[Coral-List] Antigua visibility

Wed Oct 18 10:26:40 EDT 2006

You can find descriptions of 21 reefs all around Antigua and Barbuda  
in our 1996 survey that might refer to visibility.

http://globalcoral.org/Ecological%20Assessment%20of%20Antigua%20and% 
20Barbuda%20Reefs.htm

Thomas J. Goreau, PhD
President
Global Coral Reef Alliance
37 Pleasant Street, Cambridge MA 02139
617-864-4226
goreau at bestweb.net
http://www.globalcoral.org

> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:12:36 -0400
> From: "Jim Hendee" <Jim.Hendee at noaa.gov>
> Subject: [Coral-List] Optical data for Antigua area
> To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
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> Greetings!
>
>   I have looked and can not find any reports of optical properties, or
> at least seasonal diving visibility records or descriptions, in  
> Antigua.
>  Does anybody have any such data that they could point me to?
>
>   Thank you!
>
>    Cheers,
>      Jim
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:03:27 +0200
> From: "chenypff" <chenypff at post.tau.ac.il>
> Subject: [Coral-List] looking for international course
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> Hello dear list members!
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>
>
> Can anyone recommend an international course or a workshop in marine
> molecular biology?
>
> Thanx
>
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>
> Chen Yoffe
>
> PhD student
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> George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
>
> Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978,
> Israel
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> Tel: 972-3-6407292
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> Fax: 972-3-6409403
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> E-mail: chenypff at post.tau.ac.il
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:23:08 +0200
> From: Christine Schoenberg <christine.schoenberg at uni-oldenburg.de>
> Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Michael Risk - C. delitrix as measure of
> 	bioerosion
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> Dear Gregor and other Corallisters,
>
> I have been following the discussion on bioerosion and bioeroding
> sponges with increasing interest. I have been looking into the
> nutrients/bioerosion question since about 1995 and have some (unpubl.)
> experimental results that point the same way as results from Mike  
> Risk's
> group. Klaus Ruetzler from the Smithsonian in Washington noted  
> increases
> in bioeroding sponge abundances in the Caribbean (Rutzler K 2002.  
> Impact
> of crustose clionid sponges on Caribbean reef corals. Acta Geol
> Hispanica 37: 61-72). I have some more recent data on increased
> bioeroding sponge abundances on the Great Barrier Reef that I am
> presently trying to publish. I was quite impressed by these data and
> think it would be extremely important to obtain some more large-scale,
> long-term knowledge about all this, especially as I had some reports
> from non-sponge people who contacted me about possibly bioeroding
> sponges that seem to become epidemic at their sites (yet  
> unconfirmed but
> not unlikely).
>
> Since some time I have been trying to find some people who are able to
> conduct a quick monitoring project on bioeroding sponges in different
> parts of the world, repeated over an extended period of time, going to
> their own field sites maybe twice a year for a day or two to collect
> related data. Either following a simplified Holmes-protocol (see  
> Holmes,
> KE 2000. Effects of eutrophication on bioeroding sponge communities  
> with
> the description of new West Indian sponges, Cliona spp. (Porifera:
> Hadromerida: Clionidae). Invertebrate Biology, 119, 125?138 and  
> Holmes,
> KE, Edinger, EN, Hariyadi, Limmon, GV & Risk, MJ 2000. Bioerosion of
> live massive corals and branching coral rubble on Indonesian coral
> reefs. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 40, 606?617) or some sort of simple
> transect study quantifying the 'top predators' in sponge bioerosion.
> Participants in this project need to be familiar with bioeroding
> sponges, i.e. need to be able to distinguish all bioeroding sponge
> species as in 'no. 1 differs from no. 2' (Holmes-approach) or to
> identify the 2 or 3 the most common species at their sites. So far I
> thought it would probably be better to involve sponge people who are
> experienced with the more important sponges, e.g. of the Cliona  
> viridis
> species complex (very competitive, brown, symbiotic sponges, including
> species such as aprica, caribbaea, nigricans, papillae, tenuis,
> vallartense, varians, viridis) and maybe with the Cliona celata  
> species
> complex (very common, including e.g. alderi, amplicalvata,  
> californiana,
> celata, dissimilis, linearis, raphida), but maybe some coral people  
> who
> are often in the field would be just as good. In the Caribbean Cliona
> delitrix needs to be included, and maybe Pione lampa. Anyone  
> interested?
>
> Cheers, Christine
>
>
> On Tuesday, October 17, 2006, at 04:48 , Gregor Hodgson wrote:
>
>> Mike has long suggested the use of boring sponges as a useful/simple
>> technique for estimating one component of reef health. We are always
>> open to
>> good suggestions and this idea is appealing, however, our initial  
>> tests
>> did
>> not support the theory. To be useful to us, this indicator needs to
>> work at
>> least regionally if not globally. But we have not given it a rigorous
>> test.
>>
>> We would be very pleased if Mike (or supporter) would suggest a
>> volunteer
>> level protocol and then if teams around the world might give it a  
>> test
>> to
>> see if it holds up as an indicator on a wide geographic scale.
>>
>> Best,
>> Greg
>>
>> Gregor Hodgson, PhD
>> Executive Director, Reef Check Foundation
>> P.O. Box 1057 (mail)
>> 17575 Pacific Coast Highway (Fedex)
>> Pacific Palisades, CA 90272-1057
>> Tel: +1-310-230-2371 Fax: +1-310-230-2376
>> email: gregorh at reefcheck.org
>> www.ReefCheck.org
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>
> Dr. Christine Schoenberg
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> Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg
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