From hendee@aoml.noaa.gov Thu Apr 29 09:19:42 1999 Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 07:25:35 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Hendee To: coral@aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Fwd: Bleaching in the southwest Red Sea (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 14:08:23 -0700 (PDT) From: tim Daw To: Coral discussion list Subject: Fwd: Bleaching in the southwest Red Sea A message I recieved from a marine biologist at the university of Asmara. Eritrea included this about bleaching................ ---Marco Pedulli wrote: > On a different note concerning bleaching we too have, unfortunately, > experienced such phenomenon on the corals around Massawa recently. The > water temperatures around the region of Massawa this past summer have > been extremely on their high side (40 degree C ). The increase in > temperature is, therefore, most probably responsible for such bleaching. > Moreover, the degree of bleaching varied in deep and shallow reefs. > The latter, with high ambient temperature, were as a result affected more. > > Now that the "hot season" is over most corals sprang back to attain > their original state and have fully recovered while others have unfortunately > suffered prolonged elevated temperatures and were overgrown by algae. > Biologists have visisted similar areas around the islands and around > Assab but did not report bleaching at all. This showed that bleaching was > localized and restricted to the Massawa Area (Massawa Proper and Green Island). > > -- > Marco Pedulli, MSc > Department of Marine Biology & Fisheries > University of Asmara > P.O. Box 1220 > Asmara, Eritrea > > E-mail address:- Marco@marine.uoa.edu.er > Tel:- (+291) -1- 16 19 26 ex 274 (Off.) > (+291) -1- 12 64 30 (Res.) > Fax:- (+291) -1- 16 22 36 > > ************************************************************* Tim Daw Hillhead of Craigie Whitecairns Aberdeen AB23 8XE UK Tel. +44 (0)1651 862 496 email: tim_daw@yahoo.com ******************************************************* _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com