From Roger.B.Griffis at noaa.gov Wed Jan 2 10:20:45 2002 From: Roger.B.Griffis at noaa.gov (Roger B Griffis) Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 10:20:45 -0500 Subject: Call for proposals re: coral reef conservation projects Message-ID: ** For Distribution ** Funding available for coral reef conservation projects. Call for proposals from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (www.nfwf.org). In partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and others, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) is accepting proposals for projects that build public-private partnerships to reduce and prevent degradation of coral reefs and associated reef habitats (e.g. seagrass beds, mangroves etc.). Projects may address causes of coral reef degradation wherever they occur, from inland areas to coastal watersheds to the reefs and surrounding marine environment. Proposals are due April 3, 2002 (no exceptions). Additional information provided below. For application instructions or other information see http://www.nfwf.org/programs/coralreef.htm or contact Michelle Pico (pico at nfwf.org). _____________________________________________ FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR CORAL REEF CONSERVATION PROJECTS The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) is accepting proposals for projects that build public-private partnerships to reduce and prevent degradation of coral reefs and associated reef habitats (e.g. seagrass beds, mangroves etc.). Projects may address causes of coral reef degradation wherever they occur, from inland areas to coastal watersheds to the reefs and surrounding marine environment. Proposals should support partnerships that provide solutions to specific problems to help prevent coral reef degradation through one or more of the following activities: Reducing impacts from pollution and sedimentation; Reducing impacts from over-harvesting and other fishing activities; Reducing impacts of tourism and boating; Restoring damaged reefs; Increasing community awareness through education and stewardship activities. Proposals are due April 3, 2002 (no exceptions). Background Coral reefs and their associated habitats are among the most biologically diverse and complex ecosystems in the world. This incredible diversity supports economies through activities such as tourism, fishing, and pharmaceutical production. Despite their importance, coral reefs are rapidly being degraded and destroyed by a variety of human impacts such as pollution, overfishing, and physical disturbance to the reefs. Priority projects will include those that: 1.Build public-private partnerships, develop innovative partnerships, are community-based, involve multiple stakeholders; 2.Provide solutions to specific problems to reduce and prevent degradation of coral reefs in the above listed areas; 3.Are coordinated and consistent with on-going coral reef conservation initiatives such as International Coral Reef Initiative's Framework for Action and Renewed Call to Action , the U.S. National Action Plan (U.S. Coral Reef Task Force, State and Territorial coral reef management programs, and U.S. All Islands Coral Reef Initiative, as appropriate; 4.Are focused on U.S. domestic, U.S. insular (territorial, commonwealth), Freely Associated States (Micronesia, Marshall Islands and Palau), Caribbean or Mesoamerican coral reef ecosystems; 5.Address an unmet need that will provide direct benefits to coral reefs; 6.Target a specific audience and address specific threats with a hands-on approach. Awards and Matching Funds Most grants will be between $10,000 and $50,000. The average grant will be approximately $25,000. Proposals should describe projects or progress that can be achieved in a 12 month time period but may be part of a long-term effort. All projects should include matching funding from project partners at a minimum ratio of 1:1 - although leverage ratios of 2:1 are preferred. As most of the grant dollars available for coral conservation will be federal (U.S. Department of Commerce=s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), matching contributions must be from non-federal sources. Eligible Applicants Applications will be accepted from U.S. or international non-profit organizations, academic institutions and government agencies (except U.S. federal agencies). U.S. federal agencies are encouraged to work collaboratively with non-federal project partners. To Apply: Submit application, see below. Electronic versions of the application form for coral reef conservation are available below. Applicants will be notified after August 5th as to the status of their proposal. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation does not anticipate another call for coral reef conservation proposals before January of 2003. If you have any questions about the program, please contact Michelle Pico (pico at nfwf.org). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Griffis Policy Advisor National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration U.S. Department of Commerce Roger Griffis Policy Advisor National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration U.S. Department of Commerce NOAA/NOS/OCRM 1305 East West Highway Pager: 888-995-4334 Silver Spring Fax: 301-713-4012 MD Work: 301-713-3155x104 20910 USA Additional Information: Last Name Griffis First Name Roger Version 2.1 From F.Kelmo at plymouth.ac.uk Wed Jan 2 11:45:10 2002 From: F.Kelmo at plymouth.ac.uk (Frank KELMO) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 16:45:10 GMT Subject: Coral Reefs of Brazil: Synthesis of Current Knowledge Message-ID: Dear Collegues, Please accept my apologies for this short notice. Happy New Year, Frank. ----------------------------------- CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Book: Coral Reefs of Brazil: Synthesis of Current Knowledge Edited by F.Kelmo & M.Attrill Scientists working on Brazilian coral reefs are urged to submit a title and abstract (500 words) written in English. Proposed themes include: Evolution of reef biota; Advances in molecular biology and their application to reef sciences; Dynamics of reef ecosystems in space and time; Natural and anthropogenic disturbances; Coral diseases; Reef Management; Assessment and Monitoring; Preservation and Restoration; Reef Fish; Reef geometries and sea level fluctuations; Corals as recorders of ocean atmospheric processes; Coral growth and reef growth; Geological record and diagenesis. Submission of a title plus abstract must be transmitted electronically to fkelmo at plymouth.ac.uk, together with a letter of intent, by 25 Jan 2002. Authors of successful abstracts will be required to submit the full paper by 5 April 2002. This must not exceed 15000 words and photos must be submitted in TIFF format (instructions to contributors will be available after acceptance of an abstract). Reviews will be accepted under invitation only. Authors willing to submit papers outside the proposed themes must contact the editors prior submission of an abstract. Short listed papers will be peer reviewed and the final decision for publication in the book will rely on the editors' discretion. Accepted papers must be revised and returned to the editors by 31 July 2002. If you require any further information contact the editors by email: fkelmo at plymouth.ac.uk F.Kelmo Coral Reef Ecology Benthic Ecology Research Group 613 Davy Building, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Devon, PL4 8AA United Kingdom. Phone: +44 (0)1752 232951 (Lab) +44 (0)870 712 5852 (home) Fax: +44 (0)1752 232970 E-mail: fkelmo at plymouth.ac.uk ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From Craig.Bonn at noaa.gov Thu Jan 3 15:59:07 2002 From: Craig.Bonn at noaa.gov (Craig Bonn) Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 15:59:07 -0500 Subject: spiny lobster growth as indicator of coral reef health. Message-ID: Colleagues, Anyone having information on studies using spiny lobster growth as an indicator of overall ecosystem health (coral reefs) and could share that information I would really appreciate it. A mark and recapture study is being considered as part of a research proposal. Suggestions welcomed! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Biological Science Technician (Fisheries) NOAA/NOS Beaufort Lab Biological Science Technician (Fisheries) NOAA/NOS Beaufort Lab 101 Pivers Island Road Cellular: 252-725-4794 Beaufort Fax: 252-728-8740 North Carolina Work: 252-728-8777 28512 Additional Information: Last Name Bonn First Name Craig Version 2.1 From hamnett at hawaii.edu Thu Jan 3 17:58:23 2002 From: hamnett at hawaii.edu (Michael P. Hamnett) Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 12:58:23 -1000 Subject: Coral Reef Grant Program Implementation Guidelines Public Comment Message-ID: A number of folks have asked me where they could locate the request for public comment on the Coral Reef Grant Program Proposed Implementation Guidelines for public comment. I got the following off the NOAA Coral Reef page. FYI: Announcement NOAA Publishes Coral Reef Grant Program Proposed Implementation Guidelines for Public Comment On December 10, 2001, NOAA published Proposed Implementation Guidelines for the Coral Reef Conservation Grant Program, per the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000. The Proposed Guidelines were published in the Federal Register for review. Public comments will be accepted until January 14, 2002. You can download the following files from this site: http://www.coralreef.noaa.gov/ A PDF copy of the Proposed Implementation Guidelines. A text version of the Proposed Implementation Guidelines. A PDF copy of the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000. Michael P. Hamnett, PhD Director Social Science Research Institute Social Sciences Building, Suite 704 University of Hawaii 96822 Phone: (808) 956-7469 Fax: (808) 956-2884 e-mail: hamnett at hawaii.edu ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From lkiruu at yahoo.com Thu Jan 3 20:30:59 2002 From: lkiruu at yahoo.com (Lolita Penland) Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 17:30:59 -0800 (PST) Subject: Job Announcement Message-ID: JOB ANNOUNCEMENT From jsobel at oceanconservancy.org Fri Jan 4 11:19:33 2002 From: jsobel at oceanconservancy.org (Jack Sobel) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 11:19:33 -0500 Subject: Craig Bonn posting on spiny lobster growth as an indicator of overall ecosystem health? Message-ID: While spiny lobster growth studies may have considerable value for a number of reasons (maybe even as an indicator of overall ecosystem health), their value as an indicator of overall ecoystem health is not clear to me. Spiny lobster abundance, population age and size structure, average age & size, etc. would seem to have greater value as indicators of overall ecosystem health, especially given the potentially important role spiny lobsters may play in structuring coral reef communities and the intense fishery that exists for them. How would you evaluate overall ecosystem health based on spiny lobster growth rates, if successful in assessing them? Would a high growth or a low growth rate indicate a "healthy ecosystem"? A natural, intact, healthy coral reef ecosystem with abundant, large, and naturally-structured spiny lobster population might have low growth rates versus a badly overfished, collapsing, coral reef ecosystem with few adult lobsters present and altered predator-prey relationships...but which would you consider healthier? ******************************************************** Jack A. Sobel, Director Ecosystem Programs The Ocean Conservancy 1725 DeSales St. NW, Suite #600 Washington, DC 20816 Phone: (202) 429-5609 or (202) 857-3270 Fax: (202) 872-0619 Email: jsobel at oceanconservancy.org Web: ******************************************************** Colleagues, Anyone having information on studies using spiny lobster growth as an indicator of overall ecosystem health (coral reefs) and could share that information I would really appreciate it. A mark and recapture study is being considered as part of a research proposal. 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From mcole at coral.org Fri Jan 4 13:58:52 2002 From: mcole at coral.org (Marina Cole) Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 10:58:52 -0800 Subject: Job Announcement: CORAL Science Fellow Message-ID: POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: CORAL Science Fellow The Coral Reef Alliance: Founded in 1994, the Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) is a member-supported, non-profit organization dedicated to keeping coral reefs alive around the world. With assistance from over 10,000 supporters, CORAL promotes coral reef conservation by working with the dive industry, governments, local communities and other organizations to protect and manage coral reefs, fund conservation efforts and raise public awareness. Specific programs include the Coral Parks Program, the recently established International Coral Reef Information Network (ICRIN) public education campaign, the Dive Operators Certification Program, the Microgrants Program, the Bonaire Dive Festival, Dive In To Earth Day, and maintaining an international network of coral reef conservation groups. Headquartered in Berkeley, California, CORAL also has staff in Bonaire and Carlsbad, CA. Visit CORAL?s award-winning website at www.coral.org. POSITION DESCRIPTION: The CORAL Science Fellowship was created with an Environmental Science Program Grant from Environmental Defense and funding from the International Coral Reef Action Network, of which CORAL is a founding member. The purpose of the fellowship is to provide CORAL with the ?state of the science? on coral reef ecology and to help translate that data into powerful conservation messages for non-scientists, both within CORAL and for general use with CORAL?s target audiences of divers, other coral reef organizations, and policy makers. CORAL is leading a major four-year, global public awareness program on coral reefs ? known as the International Coral Reef Information Network (ICRIN) ? and will be helping hundreds of organizations around the world develop and distribute their own public awareness materials on coral reefs and will work with the media to create broad and localized public awareness of coral reef issues. The Science Fellow will serve as the scientific expert for these activities. The Science Fellow will be supervised by the Executive Director and will liaise with Dr. Rod Fujita, CORAL Board member and senior scientist at Environmental Defense as well as other coral reef scientists on the CORAL Science Advisory Board, which the Science Fellow will create and manage. During the first year the Science Fellow will: * Review collected education and outreach materials for errors and gaps and identify areas where coral reef ngos could be using science more effectively to advance their arguments. Prepare a report identifying most common scientific claims, mistakes and gaps and create a list of ?basic principles? upon which new awareness and education materials should be based; * Create a CORAL Science Advisory Board, using scientists already on CORAL?s Board and Advisory Boards as well as a broad range of noted scientists in the field; * Prepare one or two page science briefing papers on important coral reef issues for important decision-makers in coral reef areas; * Adapt five science briefing papers to create short stories for media contacts; * Assist CORAL staff in maintaining current coral reef scientific publications and papers for its in-house library; * Identify areas where further coral reef conservation research is needed and help identify programs and scientists and graduate students that might be willing to take on that research. Qualifications: Required: _ A Ph.D. in coral reef ecology; _ Strong writing skills and an ability to translate scientific jargon into compelling narrative for the non-scientist; _ Ability to interact and communicate with multiple constituencies, such as science advisory board, staff, and other coral reef ngo?s; _ Excellent research and library skills; _ Ability to discern themes and trends and distill into key points. A plus: _ Experience in communications or media work; _ Ability to thrive in a non-profit organization that values teamwork, cooperation and communication; sense of humor. Contact: Jobs The Coral Reef Alliance 2014 Shattuck Avenue Berkeley, CA 94704 Fax: 510-848-3720 Email: jobs at coral.org (no calls, please) Ideal Start date: March 2002 Position Open Until Filled ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From wahszelee at elcee-inst.com.my Sat Jan 5 01:23:04 2002 From: wahszelee at elcee-inst.com.my (LWSze) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 14:23:04 +0800 Subject: log base for H' Message-ID: Dear all, I have a small question here and would appreciate feed back from coral-listers: What is the influence of the base of logarithms used (log10, loge, log2) to calculate the Shannon's diversity index for coral reefs? What is the most appropriate log base to use for Shannon's index? best wishes, Wah Sze Lee Borneo Marine Research Institute Universiti Malaysia Sabah LB 2073 88999 KK SABAH MALAYSIA From nadavs at cc.huji.ac.il Sat Jan 5 04:28:31 2002 From: nadavs at cc.huji.ac.il (nadav shashar) Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 11:28:31 +0200 Subject: Guidelines for design of artificial reefs - request for Message-ID: comments Sender: owner-coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov In Eilat, Israel- on the northern tip of the Red Sea a plan is going on to construct an artificial coral reef on some mostly sandy areas (near the north beach for those who know the area). The main purpose of the artificial reef is to serve as a divers attraction and to divert pressure away from natural reefs. Secondary goals are providing shelter and place to grow for reef organisms and possibly increase biodiversity and recruitment on natural reefs. A whole set of guidelines are being prepared as to insure that the artificial reef will not damage the natural environment, etc. We are planning to put out a call for designers, architects, students etc. and to place a competition (with prizes) for the design of the artificial reef or for large units in it. For this I would like to ask your help in setting the guidelines for this design. Please note that the main focus of the guidelines is environmental preservation and safety. Artistic issues for example, are not taken into account. Please take a look at the following guidelines and comment on them. Please reply directly to me (no need to bother everybody). I you are interested in the final copy of these guidelines let me know as well. I thank you all for your time and effort Sincerely Nadav Shashar Nadav Shashar - Ph.D. The Interuniversity Inst. for Marine Sciences P.O. Box 469, Eilat, 88103 Israel Phone: (972)-8- 6360111 Fax: (972)-8-6374329 E-mail: nadavs at cc.huji.ac.il http://www.iui-eilat.ac.il/nadav.htm -------------------------------------------- Guidelines for the design of artificial reefs and artificial-reef units Each unit will be designed, built, and placed such that if needed it can be taken out of the water using technology and equipment available at the local area (city, town, etc.). In essence, each unit will come with its own hook or ring to be used for pulling out attached to it. The funding for such extraction will be provided and set aside in advance. The materials used will be only materials PROVEN to have no harmful effects on the environment and on marine organisms. This applies to materials themselves and to any breakdown product that can be expected to occur during the existence of the reef in the water. No oils, antifouling materials, paints or other coating materials will be used. Artificial reefs are items planed for existence for generations to come. Therefore, the design, material, and structure, should be durable for a long time. For planning proposes, one should plan on durability for 100 years from deployment. This planning should take into consideration corrosion, effects of storms in the scale that occur at the location of deployment, boring of animals, etc. The strength of the structure should account for additional weight by growth of corals on it. Covering of the structure by corals and other creatures should not be considered as a strengthening component. The structure will be complex on multiple levels to provide habitats to a range of organisms. This complexity means having numerous holes and crevasses in a range of sizes from 3 cm to 50 cm in diameter, use of surfaces at different orientations (vertical, horizontal, and slanted at different directions), use of flat surfaces as well as smaller "wire type" circular polls, etc. Whenever possible, smooth surfaces should be avoided. Certain regions of the reef, having high structural complexity, will be physically blocked away from visitors' (mostly divers) accesses. This is to provide animals, mainly fish, living on the reef, a refuge from human intervention. The reef will be planed to minimize blocking of water currents in its area and of sand movement near the bottom. Passages and holes will used to allow water flow through it and if needed it will be placed on stands to lift it from the bottom. No area or region of the artificial structure will be blocked from the open water such that to prevent water circulation. The design will prevent the accumulation of sediments on it. Slopes, holes, vertical walls, gaps, etc. will be sued so that sediments will fall to the bottom of the sea. Height of the planed structure should be at least 10 m above the bottom. It should be expected that there would be very limited coral settlement on the lower 2 m- mainly due to the effects of sand. If the structure is planed to come close to the water surface- limited if not null coral settlement and growth should be expected in the top 2 m- due to storms and waves actions. The design should be attractive to visitors (divers) from the day of deployment without depending neither on coral growth nor on fish populations. This attractiveness should not be reduced or diminished due to erosion or other long-term effects of being submerged, nor due to growth of algae, coral or other organisms on it. Portions of the artificial reef, located at different depths, will have large horizontal surfaces to allow groups and classes of divers to stand on, or to perform practices. The artificial reef will be planed to require no or minimal amount of maintenance, and such that most such maintenance will be modular. The reef will be planed and built with outmost concern to safety. All passages will be designed to prevent divers from being caught in them and free easy accent should always be available. The design should also take into account and prevent trapping of sea turtles, dolphins, or other large animals. All parts of the reef will be planed and set such that they can be lowered from a ship/ barge without needed side chains, sinkers or other means that might negatively affect the surrounding area. The total area occupied be the artificial reefs will take no more than 20% of the over all area available for the park, and all of this area will be considered affected by strong human intervention. ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From Craig.Bonn at noaa.gov Sat Jan 5 13:10:42 2002 From: Craig.Bonn at noaa.gov (Craig Bonn) Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 13:10:42 -0500 Subject: Spiny lobster growth as an indicator Message-ID: Thanks all of you for your timely and influential responses. I also concur that perhaps this idea needs to be looked at again. It was not mine originally and that is why I asked for your help. On the other hand, Im am involved in research that is focusing on several areas except health, and I did want to include something where we could get some indication of the overall health of the reef system we are involved with. There are numerous methods I would suppose-censusing known corrallivores for example, but we are limited as to what we can do due to both depth and bottom times. This is a Carribean reef and the average depth of our transect stations is 100'. Again, suggestions are welcomed. One idea that I did have was the mark and recapture of juvenile fishes using traps. Pomacentrids, I think, stick pretty much to their home reef sites and never ventrue very far away as do other less mobile species. Of course the presence or non-presence of coral diseases is something else we could look at. But determining that from a 60X4 meter transect using video for example, is that really an indication of overall health? You folks are the experts and Im just a techinician with a real interest. Thanks --------------------------------------------------------------------- Biological Science Technician (Fisheries) NOAA/NOS Beaufort Lab Biological Science Technician (Fisheries) NOAA/NOS Beaufort Lab 101 Pivers Island Road Cellular: 252-725-4794 Beaufort Fax: 252-728-8740 North Carolina Work: 252-728-8777 28512 Additional Information: Last Name Bonn First Name Craig Version 2.1 From raronson at jaguar1.usouthal.edu Sat Jan 5 17:35:50 2002 From: raronson at jaguar1.usouthal.edu (Richard B. Aronson) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 16:35:50 -0600 (CST) Subject: log base for H' Message-ID: No, it does not matter since they are multiples of each other. What does matter is calculating H' the same way as it is calculated for any other datasets to which you are comparing your results. Most people use either log10 or loge. Regards, Rich Aronson On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, LWSze wrote: > Dear all, > > I have a small question here and would appreciate feed back from > coral-listers: > > What is the influence of the base of logarithms used (log10, loge, log2) to > calculate the Shannon's diversity index for coral reefs? What is the most > appropriate log base to use for Shannon's index? > > > best wishes, > Wah Sze Lee > Borneo Marine Research Institute > Universiti Malaysia Sabah > LB 2073 > 88999 KK SABAH > MALAYSIA > > > > > > ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From oveh at uq.edu.au Sun Jan 6 20:12:04 2002 From: oveh at uq.edu.au (Ove Hoegh-Guldberg) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:12:04 +1000 Subject: GBR bleaching Message-ID: Jan 5 2002 - checked reef crest after getting reports from tourists of bleaching in the intertidal - found bleached corals from intertidal to 10 m at several sites around Heron Island on the southern Great Barrier Reef. Rough visual estimates - approximately 10-20% of the corals on the reef crest and slope (down to 10 m) are affected strongly. Acroporas are mainly affected at this point although there is a general paling of most species. Pocillopora, Stylophora and Seriatopora are among the next most affected species. Water temperatures reveal that Heron Island is warm - and that we are at least at the broad bleaching threshold for this region. Pictures can be seen at: http://www.marine.uq.edu.au/ohg/gbr-2002/ Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg Director, Centre for Marine Studies University of Queensland St Lucia, 4072, QLD Australia Phone: +61 07 3365 4333 Fax: +61 07 3365 4755 Email: oveh at uq.edu.au My staff page: http://www.marine.uq.edu.au/staff/ohg.html International students- College at sea on the Great Barrier Reef! http://www.collegeatsea.marine.uq.edu.au/ Researchers: Visit the Great Barrier Reef Research Stations. http://www.marine.uq.edu.au/stations.html ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From popychenkavalam at yahoo.com Mon Jan 7 18:57:51 2002 From: popychenkavalam at yahoo.com (joseph paul) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:57:51 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sea Anemone Identification Message-ID: Dear Listers, I am a marine biologist from India interested in confirming the identity of sea anemones from India. I have been working along these lines for sometime, but specific identification has not been achieved. I would welcome any comment/suggestion/help from anyone on this issue. Thanking you Joseph Paul popychenkavalam at yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From jltorres38 at hotmail.com Mon Jan 7 19:21:34 2002 From: jltorres38 at hotmail.com (Juan Torres) Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 19:21:34 Subject: MAA's standards Message-ID: >Dear coral-listers: >Merry Chrstmas to you all from Puerto Rico! >I am working on the effects of UV radiation on Acropora cervicornis and >Porites furcata. So far, I have found around 8-9 different mycosporine-like >amino acids (MAA's) in both species. Among them are: >Mycosporine-glycine, Mycosporine-2glycine, palythinol, usujirene and >palythene. Yet, I don't have any standards to prove these are really the >compounds. I wonder if any of you have some or know of a way of acquiring >them? Any information will be greatly appreciated. >Thanks, >Juan L. Torres >University of PR, Dept. Marine Sciences >PO Box 3210 >Lajas, PR 00667 >Ph: (787) 899-7773 >Fax: (787) 899-2630 > >_________________________________________________________________ >Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > >~~~~~~~ >For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the >digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the >menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. > _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From victor.gomelyuk at PLMBAY.PWCNT.NT.GOV.AU Tue Jan 8 02:41:54 2002 From: victor.gomelyuk at PLMBAY.PWCNT.NT.GOV.AU (Gomelyuk, Victor) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 17:11:54 +0930 Subject: What could be bleached? Message-ID: I wander if colleagues would like to share their experiences on bleaching marine organisms other than corals (but also containing symbiotic zooxantellae)? I 've noticed bleaching of giant clam and some sea anemone. Any literature sources on this phenomenon? Regards, V.Gomelyuk Dr Victor E. Gomelyuk Marine Scientist Cobourg Marine Park PO Box 496 PALMERSTON NT 0831 AUSTRALIA phone 61 (08) 8979 0244 FAX 61 (08) 8979 0246 victor.gomelyuk at plmbay.pwcnt.nt.gov.au ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From pmuller at seas.marine.usf.edu Tue Jan 8 08:42:22 2002 From: pmuller at seas.marine.usf.edu (Pam Muller) Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 08:42:22 -0500 Subject: What could be bleached? Message-ID: My students and I have been studying bleaching in reef-dwelling foraminifera for just over a decade. We have published a several papers on bleaching and related symptoms (increased succeptibility to predation, test breakage and bioerosion, as well as reduced recruitment) in these protists. Two dissertations on our data set were defended in the past month, so several more papers on our unique long-term data set from Conch Reef (thanks to the NOAA-NURC-Florida Keys Program) are planned for submission in the near future. I will send a list of existing publications directly to Victor. If anyone else is interested in the list, please contact me. If anyone else has published anything on bleaching in reef-dwelling foraminifera, please let me know. Pamela Hallock, Professor College of marine Science University of South Florida 140 7th Avenue S. St. Petersburg, FL 33701 pmuller at marine.usf.edu "Gomelyuk, Victor" wrote: > I wander if colleagues would like to share their experiences on bleaching > marine organisms other than corals (but also containing symbiotic > zooxantellae)? I 've noticed bleaching of giant clam and some sea anemone. > Any literature sources on this phenomenon? > > Regards, > > V.Gomelyuk > > Dr Victor E. Gomelyuk > Marine Scientist > Cobourg Marine Park > PO Box 496 PALMERSTON NT 0831 AUSTRALIA > phone 61 (08) 8979 0244 > FAX 61 (08) 8979 0246 > victor.gomelyuk at plmbay.pwcnt.nt.gov.au > > ~~~~~~~ > For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the > digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the > menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From sauni_s at usp.ac.fj Tue Jan 8 17:54:56 2002 From: sauni_s at usp.ac.fj (Samisoni Sauni, MSP-USP) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:54:56 +1200 Subject: What could be bleached? Message-ID: Dear Pam: I am a PhD student and interested in the same list of existing publications you send to Victor. Many thanks Samasoni Sauni On 8 Jan 02, at 8:42, Pam Muller wrote: > My students and I have been studying bleaching in reef-dwelling foraminifera > for just over a decade. We have published a several papers on bleaching and > related symptoms (increased succeptibility to predation, test breakage and > bioerosion, as well as reduced recruitment) in these protists. Two > dissertations on our data set were defended in the past month, so several more > papers on our unique long-term data set from Conch Reef (thanks to the > NOAA-NURC-Florida Keys Program) are planned for submission in the near future. > > I will send a list of existing publications directly to Victor. If anyone > else is interested in the list, please contact me. > > If anyone else has published anything on bleaching in reef-dwelling > foraminifera, please let me know. > > Pamela Hallock, Professor > College of marine Science > University of South Florida > 140 7th Avenue S. > St. Petersburg, FL 33701 > pmuller at marine.usf.edu > > > > "Gomelyuk, Victor" wrote: > > > I wander if colleagues would like to share their experiences on bleaching > > marine organisms other than corals (but also containing symbiotic > > zooxantellae)? I 've noticed bleaching of giant clam and some sea anemone. > > Any literature sources on this phenomenon? > > > > Regards, > > > > V.Gomelyuk > > > > Dr Victor E. Gomelyuk > > Marine Scientist > > Cobourg Marine Park > > PO Box 496 PALMERSTON NT 0831 AUSTRALIA > > phone 61 (08) 8979 0244 > > FAX 61 (08) 8979 0246 > > victor.gomelyuk at plmbay.pwcnt.nt.gov.au > > > > ~~~~~~~ > > For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the > > digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the > > menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. > > ~~~~~~~ > For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the > digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the > menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. > Project Coordinator Post Harvest & Fisheries Development Project Marine Studies Program The University of the South Pacific PO Box 1168, Suva, Fiji Islands Tel: 679 212879, 212051 Fax: 679 301490 email: sauni_s at usp.ac.fj ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From christine.schoenberg at mail.uni-oldenburg.de Wed Jan 9 11:57:09 2002 From: christine.schoenberg at mail.uni-oldenburg.de (christine.schoenberg) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 17:57:09 +0100 Subject: new address Message-ID: Dear all, I have a new address as of 1.1.2002 (see signature below). Cheers, Christine Dr. Christine Schoenberg Max Planck Institute of Marine Microbiology Dept. Microsensor Techniques Celsiusstr. 1 28359 Bremen GERMANY ph +421-2028-804 (extension -818 from February onwards) fax +421-2028-690 cschoenb at mpi-bremen.de ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From Mark.Spalding at unep-wcmc.org Wed Jan 9 12:08:14 2002 From: Mark.Spalding at unep-wcmc.org (Mark Spalding) Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 17:08:14 +0000 Subject: Test yourselves! Message-ID: Coral listers...and especially any involved in educational stuff or with kids, might be interested to have a go at the following games: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/blueplanet/webs/index.shtml It was designed to go with the BBC Blue planet film on coral reefs, and I was very impressed with the quality of the design and accuracy of the information. Happy New Year Mark __________________________________________ Mark Spalding, PhD Senior Marine Ecologist UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre www.unep-wcmc.org 219 Huntingdon Road Tel: +44 (0)1223 277314 Cambridge, CB3 0DL Fax: +44 (0)1223 277136 UK e-mail:mark.spalding at unep-wcmc.org or Research Associate Cambridge Coastal Research Unit Department of Geography Downing St Cambridge UK --------------------------------------------------------------- This E-mail and any attachments are private, intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, they have been sent to you in error: any use of information in them is strictly prohibited. The employer reserves the right to monitor the content of the message and any reply received. ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From Ed.Green at unep-wcmc.org Wed Jan 9 12:42:28 2002 From: Ed.Green at unep-wcmc.org (Ed Green) Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 17:42:28 +0000 Subject: Global Marine Aquarium Database Message-ID: The UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) is pleased to announce a new database on the trade in aquarium species, the Global Marine Aquarium Database. This is available at http://www.unep-wcmc.org/marine/gmad Users of the Global Marine Aquarium Database will have access to approximately 50,000 records of trade in live aquarium species and may query these geographically (e.g. the number of fish exported from the western Pacific to North America) and taxonomically (e.g. the top ten most traded families of invertebrates in global trade). A more detailed description of the database and supporting project follows below. Further data collection is ongoing and the Global Marine Aquarium Database is continuously being updated, with the release of the next version scheduled for April. Comments, and notification of any errors especially in the names of invertebrates, would of course be appreciated. Best fishes, Ed Dr. Edmund Green Head, Marine and Coastal Programme UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre 219 Huntingdon Road Cambridge CB3 0DL United Kingdom Tel: (44) 1223 277314 Fax: (44) 1223 277136 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Since April 2000 the UNEP-WCMC and the Marine Aquarium Council (MAC) have been collaborating with members of trade associations to establish a Global Marine Aquarium Database (GMAD) as a freely available source of information on the global aquarium industry. Our common objective is to centralise, standardise and provide fast and easy access to information on the aquarium trade. Description of GMAD There is no monitoring or reporting framework for the global aquarium trade. This means that the best source of quantitative data are the wholesale import and export companies who link the supply and retail ends of the business. As a matter of routine business practice companies keep records of their sales, either as paper copies of their invoices or on company computer databases. The exact nature of these records varies, but all record the quantity of any individual species bought or sold, the date of each transaction and the source or destination of the shipment. Company sales records are therefore an excellent source of data on marine aquarium species in trade, and the only source for species not recorded under any other process (e.g. CITES). UNEP-WCMC and MAC have established good working relationships with such companies from all around the world. They have provided us with access to their sales records which are the core data in GMAD. These data have been through a careful and methodical period of data conversion (e.g. paper based records have been computerised) and formatting (e.g. data from different electronic systems have been placed into a single standardised format). Data from 45 representative wholesale exporters and importers of marine aquarium species have been harmonised by this process into a single publicly available Global Marine Aquarium Database. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------- This E-mail and any attachments are private, intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, they have been sent to you in error: any use of information in them is strictly prohibited. The employer reserves the right to monitor the content of the message and any reply received. ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From reefkeeper at earthlink.net Wed Jan 9 13:39:17 2002 From: reefkeeper at earthlink.net (Alexander Stone) Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 14:39:17 -0400 Subject: Don'tGiveUpOnU.S.CaribReefFish Message-ID: ****************************************** * R E E F D I S P A T C H * * January 10, 2002 * * _____________________________________ * * ARE WE GOING TO GIVE UP * * ON REBUILDING OVEREXPLOITED * * U.S. CARIBBEAN REEF FISH POPULATIONS? * ****************************************** A Periodic Inside Look at a Coral Reef Issue from Alexander Stone, ReefGuardian International Director __________________________________________________ Dear Friend of Coral Reefs: If you looked at catch statistics showing that your 1999 grouper fishery landings had shrunk to less than 25% of what they were in 1985, would you conclude that you were getting maximum sustainable yield from your fishery? No? The U.S. Caribbean Fishery Management Council has. If the last scientific analysis of your fishery had found that your reef fish populations were continuing to be overexploited -- AND declining landing trends since then confirmed that finding -- would you adopt catch level rules that legitimized that status quo and doomed your snapper and grouper stocks to depleted conditions? No? The U.S. Caribbean Fishery Management Council just did. Is this what the situation must come to? Do we have to throw up our hands, give up on rebuilding our reef fish stocks to abundant levels, and just hope we can keep the stocks from sliding any further down their depletion path? ReefGuardian says no. And I hope you will say no too. ReefGuardian International is challenging those proposed new reef fish catch level rules for the U.S. Caribbean. We've formally petitioned the National Marine Fisheries Service to reject them. And we're asking groups and individuals to sign on to a rejection petition at http://www.reefguardian.org/Campaigns/SaveOurReefFish/PetitionUSC.html. I hope you will do so. The U.S. Caribbean Fishery Management Council recently approved new levels of reef fish catch and fishing mortality to meet the Council's legal requirements under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. Under this federal law, fish stocks must be managed to prevent overfishing, end overfishing where it is occurring, and institute rebuilding plans for species that are overfished. Instead of doing that, the approved reef fish catch levels would legitimize present depleted reef fish populations and promote overfishing. The National Marine Fisheries Service, the federal agency ultimately responsible to Congress for overseeing Council actions and managing U.S. fisheries, is reviewing those reef fish catch levels for possible implementation in 2002. ReefGuardian has formally petitioned the National Marine Fisheries Service to reject the catch levels, which are contained in proposed Amendment 3 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Reef Fish Fishery of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. ReefGuardian has presented 3 major complaints against the proposed reef fish catch rules, which you can read in full at http://www.reefguardian.org/Campaigns/SaveOurReefFish/MoreInfoUSC.html The fishery's latest stock assessment report, prepared by the Council's own Scientific and Statistical Committee, concludes that "...there is reasonable evidence to suggest that many [reef fish] species continue to be overexploited." This is the best scientific information available for this fishery. Under the Magnuson-Stevens Act, the proposed reef fish catch rules violate National Standard Two of the Act by not being based on that best scientific information available. The Council assumed -- without providing any basis for the assumption -- that current catch rates and current reef fish population sizes are both at Maximum Sustainable Yield levels. That the evidence points to overfishing was not even considered. Under the Magnuson-Stevens Act, that means that the proposed reef fish catch rules violate National Standard One of the Act because they will not prevent overfishing. The Council approved the proposed reef fish catch rules without presenting and evaluating ACTIONABLE alternative management measures that could be compared against the proposed reef fish catch rules. And that means that the National Environmental Policy Act was violated because the Act requires that the Council consider a reasonable range of actionable alternatives to any actions they propose. It would be an understatement to say that I am flabbergasted by the Council's actions. ReefGuardian warned Council staff and voting members of these legal shortcomings not once but FOUR different times between the first airing of the draft rules in June and the Council's approval vote in August. We are shocked and outraged. And I think you should be too. We're doing the only thing we can do. ReefGuardian International is asking the National Marine Fisheries Service to immediately reject Amendment 3 and its reef fish catch rules, and to direct the U.S. Caribbean Fishery Management Council to begin development at once of true sustainable catch rules for U.S. Caribbean reef fish. I hope you'll join us in this demand by signing the petition at http://www.reefguardian.org/Campaigns/SaveOurReefFish/PetitionUSC.html Thanks for caring, Alexander Stone Executive Director ReefGuardian International *************************** http://www.reefguardian.org *************************** ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From jenny_kauffman at hotmail.com Wed Jan 9 19:21:50 2002 From: jenny_kauffman at hotmail.com (jenny kauffman) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 00:21:50 +0000 Subject: Grad. Program Info Request Message-ID: Greetings Coral-List, I am currently looking for Graduate School Programs or specific professors who specialize in Coral Reef Restoration / Coastal Habitat Restoration. If anyone has any reccomendations that would be greatly appricieated. Cheers, Jennifer Kauffman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: Click Here ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From Ed.Green at unep-wcmc.org Thu Jan 10 02:58:17 2002 From: Ed.Green at unep-wcmc.org (Ed Green) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:58:17 +0000 Subject: Global Marine Aquarium Database - correction to url Message-ID: Global Marine Aquarium Database - correction to url There is an error in the link I circulated yesterday: Correct link http://www.unep-wcmc.org/marine/GMAD/ (ie GMAD in upper case) My apologies for any confusion, Ed >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) is pleased to announce a new database on the trade in aquarium species, the Global Marine Aquarium Database. This is available at http://www.unep-wcmc.org/marine/gmad Users of the Global Marine Aquarium Database will have access to approximately 50,000 records of trade in live aquarium species and may query these geographically (e.g. the number of fish exported from the western Pacific to North America) and taxonomically (e.g. the top ten most traded families of invertebrates in global trade). A more detailed description of the database and supporting project follows below. Further data collection is ongoing and the Global Marine Aquarium Database is continuously being updated, with the release of the next version scheduled for April. Comments, and notification of any errors especially in the names of invertebrates, would of course be appreciated. Best fishes, Ed Dr. Edmund Green Head, Marine and Coastal Programme UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre 219 Huntingdon Road Cambridge CB3 0DL United Kingdom Tel: (44) 1223 277314 Fax: (44) 1223 277136 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Since April 2000 the UNEP-WCMC and the Marine Aquarium Council (MAC) have been collaborating with members of trade associations to establish a Global Marine Aquarium Database (GMAD) as a freely available source of information on the global aquarium industry. Our common objective is to centralise, standardise and provide fast and easy access to information on the aquarium trade. Description of GMAD There is no monitoring or reporting framework for the global aquarium trade. This means that the best source of quantitative data are the wholesale import and export companies who link the supply and retail ends of the business. As a matter of routine business practice companies keep records of their sales, either as paper copies of their invoices or on company computer databases. The exact nature of these records varies, but all record the quantity of any individual species bought or sold, the date of each transaction and the source or destination of the shipment. Company sales records are therefore an excellent source of data on marine aquarium species in trade, and the only source for species not recorded under any other process (e.g. CITES). UNEP-WCMC and MAC have established good working relationships with such companies from all around the world. They have provided us with access to their sales records which are the core data in GMAD. These data have been through a careful and methodical period of data conversion (e.g. paper based records have been computerised) and formatting (e.g. data from different electronic systems have been placed into a single standardised format). Data from 45 representative wholesale exporters and importers of marine aquarium species have been harmonised by this process into a single publicly available Global Marine Aquarium Database. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------- This E-mail and any attachments are private, intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, they have been sent to you in error: any use of information in them is strictly prohibited. The employer reserves the right to monitor the content of the message and any reply received. ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From kochzius at uni-bremen.de Thu Jan 10 04:23:30 2002 From: kochzius at uni-bremen.de (kochzius at uni-bremen.de) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:23:30 +0100 Subject: Grad. Program Info Request Message-ID: Hi Jenny! Take a look at the webpage of ISATEC (International Studies in Aquatic Tropical Ecology): http://www.isatec.uni-bremen.de/ This MSc study programme is run by the Centre for Tropical Marine Ecology and the University of Bremen. Best fishes Marc At 00:21 10.01.02 +0000, you wrote: >Greetings Coral-List, > >I am currently looking for Graduate School Programs or specific professors >who specialize in Coral Reef Restoration / Coastal Habitat >Restoration. If anyone has any reccomendations that would be greatly >appricieated. > >Cheers, Jennifer Kauffman > > >---------- >Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: Click Here >~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or >the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu >bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> Marc Kochzius Zentrum fuer Marine Tropenoekologie (ZMT) Centre for Tropical Marine Ecology University of Bremen Fahrenheitstr. 6 28359 Bremen Germany Tel.:+49 +421 23800-57 (Office) please note new number! +49 +421 218-7679 (Lab) +49 +421 23800-21 (ZMT Secretary) Fax: +49 +421 23800-30 or -40 ZMT Webpage: www.zmt.uni-bremen.de Reef Webpage: www.oceanium.de <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From c.t.perry at mmu.ac.uk Thu Jan 10 06:19:16 2002 From: c.t.perry at mmu.ac.uk (Chris Perry) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:19:16 -0000 Subject: call for papers - Cambridge2002 Message-ID: From C.T.Perry at mmu.ac.uk Thu Jan 10 11:47:13 2002 From: C.T.Perry at mmu.ac.uk (Chris T Perry) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:47:13 GMT Subject: Cambridge2002-call for papers Message-ID: Apologies for those who could not read this the first time due to overwrite. Hope this now all makes sense! Chris European Meeting of the International Society for Reef Studies, Cambridge, UK, 4 - 7th September 2002 Call for papers: Below is a call for papers for a thematic session on ?Marginal and non-reef building coral environments? to be run at the European Meeting of the ISRS in Cambridge (September 2002). See website at:www.isrs2002.org If you are interested in contributing to this session please contact either Chris Perry or Piers Larcombe (contacts below). Thematic session - ?Marginal? and non-reef building coral environments Coral reef communities occupying low latitude, warm, clear-water settings are typically associated with the development of spatially and bathymetrically significant reef structures. Coral communities may occur to depths of 80+ m, and at shallow sites may exhibit rapid net accretion rates. There is, however, a growing recognition that many tropical coral communities also occur outside of these ?optimal? environmental settings. These include; ?high latitude environments ?high turbidity sites ?fluvially-influenced sites ?upwelling-influenced areas ?high salinity settings Under these varied marginal conditions, reef framework is often either restricted or, in extreme cases, entirely absent. These settings are, however, of significant interest from both biological and geological perspectives since they emphasise the highly variable nature of reef and coral community structure. They may still harbour an important array of tropical coral-related species and are often locally important from socio-economic perspectives. In addition, the marginal nature of such reefs (perhaps close to the environmental thresholds for coral survival) may make such sites particularly susceptible to environmental disturbance and climatic change. From the geological perspective there are interesting questions relating to the nature of marginal reef growth, their accumulation potential and the processes of carbonate cycling (including bioerosion, encrustation etc). Such marginal sites may also have potential as appropriate analogues for the highly diverse coral-dominated settings that are preserved in the fossil record. The aim of this thematic session is to bring together researchers from a wide range of disciplines (oceanography, ecology, geology, conservation, management) to discuss the varied character, processes and issues relevant to more marginal coral-dominated settings. Potential topics might include (but are not limited to); Geological evolution and significance Sedimentary settings Species assemblages and ecological significance Coral physiology Environmental disturbance Management and conservation Abstracts and expressions of interest for talks or posters should be sent to the session convenors. Abstracts should follow the format specified on the meeting website: www.isrs2002.org Dr Chris Perry Dept. of Env & Geog Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University E-mail: c.t.perry at mmu.ac.uk Dr Piers Larcombe School of Earth Sciences, James Cook University, E-mail: piers.larcombe at jcu.edu.au ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From Alan.E.Strong at noaa.gov Thu Jan 10 13:19:00 2002 From: Alan.E.Strong at noaa.gov (Alan E Strong) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:19:00 -0500 Subject: GBR - Early signs of Bleaching Message-ID: BLEACHING NOTE - Great Barrier Reef shows first signs of bleaching - Today NOAA has issued a press release: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s849.htm discussing a possible El Nino event that may be in the making for later this year. At the beginning of this week Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) issued a news release noting that: "A collaborative research program between the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA), Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has detected unusually warm water conditions on the Great Barrier Reef, conditions which could lead to coral bleaching." Their WebSite information can be seen at: http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/corp_site/bleaching/index.html and our latest HotSpots and Degree Heating Weeks for that area are found at: http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/data/hotspotese.gif http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/data2/dhwp.1.8.2002.gif The GBRMPA news release notes: "Coral bleaching expert, Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg from the University of Queensland, has already observed early signs of bleaching on the GBR." - Heron Island - The only other areas presently threatened by bleaching at this time, based on our HotSpot and DHW charts are in the vicinity of Papua New Guinea and Samoa (including American Samoa - where the NOAA Marine Sanctuary Director notes some paling has been observed within the past week). AE Strong -- **** <>< ******* <>< ******* <>< ******* <>< ******* Alan E. Strong Acting Chief, Oceanic Research & Applications Division Team Leader, Marine Applications Science Team (MAST) 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: 301-763-8572 http://orbit-net.nesdis.noaa.gov/orad --------------------------------------------------------------------- Alan E. Strong, Ph. D. Oceanographer/Team Leader NOAA/NESDIS/ORA Oceanic Research & Applications Division Alan E. Strong, Ph. D. Oceanographer/Team Leader NOAA/NESDIS/ORA Oceanic Research & Applications Division NOAA Science Center 5200 Auth Road Cellular: 443-822-3668 Camp Springs Fax: 301-763-8108 MD Work: 301-763-8102 x170 20746 USA Additional Information: Last Name Strong First Name Alan E. Version 2.1 From Craig.Bonn at noaa.gov Fri Jan 11 09:16:04 2002 From: Craig.Bonn at noaa.gov (Craig Bonn) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:16:04 -0500 Subject: coral sampling Message-ID: Coral-listers, What is the latest and best method now being used to mitigate damage done to corals when a sample is taken. In other words, when taking a 50cm2 sample from the skirt of a Montastrea colony, what is the latest method being used to repair the site where the sample was taken from? Thanks Craig S. Bonn Biological Science Technician (Fisheries) NOAA/NOS Beaufort Lab Biological Science Technician (Fisheries) NOAA/NOS Beaufort Lab 101 Pivers Island Road Cellular: 252-725-4794 Beaufort Fax: 252-728-8740 North Carolina Work: 252-728-8777 28512 Additional Information: Last Name Bonn First Name Craig Version 2.1 From eco_project_10 at hotmail.com Fri Jan 11 13:41:59 2002 From: eco_project_10 at hotmail.com (Sabine Goetz) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 18:41:59 +0000 Subject: legal definition of a reef Message-ID: >Dear coral-listers, >we are a group of biologists in Tobago, doing some research on artificial >reefs.Because we are not sure if its legal to use the term "reef" for our >project, it would be very interesting to know, if there exists a legal and > >clear (biological,nautical or geological) definition. Maybe somebody knows >a proper definition of this term.It would be very >nice if you answered us per e-mail. >Thanks in advance > Sabine Goetz > _________________________________________________________________ Testen Sie MSN Messenger f?r Ihren Online-Chat mit Freunden: http://messenger.msn.de ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From buddrw at kgs.ukans.edu Fri Jan 11 18:17:02 2002 From: buddrw at kgs.ukans.edu (Bob Buddemeier) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 17:17:02 -0600 Subject: legal definition of a reef Message-ID: There are many definitions of 'reef' in all of the categories mentioned. A few are 'clear,' whether or not any are 'proper' depends on the user and intended usage, and 'legal' is strictly a matter of the political jurisdiction concerned -- some may have legal definitions of reefs, most probably don't. For a recent summary review of reef definitions and their characteristics (with references), see: Kleypas, J.A., Buddemeier, R.W. and Gattuso, J.-P., 2001. Defining 'coral reef' for the age of global change. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 90: 426-437. The most important recommendation to all serious (scientific, managerial or regulatory) users of the term is to NOT assume that you understand what somebody else means by the term, or that they will understand you, but to provide and ask for explicit definitions. Bob Buddemeier Sabine Goetz wrote: > >Dear coral-listers, > >we are a group of biologists in Tobago, doing some research on artificial > >reefs.Because we are not sure if its legal to use the term "reef" for our > >project, it would be very interesting to know, if there exists a legal and > > > >clear (biological,nautical or geological) definition. Maybe somebody knows > >a proper definition of this term.It would be very > >nice if you answered us per e-mail. > >Thanks in advance > > Sabine Goetz > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Testen Sie MSN Messenger f?r Ihren Online-Chat mit Freunden: > http://messenger.msn.de > > ~~~~~~~ > For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the > digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the > menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. -- Dr. Robert W. Buddemeier Kansas Geological Survey University of Kansas 1930 Constant Avenue Lawrence, KS 66047 USA Ph (1) (785) 864-2112 Fax (1) (785) 864-5317 e-mail: buddrw at kgs.ukans.edu ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From karlf at sfu.ca Fri Jan 11 19:56:59 2002 From: karlf at sfu.ca (Karl Fellenius) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 16:56:59 -0800 Subject: legal definition of a reef Message-ID: Last year there was some discussion on CORAL on legal definitions of coral reefs (January) and deepwater corals (May) that might be of use for the current thread. I've copied a couple of the posts below that I kept, but the rest should be available through the archives. Karl Fellenius School of Resource & Environmental Management 8888 University Drive, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, http://www.rem.sfu.ca Bob Buddemeier wrote: > There are many definitions of 'reef' in all of the categories mentioned. > A > few are 'clear,' whether or not any are 'proper' depends on the user and > intended usage, and 'legal' is strictly a matter of the political > jurisdiction > concerned -- some may have legal definitions of reefs, most probably > don't. > > For a recent summary review of reef definitions and their characteristics > (with > references), see: Kleypas, J.A., Buddemeier, R.W. and Gattuso, J.-P., > 2001. > Defining 'coral reef' for the age of global change. International Journal > of > Earth Sciences, 90: 426-437. > > The most important recommendation to all serious (scientific, managerial > or > regulatory) users of the term is to NOT assume that you understand what > somebody else means by the term, or that they will understand you, but to > provide and ask for explicit definitions. > > Bob Buddemeier > > Sabine Goetz wrote: > > > >Dear coral-listers, > > >we are a group of biologists in Tobago, doing some research on > artificial > > >reefs.Because we are not sure if its legal to use the term "reef" for > our > > >project, it would be very interesting to know, if there exists a legal > and > > > > > >clear (biological,nautical or geological) definition. Maybe somebody > knows > > >a proper definition of this term.It would be very > > >nice if you answered us per e-mail. > > >Thanks in advance > > > Sabine Goetz > > > ---- > >Subject: > RE: "Legal" definition of a coral reef? > Date: > Sat, 13 Jan 2001 22:25:05 -0500 > From: > "John McManus" > To: > "Nani Kai" , > > Here is my draft definition for an article in an encyclopedia that will > come > out next year. > 'The term "coral reef" commonly refers to a marine ecosystem in which a > prominent ecological functional role is played by scleractinian corals. A > "structural coral reef" differs from a "non-structural coral community" in > > being associated with a geomorphologically significant calcium carbonate > (limestone) structure of meters to hundreds of meters height above > surrounding substrate, deposited by components of a coral reef ecosystem. > The term "coral reef" is often applied to both types of ecosystem or their > > fossil remains, although many scientists, especially geomorphologists, > reserve the term for structural coral reefs and their underlying > limestone.' > > The limits on what is and is not a part of a given coral community can be > more difficult to define than most people realize. In the worst case, one > has scattered clumps of coral that gradually become increasingly dense > toward a central area. Some worn footpaths through grass have the same > character. Defining the width of the path can be challenging. The > situation > is similar to that of defining the length of a coastline. In a general > sense, there is no right answer. One can only define the length of the > coastline in terms of a particular choice of measuring stick. > Alternatively, > one can describe the coastline in terms of fractals, although this is > useful > only for certain purposes. Similarly, one could choose a density for > delineating the coral patch, but one would have to couple it with a > particular way (especially scale) of measuring the density (or set of > scales > or fractal index). > > Given the above definition, the depth would not matter. Some people like > terms such as bioherm, but but most people would tend to think of a > bioherm > as a form of the popular concept of a coral reef. I don't mind the use of > the term, as long as it is clearly defined when used. I think the > 'wave-breaking" concept should be dropped entirely from coral reef > definitions, and we should accept that the term "coral reef" should imply > little or no relationship to the unqualified nautical term "reef". That > gets > us around having to define two nearly identical ecological - > geomorphological constructions as different just because one has sunk a > few > meters lower than the other (e.g. the Palawan subsurface "barrier coral > reef > system", which looks much like the GBR but rarely comes to within 10 m of > the surface). > > > John > > _________________________________________________________ > > John W. McManus, PhD > Director, National Center for Caribbean Coral Reef Research (NCORE) > Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (RSMAS) > University of Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway > Miami, Florida 33149. > jmcmanus at rsmas.miami.edu > Tel. (305) 361-4609 > Fax (305) 361-4600 > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov > [mailto:owner-coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov] On Behalf Of Nani Kai > Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 6:03 PM > To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov > Subject: "Legal" definition of a coral reef? > > A simple question; What IS a coral reef? Or perhaps more importantly, > what is it Not? (But first let me say that I did review the discussion on > > "what is a reef" in last May's coral-list.) > > With the great amount of attention that coral reefs have received in the > past few years, regulators are (at last!) coming to the realization that > our > precious marine resources need protection. My concern is that this > pendulum > of regulation may be swinging a bit too far to the left. I think that > everyone reading this list would agree that coral reefs represent a > resource > that merits our protection. I don't think, however, that everyone would > agree specifically about how to define the "coral reef" that we are trying > > to protect. > > A "reef" may be clearly defined in strictly nautical terms as it relates > to ship traffic without any reference to corals or other living marine > resources. Similarly "coral" (or coral communities) may be appropriately > defined in biological terms leaving little room for academic argument. > It is only as the terms are combined that an increased level of meaning > emerges in the definition to include an interwoven ecological matrix of > habitat complexity, species diversity, and fragility. But with the > increasing presence of regulators and lawyers dealing with coral reef > issues we are rapidly approaching a time where a working (read: legal) > definition of a "coral reef" will be necessary. > > Please consider the following two situations. > > Given a flat basalt substrate in 10 meters (just below keel depth) of > water, > at what coral density does a 1 hectare area become a coral reef? Does > surface rugosity, species composition, or colony age play a role in this > designation? > > Given a shoreline area, depth from 0 to 2 meters, within 50 feet of shore, > > do the same definitions apply? > > Please forward any answers or comments directly to the list. > > I'll do what I can to follow up with a summary to see if we can develop a > consensus definition. -- > Subject: > Re: deepwater coral "reefs"? > Date: > Thu, 01 Jun 2000 07:28:56 -0700 > From: > pmuller at seas.marine.usf.edu (pmuller at seas.marine.usf.edu) > To: > szmanta at uncwil.edu > CC: > erichugo at aol.com, coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov > References: > 1 , 2 > > I concur wholeheartedly with Alina and would add a couple of small > details. > > A coral is either zooxanthellate or azooxanthellate in most cases (one can > > find exceptions to any "rule"). However, a coral is not inherently > "hermatypic" or "ahermatypic". Rather, whether coral can accrete > limestone faster than it is eroded away or buried by a variety of > processes is a function of the environment, in addition to the organism's > accretion potential. For example, Montastrea spp. are hermatypic in the > Caribbean, but not on the West Florida Shelf. There are also many local > environments in the Caribbean where Montastrea can live but not construct > bioherms. > > This distinction is critical to conservation efforts, because a management > > decision to maintain environmental conditions that can support survival of > > Montastrea, for example, could be quite different than a management > decision to maintain environmental conditions that can support reef > (meaning "bioherm") development. > > Pamela Hallock Muller, Professor > Department of Marine Science > University of South Florida > > "Alina M. Szmant" wrote: > > >> Eric: > >> > >> The definition of a bioherm is a herm (mound) made by living organisms. > > >It can be located in shallow, deep, or intermediate depths. Again, a > >"reef" is "a chain of rocks or ridge of sand at or near the surface of > >water" or "a hazardous obstruction" (Webster's New Collegiate > >Dictionary). Neither has anything to do with corals or zooxanthellae > >specifically. > >> > >> Coral reefs are bioherms or reefs made by corals and associated > >organisms. For the most part, hermatypic corals have zooxanthellae, but > >many zooxanthellate corals either do not live on or form reefs, or live > >on reefs but are not really a major contributor to reef formation (e.g. > >Favia fragum...). > >> > >> The confusion in terminology is due (1) to the misconception that > >hermatypic means zooxanthellae-containing, and (2) that everyplace there > >is coral there is a coral reef. Corals can have high cover on a volcanic > >substrate but that doesn't make it a coral reef in my opinion unless > >there has been carbonate accretion over the volcanic substrate. Further, > >in places like Florida, there is some coral cover over exposed > >Pleistocene reef substrate, which locally are considered coral reefs (as > >opposed to a coral community growing over a fossil reef). Everyone wants > >to have a coral reef in their back yard and many systems that are not > >true "coral reefs" are being called by that name. > >> > >> With regard to "deepwater" coral reefs, the only ones that would fit a > >strict definition would be ones that were drowned (e.g. Conrad Neumann's > >give-up reefs). Catch-up reefs would also fit since they are usually grow > > >into shallow water. As ships get bigger and have deeper hulls, I guess > >the "dangerous obstruction" part of the reef definition would include > >deeper water coral reefs that big ships could run into. If we include > >submarines, then all depths are fair game.... > >> > >> Anyway, that is how I analyze the terminology based on first principles > > >and dictionaries. > >> > >> Alina Szmant > >> > >> 53 AM 05/27/2000 -0400, EricHugo at aol.com wrote: > >> >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 > >> > > >> > > >> ******************************************************************* > >> NOTE NEW ADDRESS: > >> > >> Dr. Alina M. Szmant > >> Coral Reef Research Group > >> Professor of Biology > >> Center for Marine Science > >> University of North Carolina at Wilmington > >> 1 Marvin K. Moss Lane > >> Wilmington NC 28409 > >> tel: (910)962-2362 fax: (910)962-2410 > >> email: szmanta at uncwil.edu > >> http://www.uncwil.edu/people/szmanta/ > >> ****************************************************************** > > From dkent at austin.rr.com Sun Jan 13 22:30:05 2002 From: dkent at austin.rr.com (Doug Kent) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 21:30:05 -0600 Subject: Impact of flooding the Macal River Valley? Message-ID: Fortis, a Canadian logging company is trying to dam and flood 20 miles the Macal River Valley in Belize (see http://www.savebiogems.org/macal/). Any idea whether and how this might affect coral reef ecosystems in Belize? Thanks. Doug Kent From Mark.Spalding at unep-wcmc.org Mon Jan 14 07:04:30 2002 From: Mark.Spalding at unep-wcmc.org (Mark Spalding) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:04:30 +0000 Subject: legal definition of a reef Message-ID: The new World Atlas of Coral Reefs provides a simple definition which may be of use: A reef is "a physical structure which has been built up, and continues to grow over decadal time-scales, as a result of the accumulation of calcium carbonate laid down by hermatypic corals and other organisms." This definition tries to get in: - physical structure - living components - a reef may go through dramatic events such as Acanthaster plagues, but is still a reef - corals are critical, but often not the only components. Of course under this definition there remain a lot of important coral communities which are not coral reefs, and also some dead eroding structures which WERE coral reefs. Cheers __________________________________________ Mark Spalding, PhD Senior Marine Ecologist UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre www.unep-wcmc.org 219 Huntingdon Road Tel: +44 (0)1223 277314 Cambridge, CB3 0DL Fax: +44 (0)1223 277136 UK e-mail:mark.spalding at unep-wcmc.org or Research Associate Cambridge Coastal Research Unit Department of Geography Downing St Cambridge UK --------------------------------------------------------------- This E-mail and any attachments are private, intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, they have been sent to you in error: any use of information in them is strictly prohibited. The employer reserves the right to monitor the content of the message and any reply received. ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From Jonathan.Kelsey at noaa.gov Mon Jan 14 09:11:06 2002 From: Jonathan.Kelsey at noaa.gov (Jonathan Kelsey) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:11:06 -0500 Subject: Impact of flooding the Macal River Valley? Message-ID: Doug - I spent two years working on coral reefs in Belize as a Peace Corps volunteer. This Macal Valley is truly an amazing place. I would urge as many people as possible to submit letters to Fortis. This project will affect one-of-a-kind ecosystems beyond the river valley and reef, such as the Crooked Tree migratory bird sanctuary, a Belize Audubon Society sanctuary for the endangered Jabiru Stork, among untold others. Not to mention nearshore manatee habitats and on, and on. I find it interesting that the letters are going to Fortis in Newfoundland, a place where another brand of large-scale manipulation of an ecosystem for "development's" sake ended up in catastrophe. Please take a minute and submit a letter. Jonathan Kelsey* Doug Kent wrote: > Fortis, a Canadian logging company is trying to dam and flood 20 miles > the Macal River Valley in Belize (see > http://www.savebiogems.org/macal/). Any idea whether and how this might > affect coral reef ecosystems in Belize?Thanks.Doug Kent -- Jonathan D. Kelsey *views are not representative of NOAA or the Department of Commerce Coastal Management Specialist, Pacific Region NOAA/NOS/Coastal Programs Division 1305 East-West Highway, 11th Floor, N/ORM3 Silver Spring, MD 20910 Phone: (301) 713-3155 x137 Fax: (301) 713-4367 From abornbus at aaas.org Mon Jan 14 09:21:13 2002 From: abornbus at aaas.org (Alan Bornbusch) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:21:13 -0500 Subject: Coral reef trade publication Message-ID: Report Published on Global Trade and Coral Reef Conservation The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announces the publication of "Global Trade and Consumer Choices: Coral Reefs in Crisis." This report features five papers by experts on the global trade in coral reef species and coral reef conservation. They analyze the causes and consequences of global trade in coral reef animals; the role of the U.S. as both a major importer and leader in trade and conservation efforts; and present solutions to reduce the negative impacts of trade on these unique ecosystems while promoting long-term benefits to local communities through sustainable resource use. The report highlights the fact that an equitable and sustainable response to the trade threat will require that all remedies be pursued, engaging communities, exporters and importers, governments, non-governmental organizations, consumers, scientists, and international institutions. "Global Trade and Consumer Choices: Coral Reefs in Crisis" is available on the Worldwide Web at http://www.aaas.org/international/ssa/coralreefs Copies may also be obtained from: Africa Program American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1200 New York Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20005, USA Telephone: USA +1-202-326-6651 Fax: USA +1-202-289-4958 Email: africa at aaas.org Internet: http://www.aaas.org/international/ssa Alan H. Bornbusch, Ph.D. Director, Africa Program Directorate for International Programs American Association for the Advancement of Science 1200 New York Ave., NW Washington, D.C. 20005 Tel. 202-326-6651/6650 Mobile 202-390-4946 Fax 202-289-4958 email: abornbus at aaas.org ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From mekvinga at yahoo.com Mon Jan 14 11:51:46 2002 From: mekvinga at yahoo.com (Melissa Keyes) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 08:51:46 -0800 (PST) Subject: Lifespan of a polyp Message-ID: Hello, all, I was asked, "Does a coral polyp die of old age?" I believe it's one critter that could live indefinitely. Have there been any papers on this? Cheers, Melissa Keyes St. Croix, USVI ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail. From riskmj at mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca Mon Jan 14 12:54:50 2002 From: riskmj at mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca (Mike Risk) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:54:50 -0500 Subject: legal definition of a reef Message-ID: Hi. I have watched this debate with some interest, finally am prompted to respond. There is a 40-year-old (at least) definition of "reef", used by geologists: a reef is "a biologically-constructed, wave-resistant framework." That worked then, it still works. Five words. The one you cite is misleading (as well as being way too long). Although most reefs de facto last decades, that is not a prerequisite. Non-obligatory descriptors do not belong in definitions. One example: the reef that Tom Tomascik described in Coral Reefs that was constructed within 5 years on an Indonesian lava flow was certainly a reef, is one now, and will have been one even if slain in its 6th year by dynamite-fishing. As to whether those deep-water, hydrocarbon-nourished Lophelia-built "things" off Norway are "reefs"-that's an interesting question. I don't even think we need be constrained in our thinking to CaCO3 reefs. I can imagine a submersible program, somewhere on the west coast, running into huge accumulations of Geoidea's...all SiO2. Could happen. (And, of course, many ancient reefs had lots of siliceous critters, but not the main constructors.) ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From Craig.Bonn at noaa.gov Mon Jan 14 14:20:52 2002 From: Craig.Bonn at noaa.gov (Craig Bonn) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:20:52 -0500 Subject: Coral sampling Message-ID: Someone suggested the use of modeling clay that is resistant to salt water as a method for the repair of injuries to corals from the taking of small samples. I dont really think repair is the right terminology to use, I think perhaps the use of something like clay to patch over sites were samples have been removed from corals may help to retard invasion by microbes. Any thoughts on this and does anyone know of another method?? Thanks Craig S. Bonn --------------------------------------------------------------------- Biological Science Technician (Fisheries) NOAA/NOS Beaufort Lab Biological Science Technician (Fisheries) NOAA/NOS Beaufort Lab 101 Pivers Island Road Cellular: 252-725-4794 Beaufort Fax: 252-728-8740 North Carolina Work: 252-728-8777 28512 Additional Information: Last Name Bonn First Name Craig Version 2.1 From j.oliver at cgiar.org Mon Jan 14 22:11:03 2002 From: j.oliver at cgiar.org (Jamie Oliver) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 19:11:03 -0800 Subject: IGOS Coral Reef Sub-Theme Theme - Call for participation in a questionnaire Message-ID: Dear Colleagues On 8 November last year, the Partners in the Integrated Global Observing System (IGOS) at their meeting in Kyoto, approved a proposal for a Coral Reef Sub-theme as the first step towards the development of a broader Coastal Theme under IGOS. A working group, co-chaired by Arthur Dahl and Al Strong, has been organised to prepare the theme report over then next year. The full text of the work plan of the working group can be downloaded at www.reefbase.org/igos/CRTHEME8.DOC The immediate objective in the context of IGOS is to produce a specific set of observational requirements corresponding to the special needs of the coral reef and coastal research/management communities. These requirements will then guide the development (and resource commitments) of remote sensing systems developers. For the theme report, the team will: a) prepare an inventory of relevant existing observational activities and research programmes: remote sensing b) identify the remote and in situ observational techniques best able to meet the objectives defined above c) develop specifications for a set of observational products optimising different user requirements d) define partnership roles and responsibilities for implementation of the Coral Reef Theme report, including data management through ReefBase and the UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre e) identify potential resources for implementation of the theme proposals f) relate the Coral Reef Theme to the Ocean Theme, the Carbon Cycle Theme, other relevant IGOS themes, and related programmes such as ICRAN, ICRI, GCRMN, GOOS, GTOS, IGBP, etc. As a first step in the development of the theme report, we would like to conduct a survey of coral reef scientists and managers with current work programmes, or an active interest in, remote sensing/observing of coral reefs. This includes people involved in in situ monitoring who would be interested in remote sensing products as an additional source of information to complement their activities (see list below for a range of potential work areas which have been identified as relevant to the development of new remote sensing products). Rather than broadcasting a questionnaire to the coral reef community, we have decided to call for expressions of interest in participating in the survey. We will then send you a detailed questionnaire. If you are active in the remote sensing area or interested in helping to define remote sensing/observing interests relating to coral reefs, and the product requirements for the next decade, we would appreciate it if you could respond by email. We also ask you to enclose a brief description of your current work and areas of interest. Please respond within 2 weeks if you would like to participate. Thanks in advance for any help you can give us in this important task. Best Wishes Jamie Oliver Team Member - IGOS Coral Reef Sub-theme =========================================== In replying please provide the following information to J.Oliver at cgiar.org : Name: Email address: Position: Address: Current work related to remote sensing/observing: (2-3 sentences) How would you use remote sensing products in your work: ( 2-3 sentences) ==================================== Specific areas of coral reef work which have already been identified as potentially benefiting from the development of new or improved sensor systems/products include: 1) quantifying the global extent and distribution of coral reefs and associated ecosystems and their spatial relationships; 2) quantifying the loss of coral reefs and associated ecosystems over time; 3)documenting the health of coral reef ecosystems to the extent possible with remote sensing and in situ approaches and their combination; 4)monitoring changes in coral reef ecosystems over time, both to determine natural variability and anthropogenic degradation from local sources, and to identify the effects of global change; 5)providing early warning of, and monitor the extent of, major stressful events such as raised water temperature and associated coral bleaching; 6)supplying improved data on stresses and risks coral reefs face, such as adjacent land use and runoff changes, coastal construction and dredging, human pressures on fringing reefs and the coastline, human use from vessels/fishing, etc.; 7)documenting large scale and long term phenomena and characteristics important to the productivity and maintenance of coral reefs; 8)developing a geomorphological unit classification of habitats and seascapes in coral reef and associated ecosystems and its map representation; 9)generating observational products of immediate use to coral reef and coastal zone managers and planners, and to different resource user communities (fishing, tourism, biodiversity protection, etc.); 10) providing evidence if possible of the effectiveness of marine protected areas for conserving coral reefs. Jamie Oliver Senior Scientist (Coral Reef Projects) ICLARM - The World Fish Center PO Box 500, Penang 10670 Phone: (604) 626 1606 Fax: (604) 626 5530 email: J.Oliver at cgiar.org ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From serge.andrefouet at noumea.ird.nc Mon Jan 14 22:55:58 2002 From: serge.andrefouet at noumea.ird.nc (Serge Andrefouet) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 22:55:58 -0500 Subject: Remote sensing of coral bleaching Message-ID: (apologies for cross-posting) Dear all, To help in preparing a workshop dealing with coral bleaching and remote sensing I would be interested in hearing about any succesfull or disappointing application of remote sensing for detecting and monitoring coral bleaching, during the bleaching. I precise that the primary interest is in "direct" remote sensing of reefs themselves using airborne or satellite instruments. Though extremely interesting, "indirect" remote sensing of oceanic (e.g. Sea Surface Temperature) and atmospheric (e.g. cloud cover) conditions at regional-scale, and organism-scale spectral signatures of bleached or dead corals are not the primary focus of the review I have to present. So far, I am aware of 4 reports on this subject. They are listed below and present results for Belize, Japan, French Polynesia, and GBR reefs. If you have conducted a simulation or a real survey using airborne or satellite data (aerial photographs, hyperspectral, Ikonos, SPOT, Landsat...) I would be interested and grateful to hear about it. Original information will be credited and ackowledged of course. Thanks in advance, Best regards, Serge Andrefouet Yamano, H. & Tamura, M. (in press). Can satellite sensors detect coral reef bleaching? A feasibility study using radiative transfer models in air and water. In Proc. 9th Int. Coral reef Symposium, ISRS, Bali, Indonesia. Yamano, H. & Tamura, M. (2001). Use of Landsat TM data and radiative transfer models for monitoring coral reef bleaching. In Proc. IGARSS 2001, vol. CDROM. IEEE, Sydney, Australia. Ammenberg, P., Lindell, L. T. & Kramer, P. (in press). Detection of coral bleaching using high spatial resolution satellite images. In Proc. 9th Int. Coral reef Symposium, ISRS, Bali, Indonesia. Andr?fou?t S., R. Berkelmans, L. Odriozola, T. J. Done, J. K. Oliver, F. E. Muller-Karger. (in press) Choosing the appropriate spatial resolution for monitoring coral bleaching events using remote sensing. Coral Reefs. Serge Andrefouet College of Marine Science Institute for Marine Remote sensing University of South Florida 140, 7th Av. South St Petersburg FL 33701 Tel: 727 -553-3987/ 727 -553-1186 Fax: 727 -553-1103 E-mail: serge at carbon.marine.usf.edu From Susanbmcg at aol.com Tue Jan 15 09:35:12 2002 From: Susanbmcg at aol.com (Susanbmcg at aol.com) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:35:12 EST Subject: coral-list-daily V2 #322 Message-ID: Dear coral list, The email message posted by Doug Kent about flooding in the Macal Valley is of great interest to me but arrived in a computer language that looked something like Swedish. Can you resend it to me in something my computer can manage, like word? If this is too much of a pain, nevermind, I'll sort it out somehow. Thanks for the great list serve. Cheers, Susan ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From jdwsn at blue.weeg.uiowa.edu Tue Jan 15 11:41:15 2002 From: jdwsn at blue.weeg.uiowa.edu (John Dawson) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:41:15 -0600 Subject: legal definition of a reef Message-ID: Hi, I guess I will add my two cents to this discussion. There are many different terms that we use when discussing corals such as: zooxanthellate, azooxanthellate, hermatypic, ahermatypic, reef, nonreef, deep water, etc.. How do we get our politicians to understand the different biologic ways we can group corals? How can we get the average person to use all these terms correctly? So often do I hear geologists say hermatypic and when they actually mean zooxanthellate. These terms are not equivalent, but still I see people using them as though they were. Anyway, that's my little diatribe. John ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- John P. Dawson Ph.D. Candidate - Department of Geoscience 121 Trowbridge Hall, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 E-mail: jdwsn at blue.weeg.uiowa.edu; Phone: (319)-335-1818; Fax: (319)-335-1821 ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From fcox at hawaii.edu Tue Jan 15 15:53:07 2002 From: fcox at hawaii.edu (Evelyn F Cox) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:53:07 -1000 (HST) Subject: Summer Program-Molecular Biology of Corals Message-ID: ****HIMB Summer Program - Molecular Biology of Corals**** The topic of the 2002 Edwin W. Pauley Summer Program at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology will be the molecular biology of corals. There will be a focus on the systematics of corals and their zooxanthellae, coral population genetics, and the identification of biomarkers for stress to corals resulting from anthropogenic change. Arrangements for funding students are nearing completion. A formal announcement with application instructions will be available soon. The program will begin in mid June 2002 and continue to mid August 2002. Interested graduate students should contact Dr. Fenny Cox (fcox at hawaii.edu). ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From Rcheck at ucla.edu Tue Jan 15 17:27:05 2002 From: Rcheck at ucla.edu (Reef Check Headquarters) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 14:27:05 -0800 Subject: Calling all 2001 Reef Check Data! Message-ID: For those of you who have completed Reef Check surveys this year and not registered with headquarters or submitted your data: Thanks for all your hard work-- but please don't let it go to waste! Please send your data ASAP to: Liebeler at Ucla.edu. As we are about to complete our 2001 database, we need your data by January 15th or we will not be able to include it in our analysis. If you need the submission forms, please contact me and I will get them to you. Many thanks, Jennifer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jennifer Liebeler Program Manager Reef Check Headquarters 1362 Hershey Hall 149607 University of California at Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095-1496 USA Office Tel: 310-794-4985 Fax: 310-825-0758 Liebeler at ucla.edu www.ReefCheck.org ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From S96007966 at student.usp.ac.fj Tue Jan 15 22:15:16 2002 From: S96007966 at student.usp.ac.fj (Ron Devine Vave) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:15:16 +1200 Subject: Coral recruitment Message-ID: Hello Coral-listers, please allow me to briefly introduce myself. My name is Ron Vave, and I'm an MSc student in marine science, at the University of the South Pacific, here in Fiji. my interest lies in coral recruitment or settlement study. have found lots of literatures on this, but little to none mention procedures for the identification of coral spats (using a dissecting microscope) on settlement tiles, which I intend to be doing. What differences in skeletal structure of coral spats are used to differentiate one category from another? If possible, please send photos as examples. Are their any courses or literatures (journal articles, books etc) on the identification of coral spats? I'm be more than glad to exchange photomicrographs of coral spats. Thanks in advance. Ron Devine Vave C/-Marine Studies Program, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji Islands. ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From cks102 at york.ac.uk Wed Jan 16 06:04:17 2002 From: cks102 at york.ac.uk (Chris Schelten) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:04:17 +0000 Subject: Agaricia recruits Message-ID: Hi everyone, I am looking for some close-up pictures of Agaricia recruits. The recruits should be < 5mm. I need the pictures for identification purposes of settled coral larvae. Thanks for your help, Chris ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From jware at erols.com Wed Jan 16 10:48:34 2002 From: jware at erols.com (John Ware) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:48:34 -0500 Subject: What's a reef?? Message-ID: Greetings to List, As one who tried to find a consensus definition from the list 2 years ago (without success), let me add my vote to Bob Buddemeier's statement that definitions must be agreed upon before a meaningful discussion can take place. In particular, I do not necessarily see that attempting to define a "coral reef" is an empty philosophical exercise. Suppose the government of country X were to decide to spend some millions of dollars (or whatever) for protection of and research on coral reefs. How does the person or persons involved in administering that money decided whether a proposed research project applies to the subject of the funding? Despite the apparent beauty and simplicity of some proposed definitions, I don't believe the definitions attain their goal. For example, the definition taken from the World Atlas of Coral Reefs and proposed recently by Mark Spalding is: "a physical structure which has been built up, and continues to grow over decadal time-scales, as a result of the accumulation of calcium carbonate laid down by hermatypic corals and other organisms." This definition occurs on pg 16 of the text. Unfortunately, the word "hermatypic" is defined on pg 15 by stating that there is a subset of corals that are a- communal and b- lay down a stony skeleton. This is followed by the statement that these corals are called hermatypic or reef building. In other words, a coral reef is a reef built by reef-building corals! Mike Risk proposes the very simple definition taken from a geological context. A reef is: "a biologically-constructed, wave-resistant framework." Clearly, to a sailor, the thing he runs aground on he calls a 'reef', whether it was biologically constructed or not. But there are even more fundamental problems with this definition. Specifically, what do the words 'wave resistant' mean? What size waves? What frequency? How do we address 'biologically-constructed' things that are not ever wave affected so that their ability to resist waves cannot be easily determined? Even the word 'framework' is problematical. The image I have of a framework, which is shared by my desk dictionary, is a 'skeletal structure like the framework of a building'. Now clearly a coral reef is skeletal. But in this context, the word 'skeletal' refers to what we see when a house is framed by 2 x 4s before the siding is put on. In other words, 'framework' does not apply to a solid structure. Thus, using Mike's definition, all massive structures are excluded. Not necessarily wrong, just different from my image. When we hear the word "reef", we each form a mental picture, or set of pictures, that depends upon our backgrounds and the context. For example, on this list, the word 'reef' almost always is interpreted to mean a 'reef formed by zooxanthellate corals and associated organisms in tropical waters' = a tropical, coral reef. (I am not proposing that as a definition, just a thought picture.) The founders of an organization to which many of us belong, the International Society for Reef Studies, clearly had something like this in mind. The Constitution states that the ISRS has the objective of studying ** coral reefs **, so the word 'reef' in the organization title doesn't mean the same thing to everyone. Finally, back to Bob's point: As an engineer, one of the first rules I learned about discussions is: "Make sure everyone knows what the discussion is about." Good rule, solves a lot of problems. John -- ************************************************************* * * * John R. 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From brumba at amnh.org Wed Jan 16 17:16:42 2002 From: brumba at amnh.org (Daniel Brumbaugh) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:16:42 -0500 Subject: UPDATE: "Sustaining Seascapes" symposium, 7-8 Mar 2002 Message-ID: Apologies for the cross-postings! *SYMPOSIUM UPDATE* SUSTAINING SEASCAPES: THE SCIENCE AND POLICY OF MARINE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Thursday and Friday, March 7 and 8, 2002 American Museum of Natural History New York City EARLY-REGISTRATION DISCOUNT ENDS JANUARY 26! POSTER ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 18 Sustaining Seascapes: The Science and Policy of Marine Resource Management will examine the large-scale conservation of marine ecosystems - considering novel approaches to the sustainable management of biodiversity and fisheries. Through theory, reviews, and case studies, participants will explore efforts to integrate natural, socioeconomic, and cultural factors at local and regional scales in response to ongoing threats to both fisheries and biodiversity. Topics and presenters will include: PLENARY ADDRESSES: The Crisis in Fisheries and Marine Biodiversity (Daniel Pauly, Professor, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia) Historical Perspectives and Future Directions for Marine Resource Protection (Tundi Agardy, Executive Director, Sound Seas) Unnatural Oceans: Restocking the Seas for Restoration of Resilience (Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Professor of Oceanography, Scripps Institute of Oceanography) PANEL DISCUSSION: Future Directions with MPAs and Marine Biodiversity Protection in the United States (Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) [invited]) (Fran Mainella, Director, U.S. National Park Service [invited]) (Marshall Jones, Acting Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ([invited]) INVITED PRESENTATIONS: Fisheries, Trophic Cascades, and Marine Biodiversity (Robert S. Steneck, Professor, School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine) Oceanographic and Biological Connectivity (Robert K. Cowen, Professor, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami) The Economics of Coastal Zones (TBA) Dimensions of Conservation Policy in Coastal Zones (TBA) Ethical Perspectives on Coastal Policy-Making (TBA) Cultural Seascapes (Bonnie J. McCay, Professor, Department of Human Ecology, Cook College, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) Stakeholder Involvement in Marine Conservation Policy Making (Michael Eng, Senior Program Manager, U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution) Uncertainties in Ecological and Sociopolitical Systems (Louis W. Botsford, Professor, Wildlife and Fisheries Biology, University of California, Davis) Linking Social and Ecological Systems (TBA) Modeling the Functions of an MPA Network (Bahamas) (Daniel Brumbaugh, Marine Program Manager, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, AMNH) Developing the Patagonian Coastal-Zone Management Plan (Argentina) (Claudio Campagna, Conservation Zoologist, Wildlife Conservation Society/COCINET) Establishing Marine Protection in the Florida Keys (USA) (Billy Causey, Superintendent, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary [NOAA]) A Proposal for a Regional MPA Network in the Gulf of Maine (USA/Canada) (Anthony Chatwin, Staff Scientist, Conservation Law Foundation) Lessons from Designing a Reserve Network in the Channel Islands (USA) (Gary Davis, Science Advisor, Channel Islands National Park, U.S. National Park Service) Implementing a New MPA for Managing Fishing and Tourism (Bonaire, Dutch Antilles) (Kalli DeMeyer, Director, Coral Parks Programme, Coral Reef Alliance [CORAL]) Fisheries, Biodiversity, and Human Impacts of Closures in the Gulf of Maine (USA) (Michael J. 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Support for the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation's Spring Symposia is provided by the John and Daniel Tishman Fund. CALL FOR POSTERS: Poster subject must relate to the symposium's themes and may include theory, empirical studies, or case studies. Please limit abstracts to 300 words, and include title, author(s), and contact information for the lead author. Submit abstracts to the CBC's Outreach Program Coordinator, Fiona Brady, at brady at amnh.org. Deadline for submission: February 18, 2002. TO REGISTER, please contact: Central Reservations, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024 (USA) 212-769-5200 (phone), 212-769-5272 (fax), or tickets at amnh.org. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Visit the CBC's website at http://research.amnh.org/biodiversity/ or email biodiversity at amnh.org. -- PLEASE NOTE CHANGES TO MY CONTACT INFO: Dan Brumbaugh, Ph.D. Marine Program Manager American Museum of Natural History / Biodiversity Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024-5192 tel: (212) 496-3494; fax: (212) 769-5292 brumba at amnh.org http://research.amnh.org/biodiversity/programs/marine/bahamas/ http://research.amnh.org/biodiversity/symposia/seascapes/ CURRENTLY (most of the time): Visiting Scientist MPA Center / NOAA 110 Shaffer Road Santa Cruz, CA 95060-5730 tel: (831) 420-3963; fax: (831) 420-3977, -3979 ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From riskmj at mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca Wed Jan 16 20:37:07 2002 From: riskmj at mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca (Mike Risk) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:37:07 -0500 Subject: What's a reef?? Message-ID: I was only prompted to respond in the first place because (as I told a senior colleague who responded to me privately) I grow frustrated by those who would re-invent the wheels on the handbasket in which reefs are so quickly going to hell. My submission was somewhat tongue-in-cheek: I knew perfectly well that there was no chance of that definition, or any other, being widely accepted. All such proposals will be talked to death. The fractious and divisive nature of the coral reef biological community is by now the stuff of legends. Just one example, of many: equally as important (more so) as the definition is the ability to describe what we see. I advise the governments of several nations (including the USA) on coral reef monitoring programs. I can guarantee you that, 30 years after the basic technique was described, there is still no general agreement on survey methods. This is clearly absurd. As all survey methods, properly applied, give the same answer, it would not be a problem if the various groups met regularly to compare notes-but even that doesn't happen. So I knew that adoption of the Wells 1957 definition (which was a consensus of opinions at the time) was impossible, because: 1. there are those out there who would not agree to ANY definition that they had not made up themselves; 2. those hearing it for the first time would have to admit they were unfamiliar with the classic reef literature, and 3. it was proposed by (shudder!) geologists. (Do I need to point out here the host of illustrious ecologists with geology degrees-starting with Darwin-without whom our knowldege of reefs would be woeful indeed?) There is nothing wrong with that definition-only the fact that it will never be adopted. John Ware's posting splits more hairs than it ties together. There is nothing wrong with "wave-resistant" as an essential descriptor. Talking about wave heights, wave strength (Reynold's Numbers??) etc. is just plain silly. Every structure we would accept as a reef is wave-resistant. Do they resist all waves? Of course not. (I resist temptation, but on rare occasions have been known to...that's for a later discussion). Will there be a spectrum of resistances? Of course. Is this a problem? Not to a group that can deal with the CCA "boilers" as well as the branched, fragile patches. This is an essential part of the definition, as it separates "reefs" from, say, piles of oyster shells. It is worth noting that the original word "reif" was High German/Old Norse, and meant a boat-holer. Equally, there is nothing wrong with "framework." The building analogy actually proves the point, instead of being fatal, as John would have it. The building falls down without the framework, ergo the structure needs it. It is silly to claim that massive structures, underlain by frameworks, do not qualify. When we look at reefs in the record, it is often hard to accept the existence of frameworks-most of them are jumbled piles of rubble. Again I don't think those observations are fatal-instead, they document the catastrophic force of rare storms. Wave-resistance is one thing, but against a hurricane, well, "resistance is futile", and the framework is destroyed. The definition I quoted is from a GSA Volume titled "Ecology"-I recommend it, even though it was published prior to 1995. (I think it's Memoir #54.) In that same volume is a paper by Teichert, describing the cold and deep-water coral banks off Europe, and pointing out that these should not be called "reefs". See above. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that an uncemented pile of corals is no more wave-resistant than a pile of oyster shells. So this wheel was invented a long time ago. If we are looking for a legal/policy-oriented reef definition, here is what does NOT go in: 1. there should be no mention of corals. All sorts of critters make reefs, even now. It is not even proper to say that corals dominate modern reefs-in terms of carbonate budgets, algae and bioeroders are more important by far than corals. (I can just hear the screams if I proposed that reefs were "algal-cemented frameworks supporting large numbers of bioeroders.") 2. there should be no mention of zooxanthellae/algal symbiosis. That is a factor that almost always accompanies reef formation (and has in the past) but any legal challenge would, for example, quickly expose our degree of ignorance of terrestrial OM sources in the diets of corals. This could lead to a lack of legal protection for parts of inshore reefs. 3. there should be no time implications. Tom's 6-year-old reef is as worthy of protection as are those 3,000-year-old reef fronts on the GBR. In short: the only change I can see making to the original definition would be to exclude humans! So, "Biologically-constructed (not by us!) wave-resistant frameworks." I now leave this debate, in the sure and certain knowldege that, should I come back in 5 years, no progress will have been made. ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From buddrw at kgs.ukans.edu Wed Jan 16 21:08:32 2002 From: buddrw at kgs.ukans.edu (Bob Buddemeier) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:08:32 -0600 Subject: What's a reef?? Message-ID: Thanks very much, Mike -- that clears up quite a few things for me. I have always been curious about where various governments got the advice upon which they base their reef-related policies Bob Mike Risk wrote: > I was only prompted to respond in the first place because (as I told a > senior colleague who responded to me privately) I grow frustrated by those > who would re-invent the wheels on the handbasket in which reefs are so > quickly going to hell. My submission was somewhat tongue-in-cheek: I knew > perfectly well that there was no chance of that definition, or any other, > being widely accepted. All such proposals will be talked to death. > > The fractious and divisive nature of the coral reef biological community is > by now the stuff of legends. Just one example, of many: equally as important > (more so) as the definition is the ability to describe what we see. I advise > the governments of several nations (including the USA) on coral reef > monitoring programs. I can guarantee you that, 30 years after the basic > technique was described, there is still no general agreement on survey > methods. This is clearly absurd. As all survey methods, properly applied, > give the same answer, it would not be a problem if the various groups met > regularly to compare notes-but even that doesn't happen. > > So I knew that adoption of the Wells 1957 definition (which was a consensus > of opinions at the time) was impossible, because: > 1. there are those out there who would not agree to ANY definition that > they had not made up themselves; > 2. those hearing it for the first time would have to admit they were > unfamiliar with the classic reef literature, and > 3. it was proposed by (shudder!) geologists. (Do I need to point out > here the host of illustrious ecologists with geology degrees-starting with > Darwin-without whom our knowldege of reefs would be woeful indeed?) > > There is nothing wrong with that definition-only the fact that it will never > be adopted. > > John Ware's posting splits more hairs than it ties together. There is > nothing wrong with "wave-resistant" as an essential descriptor. Talking > about wave heights, wave strength (Reynold's Numbers??) etc. is just plain > silly. Every structure we would accept as a reef is wave-resistant. Do they > resist all waves? Of course not. (I resist temptation, but on rare occasions > have been known to...that's for a later discussion). Will there be a > spectrum of resistances? Of course. Is this a problem? Not to a group that > can deal with the CCA "boilers" as well as the branched, fragile patches. > This is an essential part of the definition, as it separates "reefs" from, > say, piles of oyster shells. It is worth noting that the original word > "reif" was High German/Old Norse, and meant a boat-holer. > > Equally, there is nothing wrong with "framework." The building analogy > actually proves the point, instead of being fatal, as John would have it. > The building falls down without the framework, ergo the structure needs it. > It is silly to claim that massive structures, underlain by frameworks, do > not qualify. > > When we look at reefs in the record, it is often hard to accept the > existence of frameworks-most of them are jumbled piles of rubble. Again I > don't think those observations are fatal-instead, they document the > catastrophic force of rare storms. Wave-resistance is one thing, but against > a hurricane, well, "resistance is futile", and the framework is destroyed. > > The definition I quoted is from a GSA Volume titled "Ecology"-I recommend > it, even though it was published prior to 1995. (I think it's Memoir #54.) > In that same volume is a paper by Teichert, describing the cold and > deep-water coral banks off Europe, and pointing out that these should not be > called "reefs". See above. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out > that an uncemented pile of corals is no more wave-resistant than a pile of > oyster shells. So this wheel was invented a long time ago. > > If we are looking for a legal/policy-oriented reef definition, here is what > does NOT go in: > > 1. there should be no mention of corals. All sorts of critters make reefs, > even now. It is not even proper to say that corals dominate modern reefs-in > terms of carbonate budgets, algae and bioeroders are more important by far > than corals. (I can just hear the screams if I proposed that reefs were > "algal-cemented frameworks supporting large numbers of bioeroders.") > > 2. there should be no mention of zooxanthellae/algal symbiosis. That is a > factor that almost always accompanies reef formation (and has in the past) > but any legal challenge would, for example, quickly expose our degree of > ignorance of terrestrial OM sources in the diets of corals. This could lead > to a lack of legal protection for parts of inshore reefs. > > 3. there should be no time implications. Tom's 6-year-old reef is as worthy > of protection as are those 3,000-year-old reef fronts on the GBR. > > In short: the only change I can see making to the original definition would > be to exclude humans! So, "Biologically-constructed (not by us!) > wave-resistant frameworks." > > I now leave this debate, in the sure and certain knowldege that, should I > come back in 5 years, no progress will have been made. > > ~~~~~~~ > For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the > digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the > menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. -- Dr. Robert W. Buddemeier Kansas Geological Survey University of Kansas 1930 Constant Avenue Lawrence, KS 66047 USA e-mail: buddrw at ku.edu ph (1) (785) 864-2112 fax (1) (785) 864-5317 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert W. Buddemeier Dr. University of Kansas Kansas Geological Survey Robert W. Buddemeier Dr. University of Kansas Kansas Geological Survey 1930 Constant Avenue Fax: 785-864-5317 Lawrence Work: 785-864-2112 KS 66047 USA Additional Information: Last Name Buddemeier First Name Robert W. Version 2.1 From jeffrey-low at mailhost.net Thu Jan 17 03:01:16 2002 From: jeffrey-low at mailhost.net (Jeffrey Low) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:01:16 +0800 Subject: What's a reef?? Message-ID: I was laughing all through reading Mike's reply .... thanks Mike, it's good to see that some people out there still have a sense of humor, and the wits to put it in writing. Great stuff! Cheers, Jeff Jack-of-many-trades, Master-of-one ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From dustanp at cofc.edu Thu Jan 17 08:03:16 2002 From: dustanp at cofc.edu (Phillip Dustan) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:03:16 -0500 Subject: What's a reef?? Message-ID: Hey Guys, Sorry to intrude but I agree . We may not be able to say exactly what a reef is supposed to be in all cases, but we sure know one when we see it. And we can sure tell it's ecology is unraveling...... Phil At 08:08 PM 1/16/02 -0600, Bob Buddemeier wrote: >Thanks very much, Mike -- that clears up quite a few things for me. I have >always been curious about where various governments got the advice upon which >they base their reef-related policies > >Bob > >Mike Risk wrote: > >> I was only prompted to respond in the first place because (as I told a >> senior colleague who responded to me privately) I grow frustrated by those >> who would re-invent the wheels on the handbasket in which reefs are so >> quickly going to hell. My submission was somewhat tongue-in-cheek: I knew >> perfectly well that there was no chance of that definition, or any other, >> being widely accepted. All such proposals will be talked to death. >> >> The fractious and divisive nature of the coral reef biological community is >> by now the stuff of legends. Just one example, of many: equally as important >> (more so) as the definition is the ability to describe what we see. I advise >> the governments of several nations (including the USA) on coral reef >> monitoring programs. I can guarantee you that, 30 years after the basic >> technique was described, there is still no general agreement on survey >> methods. This is clearly absurd. As all survey methods, properly applied, >> give the same answer, it would not be a problem if the various groups met >> regularly to compare notes-but even that doesn't happen. >> >> So I knew that adoption of the Wells 1957 definition (which was a consensus >> of opinions at the time) was impossible, because: >> 1. there are those out there who would not agree to ANY definition that >> they had not made up themselves; >> 2. those hearing it for the first time would have to admit they were >> unfamiliar with the classic reef literature, and >> 3. it was proposed by (shudder!) geologists. (Do I need to point out >> here the host of illustrious ecologists with geology degrees-starting with >> Darwin-without whom our knowldege of reefs would be woeful indeed?) >> >> There is nothing wrong with that definition-only the fact that it will never >> be adopted. >> >> John Ware's posting splits more hairs than it ties together. There is >> nothing wrong with "wave-resistant" as an essential descriptor. Talking >> about wave heights, wave strength (Reynold's Numbers??) etc. is just plain >> silly. Every structure we would accept as a reef is wave-resistant. Do they >> resist all waves? Of course not. (I resist temptation, but on rare occasions >> have been known to...that's for a later discussion). Will there be a >> spectrum of resistances? Of course. Is this a problem? Not to a group that >> can deal with the CCA "boilers" as well as the branched, fragile patches. >> This is an essential part of the definition, as it separates "reefs" from, >> say, piles of oyster shells. It is worth noting that the original word >> "reif" was High German/Old Norse, and meant a boat-holer. >> >> Equally, there is nothing wrong with "framework." The building analogy >> actually proves the point, instead of being fatal, as John would have it. >> The building falls down without the framework, ergo the structure needs it. >> It is silly to claim that massive structures, underlain by frameworks, do >> not qualify. >> >> When we look at reefs in the record, it is often hard to accept the >> existence of frameworks-most of them are jumbled piles of rubble. Again I >> don't think those observations are fatal-instead, they document the >> catastrophic force of rare storms. Wave-resistance is one thing, but against >> a hurricane, well, "resistance is futile", and the framework is destroyed. >> >> The definition I quoted is from a GSA Volume titled "Ecology"-I recommend >> it, even though it was published prior to 1995. (I think it's Memoir #54.) >> In that same volume is a paper by Teichert, describing the cold and >> deep-water coral banks off Europe, and pointing out that these should not be >> called "reefs". See above. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out >> that an uncemented pile of corals is no more wave-resistant than a pile of >> oyster shells. So this wheel was invented a long time ago. >> >> If we are looking for a legal/policy-oriented reef definition, here is what >> does NOT go in: >> >> 1. there should be no mention of corals. All sorts of critters make reefs, >> even now. It is not even proper to say that corals dominate modern reefs-in >> terms of carbonate budgets, algae and bioeroders are more important by far >> than corals. (I can just hear the screams if I proposed that reefs were >> "algal-cemented frameworks supporting large numbers of bioeroders.") >> >> 2. there should be no mention of zooxanthellae/algal symbiosis. That is a >> factor that almost always accompanies reef formation (and has in the past) >> but any legal challenge would, for example, quickly expose our degree of >> ignorance of terrestrial OM sources in the diets of corals. This could lead >> to a lack of legal protection for parts of inshore reefs. >> >> 3. there should be no time implications. Tom's 6-year-old reef is as worthy >> of protection as are those 3,000-year-old reef fronts on the GBR. >> >> In short: the only change I can see making to the original definition would >> be to exclude humans! So, "Biologically-constructed (not by us!) >> wave-resistant frameworks." >> >> I now leave this debate, in the sure and certain knowldege that, should I >> come back in 5 years, no progress will have been made. >> >> ~~~~~~~ >> For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the >> digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the >> menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. > >-- >Dr. Robert W. Buddemeier >Kansas Geological Survey >University of Kansas >1930 Constant Avenue >Lawrence, KS 66047 USA >e-mail: buddrw at ku.edu >ph (1) (785) 864-2112 >fax (1) (785) 864-5317 > > >Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora_ashley\attach\buddrw1.vcf" > PLEASE NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS BELOW -------------------------------------------------------------------- Phillip Dustan Department of Biology College of Charleston Charleston SC 29424 dustanp at cofc.edu www.cofc.edu/~coral/corallab.htm (843) 953-8086 (843)953-5453 Fax ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From bertlin at uni-muenster.de Thu Jan 17 08:10:52 2002 From: bertlin at uni-muenster.de (Markus Bertling) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:10:52 +0100 (MEZ) Subject: reef definition Message-ID: Dear all, as a member of two groups grossly underrepresented on this list (Germans and geologists) I have to second Mike Risk: - "corals" have nothing to do in a reef definition: One of the most famous reefs of ALL times, the Capitan reef in TX and adjacent states, completely lacks corals! It was built by sponges and various skeletal algae (plus bryozoans). Sponge reefs are at least as important in earth history as coral reefs -- we now live in weird times where hardly any other organisms than corals build reefs (but even nowadays, worms, vermetids, red algae, etc. do!)... - a reef must have some sort of "strength" against hydrodynamics (elegantly circumscribed as wave-resistant) as loose associations of organisms normally found in reefs may occur as well. "Mudmounds", large buildups of mud with an occasional skeletal organism, repeatedly formed at greater depth throughout earth history but they only hardened under the pressure of superposed sediments, i.e. not during their "lifetime". And all of us probably agree that mudmounds are as little a reef as a sand bank is... Best wishes, Markus ====================================================================== Markus Bertling, Ph.D. Museum Curator and Collection Manager Geologisch-Palaeontologisches Institut und Museum Pferdegasse 3 D- 48143 Muenster Germany e-mail: bertlin at uni-muenster.de fax: ..49 - 251 - 83 248 91 phone: ..49 - 251 - 83 239 42 http://www.uni-muenster.de/Geomuseum/ ====================================================================== ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From nquinn at uwimona.edu.jm Thu Jan 17 08:45:17 2002 From: nquinn at uwimona.edu.jm (Norman Quinn) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:45:17 -0500 Subject: Summer Course - Tropical Marine Invertebrate Biology Message-ID: From szmanta at uncwil.edu Thu Jan 17 12:49:28 2002 From: szmanta at uncwil.edu (Alina M. Szmant) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:49:28 -0500 Subject: What's a reef?? Wells ref Message-ID: For those limited to web searches of the literature as their source of information: the source of Mike's definition is: Wells, J. 1957. Coral reefs. Mem. Geol. Soc. Am., 67: 609-631. It's still a great paper to read to start learning about coral reefs. Alina Szmant At 08:37 PM 01/16/2002 -0500, Mike Risk wrote: > I > > The definition I quoted is from a GSA Volume titled "Ecology"-I recommend > it, even though it was published prior to 1995. (I think it's Memoir #54.) > In that same volume is a paper by Teichert, describing the cold and > deep-water coral banks off Europe, and pointing out that these should not > be > called "reefs". See above. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure > out > that an uncemented pile of corals is no more wave-resistant than a pile of > oyster shells. So this wheel was invented a long time ago. > ******************************************************************* Dr. Alina M. Szmant Coral Reef Research Group Professor of Biology Center for Marine Science University of North Carolina at Wilmington 5600 Marvin K. Moss Lane Wilmington NC 28409-5928 tel: (910)962-2362 fax: (910)962-2410 email: szmanta at uncwil.edu http://www.uncwil.edu/people/szmanta/ ****************************************************************** From jaapk at science.uva.nl Fri Jan 18 04:06:04 2002 From: jaapk at science.uva.nl (jaapk at science.uva.nl) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:06:04 +0100 (MET) Subject: Lifespan of a polyp Message-ID: Dear Melissa, If you assume that you coral colony is for example a Porites or Montastrea like colony in which the polyps are packed on the surface of the colony, you can observe that polyps first located at the top of the colony tend to move towards the sides of the colony in the growth process. The polyps will end up in environmental conditions will be less favourable (polyps will for example become occluded and finally die). The growth trajectories of a polyp can be visualized on X-ray pictures and from these pictures it is possible to make estimates of the average life span (something like 2-3 yr for Porites, see W.M. Darke and D.J. Barnes, Growth trajectories of corallites and ages of polyps in massive colonies of reef-building corals of the genus Porites, Mar. Biol. 117:321-326, 1993). Alternatively you can observe these growth trajectories in simulation models of growth and form, based on a surface normal deposition model where you reprsent the individual corallites, of massive and branching coral species (see The algorithmic beauty of seaweeds, sponges and corals, J.A. Kaandorp and J.E. Kubler, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2001). By varying the average size of a corallite and average growth velocity in these models, you might be able to make estimates of the average life span of a polyp and compute how long it will take before a top polyp will end up in an environmental situation that will lead to death of the polyp. best regards, Jaap Jaap Kaandorp Section Computational Science Faculty of Science University of Amsterdam Kruislaan 403 1098 SJ Amsterdam The Netherlands Phone: +31 20 5257539 / +31 20 5257463 email: jaapk at science.uva.nl fax: +31 20 5257490 URL: http://www.science.uva.nl/~jaapk/ >Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 08:51:46 -0800 (PST) >From: Melissa Keyes >Subject: Lifespan of a polyp > >- --0-594713962-1011027106=:13211 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > Hello, all, > > I was asked, "Does a coral polyp die of old age?" > > I believe it's one critter that could live indefinitely. Have there been any >papers on this? > > Cheers, > > Melissa Keyes > > St. Croix, USVI > > > > > ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From Adriana.Cantillo at noaa.gov Fri Jan 18 08:53:36 2002 From: Adriana.Cantillo at noaa.gov (Adriana Cantillo) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 08:53:36 -0500 Subject: Pennekamp coral reef slides Message-ID: Hello, We are in the process of converting the late 1970s assessment of the Pennekamp coral reefs (off Key Largo, Florida) written by Dr. Gilbert Voss (University of Miami) into electronic form for publication as part of a document rescue effort. Dr. Voss sent the slides taken during the assessment to the NOAA Sanctuaries Program Division. The person who received the slides is no longer listed in the NOAA personnel directory. Does anyone know where the slides are? Our goal is to include scans of the slides in the CD containing the Voss Pennekamp report to make the photographic material available. If you know anything about the Pennekamp slides, please let us know. The document rescue effort is part of the Coastal and Estuarine Data/Document Archeology and Rescue (CEDAR) Project for South Florida. Documents rescued to date can be found here . The latest CEDAR publication is the Dry Tortugas field diary of Dr. Charles M. Breder, Jr. During the summer of 1929, Dr. Breder, employed at that time by the New York Aquarium and American Museum of Natural History, visited the Carnegie Laboratory in the Dry Tortugas to study the development and habits of flying fishes and their allies. The diary of the trip was donated to the Mote Marine Laboratory Library by his family. Dr. Breder's meticulous handwritten account gives us the opportunity to see the simple yet great details of his observations and field experiments. The introduction to the transcribed diary was written by Dr. Eugenie Clark, one of his students. Dr. Breder's diary is available in PDF format online here (, scroll down to Cantillo, Collins and Clark). A CD version of the diary is available. Please contact me for a copy. As other publications of interest to the corals community become available a note will be posted. Thank you. Dr. Adriana Cantillo NOAA/NOS/National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science --------------------------------------------------------------------- Chemist NOAA/National Ocean Service Chemist NOAA/National Ocean Service Conference Software Address Additional Information: Last Name Cantillo First Name Dr. Adriana Version 2.1 From simone.oigman at uol.com.br Sat Jan 19 15:31:23 2002 From: simone.oigman at uol.com.br (Simone Siag Oigman) Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 18:31:23 -0200 Subject: Coral abundance Message-ID: Colleagues, We have been searching the usual sources of literature (ASFA, Web of Science and our local libraries, etc.) for review articles or research papers which review stony coral abundance (density and/or cover) and which synthesise differences between the world reefs and rocky shores. With the large amount of studies which collect this type of data we were surprised by our difficulty in coming up with anything concrete. So... What is the average density of stony corals on the worlds coral reefs and what proportion of area do they occupy? How does this compare with rocky shore corals, or indeed do we have this data? If anyone would like to point us in the right direction, we would be most grateful. Simone Oigman and Joel Creed Laboratorio de Ecologia Marinha/ UERJ Brazil ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From msb6 at acsu.buffalo.edu Sat Jan 19 17:13:36 2002 From: msb6 at acsu.buffalo.edu (Marcos S. Barbeitos) Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 17:13:36 -0500 Subject: Millepora Message-ID: Hello coral-listers. I swear that I did my homework, but it's been really hard to find information about the overgrowth of gorgonians by Millepora. Apart from the brilliant 1980 paper by Charles Wahle (Wahle, C. 1980. Detection, pursuit, and overgrowth of tropical gorgonians by Milleporid hydrocorals: Perseus and Medusa revisited. Science 209:689-691) I could not find any other publication that has looked at this interaction. In his concise but comprehensive review on Millepora ecology, John Lewis mentioned Wahle's paper briefly and without any specific reference to the interaction itself. However, this review is not recent (1989). I wonder if this interaction has received little or no attention after Wahle (1980) or it is just that I did not look in the right places yet. Any information (including anecdotal) will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Marcos. Marcos S. Barbeitos MSc., PhD. candidate University at Buffalo 109 Cooke Hall Buffalo, NY 14260 Phone: (716) 645-2881 Fax: (716) 645-2975 From reef-art at juno.com Mon Jan 21 01:44:46 2002 From: reef-art at juno.com (tom h gray) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 00:44:46 -0600 Subject: Coral Growth Message-ID: Greetings all- I am doing graduate work on the growth rate of Sinularia sp. (green, brown and white varieties), Sarcophyton sp. and Xenia sp. under three different light sources (metal halide, compact fluorescent and standard fluorescent) with similar light intensities in a captive environment. I have two questions. What information is out there concerning the physical characteristics of these corals that would have a bearing on their growth rate (zooxanthellae, feeding habits, metabolism, etc.)? What information is out there concerning the different spectrums of light that these three light sources produce and its effect on the growth of these corals? The metal halide were 175 watt 6500K for Study-1 and 175 watt 10,000K for Study-2. The compact fluorescent were Japanese 90 watt (2- white daylight bulbs, 2-actinic blue bulbs) for Study-1 and German 55 watt (2-white daylight bulbs, 2-actinic blue bulbs) for Study-2. The standard fluorescent were 40 watt (3-white daylight bulbs, 1-actinic blue bulb) for both Study-1 and Study-2. Any other relevant information is also greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tom Gray ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From robepardoa at yahoo.com Mon Jan 21 17:20:24 2002 From: robepardoa at yahoo.com (Roberto Pardo) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:20:24 -0800 (PST) Subject: World Atlas of Coral Reefs Message-ID: Dear Dr. Spalding. We received the World Atlas of Coral Reefs. Thanks so much. On the other hand it would be a possible obtain a copy of the World Atlas of Mangroves write for you and other authors in 1997 ? Thanks again for your support, We wish you a Happy New Year full of success. Warm regards, Roberto From gregorh at ucla.edu Mon Jan 21 19:39:24 2002 From: gregorh at ucla.edu (Gregor Hodgson) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:39:24 -0800 Subject: Coral abundance Message-ID: In the pre-global bleaching year of 1997, the average global coral cover was 33% and in the Caribbean 21% according to: Hodgson, G. 1999. A global assessment of human effects on coral reefs. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 38 (5) 345-355. Globally, on average there was a 10-11% decrease due to the bleaching event. Additional data are available on www.reefcheck.org and a prelim five-year analysis will be posted next month. Greg -----Original Message----- From: owner-coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov [mailto:owner-coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov]On Behalf Of Simone Siag Oigman Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 12:31 PM To: Coral List Subject: Coral abundance Colleagues, We have been searching the usual sources of literature (ASFA, Web of Science and our local libraries, etc.) for review articles or research papers which review stony coral abundance (density and/or cover) and which synthesise differences between the world reefs and rocky shores. With the large amount of studies which collect this type of data we were surprised by our difficulty in coming up with anything concrete. So... What is the average density of stony corals on the worlds coral reefs and what proportion of area do they occupy? How does this compare with rocky shore corals, or indeed do we have this data? If anyone would like to point us in the right direction, we would be most grateful. Simone Oigman and Joel Creed Laboratorio de Ecologia Marinha/ UERJ Brazil ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From n.esteban at ic.ac.uk Tue Jan 22 07:58:53 2002 From: n.esteban at ic.ac.uk (Esteban, Nicole) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:58:53 GMT Subject: DFID project Message-ID: Dear all, With respect to our DFID funded project, Institutional evaluation of Caribbean MPA's and opportunities for pro-poor management, we sent the first project brief out via several list serves last July. We have now completed the second project brief which contains both information about the first activity of our project: a Characterisation Review of MPA's in the Caribbean region by CANARI (Geoghegan, Smith and Thacker (July 2001)) as well as details about recent and forthcoming fieldwork at selected MPA case studies. We have widened the circulation list for this second brief in response to interest expressed following the first brief and to include all people contacted by CANARI during research for the Characterisation Review. Instead of sending the project brief as an attachment, we would now like to direct you to our web site for the second project brief in pdf format (http://www.mragltd.com/brief2.pdf). Our web site also contains the first project brief and the Characterisation Review and associated datasets. Apologies for cross posting. Regards Caroline Garaway Vicki Cowan Nicole Esteban (nee Kenward) ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** Nicole Esteban (nee Kenward) MRAG Ltd 47 Princes Gate London SW7 2QA UK Tel: +44 20 7594 9876 (direct) Tel: +44 20 7594 9888 (general) Fax:+44 20 7823 7916 www.mragltd.com ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From info at mini35.de Tue Jan 22 08:00:18 2002 From: info at mini35.de (marcos) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 13:00:18 GMT Subject: reef definition Message-ID: Dear all, many many thanks for this nostalgic discussion. It sent me immediately back at the time when I had to wrap up my thesis. Then, just to give an overview over reef definitions in the literature of the past 150 years was an almost inhuman task. But you know professors. I finally succeded with that and then I could start with my own definition. Man was I proud! Proud to seperate the old definitions from the new scientific knowledge I thought I had then. I wrote it, I printed it and that was it. One more in a pile of definitions on what a reef really is. My definition does exclude the part with the wave-resistance (to my knowledge introduced by Vaughan 1919...the literature-work has to be good for something) because by then I had not only heared from the deep water Lophelia-reefs off Norway but had seen the video-footage. If these are not reefs, then forget those tiny structures in the Red Sea and the Carribbean. But then again, this is my experience and my definition. Strange enough I never had a problem in communication with other reef scientists. I knew what they were talking about, what a surprise. My point is, there is no point in trying to reach an agreement for such a broad definition as a definition of reefs. Everybody, who experienced reefs has a feeling for this. And depending on this experience he or she will define a reef a little bit different. But when it comes to reef protection, nobody would say, "ok, this is a reef by definition, lets protect it and this is a coral patch, so what the heck, blast it". Protection and awareness doesn?t start with definitions. And our task as scientist is to communicate this to politicians and governmental organisations. Use your own words, then you can convince. Well, that was my point. Sorry for my german-english, cheers, Marcos Marcos Gektidis PhD Geologisch-Pal?ontologisches Institut Senckenberganlage 32-34 60054 Frankfurt am Main Germany ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From reiag at hotmail.com Tue Jan 22 12:18:36 2002 From: reiag at hotmail.com (Reia Guppy) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:18:36 +0000 Subject: rearing sea urchins Message-ID: Dear all, I am trying to develop some new labs for Developmental Biology. Does anyone have, or can tell me where I can find a protocol for rearing sea urchins? This includes from gametes through their developmental stages to adulthood. Thanks. Reia Reia Guppy Graduate Student Biology Department University of Central Arkansas 201 Donaghey Avenue Conway, AR 72035 Tel: (501) 450-3146 Fax: (501) 450-5914 Email: reiag at hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From reef-art at juno.com Tue Jan 22 15:31:03 2002 From: reef-art at juno.com (tom h gray) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 14:31:03 -0600 Subject: rearing sea urchins Message-ID: Dear Reia- You may want to contact Dr. Tunnell or Dr. Dokken at 3618252736 as they know about people that do studies with sea urchins at the Center for Coastal Studies in Corpus Christi, Tx. Good luck, Tom Gray On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:18:36 +0000 "Reia Guppy" writes: > Dear all, > > I am trying to develop some new labs for Developmental Biology. Does > anyone > have, or can tell me where I can find a protocol for rearing sea > urchins? > This includes from gametes through their developmental stages to > adulthood. > Thanks. > > Reia > > > > > > > Reia Guppy > > Graduate Student > > Biology Department > > University of Central Arkansas > > 201 Donaghey Avenue > > Conway, AR 72035 > > Tel: (501) 450-3146 > > Fax: (501) 450-5914 > > Email: reiag at hotmail.com > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > ~~~~~~~ > For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the > digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the > menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. > ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From d.barnes at aims.gov.au Tue Jan 22 18:58:31 2002 From: d.barnes at aims.gov.au (Dave Barnes) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 09:58:31 +1000 Subject: Lifespan of a polyp Message-ID: Dear Melissa, I note Jaap Kandorp's reply to your question about the lifespan of coral polyps. He pointed you to a paper written from work done by Wendy Darke, who did her PhD with me. The surface of many massive coral colonies becomes bumpy as the coral From tomvanthof at hotmail.com Tue Jan 22 22:13:07 2002 From: tomvanthof at hotmail.com (Tom van't Hof) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 19:13:07 -0800 Subject: MACC project Message-ID: Within the broader framework of a World Bank project entitled "Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change in the Caribbean" a sub-project is carried out to develop a project appraisal methodology for MACC, to illustrate this with coral reef valuation examples from the region, and to facilitate the integration of economic valuation information into national decision-making processes to support cost-effective adaptation and mitigation strategies. The project coordinator is Herman Cesar. We are looking for possible models that address linkages of one or more of the following common threats to coral reefs, i.e. climate change, over-fishing, coastal development and tourism, to coral reef health and integrity. If you know of any such models or of researchers working on such models, we would appreciate to hear about this. Thanks for any advice you may be able to provide. ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************ Tom van't Hof Marine & Coastal Resource Management Consulting The Bottom, Saba Netherlands Antilles Tel. (599) 416-3348 Fax (599) 416-3299 e-mail "Specializing in marine protected areas since 1979." Resume, references and project history at From dokken at falcon.tamucc.edu Wed Jan 23 08:45:27 2002 From: dokken at falcon.tamucc.edu (Dr. Quenton R. Dokken) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 07:45:27 -0600 Subject: rearing sea urchins Message-ID: Reia, Associated with Texas A&M University-Corpus Chrisit, the U.S. Geological Survey Toxicology Laboratory uses sea urchin gametes and larvae which they spawn in the lab to conduct toxicology assays. Contact Ms. Linda May at pricemay at falcon.tamucc.edu. Good luck. Quenton Dokken, Ph.D. Associate Director Center for Coastal Studies -----Original Message----- From: owner-coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov [mailto:owner-coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov]On Behalf Of tom h gray Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 2:31 PM To: reiag at hotmail.com Cc: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: rearing sea urchins Dear Reia- You may want to contact Dr. Tunnell or Dr. Dokken at 3618252736 as they know about people that do studies with sea urchins at the Center for Coastal Studies in Corpus Christi, Tx. Good luck, Tom Gray On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:18:36 +0000 "Reia Guppy" writes: > Dear all, > > I am trying to develop some new labs for Developmental Biology. Does > anyone > have, or can tell me where I can find a protocol for rearing sea > urchins? > This includes from gametes through their developmental stages to > adulthood. > Thanks. > > Reia > > > > > > > Reia Guppy > > Graduate Student > > Biology Department > > University of Central Arkansas > > 201 Donaghey Avenue > > Conway, AR 72035 > > Tel: (501) 450-3146 > > Fax: (501) 450-5914 > > Email: reiag at hotmail.com > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > ~~~~~~~ > For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the > digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the > menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. > ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From reiag at hotmail.com Wed Jan 23 13:36:15 2002 From: reiag at hotmail.com (Reia Guppy) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:36:15 +0000 Subject: rearing sea urchins Message-ID: Hello All! Thank you to all those who have been sending the much needed information concerning rearing sea urchins. I've been asked by a couple of people to pass on the information that I have gotten, so I've compiled a list of contact information which I've received. These are listed below. So far, I've been getting contact information. I've listed these for you below. I'll let you know if anything more comes in. 1) Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi - U.S. Geological Survey Toxicology Laboratory. Use sea urchin gametes and larvae which they spawn to conduct toxicology assays. Contact Ms. Linda May, pricemay at falcon.tamucc.edu. 2) Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory in Scotland - Invertebrate Biology & Mariculture Group. Rears 2 British species. Contact Dr. Maeve Kelly, www.sams.ac.uk/dml/ 3) Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (SCCWRP). Maitain adult urchins in tanks and experiment with gametes and embryos. Contact Steve Bay and Darrin Greenstein, darring at SCCWRP.org ; steveb at SCCWRP.org 4) Bulletin of Marine Science 1998 issue - paper by Eckert. That's all the information sent on this. This paper supposed to have a good protocol, using Diadema. 5) University of Texas at Austin. Algae collection for food source for larvae and diatoms for juvenile urchins. 6) Center for Coastal Studies in Corpus Christi, Texas. Contact Drs. Tunnell and/or Dokken, 1-361-825-2736. 7) Marine Resources Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory. Works with cellular biology and cell division in sea urchin zygotes. Contact www.mbl.edu/animals/index.html 8) University of Oregon - Oregon Institute of Marine Biology Field Station. Contact Dr. Richard Emlet using OIMB link from U of O home page. 9) Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric Science. Has grown Diadema from gametes through to teenagers. Contact Tom Capo, tcapo at rsmas.miami.edu 10) University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Rears urchins. Contact Dr. Alina Szmant, szmanta at uncwil.edu, 1-910-962-2362 Thanks again to everyone! Reia Reia Guppy Graduate Student Biology Department University of Central Arkansas 201 Donaghey Avenue Conway, AR 72035 Tel: (501) 450-3146 Fax: (501) 450-5914 Email: reiag at hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From coastwatch at acadia.net Wed Jan 23 15:32:05 2002 From: coastwatch at acadia.net (Ron Huber) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 15:32:05 -0500 Subject: Coralline Algae - Gulf of Maine species info sought Message-ID: Friends - I've been trying to get a list of known coralline algae species that inhabit the Gulf of Maine, and/or Georges Bank. I have been revewing the excellent materials online from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and from Derek Keats at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. However, the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank's species are not much mentioned in their online literature. University of Maine marine biologist Bob Steneck has also provided some very useful info on the corallines of the Gulf of Maine, but other sources would be helpful too. (don't want to overtax Bob with his already overfull workload too much!) Any information or leads to sources of information anyone might have concerning coralline algae species specifically found in the Gulf of Maine and/or Georges Bank or other NW Atlantic banks, or historically or prehistorically found there, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Ron Huber Task Force Atlantis http://www.atlantisforce.org (207)594-5717 ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From fpl at circop.com Thu Jan 24 13:49:19 2002 From: fpl at circop.com (Fabrice Poiraud-Lambert) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:49:19 +0100 Subject: Coral Reefs vision for the Maldives Message-ID: Dear All, In order to promote the CIRCoP project (Int'l Coral Reefs Conferences of = Paris - www.circop.com), I've been asked to answer questions during an = Interview which will be made by a French TV in few weeks. They would like to know some things about Maldives, and If I have a = personal opinion as I'm diving there every year since 1999, I would love = to have yours as scientists :=20 - What is the most potential future of Maldives' coral reefs : Recovery = ? Death ? How much time for both according to you ? - What is the most potential future of Maldives' islands : stand by ? = Disappearance ? - Is there something currently done to restore these reefs ? Can = something be done ? Thanks for your opinions, it will help me to provide the best answers. Best Regards Fabrice Poiraud-Lambert CIRCoP Project Manager http://www.circop.com, to Enjoy Great Protected Coral Reefs Official Partners : VediorBis - Sony Computer France - Salon de la = Plong=E9e de Paris ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From Research at Delta-Seven.com Thu Jan 24 17:01:16 2002 From: Research at Delta-Seven.com (Nicole) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 17:01:16 -0500 Subject: legal definition of a reef Message-ID: I must enter the debate. A reef is a hard bottom near enough to the surface to damage a boat. Any sailor knows that. This is also the oldest definition. The other debate points refer only to how a reef is formed. Most formations may be biological, but drowned moraines are also reefs. The problem in the debate is the qualifier "legal." I ask instead, what is the definition of legal? In what jurisdiction? Won't it be different in each and subject to each circuit court ruling as well. Is the point then worth pursuing? Isn't it true that nothing is "legal" until codified and then only until appealed? ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From k.strychar at cqu.edu.au Fri Jan 25 00:27:11 2002 From: k.strychar at cqu.edu.au (Kevin Strychar) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:27:11 +1000 Subject: Coral Bleaching Message-ID: Hi everyone, My name is Kevin Strychar and I am a PhD candidate waiting to hear back from my PhD examiners. My research focussed on studying the effects of bleaching on soft and scleractinian corals, comparatively assessing physiological, biochemical and genetic differences of Symbiodinium. Whilst volumes of information exist about scleractinian corals, less information is available about soft corals (and other reef organisms) - so I have a proposal to anyone and everyone who is interested. If people would be willing to email me their observations of reef bleaching of soft corals (and any other organism that bleach) I will collate the information making it available the following year. The information that I would ask people to send should consist of the following where possible: 1). Person(s) making the observation 2). Location (lat and log would be nice) 3). Date of observation 4). Depth of observation 5). Water temperature (air temperature too if available) 6). Percentage of soft corals bleached [Names of organisms (scientific names would be great if possible), both affected and not affected would be great] 7). Percentage of soft corals bleached relative to scleractinian corals [Again, names of organisms (scientific names would be great if possible), both affected and not affected would be great] 8). Other observations of reef organisms displaying bleaching characteristics [Names of organisms (scientific names would be great if possible), both affected and not affected would be great] Because I am in the transition of moving from Australia to the US, I ask that you email your response, for the moment, to the "Hotmail Address" k_strychar at hotmail.com Thanks, much appreciated. Kevin Strychar. ****************************** Kevin Strychar, PhD Candidate Central Queensland University School of Biology and Environmental Science North Rockhampton Queensland 4702 Australia Phone: 61-07-4930-9647 Fax: 61-07-4930-9209 email: k.strychar at cqu.edu.au "I don t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." Bill Cosby (1937- ) ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From bertlin at uni-muenster.de Fri Jan 25 10:00:32 2002 From: bertlin at uni-muenster.de (Markus Bertling) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 16:00:32 +0100 (MEZ) Subject: reefs Message-ID: Dear coral-listers, o.k., after the last message from Nicole, it probably has become obvious that there are various "reefs" to various people. Her definition > A reef is a hard bottom near enough to the surface to damage a boat. is the nautical one, and there is a "reef" for (at least South African) miners (= any ore deposit occuring in layers). Both should be off the topic for the target group of this list, i.e. biologists, ecologists and palaeontologists. The definition of Mike Risk and me tries to include what these people (might) have in mind when speaking/reading of a reef... Have a nice weekend, Markus ====================================================================== Markus Bertling, Ph.D. Museum Curator and Collection Manager Geologisch-Palaeontologisches Institut und Museum Pferdegasse 3 D- 48143 Muenster Germany e-mail: bertlin at uni-muenster.de fax: ..49 - 251 - 83 248 91 phone: ..49 - 251 - 83 239 42 http://www.uni-muenster.de/Geomuseum/ ====================================================================== ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From kat1003 at cus.cam.ac.uk Fri Jan 25 12:15:07 2002 From: kat1003 at cus.cam.ac.uk (K.A. Teleki) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 17:15:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: ISRS European Meeting 2002 Message-ID: Further details of the plenary talks and the thematic sessions to be offered at the ISRS European Meeting in Cambridge, UK 4-7 September 2002 are now available at www.isrs2002.org along with meeting registration forms. Potential participants are urged to contact session convenors as soon as possible to secure a presentation slot in what we are sure will be a high quality scientific gathering. The deadline for early registration, with considerable savings over later registration, is 15 February 2002. For further information visit the website or contact the organisers at info at isrs2002.org ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From sarah.karaviotis at virgin.net Fri Jan 25 14:02:15 2002 From: sarah.karaviotis at virgin.net (Sarah Karaviotis) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 19:02:15 -0000 Subject: coral mining Message-ID: dear coral list, I am currently studying the human impact of coral mining upon coral reefs in SW Sulawesi, Indonesia. Apart from the 1988 Brown & Dunne paper on mining in the Maldives, there appears to be a scarcity of literature on this topic. Can anyone offer any assistance? Many thanks, Sarah Karaviotis From brosov at tnc.org Fri Jan 25 15:17:57 2002 From: brosov at tnc.org (Brad Rosov) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:17:57 -0500 Subject: a good anthropogenic indicator needed Message-ID: Dear Coral Listers... The reef tract along the Florida Keys, as you all know, have been degrading for years. The Florida Keys Nature Conservancy has participated in a near-shore water quality sampling program for years throughout the keys. These efforts have helped determine the amount of nutrients in the near-shore water, among other things. In an attempt to determine immediate human-induced impact on the near-shore water quality, I am just beginning to investigate an appropriate method for assessing this. Caffeine is one such indicator, but without very much investigation, I understand this is a rather expensive method. I would appreciate any advice on a cost effective method to monitor anthropogenic impact on water quality. Brad Rosov Marine Conservation Program Manager The Florida Keys Nature Conservancy From McCarty_and_Peters at compuserve.com Fri Jan 25 20:28:50 2002 From: McCarty_and_Peters at compuserve.com (McCarty and Peters) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 20:28:50 -0500 Subject: a good anthropogenic indicator needed Message-ID: Brad, >> In an attempt to determine immediate human-induced impact on the near-shore water quality, I am just beginning to investigate an appropriate method for assessing this. Caffeine is one such indicator, but without very much investigation, I understand this is a rather expensive method. << One, what do you call "expensive?" Yes, an analysis for caffeine is going to cost more than simple nutrients like N and P. A simple HPLC method should not break the bank and would be easy to set up. Two, caffeine is not necessarily a conservative tracer in the environment, nor is it easy to determine the relationship between observed caffeine concentrations and other parameters. For example, it may be indicative of the transfer of groundwater from septic systems or a point source input from a POTW. It says nothing about surface runoff or other sources. But even within a septic context, there are bound to be major differences in the inputs to different septic systems, transfer rates to the environment, etc. Not to mention those folks who have gone decaff. Ad of course, it has not been demonstrated to be harmful to the reef environment. However, it will act nothing like many other anthropogenic inputs that clearly are toxic. I suggest you keep looking... Chip McCarty ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From riskmj at mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca Sat Jan 26 10:55:18 2002 From: riskmj at mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca (Mike Risk) Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 10:55:18 -0500 Subject: a good anthropogenic indicator needed Message-ID: Try delta 15-N in algae or coral tissue. See work by Lapointe, Heikoop, etc. Cost is approx. $20 a pop, commercially. ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From kochzius at uni-bremen.de Mon Jan 28 02:47:43 2002 From: kochzius at uni-bremen.de (kochzius at uni-bremen.de) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 08:47:43 +0100 Subject: coral mining Message-ID: Dear Sahra! This reference might be interesting: Shepherd ARD, Warwick RM, Clarke Kr, Brown BE (1992) An analysis of fish community response to coral mining in the Maldives. Environmental Biology of Fishes 33: 367-380 Best fishes Marc At 19:02 25.01.02 +0000, you wrote: >dear coral list, > >I am currently studying the human impact of coral mining upon coral reefs >in SW Sulawesi, Indonesia. Apart from the 1988 Brown & Dunne paper on >mining in the Maldives, there appears to be a scarcity of literature on >this topic. Can anyone offer any assistance? > >Many thanks, >Sarah Karaviotis ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> Marc Kochzius Zentrum fuer Marine Tropenoekologie (ZMT) Centre for Tropical Marine Ecology University of Bremen Fahrenheitstr. 6 28359 Bremen Germany Tel.:+49 +421 23800-57 (Office) please note new number! +49 +421 218-7679 (Lab) +49 +421 23800-21 (ZMT Secretary) Fax: +49 +421 23800-30 or -40 ZMT Webpage: www.zmt.uni-bremen.de Reef Webpage: www.oceanium.de <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From deevon at bellsouth.net Mon Jan 28 09:46:55 2002 From: deevon at bellsouth.net (Deevon Quirolo) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 09:46:55 -0500 Subject: a good anthropogenic indicator needed Message-ID: N-15 (nitrogen) can trace human sewage. Regards, DeeVon, Reef Relief At 03:17 PM 1/25/02 -0500, Brad Rosov wrote: > Dear Coral Listers... > The reef tract along the Florida Keys, as you all know, have been > degrading for years. The Florida Keys Nature Conservancy has participated > in a near-shore water quality sampling program for years throughout the > keys. These efforts have helped determine the amount of nutrients in the > near-shore water, among other things. In an attempt to determine > immediate human-induced impact on the near-shore water quality, I am just > beginning to investigate an appropriate method for assessing this. > Caffeine is one such indicator, but without very much investigation, I > understand this is a rather expensive method. I would appreciate any > advice on a cost effective method to monitor anthropogenic impact on water > quality. > Brad Rosov > Marine Conservation Program Manager > The Florida Keys Nature Conservancy DeeVon Quirolo, Executive Director Reef Relief, a non profit grassroots organization dedicated to Preserve and Protect Living Coral Reefs through Local, Regional and International Efforts www.reefrelief.org P.O. Box 430, Key West, Fl. 33041 tel (305) 294-3100 fax (305) 293-9515 From kathleen at gbrmpa.gov.au Mon Jan 28 18:56:04 2002 From: kathleen at gbrmpa.gov.au (Kathleen Swalling) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 09:56:04 +1000 Subject: legal definition of a reef Message-ID: Although, I have been loathe to enter this discussion as there seems to be a myriad of views that remain & possibly will remain unresolved. on the legal side I can say this: 1. Statute law is based on policy (& obviously, politics, economics and social conventions of the day). Once the policy is formed then the law can be created to effect it. i.e. once a decision on the definition of a reef is made statute law can be used to effect it. In common law countries the judiciary might create a definition of 'reef' to decide a case but where the government is sovereign it will be able to overide any definition with statute law (once again based on policy (an agreed definition of the term 'reef' that extolls a country/states policy). 2. Law is jurisdictionally dependent (in a federal system there may be 2 jurisdictions: national and state) unless international law (then it may be treaty based or customary (based on custom). Treaty based law only every binds ratifying parties. 3. It might be possible to propose a 'soft law' definition of 'reef' to which nation state legislators could look for uniformity of definition but agree and bind international parties to the definition would require some sort of treaty ratification. By 'soft law' I mean something like Agenda 21. This may be useful in encouraging parties to a global definition, understanding. I hope this helps, a little. Regards Kathleen Please note the views in this email reflect those of the writer only and not the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. Kathleen Swalling Senior Legal Officer Legal Services Unit Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Phone: 61 7 4750 0899 Fax: 61 7 4772 6093 Email: kathleen at gbrmpa.gov.au URL: http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au -------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT: This transmission (including any attachment) is intended for the use of the addressee only and may contain confidential, commercially valuable or legally privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, copying or dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender or this Office immediately by telephone then delete the original transmission and any copies. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Kathleen Swalling Senior Legal Officer Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Legal Services Unit Kathleen Swalling Senior Legal Officer Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Legal Services Unit 2-68 Flinders Street PO Box 1379 Fax: 61 7 4772 6093 TOWNSVILLE Work: 61 7 4750 0899 QLD 4810 Additional Information: Last Name Swalling First Name Kathleen Version 2.1 From abigailyacl at yahoo.com Mon Jan 28 23:07:30 2002 From: abigailyacl at yahoo.com (Abigail Moore) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 04:07:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: coral mining Message-ID: Dear Coral -Listers Unfortunately I did not catch Sarah's initial letter. I work in Central Sulawesi, where Coral mining is also a severe problem. It really would indeed be good to know about any info on this subject, and also how to get it! Especially for those of us without access to major (or indeed any)paper libraries. Good luck Sarah, and feel free to contact me directly re Sulawesi (though a slightly different region) if you would like! All the best Abigail Abigail Moore MSc Yayasan Adi Citra Lestari Jl Tendean No 7 Palu 94111 Sulteng Indonesia abigailyacl at yahoo.com --- kochzius at uni-bremen.de wrote: > Dear Sahra! > > This reference might be interesting: > Shepherd ARD, Warwick RM, Clarke Kr, Brown BE (1992) > An analysis of fish > community response to coral mining in the Maldives. > Environmental Biology > of Fishes 33: 367-380 > > Best fishes > > Marc > > At 19:02 25.01.02 +0000, you wrote: > >dear coral list, > > > >I am currently studying the human impact of coral > mining upon coral reefs > >in SW Sulawesi, Indonesia. Apart from the 1988 > Brown & Dunne paper on > >mining in the Maldives, there appears to be a > scarcity of literature on > >this topic. Can anyone offer any assistance? > > > >Many thanks, > >Sarah Karaviotis > > ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> > ><> > Marc Kochzius > Zentrum fuer Marine Tropenoekologie (ZMT) > Centre for Tropical Marine Ecology > University of Bremen > Fahrenheitstr. 6 > 28359 Bremen > Germany > > Tel.:+49 +421 23800-57 (Office) please note new > number! > +49 +421 218-7679 (Lab) > +49 +421 23800-21 (ZMT Secretary) > Fax: +49 +421 23800-30 or -40 > > ZMT Webpage: www.zmt.uni-bremen.de > Reef Webpage: www.oceanium.de > <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< > <>< > > ~~~~~~~ > For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to > coral-list or the > digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on > Popular on the > menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. > ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From Jim.Bohnsack at noaa.gov Wed Jan 30 14:33:20 2002 From: Jim.Bohnsack at noaa.gov (Jim Bohnsack) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:33:20 -0500 Subject: coral-list-daily V2 #327 Message-ID: I would check with the Sanctuary Programs Office at NOAA. In 1983 I sent my materials to Caroll Curtis at that office. They should have some record. Also, the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary may have leads if you have not yet checked them out. I suspected that when they took my original aerial photos of Looe Key Reef I would never see them again. coral-list-daily wrote: > coral-list-daily Saturday, January 19 2002 Volume 02 : Number 327 > > Pennekamp coral reef slides > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 08:53:36 -0500 > From: "Adriana Cantillo" > Subject: Pennekamp coral reef slides > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > - --------------1FA93B041D218C90DF425FAC > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Hello, > > We are in the process of converting the late 1970s assessment of the > Pennekamp coral reefs (off Key Largo, Florida) written by Dr. Gilbert > Voss (University of Miami) into electronic form for publication as part > of a document rescue effort. Dr. Voss sent the slides taken during the > assessment to the NOAA Sanctuaries Program Division. The person who > received the slides is no longer listed in the NOAA personnel directory. > Does anyone know where the slides are? Our goal is to include scans of > the slides in the CD containing the Voss Pennekamp report to make the > photographic material available. > > If you know anything about the Pennekamp slides, please let us know. > > The document rescue effort is part of the Coastal and Estuarine > Data/Document Archeology and Rescue (CEDAR) Project for South Florida. > Documents rescued to date can be found here > . > > The latest CEDAR publication is the Dry Tortugas field diary of Dr. > Charles M. Breder, Jr. During the summer of 1929, Dr. Breder, employed > at that time by the New York Aquarium and American Museum of Natural > History, visited the Carnegie Laboratory in the Dry Tortugas to study > the development and habits of flying fishes and their allies. The diary > of the trip was donated to the Mote Marine Laboratory Library by his > family. Dr. Breder's meticulous handwritten account gives us the > opportunity to see the simple yet great details of his observations and > field experiments. The introduction to the transcribed diary was written > by Dr. Eugenie Clark, one of his students. > > Dr. Breder's diary is available in PDF format online here > (, scroll down to > Cantillo, Collins and Clark). A CD version of the diary is available. > Please contact me for a copy. > > As other publications of interest to the corals community become > available a note will be posted. > > Thank you. > > Dr. Adriana Cantillo > NOAA/NOS/National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science > > - --------------1FA93B041D218C90DF425FAC > Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; > name="Adriana.Cantillo.vcf" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Description: Card for Adriana Cantillo > Content-Disposition: attachment; > filename="Adriana.Cantillo.vcf" > > begin:vcard > n:Cantillo;Dr. Adriana > x-mozilla-html:FALSE > org:NOAA/National Ocean Service > adr:;;;;;; > version:2.1 > email;internet:Adriana.Cantillo at NOAA.GOV > title:Chemist > x-mozilla-cpt:;3 > end:vcard > > - --------------1FA93B041D218C90DF425FAC-- > > ~~~~~~~ > For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the > digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the > menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. > > ------------------------------ > > End of coral-list-daily V2 #327 > ******************************* > > ~~~~~~~ > For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the > digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the > menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From M.Fish at uea.ac.uk Wed Jan 30 14:54:46 2002 From: M.Fish at uea.ac.uk (Marianne Fish) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:54:46 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) Subject: bleaching Message-ID: Dear all, I'm hoping to carry out research on bleaching of coral reefs in the Caribbean as part of an MSc project and wondered if anyone was aware of any current bleaching events? Thank you in advance, Marianne Fish ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From SMW at iucnearo.org Thu Jan 31 07:44:54 2002 From: SMW at iucnearo.org (Sue Wells) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:44:54 +0300 Subject: Technical advisor position, Tanzania Message-ID: The following is a re-advertisement of a position advertised last year, but for which the project was subsequently delayed. Please do not respond to me directly, but as requested in the advert. Thanks. TECHNICAL ADVISOR Development of Mnazi Bay-Ruvuma Estuary Marine Park Project Based in Mnazi Bay, Mtwara District, Tanzania The World Conservation Union is an international organization that seeks to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature, and to ensure that any use of natural resources is ecologically sustainable and equitable. The Eastern Africa Regional Office (EARO) of IUCN will be implementing a GEF funded project to develop a multiple-use marine park to protect significant and threatened marine biodiversity of the Mnazi-Bay and Ruvuma Estuary Marine Park. The project will be for four years and aims at enable local communities and government stakeholders to protect effectively and utilise sustainably the marine biodiversity and resources of the park. IUCN EARO is looking for an experienced professional as the Technical Advisor (TA) to implement the project with the Marine Parks and Reserve Unit of the Tanzanian Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism. The TA will play a supportive role to the Manager of the Marine Parks and Reserves Unit and will work closely with the Project Co-ordinator/Warden and other project staff. He/She will be the focal point for the co-ordination and delivery of the overall IUCN technical assistance programme under the project and management of the project finances. He/she will need technical expertise and direct experience in the following areas: * Experience with marine protected areas establishment and development; * Community-based natural resource management and/or biodiversity conservation, including an appreciation of gender and poverty issues; * * Appreciation of marine resource management issues The ideal candidates should have: * Minimum Masters degree in environmental management, fisheries management , marine ecology or related discipline and with at least ten years experience working in a field related to marine conservation; * * Project management experience, including multi-displinary team management, financial; management and procurement; * Proficiency in spoken and written English, Fluency or working knowledge of Kiswahili would be an added advantage; * Exceptional communications, negotiation and liason skills. The contract will be for two years, renewable, and will start as soon as possible. Applicants should submit their detailed CV with contacts of three referees to: the Regional Representative, IUCN EARO, P.O. Box 68200, Nairobi, Kenya, fax: 254-2-890615, by 28th February 2002. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. IUCN is an equal opportunity employer Sue Wells Co-ordinator, Marine and Coastal Programme IUCN Eastern African Regional Office P.O. Box 68200, Nairobi, Kenya Tel. (254) 2 890606; Fax (254) 2 890615 e-mail: smw at iucnearo.org ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From pmacdaniel_geo at yahoo.com Thu Jan 31 11:54:15 2002 From: pmacdaniel_geo at yahoo.com (Patrick MacDaniel) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 08:54:15 -0800 (PST) Subject: Bahrain pearl oyster Message-ID: Is anyone aware of persons who are actively researching Pinctada fucata, or is interested in doing so? I am currently working in Bahrain and was surprised to learn that virtually no research has been done here on this species (despite its historical significance). The oyster banks (400 sq miles) have had 50-70 years to recover since the end of commercial pearling. The estimated biomass is much greater than it was a century ago. My involvement has been limited to occasional diving, but I have had problems getting answers to many of my questions about the biology due to the lack of research. If someone wishes to investigate possible research topics, I could put them into contact with some of the relevant people. Pat MacDaniel __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver.