From fazr at biologia.univalle.edu.co Mon Mar 2 17:16:50 1998 From: fazr at biologia.univalle.edu.co (Fernando A. Zapata R) Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 17:16:50 -0500 Subject: Fish bite marks Message-ID: <34FB2FD1.B841857C@biologia.univalle.edu.co> Dear Coral-list members: Massive corals (mostly Pavona sp.) from Gorgona Island, off the Pacific coast of Colombia, frequently have many markings that we believe have been caused by fish. The marks are more or less rectangular, about 1.0 - 1.5 x 3.0 - 4.0 cm, are devoid of live coral tissue, and are therefore white, contrasting with the adjacent live, healthy tissue. We have tried to establish the identity of the fish(es) responsible for making these marks, but after several hours of observation of colonies we have been unable to watch any fish actually biting the colonies. We suspect that either scarids, balistids or tetraodontids are making these marks. We have made observations of feeding behavior by a scarid (Scarus ghobban, n = 67 periods of ten min each) and two balistids (Sufflamen verres and Pseudobalistes naufragium, n = 21) but have never seen a fish biting the colonies and leaving a mark as described. We are wondering if other people in the tropical eastern Pacific (or elsewhere) are familiar with these bite marks. If they are, would they know what species is making the marks? Finally, would anyone be interested in taking a look at a couple of pictures and trying to help us? If so, please reply to this message and we will send the pictures as an attachment to an e-mail. Thanks, Juan Manuel Jimenez Valeria Francisco Fernando A. Zapata -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: vcard.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 411 bytes Desc: Tarjeta de Fernando A. Zapata Url : http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/pipermail/coral-list-old/attachments/19980302/72133c73/attachment.vcf From delbeek at hawaii.edu Wed Mar 4 11:33:11 1998 From: delbeek at hawaii.edu (J. Charles Delbeek) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 06:33:11 -1000 Subject: Gidday Mate ! (fwd) Message-ID: This message is from a friend of mine who lives in Bundaberg, Australia. I thought the rest of the list might be interested in it. J. Charles Delbeek M.Sc. Aquarium Biologist Waikiki Aquarium "The fact that my physiology differs from yours pleases me to no end." Mr. Spock ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 20:46:37 -1000 From: Jack Hayes To: "J. Charles Delbeek" Subject: Gidday Mate ! > The coral reef here is a bloody disaster. What isn't dead is bleached so white from loss of algae that I think much of it will starve before it comes good. The sea temp reached 33 c at 15 meters depth at four mile reef last month. We are getting South easters now bringing in cooler water but it is still very hot. This is unprecedented. No one can remember anything like this happening before. Dead and rooting sarcophytons litter the spaces between the hard coral beds. The Dendro's in the river mouth have survived but the inshore reef ones have all disappeared. There is a great increase in coral trout numbers for some reason but they have decimated the juvenile fish population. The spear fishermen are the only ones to benefit. I expect that it will be well into winter before the coral is back to anything like it was. The bleaching is all over the barrier reef I believe. My tank did get a bit hot causing the death of a leathery sarco and all bar one of my Dendros has died of starvation. However it still looks a picture and its fundamental biology seems to be working very well. I have a pure white very short polyp goniopora in there now and its beautiful. It looks like a miniature snow covered mountain range. All for now. Talk to u in a few weeks Regards John From sos at aloha.net Wed Mar 4 12:49:39 1998 From: sos at aloha.net (Carl Stepath) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 07:49:39 -1000 Subject: Save Our Seas Message-ID: Some contact information that you may be interested in. Sorry if this email is an inconvenience. I recieved this information and wanted to pass it on for those who may be concerned. Have a great day, and best wishes to you and your family. A Conscious Choice: Please circulate this email to everyone you know this week. It concerns the lively hood of the Humpback whales that are being killed by the US Navy in the waters of Hawai'i. It concerns the lively hood of our oceans, the mammals and fish that inhabit them and ultimately our planet. Please send protests to the media, your local politicians and congressmen. Some suggested email addresses are included below. LFA questions should be directed to John Yoshishige of the Navy at-471-3769 Please read the following and visit the site at http://www.dreamweaving.com/lfas.htm for current updates. If you have an email distribution list and would like to be put on our email list mailto:lfas at dreamweaving.com and put "add" in subject header. Other wise visit the site for updates. If you would like to be removed from our email list mailto:lfas at dreamweaving.com and put "remove" in subject header. My apologies. Background: Since the thirties sound has been used to map geophysical and underwater data. In the second world war sonar was used to detect submarines. Over the years the detection sensitivity got better and the resolution increased. And so did the technologies. All of this added to the noise pollution to the waters of our planet. In the past several years the US Navy has been testing high intensity sound to increase the range and resolution. These programs were called ATOC, which met public opposition, then LAS and more recently renamed LFAS for Low Frequency Acoustic Sound. And over the years the sound levels increased >from the ping we heard in old submarine movies to blasts of sound at around 200dB. 10,000 times the loudness of a 747 at take off. Many thousands times louder than is needed to do permanent damage to living tissue resulting in internal bleeding, disorientation, ruptured ear drums and other sometimes fatal effects. A deaf whale is a dead whale. If you were a tourist swimming in the waters off the west coast of the Big Island it could be you. Many whales have already been killed. In 1995/6 off the coast of California, and later in the year in the beautiful Hawaiian waters off Maui, Oahu and the Big Island. And now the Navy has calibrated its equipment to start the third phase of testing the LFAS in the humpback whales birthing waters off the big island of Hawai'i on Monday, March 2nd 1998. Your appeal to stop this is needed today. Please circulate this message to everyone who is environmentally conscious about our endangered species. By emailing, faxing and calling the media, our environmentalists and the politicians we can bring this to the attention of the world and halt this slaughter and disruption of our planet's natural cycles. Your action is needed NOW! Why LFAS? This is a classified subject so not much is known. However, it is also obvious. The LFAS is under the command of the SpaWars program out of San Diego, CA. An offshoot of StarWars program the SpaWars is the result of the Space/Navy merger last October. The LFAS permits the Navy to take a snap shot of the ocean and so monitor the movement of both man made submarines and according to some sources extraterrestrial craft. The incredibly loud pressure wave of the LFAS broadcast travels for many many miles. Possibly hundreds and maybe thousands. The military is not telling, nor are they telling us the specific frequencies they are using. Why the testing? In order to satisfy the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Acts of Cetaceans the Navy is obliged to show that the sound levels will not harm the whales. This has then in a rather tricky situation, on the one hand to make it appear that they are not harming the mammals and on the other hand maintaining the secrecy around work. An Environmental Assessment was completed and scientists and medical experts were hired to monitor the tests. Looks good on the surface, but as we all know those scientist also by the nature of the study are bound by the Official Secrets Act. So, just how accurate can they be in their diagnostics and evaluation? In the past the Navy has had a lousy track record by not keeping to the outline agreed upon in the Environmental Assessment. It sounds good on paper, but in reality the Navy goes and does what it wants no matter what the expense may be. Further more the second and third phases of the testing have began before first and second phases have been evaluated by any legitimate independant scientific body. Surprise, Surprise!! In November last year for instance a whale was found a week after the testing in the waters near the test area. But, due to the nature of the way that the sound effects body tissue it is hard to pin point exactly the cause of death without a neocropsy. And even then it would be very easy to sway the opinion because of the official secrets act. See report at Cetacean Society International http://elfi.com/csiupdat.html#atoc This is not an isolated case others have been reported and over the weekend of March 1st, 1998 a dead calf whale showed up off Oahu right after the Navy had completed calibration there. This testing, killing, maiming and harassment has been ongoing for years. It is time for the peoples of the planet to unite. It is time to bring this to the attention of all our brothers and sisters. It is time to put a stop to these senseless war games and fear mongering by our establishments. Email, fax and phone your protests to the media, your local environmentalists and politicians NOW! By way of completion: Last Saturday as part of the trip the captain asked me if the group would be OK with trying to find the Navy vessels so we could swim in the waters and possibly halt the testing. I knew that would be OK with me and possibly with the others. But nature and the whales had another vision on store for us. Instead we were shown the richnss of the whales in their natural habitat. In fact their demonstration of life was unbelievably incredible. We left Kona and headed north and as soon as we exited the harbor we saw a whale breach. As we headed north we came across and mother and a calf breaching. It was as though she was teaching her new one the joy of rising out of the water and taking a look around. After watching them play for an hour or more we saw two whales on the horizon breachig time after time. We headed off towards them and their behaviour changed to one of courtship and mating with their long fins slapping time and time again into the water. By this time we realized the water was full of whales that day! We lowered a hydrophone into the water listened to their sounds and possibly for the LFAS sound. But we only heard the whales whelping and hooting. I had decided to go for a swim with a couple of my friends and we slipped into the water knowing that there might be a whale close by. The previous week we had gone out and hardly saw any whales. At one point we lowered the hydrophone into the water and there were two males singing the most beautiful song. We recorded their song while we took a swim and I was playing diving down deep and floating to the top with my arms outstretched and my heart open. It was beautiful and the photographs came out perfect! Any way as we slipped into the water we swam in formation with our hearts open and full. We were about 25 feet away from the boat when suddenly a whale breached and arched her back with her fins wide open her heart towards us and the boat behind. We, however, did not see anything as she came up once and then came up again as if to say your heart is open I can feel you, my heart is open I acknowledge you. Our friends on the boat were besides themselves, not with fear but with happiness and joy. We had been preparing in meditation and healing sessions for this encounter, and we were rewarded. We have yet to see if the photos came out! Later in the day we saw two males doing their territorial thing and as it were wrestling with the other. They breached out of the water and back in again jostling the other of their kingdom. I learnt or relearnt something very important. I had become burnt out from working the web site for the LFAS and trying to stay abreast of all that was going on. I was reminded that there is a peaceful way of changing our world. The Bottom Line, we need resources: ?A network of people to watch out for the Navy Vessels ?About $2000 to purchase of a small boat. ?Living Expenses for the Marine Mammal Institiute Swimmers willing to be put out in the water ?Swimmers willing to go out >from the shore ?Walkie talkies and marine radios for communication ?Any one with good reportage skills who can keep preparing news reports from the local papers and the TV so we can post it on the internet site and keep the world informed ?Pilot that can go aloft and give us information What can you do? The time is NOW. Send this email to everyone you know. And send protests to the media, your local politicians and enviromentalists gropups. In the header of your email or fax put "Whales: Dead or Alive" And words to the effect: Please stop to the killing of the whales by the US Navy in Hawaii Signed: Your name Send to: President Bill Clinton president at whitehouse.com Vice-President Al Gore vicepresident at whitehouse.com Govenor of Hawaii: Ben Cayetano gov at aloha.net phone 808.586.0034 fax 808.586.0006 State Senator: David Tarnass reptarnas at capitol.hawaii.gov phone 808.586.8510 fax 808.587.0390 Dept Land and Natural Resources State of Hawaii Chairman Mike Wilson mwilson at pixi.com phone 808.587.0400 fax 808.587.0390 Joseph Johnson Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (703) 919-8959 Email:Jsquared at nosc.mil Also:"Williamson, Richard" Senators: Danial Inouye senator at inouye.senate.gov DC fax 202.224.6747 Honolulu fax 808.541.2549 Danial Akaka DC fax 202.224.2126 Honolulu fax 808. 545.4683 Congressmen: Neil Abcercrombie neil at abcercrombie.house.gov DC fax 202.225.4580 Honolulu phone 808.541.2570 Hono fax 808.533.0133 Patsy Mink DC fax 202.225.4987 Hono phone 808.541.1986 Hono fax 808. 538.0233 White House Office of Enviromental Quality Kate McGinty White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington DC 20006 phone 202.456.6224 fax 202.456.2710 National Marine Fisheries Services Office of protected species Ann Terbush 1335 East West Highway Silver Springs, MD 20910 fax 301.713.0376 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This site was prepared by Benedick Howard and is hosted by DreamWeaving International a site about sound, sacred geometry and stress management Have a great 1998, the International Year of the Ocean - Carl :) http://planet-hawaii.com/sos/ "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead Carl M. Stepath, Executive Director "Save Our Seas" P.O. Box 1437, Paia, HI 96779 USA 808-579-6282, fax 579-6283 From robbie at bbsr.edu Thu Mar 5 09:45:25 1998 From: robbie at bbsr.edu (robbie at bbsr.edu) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 10:45:25 -0400 Subject: Funding for graduate research in Bermuda Message-ID: <199803051445.KAA18705@sargasso> Munson Coral Reef Fellowship at BBSR. Due to the generosity of the Munson Foundation, the Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Inc. (BBSR) is expanding its research support for graduate students involved in all aspects of coral reef research in Bermuda. Students with funded research projects who could benefit from working in Bermuda's marine environment and with BBSR's scientific staff are encouraged to apply for admission to BBSR's Graduate Intern Program. Information on the Munson awards, BBSR Graduate Intern Program and BBBSR faculty interests are found at the BBSR Web page at www.bbsr.edu/Education/#internships. If accepted into the program, extramural support brought by students to BBSR will be supplemented by funds from the Munson Foundation. These supplemental funds will go towards the cost of research supplies and equipment needed by the student, as well as towards the individual's living costs. The number of students who can be accepted and supported is limited, so prompt inquiries and early applications are encouraged. Applications should be submitted by 1 April 1998 for research projects commencing no later than August 1998. Please direct further inquiries to: BBSR Graduate Intern Coordinator, Dr. Kathy Coates (kcoates at bbsr.edu) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Struan Robertson Smith, Ph.D. Assistant Research Scientist Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Inc. Ferry Reach GE01 Bermuda Tel: 441 297 1880 ext. 240 Fax: 441 297 8143 From aszmant at rsmas.miami.edu Thu Mar 5 17:14:03 1998 From: aszmant at rsmas.miami.edu (Alina Szmant) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 17:14:03 -0500 Subject: Rosenstiel Postdoc position at the Univ of Miami Message-ID: <199803052214.RAA01572@umigw.miami.edu> ROSENSTIEL SCHOOL POSTDOCTORAL POSITION The Division of Marine Biology and Fisheries, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, announces a competitive ROSENSTIEL POSTDOCTORAL AWARD. This two year award is an on-site research collaboration with a member of the Marine Biology and Fisheries faculty in one of the following areas: Marine Biomedical Sciences, Biological Oceanography, Fisheries, or Coastal Ecology. Applicants should include a c.v., a one page research interest statement related to one of the thematic areas, up to three reprints or in press manuscripts, and the names and contacts for three references. Further details about our program and faculty can be found at www.rsmas.miami.edu/divs/mbf.html. Closing date is 15 April 1998 for a start date near Sept. 1998. Applications to: RPD Search committee,University of Miami RSMAS, MBF, 4600 Rickenbacker Cswy, Miami FL 33149. The University of Miami is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. ********************************************** 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 at RSMAS.MIAMI.EDU ********************************************** From johng at ksu.edu Fri Mar 6 13:16:18 1998 From: johng at ksu.edu (John Guinotte) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:16:18 -0600 (CST) Subject: Mexico Bathymetry Message-ID: To all Coral-listers: Your help would be greatly appreciated in the following matter: For my masters thesis,I am creating a coastal GIS to predict Mexican Coral Reef distribution from basic environmental data (SST, Salinity, Bathymetry, Nutrients,etc.). This is a continuation of the work by: Kleypas, J. A. 1997. Modeled estimates of global reef habitat and carbonate production since the last glacial maximum. Paleoceanography 12(4): 533-545. In order to improve the model, I need to acquire a higher resolution bathymetry/water depth layer (that has a spatial resolution greater than (5 minutes x 5 minutes) for the waters off Mexico's coasts. If anyone has this type of data or knows how/where to acquire it, please email me. Thank You- John Guinotte _______________________________________________________________________________ John Guinotte GIS Research Assistant National Institute for Land Management and Training Kansas State University 26 Seaton Hall Manhattan, KS 66506-2907 (785) 532-2106 (Office) (785) 532-2110 (Fax) johng at ksu.edu _______________________________________________________________________________ From coral at aoml.noaa.gov Fri Mar 6 13:50:37 1998 From: coral at aoml.noaa.gov (Coral Health and Monitoring Program) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 13:50:37 -0500 (EST) Subject: Coral Bleaching at Palolo Deep Message-ID: Please respond to Mike King (mking at samoa.net) or to coral-list: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 13:20:18 -1100 From: Mike King Subject: Coral Bleaching A survey at Palolo Deep (a National Marine Park near Apia, Western Samoa) on 28 February revealed severe coral bleaching. Between 60 to 70% of all staghorn Acopora on the reef top was bleached. This has occurred with amazing rapidity (over a period of 5-6 days). In deeper water, all seemed well. Do you have any information on the El Nino driven plug of warm water extending over the Pacific? Best wishes, Mike King. From Daniel_Shapiro at monterey.edu Fri Mar 6 14:13:17 1998 From: Daniel_Shapiro at monterey.edu (Daniel Shapiro) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:13:17 -0800 Subject: Coral Reef Ecology Course: Akumal, Mexico Message-ID: COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT: TROPICAL MARINE SCIENCE (Cornell University and Shoals Marine Laboratory) This summer we will take 12 students to Akumal, a small resort town located on the Caribbean coast of Mexico's Yucat?n Peninsula. Students will study basic coral reef ecology and conservation, learn to identify local hard and soft coral species, collect data for the Akumal Coral Reef Monitoring Project, and design and implement independent research projects. The course is designed for self-motivated undergraduate students interested in learning about basic coral reef ecology, conservation and research. Dates: June 6th - August 2nd. Credits: 12 Semester Credits (Cornell University) Prerequisites: Recognized SCUBA certification, a medical examination, one full year of college level biology, permission of instructor (Dr. Dan Shapiro). Deadline: All applications received by March 27th will be considered. After that, applications will be considered on a first-come, first-serve basis until the course is filled. For more information, see our web page at: http://www.sml.cornell.edu/Shoals/courses/akumal.html or contact either: Shoals Marine Laboratory Cornell University G-14Y Stimson Hall Ithaca, NY 14853-7101 email: shoals-lab at cornell.edu phone: 607-255-3717 Web Site: http://www.sml.cornell.edu or Dr. Dan Shapiro (course instructor) Institute for Earth Systems Science and Policy California State University Monterey Bay 100 Campus Center Seaside, CA 93955-8001 email: daniel_shapiro at monterey.edu phone: 408-582-3090 fax: 408-582-3057 From astrong at nesdis.noaa.gov Fri Mar 6 15:31:52 1998 From: astrong at nesdis.noaa.gov (astrong at nesdis.noaa.gov) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 15:31:52 -0500 Subject: HotSpots -- Tahiti area In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <199803062031.PAA10251@orbit8i.nesdis.noaa.gov> NOTES: HotSpots Bleaching -- 3 Mar 98 As the El Nino "warm pool" in eastern tropical Pacific finally appears to be beginning to show signs of weakening, HotSpots now appear to be on the increase in the Eastern Hemisphere. Areas seen as prime suspects for initial stages of bleaching include the southern coasts of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Also, more extensive HotSpots are continuing in the vicinity of the Seychelles. The high surface temperatures appear to have lessened a bit over the northern and central GBR. SSTs continue to increase near Tahiti and once again along the Pacific coasts of Panama and Costa Rica above the Gulf of Panama has anyone seen evidence of bleaching at any of these new locations? Posted on 3/3/98 at: http://psbsgi1.nesdis.noaa.gov:8080/PSB/EPS/SST/climohot.html AES **** <>< ******* <>< ******* <>< ******* <>< ******* <>< ******* <>< ***** Alan E. Strong Phys Scientist/Oceanographer Adj Assoc Res Professor NOAA/NESDIS/ORA/ORAD -- E/RA3 US Naval Academy NOAA Science Center -- RM 711W Oceanography Department 5200 Auth Road Annapolis, MD 21402 Camp Springs, MD 20746 410-293-6550 Alan.E.Strong at noaa.gov 301-763-8102 x170 FAX: 301-763-8108 http://manati.wwb.noaa.gov/orad From McCarty_and_Peters at compuserve.com Fri Mar 6 18:42:28 1998 From: McCarty_and_Peters at compuserve.com (Harry McCarty) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 18:42:28 -0500 Subject: The Coral Disease Page Message-ID: <199803061842_MC2-35D6-106A@compuserve.com> Harry McCarty and Esther Peters are pleased to announce the birth of a new web page! The Coral Disease Page can be found at: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mccarty_and_peters/coraldis.htm (Yes, its a long URL, but that can't be avoided. You might try copying it to the clipboard and pasting it into your browser.) After a two-year gestation and a somewhat difficult birth, parents and web page are doing fine! This site is designed to promote the exchange of information about diseases of hard or stony corals and other reef organisms. It consists of a brief introduction to diseases of coral reef ecosystems and a series of pages that discuss various diseases of hard corals, sea fans, and coralline algae that have been recognized on reefs thus far. In addition to information on specific diseases, you can use a key that allows you to identify a potential disease based on some characteristic visual signs of each disease (abnormalities in appearance, behavior, or morphology). We have also included a list of links to related sites and some ideas for what you can do to help. This site is intended to be a living document. At present, we have posted information on over a dozen known diseases. We plan to add more information as it becomes available. We will be happy to collaborate on postings of other diseases and to add links to other web sites containing related information. Fair Warning: Because detailed images are necessary to illustrate clearly the characteristics of these diseases, some of the graphics on the subsequent pages may take some time to load. We have tried hard to balance the need for detail and the size of the files. We appreciate your comments, but suggest that you send them to us directly, rather than through the coral list server. If there is sufficient interest, we will post information about updates to the site as they occur. Thanks for your time. From mking at samoa.net Sat Mar 7 19:07:46 1998 From: mking at samoa.net (Mike King) Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 13:07:46 -1100 Subject: book on tropical fisheries Message-ID: <01BD49D3.8B1E7C80@mikeking.samoa.net> Fisheries Biology, Assessment and Management 176 illustrations, 320 pages, 1995. ISBN 0 85238 223 5 Price ?25.99 Author: Michael King "I am frequently asked to recommend a textbook which will provide fisheries science students with a firm grounding in fish biology, the collection and analysis of data and its application to fisheries management. This will be it from now on!... I recommend this both as a course text to students and a technical manual to more experienced practitioners." Journal of Fish Biology "We have here a fine textbook indeed, especially useful to students in marine and fisheries biology." World Fishing "Comprehensive as well as interesting to read." Seafood International As the over-exploitation of fish stocks continues on a global scale, the need to develop and enhance skills in fisheries assessment and management becomes ever-more urgent if we are to ensure that fish remain a renewable resource providing employment and food. Fisheries Biology, Assessment and Management is a new, core text which provides essential information and expert guidance on modern methods of resources management for both temperate and tropical fisheries and is directed to students of marine science and biology and fisheries researchers, scientists, and managers. Modern catching methods are reviewed in full, analyses of fisheries resource species are provided, from invertebrates (such as sea cucumbers) to migratory fish species (such as Tuna) and, unlike other available texts, Fisheries Biology, Assessment and Management contains a large number of worked examples and numerous graphs, charts, diagrams and line drawings. This new work is destined to become the foundation text and leading reference in this vital area of fisheries science, and is one of several titles available on inspection for lecturers and course tutors wishing to evaluate textbooks for potential class use. ? Blackwell Science Ltd Order from Fishing News Books (Blackwell Scientific Publications) Oxford, UK Fax from overseas 44 865 721205 Phone 44 865 240201 (extension 2304 or 2242) From quenovib at naos.si.edu Sun Mar 8 21:52:01 1998 From: quenovib at naos.si.edu (Brice Quenoville) Date: Sun, 08 Mar 1998 21:52:01 -0500 Subject: Damselfishes of the world Message-ID: An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available Url: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/pipermail/coral-list-old/attachments/19980308/9d0be97d/attachment.pl From cnidaria at earthlink.net Mon Mar 9 07:59:29 1998 From: cnidaria at earthlink.net (James M. Cervino) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 04:59:29 -0800 (PST) Subject: Cyanide Fishing Message-ID: Dear Listers, The Global Coral Reef Alliance and the New York Zoological Society (NY Aquarium) are engaged in lab & field experiments involving the affects of cyanide on corals (host & zoox.). We are trying to reach Bob Richmond of the University of Guam for collaboration. We have very high quality slides of acroporids severly damaged and killed by cyanide use, If anyone has pictures of corals KILLED by cyanide please contact me directly. I will be glad to pay any costs involved. This practice is still being used throughout the Pacific for the aquarium, and resturant trade. We have seen reefs damaged within a short time due to this immoral method of capture. Thank you, James M. Cervino ************************************ James M. Cervino Marine Biologist Global Coral Reef Alliance 124-19 9th ave. College Point New York, N.Y. 11356 Phone/Fax-(718) 539-8155 ************************************ From coral at aoml.noaa.gov Mon Mar 9 13:13:15 1998 From: coral at aoml.noaa.gov (Coral Health and Monitoring Program) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 13:13:15 -0500 (EST) Subject: Marbio Info Message-ID: Please excuse this message if you already have this information. For those of you who have an occasional need to post information not directly related to coral research, but of interest to marine biology generally, you may gain information on subscribing to the marbio (i.e., marine biology) listserver by sending the following command to marbio at mote.org: info marbio Hope this helps. From karla at hpl.hpl.umces.edu Tue Mar 10 08:55:45 1998 From: karla at hpl.hpl.umces.edu (Karla Heidelberg) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 08:55:45 -0500 (EST) Subject: URGENT! ASLO Congressional Fellow (fwd) Message-ID: Am. Society of Limnology and Oceanography/AIBS Congressional Science Fellowship, 1998-1999 As part of its commitment to facilitate responsible, informed, and scientifically sound consideration of public policy issues, ASLO and the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) are working with AAAS to sponsor a Congressional Science Fellow. This program is designed to provide the Fellow with a unique opportunity to make practical contributions to the more effective use of aquatic science knowledge in the U.S. government, and to demonstrate the value of the aquatic sciences to society's decision-making and problem-solving. The Fellow will spend 12 months on Capitol Hill working with Members of Congress or Congressional committees as a special assistant in legislative and policy areas requiring scientific expertise. The Fellow will participate in a comprehensive orientation session in Washington in September, 1998, on the relevant congressional and executive branch operations plus a year-long seminar series on issues involving science, technology, and public policy. The Fellowship may begin immediately following the fall orientation, or it may be postponed to a January 1999 start. Reports to ASLO and AIBS during the year are expected. The annual stipend is $35,000. APPLICATION CRITERIA: Applicants must be U.S. citizens and members of ASLO in good standing with an earned doctorate or equivalent doctoral-level degree at the time of application. Application materials for the fellowship and membership information for ASLO are available from ASLO Attn. Dr. Susan Weiler Tel: 509-527-5948 weiler at whitman.edu. Completed applications must be sent directly to AIBS/ASLO CONGRESSIONAL FELLOWSHIP AIBS HQ Attn. Jodi Kolber 1444 Eye St. NW Washington, DC 20005 (jkolber at aibs.org; 202-628-1500 x253) Applications must be received by AIBS HQ absolutely no later than April 3, 1998 From sgittings at ocean.nos.noaa.gov Tue Mar 10 22:06:48 1998 From: sgittings at ocean.nos.noaa.gov (Gittings, S.) Date: 10 Mar 1998 22:06:48 -0500 Subject: Sanctuary Manager Message-ID: There are two separate job announcements open for the position of Manager of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, in the northwest Gulf of Mexico. The site, which consists of two submerged banks containing coral reefs and other tropical habitats, and a third bank containing a low diversity but highly productive coral and sponge community, is one twelve protected areas administered by NOAA's National Marine Sanctuary Program. The Flower Gardens Sanctuary Manager oversees the administrative, resource protection, education, research, and enforcement programs of the sanctuary. One of the position announcements is for non-federal employees who wish to apply (?non-status?), the other is for applicants who are currently federal employees (?status?). To apply through the ?non-status? announcement, either call USAJOBS in San Antonio, Texas at 210-805-2402 to request a copy, or use email at ?www.usajobs.opm.gov?. Refer to vacancy announcement # DS-8-06-0354-BM. Note that applications for the ?non-status? vacancy announcement should be received by OPM in San Antonio by March 27, 1998. Applications merely postmarked by 3/27/98 will not necessarily be considered. To apply through the ?status? announcement, you can go "http://www.rdc.noaa.gov", and look under job announcements in the ?300 series?. Find vacancy # H/NOS/98067.LPL. The contact is Lisa Love at 301-713-0506 x194, if you have questions or need asistance. Applications must be postmarked by March 25, 1998, and received within three work days. From coral at aoml.noaa.gov Wed Mar 11 08:33:31 1998 From: coral at aoml.noaa.gov (Coral Health and Monitoring Program) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 08:33:31 -0500 (EST) Subject: Coral Bleaching at Palolo Deep (fwd) Message-ID: Forwarded message: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 9 Mar 1998 17:27:54 -0500 From: "Daschbach, N." Subject: RE: Coral Bleaching at Palolo Deep We've also seen the same phenomenon here in American Samoa. We had a week of very low tides at midday, with long exposure to the air/sun, and air temps have been in the mid 90s F, which is very hot for Samoa (we have had record highs in the 95-96?range). Water temps are in the 30?C range and that increase (from the high 20s) has happened fairly recently. Try the NOAA El Nino site for SSTs. Nancy Daschbach Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary ________________________________________________________ Please respond to Mike King (mking at samoa.net) or to coral-list: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 13:20:18 -1100 From: Mike King Subject: Coral Bleaching A survey at Palolo Deep (a National Marine Park near Apia, Western Samoa) on 28 February revealed severe coral bleaching. Between 60 to 70% of all staghorn Acopora on the reef top was bleached. This has occurred with amazing rapidity (over a period of 5-6 days). In deeper water, all seemed well. Do you have any information on the El Nino driven plug of warm water extending over the Pacific? Best wishes, Mike King. From coral at aoml.noaa.gov Wed Mar 11 08:35:30 1998 From: coral at aoml.noaa.gov (Coral Health and Monitoring Program) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 08:35:30 -0500 (EST) Subject: Positions open in ECOSUR (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: salazar at nicte-ha.ecosur-qroo.mx (Sergio Salazar Vallejo) Subject: Positions open in ECOSUR pfarias at ecosur-qroo.mx Dear colleagues, ECOSUR is El Colegio de la Frontera Sur: it's a Federal Mexican Government research center. It has campuses in several cities in Southern Mexico like Villahermosa, Campeche, San Cristobal, Tapachula, and Chetumal. The Chetumal Unit is mainly focused to coastal ecology issues, it has some 30 full-time researchers being the second one largest in ECOSUR. Most researchers are Mexican though there are two German, one French, and one Dutch colleagues in this Unit. ECOSUR has a Graduate Program in Natural Resources Management and since last few months, it's responsible for planning a research project on the Northwestern Caribbean reefs. This is expected to be an international initiative including Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras. It's aims are to have a better integral management and to avoid some tourism-related damages in the reefal ecosystem. We hope to be able to share our experiences through workshops, intensive training and coordinated research projects. We realize we need more colleagues to cooperate in this effort. Thus, we are glad to announce we have several positions open in: Integrated Coastal Zone Management Taxonomy and Ecology of Non-commercial Benthic Crustaceans Taxonomy and Ecology of Macroalgae Taxonomy and Ecology of Coral Reefs Taxonomy and Ecology of Sponges Taxonomy and Ecology of Molluscs Interested colleagues should be fluent in Spanish and willing to succeed in a different cultural and working environment which includes pressures to publish in international journals, get extra-mural funding, and for teaching at the Graduate level. Please send me a letter of research interests including availability, e-mail codes of three recomendants, an abridged Curriculum vitae, and photocopies of: 1) Ph.D. Diploma. 2) Recent publications. 3) Documents of teaching experience. 4) Cover of thesis of your students (directed by yourself). = This call will be closed only when positions become occupated. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Sergio I. Salazar-Vallejo * * Depto. Ecolog=EDa Acu=E1tica * * ECOSUR, Apdo. Postal 424 * * Chetumal QR 77000 MEXICO * * * * Tel. (983) 21666, 20115 * * Fax (983) 20447 * * http://www.ecosur.mx * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * From coral at aoml.noaa.gov Wed Mar 11 08:36:03 1998 From: coral at aoml.noaa.gov (Coral Health and Monitoring Program) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 08:36:03 -0500 (EST) Subject: octocoral sclerites (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- To: Coral-List From: Kiho Kim Subject: octocoral sclerites Hi All, I am hoping that someone can help me track something down. I was told (or read somewhere) that in some areas, about 70% of the sediment is made up of octocoral sclerites. Does anyone know where this may have come from? Please respond to me in directly if you can help. Thanks. Kiho Kim Ecology & Systematics Cornell University From coral at aoml.noaa.gov Wed Mar 11 09:25:08 1998 From: coral at aoml.noaa.gov (Coral Health and Monitoring Program) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 09:25:08 -0500 (EST) Subject: Bleaching & Spawning Archives; Referencing Message-ID: Bleaching --------- Sorry for the delay, but the archive of all incidences of coral bleaching which have been reported through announcements to coral-list has been updated. The data files represent individual reported instances of coral bleaching, or related information. The format of the data files represent the approximate date of bleaching or of a report. For example b951006.dat would represent an incidence of bleaching on or about October 6, 1995. No claim is made as to the accuracy of these reports. For more information, contact the author of the report. Spawning -------- Unfortunately, incidences of spawning have not been reported through coral-list quite so much as for bleaching; however, those incidences have been updated in the spawning archives. I, for one, would very much like to see any posting of coral spawning which includes species, time, and any meteorological and/or oceanographic information which you can include, e.g., sea temp, salinity, phase of the tide, moon phase, etc. The same "disclaimer" as above applies for the spawning archives. Accessibility ------------- Both bleaching and spawning archives are accessible from the CHAMP Home Page at: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov under Bulletins. Referencing ----------- If you care to reference these messages in a publication, following are some links which discuss the protocols for doing this (i.e., referencing Web documents): http://www.sccu.edu/faculty/R_Harris/evalu8it.htm http://cs.art.rmit.edu.au/projects/media/hypertext/citation/web_citation.html http://www.coastal.edu/services/lib/citing.htm http://english.ttu.edu/acw/ http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~skrause/Lists.html http://falcon.eku.edu/honors/beyond-mla/ http://kalama.doe.hawaii.edu/hern95/pt035/ http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/sel/general/cite.htm http://www.beadsland.com/weapas/ http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html http://www.cc.emory.edu/WHSCL/citation.formats.html http://www.daemen.edu/services/wspace/default.html http://www.hamline.edu/library/ http://www.lafayette.edu/library/homepage.html http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/MLAStyleSheet.html http://www.lib.uconn.edu/English/ http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library/ref/ref_sty.html http://www.uvm.edu/~xli/reference/apa.html http://www.uvm.edu/~xli/reference/mla.html http://www.valpo.edu/eis/Writing_Center.html I hope this helps you in your work. Cheers, Jim Hendee NOAA's Coral Health and Monitoring Program From coral at aoml.noaa.gov Thu Mar 12 06:53:17 1998 From: coral at aoml.noaa.gov (Coral Health and Monitoring Program) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 06:53:17 -0500 (EST) Subject: ** Announcing Weekly Coral-List-Digest! ** Message-ID: For those of you who would prefer to get a weekly digest of coral-list messages, rather than each coral-list message as it is sent, I am happy to announce that Louis Florit, our Systems Engineer who originally set up and configured coral-list, has now implemented coral-list-digest for us. If you'd like to get off the regular coral-list and on to coral-list-digest, send the following text in the body of a message to majordomo at coral.aoml.noaa.gov: unsubscribe coral-list subscribe coral-list-digest You should receive something like the following message: >>>> unsubscribe coral-list Succeeded. >>>> subscribe coral-list-digest Succeeded. >>>> >>>> in addition to the new Welcome Message for Coral-List-Digest. Of course, you can remain on both lists, if you wish. Or, stay on coral-list until you're sure the digest is working for you, then unsubscribe from the regular (coral-list) list. The digest messages will be sent Fridays at midnight (EST/USA), unless there are over 55 KB worth of messages, in which event a digest will be created early, and an additional one will be sent on Friday at midnight, as well. Please note that if you are subscribed to coral-list-digest, you must either reply directly to the person who posted a message, or to coral-list, NOT to coral-list-digest (this won't work for you). There may be some difficulties at first, so we appreciate your patience in such an event. If you have any comments or questions, please do not hesitate to drop a line. Cheers, Jim Hendee coral-list administrator From d.fenner at aims.gov.au Fri Mar 13 03:35:08 1998 From: d.fenner at aims.gov.au (Doug Fenner) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 18:35:08 +1000 Subject: Coralist: fdamselfish book Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19980313183508.0069572c@email.aims.gov.au> Gerald Allen's 1991 book "Damselfishes of the world" is available at the address below (along with many other coral reef titles; they will have a new catalog out later this month): Sea Challengers Natural History Books 35 Versailles Court Danville, CA 94506 USA Phone 925 327-7750 Fax 925 736-8982 e-mail: seachalleng at earthlink.net web site up in several weeks: http://www.seachallengers.com Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB 3, Townsville MC, Qld 4810, Australia phone 61 (07) 4753 4241 email d.fenner at aims.gov.au From tvjred at tlali.iztacala.unam.mx Mon Mar 16 12:02:24 1998 From: tvjred at tlali.iztacala.unam.mx (Tovar Juarez Edgar) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 11:02:24 -0600 (CST) Subject: Biogeochemical cycles In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > Does anyone know of any recent references on: > > Biogeochemical cycles of heavy metals in coral-reef ecosystems > or Heavy Metals in Thalassia testudinium, Ulva lactuca and Aplysia dactilomela > > Please direct responses directly to Edgar Tovar at > tvjred at tlali.iztacala.unam.mx > > Thank you for any assistance you may be able to provide. > > Sincerely: > > Edgar Tovar. > > From jaapk at wins.uva.nl Tue Mar 17 03:48:22 1998 From: jaapk at wins.uva.nl (Jaap Kaandorp) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 09:48:22 +0100 (MET) Subject: PhD position at the Computational Science Centre Amsterdam Message-ID: <199803170848.JAA09620@domeweb.wins.uva.nl> PhD POSITIONS AT THE COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE CENTRE AMSTERDAM (CSA) The Computational Science Centre Amsterdam (CSA) is a joint initiative of research groups from Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Amsterdam. Within the Computational Science Centre research is being done on complex systems and processes stemming from physics, biology, chemistry, environmental - and geosciences as well as anthropogenic disciplines (engineering, finance, economics) using simulation and computational techniques. An important element within this multi-disciplinary research is the development of new computational methods and techniques which are required to make processes computable. The common characteristics of systems from various disciplines (physics, biology, chemistry etc.) contribute to a better knowledge and guarantee an optimal use of existing expertise about complex systems. At the University of Amsterdam Computational Science is a focus of new research. This joint initiative is being supported by the ``beta-cluster'' (physics, mathematics, computer science, chemistry, physical geography, and biology). The centre of activities of this interdisciplinary collaboration within computational science is at the Science-Park Watergraafsmeer in Amsterdam, where also the Academic Computing Services Amsterdam (facilities for High Performance Computing and Virtual Reality), and the NWO institutes Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, the National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High Eenergy Physics, and the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science are located. Within the CSA there are currently a number of vacancies (see for more vacancies and details http://www.beta.uva.nl/institutes/csa/): Ph.D STUDENT MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF BIOLOGICAL GROWTH PROCESSES One of the most important recent discoveries in biology are the hox genes which regulate embryonal development within the animal kingdom. In this regulation, gradients formed by diffusion of morphogens play a fundamental role. A suitable case study for the development of a simulation model of morphogenesis are metazoans with a relatively simple bodyplan, as for example sponges and stony-corals. The morphogenesis of these organisms is partly controlled by the internal genetic regulation and partly by the influence of the physical environment (for example hydrodynamics and light). The aim of this project is to develop a model of the internal genetic regulation of morphogenesis and to add this, ultimately, to an existing model of the influence of the physical environment on the morphogenesis of organisms as for example sponges and stony-corals. In these simulation models large-scale computing techniques and particle -based methods, as for example the lattice Boltzmann models to simulate diffusion and flow processes will be used. We are seeking a (mathematical / physical) biologist with experience in computer science, or computer scientists or physicists with a strong interest in biology. In this project we will cooperate with biologists from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Institute of Sea Research, and the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand. Purpose of appointment: PhD degree. Appointment is for a maximum of four years. The salary ranges from Dfl.2,151 in the first year to Dfl.3,841 in the fourth year. Employment is full-time (38 hours/week) unless otherwise stated. Part-time employment (with a minimum of 32 hours/week) is possible if supervisor agrees. A training and supervision plan will be drawn up with the PhD student, stipulating the aims and content of the proposed research project and the teaching obligations involved. There is no closing date for applications yet. Please send a letter of application, a full CV, and the names and addresses of at least two referees to the address below. For more information, please contact: Prof. dr. P.M.A. Sloot (telephone +31 20 525 7463, email: peterslo at wins.uva.nl) and/or Dr. J.A. Kaandorp (telephone +31 20 525 7539, email: jaapk at wins.uva.nl). The Computational Science Centre Amsterdam Kruislaan 403 1098 SJ Amsterdam The Netherlands telephone +31 20 525 7537 fax +31 20 525 7490 email csa at beta.uva.nl World Wide Web: http://www.beta.uva.nl/institutes/csa/ From emueller at mote.org Tue Mar 17 10:37:50 1998 From: emueller at mote.org (Erich Mueller) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 07:37:50 -0800 (PST) Subject: Pigeon Key Courses Message-ID: Apologies for any cross-postings. Final Circular - Requests for application packets must be received by March 20. 1998 Advanced Courses in Tropical Marines Sciences Mote Marine Laboratory's Pigeon Key Marine Research Center 16-23 August, 1998 The following courses are offered for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Working professionals desiring to gain current information in these topic areas are also encouraged to apply. The courses take a hands-on approach and address current issues in the respective fields. Each course will be limited to 12 students. **************************************************************************** Reproduction and Recruitment in Tropical Marine Fishes Jonathan M. Shenker, Ph.D., Florida Institute of Technology Description: This course will address topics ranging from reproductive behavior and physiology to a "larva-eye" view of the pelagic environment to broad ocean-wide processes that affect recruitment. There will be a focus on characterizing various processes as possible "bottlenecks" in the population dynamics of fish species, and the implication of these bottlenecks for fisheries management. Both general principles as well as details specific to the Florida Keys will be discussed. Larval and juvenile fishes will be sampled from pelagic habitats for taxonomic analysis, behavior observations and measurements of growth rates, including age/growth estimation through otolith analysis. Fish behavior in the field will also be observed. Experiments will be conducted to quantify nightly recruitment levels at artificial reefs deployed near Pigeon Key. Student teams will coordinate collection of different data sets for presentation at end of class. Prerequisites: College level biology courses are required. Courses in vertebrate zoology, fisheries biology, developmental biology, ecology, physical oceanography and general marine sciences will be helpful. SCUBA optional. Course cost: $750.00 *************************************************************************** Diseases of Corals and Other Reef Organisms Esther C. Peters, Ph.D., Tetra Tech, Inc. Description: During the last two decades, the potential for severe impacts to coral reef populations and communities from the effects of various diseases has been recognized. Diseases have been described affecting corals, fish, coralline algae, and sea urchins, sometimes with wide-ranging effects. This course will introduce students to the field of pathobiology of marine organisms. The focus of lectures, dives and laboratory sessions will be on diseases affecting hard corals, but information will also be presented on diseases of other reef organisms.Methods of studying diseases will include collection of field monitoring data and physiological, histological and microbiological techniques. The course will provide students with a state-of-the-art overview of reef pathobiology, experience with relevant techniques, and an understanding of the need for a multidisciplinary approach to its study. Prerequisites: College level biology courses and SCUBA certification are required. Courses in invertebrate zoology, microbiology, ecology, chemistry, biochemistry, physiology, histology or marine sciences will be helpful. Course cost: $800.00. ************************************************************************** Credit The PKMRC is not offering credit through any institution. However, the PKMRC and instructors will work with the students' institutions to provide credit if possible (through directed studies, research courses, etc.). The student, or institutional representative, should then let the instructor know what requirements are necessary. For example, credit-seeking students may have to write a paper or take an exam. This approach allows us to keep our costs down and eliminate any potential dificulties with transfer of credit. Costs The course fee includes all course materials, accommodations (in the newly-restored, historic dormitory), all meals (dinner, 8/16 through breakfast on 8/23), SCUBA costs and weights. Participants should provide mask, fins and snorkel and, if diving, their own regulator, BCD and weight belt. Use of SCUBA equipment requires completion of additional forms, medical clearance and acceptance by the Mote Marine Laboratory Diving Safety Officer. Key Dates 20 March, 1998 - Application receipt deadline. 3 April, 1998 - Acceptance packets mailed out. 1 May, 1998 - Deposits due. 12 June, 1998 - Last day to request refunds. 31 July, 1998 - Balance and dive forms due. 16 August, 1998 - Courses start. For more information and application materials, contact: <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Erich Mueller, Ph.D., Director Phone: (305) 289-4282 Mote Marine Laboratory FAX: (305) 289-9664 Pigeon Key Marine Research Center Email: emueller at mote.org P.O. Box 500895 Marathon, FL 33050 Web pages: http://www.mote.org/~emueller/pkmrc.html http://www.mote.org Remarks are personal opinion and do not reflect institutional policy unless so indicated. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> From coral at aoml.noaa.gov Tue Mar 17 08:15:39 1998 From: coral at aoml.noaa.gov (Coral Health and Monitoring Program) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 08:15:39 -0500 (EST) Subject: Satellite Imagery Advisory (fwd) Message-ID: Forwarded message. This might be of use in local studies of coral reefs threatened by other environmental events: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3/12/98 CONTACT: Patricia Viets, NOAA (301) 457-5005 MEDIA ADVISORY NOAA PLACES IMAGERY OF SIGNIFICANT ENVIRONMENTAL EVENTS ON LINE The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has placed satellite imagery of significant environmental events from around the world on line. The imagery is suitable for illustrating news and feature stories. Captions and explanations are included. The events that are monitored regularly are: fires, volcanoes, tropical storms, floods, oil spills, and snow and ice. The following report is an example of the imagery that is available each day: Significant events identified by Satellite Analysis Branch meteorologists and reviewed by the Operational Significant Event Imagery team on Thursday, March 12, 1998, are as follows: Fires - The smoky conditions in Borneo appear to be improving in this GMS image. The smoke, which was very dense this time yesterday, is much lighter now. A smoky haze is still visible extending from eastern Borneo southeastward into the Java Sea and more can be seen moving northeast from the same position. The second image in this series is significant because of what it doesn't show. AVHRR Channel 3, which generally detects hot spots on the surface quite well, seems to indicate the absence of any concentrated heat sources in eastern Borneo. There are a few scattered spots in the region and a few more somewhat concentrated spots in Malaysia, but nothing compared to the past weeks. Multichannel color and single channel imagery was processed and posted to: http://duc9.wwb.noaa.gov/SPECIAL/FIRES/FSMind071.gif http://duc9.wwb.noaa.gov/SPECIAL/FIRES/FSHind071.gif Fires in Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil show up well as hot spots in this AVHRR Channel 3 image. There is a concentrated area of fires in western Venezuela and scattered ones throughout northeast Columbia. Single channel imagery was processed and posted to: http://duc9.wwb.noaa.gov/SPECIAL/FIRES/FHSbrz071.gif Something of a mystery in these AVHRR and TOMS (Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer) images. A large cloud can be seen extending from Southeast Asia well into the South China Sea. After some analysis we suggest that it is probably smoke from fires in Vietnam and Laos. The phenomenon shows up extremely well on the TOMS imagery which measures the concentration of particles in the air. Corresponding hot spots were seen in Laos and Vietnam indicating fires on the surface. This feature has been persisting for a few days. Multichannel color imagery was processed and posted to: http://duc9.wwb.noaa.gov/SPECIAL/FIRES/FSMseasia071.gif Snow and Ice - California braces for yet another powerful storm in this GOES-9 image. The spiral of low pressure is off the Oregon coast but heavy clouds are already moving in to California. More rain is certainly not welcome as the ground is still saturated from past storms. Multichannel color imagery was processed and posted to: http:/duc9.wwb.noaa.gov/SPECIAL/SNOW/STMwest071.gif Editors: If you wish to receive a daily summary of these events by e-mail, please notify: pviets at nesdis.noaa.gov ### From joshua at polaris.acast.nova.edu Tue Mar 17 14:51:25 1998 From: joshua at polaris.acast.nova.edu (Joshua Feingold) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 14:51:25 -0500 Subject: Caribbean Reef Fish Images In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19980317145125.00effe08@pop.nova.edu> Hello, Our department is putting together a web page and I would like to include an image of an attractive Caribbean reef fish. We can even get fancy and include a brief video segment of a fish swimming across the page. In particular we would like to have an image or sequence of the fish in profile. Parrotfish, damsels, angels would all be likely candidates. If you can be of assitance, please contact me directly. Thanks! Joshua Feingold Department of Math, Science and Technology / Oceanographic Center Nova Southeastern University Fort Lauderdale, Florida (954) 262-8307 From d.fenner at aims.gov.au Wed Mar 18 22:02:28 1998 From: d.fenner at aims.gov.au (Doug Fenner) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 13:02:28 +1000 Subject: coralist: black band Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19980319130228.006a2c20@email.aims.gov.au> During a Conservation International rapid assessment survey in the north Palawan area of the Philippines in February 1998, black band disease was observed on 4 species of corals at 4 sites as follows: All sites are in the Calamaian Group of islands north of Palawan Is.: 1 colony of Pachyseris gemmae at the West side of Gutob Penninsula 12 deg 11.74' N, 119 deg 51.59' E 1 colony of Turbinaria mesenterina on the SE tip of Galoc Is. 11 deg 56.62' N, 119 deg 49.20' E 2 colonies of Montipora florida at south arm, Halsey Harbor 11 deg 44.07' N, 119 deg 57.03' E Montipora aequituburculata at Twin Peak islands, W. Coron Is. 11 deg 57.40' N, 120 deg 12.57' E black band had been observed previously near the first site listed. Douglas Fenner, Coral Taxonomist Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB 3, Townsville MC, Qld 4810, Australia phone 61 (07) 4753 4241 email d.fenner at aims.gov.au From rutc at pbaru.wasantara.net.id Thu Mar 19 03:05:04 1998 From: rutc at pbaru.wasantara.net.id (Training Centre) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 15:05:04 +0700 Subject: Underwater Exhibition Message-ID: <66A901D57DF@PBARU.WASANTARA.NET.ID> Dear Coral Netters In order to comemorate and celebrate the International Year of Ocean 1998 and The National Environment Day 1998, we are The Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project Team (COREMAP) First Level Regional Development and Planning Board of Riau Province Indoensia will conduct the underwater Panorama Exhibition wiyh sympatic themes " Monetary Crisis is Not Reason To Forget Nature Conservation" , in Pekanbaru, next June 1998. The exhibition will present the underwater living such as coral reef, seagrass, fish etc So we will invite the dive shop and diving service to support the activities. In ordr to riches the materials that will be presented to the community, we nee help to send your literature, or others such as Photos, Posters, Compact Disc and Video about underwater living. And another sources that be able to provide material we need as well. Hope you read this message, and dicide something to help us. Thank's for your attention Your sincerely WIJAYANTO Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project (COREMAP) First Level Regional Development and Planning Board of Riau Province Jln Cut Nya' Dhien Pekanbaru - Riau Sumatera - Indonesia Phone ; 62-761-36031 Fax ; 62-761 36035 e-mail : crmpriau at pbaru.wasantara.net.id rutc at pbaru.wasantara.net.id From morelock at coqui.net Fri Mar 20 07:17:45 1998 From: morelock at coqui.net (jack morelock) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 08:17:45 -0400 Subject: uw housing for digital camera Message-ID: <35125E69.30FB50C0@coqui.net> I want to use the Olympus D 600L digital camera for coral studies. I am looking for an underwater housing for this camera; does anyone know a manufacturer or dealer that would have a suitable housing. depths of use will be up to 150 feet. reply to morelock at coqui.net jack morelock univ. puerto rico From coral at aoml.noaa.gov Mon Mar 23 09:07:36 1998 From: coral at aoml.noaa.gov (Coral Health and Monitoring Program) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 09:07:36 -0500 (EST) Subject: Welcome Message repeated Message-ID: For those of you who have deleted the original Welcome Message, it is repeated here for your benefit, in case you need to refer to it. Please note the sections on subscribing, unsubscribing and the new coral-list-digest, which is sent once a week (usually) and contains all the previous week's messages. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Welcome to the Coral Health and Monitoring List-Server! 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Sincerely yours, Jim Hendee Louis Florit Philippe Dubosq Ocean Chemistry Division Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 4301 Rickenbacker Causeway Miami, FL 33149-1026 USA From MERPM at aol.com Mon Mar 23 13:21:58 1998 From: MERPM at aol.com (MERPM) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 13:21:58 EST Subject: Information about marbio (the marine biology list) Message-ID: <483eee48.3516a847@aol.com> To all: Someone announced, through coral-l, that it is possible to get information about marbio by sending the message "info marbio" to marbio at mote.org. The message to send was correct as given but the address was wrong. If you are interested in marbio please send the message "info marbio" (without quotes) to . If you send it to the wrong address it just ends up in my bounced mail file. Marbio is an unmoderated list but we do have filters in place to cut down on spamming, etc. Thanks, Mike Marshall marbio list owner From coral at aoml.noaa.gov Wed Mar 25 07:27:16 1998 From: coral at aoml.noaa.gov (Coral Health and Monitoring Program) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 07:27:16 -0500 (EST) Subject: Proceedings of the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium Message-ID: Forwarded message: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 15:03:55 -0500 From: Harilaos Lessios To: coral-list Subject: Proceedings of the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium Allen Press, which mailed the Proceedings of the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium last November, has had some packages returned because people were no longer at the addresses they had back in 1996. The list of the returned packages is at the end of this message. If you are one of these people, or if you have an address for them, please let me know. Thanks ************************************** H.A. Lessios Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Unit 0948 APO AA 34002-0948 Tel: +507/228-4022 x 3308 Fax: +507/228-0672 *************************************** Returned packages: S. L. Anthony Department of Zoology University of Texas Austin TX 78712 USA Marianne Corless Bellairs Research Institute of McGill University Holetown St. James BARBADOS Leanne Fernandes Program on Environment East West Center 1777 East West Rd. Honolulu, HI 96848 USA Beatriz Fleury Grosso Central Queensland University Rockhampton QLD 4702 AUSTRALIA Diana Sofia Herazo Cardenas INPA Centro Comercial Getsemani Calle 30 N #8b-74, Local 1A 41-44 Cartagena Bolivar Zona 1-104 COLOMBIA David Kline Carleton College 300 North College St Northfield, MN 55057 USA Martin Kuhrau Zoologisches Institut Universitat Koln Weyertal 119 Koln N D-50923 GERMANY Supin Pfautsch East-West Center EWC Box 1142 1777 East-West Rd. Honolulu, HI 96848 USA Brice Semmens Texas A&M University 1001 Harvey #68 College Station, TX 77840 USA Sascha Steiner The School for Field Studies Center for Marine Resource Studies P.O. Box 22750 Ft. Lauderdale FL 3335 USA Florence Thomas University of Hawaii 1325 Wilder Ave. 19 Makai Honolulu HI 96822 USA From tsocci at usgcrp.gov Wed Mar 25 14:46:55 1998 From: tsocci at usgcrp.gov (Tony Socci) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 14:46:55 -0500 Subject: March 30th U.S. Global Change Seminar: "Origin, Incidence, and Implications of Amazon Fires" Message-ID: U.S. Global Change Research Program Seminar Series Origin, Incidence, and Implications of Amazon Fires What are the past, present, and projected rates of Amazonian deforestation? What are the principal forces driving deforestation? What role do fires play in the deforestation of the Amazon? Which parts of the Amazon are experiencing arid conditions leading to fires? What are the ecological and social risks of deforestation, now and in the future? How do management practices affect the health of the Amazon? What role do climate variations (i.e., El Nino cycles) play in maintaining the health of the Amazon? Public Invited Monday, March 30, 1998, 3:15-4:45 PM New Location: Dirksen Senate Office Bldg., Room 562, Washington, DC Reception Following INTRODUCTION Dr. William T. Sommers, Director of Vegetation Management and Protection Research, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service, Washington, DC SPEAKERS Dr. Daniel Nepstad, Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, MA Dr. Compton J. Tucker, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics, Greenbelt, MD OVERVIEW More than 12% of the 2-million square miles of Brazilian Amazonian forest has been deforested, and converted to crop- and pastureland. In 1995 alone, an area of forest the size of Maryland was cleared and burned. In addition to this most extreme form of forest alteration, large areas of Amazonian forest have been selectively logged or burned beneath the canopy, beyond the view of deforestation mapping exercises. Both deforestation and forest impoverishment through logging and ground fire greatly increase the incidence of fire in Amazonia, because these land-use activities replace the tall, dense, naturally-resistant virgin forests with agricultural lands and degraded forests that are highly flammable. During the seasonal drought that affects half of Amazonia, many of these flammable ecosystems burn. When seasonal drought is very severe, such as during the El Nino event of 1997/98, even virgin forests become more vulnerable to the ravages of fire. Hence, a significant portion of the northern Amazonian state of Roraima has burned in the 97/98 dry season, and continues to burn now, in March. On a broader scale, the NOAA satellite detected 50% more Amazonian fires in 1997 than in 1996. Tropical forests also store large amounts of CO-2, and therefore, play a key role in regulating the world's climate. Mostly as a result of deforestation, Brazil now accounts for nearly 10% of the world's greenhouse gases being emitted into the atmosphere, an amount comparable to many developed countries. Burning half the Amazon, for example, would release roughly 35 billion tons of CO-2 into the atmosphere, the equivalent of approximately 6 years' worth of greenhouse gas emissions for the entire world. Unfortunately, as a result of land-use influences and practices, much of the Amazon is also losing its natural capacity to protect itself from fires, as well as losing its capacity to store carbon and, therefore, limit future climate warming. Has the Rate of Deforestation in the Amazon Increased? Yes. The deforestation rates for the Brazilian Amazon that were recently released by the Brazilian Space Research Institute (Instituto Brasileiro de Pesquisas Espaciais - INPE) show that the area of forest cut and burned nearly doubled from 1994 (15,000 square km) to 1995 (29,000 square km). In 1996, the rate declined again, to 18,000 square km, and early analysis indicates that 1997 rates of deforestation were comparable to 1994 rates. These deforestation rates are much higher however, than the rates reported in 1992, when only 11,000 square km of forest were cleared each year. Do These Deforestation Rates Provide an Accurate Description of Human Impacts on Amazonian Forests? The INPE deforestation monitoring program provides the most reliable estimate of the areal extent of forest conversion to agriculture and ranchland in the Brazilian Amazon, which is the most extreme form of forest conversion. However, these estimates do not include alterations of the forest through selective timber harvest and forest groundfire. These land-use activities impoverish the forest by killing trees and animals, by releasing carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, and by rendering the forest more vulnerable to fire. Studies conducted in the field indicate that the area of forest altered by timber harvest and ground fire may be similar in size to the area that is deforested during some years. What is Burning in Amazonia in Addition to Forests? The Amazon Institute of Environmental Research (Instituto de Pesquisas Ambientais da Amazonia - IPAM) and the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) conducted a field survey in 1996 of five regions in the Brazilian Amazon where intensive deforestation and logging have taken place. This study provides the first detailed analysis of types of burning that are taking place in the region. This study indicates that the area of an average property burned each year ranged from 5% (properties less than 5000 hectares) to 19% (properties greater than 100 hectares) in 1994 and 1995. Deforestation - the outright cutting and burning of mature forest - was responsible, on average, for only 16% of the total burned area, while 73% percent of the burning is on land that is already deforested and supports pastures, secondary fallow forests, and other types of non-forest vegetation. Eleven percent of the burning is beneath the canopy of standing forests. This last type of burning, which is called forest ground fire, is difficult to monitor using satellites. During years of intense drought the areal extent of forest ground fire generally increases dramatically. What are the Major Ecological Risks Associated with the Burning and Deforestation of the Amazon? The virgin forests of Amazonia currently act as giant firebreaks through the landscape, preventing the spread of fires ignited in pastures and agricultural clearings. If virgin forests lose this fire break function, then large Amazonian landscapes will burn periodically, killing fire-sensitive plants and animals, reducing the amount of biomass stored in these forests by 10% to 80%, and reducing the amount of water pumped into the atmosphere - moisture that is necessary to maintain the water and rainfall cycles. In addition to losing forest cover, fire also destroys timber and other "useful" plants such as vines (for construction), medicinal plants, and fruit trees. Each time a forest burns, it becomes more susceptible to future burning because trees are killed and fuel is introduced to the forest floor. The major risk from fire is therefore the conversion of large areas of dense Amazonian forest into savanna-like scrub forest. What are the Causes of Forest Ground Fires within the Amazon? Both logging and drought are increasing the flammability of Amazonian forests. Each year, an area of Amazonian forest is logged that is similar in size to the area that is deforested (Source: IMAZON). Logging increases the flammability of these forests by opening up the leaf canopy, allowing sunlight to penetrate to the fuel layer on the ground, and by increasing the fuel load through the production of woody debris. Even virgin forests become flammable when drought is severe. Most forests in eastern and southern Amazonia (half of the 2 million square miles of closed canopy forest in Brazilian Amazonia) are subject to severe dry seasons each year, but grow on deep clay soils that store water which trees can tap during dry seasons to avoid drought-induced leaf shedding. These forests are at the "edge" of the rainfall regime that is necessary for them to be forests, and to resist fire, and are very sensitive to slight reductions in rainfall. Droughts in Amazonia are most severe during El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events, and El Nino's appear to be increasing in frequency and intensity. The most intense El Nino in recorded history is taking place right now. Are There Ways to Reduce the Risk of Fires? One of the most promising approaches to reducing fires is to prevent or drastically reduce the number of accidental fires. Half of the area burned in 1994 and 1995 resulted from accidental fires. Accidental fires resulted in very large financial losses and extensive environmental damage. For example, in well-managed cattle pastures, cattle cannot be grazed on burned pastures until 2 or 3 months into the rainy season. Fires have damaged fences, killed livestock, burned fruit trees, and threatened human health. The owners of large ranches (greater than 1000 hectares) in Amazonia invest an average of more than $2000/year in bulldozing fire breaks to prevent their pastures and forests from catching fire. Accidental fires cost these ranchers more than $5000/year in lost grazing and damaged fences. The owners of small properties (less than 100 hectares) incur proportionate costs associated with accidental fire. The 9000-hectare Del Rei community, in eastern Amazonia, has come up with a very promising local approach to the prevention of accidental fire. This farm community has implemented its own fire ordinance, which requires community members to: (1) use fire breaks before they burn in preparation for agriculture, (2) tell neighbors when they are burning their agricultural plots, and (3) compensate those neighbors who suffer losses because of their fires. Reductions in the occurrence of accidental fires can be achieved through good communication between neighboring landholders and through local forms of governance. Biographies Dr. Daniel Nepstad is a tropical forest ecologist specializing in the effects of drought on Amazon forests, and in forest recovery following land abandonment . He has been a scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center since 1990. In 1995, he co-founded the Amazon Institute of Environmental Studies (Instituto de Pesquisas Ambientais da Amazonia) based in Belem, Brazil, which is now the largest non-governmental research institution in Amazonia. Dr. Nepstad has also been conducting field research in Amazonia since 1984, and during that time, has documented the precarious water balance of vast areas of Amazonian forest. His current research efforts are focused on the prediction of fire risk in Amazonia, including the rainfall regime at which Amazon forests become vulnerable to fire, and the land-use patterns that are most likely to ignite fire-prone forests. Dr. Nepstad and his colleagues are also engaged in identifying possible solutions to the problem of Amazon burning, through research with farm communities and ranchers, and through dialogue with government policy-makers in Brazil. In recognition and support of this application of science to public affairs in Brazil, Dr. Nepstad was awarded a Pew Fellowship in Conservation and the Environment in 1994. Dr. Nepstad has a Ph.D. degree from Yale University, CT, an M.S. degree from Michigan State University, MI, and a B.A. degree from Kalamazoo College, MI. Dr. Compton Tucker first came to the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center in 1975 as a National Academy of Sciences post-doctoral fellow, and later joined NASA as a scientist in 1977. From 1975-1980 he concentrated on data collection and analyses using spectrometer data and hand-held radiometers. Since 1980, Dr. Tucker has used NOAA and Landsat satellite data for studying vegetation dynamics including deforestation, desert boundary determination, and terrestrial primary production He is presently working on describing African and Asian arid and semi-arid vegetation dynamics using daily satellite data from 1981-1998; continuing work on deforestation and habitat fragmentation in the Amazon; studying the relationship between precipitation and grassland production in the Sahelian Zone of Africa; and studying higher northern latitude photosynthetic increases from 1981-1998. Dr. Tucker received his B.S. degree in biological science in 1969 from Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, CO. He later received an M.S. Degree (1973) and a Ph.D. degree (1975) from the Colorado State University's College of Forestry. The Next Seminar is scheduled for Monday, April 20, 1998 Tentative Topic: Recent Developments in Modeling the Impacts of Aerosols on Climate For more information please contact: Anthony D. Socci, Ph.D., U.S. Global Change Research Program Office, 400 Virginia Ave. SW, Suite 750, Washington, DC 20024; Telephone: (202) 314-2235; Fax: (202) 488-8681 E-Mail: TSOCCI at 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. A complete archive of seminar summaries is also maintained at this site. Normally these seminars are held on the second Monday of each month. From cleoduss at impsat.net.co Wed Mar 25 21:51:00 1998 From: cleoduss at impsat.net.co (Claudia Pamela Osorio Dussan) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 21:51:00 -0500 Subject: artificial reef Message-ID: <01BD5838.1D33F880@a0-76.impsat.com.co> Dear coral-list I would like to know some experience, beneficit, impacts about artificial reefs coral. It will be made with six old airplane made in aluminium, iron and fiver glass. Thanks for your comments please replay cleoduss at impsat.net.co From carlson at soest.hawaii.edu Wed Mar 25 22:34:44 1998 From: carlson at soest.hawaii.edu (Bruce Carlson) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 17:34:44 -1000 (HST) Subject: artificial reef In-Reply-To: <01BD5838.1D33F880@a0-76.impsat.com.co> Message-ID: Claudia, We had some real problems with airplanes used as artificial reefs here in Hawaii. A major storm rolled through here a few years ago and ripped the planes to shreds scattering pieces of metal over a wide area of reef. The planes were in fairly deep water (70' - 100' as I recall). I would NOT recommend sinking planes as artificial reefs. Bruce Carlson Waikiki Aquarium ******************************** On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Claudia Pamela Osorio Dussan wrote: > Dear coral-list > I would like to know some experience, beneficit, impacts about artificial reefs coral. > It will be made with six old airplane made in aluminium, iron and fiver glass. > > Thanks for your comments > please replay cleoduss at impsat.net.co > > From fisheries at fisheries.org Thu Mar 26 15:40:47 1998 From: fisheries at fisheries.org (American Fisheries Society) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:40:47 -0500 Subject: American Fisheries Society Meeting Message-ID: <2.2.32.19980326204047.0067d18c@mail.fisheries.org> For more information contact: Betsy Fritz, AFS 301/897-8616, ext. 212; bfritz at fisheries.org or visit http://www.esd.ornl.gov/societies/AFS/annual98/index.html. AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY MEETING WILL EXAMINE THE FUTURE OF FISHERIES SCIENCE More than 1,200 fisheries professionals from around the world are expected to attend the American Fisheries Society (AFS) annual meeting 23-27 August 1998 at the Hartford Civic Center and Sheraton Hotel in Hartford, Connecticut. Scientific presentations and plenary speakers will explore the theme, "Challenges for the New Millennium: Shaping the Future of Fisheries Science and the Fisheries Profession." The meeting organizers--the CT Dept of Environmental Protection, Northeast Utilities , AFS Southern New england chapter, Riverfront Recapture, CT Sea Grant, and the Greater Hartford Convention and Visitors Bureau --invite you to Hartford for a great meeting. The technical program includes: the biology and management of American eel the history of the fish and fisheries of the CT River the implications of the Essential Fish Habitat clause of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery conservation and Management Act the use of watershed analysis in fisheries management new outreach tools for the fishery scientist the role of stock identification in stock assessment and management. Investigate the sustainability of salmon fisheries the biology and conservation of sturgeon law enforcement in fisheries management the role of wetlands in fisheries management new quantitative methods for fisheries stock assessment the biological integrity of fish habitat climate change and freshwater fish habitat new technologies for fisheries assessments cooperative angler tagging programs Two technical tours will highlight innovative fisheries research in the local area. Examine the CT River fish passage facilities and the Conte Anadromous Fish Lab Interact with scientists developing aquaculture methods and conducting habitat related research at the NMFS Milford Lab For regular updates on the meeting, please access the AFS World Wide Web site: http://www.esd.ornl.gov/societies/AFS/annual98/index.html. ### Based in Bethesda, Maryland, the AFS is an international society of fisheries professionals interesting in conserving and managing fisheries resources in North America and throughout the world. From cbingman at netcom.com Thu Mar 26 22:09:03 1998 From: cbingman at netcom.com (Craig Bingman) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 19:09:03 -0800 (PST) Subject: artificial reef In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Bruce Carlson wrote: > We had some real problems with airplanes used as artificial reefs here in > Hawaii. > > A major storm rolled through here a few years ago and ripped the planes to > shreds scattering pieces of metal over a wide area of reef. The planes > were in fairly deep water (70' - 100' as I recall). > > I would NOT recommend sinking planes as artificial reefs. Planes are primarily composed of aluminum alloys. They are not stable against long-term immersion in salt water. For that matter, aerospace alumminum alloys are not stable to the amount of salt spray that KSC gets from the ocean. The only rockets that survive there without frequent painting and care are the Atlas boosters, which are made of stainless steel. Even without a storm, the planes will eventually disintegrate. The only part that has a chance of long-term survival in a submerged marine environment is the fiberglass. The aluminum and the iron are toast. Craig From steve-lintech at worldnet.att.net Fri Mar 27 09:07:44 1998 From: steve-lintech at worldnet.att.net (Steve Gordon) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 09:07:44 -0500 Subject: artificial reef References: Message-ID: <351BB2AF.43220A54@worldnet.att.net> Bruce Carlson wrote: > Claudia, > also check with the south florida artificial reef program The sank a large boeing plane inside of Biscayne bay and I believe also had problems with this structure moving durring storm periods Steve Gordon From coral at aoml.noaa.gov Fri Mar 27 12:52:08 1998 From: coral at aoml.noaa.gov (Coral Health and Monitoring Program) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 12:52:08 -0500 (EST) Subject: artificial reef - Reply (fwd) Message-ID: >From Walt Jaap: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 12:07:19 -0400 (EDT) From: "Walt, Jaap" To: OWNER-CORAL-LIST at aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: artificial reef - Reply I agree that aircraft are not a good material for artificial reefs; however, the truth is the intersection of independent lies (Bradbury, 1977). If you have the oppotunity to visit Truck Lagoon, be sure to dive on the several Japanese aircraft that are found in 30 ft depths around the lagoon. I was rather amazed that they were intact and looking good considering the time that has past since they ended up in the sea (1944). There was not much sign of corrosion on the metal. From cbingman at netcom.com Fri Mar 27 21:59:40 1998 From: cbingman at netcom.com (Craig Bingman) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 18:59:40 -0800 (PST) Subject: artificial reef - Reply (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Coral Health and Monitoring Program wrote: You proceed from false assumptions. The materials and alloys used in present aircraft construction have little to do with those used circa 1940. Craig > > >From Walt Jaap: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 12:07:19 -0400 (EDT) > From: "Walt, Jaap" > To: OWNER-CORAL-LIST at aoml.noaa.gov > Subject: Re: artificial reef - Reply > > > I agree that aircraft are not a good material for artificial reefs; > however, the truth is the intersection of independent lies (Bradbury, > 1977). If you have the oppotunity to visit Truck Lagoon, be sure to > dive on the several Japanese aircraft that are found in 30 ft depths > around the lagoon. I was rather amazed that they were intact and > looking good considering the time that has past since they ended up > in the sea (1944). There was not much sign of corrosion on the > metal. > > From d.fenner at aims.gov.au Sat Mar 28 23:07:15 1998 From: d.fenner at aims.gov.au (Doug Fenner) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 14:07:15 +1000 Subject: coralist: bleaching on GBR Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19980329140715.006a7f08@email.aims.gov.au> Coralist members, There is a major bleaching event currently on the Great Barrier Reef. For more information, check the Australian Institute of Marine Science web site at http://www.aims.gov.au Click on "News", then find the releases for 27 Feb and 12 March. If you have any questions or comments, please contact those who are listed there or Terry Done at t.done at aims.gov.au Do not reply to this message, as I have no further information. -Doug Douglas Fenner, Coral Taxonomist Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB 3, Townsville MC, Qld 4810, Australia phone 61 (07) 4753 4241 email d.fenner at aims.gov.au From dbucher at scu.edu.au Sun Mar 29 19:28:40 1998 From: dbucher at scu.edu.au (Daniel Bucher) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 11:28:40 +1100 Subject: bleaching on GBR (and beyond) Message-ID: Dear coral listers, Further to Doug Fenner's notice of bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef, I would like to add that the present bleaching event extends well south of the GBR into coral communities in Northern New South Wales (at least to Byron Bay, Lat.28?37'S), affecting mostly Pocillopora damicornis in waters to 15m deep. Water temperatures were recorded around 28?C and unconfirmed reports from commercial fishermen suggest temperatures over 30?C further offshore (temperatures in the low to mid twenties are the norm at this time of year). Regards, Danny >Coralist members, > There is a major bleaching event currently on the Great Barrier Reef. >For more information, check the Australian Institute of Marine Science web >site at http://www.aims.gov.au Click on "News", then find the releases >for 27 Feb and 12 March. If you have any questions or comments, please >contact those who are listed there or Terry Done at t.done at aims.gov.au Do >not reply to this message, as I have no further information. -Doug >Douglas Fenner, Coral Taxonomist >Australian Institute of Marine Science, >PMB 3, >Townsville MC, Qld 4810, >Australia >phone 61 (07) 4753 4241 >email d.fenner at aims.gov.au ----------------------------------------------- * * * + DANIEL BUCHER * Associate Lecturer in Biology/Ecology/Marine Biology Centre for Coastal Management SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY P.O. Box 157, Lismore, N.S.W. Australia, 2480 Phone: +61 +2 6620 3665 Fax: +61 +2 6621 2669 E-mail: dbucher at scu.edu.au web page at: http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff_pages/dbucher ------------------------------------------------- From joshua at polaris.acast.nova.edu Mon Mar 30 06:57:49 1998 From: joshua at polaris.acast.nova.edu (JOSHUA Feingold) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 06:57:49 -0500 (EST) Subject: Coral Bleaching in the Galapagos Islands In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980329140715.006a7f08@email.aims.gov.au> Message-ID: Dear List Members, Here's an update to Dr. Wellington's report from December. On a recent trip to the Galapagos archipelago Andrew Baker and I observed extensive coral bleaching. One benefit was that it was extremely easy to see scattered colonies on the dark basalt backgrounds, making swimming surveys as comprehensive as I have ever experienced. Nearly all corals were bleached to some extent. The most strongly affected species was Porites lobata followed by Pavona clavus, Pavona gigantea and Pavona varians. Other affected species included Psammocora stellata, Diaseris distorta and Cycloseris curvata. Interestingly, the genus most impacted during the 1982-83 ENSO, Pocillopora, seems to be faring quite well. Many Pocillopora colonies exhibited normal pigmentation, while others showed variable amounts of pigmentation loss. In other genera, many colonies exhibited pigment loss on their tops with some pigmented tissues still present along their flanks and in shaded portions. Psammocora exhibited a range of pigment loss, and was one of the few genera to show distinctive paling. Some Diaseris individuals (at 15m depth) were completely bleached, but many still had pigment remnants in tissues btween septae. Most Cycloseris individuals had relatively normal looking tissues on their flanks. Bleached corals were observed in water depths ranging from the surface to 30m. However, bleaching was more extensive in corals shallower than 10-15m depth. A follow-up trip is planned for May. Sincerely, Joshua Feingold Department of Math, Science and Technology / Oceanographic Center Nova Southeastern University Fort Lauderdale, Florida joshua at polaris.acast.nova.edu From reefnet at cerf.net Tue Mar 31 13:27:41 1998 From: reefnet at cerf.net (reefnet at cerf.net) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 10:27:41 -0800 (PST) Subject: Jim Hendee's 50th Message-ID: Dear Coral List, please send this message or your own on to our friend Jim at: hendee at aoml.noaa.gov Happy Birthday Jim! Sorry we missed it by one day. Thanks for all your good work. Grateful Coral-Listers From iclarm at caribsurf.com Tue Mar 31 13:28:33 1998 From: iclarm at caribsurf.com (ICLARM CEPO) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 14:28:33 -0400 Subject: Reef Encounter - call for contributions Message-ID: <19980331195024234.AAA56.301@default> REEF ENCOUNTER No. 23 NEWSLETTER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR REEF STUDIES CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Dear all, We are currently looking for articles for the next issue of Reef Encounter. We would welcome contributions from a few hundred words to a couple of pages on any aspect of reef studies, including news, comments, short reviews (but not original scientific data) and especially illustrations/cartoons. Our deadline is 1st May and text sent by email is strongly preferred. You can also send illustrations (and text if desired) to the address at the end of this message. Please email your articles to one of us at: Maggie Watson, iclarm at caribsurf.com David Obura, dobura at africaonline.co.ke If you are interested in joining the International Society for Reef Studies and receiving Reef Encounter please contact Callum Roberts, cr10 at york.ac.uk Thanks, Maggie, David and Kristian ____________________________________________ ICLARM Caribbean/Eastern Pacific Office, c/o Conservation and Fisheries Department, P.O. Box 3323, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands. Tel.:1-284-494 5681(office hours) or 1-284-496 6055 (mobile - any time) Fax: 1-284-494 2670 e-mail: iclarm at caribsurf.com ============================================ From SANTAVY.DEBBIE at EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV Tue Mar 31 17:12:22 1998 From: SANTAVY.DEBBIE at EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV (DEBBIE SANTAVY) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 16:12:22 -0600 Subject: EPA Post Doctoral Position at Gulf Breeze Message-ID: An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available Url: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/pipermail/coral-list-old/attachments/19980331/a0e3606d/attachment.pl From g.reinicke at uni-essen.de Mon Mar 30 10:15:03 1998 From: g.reinicke at uni-essen.de (Dr. G=F6tz B. Reinicke) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 16:15:03 +0100 Subject: Bleaching in Alcyonaceans ? Message-ID: <199804011533.PAA00065@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Dear list members and bleaching observers, Has anyone of you observed Bleaching in Alcyonacean (soft and gorgonian corals) during the various recent events reported ? I haven't noticed any mention in the reports on the list during last 2 years. The only note in my hand is P. Glynn's (1993) report in Coral Reefs 12: 1-18, showing a photograph of bleached Erythropodium caribaeorum from Florida. However, many of the reef dwelling alcyonacean species are in fact zooxanthellate, many soft corals in particular. No Bleaching observed or reported to date from the Indo-Pacific ? Does it mean that it doesn't occur ? Or does it reflect limited attention payed to this group ? Goetz Reinicke -- Dr. Goetz B. Reinicke University of Essen Institute for Ecology - Hydrobiology D - 45117 ESSEN, GERMANY e-mail: g.reinicke at uni-essen.de Phone: ++49 +201 183 3084 Fax: ++49 +201 183 2529 =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 From crmpriau at pbaru.wasantara.net.id Wed Mar 18 23:09:23 1998 From: crmpriau at pbaru.wasantara.net.id (COREMAP BAPPEDA TK.I RIAU) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:09:23 +0700 Subject: Underwater Exhibition Message-ID: <37656F03DF@pbaru.wasantara.net.id> To : Coral listings In order to comemorate and celebrate The International Year of Ocean 1998 and The National Environmental Day 1998, We are the Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project (COREMAP) First Level Planning and Development Board of Riau Province, Sumatera, Indonesia will conduct the Underwater Exhibition with Themes " Monetary Crisis Not Reason To Conserve Nature " in Pekanbaru, Riau June 1998. The Exhibition will present the underwater ecosystem such as coral reef, fish etc. And we will present all of activities that close related to the water resources. And in order to riches of the material that will be presented to community , we need your help to send your literature or others such foto, posters, compact disc (CD) and video about underwater living. We need help from all concern parties. Hope you read this message, and decide something to help us. Thank's for your attention. Best regards, WIJAYANTO Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project (COREMAP) First Level Planning and Development Board of Riau Province. Jln. Cut Nya' Dhien Pekanbaru - Riau Sumatera - Indonesia crmpriau at pbaru.wasantara.net.id rutc at pbaru.wasantara.net.id