Coral Bleaching

[Kevin Strychar]

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.

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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

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