from 202.64.19.53 (max3-53.hk.super.net [202.64.19.53]) by is1.hk.super.net (8.7.6/8.7.1) with SMTP id AAA26574 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 00:53:32 +0800 (HKT) Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 00:53:32 +0800 (HKT) Message-Id: <199612141653.AAA26574@is1.hk.super.net> Subject: Reef Check Draft Protocols To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov X-Mailer: AIR Mail 3.X (SPRY, Inc.) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Reef Check 1997 Draft Protocols Site selection: choose reef sites that are considered to be the best available, with high coral cover and dense fish populations. Demonstrating anthropogenic impacts at these sites will reinforce the message that even the best sites are showing wear and tear. Survey locations should be marked on a chart and submitted. Basic design: two 20 m long line transects at both 3 m and 10 m depth below Chart Datum or low low water, and two 20 m long transects at -4 and -11 m depth. The transects should follow the designated depth contour one after the other i.e. the -10 and -11 m transects should not be parallel. Start and end points should be separated by 5 m, so the distance between the start of the first transect and end of the last will be 20 + 5 + 20 + 5 + 20 + 5 + 20 = 105 m. Substrate types including coral cover: Point sampling will be done along each transect to characterize the substrate types. A nail or other sharp object will be tied onto a 1 m long string and dropped at each 0.5 m along the line and the substrate type under the tip of the nail recorded as follows: Hard coral Soft coral Dead coral (still standing and intact) Fleshy seaweed Rock Rubble Sand Silt/clay Other The four line transects also will be used as belt transects and surveyed for indicator organisms and objects. Each belt transect will have the dimensions of 2.5 m on either side of the transect line, or 5 m wide, and (for fish) at most 5 m above the transect line. Counts will be made of the following: Whole world: Diadema long-spined black sea urchins Lobster Trash Recently broken coral (anchor, blast, divers) (estimate area) Indo-Pacific: Tridacna giant clams (give size) Trochus shells Edible beche-de-mer (sea cucumbers), trepang, holothurians Acanthaster (Crown of thorns starfish) Triton shell Charonia tritonis Caribbean: Queen conch Strombus gigas Helmut conch Cassis madagascariensus Fish transects: The same belt transects will be used as above. A buddy pair of divers will do the survey, one behind the other. At least 15 minutes should have elapsed since the last disturbance prior to starting the survey. The leader will swim slowly along the transect and then will stop to count and size target fish every 5 m, and wait at least 5 minutes for target fish to come out of hiding, before proceeding to next stop point. Target fish: Indo-Pacific Any grouper/coral trout over 30 cm Barrimundi cod Cromileptes altivelis Sweetlips Plectorhincus spp. Humphead (Napolean) wrasse Cheilinus undulatus Bumphead parrotfish Bolbometapon muricatum (Note: off-transect records of the wrasse and the parrotfish will be accepted). Caribbean: Nassau Grouper Any grouper over 30 cm Sweetlips (Haemulidae) Gregor Hodgson, PhD Reef Check Coordinator Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clearwater Bay, Kowloon Hong Kong e-mail: rcgregor@usthk.ust.hk Fax: (852) 2358-1582 Tel: (852) 2358-8568 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Dec 16 10:09:34 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA05850; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 10:09:27 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA00739; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 13:41:56 GMT Received: from unvax.union.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA00734; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 08:41:51 -0500 Received: by unvax.union.edu id AA17554 (5.65c+/IDA-1.4.4 for coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov); Sat, 14 Dec 1996 14:50:09 -0500 Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 14:50:09 -0500 (EST) From: "John Garver, Union" To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program Cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Hurricane Lili/San Salvador In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I recently visited the Bahamian Field Station on San Salvador Island, in the eastern Bahamas. On October 19, 1996, San Salvador Island was directly hit by Hurricane Lili with winds up to 110 mph. During my visit with students in early December, I encountered many effects of the Hurricane on the reefs, beaches, and lagoons. Based on photographs and on-site descriptions, I have recently prepared "Some effects of Hurricane Lili on San Salvador Island, Bahamas" which is on the internet. Many researchers and field trip leaders who bring students to the Bahamian Field Station are, of course, interested in the aftermath. This short note is for those researchers and educators that have visited or will visit the Island. In this short note, I mainly focus on the geologic effects of Hurricane Lili, but as you will see, some of the focus is on damage to coral. The report contains the following sections: Introduction General observations Hurricane track and Intensity Photographs of the effects of Lili Severe damage to trees at high elevations Extensive salt-spray and wind damage Coral damage Coral Rubble washover and Beach Erosion Washover of sand into a nearby lagoon Damage to houses Conclusions The document is located at: http://zircon.geology.union.edu/carb/hurricane/damage Regards, John Garver Associate Professor Union College Schenectady NY 12308 USA From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Dec 16 10:15:04 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA05944; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 10:14:58 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA00697; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 13:13:47 GMT Received: from is1.hk.super.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA00692; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 08:13:44 -0500 From: gregorh@hk.super.net Received: from 202.64.19.53 (max3-53.hk.super.net [202.64.19.53]) by is1.hk.super.net (8.7.6/8.7.1) with SMTP id AAA26687 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 00:57:15 +0800 (HKT) Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 00:57:15 +0800 (HKT) Message-Id: <199612141657.AAA26687@is1.hk.super.net> Subject: Reef Check Update II To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov X-Mailer: AIR Mail 3.X (SPRY, Inc.) Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Reef Check Update II Purpose: Reef Check 1997 is a global volunteer effort by groups of divers led by experienced marine scientists to carry out targetted, scientifically based, coral reef surveys. These special surveys will use the most simple techniques possible to determine whether specific human impacts have affected coral reefs. The ultimate goal is to generate publicity for coral reef research and conservation by demonstrating that reefs around the world, possibly including those believed to be relatively "pristine," have been affected by human activities. Organisation: Reef Check 1997 is an official International Year of the Reef activity designed by IYOR committee members. It has been enthusiatically supported by hundreds of scientists and divers around the world. Due to the unexpectedly large numbers of groups interested in participating in Reef Check, we are currently dividing up responsibility for Reef Check among several regional centers. We are planning two centers in the US, one in UK, one in Germany, one in Hong Kong, and one in Australia. We would welcome volunteers to create additional regional centers in other parts of the world e.g. Africa, South America, Central America. Due to the size of the operation, Reef Check headquarters has been moved to the Institute for Environmental Studies at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. We are currently in the process of hiring staff to maintain the database and respond to inquiries. Timing: Reef Check was originally planned to be completed in June 1997, however, for a variety of reasons, we have accepted recommendations that we change the plan slightly. The revised Reef Check schedule will open the field monitoring operations on Ocean Day, 14 June 1997, and field work may be carried out up to the end of August 1997. The planned reporting period will be during the first week of September 1997. We are currently negotiating with various PR groups and television companies to help disseminate our message worldwide. We would like to have spokespeople around the world who can be interviewed live in various languages. We would also hope to get some real-time underwater coverage of human impacts on coral reefs. A detailed reporting schedule will be released once these negotiations have been completed. Field Methods: The draft Reef Check Core methods have been posted in a separate message. Care has been taken to try to match these methods as closely as possible with existing methods, especially the Australian-ASEAN and ICLARM Aquanaut protocols. However, due to the narrow focus of the Reef Check project to detect human impacts, there are some differences, mainly simplifications. For example, there is no reason to record coral growth forms for Reef Check and this parameter has been omitted. But methods to count a number of commonly harvested reef organisms such as lobster and grouper have been included. If anyone has strong feelings that we have omitted something, or ought to reconsider any method, please let us know. In addition to the Core Methods, any additional survey work that groups feel like doing can be carried out. If the results are pertinent to the theme of Reef Check, they may be adopted or at least reported to the media as an extra. Data Processing: Each diver group will be responsible for processing its own data. This will be a very simple procedure of generating count summaries, totals and means. These will be submitted to regional centers for compilation, and finally to headquarters. For the purpose of PR we do not envisage carrying out a great deal of high powered statistics, but rather reporting percentages of reefs around the world affected by various types of human impacts. The data will however have scientific value and will be available for all to work with in more detail. Permission will be sought from all groups to allow us to prepare a summary paper. Eligibility: Each Reef Check group will consist of a minimum of one qualified reef scientist who can recognise the organisms listed in the protocols, and a group of divers who can be trained to carry out most of the work. The methods have been designed to be as simple as possible so that high school students can participate. A practical group size would be 4 pairs of divers, 1 pair per transect, however, larger or smaller groups could be accomodated. Divers should be sufficiently experienced that they are able to perform simple work underwater. It is up to the scientific leader to decide if the group members are adequately qualified to undertake the work. Group leaders should carefully check what the liability may be in their area, and may need to take precautions such as asking participants to sign liability waivers for this volunteer activity. Available Sites/ Groups: A list of survey sites and groups will be posted in January. New groups should try to choose new sites to avoid overlap and increase coverage. Inquiries: Please send inquiries to (But note that office will not be manned until 1 January): Gregor Hodgson, PhD Reef Check Coordinator Institute for Environmental Studies HK University of Science and Technology Clearwater Bay, Kowloon Hong Kong e-mail: rcgregor@usthk.ust.hk Fax: (852) 2358-1582 From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Dec 16 11:20:40 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA06729; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 11:20:33 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id PAA00852; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 15:19:45 GMT Received: from wcmc.org.uk by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA00847; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 10:19:42 -0500 From: Mark.Spalding@wcmc.org.uk Received: from RAPHUS.wcmc.org.uk by wcmc.org.uk (4.1/SMI-4.1(D-2.1.4b)) id AA23832; Mon, 16 Dec 96 15:19:30 GMT Message-Id: <9612161519.AA23832@wcmc.org.uk> Received: by RAPHUS.wcmc.org.uk with VINES ; Mon, 16 Dec 96 15:19:28 GMT Date: Mon, 16 Dec 96 15:18:13 GMT Subject: Marine Protected Areas To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Last week I sent information about our Marine Protected Areas web-site and gave a wrong address. Many apologies for this and for wasting people's time! The correct URL is: http://www.wcmc.org.uk:80/marine/data/ Best wishes Mark Spalding From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Dec 16 11:31:17 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA06843; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 11:31:10 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id NAA00644; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 13:06:12 GMT Received: from coral.aoml.noaa.gov by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA00639; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 08:06:10 -0500 Received: from localhost by coral.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/930416.SGI) for id LAA15442; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 11:53:58 -0500 Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 11:53:58 -0500 (EST) From: Coral Health and Monitoring Program To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Hurricane Lili/San Salvador (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 14:50:09 -0500 (EST) From: "John Garver, Union" To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program Cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Hurricane Lili/San Salvador I recently visited the Bahamian Field Station on San Salvador Island, in the eastern Bahamas. On October 19, 1996, San Salvador Island was directly hit by Hurricane Lili with winds up to 110 mph. During my visit with students in early December, I encountered many effects of the Hurricane on the reefs, beaches, and lagoons. Based on photographs and on-site descriptions, I have recently prepared "Some effects of Hurricane Lili on San Salvador Island, Bahamas" which is on the internet. Many researchers and field trip leaders who bring students to the Bahamian Field Station are, of course, interested in the aftermath. This short note is for those researchers and educators that have visited or will visit the Island. In this short note, I mainly focus on the geologic effects of Hurricane Lili, but as you will see, some of the focus is on damage to coral. The report contains the following sections: Introduction General observations Hurricane track and Intensity Photographs of the effects of Lili Severe damage to trees at high elevations Extensive salt-spray and wind damage Coral damage Coral Rubble washover and Beach Erosion Washover of sand into a nearby lagoon Damage to houses Conclusions The document is located at: http://zircon.geology.union.edu/carb/hurricane/damage Regards, John Garver Associate Professor Union College Schenectady NY 12308 USA From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Dec 18 13:08:48 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA06458; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 13:08:42 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id QAA00766; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 16:47:16 GMT Received: from mafalda.univalle.edu.co by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA00761; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 11:47:06 -0500 Received: from sinsa.univalle.edu.co by mafalda.univalle.edu.co with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0vaP6Z-0004OCC; Wed, 18 Dec 96 11:44 GMT Received: from localhost by sinsa.univalle.edu.co (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA26719; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 11:39:49 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 11:39:49 -0500 (GMT) From: Carlos Enrique Barcenas To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: information on books Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Hello to everyone: I need to buy books about coral fishes, related to ageing by otolith analisis and early life history, if anyone knows this information I be very gratefull, if you want you can write me personally to my E-mail adress. thank you all. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carlos Enrique Barcenas Tel. 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E-Mail:cebarcen@sinsa.univalle.edu.co ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Dec 18 15:57:30 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA08547; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 15:57:24 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id UAA00882; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 20:01:58 GMT Received: from zoo.toronto.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA00877; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 15:01:56 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 15:00:42 -0500 (EST) From: William Allison Subject: RE. e-mail addresses for coral researchers To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: A Hi. I am finishing up an in-depth evaluation of the accuracy, precision and cost-efficiency of the line-intercept transect reef survey methodology. It would be useful for me to tie a few ends together by e-mail, but I have very few addresses (although I have snail mail addresses). There must be a list out there, non? If you could forward such a list to me I would appreciate it. In particular, at this moment, I wish to contact Richard E. Dodge (Barbados). Mark Chiapponne (USA), and A.J. Uychiaoco (Philippines). Thanks William Allison From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sat Dec 18 21:06:58 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA11146; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 21:06:35 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id AAA01080; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:53:13 GMT Received: from sj.znet.com by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA01075; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 19:53:11 -0500 Received: from [207.167.87.38] (capts-38.znet.com [207.167.87.38]) by sj.znet.com (8.8.4/8.8.4/jjb-sj) with SMTP id QAA05254; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 16:51:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 16:51:56 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: nolan@sj.znet.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: nolan@cyberlearn.com (Ron S. Nolan) Subject: RE. e-mail addresses for coral researchers/Transect Methodology Cc: William Allison Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: William, As part of a post-doc at the University of Hawaii, I did a study on transect methodology for reef fishes in which a team surveyed a small, linear lava flow reef, then another team speared off selected species of butterflyfishes, followed by another team which re-surveyed the reef. I left academia for enterprise shortly thereafter so the study was never published, but I could probably find the ms if you would like to see it. In our Coral Kingdom CD-ROM, kids follow a transect line to make observations. If you teach any introductory courses you might be interested in taking a look at it . Regards nolan Digital Studios From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Dec 19 11:04:59 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA14500; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 11:04:52 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id OAA01626; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 14:50:26 GMT Received: from bios-nt.sunbeach.net by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA01620; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 09:50:15 -0500 Received: from bios-nt.sunbeach.net by bios-nt.sunbeach.net (NTMail 3.02.11) with ESMTP id ha078423 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 10:47:40 -0400 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19961219134815.00674690@sunbeach.net> X-Sender: lotus@sunbeach.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 09:48:15 -0400 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Lotus Arrieta Vermeer Subject: water quality Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Can anyone refer me to recent studies which have been conducted which provide indications of what total nitrogen and total phosphorous values in the water column are considered "stressful" to coral reefs, and/or at what level of chlorophyll-a in the water column are coral reefs considered to be "stressed"? Many thanks, Lotus A. Vermeer Bellairs Research Institute St. James, Barbados, West Indies From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Dec 19 13:18:05 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA16469; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 13:17:58 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id RAA01728; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 17:11:04 GMT Received: from canudos.ufba.br by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA01723; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 12:08:46 -0500 Received: from localhost by canudos.ufba.br (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA37792; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 14:57:32 -0300 Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 14:57:32 -0300 (GRNLNDST) From: Francisco Kelmo O dos Santos To: Lotus Arrieta Vermeer Cc: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: water quality In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19961219134815.00674690@sunbeach.net> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear all, I would appreciate receiving these informations too. Regards, Francisco Kelmo. ******************************************************************* ** Prof.Francisco Kelmo ** ** Departamento de Zoologia do Instituto de Biologia ** ** Universidade Federal da Bahia - Campus de Ondina ** ** Av. Adhemar de Barros s/n. Salvador-Bahia-BRAZIL ** ** cep. 40170-290 ** ** fax:+55 071 2456909 Ph: +55 071 2473810/2473744 ** ** e-mail:Kelmo@ufba.br ** ******************************************************************** On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Lotus Arrieta Vermeer wrote: > Can anyone refer me to recent studies which have been conducted which > provide indications of what total nitrogen and total phosphorous values in > the water column are considered "stressful" to coral reefs, and/or at what > level of chlorophyll-a in the water column are coral reefs considered to be > "stressed"? > > Many thanks, > > Lotus A. Vermeer > Bellairs Research Institute > St. James, Barbados, West Indies > > From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Dec 19 17:58:03 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA19757; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 17:57:57 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA01948; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 22:17:26 GMT Received: from galadriel.otago.ac.nz by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA01943; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 17:17:20 -0500 Received: from [139.80.104.134] (MAC104134.otago.ac.nz [139.80.104.134]) by galadriel.otago.ac.nz (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id LAA20404 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 11:15:35 +1300 (NZDT) X-Sender: ou008707@brandywine.otago.ac.nz Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 11:20:14 +0200 To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: vanessa.craig@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Vanessa Craig) Subject: benthic-feeding fish Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: I am interested in finding out the current research being conducted on benthic-feeding fish in tropical reefs and/or lagoons. If anyone is currently working in this area, please could I beg a few minutes of your time to let me know where your research is being conducted and very briefly what your research entails. Thanks alot Vanessa Craig From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Sun Dec 19 18:01:50 1996 Received: from reef.aoml.noaa.gov (reef [192.111.123.16]) by aoml.noaa.gov (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA19797; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 18:01:43 -0500 (EST) Received: by reef.aoml.noaa.gov (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id WAA01961; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 22:26:15 GMT Received: from umigw.miami.edu by reef.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA01956; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 17:26:13 -0500 Received: from aszmant.rsmas.miami.edu (aszmant.rsmas.miami.edu [129.171.104.19]) by umigw.miami.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA21811 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 17:24:35 -0500 Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 17:24:35 -0500 Message-Id: <199612192224.RAA21811@umigw.miami.edu> X-Sender: szmant@oj.rsmas.miami.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov From: Alina Szmant Subject: Re: water quality Sender: owner-coral-list@reef.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: Dear Ms. Vermeer: These are not simple questions with simple answers. There is no ONE concentration of any of those variables that consitutes stress. It takes LOADS of chlorophyll to decrease the amount of light available to benthic producers such as corals and reef algae, and corals do fine under higher chlorophyll conditions (e.g. East coast of Africa during monsoon) and actually get covered up by algae during the worst of the monsoon. If nutrient concentrations are elevated occasionally, as happens naturally, the reef absorbs the nutrients into their normal trophic dynamics and are the better off for it. It's only when 'elevated' (I cannot provide absolute numbers, but reef water usually in the 10 - 20 uM TN and 0.1-0.5 uM TP) concentrations occur much of the time and the grazers cannot keep up with the production, that the reef becomes nutrient stressed [it takes MUCH higher concentrations to physiologically stress the corals themselves; it's the biological interactions that get upset by elevated nutrients]; the problem is compounded if there is harvesting or die-off of grazers (such as the Diadema die-off). In the Caribbean, all the reefs are heavily over-fished (estimates of 10-20 % of natural fish densities), so the trophic dynamics are very unbalanced. Hope this helps. Please do not be mesmerized by the few investigators that are going around preaching for a "threshold" concept. There are no data to support it and many that refute it. Sincerely, Alina Szmant At 09:48 AM 12/19/96 -0400, you wrote: >Can anyone refer me to recent studies which have been conducted which >provide indications of what total nitrogen and total phosphorous values in >the water column are considered "stressful" to coral reefs, and/or at what >level of chlorophyll-a in the water column are coral reefs considered to be >"stressed"? > >Many thanks, > >Lotus A. Vermeer >Bellairs Research Institute >St. James, Barbados, West Indies > > > ********************************************** Dr. Alina M. Szmant Coral Reef Research Group RSMAS-MBF University of Miami 4600 Rickenbacker Cswy. Miami FL 33149 TEL: (305)361-4609 FAX: (305)361-4600 or 361-4005 E-mail: ASZMANT@RSMAS.MIAMI.EDU **********************************************