From jch at aoml.noaa.gov Mon May 1 19:21:51 2000 From: jch at aoml.noaa.gov (admin) Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 23:21:51 GMT Subject: security breach, upgrade Message-ID: <200005012321.XAA02605@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Workstation coral was raided by a cracker again; however, we have instituted an operating system and secruity upgrade and hope there will be no more problems. Sorry for any inconvenience to coral-list. From Kimberly.Blair at jcu.edu.au Tue May 2 01:44:01 2000 From: Kimberly.Blair at jcu.edu.au (Kimberly Blair) Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 15:44:01 +1000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <001b01bfb3f9$6bf35140$7f8adb89@jcu.edu.au> Dear Coral-Listers, I am an undergraduate student at James Cook University. I am doing a project on the life history of Pectinia lactuca. I am having difficulty finding any literature pertaining to the species, genus, or family (Pectiniidae). If anyone could direct me as to where I may find some information, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you. 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URL: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/pipermail/coral-list-old/attachments/20000502/2b8149fb/attachment-0001.html From past at post.tau.ac.il Tue May 2 04:22:33 2000 From: past at post.tau.ac.il (zohar) Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 11:22:33 +0300 Subject: bacterial chemotaxis Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20000502112233.00820ae0@post.tau.ac.il> Dear colleagues, I am trying to find general references regarding chemotaxis in bacteria, but I seem to have no luck so far. I'd appreciate any suggestions! Thanks, Zohar pasternak Tel-aviv university Israel From Joanne.Delaney at noaa.gov Tue May 2 12:14:54 2000 From: Joanne.Delaney at noaa.gov (Joanne Delaney) Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 16:14:54 GMT Subject: FKNMS Science Coordinator vacancy Message-ID: <200005021614.QAA07570@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Please excuse any cross-postings. The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is seeking a Science Coordinator (Program Specialist). The major duties of this position include implementation of the Sanctuary's research and monitoring programs. The full vacancy announcement can be found at http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/wfjic/jobs/BQ9155.HTM. Applications will be accepted from U.S. citizens that are current Federal employees or not Federal employees (non-status candidates). Questions regarding this position should be addressed to June Cradick (june.cradick at noaa.gov) or Billy Causey (billy.causey at noaa.gov). Thank you. -- Joanne M. Delaney Research Interpreter Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (305) 743-2437 x32 joanne.delaney at noaa.gov http://www.fknms.nos.noaa.gov From reefkeeper at earthlink.net Tue May 2 07:33:43 2000 From: reefkeeper at earthlink.net (Alexander Stone) Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 12:33:43 +0100 Subject: Part-Time Pto Rico Grassroots Coordinator Position Message-ID: <390EBD7A.5B8F@earthlink.net> Have a part-time job working to protect coral reefs *********************** Puerto Rico Grassroots Conservation Coordinator half-time position *********************** JOB DESCRIPTION As an independent contractor, you will work from at-home on grassroots coordination for coral reef conservation issues in Puerto Rico. REEFKEEPER INTERNATIONAL We are an international non-profit conservation advocacy organization exclusively dedicated to the protection of coral reefs and their marine life. Our campaigns focus on creation and management of marine protected areas, prevention of physical damage to coral reefs, coastal zone management and marine water quality policy reform, and modification of unsustainable or habitat-damaging fishing practices. See our website at www.reefkeeper.org. COMPENSATION $850 per month for a half-time work committment. Paid personal car business mileage, expenses, and internet service. ASSIGNMENT COMPONENTS o communicate with ReefKeeper members, ReefKeeper Network groups, sport diving businesses, and civic clubs to generate conservation issue activism o write grassroots action alerts to motivate grassroots issue involvement o organize meetings and presentations to groups o participate in dive shows, mall fairs, and other public gatherings o organize public comment letter-writing workshops o give slide talks and other presentations to groups POSITION REQUIREMENTS o current resident of Puerto Rico o excellent public speaking abilities o bilingual (Spanish-English fluent speaker) o outgoing and motivating personality o strong oral & phone communication skills o attention to detail & organization o available for occassional weekend and evening work PREFERENCES o student at graduate school or person with no other employment committments o SCUBA diver o familiar with coral reefs & marine resource issues TO APPLY Send letter of interest & resume. No phone calls, please. ReefKeeper International 2809 Bird Avenue - PMB 162 / Miami, FL 33133 e-mail: a_stone at reefkeeper.org / fax (305) 358-3030 www.reefkeeper.org From Mike.Crane at noaa.gov Tue May 2 20:44:33 2000 From: Mike.Crane at noaa.gov (Michael Crane) Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 20:44:33 -0400 Subject: Directions to Island House Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.20000502204637.149fb6b2@saturn.aoml.noaa.gov> Thanks to Fred Morris we have directions. Directions to Island House & Florida Agricultural Museum >From I-95 exit at US 1 proceed south past SR 204 crossing. At SR 204 there is a Mobil station on left and Charlie T's truck stop on right. Proceed south on US 1 to Old Kings Road, 1.3 miles south (pass over Pellicer Creek ? mile south of SR 204 junction). Look for sign for Florida Agricultural Museum and Princess Place Preserve on left. Or, coming from South on US 1, watch for Old Kings Rd on the right about 6 miles north of Palm Coast at sign for Princess Place Preserve Mileage 0.0 Turn east on Old Kings Rd. from US1. This is a dirt road. 1.0 Cross I-95 on paved bridge, after which road becomes dirt again. 1.1 Do NOT turn left to Princess Pond. Keep going straight. 1.5 Turn left at sign to Princess Place Preserve (a T-intersection: there is no right turn here) 2.8 Arrive at first gate (3 gates, one on each side and one ahead). Go straight. 3.3 Pass over marsh on both sides; see house about ? mile away on right. 3.5 Pass picnic area and arrive at second gate. Legacy House ahead, Island House right. Florida Agricultural Museum also to right. Turn right. 4.0 Follow road to Island House and park. Go up wooden stairs at NW corner of house Proceed along north side of building to meeting room on second floor. END A map will follow. I look forward to seeing the GIS posters and other material that will be displayed. Regards Mike Michael Crane NODC Southeast Liaison Officer 4301 Rickenbacker CSWY Miami FL 33149 305 361 4305 fax 305 361 4449 email crane at aoml.noaa.gov From kchin16 at hotmail.com Wed May 3 00:42:14 2000 From: kchin16 at hotmail.com (krista chin) Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 21:42:14 PDT Subject: looking for volunteer work in Australia Message-ID: <20000503044214.95973.qmail@hotmail.com> Hello Coral-Listers, I have recently graduated from McGill University, Montr?al, Canada, with a joint major in Biology and Environmental Sciences. I have fieldwork experience collecting data on near shore marine habitats in Barbados and on Vancouver Island, Canada, through scuba diving and snorkling. I will be travelling to Australia from July 2000 ? May 2001, specifically to gain more field experience in marine ecology. I am willing to volunteer my time to gain experience, however I would require a stipend/room and board to support my stay in Australia. I am wondering if anyone one would have information on organizations that offers this sort of opportunity. Thanks for your time, Krista ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From pharriso at scu.edu.au Wed May 3 03:04:31 2000 From: pharriso at scu.edu.au (Peter Harrison) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 17:04:31 +1000 Subject: Update on Bali Reproduction session and my correct email Message-ID: Colleagues, There has been a great response from researchers around the world to the 9ICRS mini symposium at Bali: "Reproduction, recruitment, and effects of stress on reproductive success of corals and other reef invertebrates". So far we have a total of 29 submissions for this session, so it promises to be an excellent program. I will be contacting the more recent respondents soon, to confirm their presentation etc. A number of people have had problems contacting me by email, because the email address listed for me on the 9ICRS website is incorrect. My correct email is: pharriso at scu.edu.au So if you have been having problems emailing me, please forward your abstracts to me by email using the correct address as soon as possible (ignore the incorrect email address on the 9ICRS website - apologies for any inconvenience, but I was not aware that this mistake had occurred, and am endeavouring to have the website information corrected). I look forward to hearing from you, and seeing you at Bali. Peter ORIGINAL MESSAGE WITH DETAILS OF THE SESSION: >This message is to inform coral reef workers and all other researchers >interested in reproductive biology and ecology of coral reef biota of a >newly approved mini symposium topic for the 9th ICRS at Bali: >"Reproduction, recruitment, and effects of stress on reproductive success >of corals and other reef invertebrates". As the title suggests, the >mini-symposium will focus on reproduction and recruitment patterns of >corals and other reef invertebrates, with an additional focus on the >effects of natural and anthropogenic pollution and stress impacts on >reproductive output and success of these organisms. Note that this >mini-symposium will not include papers dealing with pelagic and settlement >stages of reef fishes which is the focus of another mini-symposium. The >mini-symposium could be expanded to include reproductive ecology of algae >if there is sufficient interest among researchers. > >Please contact me by return email if you are interested in contributing to >this session, or would like further details. > >Participants should send Abstract/s to me (pharriso at scu.edu.au) AND to Dr >David Hopley, the Chair of the Scientific Program >(David.Hopley at ultra.net.au) by the APRIL 30 deadline. Abstracts should be >submitted in the format given on the conference web page >(www.nova.edu/ocean/9icrs), and participants are encouraged to submit >Abstracts in an electronic format to assist with the preparation of the >Symposium Abstract booklet. Abstracts are required for both oral >presentations and posters. > >I look forward to seeing you at this stimulating session! > >Peter > > Dr Peter Harrison Associate Professor in Ecology School of Resource Science and Management Southern Cross University PO Box 157 Lismore NSW 2480 Australia Phone: 0266 203774 Fax: 0266 212669 E-mail: pharriso at scu.edu.au International Phone: 61 266 203774 From abaco at soest.hawaii.edu Wed May 3 07:16:52 2000 From: abaco at soest.hawaii.edu (Amy Baco) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 11:16:52 GMT Subject: moorea field station (fwd) Message-ID: <200005031116.LAA13220@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Please direct inquiries to George Roderick. roderick at nature.berkeley.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 10:58:51 -0700 From: George Roderick Subject: moorea field station UC is looking for a new manager/on-site director for its field station in Moorea (next to Tahiti, FP), and for some reason I have ended up in charge of the search. Would you please forward this information and the attached descriptions (same file, but different formats) to anyone you think would be suitable and ask them to contact me immediately? We are under a short time frame (1 July). As a result, this is not a formal search, and we can offer the position quickly to any one we find. The job pays US $45,000-$50,000 with a reduced tax rate and UC Benefits, free housing (with spectacular view), free car and gas, free maid service, and at least 1 trip to the US (or continental region)/year. The attached description is an old one, and we are waiting for approval for a new description, which will stress less SCUBA and French, though both are desired. Also, there is now a basic DNA lab and ethernet. More info about the station can be found at: http://nature.Berkeley.EDU/gump/ (and older, though not up to date, site with pictures http://ib.berkeley.edu/moorea/). many thanks, George From osha at pobox.com Wed May 3 13:16:15 2000 From: osha at pobox.com (Osha Gray Davidson) Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 12:16:15 -0500 Subject: Fiji, Tahiti, Rangiroa Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20000503120733.00a708d0@mail.iowact1.ia.home.com> Can anyone help me get up-to-date information on anthropogenic threats to reefs around Fiji, Tahiti and Rangiroa? Specifically, I'm interested in unconfirmed reports of blast and cyanide fishing in those areas. Also, does coral mining still continue in Fiji (and in other areas)? I read reports that the Fijian government was considering a ban on the practice--but haven't heard anything further. Any information would be much appreciated. Cheers, Osha Osha Gray Davidson Adjunct Associate Professor International Programs, University of Iowa MAILING ADDRESS: Osha Gray Davidson 14 S. Governor St. Iowa City, IA 52240 USA Phone: 319-338-4778 Home page: www.OshaDavidson.com From bbest at usaid.gov Tue May 2 13:13:48 2000 From: bbest at usaid.gov (Barbara Best) Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 13:13:48 EDT Subject: Coral trade statistics Message-ID: Dear Coral-List Colleagues: On April 24, James Sprouse requested information on the international and local trade of corals and shells. I wish to direct his and your attention to a report recently released by the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force, entitled "International Trade in Coral and Coral Reef Species: The Role of the United States." The report was prepared by the International Working Group - Trade Subgroup of the Task Force. The report is available on the web at http://coralreef.gov/wgr.html. The main body of the report, as well as Appendix I, contains an analysis of trade statistics for CITES-listed coral reef species (hard corals, giant clams, Queen conch), as well as information on potential impacts of trade on coral reefs. The Trade Subgroup welcomes any comments or suggestions you may have on the report. In particular, we welcome any additions or corrections to this draft report, so that we may continue to improve and update the information it contains. This trade report was mandated by the U.S. Executive Order (#13089) for the Protection of Coral Reefs, which charged the U.S. Secretary of State and the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development with assessing and addressing the role of the United States in the international trade of coral and coral reef species. The analysis, as documented in the trade report, found that the U.S. is the number one consumer of live coral and marine fishes for the aquarium trade and of coral skeletons and precious corals for curios and jewelry. However inadvertently, American consumers of coral reef products are contributing to stress on coral reef ecosystems around the world. The trade report also presents a broad, seven-point strategy for addressing some of the problems with the trade in coral reef species. The recommendations were developed following extensive consultations with stakeholders, industry members, non-governmental organizations, scientists, international institutions and other governments. The last recommendation emphasizes the need for new legislation to reduce the adverse impacts of trade and collection in coral and coral reef species, encourage more responsible trade, and encourage the conservation and sustainable management of coral reef ecosystems both domestically and internationally. If you have any questions/comments regarding the report, please send them directly to me. If you have specific questions about the trade statistics for CITES-listed species presented in the report, please contact Andy Bruckner, who analyzed the trade information, at "andy.bruckner at noaa.gov". Cheers - Barbara Best ****************************************** Barbara A. Best, Ph.D. Marine and Coastal Resource Advisor USAID/G/ENV Rm 3.8 Tel:202-712-0553 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Fax:202-216-3174 Washington, DC 20523-3800 BBest at USAID.gov From reefprj at tm.net.my Thu May 4 00:30:45 2000 From: reefprj at tm.net.my (The Reef Project) Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 12:30:45 +0800 Subject: coral transplants Message-ID: <200005041407.OAA21706@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> =20 I would like to thanks all people below for their informative input....her= e , I will post their responses for the Cor-lister information. Sorry,can'= t post your reply here,Don... > MY POSTED QUESTION Dear Coral-lister, >=20 > We are planning to set up coral tranplant pilot project. I am trying to > gather as much information regardin the above endeavors on the technical > side. I need information of underwater quick drying cement or epoxy and > where to buy them . Here in Sabah, Malaysia, there are limited resources > on those stuff and thus, is expensive. If anybody have experienced using > cheaper substitute, i appreciate it if you could share. >=20 > thank you, > Wilson Alex > The REEF PROJECT, > Pulau Gaya, Kota Kinabalu, > Sabah, Malaysia PLEASE CONTACT DR. THOMAS GOREAU IF YOU ARE SERIOUS ABOUT TRULY GROWING CORALS FASTER THAN ANYONE HAS SHOWN BEFORE. THEY HAS WORKING PROTOTYPES AT KEY LOCATIONS IN THE TROPICS WITH POSITIVE RESULTS. goreau at bestweb.net All the best James M. Cerivno *************************************** James M. Cervino Marine Biologist Dept. of Biology/Geology 471 University Pkwy. Aiken South Carolina Zip: 29801 e-mail :cnidaria at earthlink.net *************************************** Hi Wilson, I have worked out of KK (in Tunku Abdul Rahman National Park) on an Oxford University Expedition back in 1991 and understand about limited resources.= =20 For your transplantation, the best bet is Portland Cement (Type II - I thin= k but it doesn't really matter). What I have used in the past is cement mixe= d with plaster of paris (7 parts cement to 1 of plaster of paris). Some peop= le suggest mixing with water on the surface and then taking down a large lump.= =20 The way I have dealt with transplanting corals is to mix the cement and plaster and, with it still dry, put it in plastic bags (sandwich type ones) sealed with elastic bands. When needed you can simply open the bag underwa= ter and let a little water in and then simply scrunch the bag until the cement looks "workable". It takes a while to get it right but once you have done = it a few times it becomes pretty easy. You can then empty the bag where you w= ant and place the coral on top. It starts setting pretty quickly (10 minutes) = and should be pretty solid within an hour or so and totally set within a day bu= t there is no way the corals would have been moved then unless you are in a really high energy spot. The success rate is high but it is a really good idea to go back to the cement a few minutes after you have placed it and gentle wave any excess of surrounding corals before it sets on them. Which they obviously won't like! I have tried fancy premixed cement and quick st= uff and found that the cement / plaster of paris mix is cheaper, easier and mos= t of the unused bags survive to be used next time (as long as they don't leak too much). Its a much cheaper deal than epoxy and pretty easy to handle. Hope this helps. Feel free to get back to me if you need more info. All the best, Dan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dan Hellin Junior Research Associate / Short Course Development Officer Department of Marine Sciences and Coastal Management The Ridley Building Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU UK Tel: +44 191 222 6661 (messages) Fax: +44 191 222 7891 E-mail: dhellin at netscape.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi, You can use Portland cement, which is cheap and easy to use. Epoxy is very expansive in comparison. Take care : how to fix a fragment is not the only way to reach success, but also you need to know how to handle framents and where to place them. I'm sometimes very suprised by how some scientists manipulate corals, and I bet that some fragments are dying only because of that ! ;-)) Best Fabrice POIRAUD-LAMBERT Dear Wilson, This message circulated a couple of days ago. Ruy Ruy Kenji Papa de Kikuchi Departamento de Ci=EAncias Exatas Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana BR 116, Km3 s/n, Campus Universit=E1rio CEP 44.031-460, Feira de Santana, Bahia Brasil rkpkikuchi at geocities.com ---------- > De: Precht, Bill > Para: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov > Assunto: FW: International Coral Reef Symposium and other stuff > Data: Thursday, April 27, 2000 1:12 PM >=20 > Coral-Listers: (esp. Juan Torres) >=20 > With regards to questions concerning epoxies and coral attachment - the > following should be of interest >=20 > We here at PBS&J have been working on various coral restoration, > rehabilitation, and transplantation projects... in these efforts some > striking data has emerged (and will be published in a peer-reviewed forum in > the near future). >=20 > In general, we have had high failure rates attaching corals with almost ALL > the underwater epoxies including liquid rock, etc... However, we have had > tremendous success using Portland Cement... In fact, we have an experimental > garden where 50 fist-size corals were attached using epoxy and another 50 > were attached using cement... One year after transplantation (and the > passage of a few significant storms)- 48 of the cemented ones remained while > only 12 of the epoxied ones were still present. Enough said... >=20 > Because of the high efficacy rates of the cement, we use this material > almost exclusively now... >=20 > We pre-mix the cement on the surface and bring it down to the restoration > site in pails. While soft, it is easy to mold and form, yet sets relatively > fast. =20 >=20 > Hope this helps >=20 > cheers, >=20 > Bill >=20 >=20 > > William F. Precht, P.G. > > Ecological Sciences Program Manager > >=20 > > <<...>>=20 > >=20 > > bprecht at pbsj.com try garf.org for info ---------- Dear Wilson Alex, I have read the above posting you have made on coral list. I have not much to offer you but I would like later on to share with you and discuss further your findings. For your information, currently I am also involve with coral transplantation at Pulau Perhentian, Terengganu. Species : Acropora and Poccilopora. I used simple and cheap method and easy to handle. The success until now is almost 80% survival. I have started the transplatation project in June 1999. I have used chicken wire to keep the transplants upright. Hope to hear from you soon pauzi * you know me because we together attended the coral taxonomy course at Semporna last time. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Mohamed Pauzi Abdullah Nibong Tebal Pulau Pinang =20 To Wilson Alex- Regarding your request for information for underwater epoxies/cement: we have a small coral transplant project going on here at Virgin Islands National Park. We are using cable ties to fasten naturally-occurring fragments of three fast growing species of coral to damaged reefs. We initially tried the two part putty eopxy which comes in a tube and hardens in 1-24 hours depending on literature or in-water experience. It only bonded if the skeleton and substrate were totally clean. We now use cable ties and they work very well. In fact, fragments cable tied to dead coral skeleton had lower mortality than natural colonies of the same species. The Acropora palmata and A. cervicornis have both overgrown the cable ties and they are non-toxic. I am attaching a low resolution image of one such fragment. Good luck with the project. Ginger Garrison Ginger Garrison Marine Biologist Biological Resources Division BRD/USGS PO Box 710 St. John, US Virgin Islands 00831 Tel: 430 693-8950 Fax: 340 693-9500 From deep.sea.coral.symposium at aoml.noaa.gov Thu May 4 10:29:45 2000 From: deep.sea.coral.symposium at aoml.noaa.gov (deep.sea.coral.symposium at aoml.noaa.gov) Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 14:29:45 GMT Subject: 1st Intern. Sympo. Deep Sea Corals Message-ID: <200005041429.OAA21902@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> The First International Symposium on Deep Sea Corals ("Science and Conservation of Deep Sea Corals") will be held in Hallifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, from July 30 through August 2, 2000. From the Web page (http://home.istar.ca/~eac_hfx/symposium/): ~~ THE SYMPOSIUM is open to scientists, managers, ocean users and all those with an interest in deep sea corals. Those who may wish to attend the Symposium or to contribute papers, are invited to complete a registration form and return it (with abstracts if appropriate), to the Symposium Secretariat by June 1, 2000. Those not submitting papers or posters, may register at any time after this, but a late fee will be charged. A registration fee of $150 Canadian dollars ($75 for students) is in effect until June 1, 2000 - after which the registration fee is $200. Individuals who find the full fee prohibitive but would like to attend, are asked to contact the Secretariat. The registration fee will cover the cost of the Symposium abstracts and reception, as well as lunches and beverages throughout the conference. A Symposium dinner will be held in the Banquet Hall in the Faculty Club, Dalhousie University. Tickets are available for $30 per person. Pre-Registration Form and Provisional Abstract: FEBRUARY 1, 2000 Final Early Registration and fees, and FINAL ABSTRACTS: JUNE 1, 2000 FINAL PAPER: JULY 30, 2000 The registration Form can be printed from the Contact Us! page. +++++++ Email contact is Susan Gass at: coral at is.dal.ca +++++++ From hendee at aoml.noaa.gov Thu May 4 11:18:46 2000 From: hendee at aoml.noaa.gov (Jim Hendee) Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 11:18:46 -0400 (EDT) Subject: virus alert: ILOVEYOU (fwd) Message-ID: Here's a virus alert, in case you see this come into your email in-box: Do not open any e-mail message with the subject line ILOVEYOU. The message has an attachment called "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs." which contains a worm similiar to Melissa. Opening the attachment sends the messages to everyone in your address book and corrupts files on your hard disk. The worm only affects PC users running Windows 95/NT/98/2000. More informations available at: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2561671,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01 From JMarr at cmrc.org Wed May 3 19:45:27 2000 From: JMarr at cmrc.org (John Marr) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 19:45:27 -0400 Subject: Research Associate position openning Message-ID: <200005041526.PAA22364@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> PERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE CARIBBEAN MARINE RESEARCH CENTER POSITION AVAILABLE RESEARCH ASSOCIATE Perry Institute for Marine Science (PIMS)/Caribbean Marine Research Center (CMRC) has an immediate opening for a full time Research Associate. The primary job responsibility is to provide research assistance and scientific and educational program development under the direction of the Center Director in support of CMRC missions. Toward this objective, the job duties are comprised of the following: Assist in the development and coordination of science projects; assist in proposal development and grant writing; provide technical support for CMRC supported research projects; assist in the collection of field or laboratory data; compile, organize, analyze, and disseminate programmatic and scientific data; serve as CMRC's representative for database management activities with the National Undersea Research Program; and perform special projects. The minimum job qualifications are as follows: Masters of Science degree in biology, marine ecology, fisheries science, oceanography or related field; excellent writing, computer and organizational skills. Minimum one year of work in a scientific research environment and ability to travel are required. Other knowledge and skills required include those pertaining to scientific instrumentation, database design and development, equipment and methodology. Field experience including dive certification for SCUBA and NITROX. Please fax a cover letter, resume, and a list of three references to (561) 741-0193. The position is located in Tequesta, Florida. Starting salary is in the range of $28 to 30k. EOE/DFW. From abaco at soest.hawaii.edu Thu May 4 13:22:51 2000 From: abaco at soest.hawaii.edu (Amy Baco) Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 07:22:51 -1000 (HST) Subject: moorea field station (fwd) Message-ID: ALoha! PLEASE stop sending me emails regarding this position! I only forwarded it to the list. PLEASE contact DR. GEORGE RODERICK: roderick at nature.berkeley.edu NOT ME! Thanks! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 10:58:51 -0700 From: George Roderick Subject: moorea field station UC is looking for a new manager/on-site director for its field station in Moorea (next to Tahiti, FP). Would you please forward this information and the attached descriptions (same file, but different formats) to anyone you think would be suitable and ask them to contact me immediately? We are under a short time frame (1 July). As a result, this is not a formal search, and we can offer the position quickly to any one we find. The job pays US $45,000-$50,000 with a reduced tax rate and UC Benefits, free housing (with spectacular view), free car and gas, free maid service, and at least 1 trip to the US (or continental region)/year. The attached description is an old one, and we are waiting for approval for a new description, which will stress less SCUBA and French, though both are desired. Also, there is now a basic DNA lab and ethernet. More info about the station can be found at: http://nature.Berkeley.EDU/gump/ (and older, though not up to date, site with pictures http://ib.berkeley.edu/moorea/). many thanks, George -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: gump98.rtf Type: application/rtf Size: 10105 bytes Desc: Url : http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/pipermail/coral-list-old/attachments/20000504/6cee4d36/attachment.rtf From szmanta at uncwil.edu Sun May 7 16:20:10 2000 From: szmanta at uncwil.edu (Alina M. Szmant) Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 16:20:10 -0400 Subject: Job position: research assistant with experience with nutrient analysis Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.20000507162010.006dab00@pop.uncwil.edu> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2840 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/pipermail/coral-list-old/attachments/20000507/6b05fdfb/attachment.bin From reefkeeper at earthlink.net Mon May 8 11:12:41 2000 From: reefkeeper at earthlink.net (Alexander Stone) Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 16:12:41 +0100 Subject: Part-time Fla Grassroots Conservation Coordinator Message-ID: <3916D9C7.5201@earthlink.net> ****************************** Florida Grassroots Conservation Coordinator Half-time Position ****************************** JOB DESCRIPTION As a ReefKeeper employee, you will work from our Miami office on grassroots coordination for coral reef conservation issues in the Florida Keys and Southeast Florida. ABOUT REEFKEEPER INTERNATIONAL We are an international non-profit conservation advocacy organization exclusively dedicated to the protection of coral reefs and their marine life. Our campaigns focus on creation and management of marine protected areas, prevention of physical damage to coral reefs, coastal zone management and marine water quality policy reform, and modification of unsustainable or habitat-damaging fishing practices. See our website at www.reefkeeper.org. COMPENSATION $9.00 per hour, 20 hours per week. Paid vacation, sick leave, personal car business mileage and expenses. ASSIGNMENT COMPONENTS o communicate with ReefKeeper members, ReefKeeper Network groups, sport diving businesses, and civic clubs to generate conservation issue activism o write grassroots action alerts to motivate grassroots issue involvement o organize meetings and presentations to groups o participate in dive shows, mall fairs, and other public gatherings o organize public comment letter-writing workshops o give slide talks and other presentations to groups POSITION REQUIREMENTS o current resident of Southeast Florida o excellent public speaking abilities o outgoing and motivating personality o strong oral & phone communication skills o attention to detail & organization o available for occassional weekend and evening work PREFERENCES o student at grad school or person with no other job committments o certified SCUBA diver o familiar with coral reefs & marine resource issues TO APPLY Send letter of interest & resume. No phone calls, please. ReefKeeper International 2809 Bird Avenue - PMB 162 / Miami, FL 33133 e-mail: a_stone at reefkeeper.org / fax (305) 358-3030 www.reefkeeper.org From Robert_Brock at nps.gov Mon May 8 17:47:31 2000 From: Robert_Brock at nps.gov (Robert Brock) Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 17:47:31 -0400 Subject: Sampling Method? Message-ID: <002CFAA5.C22031@nps.gov> Dry Tortugas National Park (DRTO) has received a proposal to develop a base-line study of cryptic fish, species normally missed or underestimated in a visual census survey. In brief, (1) a 25-sq.meter patch reef study area will be marked by stainless steel I-bolts and a very fine mesh net will be attached to PVC frame that is connected to the I-bolts; (2) divers will apply an ichthyocide rotenone solution using squeeze bottles in the various inaccessible reef habitats; (3) divers will recover all fish initially killed by the toxicant; (4) leaving the block net in place, the procedure will be repeated 2 hours later, and all remaining dead fish collected. My question is simple: Does a method(s) exist where the objective of accurately inventorying cryptic fish can be fulfilled WITHOUT killing them? I would greatly appreciate anyone's comments and suggestions and please feel free to send them directly to me ASAP. Thanks! *********************************************** Robert J. Brock Supervisory Marine Biologist Everglades/Dry Tortugas National Parks Homestead, Florida 33034-6733 305-242-7848 (P) 305-242-7836 (F) robert_brock at nps.gov From jmcmanus at rsmas.miami.edu Wed May 10 06:50:37 2000 From: jmcmanus at rsmas.miami.edu (John McManus) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 18:50:37 +0800 Subject: percent coral cover References: <000801bfb90f$169b7cc0$a241de8b@bio.uea.ac.uk> Message-ID: <006901bfba76$3651c8e0$0b7cfea9@black> As far as I know, all data on the ReefBase CD-ROM is linked to a full reference which is accessible by clicking on the reference number on the page displaying the data. All data is linked to specific reefs for which central coordinates are provided. Exceptions are generally for data which have been reported at the country level and where the reef has not been indicated in the original report. That generally does not apply to benthic data. However, given that there are several thousand records of benthic data, the team is always looking for potential errors. If you find any data that is not properly located or referenced, please contact ReefBase at reefbase at cgiar.org. Note that a few people have confused the website with the CD-ROM. The website currently holds only a few widely requested tables from the actual database, which is available only on CD-ROM. It took a long time for Microsoft to make MS Access fully net compatible, and ReefBase is too complex to reprogram easily. A future version of ReefBase will be fully accessible on the Internet. From kleypas at cgd.ucar.edu Tue May 9 17:53:49 2000 From: kleypas at cgd.ucar.edu (Joanie Kleypas) Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 15:53:49 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Aronson et al paper in Nature Message-ID: <200005101344.NAA60694@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Coral listers: If you haven't seen it yet, the following paper was recently published in Nature 405: 36 (04 May 2000): RB Aronson, WF Precht, IG Macintyre & TJT Murdoch Coral bleach-out in Belize This article documents the 1998 severe bleaching event on the Belize Barrier Reef, which was followed by mass mortality. The article describes evidence from reef cores which indicate that nothing of this magnitude has occurred for at least 3000 years. A good (albeit depressing) read... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Kleypas Climate & Global Dynamics National Center for Atmospheric Research PO Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307-3000 PH: (303) 497-1316 FAX: (303) 497-1700 kleypas at ncar.ucar.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From glover at btl.net Wed May 10 11:13:51 2000 From: glover at btl.net (Glover's Reef) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 09:13:51 -0600 Subject: Belize Reefs Not Dead Yet Message-ID: <77365B3CC81.AAA5CCD@wgs1.btl.net> The demise of Belizean Coral Reefs due to Bleaching, as ascribed to a recent "Nature" article, is terribly overstated. Yes we lost some corals in 1998-99 to bleaching, and also to Hurricane Mitch, but by no means everything. Some species were hard hit in some locations above 30 ft depth but many are fast growers like Agaricia and Millepora and are coming back. The old star corals and brain corals finally gave up about 20% in places but the reefs out on the atolls and outside the barrier are now in pretty good shape, certainly compared to other areas of the Caribbean, and the deep reefs got off rather unscathed. It's not what it was in 1997 on the shallow reefs but it sure isn't as bad out here as the journalists dreamed. I suspect the reefs in the Bay Islands of Honduras went through about the same process, with similar eventual results. Still, lets hope we don't get another mass-bleaching event here this year. Pray for cold water! Dr. Thomas J. Bright, Station Manager WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY Glovers Reef Marine Research Station PO Box 272, Dangriga Town Belize, Central America Ph/Fax: 501-5-22153 E-Mail: glover at btl.net Alternate E-Mail: tom_bright at excite.com Web Site: www.belizeweb.com/wcscoral From Don_Catanzaro at nps.gov Wed May 10 23:43:19 2000 From: Don_Catanzaro at nps.gov (Don Catanzaro) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 23:43:19 -0400 Subject: Monitoring Programs Message-ID: <200005111225.MAA21164@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Hello Colleagues, The National Park Service's Long Term Ecological Monitoring Program will be expanding in the near future and I am in the process of writing some planning documents. I would like to study other monitoring program's goals, budgets, organization, and structure before launching into this effort. Could any Program Managers out there please contact me if they would not mind sharing these items, other "more sensitive things" such as budget figures and personnel numbers, or other data such as days in the field, work through put, minimum detectable differences, numbers of sites/replicates etc. Thank you in advance for all your help ! -Don ------------------------------------- Carpe Dogma ------------------------------------- Dr. Donald G. Catanzaro Don_Catanzaro at nps.gov National Park Service Ph: 340-776-6201 Virgin Islands National Park Fax: 340-693-9500 Long Term Ecological Monitoring Program PO Box 710 St. John, USVI 00831 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- From jware at erols.com Thu May 11 10:19:59 2000 From: jware at erols.com (John Ware) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 10:19:59 -0400 Subject: Bay Islands reefs OK? References: <77365B3CC81.AAA5CCD@wgs1.btl.net> Message-ID: <391AC18F.2E3DE3EC@erols.com> Dear Coral List, Tom Bright recently stated that the rumors of the death of Belize reefs may have been exaggerated and opined that the same might be true of the Bay Islands of Honduras. I have been monitoring a section of reef on the island of Roatan for the past 10+ years. This section was selected based on the assumption of high human impact because of increasing sediment loading due to on-shore construction near the site. My last visit to this reef was in April of this year and, while I do not have a complete analysis of the data, there has been no apparent degradation of the reef in general nor any significant coral mortality over the past 10 years, and certainly nothing in the last 2 years. I am monitoring in a single location, but my superficial observations over the past 15 years indicate the reefs around Roatan are holding up well. If anyone has other observations on Roatan or the other Bay Islands, I would like to hear from them. John -- ************************************************************* * * * John R. Ware, PhD * * President * * SeaServices, Inc. * * 19572 Club House Road * * Montgomery Village, MD, 20886 * * 301 987-8507 * * jware at erols.com * * fax: 301 987-8531 * * _ * * | * * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * * _|_ * * | _ | * * _______________________________| |________ * * |\/__ Undersea Technology for the 21st Century \ * * |/\____________________________________________/ * ************************************************************** From jware at erols.com Thu May 11 10:19:59 2000 From: jware at erols.com (John Ware) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 10:19:59 -0400 Subject: Bay Islands reefs OK? References: <77365B3CC81.AAA5CCD@wgs1.btl.net> Message-ID: <391AC18F.2E3DE3EC@erols.com> Dear Coral List, Tom Bright recently stated that the rumors of the death of Belize reefs may have been exaggerated and opined that the same might be true of the Bay Islands of Honduras. I have been monitoring a section of reef on the island of Roatan for the past 10+ years. This section was selected based on the assumption of high human impact because of increasing sediment loading due to on-shore construction near the site. My last visit to this reef was in April of this year and, while I do not have a complete analysis of the data, there has been no apparent degradation of the reef in general nor any significant coral mortality over the past 10 years, and certainly nothing in the last 2 years. I am monitoring in a single location, but my superficial observations over the past 15 years indicate the reefs around Roatan are holding up well. If anyone has other observations on Roatan or the other Bay Islands, I would like to hear from them. John -- ************************************************************* * * * John R. Ware, PhD * * President * * SeaServices, Inc. * * 19572 Club House Road * * Montgomery Village, MD, 20886 * * 301 987-8507 * * jware at erols.com * * fax: 301 987-8531 * * _ * * | * * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * * _|_ * * | _ | * * _______________________________| |________ * * |\/__ Undersea Technology for the 21st Century \ * * |/\____________________________________________/ * ************************************************************** From Bprecht at pbsj.com Thu May 11 10:38:47 2000 From: Bprecht at pbsj.com (Precht, Bill) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 09:38:47 -0500 Subject: Coral Bleach-Out In Belize Message-ID: Please look before you leap: Response to "Belize Reefs Not Dead Yet" The paper in the May 4th issue of Nature by Aronson, Precht, Macintyre and Murdoch details the mass mortality of corals in the central lagoon of the Belizean Barrier Reef Complex. A significant area of about 375 sq. km. The reefs in this area are indeed 'dead'. To be clear, we did not ascribe this mass coral mortality to the entire Belize Shelf, the fore-reef side of the Belizean Barrier Reef, or the offshore atolls like Glovers Reef (nor any areas outside of Belize). We did note that the Belizean Barrier Reef suffered partial mortality, however, the lagoonal reefs did not fair so well. The reefs as described in the recent Nature article, are the rhombohedral shoals that we have been studying for some time now. We would love to have reported a story with a different punch line....unfortunately, these reefs suffered 100% mortality of the dominant coral species, Agaricia tenuifolia, at all depths from the surface down to over 20 meters. Many other subordinate coral species died as well. Dives on reefs in the southern lagoon revealed a similar pattern of coral mortality, though these reefs were not quantitatively monitored for this study. Accordingly, these southern reefs were not considered in our report (or in the 375 sq. km area). It should be noted that the 'hot' SST plume observed by satellite that caused the 1998 Belize bleaching event was strongest over the central and southern portions of the Belize shelf (A. Strong, pers.com.). Not surprisingly, the most devastating effects of this bleaching event were noted in these regions. While I would agree that some reporters who picked up this news line may have overstated the facts... the real truth remains that a large area of the Belizean reef system died catastrophically from coral bleaching associated with increased SST's in late 1998. I hope this clears any misunderstanding regarding which reefs we were talking about. We continue to monitor these reefs to see what the future brings... until... cheers, Bill --------------------------------------- William F. Precht Ecological Sciences Program Manager PBS&J Miami -----Original Message----- From: John Ware [mailto:jware at erols.com] Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 10:20 AM To: Glover's Reef Cc: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Bay Islands reefs OK? Dear Coral List, Tom Bright recently stated that the rumors of the death of Belize reefs may have been exaggerated and opined that the same might be true of the Bay Islands of Honduras. I have been monitoring a section of reef on the island of Roatan for the past 10+ years. This section was selected based on the assumption of high human impact because of increasing sediment loading due to on-shore construction near the site. My last visit to this reef was in April of this year and, while I do not have a complete analysis of the data, there has been no apparent degradation of the reef in general nor any significant coral mortality over the past 10 years, and certainly nothing in the last 2 years. I am monitoring in a single location, but my superficial observations over the past 15 years indicate the reefs around Roatan are holding up well. If anyone has other observations on Roatan or the other Bay Islands, I would like to hear from them. John -- ************************************************************* * * * John R. Ware, PhD * * President * * SeaServices, Inc. * * 19572 Club House Road * * Montgomery Village, MD, 20886 * * 301 987-8507 * * jware at erols.com * * fax: 301 987-8531 * * _ * * | * * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * * _|_ * * | _ | * * _______________________________| |________ * * |\/__ Undersea Technology for the 21st Century \ * * |/\____________________________________________/ * ************************************************************** From astrong at nesdis.noaa.gov Thu May 11 11:18:08 2000 From: astrong at nesdis.noaa.gov (Al Strong) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 11:18:08 -0400 Subject: Honduran Bleaching References: <77365B3CC81.AAA5CCD@wgs1.btl.net> <391AC18F.2E3DE3EC@erols.com> Message-ID: <391ACF30.1F41B6E4@nesdis.noaa.gov> Coral-List, I am not surprised with John Ware's assessment of Honduras reefs in the Bay Island area for 1998. The region around Roatan shows rather small thermal accumulations (DHWs = 4 to 5...not the 8 - 9 levels seen around the most southern Belizean reefs -- close to critical for "recovery" vs "mortality"). http://psbsgi1.nesdis.noaa.gov:8080/PSB/EPS/icg/wsub.10.31.1998.gif Based on our satellite assessment of accumulated thermal (SST) stress during that period in Sep-Nov 1998, I would be surprised to see any major damage from bleaching with the one possible exception being the northern reefs of Nicaragua (around Cabazes)....any info? AE Strong **** <>< ******* <>< ******* <>< ******* <>< ******* Alan E. Strong Phys Scientist/Oceanographer NOAA/NESDIS/ORA/ORAD -- E/RA3 NOAA Science Center -- RM 711W 5200 Auth Road Camp Springs, MD 20746-4304 Alan.E.Strong at noaa.gov 301-763-8102 x170 FAX: 301-763-8108 http://orbit-net.nesdis.noaa.gov/orad From Bprecht at pbsj.com Thu May 11 15:23:14 2000 From: Bprecht at pbsj.com (Precht, Bill) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 14:23:14 -0500 Subject: Coral Bleach-Out In Belize Message-ID: Coral-Listers: I have been deluged with requests for information regarding the salient points for the article that appeared in Nature 405: 36 (04 May 2000): by RB Aronson, WF Precht, IG Macintyre & TJT Murdoch ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ He is a summary: (1) 1998 was the hottest year on record in the tropical oceans of the world. (2) The high temperatures were created by a combination of El Nino conditions and continuing global warming. (3) The high temperatures caused coral bleaching worldwide. (4) In Belize, coral populations in lagoonal habitats were killed by the bleaching, and this is the first time anyone has observed a mass coral kill related to bleaching in the Caribbean. Mass coral mortalities have occurred in the Indo-Pacific over the past two decades--related to El Nino conditions, but not, until now, in the Caribbean. (5) We cored these reefs in Belize to look for evidence of previous mass coral kills. Our paleontological studies show that never before in AT LEAST the last 3,000 years have coral populations been wiped out by bleaching. (6) These paleontological results provide the first strong evidence linking global warming to the decline of reefs. Please note that we explicitly stated that reefs from the Belizean barrier suffered only partial mortality with subsequent recovery from the 1998 bleaching event and that the mass mortality was confined to an area in the south/central lagoon. I hope this once again helps to clear up any misinterpretation or exaggeration in any of the international press releases. cheers, Bill From d.j.hutchinson at uea.ac.uk Mon May 8 13:01:43 2000 From: d.j.hutchinson at uea.ac.uk (David Hutchinson) Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 18:01:43 +0100 Subject: percent coral cover Message-ID: <000801bfb90f$169b7cc0$a241de8b@bio.uea.ac.uk> Dear colleagues, I have been trying to investigate data available for per cent coral cover for individual countries. I have looked at data from reefbase, although it is very difficult to get a handle on where this is from, and have also looked at the reefcheck data that is publicly available. I am sure there is more data out there, so i have decided to investigate! I have constructed a web form, and am hoping that anyone who feels that they have data and are willing to share it, would be kind enough to fill in the form. Obviously, if anything comes of this, I will keep the list informed. the address is: http://www.uea.ac.uk/~d955461/coral.html please also forward this message to all your coral reef friends! many thanks, and with anticipation, David. David Hutchinson School of Development Studies University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ email: d.j.hutchinson at uea.ac.uk url: http://www.uea.ac.uk/~d955461 From molamola2 at hotmail.com Sun May 14 14:09:20 2000 From: molamola2 at hotmail.com (Tony Davi) Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 18:09:20 GMT Subject: Light meter Message-ID: <20000514180920.15070.qmail@hotmail.com> I am currently working on measuring light fields at the Flower Gardens Banks National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Texas. Does anyone have suggestions of brands and models a good PAR meter that is easy to use, sturdy, and accurate? I would like to purchase one that is fully submersible since the work will be done in the field. Thanks for any information you can provide. Tony Davi Aquarium of the Americas 1 Canal Street New Orleans, LA 70130 (504) 378-2515 (504) 565-3034 fax molamola2 at hotmail.com ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From Arnupap.P at chula.ac.th Mon May 15 05:57:08 2000 From: Arnupap.P at chula.ac.th (Arnupap Panichpol) Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 16:57:08 +0700 Subject: Light meter Message-ID: <200005150954.QAA15870@pioneer.netserv.chula.ac.th> Dear Tony, The one that I had been used "Lycor" it had both on ground and submersible model. I'm not sure about the model but you can check it on the website. Arnupap Panichpol Aquatic Resource Research Institute Institute Building 3, 9th floor Chulalongkorn University Phayathai Bangkok 10330 Thailand Tel. 662-2188160-3 Fax. 662-2544259 homepage http://pioneer.netserv.chula.ac.th/~parnupap ---------- > From: Tony Davi > To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov > Subject: Light meter > Date: 15 ??????? 2543 1:09 > > I am currently working on measuring light fields at the Flower Gardens Banks > National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Texas. Does anyone have > suggestions of brands and models a good PAR meter that is easy to use, > sturdy, and accurate? I would like to purchase one that is fully > submersible since the work will be done in the field. > > Thanks for any information you can provide. > > Tony Davi > Aquarium of the Americas > 1 Canal Street > New Orleans, LA 70130 > (504) 378-2515 > (504) 565-3034 fax > molamola2 at hotmail.com > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From ryoung at WCUVAX1.WCU.EDU Mon May 15 13:08:07 2000 From: ryoung at WCUVAX1.WCU.EDU (rob young) Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 13:08:07 -0400 Subject: Bay Islands reefs OK? Message-ID: I have a long-term monitoring project established on Roatan and Barbareta on the Bay Islands. Our sites cover numerous locations on the north and south side of the island. We are looking at sediment accumulation, water quality, coral health, and a variety of other factors. We have documented accelerating coral mortality. Mostly, this is not related to bleaching events, but to direct human impact. Rob Young ---------------------------------------------------------- Robert S. Young Assistant Professor Western Carolina University Department of Geosciences Stillwell 207 Cullowhee NC 27823 Tel: (828) 227-3822 Fax: (828) 227-7647 email: ryoung at wcu.edu Editorial Board: Journal of Coastal Research Environmental Geosciences --------------------------------------------------------- From jltorres38 at hotmail.com Mon May 15 19:15:03 2000 From: jltorres38 at hotmail.com (Juan Torres) Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 16:15:03 PDT Subject: Light meter Message-ID: <20000515231503.27229.qmail@hotmail.com> Hi Toni, I have personally used the LiCor 1400 data logger with a surface cosine collector and the underwater cosine collector Li-192SA for measuring Ed (PAR) in coastal waters in Puerto Rico and it works very fine. One bug of its program, is that the data is retrieved continuosly (do not separate the UW measures and the surface ones in two separates columns, which would be ideal). Instead the data appears one after the other: UW surface UW surface, etc, in one single column so you have to either create a simple program to separate them both or separate them manually in excel of any other spreadsheet. Other than these two little problems it works perfectly for UW light measures. I guess they are on-line. A picture of a similar instrument can be found on: Kirk (1983,1994) Light and photosynthesis in aquatic ecosystems, Cambridge Univ. Press. Hope this info serves! Juan L. Torres, MS Bio-optical Oceanography Lab. University of Puerto Rico Dept. of Marine Sciences >From: "Tony Davi" >Reply-To: "Tony Davi" >To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov >Subject: Light meter >Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 18:09:20 GMT > >I am currently working on measuring light fields at the Flower Gardens >Banks >National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Texas. Does anyone have >suggestions of brands and models a good PAR meter that is easy to use, >sturdy, and accurate? I would like to purchase one that is fully >submersible since the work will be done in the field. > >Thanks for any information you can provide. > >Tony Davi >Aquarium of the Americas >1 Canal Street >New Orleans, LA 70130 >(504) 378-2515 >(504) 565-3034 fax >molamola2 at hotmail.com > >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From reef at bellsouth.net Tue May 16 13:32:05 2000 From: reef at bellsouth.net (WebMaster) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 13:32:05 -0400 Subject: [Fwd: ACTION ALERT: Ket Largo AWT vote May 18, 2000] Message-ID: <39218615.B1E14422@bellsouth.net> There is a meeting of the Monroe County Commission tonight in the Florida Keys at 6pm. (May 18, 2000) at the Key Largo Library. This is your chance to speak out in support of clean water through Advanced Wastewater Treatment. Ask the commissioners to VOTE YES FOR CLEAN WATER to save the coral reefs. Attached is a complete Action Alert by Reef Relief, a Florida Keys watchdog for coral reefs. Please read this action alert for all of the details of this pivital vote in the Florida Keys. You may contact Reef Relief directly for more information. WebMaster - Reef Relief reef at bellsouth.net http://www.reefrelief.org (305) 294-3100 -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "Reef Relief" Subject: ACTION ALERT: Ket Largo AWT vote May 18, 2000 Date: 6 May 2000 07:22:17 -0000 Size: 13577 Url: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/pipermail/coral-list-old/attachments/20000516/2034889b/attachment.mht From hien at iucn.org.vn Fri May 19 07:46:52 2000 From: hien at iucn.org.vn (Bui Thi Thu Hien) Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 11:46:52 GMT Subject: Chief Technical Advisor, Vietnam Message-ID: <200005191146.LAA74160@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> IUCN is looking for a Chief Technical Advisor for the project Pilot Marine Protected Area (MPA) in Vietnam. ==> Chief Technical Advisor, Vietnam <== This is a four-year position, expected to commence in August 2000 and based in Khanh Hoa province. Main responsibilities will include: Overall management of project activities including coordination of activities; setting up the Project Management Unit; recruiting & supervision of project personnel; development of an MPA management plan for the site; development of Annual Plans of Operation; management of the project budget; preparing financial and progress reports; oversight of short-term advisors; and preparing and monitoring the performance of sub-contracts between IUCN and project sub-contractors. The successful candidate will have: Advanced University degree qualifications; at least 10 years of experience working in a field related to marine conservation and sustainable development; proven professional, technical and managerial skills, especially excellent organisational capacity, community-based development; project planning, budgeting and M&E; and an ability to communicate, negotiate and write fluently in English. Knowledge of Vietnamese would be an advantage. Interested candidates should send their CV, the names of two referees and a cover letter explaining their interest in the position by 15 June 2000 to: Chief Finance and Human Resources Officer, IUCN, AIT, P.O. Box 4, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand. Fax: 662 524 5392, e-mail: iucn at ait.ac.th, website: http://www.iucn.org Only shortlisted candidates will be notified IUCN is an equal opportunities employer From hendee at aoml.noaa.gov Fri May 19 10:54:36 2000 From: hendee at aoml.noaa.gov (Jim Hendee) Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:54:36 -0400 (EDT) Subject: New virus info Message-ID: There is a new variant of the I-LOVE-YOU virus circulating. Please see, http://www.fedcirc.gov/hotindex.html for more information. Cheers, Jim Hendee From harold.a.moffitt1 at jsc.nasa.gov Fri May 19 17:39:06 2000 From: harold.a.moffitt1 at jsc.nasa.gov (MOFFITT, HAROLD A. (JSC-DO)) Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 16:39:06 -0500 Subject: FW: Availability of USVI and Puerto Rico Aerial Photography Message-ID: <78E01E3B84DAD111AA5F0020AFFC102601D4B40F@jsc-ems-mbs03.jsc.nasa.gov> FYI - Forwarded from the Sea Turtle list - please direct all questions to Mark Monaco (address below) -----Original Message----- From: Michael Coyne [mailto:mcoyne at SEATURTLE.ORG] Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 4:16 PM To: CTURTLE at LISTS.UFL.EDU Subject: Availability of USVI and Puerto Rico Aerial Photography ANNOUNCEMENT Please Distribute ############# The National Ocean Service's Biogeography Team is leading an investigation to consistently and comprehensively map the distribution of coral reefs and other benthic habitats throughout the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Color aerial photographs were obtained during March and December 1999, and January 2000 for all of the USVI and Puerto Rico from the shoreline to water depths of approximately 20 meters (the depth limit of image penetration for aerial photos). Many of these photos are now available and can be queried, viewed, and downloaded on the internet through a searchable archive created by NOS's Biogeography Program called Image Finder. These aerial photographs will be used to create a digital map of the marine resources in the USVI and Puerto Rico including coral reefs, seagrass beds, mangrove forests, and other important areas for fisheries, tourism, and other aspects of the coastal economy. The primary product of this effort will be benthic habitat maps (in a Geographic Information System, GIS) although a habitat classification manual and a georeferenced mosaic composed of digital scans of the raw photographs will also be produced. The benthic maps will be created using visual interpretation of scanned aerial photographs. The specific methods used to produce habitat maps will be documented in a classification manual and provided to the local research and management communities to allow them to conduct similar habitat assessments in the future. The georeferenced photo-mosaic, the classification manual, and GIS coverages of the benthic habitat maps will be provided on compact disc, via FTP, or downloadable ! from the Biogeography Team's Website. This project will support many activities including fishery management, coastal zone management, disaster mitigation (e.g. hurricanes, boat grounding), and academic and government research of the region's marine resources. The images provide a valuable spatial database of marine resources that can be compared to historic and future datasets (via the classification manual) to evaluate changes in habitat distribution following hurricanes, boat grounding, coastal development, and other acute and/or long term alterations to the marine community. The habitat maps are designed to be compatible with other GIS data layers. For example, habitat maps can be compared to: the boundaries of marine protected areas and areas of particular concern to conduct GAP analysis for designation of future marine reserves, locations of coastal construction in relation to ocean circulation patterns and sensitive habitats to assist in planing sustainable development, or a database of habitat affinities o! f fisheries species to produce maps of fish distribution for developing essential fish habitat maps in response to the recent amendments to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. For questions and comments concerning this project please contact: Mark Monaco, Ph.D. NOAA/NOS Biogeography Team Leader 1305 East-West Highway SSMC 4, N/SCI1 Silver Spring, MD 20910 301-713-3028 x160 Fax 301-713-4384 E-mail: mark.monaco at noaa.gov > ====================================================================== Harold Moffitt email: harold.moffitt at jsc.nasa.gov voice: 281-244-0207 fax: 281-244-7622 NASA websites: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov http://www.jsc.nasa.gov NASA Space Shuttle Earth Observation Program: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov U.S. Navy websites: http://www.nrl.navy.mil http://reserves.nrl.navy.mil/scitech105/index.html snail-mail: NASA Johnson Space Center/DO5, Houston TX 77058 USA > ====================================================================== > From Joanne.Delaney at noaa.gov Fri May 19 21:57:38 2000 From: Joanne.Delaney at noaa.gov (Joanne Delaney) Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 01:57:38 GMT Subject: Plan for proposed Tortugas Ecological Reserve released Message-ID: <200005200157.BAA80344@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary announces the release of the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement/Draft Supplemental Management Plan for the proposed Tortugas Ecological Reserve. The Federal Register Notice containing the proposed rule for the Reserve has also been released (dated Thursday, May 18, 2000). The marine resources of the Tortugas are the crown jewel of the Florida Keys and represent one of America's last wild ocean places. The Tortugas Ecological Reserve proposal is a unique opportunity to protect some of the healthiest and most diverse coral reefs in the region. In addition to its goal of preserving biodiversity and safeguarding critical habitats for the various life-stages of many marine species, the Tortugas Ecological Reserve would serve as a reference site from which scientists may gauge the effects of human impacts on the ecosystem. All of the documents related to the proposed Tortugas Ecological Reserve and background on the Tortugas 2000 process are available on the Sanctuary's website at www.fknms.nos.noaa.gov. Release of the Draft SEIS/DSMP triggers a 60-day public review and comment period, in which members of the scientific community and the public at large are encouraged to offer their input on the reserve proposal. Comments will be accepted until July 31, 2000. Please see the FKNMS website for additional instructions. -- Joanne M. Delaney Research Interpreter Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (305) 743-2437 x32 joanne.delaney at noaa.gov http://www.fknms.nos.noaa.gov From Arnupap.P at chula.ac.th Sun May 21 00:28:15 2000 From: Arnupap.P at chula.ac.th (Arnupap Panichpol) Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 11:28:15 +0700 Subject: Underwater Technique Message-ID: <200005210425.LAA13934@pioneer.netserv.chula.ac.th> Dear Colleague I'm working in a coral reef monitoring program using underwater technique. Did anybody had work in this field or know the place that I can get more data about it. Thank you very much Arnupap Panichpol Aquatic Resource Research Institute Institute Building 3, 9th floor Chulalongkorn University Phayathai Bangkok 10330 Thailand Tel. 662-2188160-3 Fax. 662-2544259 From fpl10 at calva.net Mon May 22 02:37:14 2000 From: fpl10 at calva.net (Fabrice POIRAUD-LAMBERT) Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 08:37:14 +0200 (MET DST) Subject: Symbiosis, commensalism & parasits Message-ID: HI All, I'm looking for information about Symbiosis, commensalism & parasitic relations between corals and other animals (fish, crabes, shrimps, etc...). These info are often spread over many books (with often few details only), but is there one or more book(s) talking only about this subject ? Thanks for any help Best Regards Fabrice POIRAUD-LAMBERT From s96007966 at student.usp.ac.fj Mon May 22 20:48:54 2000 From: s96007966 at student.usp.ac.fj (Ron Devine Vave) Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 12:48:54 +1200 Subject: Remote Sensing & coral reefs Message-ID: hello there everyone! My name is Ron Vave, and I am a Postgraduate student in Marine Science. Currently I am working on a Biodiversity research project in a nearby reef in Suva (FIJI), called Nukubuco reef. Concentrating only on Species diversity. I intend to expand this into my Master (MSc) but to also integrate Remote Sensing (GPS, GIS etc etc). The reef that I have chosen to work on is the Suva reef which is at close proximity to the University. If you have done any sort of work that is relevant to this field, could you please help me out; by giving me some guidelines and maybe some advice. Links to other works would also be very much appreciated. Vinaka vaka levu (Thank you) from Fiji. Ron Vave Post graduate student Marine Studies Programmme University of the South Pacific Fiji Islands. From Satighe at aol.com Tue May 23 17:54:40 2000 From: Satighe at aol.com (Satighe at aol.com) Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 17:54:40 EDT Subject: Job opportunity in Egypt Message-ID: <7d.549a28c.265c5820@aol.com> Coral Folks and Parks Folks, Below is the Job Description/Scope of Work for a Resident Advisor on a USAID Project in Egypt, relating to the natural resources management of the Red Sea. I spent 18 months on the precursor to this project, so would be happy to provide insight and details for anyone who is interested. The outgoing person had a terrestrial-parks background, but a marine orientation is really needed. The position is open immediately--only serious folks able to make a year or more committment should respond. PLEASE DO NOT HIT REPLY---rather send me an individual email regarding the position, or contact Ms. Stagliano (info at end) at IRG directly. Terms of Reference - Natural Resources Policy Advisor Position is open to a U.S. citizen or Alien Registration card holder. The position is based in Cairo, Egypt, and reports to the EEPP (Egyptian Environmental Policy Program) Team Leader. Responsibilities: The incumbent will be responsible for the management of appropriate design, development, implementation, and analysis of natural resources management policies, activities, and institutional strengthening measures. Particular emphasis is to be given, but not limited to, the Red Sea ecosystem. Must ensure coordination and collaboration with other USAID-funded EEPP contractors, and other donor representatives, regarding natural resource management issues. Key functions: ? Provide advice to the Nature Conservation Sector (NCS) of the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA) in Cairo on matters such as: - Design and implementation of a management plan for the overall NCS, including institutional reforms needed to make NCS more effective, and NCS operations. Included in the management plan is to be a staffing structure, with roles and responsibilities. - Development of a basic training curriculum. - Development of a Code of Conduct. ? Provide technical support to NCS in Cairo on matters such as: - Developing a zoning plan for proposed Larger Red Sea Protected Area. - Developing self-financing proposals for cost recovery of EEAA operations in the Red Sea. ? Provide technical support and advice to PSU staff assigned to EEAA Hurghada office on matters such as: - Regulatory compliance and enforcement (including use of ranger patrols) of nature and environmental protection laws. - Compliance with environmental impact assessment (EIA) requirements. ? Provide technical support and advice to EEAA in Cairo on establishing clear roles and responsibilities for implementing EIA procedures and ensuring that impact mitigation measures are conducted with regard to developments in and along the Red Sea. ? Provide technical support and advice to USAID and PSU staff in Egypt on natural resources management policy issues. Ensure that several relevant policy papers are prepared regarding natural resources management issues. ? Provide technical support and advice to other EEPP contractors regarding natural resources policy issues. Qualifications: At least Master's degree in appropriate discipline and 15 years relevant experience in natural resources management, and EIA preparation and compliance. Additional background desirable in law enforcement, environmental regulatory compliance, or nature protection. Previous experience with donor-funded projects in developing countries an advantage. Must have excellent written and spoken English language skills. Julie Stagliano JStagliano at IRGLTD.COM Business Development Consultant International Resources Group, Ltd. 1211 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite 700 Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202-289-0100 X3160 Fax: 202-289-7601 ========================================================== Stacey A. Tighe, Ph.D. 22 Charlene Court Business Tel/Fax: (401)295-7740 N. Kingstown, RI 02852 Residence Tel: (401)295-0157 E-Mail: satighe at aol.com or stighe at gso.uri.edu From erikm at nioz.nl Thu May 25 03:50:34 2000 From: erikm at nioz.nl (Erik Meesters) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 09:50:34 +0200 Subject: coral vs zoox dna quantification Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I've asked some molecular biologists who work with corals, but up to now none has been able to give me a clear answer. Does any of you have an idea how much of the total rna and dna in a sample from a coral would be from the host, respectively from the symbiont? I'd greatly appreciate an answer to my email address. Best wishes to you all. Erik -------------------------------------------- Dr. Erik Meesters Dept of Marine Ecology Netherlands Institute of Sea Research (Nioz) P.O. Box 59 1790 AB Den Burg-The Netherlands ph. (0)31-(0)222-369530/572 fax (0)31-(0)222-319674 From W.J.Burnett at newcastle.ac.uk Thu May 25 05:47:41 2000 From: W.J.Burnett at newcastle.ac.uk (Bill Burnett) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 09:47:41 +0000 Subject: coral vs zoox dna quantification In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <200005250847.JAA17401@cheviot3.ncl.ac.uk> > Dear colleagues, > I've asked some molecular biologists who work with corals, but up to now > none has been able to give me a clear answer. You expected a clear answer from a molecular biologist? > Does any of you have an idea how much of the total rna and dna in a sample > from a coral would be from the host, respectively from the symbiont? That probably depends on all sorts of things, like relative amounts of tissue of host and zoox, which depends on species, and zoox abundance, which varies in response to environment (bleaching being the extreme case...). "It depends...." - That's why no one can give you a clear answer. For what it's worth, there's enough zoox and host DNA in any one sample to cause you a genuine headache. If you're wanting to sequence something, make sure you've got damn good specific primers. If you're looking to make a library, then either use isolated zoox in culture or zoox free tissue - sperm, or eggs for some spp. HTH, Bill ------------------------------------- Bill Burnett w.j.burnett at ncl.ac.uk University of Newcastle upon Tyne From erikm at nioz.nl Thu May 25 05:57:40 2000 From: erikm at nioz.nl (Erik Meesters) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:57:40 +0200 Subject: coral vs zoox dna quantification In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hello fellow scientists, It was pointed out that I haven't been specific enough with my question. We have made some investigations on Rna and Dna concentrations in corals. As some of you may be aware, the ratio between Rna and Dna may reveal something about the metabolic condition of the individual, cq community. Rna is assumed to vary with metabolism (protein production, gametogenesis etc), Dna per cel is assumed to be reasonably constant. In corals a large proportion of Dna orriginates from the zoox and ofcourse because zoox concentrations vary with stress, light (you name it) one may assume that DNA varies too. That is, IF the zoox contribute a substantial part to the total dna pool. My idea has always been that people that look at coral or zoox dna do in some way separate the different dna's (Forgive my ignorance for I am no molecular biologist!) and that this would be an easy question. Again, I hope this time clearer, does anyone have an idea what proportion of Dna in a sample of coral tissue including zoox, might be from the host or symbiont? Thanks again for any helpful hints, ideas or even answers! cheers, Erik On 25 May 00, at 9:50, Erik Meesters wrote: > Dear colleagues, > I've asked some molecular biologists who work with corals, but up to now > none has been able to give me a clear answer. > > Does any of you have an idea how much of the total rna and dna in a sample > from a coral would be from the host, respectively from the symbiont? > > I'd greatly appreciate an answer to my email address. > > Best wishes to you all. > > Erik > > -------------------------------------------- > Dr. Erik Meesters > Dept of Marine Ecology > Netherlands Institute of Sea Research (Nioz) > P.O. Box 59 > 1790 AB Den Burg-The Netherlands > ph. (0)31-(0)222-369530/572 > fax (0)31-(0)222-319674 > -------------------------------------------- Dr. Erik Meesters Dept of Marine Ecology Netherlands Institute of Sea Research (Nioz) P.O. Box 59 1790 AB Den Burg-The Netherlands ph. (0)31-(0)222-369530/572 fax (0)31-(0)222-319674 From cnidaria at earthlink.net Thu May 25 08:34:03 2000 From: cnidaria at earthlink.net (James M. Cervino) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 08:34:03 -0400 Subject: Host/Symbioant Physiology Message-ID: Dear Erik, Why not separate the host tissue from the zooxanthellar via homogenization(glass tissue grinder)? From here you can re-run the experiment. You can also do this to observe differences in protein content via Gel Electrophoresis in host tissue and zooxanthellae. Good Luck, James *************************************** James M. Cervino Marine Biologist Dept. of Biology/Geology 471 University Pkwy. Aiken South Carolina Zip: 29801 e-mail :cnidaria at earthlink.net *************************************** From cnidaria at earthlink.net Thu May 25 08:35:03 2000 From: cnidaria at earthlink.net (James M. Cervino) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 08:35:03 -0400 Subject: Second E-mail In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Erik, How are you? I enjoyed your question, and always appreciate a question regarding coral/host physiology and symbiosis as this is the focus of my PhD. work. Good Luck, James *************************************** James M. Cervino Marine Biologist Dept. of Biology/Geology 471 University Pkwy. Aiken South Carolina Zip: 29801 e-mail :cnidaria at earthlink.net *************************************** From Michael.Rard at univ-reunion.fr Thu May 25 11:15:00 2000 From: Michael.Rard at univ-reunion.fr (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Micha=EBl_RARD?=) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 18:15:00 +0300 Subject: Host/Symbioant Physiology References: Message-ID: <010601bfc65b$fecc7900$81080a0a@univreunion.fr> Hi James (and others), I work on zooxanthellae density, pigments and total protein contents of 2 corals (Acropora and Montipora). But I have very few publications which can give me some results to compared with my species. Have you some references which would speake at this subject ? Thanks a lot for your help and have a nice day. Micha?l _\\///_ (? O O ?) ==================ooO=(_)=Ooo==================== * * * Micha?l RARD * * Laboratoire d'Ecologie Marine * * Universit? de la R?union, BP 7151 * * 97715 Saint Denis Messag cedex 9 * * La R?union, France * * Tel : +33(0)262-93-81-76 * * Fax : +33(0)262-93-86-85 * * E-Mail : mrard at univ-reunion.fr * ================================================= ----- Original Message ----- From: James M. Cervino To: Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 3:34 PM Subject: Host/Symbioant Physiology > Dear Erik, > > Why not separate the host tissue from the zooxanthellar via > homogenization(glass tissue grinder)? From here you can re-run the > experiment. You can also do this to observe differences in protein content > via Gel Electrophoresis in host tissue and zooxanthellae. > > Good Luck, James > > *************************************** > James M. Cervino > Marine Biologist > Dept. of Biology/Geology > 471 University Pkwy. Aiken > South Carolina Zip: 29801 > e-mail :cnidaria at earthlink.net > *************************************** > > > From osha at pobox.com Thu May 25 11:02:56 2000 From: osha at pobox.com (Osha Gray Davidson) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:02:56 -0500 Subject: Zoox pigments Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20000525095632.00a75ee0@mail.iowact1.ia.home.com> Apropos of the ongoing discussion about zooxanthellae, I was recently told that coral zoox pigmentation is exclusively brown. Can someone tell me if this is accurate? Cheers, Osha Osha Gray Davidson Adjunct Associate Professor International Programs, University of Iowa MAILING ADDRESS: Osha Gray Davidson 14 S. Governor St. Iowa City, IA 52240 USA Phone: 319-338-4778 Home page: www.OshaDavidson.com From matz at ibch.ibch.ru Thu May 25 09:20:53 2000 From: matz at ibch.ibch.ru (Mikhail Matz) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 13:20:53 GMT Subject: spawning behavior Message-ID: <200005251320.NAA22714@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Hello everybody, I would greatly appreciate if you could help me find any data available concerning spawning behavior of the following Anthozoa species from Carribbean: Ricordea florida Agaricia agaricites A. fragilis Montastraea cavernosa M. annularis Scolumia cubensis Condylactis gigantea I am trying to figure out the phylogeny of fluorescent proteins from them, and wonder if there is any effect on it from the species' spawning habits. Especially mass spawning, if any of them participate in it. thanks in advance, Mike Matz From cmiller at cpe.dynip.com Thu May 25 13:07:30 2000 From: cmiller at cpe.dynip.com (Cheryl Miller) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 13:07:30 -0400 Subject: Literature request for Palythoa/scleractinian interaction Message-ID: <01BFC64A.30149CC0@CHERYL> Hello everyone I have been searching for literature regarding the interaction between the encrusting, mat zoanthid, Palythoa sp., and scleractinian corals. During many dive trips in the Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas, I have observed instances where Palythoa had overgrown the underlying coral, seemingly causing the death of the coral. Could anyone direct me to specific references regarding the relationship between the two, particularly the negative effects of Palythoa sp. on scleractinian species? I appreciate any assistance. Cheryl Miller cmiller at cpe.dynip.com From jware at erols.com Thu May 25 14:20:48 2000 From: jware at erols.com (John Ware) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:20:48 -0400 Subject: Rain forests of the sea?? Message-ID: <392D6F00.599E16F9@erols.com> Dear Coral List, One of Jim Hendee's recent messages reminded me that one of the legitimate items for the coral list is "controversial topics in coral reef ecology". I am not sure that this is a 'controversial topic', but the coral list has been pretty quiet lately. Are coral reefs really analogous to rain forests or is the coral reef community just taking advantage of a catchy 'sound bite' to gain status in the eyes of the ecologically minded public? There are certainly some similarities, but I have often thought that the differences are large also. Anybody care to share their thoughts on this topic with the list?? John -- ************************************************************* * * * John R. Ware, PhD * * President * * SeaServices, Inc. * * 19572 Club House Road * * Montgomery Village, MD, 20886 * * 301 987-8507 * * jware at erols.com * * fax: 301 987-8531 * * _ * * | * * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * * _|_ * * | _ | * * _______________________________| |________ * * |\/__ Undersea Technology for the 21st Century \ * * |/\____________________________________________/ * ************************************************************** From mcall at superaje.com Thu May 25 16:01:45 2000 From: mcall at superaje.com (Don McAllister) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 16:01:45 -0400 Subject: Rain forests of the sea?? References: <392D6F00.599E16F9@erols.com> Message-ID: <392D86A8.EF9E2DF3@superaje.com> John Ware wrote: > > I am not sure that this is a 'controversial topic', but the > coral list has been pretty quiet lately. Are coral reefs really > analogous to rain forests or is the coral reef community just taking > advantage of a catchy 'sound bite' to gain status in the eyes of the > ecologically minded public? I think the conservation community, including myself (!) has taken advantage of this analogy, although really coral reefs stand on their own tentacles. However, work of the IUCN SSC Coral Reef Fish Specialist Group suggests that about 25% of marine fish species are found on coral reefs. That's a pretty high level, given that coral reefs occupy less than 1% of the World Ocean, some 230,000 km2 according to a recent estimate. Hopefully Callum Roberts and Julie Hawkins will publish this year their fabulous species density maps for coral reef fishes of the world that will show the global hotspots for these fishes. Marjorie L. Reaka-Kudla in Biodiversity II, however comes up with a better broad answer. She estimates that over 900,000 species (plants, animals, microbiota) inhabit coral reefs. Another answer can be provided by a scuba/snorkel transect across a reef and into adjacent sandy areas. Lots of species in the first, few in the second. But it isn't just a tropical affair (:-->), Norwegian studies show 300 species in deepwater coral 'reef' areas off their coasts. We haven't studied such areas thoroughly enough elsewhere to be sure of countes. But mapping deepwater corals off the West Coast of Canada, shows they are much more frequent there than had been hithertoo suspected and the available clues suggest a rich variety of biota. This would suggest that it is the three-dimensional structural diversity in the tropics and boreal zones which provides shelter and food, that intensifies biodiversity. don Don McAllister From Steneck at maine.maine.edu Thu May 25 18:38:07 2000 From: Steneck at maine.maine.edu (Bob Steneck) Date: Thu, 25 May 00 18:38:07 -0400 Subject: Rain forests of the sea?? Message-ID: <200005252237.SAA00345@franklin.unet.maine.edu> Coral folk, It's all relative but both rainforests and coral reefs are unique and probably worthy of the sound-bite analogy. Both concentrate diversity, have complex habitat architecture and are highly productive (high gross productivity). Species richness and canopy heights are greater in rainforests, gross productivity is greater on reefs. Taxonomic composition differs significantly. In rain forests most species are insects, angiosperms and birds. Reefs have no marine insects, hardly any angiosperms and certainly no birds. However, reefs have much greater higher-order diversity (e.g., number of phyla). While there is a wider phyletic range of primary producers (endosymbionts, plankton and multiple phyla of benthic algae) the within group diversity for each is relatively low. For example, species richness in algae is much lower than that for angiosperms, reef fish are less diverse than rainforest birds. There are low diversity reefs (e.g., Clipperton in the eastern Pacific, Abrolhos off Brazil and Hawaii) that have many of the same zones, groups and ecosystem function of high diversity reefs. I don't know of low diversity rainforests - this may reveal my ignorance. Coral reefs may be most unique because of their role in producing calcium carbonate bioherms (reef rock). In a relatively short period of time, say 500 or 1000 years, they can significantly change their physical environment as they grow to and reach sea level. Finally, both ecosystems are globally threatened. Would it be useful to consider the rates of change in these two ecosystems? Reefs in the Caribbean have lost much of their largest framework building corals (the acroporids). Are there rainforest analogs? Are the two systems equally resilient to perturbations? Just some food for thought. Cheers, Bob Steneck >Dear Coral List, > > One of Jim Hendee's recent messages reminded me that one of the >legitimate items for the coral list is "controversial topics in coral >reef ecology". > > I am not sure that this is a 'controversial topic', but the >coral list has been pretty quiet lately. Are coral reefs really >analogous to rain forests or is the coral reef community just taking >advantage of a catchy 'sound bite' to gain status in the eyes of the >ecologically minded public? > > There are certainly some similarities, but I have often thought >that the differences are large also. Anybody care to share their >thoughts on this topic with the list?? > >John ------------------------------- Robert S. Steneck, Ph.D. Professor, School of Marine Sciences Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation University of Maine Darling Marine Center Walpole, ME 04573 (207) 563 - 3146 ext. 233 e-mail: Steneck at Maine.EDU The School of Marine Sciences Web site: http://www.ume.maine.edu/~marine/index.html From rgrigg at iniki.soest.hawaii.edu Thu May 25 20:40:49 2000 From: rgrigg at iniki.soest.hawaii.edu (Rick Grigg) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:40:49 -1000 Subject: Rain forests of the sea?? In-Reply-To: <200005252237.SAA00345@franklin.unet.maine.edu> Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.20000525144049.012ac4e0@iniki.soest.hawaii.edu> Dear John, Perhaps a perspective might be gained by turning the analogy around. Rain forests are the "coral reefs of the land". Not even, as they say in Hawaiian these days. Rick Grigg University of Hawaii At 06:38 PM 5/25/00 -0400, Bob Steneck wrote: >Coral folk, > > It's all relative but both rainforests and coral reefs are unique and >probably worthy of the sound-bite analogy. Both concentrate diversity, >have complex habitat architecture and are highly productive (high gross >productivity). Species richness and canopy heights are greater in >rainforests, gross productivity is greater on reefs. Taxonomic >composition differs significantly. In rain forests most species are >insects, angiosperms and birds. Reefs have no marine insects, hardly any >angiosperms and certainly no birds. However, reefs have much greater >higher-order diversity (e.g., number of phyla). While there is a wider >phyletic range of primary producers (endosymbionts, plankton and multiple >phyla of benthic algae) the within group diversity for each is relatively >low. For example, species richness in algae is much lower than that for >angiosperms, reef fish are less diverse than rainforest birds. There are >low diversity reefs (e.g., Clipperton in the eastern Pacific, Abrolhos >off Brazil and Hawaii) that have many of the same zones, groups and >ecosystem function of high diversity reefs. I don't know of low >diversity rainforests - this may reveal my ignorance. > > Coral reefs may be most unique because of their role in producing >calcium carbonate bioherms (reef rock). In a relatively short period of >time, say 500 or 1000 years, they can significantly change their physical >environment as they grow to and reach sea level. > > Finally, both ecosystems are globally threatened. Would it be useful >to consider the rates of change in these two ecosystems? Reefs in the >Caribbean have lost much of their largest framework building corals (the >acroporids). Are there rainforest analogs? Are the two systems equally >resilient to perturbations? > > Just some food for thought. > >Cheers, > >Bob Steneck > > > > >>Dear Coral List, >> >> One of Jim Hendee's recent messages reminded me that one of the >>legitimate items for the coral list is "controversial topics in coral >>reef ecology". >> >> I am not sure that this is a 'controversial topic', but the >>coral list has been pretty quiet lately. Are coral reefs really >>analogous to rain forests or is the coral reef community just taking >>advantage of a catchy 'sound bite' to gain status in the eyes of the >>ecologically minded public? >> >> There are certainly some similarities, but I have often thought >>that the differences are large also. Anybody care to share their >>thoughts on this topic with the list?? >> >>John > > >------------------------------- >Robert S. Steneck, Ph.D. >Professor, School of Marine Sciences >Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation >University of Maine >Darling Marine Center >Walpole, ME 04573 >(207) 563 - 3146 ext. 233 >e-mail: Steneck at Maine.EDU > >The School of Marine Sciences Web site: >http://www.ume.maine.edu/~marine/index.html > > From osha at pobox.com Thu May 25 21:55:47 2000 From: osha at pobox.com (Osha Gray Davidson) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 20:55:47 -0500 Subject: Rain forests of the sea?? In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20000525144049.012ac4e0@iniki.soest.hawaii.edu> References: <200005252237.SAA00345@franklin.unet.maine.edu> Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20000525205331.00a726e0@mail.iowact1.ia.home.com> Hey, Rick, if you're going to quote from my book, the least you could do is give the proper citation (The Enchanted Braid, p. 6.) ;-> Osha At 02:40 PM 5/25/2000, Rick Grigg wrote: >Dear John, > > Perhaps a perspective might be gained by turning the analogy > around. Rain >forests are the "coral reefs of the land". > > Not even, as they say in Hawaiian these days. > > Rick Grigg > University of Hawaii Osha Gray Davidson Adjunct Associate Professor International Programs, University of Iowa MAILING ADDRESS: Osha Gray Davidson 14 S. Governor St. Iowa City, IA 52240 USA Phone: 319-338-4778 Home page: www.OshaDavidson.com From hzibrowi at com.univ-mrs.fr Fri May 26 03:43:02 2000 From: hzibrowi at com.univ-mrs.fr (Helmut ZIBROWIUS) Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 08:43:02 +0100 Subject: deepwater coral "reefs"? In-Reply-To: <392D86A8.EF9E2DF3@superaje.com> References: <392D6F00.599E16F9@erols.com> Message-ID: >But it isn't just a tropical affair (:-->), Norwegian studies show 300 >species in deepwater coral 'reef' areas off their coasts. This is surely not specific to Norway, such deep-water coral build-ups occurs widely along the Atlantic margin of W Europe and in other parts of the world (for example at Saint-Paul and Amsterdam islands, southern Indian Ocean. Depending on where and on the depth level, the main builders are different species. Surely, these are not reefs in the common established sense, and re-introducing this term in the deep context forgets the efforts made by Teichmann and others to make understood to geologists and paleontologists that not all ancient coral mass occurrences are to be interpreted as reefs, in the sense of tropical and shallow. One may consider that using again the term reef for these deep-water build-ups "just takes advantage of a catchy 'sound bite' to gain status in the eyes of the ecologically minded public", and connectedly, intends to drain supplementary funding (no problem, these deep communities indeed deserve detailed study). By qualifying these structures as reefs, one also intends to benefit of "reefs are endangered". And hasn't the whole order of Scleractinia been but on a CITES-list by a bunch of brain-deficient bureaucrates? >This would suggest that it is the >three-dimensional structural diversity in the tropics and boreal zones >which provides shelter and food, that intensifies biodiversity. Surely. Similar situation with the mainly calcareous algae build-ups in the Mediterranean, locally known as "coralligene". Helmut ZIBROWIUS (Centre d'Oceanologie de Marseille) Station Marine d'Endoume Rue Batterie des Lions 13007 Marseille / France E-MAIL: hzibrowi at com.univ-mrs.fr TEL: within France 0491041624 from abroad +33 491041624 FAX: within France 0491041635 from abroad +33 491041635 From Rob.Gould at itn.co.uk Fri May 26 04:29:50 2000 From: Rob.Gould at itn.co.uk (Gould, Rob) Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 09:29:50 +0100 Subject: rainforests of the sea/raising awareness Message-ID: Coral people, I was interested by the recent comparison between reefs and rainforests. I'm producing a documentary for Discovery Channel on the marine research in the Mascarene area of the Indian Ocean. Coral reefs clearly play an important part in the ecology here and these reefs suffered particularly badly in the 1998 bleaching event. The idea that coral reefs are analogous to rainforests is one I've heard and was planning to use as one of the themes in the programme. One reason for linking the two ecosystems, from my point of view, is the hope that it will raise public awareness of the importance of coral reefs in the way that the destruction of the rainforests became popular cause in the final decades of the last century. I am structuring the programme at the moment so any thoughts from you, the experts, would be greatly appreciated. Any information about possible implications of reef destruction and, of course, the positive contributions coral reefs make to the wider environment are particularly welcome. Your knowledge on this subject is obviously far greater than mine so I would very much appreciate any help or ideas. Many thanks, Rob Gould rob.gould at itn.co.uk From W.J.Burnett at newcastle.ac.uk Fri May 26 06:16:43 2000 From: W.J.Burnett at newcastle.ac.uk (Bill Burnett) Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 10:16:43 +0000 Subject: Literature request for Palythoa/scleractinian interaction In-Reply-To: <01BFC64A.30149CC0@CHERYL> Message-ID: <200005260916.KAA03499@cheviot3.ncl.ac.uk> Cheryl, As far as I'm aware there's not much literature on zoanthid / coral interactions. What tends to happen in my experience is corals die (for whatever reason) and fast growing zoanthids occupy the space, overgrowing the dead skeleton. For example I've got some sites set up in Seychelles where Palythoas are going bananas after the '98 mass bleaching killed large swathes of the coral. I've also seen colonies on the GBR that cover 10's of m^2. There are whole 5m diameter Porites shaped Palythoa colonies - I can't guess what killed the coral but I don't think it was the zoanthid. But once established they're clearly long lived and must make life difficult for incoming coral recruits. I've not seen many examples of Palythoas overgrowing living corals - if it happens a lot I'd be very interested. B. ------------------------------------- Bill Burnett w.j.burnett at ncl.ac.uk University of Newcastle upon Tyne From mcall at superaje.com Fri May 26 10:06:29 2000 From: mcall at superaje.com (Don McAllister) Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 10:06:29 -0400 Subject: Rain forests of the sea?? References: <200005252237.SAA00345@franklin.unet.maine.edu> Message-ID: <392E84E5.E14CDB5E@superaje.com> Bob Steneck wrote: However, reefs have much greater higher-order diversity (e.g., number of phyla). You could say that rainforest diversity is based mosly on beetles! :=> don Don McAllister From Kiene at nmnh.si.edu Fri May 26 10:32:14 2000 From: Kiene at nmnh.si.edu (William Kiene) Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 10:32:14 -0400 Subject: New Book on Caribbean Reef Plants Message-ID: This book just published by Diane and Mark Littler (Smithsonian Institution) may be of interest to coral-list subscribers: CARIBBEAN REEF PLANTS: an identification guide to the reef plants of the Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida and Gulf of Mexico, by Diane and Mark Littler, April 2000. 542 pages, >720 color plates, >1,600 line drawings. Offshore Graphics, Inc., Washington, D.C., Hard Cover, ISBN 0-9678901-0-1 For additional information see website at: http://www.erols.com/offshoregraphics/ From mcall at superaje.com Fri May 26 11:11:39 2000 From: mcall at superaje.com (Don McAllister) Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 11:11:39 -0400 Subject: deepwater coral "reefs"? References: <392D6F00.599E16F9@erols.com> Message-ID: <392E942B.9D238134@superaje.com> Helmut ZIBROWIUS wrote: Surely, these are not reefs in the common established sense, and re-introducing this term in the deep context forgets the efforts made by Teichmann and others to make understood to geologists and paleontologists that not all ancient coral mass occurrences are to be interpreted as reefs, in the sense of tropical and shallow. Zibrowius poses a good question. In my own papers on the topic of northern deepwater corals I have preferentially used the term "groves" to reefs. Part of my doubt has been due to the lack of information on whether the corals occur in more or less isolated patches, or in relatively dense and large groupings. The second part of my doubt is whether the deepwater corals have been growing in situ for periods of say, centuries, and have built up a reef platform. So my own personal presumption has been that reefs constitute fairly dense and large clusters of colonies over periods measured in centuries and that the process has resulted in the build-up of a reef platform. I would be happy to be corrected on this understanding and if someone would provide me with a concise widely accepted definition of a 'coral reef.' I would hope that, although our understanding of coral assemblages has developed most strongly from tropical experience, that the terminology could be adapted or could coin new terms which would facilitate discussions of deep/cool coral assemblages. Of course where deep/cool coral assemblages do clearly differ from tropical ones is in the lack of zooxanthellae in the colonies - to my knowledge (although zooxanthellae do occur in northern sea anemonies). The Norwegian and Irish instances show that deepwater corals do grow in masses, many colonies in close approximation and measuring hundreds of metres long. As far as the building up of a platform, it looks like some sort of a platform occurs in Norwegian coral assemblages. In the case of Labrador scleractinian assemblages, there is a base of fallen dead colonies that goes back about 10,000 years in age, with individual colonies more than a century or two old. So the latter certainly, aside from zooxanthellae, gives the closest approximation to reef-like conditions. Regards, don Don McAllister From Roger.B.Griffis at hdq.noaa.gov Fri May 26 11:55:29 2000 From: Roger.B.Griffis at hdq.noaa.gov (Roger B Griffis) Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 11:55:29 -0400 Subject: President makes new announcements re: corals, mpa's Message-ID: <392E9E70.AAEFAA23@hdq.noaa.gov> FYI Coral List: New announcements today by U.S. President Clinton regarding protecting coral reefs and marine protected areas. Please see press release below. Additional fact sheets on both announcements available on the White House web site (http://www.whitehouse.gov/library/ThisWeek.cgi). Thank you. ________________________ WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ___________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release May 26, 2000 PRESIDENT CLINTON AND VICE PRESIDENT GORE: PROTECTING OUR OCEANS AND COASTS May 26, 2000 President Clinton, in a visit to Assateague Island National Seashore at the start of the Memorial Day weekend, will announce new protections for America?s beaches, coasts, and ocean resources. The President will: Direct the Commerce and Interior departments to develop a plan to permanently protect Hawaii?s rich coral reefs; issue an Executive Order directing agencies to establish a network of ocean conservation areas; and direct the Environmental Protection Agency to take new steps to limit pollution of beaches, oceans and coasts. In addition, the President will call on Congress to approve his Lands Legacy initiative, which proposes record funding for protecting ocean and coastal resources. New Stresses on Our Oceans and Coasts. The Clinton Administration has taken major steps to protect marine resources, including: extending through 2012 a moratorium on offshore oil and gas leasing; leading international efforts to protect whales and other marine mammals; securing new funding to rebuild marine fisheries; and boosting funding for national marine sanctuaries more than four-fold. But pressures on our oceans and coasts continue to mount. Nearly half of all new development in the United States occurs along the coast. Rising demand for seafood is driving some species toward extinction. And polluted runoff causes toxic algal blooms, forces beach closures, and threatens marine life and human health. Establishing New Ocean Conservation Zones. Portions of our coasts and ocean waters are protected in marine sanctuaries, wildlife refuges, and other types of "marine protected areas." There is broad scientific consensus that strengthening and expanding these conservation zones is critical to preserving marine resources and ensuring sustainable economic use of the ocean. To achieve those goals, the President today will sign an Executive Order that: - Directs the Departments of Commerce and the Interior to develop a national system of marine protected areas-- that encompasses diverse marine ecosystems, and includes ecological reserves where fishing, offshore oil drilling and other consumptive uses of marine resources are prohibited. - Directs the Commerce Department?s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to establish a Marine Protected Area Center that will work with the Department of the Interior to develop a national framework for managing this ocean conservation network. - Directs the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce pollution of beaches, coasts, and ocean waters by strengthening marine water quality standards, and establishing stronger protections for areas where they may be needed. Preserving America?s Premier Coral Reefs. Dubbed "rainforests of the sea," coral reefs harbor a remarkable abundance and diversity of marine life. But around the world, corals are in decline, suffering from pollution, over-fishing and rising ocean temperatures brought on by global warming. Today, the President will direct the Secretaries of Commerce and the Interior to develop a plan within 90 days to permanently protect the coral reefs of the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, which represent nearly 70 percent of the coral reefs in U.S. waters. The reefs surrounding this 1200-mile-long string of uninhabited islands support threatened sea turtles, endangered Hawaiian monk seals, and other marine life found nowhere else on Earth. The plan will be developed with public input and in consultation with the state of Hawaii and the Western Pacific Fisheries Management Council. ### White House Press Information is available on the web at http://www.whitehouse.gov/library/ThisWeek.cgi -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The Secretaries will develop the plan over the next 90 days with public input and in cooperation with the state of Hawaii. America's Premier Coral Reefs. The Northwest Hawaiian Islands are an archipelago of islands over 1200 miles long located west of the main Hawaiian Islands. They include Nihoa and Necker Islands, French Frigate Shoals, Maro Reef, and Pearl & Hermes Atoll, and are surrounded by some of the most extensive and pristine coral reefs in U.S. waters. The reefs extend from near-shore areas just beneath the ocean surface to a depth of 100 fathoms (600 feet), as much as 100 miles out to sea. The coral reef ecosystem encompasses more than 11,000 square kilometers and is home to a diverse and unique assemblage of fish, invertebrates, birds, sea turtles, marine mammals and other species found nowhere else on Earth. Federally protected species include the threatened green sea turtle, the endangered leatherback and hawksbill sea turtles, and the only remaining population of the endangered Hawaiian monk seal. Securing Permanent Protection. The President is directing the Secretaries of Commerce and the Interior, in cooperation with the State of Hawaii and in the consultation with the Western Pacific Fisheries Management Council, to develop recommendations for a new, coordinated management regime to permanently protect the coral reefs and provide for sustainable use of their resources. A public outreach process at the outset will include hearings to gather public comments to help shape the final recommendations. The Secretaries' plan will: - Assess all ongoing efforts to protect the coral reef ecosystem, including proposed no-take ecological reserves and the work of the Western Pacific Fisheries Management Council; - Identify further measures needed to protect the threatened and endangered species of the ecosystem, including the endangered monk seal, sea turtles, and short-tailed albatross; - Consider establishment of a framework for scientific research and exploration; - Consider establishment of a framework for recreation and tourism that identifies appropriate activities and levels consistent with the protection and enhancement of the ecosystem, and ensures opportunities for sustainable economic activity; - Develop a framework, in cooperation with the State of Hawaii and in consultation the Western Pacific Fisheries Management Council, for long-term management of the reefs. ### White House Press Information is available on the web at http://www.whitehouse.gov/library/ThisWeek.cgi -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES: The successful candidate will: assume responsibility for day-to-day operations of the CBC; work with Program Managers to identify strategic opportunities for program implementation; ensure quality of scientific content and translation accuracy for CBC publications; lead CBC staff in topic selection for, and organization of, the annual Spring Symposium series; and participate in proposal development and fund-raising activities. QUALIFICATIONS: Candidates must have: a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology, ecology, conservation biology or a related field; substantial knowledge of systematics and collections-based research; a minimum of 5 years managerial and program development experience; excellent organizational and time-management skills; attention to detail; superior oral and written communication skills; and proven interpersonal abilities; Spanish proficiency and a minimum of 2 years field experience are preferred. Closing date has been extended to June 23, 2000. Applications, including a curriculum vitae, salary requirements and complete contact information for three references should be sent to: Director Center for Biodiversity and Conservation American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York, N.Y. 10024 For more information on the CBC, please visit our web site: http://research.amnh.org/biodiversity/index.html. Dan Brumbaugh, Ph.D. American Museum of Natural History / Biodiversity Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024-5192 off: (212) 496-3494 fax: (212) 769-5277 brumba at amnh.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2241 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/pipermail/coral-list-old/attachments/20000526/d5b0f42c/attachment.bin From szmanta at uncwil.edu Fri May 26 16:29:20 2000 From: szmanta at uncwil.edu (Alina M. Szmant) Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 16:29:20 -0400 Subject: deepwater coral "reefs"? Message-ID: <3.0.32.20000526162917.0070bcdc@pop.uncwil.edu> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2765 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/pipermail/coral-list-old/attachments/20000526/d49d201a/attachment.bin From karlf at sfu.ca Fri May 26 16:22:50 2000 From: karlf at sfu.ca (Dricot-Fellenius) Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 13:22:50 -0700 Subject: rainforests of the sea/raising awareness References: Message-ID: <392EDD1A.A6D0D2B1@sfu.ca> Rob, I am on this listserve to gain knowledge about coral reefs that can be used in the management of coastal and marine tourism. As such, I can appreciate the analogy between rain forests and coral reef environments from a tourism perspective. While tourism is more prevalent in reef environments, ecotourism tends to have more success in rain forests. In accordance with ecotourism principles, the conservation ethic by tourism operators and the extent of local benefit from the operation are two themes that could be elaborated upon in your programme. There are a number of sites that can be referenced for this kind of info: http://www2.planeta.com/mader/planeta/0295/0295shores.html The Challenge of Ecotourism http://ecotourism.homepage.com/definitions.htm Dealing with Definitions - John Shores http://www.gorp.com/gorp/features/misc/ecotour.htm Principles of Ecotourism - GORP http://www.green-travel.com/gtdef.htm Toward Definition http://www2.planeta.com/mader/ecotravel/tour/definitions.html Definitions - Ron Mader/Planeta.com http://www2.planeta.com/mader/ecotravel/tour/latam.html Latin American Ecotourism - What is it? http://www2.planeta.com/mader/planeta/1196/1196agents.html Evaluating Ecotourism Operators and Agents regards, karl "Gould, Rob" wrote: > I am structuring the programme at the moment so any thoughts from you, the > experts, would be greatly appreciated. Any information about possible > implications of reef destruction and, of course, the positive contributions > coral reefs make to the wider environment are particularly welcome. > > Your knowledge on this subject is obviously far greater than mine so I would > very much appreciate any help or ideas. -- Karl Fellenius, Masters Candidate School of Resource & Environmental Management Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 http://www.rem.sfu.ca karlf at sfu.ca From mcall at superaje.com Fri May 26 19:27:26 2000 From: mcall at superaje.com (Don McAllister) Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 19:27:26 -0400 Subject: deepwater coral "reefs"? References: <3.0.32.20000526162917.0070bcdc@pop.uncwil.edu> Message-ID: <392F085D.3AB02EDE@superaje.com> "Alina M. Szmant" wrote: > "Reef " by definition is a structure that ships can run aground on. Coral reefs are such structures build by hermatypic corals and associated organisms. Deeper 3-D structures built by corals or other organisms (algae, worms, whatever...) are bioherms. I agree we need to stick with correct terminology, and educate the public and press in the process. Thanks for this enlightenment. "A dictionary of ecology, evolution and systematics" defines bioherm as: 1) Any organism contributing to the formation of a coral reef 2) A mound-like accumulation of fossil remains on the site where the organisms lived. The first lines of "Coral Reefs" in the Ecosystems of the World series says, "Reefs are marine, biogenic, wave-resistant carbonate structures, also known as , or reef-building organisms." [The word hermatypic is in italics]. I don't pretend to know the correct word for deepwater corals lacking zooxanthellae. don Don McAllister From McCarty_and_Peters at compuserve.com Fri May 26 21:30:00 2000 From: McCarty_and_Peters at compuserve.com (McCarty and Peters) Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 21:30:00 -0400 Subject: Deep water corals Message-ID: <200005262130_MC2-A68B-2F0C@compuserve.com> Don McAllister commented: >>I don't pretend to know the correct word for deep water corals lacking zooxanthellae.<< There are several terms that have been applied to this situation: ahermatypic - meaning does not build reefs, asymbiotic - originally coined to mean not containing zooxanthellae, and azooxanthellate - later used when some curmudgeon reviewer complained that asymbiotic implied no symbiotic relationships at all, whereas what was really meant was no appreciable zooxanthellae concentrations. This entire debate was fought through over the status of Astrangia danae, now Astrangia poculata, a temperate coral found in the waters of New England. A. poculata occurs side by side in forms with a brown color characteristic of its zooxanthellae and as pure white, with no zooxanthellae, and in various shades in between. This species is NOT a deep water one, admittedly, as it can occur in as little as 10 feet of water and is found as deep as 90 feet or more. It represents a bridge between the "lifestyles" of the tropical reefs that get all the attention and the deep water corals known only to those brave or foolish enough to go looking for them . We presented a poster on the whole "hermatypic does not equal zooxanthellate" argument in 1984 at the Atlantic Reef Committee meeting in Florida - McCarty, H.B., M.E.Q. Pilson, J. McManus, and E.C. Peters. When is a hermatype not a hermatype? Poster presented at Atlantic Reef Committee and the International Society for Reef Studies, Advances in Reef Science Meeting, pp. 78-79 Abstracts, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, 26-28 October 1984. Just my two cents worth.... Chip McCarty From gregorh at pacific.net.hk Sat May 27 05:19:18 2000 From: gregorh at pacific.net.hk (Gregor Hodgson) Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 17:19:18 +0800 Subject: Why is it useful to compare rainforests and reefs? References: Message-ID: <392F9316.1534BC7A@pacific.net.hk> Extending poetic license to ecology, we have used the phrase "coral reefs are the rainforests of the sea" in Reef Check's published and website PR and media materials since 1996, so have probably helped to spread this useful ecological falsehood far and wide. I don't know where the phrase was first used (and I would be interested to find out), but we found it very valuable to convey in a nutshell many of the conservation related ideas already noted by others. The fundamental message that this phrase carries to the general public is that coral reefs, like rainforests: 1) have a high biodiversity 2) are suffering heavy human impacts 3) deserve protection/conservation. The public and media have already been through a long learning curve regarding the "save the rainforests" campaign and it is a useful analogy primarily in this sense. However, I have seen some fellow ecologists wince when they hear it. To add to Bob's ecological comments, I would also note that a major difference between the two ecosystems is that many rainforest organisms such as insects, birds, and mammals are herbivores and EAT the major structural component of a rainforest --- trees (leaves, flowers, fruit etc), whereas, there are few coral reef organisms which directly consume corals. Fish are not insects and corals are not trees. GH -- Gregor Hodgson, PhD Coordinator, Reef Check Global Survey Program GPO Box 12375, Hong Kong Tel: (852) 2802-6937 Fax: (852) 2887-5454 Email: gregorh at pacific.net.hk Web: www.ReefCheck.org From mcall at superaje.com Sat May 27 07:34:18 2000 From: mcall at superaje.com (Don McAllister) Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 07:34:18 -0400 Subject: Deep water corals References: <200005262130_MC2-A68B-2F0C@compuserve.com> Message-ID: <392FB2B9.714FCF02@superaje.com> McCarty and Peters wrote: > Don McAllister commented: > > >>I don't pretend to know the correct word for deep water corals lacking > zooxanthellae.<< > There are several terms that have been applied to this situation: > ahermatypic - meaning does not build reefs, Thanks for the terminology, Chip. Those are helpful postings. But the earlier parts of the thread criticized the use of the word "reef", for these boreal assemblages. Bioherm was proposed as an alternative. But the definitions of bioherm that I found were not altogether supportive of coo/deep clusters of corals. don Don McAllister From hendee at aoml.noaa.gov Sat May 27 09:33:44 2000 From: hendee at aoml.noaa.gov (Jim Hendee) Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 09:33:44 -0400 (EDT) Subject: DANGEROUS MACRO VIRUS ALERT Message-ID: I know this isn't coral-related, but since I run the listserver, I'd hate to see these viruses propagated via the list, so I'm passing this info on to you. Cheers, Jim Hendee ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 06:34:54 -0400 Subject: DANGEROUS MACRO VIRUS ALERT "W97M.Melissa.BG" is a Word 97 macro virus that has a hostile payload deleting critical system files and self-propagating itself through e-mail using Microsoft outlook. The subject of the e-mail is "Resume - Janet Simons". W97M.Melissa.BG a macro virus with a very distructive payload. When a user opens an infected document, the virus will attempt to e-mail a copy of this document to everyone in the user's address book, using Microsoft Outlook. The virus also deposites 2 copies of itself. One is copied to "C:\Data\Normal.dot" and another to "C:\WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp\Explorer.doc" Upon closing the document, the virus attempts to delete the following files: "C:\*.*" "C:\My Documents\*.*" "C:\WINDOWS\*.*" "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\*.*" "C:\WINNT\*.*" "C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\*.*" and all files in the root directories of drives A through Z. (This is especially importatn to users with network connectivity.) The body of the hostile e-mail is: ((QUOTE)) To: Director of Sales/Marketing, Attached is my resume with a list of references contained within. Please feel free to call or email me if you have any further questions regarding my experience. I am looking forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Janet Simons. ((UNQUOTE)) Recommended Precautions: As always, DO NOT open emails or files that appear to have a suspicious origin or that contain unusual subject matter. Familiarize yourself with those filename extensions which can contain executable content. Some of those are: EXE, DOT, DOC, DLL, XLS, PPT, DRV, VBS, VBA,386, ADT, BIN, CBT, CLA, COM, CPL, DOT, MDB, MSO, OC* and PPT. If you are a recipient of this particular email, delete the mail without opening. Update your antivirus signatures. From Brylske at aol.com Sat May 27 10:20:12 2000 From: Brylske at aol.com (Brylske at aol.com) Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 10:20:12 EDT Subject: reefs and rainforests Message-ID: <97.5ec62e8.2661339c@aol.com> I've been watching this threat with a great deal of interest, given the nature of my own research as a marine educator. For the past two years I've been studying the role of analogies in human learning, and specially how analogy-based instructional strategies can be used in the acquisition of scientific concepts. Currently, I'm finishing my dissertation entitled, "The Effects of Analogy-Based Instruction on Concept Learning and Retention in a Non-Formal Coral Reef Ecology Program." My research supports the idea that analogies are powerful instructional tools, particularly with low-ability learners or those with minimal background/experience in the subject area. While my project involved the often-used "coral reef as a city" analogy, there's no reason to believe that the rain forest concept wouldn't be just as effective. If, in fact, you'd like a wonderful example of the reef/rain forest analogy, take a look at Dave Gulko's outstanding book, Hawaiian Coral Reef Ecology (pp. 136-137). My experience is that scientists often ignore or shy away from the vital role of communicating their research to any audience except their peers; and I'm very pleased to see educational issues addressed in this forum. I welcome any comments of questions in this regard. Alex Brylske From Brylske at aol.com Sat May 27 10:30:23 2000 From: Brylske at aol.com (Brylske at aol.com) Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 10:30:23 EDT Subject: Why is it useful to compare rainforests and reefs? Message-ID: In a message dated 5/27/00 5:41:16 AM, gregorh at pacific.net.hk writes: << o add to Bob's ecological comments, I would also note that a major difference between the two ecosystems is that many rainforest organisms such as insects, birds, and mammals are herbivores and EAT the major structural component of a rainforest --- trees (leaves, flowers, fruit etc), whereas, there are few coral reef organisms which directly consume corals. Fish are not insects and corals are not trees. >> This is a very important issue. When not used appropriately, analogies are prone to cause misconceptions among learners. Those who have studied the phenomenon--and developed prescriptive procedures for analogy-based instruction--all emphasize that, as part of the strategy, the learner must be told where the analogy BREAKS DOWN as well as where it applies. My definition, an analogy is something similar, not exactly the same as something else. Alex Brylske From EricHugo at aol.com Sat May 27 10:53:03 2000 From: EricHugo at aol.com (EricHugo at aol.com) Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 10:53:03 EDT Subject: deepwater coral "reefs"? Message-ID: Hi Alina and coral-list: Is there a point when a correct usage of "bioherm" over "reef" for such structures became semantically favored? I ask because I find the following perhaps relevant: Coates, Anthony G. and Jeremy B.C. Jackson. 1987. Clonal growth, algal symbiosis, and reef formation by corals. Paleobiology 13(4) 363-378. (I will not quote directly to avoid copyright concerns, although I also hope that the authors will point out if my translation is incorrect or improper, although I maintain the textual use of the word "reef" and "bioherm" ). "Rugosan corals that formed reefs likely lacked zooxanthellae because of morphological evidence. Most zooxanthellate corals today and in the fossil record contribute to reef formation, but many others are ahermatypic. Recent reef formation has little to do with being zooxanthellate but depends on environmental factors. Using morphology to indicate the presence of zooxanthellae, there exist recent deepwater analogues to the shallow water azooxanthellate Devonian Edgecliff Bioherm. " Here we have a concatination of terms, distribution, history, and ecology that makes this thread all the more intriguing. Thanks for the clarification Eric Borneman From howzit at turtles.org Sat May 27 13:44:41 2000 From: howzit at turtles.org (Ursula Keuper-Bennett) Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 13:44:41 -0400 Subject: Why is it useful to compare rainforests and reefs? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000527125129.00e048c0@pop.vex.net> Hi Alex (others) re: "coral reef as a city" analogy vs "coral reef as a rain forest". I've never heard the coral reef/city analogy before but I guess most people know more about a city than a rain forest so educators would go with what most people know. I can certainly SEE similarities once I get past the huge hurdle that "city" is a human construct and rainforest/coralreef both natural treasures are threatened BY human constructs. Let's see... similarities.... a city is run by movers-and-shakers and there sure are movers-and-shakers on any coral reef making everything else run. There's all kinds of interdependency and huge changes in activity between day and night. Scavengers and parasites make do as they can... Anyone being in the wrong place at the wrong time and they won't repeat that mistake. Yes, I can see the analogy. I still like the coral reef as rainforest analogy better. Never experienced a rain forest --only what I've seen on TV or read about. But a rainforest sure "feels" like a coral reef. Both are 3D worlds with a lot of up and down. I've shot videotape of a reef system off the coast of West Maui from 1989 through 1999 and for various reasons, need to return to those tapes frequently. As I fast forward one thing strikes me. It's possible to forget the footage is underwater especially when reviewing wide-angle/distant segments. And when that happens what I don't see a reef system but something that looks for all the world like a furrowed meadow with swarms of bees buzzing about. I'm fortunate to spend two months on the same coral reef every year. I've frequently found myself forgetting I'm underwater. Very easy to do. And then the corals feel like trees, bushes and hedges, the fish like butterflies and bees and the turtles --our beautiful turtles, FLY like birds. And here's where our reef is also like a rainforest. Sometimes we just see everything mobile DASH to the bottom hugging the corals. ZING --like that. And we look around knowing something big scared the lot of them. The "insects" fled to the safety of the "trees". I'm sure when BIG shows in a rainforest, small flees to the trees too. The analogy DOES break down though no question. If a coral reef resident falls off a coral head (even a huge TALL one) gravity is much more forgiving than it is for rainforest trees (even a small short one). Ursula Keuper-Bennett TURTLE TRAX http://www.turtles.org ---------------------------------------------------- At 10:30 AM 5/27/00 -0400, Brylske at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 5/27/00 5:41:16 AM, gregorh at pacific.net.hk writes: > ><< o add to Bob's ecological comments, I would also note that a major >difference >between the two ecosystems is that many rainforest organisms such as >insects, >birds, and mammals are herbivores and EAT the major structural component >of a >rainforest --- trees (leaves, flowers, fruit etc), whereas, there are few >coral >reef organisms which directly consume corals. Fish are not insects and >corals >are not trees. >> > >This is a very important issue. When not used appropriately, analogies are > >prone to cause misconceptions among learners. Those who have studied the >phenomenon--and developed prescriptive procedures for analogy-based >instruction--all emphasize that, as part of the strategy, the learner must >be >told where the analogy BREAKS DOWN as well as where it applies. My >definition, an analogy is something similar, not exactly the same as >something else. > >Alex Brylske From F.Kelmo at plymouth.ac.uk Sat May 27 17:11:59 2000 From: F.Kelmo at plymouth.ac.uk (Francisco KELMO) Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 21:11:59 GMT Subject: neoplasms in corals Message-ID: <84316D02EC@csuf41.csd.plym.ac.uk> Dear Colleagues, Have you heard anything related to cancer in corals recently? The most substantial paper I've got was written by Dr. Esther Peters and co-workers in May 1986. The text is of excellent quality and very informative, although the report does not fully conclude the causes of coral tumours (calicoblastic neoplasms). I am asking this because last month, during a field work, I discovered abnormal tissue growth in colonies of two scleractinians (Northern coast of the State of Bahia, Brazil). The area has been monitored since 1995, but I never noticed scleractinians with chaotic porous proliferation, hyperplasia, irregular shape and discolouration (Not the usual bleaching). I suspect that this is a consequence of reef degradation following the 1997-98 El Nino event. However, most of literature I could track down is out of date. If you are/know someone who is currently engaged in coral tumour research, please contact me. I also appreciate comments and suggestions from everyone. Cheers, Francisco. F.Kelmo Coral Reef Ecology Benthic Ecology Research Group 613 Davy Building, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Devon, PL4 8AA United Kingdon. Phone: +44 (0)1752 232951 (Lab) +44 (0)870 710 5741 (home) Fax: +44 (0)1752 232970 E-mail: fkelmo at plymouth.ac.uk From F.Kelmo at plymouth.ac.uk Sat May 27 17:11:59 2000 From: F.Kelmo at plymouth.ac.uk (Francisco KELMO) Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 21:11:59 GMT Subject: neoplasms in corals Message-ID: <84316D02EC@csuf41.csd.plym.ac.uk> Dear Colleagues, Have you heard anything related to cancer in corals recently? The most substantial paper I've got was written by Dr. Esther Peters and co-workers in May 1986. The text is of excellent quality and very informative, although the report does not fully conclude the causes of coral tumours (calicoblastic neoplasms). I am asking this because last month, during a field work, I discovered abnormal tissue growth in colonies of two scleractinians (Northern coast of the State of Bahia, Brazil). The area has been monitored since 1995, but I never noticed scleractinians with chaotic porous proliferation, hyperplasia, irregular shape and discolouration (Not the usual bleaching). I suspect that this is a consequence of reef degradation following the 1997-98 El Nino event. However, most of literature I could track down is out of date. If you are/know someone who is currently engaged in coral tumour research, please contact me. I also appreciate comments and suggestions from everyone. Cheers, Francisco. F.Kelmo Coral Reef Ecology Benthic Ecology Research Group 613 Davy Building, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Devon, PL4 8AA United Kingdon. Phone: +44 (0)1752 232951 (Lab) +44 (0)870 710 5741 (home) Fax: +44 (0)1752 232970 E-mail: fkelmo at plymouth.ac.uk From rkinzie at zoology.zoo.Hawaii.EDU Sat May 27 21:48:40 2000 From: rkinzie at zoology.zoo.Hawaii.EDU (Robert Kinzie) Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 15:48:40 -1000 Subject: Kaneohe Bay References: <97.5ec62e8.2661339c@aol.com> Message-ID: <002f01bfc846$d9ccb240$5b78ab80@hawaii.edu> For those of you who have been using our Kaneohe Bay site (and wondering why the data have not been updated for a while at the address you are used to) we have a new address: http://www.hawaii.edu/cisnet For those of you who haven't been there yet. This site contains our findings from a long term study of the Bay. The project is sponsored by NOAA/EPA under their CISNet program. Aloha Bob Kinzie & Fenny Cox From EricHugo at aol.com Sun May 28 09:18:25 2000 From: EricHugo at aol.com (EricHugo at aol.com) Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 09:18:25 EDT Subject: Literature request for Palythoa/scleractinian interaction Message-ID: <94.4f1d742.266276a1@aol.com> Hi Cheryl and Bill: Maybe these would help? Mueller, E.M. 1992. Palythoa caribaeorum: an indicator of coral reef perturbation. Proc 7th Int Coral Reef Sym. 1: 72. Suchanek, Thomas H. 1981. Interspecific competition between Palythoa caribaeorum and other sessile invertebrates on St. Croix reefs, U.S. Virgin islands. Proc 4th Int Coral Reef Sym 2: 679-84. Eric Borneman From acohen at whoi.edu Sun May 28 09:50:57 2000 From: acohen at whoi.edu (Anne Cohen) Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 09:50:57 -0400 Subject: Bali - extra-mural interest group Message-ID: <39312440.23AC5352@whoi.edu> Hello All A few of us are planning to get together outside of the formal conference symposia for a few hours to share thoughts/data/new information on a subject of common interest: How do corals grow ? We are specifically interested in scleractinian growth at the ultra-structural level and the interpretation/reconciliation of skeletal structures seen in x-ray, with light microscopy and with SEM. We haven't yet decided on a day/time/venue. The purpose of the message is to invite those working (and/or thinking) along these lines, who have something to contribute, to join us Please let me know so we can judge the level of interest and plan accordingly, Thanks, Anne. -- Dr Anne L. Cohen Department of Geology and Geophysics Clark ms#23 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, MA, 02543 USA phone: (508) 289 2958 fax: (508) 457 2175 email: acohen at whoi.edu From jmendes at uwimona.edu.jm Sun May 28 12:17:21 2000 From: jmendes at uwimona.edu.jm (Judith Mendes) Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 12:17:21 -0400 Subject: Bali - extra-mural interest group References: <39312440.23AC5352@whoi.edu> Message-ID: <39314691.D404CB83@uwimona.edu.jm> From briandtodd at hotmail.com Sun May 28 00:21:42 2000 From: briandtodd at hotmail.com (Brian Todd) Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 04:21:42 GMT Subject: Recent press article concerning caulerpa in Fla. Message-ID: <200005281818.SAA41924@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> I am wondering if any of you have seen the recent press release concerning the growth of caulerpa in Florida. Here is a link to the article on CNN.com. I'm curious to know what exatcly about this caulerpa causes it to be so unpalatable. Furthermore, is the slug mentioned a type of aeolid nudibranch? I just wanted to know what others have seen in the field or otherwise concerning the topic. Thank you. http://cnn.com/2000/NATURE/05/25/killerseaweed.ap/ Sincerely, Brian Todd University of GA ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From Robyn.Cumming at usp.ac.fj Sun May 28 22:01:20 2000 From: Robyn.Cumming at usp.ac.fj (Robyn Cumming) Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 14:01:20 +1200 Subject: Why is it useful to compare rainforests and reefs? Message-ID: <00d101bfc911$c9015d00$56097890@PC2107.usp.ac.fj> Hi Coral-listers Since we are discussing similarities between rainforests and reefs I think it is worth pointing out a number of parallels in terms of predation on the main habitat builders ? trees and reef-building corals. A large number of species prey directly on reef-building corals, including echinoderms, gastropods, crustaceans, polychaetes and fish (see for example Robertson 1970, Pacific Science 24:43). In both systems, these predators are grazers which normally injure rather than kill their prey. This opens up possibilities for complex behavioural and defensive responses of the prey. For many of them, with the notable exception of some vertebrates, the prey also provides substrate and protection. In at least one case, the amount of prey standing crop removed annually parallels that of insect herbivores (2-12% by the gastropods Drupella {my data ? unpublished}). I will go further to suggest that the ecological role of Drupella in coral reefs parallels that of insects in terrestrial forests, in that they exert a continual drain on energetic resources of their hosts. Also, some species undergo population outbreaks like those of insect herbivores: Acanthaster planci, Drupella cornus, Drupella fragum. Robyn ******************************************************************** Robyn Cumming Lecturer in Ecology School of Pure and Applied Sciences The University of the South Pacific PO Box 1168 Suva Fiji ph: + 679 21 2455 fax: + 679 31 5601 or 30 2548 email: robyn.cumming at usp.ac.fj web: http://www.usp.ac.fj/biology/staff/robyn.html Visit the Biology web page at: http://www.usp.ac.fj/biology ******************************************************************** From thomassi at com.univ-mrs.fr Mon May 29 06:56:56 2000 From: thomassi at com.univ-mrs.fr (Bernard THOMASSIN) Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 11:56:56 +0100 Subject: Literature request for Palythoa/scleractinian interaction In-Reply-To: <200005260916.KAA03499@cheviot3.ncl.ac.uk> References: <200005260916.KAA03499@cheviot3.ncl.ac.uk> Message-ID: Dear friends, Competition between brown Palythoa crops and corals is very common in many reefs submitted to a sort of eutrophication, with input of dissolved organic matter on reef flats (mostly outer reef fronts) bathed by laminar currents. I saw several good examples in different regions : - Today, after the huge anthropogenic impact on the barrier reef outer flat of Tul?ar (south-west Malagasy) a belt of Palythoa of several kilometers long and 30-50 m large overlaps the Acroporid upper outer slope community (emerging at spring low tides). Before between 1960-72, Michel PICHON et others we described this beautiful coral assemblage of the tops of the spurs of the outer front. - In New Caledonia in some reefs in front and close to Noum?a town I observed those patches on reefs located at the middle of passage of close to nickel factory of Doniambo in a canal with hotter seawater. - In Mauritius, close to the opening of a non-treated industrial and urban sewage I observed such patches on the outer barrier reef front (always at the level of the small brakers). - I have also example in the Mururoa atoll (but its is secret)... My opinion is that the brown Palythoa (P. capensis and P. liscia at Tulear)(see the Ch. HERBERTS's paper of 1972, in Marine Biology, 13 (2) : 127-136) outbreak overlaying the corals in the outer reef front (quiet well exposed) where organic matter content in the water increases. They are associated with a step of the eutrophisation of these fronts. Best regards. Bernard Bernard A. THOMASSIN thomassi at com.univ-mrs;fr Centre d'Oceanologie de Marseille, Station Marine d'Endoume, rue de la Batterie des Lions, 13007 Marseille t?l. (33) 04 91 0416 17 t?l. GSM 06 63 14 91 78 fax. (33) 04 91 04 16 35 (? l'attention de...) From thomassi at com.univ-mrs.fr Mon May 29 06:56:56 2000 From: thomassi at com.univ-mrs.fr (Bernard THOMASSIN) Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 11:56:56 +0100 Subject: Literature request for Palythoa/scleractinian interaction In-Reply-To: <200005260916.KAA03499@cheviot3.ncl.ac.uk> References: <200005260916.KAA03499@cheviot3.ncl.ac.uk> Message-ID: Dear friends, Competition between brown Palythoa crops and corals is very common in many reefs submitted to a sort of eutrophication, with input of dissolved organic matter on reef flats (mostly outer reef fronts) bathed by laminar currents. I saw several good examples in different regions : - Today, after the huge anthropogenic impact on the barrier reef outer flat of Tul?ar (south-west Malagasy) a belt of Palythoa of several kilometers long and 30-50 m large overlaps the Acroporid upper outer slope community (emerging at spring low tides). Before between 1960-72, Michel PICHON et others we described this beautiful coral assemblage of the tops of the spurs of the outer front. - In New Caledonia in some reefs in front and close to Noum?a town I observed those patches on reefs located at the middle of passage of close to nickel factory of Doniambo in a canal with hotter seawater. - In Mauritius, close to the opening of a non-treated industrial and urban sewage I observed such patches on the outer barrier reef front (always at the level of the small brakers). - I have also example in the Mururoa atoll (but its is secret)... My opinion is that the brown Palythoa (P. capensis and P. liscia at Tulear)(see the Ch. HERBERTS's paper of 1972, in Marine Biology, 13 (2) : 127-136) outbreak overlaying the corals in the outer reef front (quiet well exposed) where organic matter content in the water increases. They are associated with a step of the eutrophisation of these fronts. Best regards. Bernard Bernard A. THOMASSIN thomassi at com.univ-mrs;fr Centre d'Oceanologie de Marseille, Station Marine d'Endoume, rue de la Batterie des Lions, 13007 Marseille t?l. (33) 04 91 0416 17 t?l. GSM 06 63 14 91 78 fax. (33) 04 91 04 16 35 (? l'attention de...) From Pete.Mohan at seaworld.com Mon May 29 09:19:56 2000 From: Pete.Mohan at seaworld.com (Mohan, Pete) Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 08:19:56 -0500 Subject: rainforests of the sea/raising awareness Message-ID: <2161024A5DD8CF11A45900805FCC378C0304E27B@AURABCEXG010> I used the "Rainforests of the Sea" theme for a short video I just completed that accompanies our living coral exhibits here at SeaWorld Cleveland. I felt that public perception of rainforests is often limited to the idea that they are complex tropical systems that are endangered. At this rather simplistic level the analogy works. Pete Mohan Curator/Fishes > -----Original Message----- > From: Gould, Rob [SMTP:Rob.Gould at itn.co.uk] > Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 4:30 AM > To: 'coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov' > Subject: Re: rainforests of the sea/raising awareness > > Coral people, > > I was interested by the recent comparison between reefs and rainforests. I'm > producing a documentary for Discovery Channel on the marine research in the > Mascarene area of the Indian Ocean. Coral reefs clearly play an important > part in the ecology here and these reefs suffered particularly badly in the > 1998 bleaching event. The idea that coral reefs are analogous to rainforests > is one I've heard and was planning to use as one of the themes in the > programme. > > One reason for linking the two ecosystems, from my point of view, is the > hope that it will raise public awareness of the importance of coral reefs in > the way that the destruction of the rainforests became popular cause in the > final decades of the last century. > > I am structuring the programme at the moment so any thoughts from you, the > experts, would be greatly appreciated. Any information about possible > implications of reef destruction and, of course, the positive contributions > coral reefs make to the wider environment are particularly welcome. > > Your knowledge on this subject is obviously far greater than mine so I would > very much appreciate any help or ideas. > > Many thanks, > > Rob Gould > > rob.gould at itn.co.uk From McCarty_and_Peters at compuserve.com Mon May 29 12:41:07 2000 From: McCarty_and_Peters at compuserve.com (McCarty and Peters) Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 12:41:07 -0400 Subject: neoplasms in corals Message-ID: <200005291241_MC2-A6CC-93C0@compuserve.com> Dear Francisco, The most recent publication on the topic of coral neoplasms of which I am aware is: Coles, S.L., and D.G. Seapy. 1998. Ultra-violet absorbing compounds and tumorous growths on acroporid corals from Bandar Khayran, Gulf of Oman, Indian Ocean. Coral Reefs 17:195-198. This paper measured UV-absorbing compounds in the tissues of Acropora valenciennesi and A. valida colonies with and without neoplasms (calicoblastic epitheliomas). Tumor tissue extracts showed reduced levels of these compounds compared to normal tissue, but did "not unequivocally establish that reduction in UV absorbing compounds caused UVB damage leading to tumor formation," because of other possible confounding factors. Dr. John Harshbarger, Director of the Registry of Tumors in Lower Animals, George Washington University, and I continue to work with scientists studying neoplasms and hyperplasms, or areas of accelerated growth, in scleractinian corals. Your observations of abnormal tissue/skeleton formation in two species of corals from reefs off Brazil are of great interest. We have had recent reports of skeletal anomalies from Hawaii, the eastern Pacific, and Red Sea, but no reports from Brazil. We encourage collaborative, multidisciplinary studies of these lesions, and would be most interested in viewing photographs of your affected corals (what species are they?) and providing other information to assist in their study and diagnosis. I had hoped to continue research on the calicoblastic epitheliomas of the Acropora palmata from the Florida Keys (described in Peters et al., 1986, J. Nat. Cancer Inst. 76:895-912). I had identified several scientists with an interest in using coral tissue culture, molecular biology, and biochemical techniques for these investigations. John and Judy Halas and I finally had an opportunity to visit the Grecian Rocks patch reef where John had discovered these lesions in the early 1980s during the before-NCRI conference field trip (April 1999). Sadly, we discovered that all the A. palmata in this area had died sometime in the last few years. We are still hopeful that the other areas of affected A. palmata in the Key Largo Sanctuary area remain, but getting to those sites is difficult to work into schedules! Alas, many of the Gulf of Oman tumorous corals had also died following flooding in the region. We look forward to learning more about the lesions you've observed on the Brazilian reef corals and will be pleased to assist you in your research to the extent we can. Esther Peters From GWalker at icfconsulting.com Tue May 30 12:06:55 2000 From: GWalker at icfconsulting.com (Walker, Genevieve VA01) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 12:06:55 -0400 Subject: Impacts of development of coral reefs Message-ID: <200005301609.MAA50089@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Could anyone refer me to any references that describe impacts of coastal development (e.g., marinas, hotels) on coral reefs and ways to minimize those impacts? Also, have there been any studies performed on the viability of moving or transplanting coral communities that have been stressed by local conditions (ie: excessive siltation due to boat traffic) to areas where exisiting communities are thriving? Thanks so much. Genevieve Walker From lisetag at comuh.uh.cu Mon May 29 17:27:56 2000 From: lisetag at comuh.uh.cu (Elena) Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 18:27:56 -0300 Subject: problems in Cuban coral reef Message-ID: <200005301803.SAA56616@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> "During a recent visit to the Canarreos reefs in the Punta Frances = region of southern Cuba we were disturbed to find that many of the = corals of these formerly-pristine reefs were badly damaged by what = appears to be a cyanophyte infection. Some dead colonies were covered by = algae, some showed signs of recent mortality and others are dying now. = It is our impression that the layer of cyanophytes covers the bottom, = the algae, the corals and the sponges. The cyanophyte is red, like the = color of dark red wine. The only activities in the area are fishing = (which is illegal) and sport diving". We would like to know if a similar phenomenon has been observed = elsewhere in the Caribbean, either now or in the past. Elena de la Guardia Llanso Centro de Investigaciones Marinas,=20 Universidad de la Habana From b984138 at sci.u-ryukyu.ac.jp Mon May 29 20:31:01 2000 From: b984138 at sci.u-ryukyu.ac.jp (Robert van Woesik) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 09:31:01 +0900 Subject: reefs and rain forests Message-ID: <39330BC5.33B3ADBA@sci.u-ryukyu.ac.jp> RE: Coral reefs and Rain forests A similarity in diversity maybe the only thing that coral reefs and rain forests have in common; let us not forget Steele's classic paper in 1985 (Steele, J.H. (1985) A comparison of terrestrial and marine systems. Nature 313, 355-358). Plant communities appear limited by dispersal in both temperate (Tilman's many references) and tropical regions (Hubbell S.P., Foster, R.B., O?Brien, S.T., Harms, K.E., Condit, R., Wechsler, B., Wright, S.J. and Loo de Lao, S. (1999) Light-gap disturbances, recruitment limitation, and tree diversity in a neotropical forest. Science 283, 554-557), where seed shortages keep diversity high and gaps may be occupied at random. Hubbell et al. (1999, p. 557) state ?...sites [in a tropical moist forest] are won by ?default? by species that are not the absolutely best competitor for the site?. However, in the tropical marine environment ?seed? dispersal does not appear to be a problem, as broadcast spawning ensures widespread dispersal of coral larvae. Many coral communities show no sign of recruitment limitation (except maybe very isolated reefs). Steele (1985) suggested a combination of an immense annual larval production in the oceans with extensive larval dispersal might be a reflection of the dampened short-term environmental variability of that environment. On the other hand, organisms in the terrestrial system must cope with more short-term variability and hence display more restricted dispersal mechanisms than oceanic organisms. A means to the same end (i.e., high diversity) differs between tropical terrestrial and tropical marine systems, the former most likely being dispersal assembled and the latter by some other mechanism(s). Yet, it is hardly surprising that the mechanisms causing high diversity on the land may differ from those in the sea. The environmental variability, for example temperature, in terrestrial systems is large in both the short and long-term, but the oceans have a smaller amplitude of variability in the short term (Steele 1985); variations to this variability will be more detrimetal to organisms in the marine environment than to terrestrial organisms (e.g., the 1998 high SST and consequent coral bleaching), because marine organisms are adapted to small physico-chemical variability. Caution is necessary if we continue to compare the two systems (i.e., coral reefs and rain forests) as similar systems when in fact the processes that shape the systems are completely different. Rob van Woesik ******************************************* Dr. Robert van Woesik Associate Professor Department of Marine Sciences University of the Ryukyus Nishihara, Okinawa 903-0123 JAPAN E-mail: b98413 at sci.u-ryukyu.ac.jp Website: http://www.cc.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/~b984138/ Ph: (81) 098 895 8564 Fax: (81) 098 895 8552 ******************************************* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/pipermail/coral-list-old/attachments/20000530/01242366/attachment.html From mrshok at hotmail.com Tue May 30 11:26:33 2000 From: mrshok at hotmail.com (Mohammad Reza Shokri) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 11:26:33 IRST Subject: HSPs in corals of the Persian Gulf Message-ID: <20000530065633.22727.qmail@hotmail.com> Dear Coral-listers I am going to measure the Heat Shock Proteins (HSPs) in the tissue of hard coral's of the Persian Gulf. I would appreciate anyone to introduce any paper in this regard and direct me in the following aspects: 1. What is the easiest way to remove the tissue from coral skeleton? 2. Which type of hard coral is the most suitable for this purpose? Yours Peyman ______________________________ Peyman Eghtesadi (Ph.D. candidate) Iranian National Center for Oceanography #51, Bozorgmehr Ave., Tehran, 14168, Iran Tel: +98-21-6419891 Fax: +98-21-6419978 Email: peyman at ibb.ut.ac.ir ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From fredrikm at system.ecology.su.se Tue May 30 05:48:43 2000 From: fredrikm at system.ecology.su.se (Fredrik Moberg) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 11:48:43 +0200 Subject: Rain forests of the sea?? Message-ID: In the latest issue of the journal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Ambio) there is an article by Ariel Lugo, Caroline Rogers and Scott Nixon (see abstract below). It deals with the resistance, ruin and recovery of rainforests and coral reefs in the Caribbean. It also includes a list of the similarities and contrasts between reefs and rainforests. Hurricanes, coral reefs and rainforests: Resistance, ruin and recovery in the Caribbean Lugo AE, Rogers C, Nixon S AMBIO 29: (2) 106-114, MAR 2000 Abstract: The coexistence of hurricanes, coral reefs, and rainforests in the Caribbean demonstrates that highly structured ecosystems with great diversity can flourish in spite of recurring exposure to intense destructive energy. Coral reefs develop in response to wave energy and resist hurricanes largely by virtue of their structural strength. Limited fetch also protects some reefs from fully developed hurricane waves. While storms may produce dramatic local reef damage, they appear to have little impact on the ability of coral reefs to provide food or habitat for fish and other animals. Rainforests experience an enormous increase in wind energy during hurricanes with dramatic structural changes in the vegetation. The resulting changes in forest microclimate are larger than those on reefs and the loss of fruit, leaves, cover, and microclimate has a great impact on animal populations. Recovery of many aspects of rainforest structure and function is rapid, though there may be long-term changes in species composition. While resistance and repair have maintained reefs and rainforests in the past, human impacts may threaten their ability to survive. ,,, (o o) ------------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo----------------------------- Fredrik Moberg Natural Resources Management Department of Systems Ecology Stockholm University S-106 91 Stockholm Sweden phone: +46-8-161747 fax: +46-8-158417 e-mail: fredrikm at system.ecology.su.se ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2347 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/pipermail/coral-list-old/attachments/20000530/6f940283/attachment.bin From lesk at bio.bu.edu Tue May 30 09:04:42 2000 From: lesk at bio.bu.edu (Les Kaufman) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 09:04:42 -0400 (EDT) Subject: reefs and rain forests In-Reply-To: <39330BC5.33B3ADBA@sci.u-ryukyu.ac.jp> Message-ID: The spatial dynamics of larval delivery make local supply a determining factor even when net larval numbers are astronomically high. This is one contributor to spatial heterogeneity and "storage effects" on reefs. Les Kaufman Boston University Marine Program Department of Biology 5 Cummington Street Boston, MA 02215 lesk at bio.bu.edu 617-353-5560 office 617-353-6965 lab 617-353-6340 fax From quenovib at naos.si.edu Tue May 30 10:01:42 2000 From: quenovib at naos.si.edu (Brice Quenoville) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 10:01:42 -0400 Subject: coral reefs/plants Message-ID: <200005301812.SAA59414@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Hi, Talking about comparing terrestrial and marine life, marine life is = evolving in three dimensions: latitude, longitude and also vertically. = Plancton is very common in the marine realm, as a way of life or as a way = of dispersion and most organisms have at least part of their life as a = planctonic entity. Now looking at terrestrial life only plants do really = compare with marine organisms by using a planctonic way or at least an = "aerial" way of dispersion. Such convergence of behaviour could have = eventually created similarities in species diversity and occurence. I = don't know enough about all this but coral reefs could then be compared = to tropical vegetation because of similar latitude/longitude distribution = and maybe such comparisons could also be done for marine life/plants at = different latitude/longitude. Recent molecular studies tend to show a = higher level of population structure and divergence in marine organisms = than previously expected and plants can also be highly structured and = diversed on relatively short distances or short heigth. Hybridization, = polyploidy, variation in the number of chromosomes is very commonly = recognized in plants and start to be more and more reported or suspected = for marine life.=20 Anyway, it's lunch time and my food is not drifting in the air... brice From lvermeer at earthwatch.org Tue May 30 06:16:41 2000 From: lvermeer at earthwatch.org (Lotus Arrieta Vermeer) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 10:16:41 +0000 Subject: job announcement References: <200004140400.EAA32979@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Message-ID: <39339500.C95A424B@earthwatch.org> ************************************************ PROGRAM MANAGER, EARTH AND MARINE SCIENCES CENTER FOR FIELD RESEARCH, EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE Maynard, MA. The job involves managing 25 to 30 domestic and international field research projects. Duties include contract and budget negotiations, project evaluation, grant administration, liaising between project scientists and Earthwatch Institute Headquarters, and aiding in marketing initiatives. International coordination of projects among Earthwatch Offices in the US, UK, Australia and Japan also required. Master?s degree and field experience in earth or marine sciences required, as well as excellent communication and computer skills. International travel experience is a plus. Immediate start. Send cover letter and resume by email to mstuder at earthwatch.org ************************************************* _________________________________________________ Lotus Vermeer, Ph.D. Program Director, Earth and Marine Sciences The Center For Field Research at Earthwatch Institute 3 Clock Tower Place, Suite 100, Box 75, Maynard, MA USA 01754 Tel. (978) 461-0081 x129 Fax (978) 461-2332 Toll Free (800) 776-0188 E-mail: lvermeer at earthwatch.org World Wide Web: http://www.earthwatch.org/cfr/cfr.html __________________________________________________ From woodley at uwimona.edu.jm Tue May 30 22:36:30 2000 From: woodley at uwimona.edu.jm (Jeremy Woodley) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 21:36:30 -0500 (GMT-0500) Subject: problems in Cuban coral reef In-Reply-To: <200005301803.SAA56616@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Message-ID: Your compatriot Pedro Alcolado of the Instituto de Oceanologia has seen cyanos very like this, and has some interesting ideas about the situation. Jeremy Woodley On Mon, 29 May 2000, Elena wrote: > "During a recent visit to the Canarreos reefs in the Punta Frances = > region of southern Cuba we were disturbed to find that many of the = > corals of these formerly-pristine reefs were badly damaged by what = > appears to be a cyanophyte infection. Some dead colonies were covered by = > algae, some showed signs of recent mortality and others are dying now. = > It is our impression that the layer of cyanophytes covers the bottom, = > the algae, the corals and the sponges. The cyanophyte is red, like the = > color of dark red wine. The only activities in the area are fishing = > (which is illegal) and sport diving". > > We would like to know if a similar phenomenon has been observed = > elsewhere in the Caribbean, either now or in the past. > > Elena de la Guardia Llanso > Centro de Investigaciones Marinas,=20 > Universidad de la Habana > > > > From gregorh at pacific.net.hk Wed May 31 12:00:11 2000 From: gregorh at pacific.net.hk (Gregor Hodgson) Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 00:00:11 +0800 Subject: Reef Check Update May 2000 Message-ID: <3935370B.56B43DE9@pacific.net.hk> 1. Dive In to Earth Day a HUGE success 2.RC Hawaii growing fast 3. Marine Aquarium Council Project Launched 4. UNEP East Asia Workshop endorses RC 5. Puerto Galera, Philippines Dive Association RC training 6. TV documentary in the works 1. Dive In Congrats Congratulations and thanks to CORAL's Stephen Colwell and Anita Daley for a hugely successful PR event for reefs, "Dive In to Earth Day." Dozens of Reef Check coordinators around the world organised reef clean ups, surveys, diving and educational activites in connection with Earth Day. Please remember to send copies of your summary reports to Anita at so that they have a formal record of all the great accomplishments. 2. RC Hawaii May 1-5 A series of RC meetings and workshops was organised by Dave Raney on Oahu and Robin Newbold Robin Newbold on Maui. The Hawaii Coral Reef Network is very active with regular monthly meetings and a variety of projects from mooring buoys to Reef Check. At a meeting with Department of Aquatic Resources personnel led by Director Bill Devick, strong support for RC was given. DAR's Skippy Hau was present at the Maui workshop, while Dave Gulko attended the Waikiki activity. 3. MAC Project May 2 The Marine Aquarium Council (MAC) has requested GCRMN/Reef Check to help to design a monitoring system for reefs subjected to aquarium fish harvesting. The protocols will be based on existing methods and will be used to determine the effects of the trade on reefs. Contact Paul Holthus 4. UNEP East Asia May 9-11 The EAS/RCU's Dr. Hugh Kirkman and Yihang Jiang hosted a workshop in Phuket to try to nail down a plan for regular, standardised reef monitoring and data storage and processing. Representatives from Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan and the US strongly endorsed the concept of UNEP playing a key role in coordinating coral reef monitoring and data management and the use of Reef Check as the cost-effective starting point for this process. Hugh presented a summary to the ICRI Meeting in Noumea, 22-24 May, and we hope this will encourage the other UNEP RCUs to emulate this approach. 5. Puerto Galera, Philippines Dive Association May 21-24 A UNESCO MAB Workshop provided an opportunity to present a Reef Check training course to the PG Dive Operators Association who include all 27 dive shops in this lovely Biosphere Reserve. The Association will be using Reef Check to keep tabs on their reefs, one of which was damaged in the 1998 bleaching, and is now recovering rapidly. During the workshop, the protectiveness of the operators was demonstrated when a visiting US ichthyology expedition ignored mooring buoys and dropped large anchors on the reef. The Cebu-based boatmen were surprised to have their anchor line cut by a sharp knife. Lucky the scientists' Rotenone was hung up in customs or more slicing might have gone on. 6. TV Documentary A 13 part series for National Geographic TV is about to start filming in the S. Pacific. The series will be based in part on board the Quiksilver Expedition Indies Trader and will use Reef Check as a common thread. Reef Check teams in the S. Pacific (PNG to Tahiti) who would like to be featured in a segment, please contact Matthew Tomaszewski, Southern Star Nova, Sydney, Australia Ph. 61 (0)2 9202 8946 Fx. 61 (0)2 9955 8302 Email: Matthew Tomaszewski -- Gregor Hodgson, PhD Coordinator, Reef Check Global Survey Program GPO Box 12375, Hong Kong Tel: (852) 2802-6937 Fax: (852) 2887-5454 Email: gregorh at pacific.net.hk Web: www.ReefCheck.org From szmanta at uncwil.edu Wed May 31 17:03:26 2000 From: szmanta at uncwil.edu (Alina M. Szmant) Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 17:03:26 -0400 Subject: deepwater coral "reefs"? Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.20000531170326.0075e834@pop.uncwil.edu> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 3886 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/pipermail/coral-list-old/attachments/20000531/6f24cb15/attachment.bin From gregorh at pacific.net.hk Wed May 31 20:20:40 2000 From: gregorh at pacific.net.hk (Gregor Hodgson) Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 08:20:40 +0800 Subject: GCRMN/Reef Check Bali Activities References: Message-ID: <3935AC58.F15222D7@pacific.net.hk> The following joint GCRMN/Reef Check activities are planned for the ICRS in Bali in October 2000 ( see contact information at the bottom of the page): 1. Joint poster session: Contact Clive 2. Joint one-day symposium: Contact Greg 3. Participants in the field expeditions organised by Mark Erdmann are encouraged to consider carrying out one or more Reef Check surveys while on board. Contact Mark 4. Post-symposium Information Exchange and Training Workshop: Nusa Penida Island, Bali. This 3-day Workshop will cost US$300 per person ($250 per person for couples sharing) and will be aimed at current and aspiring RC Coordinators, Team leaders and people who want to get trained up in GCRMN/RC methods. The goal is to bring people together with an interest in community-based or collaborative monitoring and management to exchange ideas about all aspects of building up a reef monitoring and management program in their area. The details of the workshop will be posted on the symposium and RC websites shortly. Only 20 places available. Contact Ketut for early sign up. Gregor Hodgson, PhD, Coordinator, Reef Check Global Survey Program Email: gregorh at pacific.net.hk Web: www.ReefCheck.org Clive Wilkinson, GCRMN Coordinator, Mark Erdmann Ketut Sarjana Putra, RC Indonesia Coordinator From mcall at superaje.com Thu May 25 16:01:45 2000 From: mcall at superaje.com (mcall at superaje.com) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 13:01:45 -0700 Subject: Rain forests of the sea?? In-Reply-To: <392D86A8.EF9E2DF3@superaje.com> References: <392D6F00.599E16F9@erols.com> <392D86A8.EF9E2DF3@superaje.com> Message-ID: John Ware wrote: >> >> I am not sure that this is a 'controversial topic', but the >> coral list has been pretty quiet lately. Are coral reefs really >> analogous to rain forests or is the coral reef community just taking >> advantage of a catchy 'sound bite' to gain status in the eyes of the >> ecologically minded public? I think the conservation community, including myself (!) has taken advantage of this analogy, although really coral reefs stand on their own tentacles. However, work of the IUCN SSC Coral Reef Fish Specialist Group suggests that about 25% of marine fish species are found on coral reefs. That's a pretty high level, given that coral reefs occupy less than 1% of the World Ocean, some 230,000 km2 according to a recent estimate. Hopefully Callum Roberts and Julie Hawkins will publish this year their fabulous species density maps for coral reef fishes of the world that will show the global hotspots for these fishes. Marjorie L. Reaka-Kudla in Biodiversity II, however comes up with a better broad answer. She estimates that over 900,000 species (plants, animals, microbiota) inhabit coral reefs. Another answer can be provided by a scuba/snorkel transect across a reef and into adjacent sandy areas. Lots of species in the first, few in the second. But it isn't just a tropical affair (:-->), Norwegian studies show 300 species in deepwater coral 'reef' areas off their coasts. We haven't studied such areas thoroughly enough elsewhere to be sure of countes. But mapping deepwater corals off the West Coast of Canada, shows they are much more frequent there than had been hithertoo suspected and the available clues suggest a rich variety of biota. This would suggest that it is the three-dimensional structural diversity in the tropics and boreal zones which provides shelter and food, that intensifies biodiversity. don Don McAllister From mcall at superaje.com Fri May 26 10:06:29 2000 From: mcall at superaje.com (mcall at superaje.com) Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 07:06:29 -0700 Subject: Rain forests of the sea?? In-Reply-To: <392E84E5.E14CDB5E@superaje.com> References: <200005252237.SAA00345@franklin.unet.maine.edu> <392E84E5.E14CDB5E@superaje.com> Message-ID: Bob Steneck wrote: However, reefs have much greater higher-order diversity (e.g., number of phyla). You could say that rainforest diversity is based mosly on beetles! >:=> don Don McAllister From campam at egroups.com Wed May 31 20:36:02 2000 From: campam at egroups.com (campam at egroups.com) Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 20:36:02 -0400 Subject: Chief Park Warden Message-ID: <200006021246.MAA68118@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> PUBLIC NOTICE COASTAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROJECT MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES PROVIDENCIALES, TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS Applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced persons to fill the post of Chief Parks Warden on the Coastal Resource Management Project, Department of Environment and Coastal Resources. The Chief Parks Warden will be based in Providenciales and report directly to the Project Manager of the Coastal Resource Management Project. Main Duties: Responsible for day to day implementation of park management programs, enforcement of National Parks Regulations and the use and maintenance of equipment purchased for the National Parks System. Main Activities: i. Preparation of weekly duty rosters for the park wardens; ii. Coordinate and Carryout surveillance, patrolling, and enforcement of national park regulations; iii. Coordinate and conduct outreach programs for park users; iv. Supervise maintenance of boats, engines, moorings, marker buoys, park signs and other park infrastructure and facilities; v. Assist with the implementation of the scientific monitoring program and the environmental education program; vi. Assist with tasks associated with the National Environmental Center including giving guided tours; vii. Coordinate data collection on park users and preparation of user survey reports; viii. Supervise the work of junior staff; ix. Assist the Project Manager in administrative duties; x. Any other tasks as may be assigned by the Project Manager Salary: $19,528.44 per annum and allowances Qualifications: The applicant must be a University Graduate with a Bachelor's Degree in Biology, Environmental Management, Sociology or some other related discipline or have at least have six (6) years working in the field of protected areas management. The person must hold a valid driver's license, be a certified diver and be verse with boats. Applications giving full details of qualifications and experience should be sent to the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Natural Resources, Government Office, Grand Turk via mail or fax (649) 946 2751. Applications should reach no later than June 15th, 2000. From John.Naughton at noaa.gov Wed May 31 13:25:47 2000 From: John.Naughton at noaa.gov (John Naughton) Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 07:25:47 -1000 Subject: Palythoa mats Message-ID: <200006021234.MAA17380@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> I read with interest the recent discussion on Palythoa/scleractinian coral interaction, and palythoa "outbreaks" as an indication of eutrophication. We recently have been conducting surveys for the Army at Kwajalein Atoll Missile Range Facility in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI). We've surveyed all environments surrounding 10 islands within the atoll which are leased by the Army from the RMI. Rather extensive Palythoa mats were recorded by us on the outer, seaword reef flats of only two of these islands. Interestingly, these were Kwajalein and Roi-Namur, the two islands with ocean outfalls discharging either on or just off the ocean reef fronts. If anyone out there has records of Palythoa mats on the outer reef fronts at Kwajalein (or any of the other atolls in the Marshalls), we would be very interested in these observations. Thanks much and aloha, John John Naughton Pacific Islands Environmental Coordinator NMFS, NOAA Honolulu, Hawaii Phone: 808/973-2935x211 From reefkeeper at earthlink.net Mon May 8 11:12:41 2000 From: reefkeeper at earthlink.net (reefkeeper at earthlink.net) Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 08:12:41 -0700 Subject: Part-time Fla Grassroots Conservation Coordinator In-Reply-To: <3916D9C7.5201@earthlink.net> References: <3916D9C7.5201@earthlink.net> Message-ID: ****************************** Florida Grassroots Conservation Coordinator Half-time Position ****************************** JOB DESCRIPTION As a ReefKeeper employee, you will work from our Miami office on grassroots coordination for coral reef conservation issues in the Florida Keys and Southeast Florida. ABOUT REEFKEEPER INTERNATIONAL We are an international non-profit conservation advocacy organization exclusively dedicated to the protection of coral reefs and their marine life. Our campaigns focus on creation and management of marine protected areas, prevention of physical damage to coral reefs, coastal zone management and marine water quality policy reform, and modification of unsustainable or habitat-damaging fishing practices. See our website at www.reefkeeper.org. COMPENSATION $9.00 per hour, 20 hours per week. Paid vacation, sick leave, personal car business mileage and expenses. ASSIGNMENT COMPONENTS o communicate with ReefKeeper members, ReefKeeper Network groups, sport diving businesses, and civic clubs to generate conservation issue activism o write grassroots action alerts to motivate grassroots issue involvement o organize meetings and presentations to groups o participate in dive shows, mall fairs, and other public gatherings o organize public comment letter-writing workshops o give slide talks and other presentations to groups POSITION REQUIREMENTS o current resident of Southeast Florida o excellent public speaking abilities o outgoing and motivating personality o strong oral & phone communication skills o attention to detail & organization o available for occassional weekend and evening work PREFERENCES o student at grad school or person with no other job committments o certified SCUBA diver o familiar with coral reefs & marine resource issues TO APPLY Send letter of interest & resume. No phone calls, please. ReefKeeper International 2809 Bird Avenue - PMB 162 / Miami, FL 33133 e-mail: a_stone at reefkeeper.org / fax (305) 358-3030 www.reefkeeper.org From fpl10 at calva.net Mon May 22 02:37:14 2000 From: fpl10 at calva.net (fpl10 at calva.net) Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 23:37:14 -0700 Subject: Symbiosis, commensalism & parasits In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: HI All, I'm looking for information about Symbiosis, commensalism & parasitic relations between corals and other animals (fish, crabes, shrimps, etc...). These info are often spread over many books (with often few details only), but is there one or more book(s) talking only about this subject ? Thanks for any help Best Regards Fabrice POIRAUD-LAMBERT From lisetag at comuh.uh.cu Mon May 29 17:27:56 2000 From: lisetag at comuh.uh.cu (lisetag at comuh.uh.cu) Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 14:27:56 -0700 Subject: problems in Cuban coral reef In-Reply-To: <200005301803.SAA56616@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> References: <200005301803.SAA56616@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Message-ID: "During a recent visit to the Canarreos reefs in the Punta Frances = region of southern Cuba we were disturbed to find that many of the = corals of these formerly-pristine reefs were badly damaged by what = appears to be a cyanophyte infection. Some dead colonies were covered by = algae, some showed signs of recent mortality and others are dying now. = It is our impression that the layer of cyanophytes covers the bottom, = the algae, the corals and the sponges. The cyanophyte is red, like the = color of dark red wine. The only activities in the area are fishing = (which is illegal) and sport diving". We would like to know if a similar phenomenon has been observed = elsewhere in the Caribbean, either now or in the past. Elena de la Guardia Llanso Centro de Investigaciones Marinas,=20 Universidad de la Habana