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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Porites Line Disease (Charles Delbeek)
   2. Re: hot-lining coral trauma (Les Kaufman)
   3. POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Reef Injury Prevention &	Response
      Coordinator (Collier, Chantal)
   4. job announcement: 2 volunteers to help with editing	field
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:50:33 -1000
From: Charles Delbeek <delbeek at waquarium.org>
Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Porites Line Disease
To: Coral List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
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Julian Sprung wrote:
> Can someone post a link to some good photos of Porites Ulcerative White
Spot disease?
>
> I remember photographing colonies of Porites in the Solomon Islands with
pale whitish spots on them, and after careful examination I found that this
appearance was caused by small corallophila-like snails. I was just
wondering how the appearance in this disease differs from what I saw.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Julian
>
I would echo Julian's comments. With over 30 years experience in keeping
corals in captivity, one sees a lot of interesting markings on corals
and areas of tissue loss, pigment loss etc etc. The advantage of keeping
corals in captivity is that these changes can be observed daily from the
moment they begin till they end. One can also observe the corals day and
night. I wonder how many of the in situ observations and conclusions as
to the causes of markings on corals are based on a few point in time
observations? Many organisms that feed on corals such as gastropods,
annelids and nudibranchs only appear at night, so unless you are doing
night dives you would never see the "cause".

There are many factors that can cause corals to develop regions of
tissue loss as we all know, and in some cases these can be attributed to
predation. It is entirely possible that these "white spots" may be areas
where predation has occurred at some point in time, and then the tissue
has rapidly regrown the area but the zooxanthellae have not yet moved
into this tissue, giving it the appearance of a "bleached" spot. I think
some may be too eager in attributing some of these conditions to
"disease" while overlooking other possible causes that may not be
immediately obvious.

Sincerely,

--
J. Charles Delbeek M.Sc.
Aquarium Biologist III
Waikiki Aquarium
University of Hawaii
2777 Kalakaua Ave.
Honolulu, HI, 96815

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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:41:58 -0500
From: Les Kaufman <lesk at bu.edu>
Subject: Re: [Coral-List] hot-lining coral trauma
To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
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Folks, while it is true that Indo-Pacific poritids respond to a wide
array of traumas with a concentration of flourescent pigment, two
points.  (1) what Tommie is talking about may still reflect a
specific disease syndrome, and (2) the flourescent line or dot (often
pink in daylight and orange-pink or orange-red flourescence when
excited by blue light and viewed through yellow filters using Charlie
Mayzel's outfit) is commonly associated with the formation of callous
skeletal tissue; i.e., a lesion repair or growth response to trauma.
Also not sure what the pigments are but suspect they are
pocilloporins.  For example, many are familiar with the hot pink zits
that appear on Porites lutea group with parasitic infection.

Les

Les Kaufman
Professor of Biology
Boston University Marine Program
and
Senior PI
Marine Management Area Science
Conservation International

?I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.?
George W. Bush
Saginaw, Michigan; September 29, 2000

On Nov 27, 2007, at 12:00 PM, coral-list-request at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
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>    3. Re: Porites Line Disease (Julian Sprung)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:09:48 +1000
> From: "Laurie Raymundo" <lraymundo at guam.uog.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Porites Line Disease
> To: "shashank Keshavmurthy" <iamshanky15 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
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> Hello, Shashank:
> Porites Ulcerative White Spot disease is most certainly not a
> prelude to
> what is being called "Line Disease".  There is no pigmentation
> response
> associated with ulcerative white spots; the spots are isolated
> patches of
> bleached polyps which can progress to tissue loss.  It is
> infectious and can
> cause significant mortality. What is being referred to as "Line
> Disease" may
> be what we are now calling Pigmentation Response: it is not an
> infectious
> disease, but it seems to be a stress-related response to a number
> of things,
> included activities by boring vermetid snails, macroalgal abrasion,
> silt
> deposition abrasion and possibly certain fish bites.  I can't tell
> this
> without pictures, of course, but this name has been used in the
> past to
> describe what we now refer to as PR.
>
> Laurie Raymundo
>
> Dr. Laurie J. Raymundo
> Coral Ecologist
> University of Guam Marine Laboratory
> UOG Station
> Mangilao, Guam 96923
> Tel: (671) 735-2184
> Fax: (671) 734-6767
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "shashank Keshavmurthy" <iamshanky15 at yahoo.com>
> To: "Thomas Goreau" <goreau at bestweb.net>; <coral-
> list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 3:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Porites Line Disease
>
>
>> Dear Tom and the listersIt is true that lost of Porites species is
>> being
>> affected by this line disease.  I just came back from the 10th
>> Japanese
>> Coral Reef Society Meeting and there was a presentation on the
>> Porites
>> ulcerative white spot disease, but as I could see, most of the photos
>> showed what Tom mentions Porites Line Disease, with clear white,
>> or Pink
>> or even some blue lines.....
>> It is being seen in Porites cylindrica in Ishigaki Islands,
>> Okinawa.  I
>> feel that the mistaken identity of ulcerative white spot disease is
>> nothing but pre-Line disease symptom, which has progressed to the
>> line
>> disease.
>> But definitely there is a presence of the line disease in large
>> number of
>> Porites cylindrica in Okinawa...
>> As I understood from that presentation, histopathological and
>> microbiological work is being carried out, but results are yet to
>> be seen
>> and I do not know when that will be possible.....
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Shashank
>>
>> "Role of Infinitely Small in Nature is Infinitely Large" - Louis
>> Pasteur
>> ====================================
>> Keshavmurthy Shashank
>> Research Student, Graduate School of Kuroshio Science
>> Laboratory of Environmental Conservation
>> Kochi University, Monobe Campus, B 200
>> Nankoku, Kochi, 783-8502, Japan
>> Mobile: 81 08039253889
>> My WebPage: http://web.mac.com/coralresearch/iWeb/shashank/
>> Welcome.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:10:30 +0200
> From: f.horani at ju.edu.jo
> Subject: [Coral-List] Looking for volunteers and students in coral
> 	eco-physiology in the Gulf of Aqaba-Red Sea
> To: Coral-List at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
> Message-ID: <fb3ef7786800.474bed16 at ju.edu.jo>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> Dear coral listers,
> We have two porjects, one is about development of artificial reefs
> and the other is about strategies for mitigating anthropogenic
> streeses on coral reefs of the Gulf of Aqaba. For those two
> projects, I'll be in need to recruit volunteers to help in carrying
> out the experiments and do extensive diving in the field follow the
> in situ experiments as well as monitoring of the artficial reefs.
> The BSc, MSc and PhD holders in the field of marine biology, coral
> ecology and/or physiology are welcomed to join the teams. The
> applicants must be certified divers. We can offer free housing at
> the Marine science station, located immediately at the coral reefs
> in the Gulf of Aqaba. The duration of stay will be from 3 moth and
> up. Joint students are also welcomed at the MSS where a sandwitch
> program is possible.  Interested people, please send your CV to my
> e-mail (f.horani at ju.edu.jo).
> all the best
> Fuad A. Al-Horani
>
> *********************************
> Dr. Fuad A. Al-Horani
> Marine Science Station
> P. O. Box 195, 77110 Aqaba
> JORDAN
> e-mail: f.horani at ju.edu.jo
> phone: +962-320-15145
> fax: +962-320-13674
> mobile: +962-777215162
> **********************************
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:05:10 -0500
> From: "Julian Sprung" <julian at tlfusa.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Porites Line Disease
> To: "Laurie Raymundo" <lraymundo at guam.uog.edu>,	"shashank
> 	Keshavmurthy" <iamshanky15 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
> Message-ID: <CF30FD6252F5DF47B23DAFE5C9F59068198008 at server.TLF.local>
> Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> Can someone post a link to some good photos of Porites Ulcerative
> White Spot disease?
>
> I remember photographing colonies of Porites in the Solomon Islands
> with pale whitish spots on them, and after careful examination I
> found that this appearance was caused by small corallophila-like
> snails. I was just wondering how the appearance in this disease
> differs from what I saw.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Julian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov on behalf of Laurie
> Raymundo
> Sent: Mon 11/26/2007 6:09 PM
> To: shashank Keshavmurthy
> Cc: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
> Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Porites Line Disease
>
> Hello, Shashank:
> Porites Ulcerative White Spot disease is most certainly not a
> prelude to
> what is being called "Line Disease".  There is no pigmentation
> response
> associated with ulcerative white spots; the spots are isolated
> patches of
> bleached polyps which can progress to tissue loss.  It is
> infectious and can
> cause significant mortality. What is being referred to as "Line
> Disease" may
> be what we are now calling Pigmentation Response: it is not an
> infectious
> disease, but it seems to be a stress-related response to a number
> of things,
> included activities by boring vermetid snails, macroalgal abrasion,
> silt
> deposition abrasion and possibly certain fish bites.  I can't tell
> this
> without pictures, of course, but this name has been used in the
> past to
> describe what we now refer to as PR.
>
> Laurie Raymundo
>
> Dr. Laurie J. Raymundo
> Coral Ecologist
> University of Guam Marine Laboratory
> UOG Station
> Mangilao, Guam 96923
> Tel: (671) 735-2184
> Fax: (671) 734-6767
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "shashank Keshavmurthy" <iamshanky15 at yahoo.com>
> To: "Thomas Goreau" <goreau at bestweb.net>; <coral-
> list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 3:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Porites Line Disease
>
>
>> Dear Tom and the listersIt is true that lost of Porites species is
>> being
>> affected by this line disease.  I just came back from the 10th
>> Japanese
>> Coral Reef Society Meeting and there was a presentation on the
>> Porites
>> ulcerative white spot disease, but as I could see, most of the photos
>> showed what Tom mentions Porites Line Disease, with clear white,
>> or Pink
>> or even some blue lines.....
>> It is being seen in Porites cylindrica in Ishigaki Islands,
>> Okinawa.  I
>> feel that the mistaken identity of ulcerative white spot disease is
>> nothing but pre-Line disease symptom, which has progressed to the
>> line
>> disease.
>> But definitely there is a presence of the line disease in large
>> number of
>> Porites cylindrica in Okinawa...
>> As I understood from that presentation, histopathological and
>> microbiological work is being carried out, but results are yet to
>> be seen
>> and I do not know when that will be possible.....
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Shashank
>>
>> "Role of Infinitely Small in Nature is Infinitely Large" - Louis
>> Pasteur
>> ====================================
>> Keshavmurthy Shashank
>> Research Student, Graduate School of Kuroshio Science
>> Laboratory of Environmental Conservation
>> Kochi University, Monobe Campus, B 200
>> Nankoku, Kochi, 783-8502, Japan
>> Mobile: 81 08039253889
>> My WebPage: http://web.mac.com/coralresearch/iWeb/shashank/
>> Welcome.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:41:18 -0500
From: "Collier, Chantal" <Chantal.Collier at dep.state.fl.us>
Subject: [Coral-List] POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Reef Injury Prevention &
	Response Coordinator
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POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT

November 2007

Reef Injury Prevention & Response Coordinator

Agency:     Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP)

     Office of Coastal & Aquatic Managed Areas

Location:    Miami, FL

Supervisor: FDEP Coral Reef Program Manager

The Reef Injury Prevention & Response (RIPR) Coordinator is a full-time,
Other Personnel Services (OPS) position in the Coral Reef Conservation
Program (CRCP) of the Office of Coastal and Aquatic Managed Areas.

The RIPR Coordinator will be responsible for leading response to, and
management of, coral reef and hard bottom injury incidents in southeast
Florida under direction of the FDEP-CRCP Manager. The successful candidate
will serve as a State Trustee representative for resource damage incidents
and collaborate with inter- and intra-agency representatives, as necessary
and appropriate, to prevent, respond to and manage resource damage
incidents.
The RIPR Coordinator will also be responsible for leading coordination and
implementation of Southeast Florida Coral Reef Initiative (SEFCRI) Local
Action Strategies to develop management options and activities to prevent
damage to reef resources from anchoring and groundings.

Position is for one year with potential for renewal, contingent on funding
availability. Approximate position start date: February 1, 2008. Position
closing date: December 12, 2007

For a complete position description and to apply, log on to:
https://peoplefirst.myflorida.com/logon.htm , and select position #37979029.

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Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Coral Reef Conservation Program
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:36:08 +0100 (CET)
From: Vreni Haeussermann <vreni_haeussermann at yahoo.de>
Subject: [Coral-List] job announcement: 2 volunteers to help with
	editing	field guide
To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

Hi,
now I copied the attachment in the mail:
we are looking for 2 volunteers to help with the editing of a taxonomic
field guide for the Chilean fjords. One should be native English, one native
Spanish. The work is for approx. 3 months and we offer free food, lodging
and some pocket money, depending on your qualification. For details see text
beow.
Greetings,
Vreni

  Job announcement: two volunteers to help in editing/reviewing chapters of
a taxonomic field guide for 3 months in Chilean fjords, start of job: asap,
but before mid December

  We are a private Foundation (www.huinay.cl) that is operating a biological
field station in Chilean Patagonia. Huinay Scientific Field Station was
inaugurated in 2001 and is situated 100 km south of Puerto Montt, in the
fjord Comau; it is the only biological station in a Chilean fjord. The
surroundings are characterized by steep mountains and volcanoes. Almost 6000
mm annual precipitation gives rise to extremely lush vegetation
characterized by extra-tropical rain forests.
  The small village Huinay with its approx. 25 inhabitants can only be
accessed by a 1 hour boat-trip (speed boat) from Hornopiren. Most
infrastructure - except some small shops and a rural hospital in
Hornopiren - is located in Puerto Montt, a 3 to 4 h drive or bus trip from
Hornopiren.

  We have started working on a non-profit taxonomic field guide project in
1997 ("Benthic fauna of the Chilean fjord region"), and have collected
thousands of specimens from all over the fjord region which have all been
photographed in their habitat. We are working in cooperation with more than
40 renowned taxonomic specialists from 13 countries who have been
identifying the material and writing the chapters. The book will be
published in English and Spanish. The first edition of the book will include
the 500 most common shallow-water species. Most chapters have already been
submitted, the rest will be submitted by the end of this year. More than
half of the English chapters have already been revised.

  We are looking for two volunteers to help review and edit the remaining
English and Spanish chapters. Reviewing/editing consists of both language
and scientific content editing to ensure that i) each chapter clearly
introduces the reader to the morphological characteristics necessary to
identify the species, and ii) contains all the requested information ( i.e.
morphological description, habitat, biology, geographical distribution
etc.). Pre-defined general guidelines are provided to homogenize the
chapters, to find and improve parts that are either confusing or difficult
to understand for non-specialists, and to locate any information gaps. Each
chapter is improved as much as possible and returned to the author with an
accompanying review. Ideally the volunteers are native speakers of English
and/or Spanish with excellent language skills, experience in reviewing
scientific papers, and some knowledge on the taxonomy of invertebrates. We
are looking for a hard-working
 person with a thorough and organized working style who is used to work
independently.

  We can offer free food and lodging and a little pocket money, depending on
the qualification of the applicant. The job should be finished within
approx. 3 months (since the book should be published soon), starting as soon
as possible.
  Since right now we are in the main field-work season and we have a limited
number of dormitories, you will have to share a room with either the second
volunteer or an intern (of the same sex).

  Contact: please send your CV and a cover letter to Vreni H?ussermann,
v.haussermann at huinay.cl

  Some background of the field guide project
  Of all South American countries, Chile, with 4200 km of straight measured
coastline, has the longest coast with the South East Pacific Ocean. More
than one third of its geographical length is taken up by the highly
structured Patagonian fjord region; stretched out this would translate into
more than 80,000 km of coastline. For technical and historical reasons, and
the difficulty of access in the past, this region possesses some of the
least studied marine environments in the world; even the Antarctic shelf and
many deep-sea areas are better known. Only recently studies revealed that
the Patagonian fjord region is a biodiversity hot spot and is inhabited by
very unique and fragile marine benthic communities such as the cold-water
coral banks found in shallow waters.
  Valuable natural resources and favourable conditions for aquaculture
provided an incentive to 'open-up' the region for development resulting in
an unparalleled economic boom during the last 15 years. Fish farming is
still increasing exponentially, with last years production of Chilean farmed
salmon surpassing 400.000 t. Lately, authorities have recognized that this
development requires coastal management plans, legal regulations and
compensatory conservation efforts. But data on marine environments in the
fjord region are so poor that these goals can't be accomplished
satisfactorily with the available information. For example, due to the lack
of biological information, a recent project for a coastal management plan in
the 11 th region was solely developed to ?harmonize? economic interests.
  It is obvious, and increasingly accepted, that there is an urgent need for
biological inventories and ecological studies to bring zoning projects,
management plans, environmental laws and protection efforts on a sound base.
But these basic studies often fail because expertise and the literature are
too fragmentary. Patagonian species of many taxonomic groups, especially
those of minor or no commercial interest, are practically not identifiable
in the field. This depressing situation goes hand in hand with the false
belief held by a large proportion of the Chilean population; that the marine
life along their coast is poor and of no interest.
  The existing environmental laws demand that the benthic communities close
to fish farms are monitored. Biological inventory studies are necessary for
coastal zoning and management plans. The design and management of marine
protected areas requires knowledge of the distribution and function of
benthic communities. All these applications are not possible without
reliable and practical (field-) identification tools for marine organisms.
  At the moment in Southern Chile, there is only one marine multi-taxa field
guide (bilingual), which includes 123 species of the exposed coast of
Valdivia. Although illustrated with 1 colour image for each species, the
short descriptions generally do not allow reliable identifications. And, for
the entire fjord region (more than ? of the southern Chilean coastline), no
multi-taxa field guide currently exists! Only 3 illustrated field guides
include species from the fjord region (all are molluscs), and only 2 of them
are available in English language.
              An illustrated, bilingual (English and Spanish),
scientifically rigorous, and multi-taxa identification field guide, will
definitely improve the taxonomic knowledge and expertise of the marine
diversity in the Patagonian fjords. It will promote sustainable management
and conservation efforts and stimulate research interest and effort in this
scientifically neglected region. The publication will also raise the
awareness of the rich, unique, and fragile marine life of Patagonia amongst
the Chilean and International public.

Dr. Vreni H?ussermann
Director of the Huinay Scientific Field Station
Websites: http://people.freenet.de/haeussermann, www.anthozoa.com,
www.fjord-research.net
Field of work: taxonomy and biogeography of Chilean Anthozoa, especially
Chilean sea anemones
Present address: Universidad Austral de Chile, Departamento de Biolog?a
Marina, Campus Isla Teja, Casilla 567, Valdivia, Chile
Phone: 0056-63-249928, Fax: 0056-63-221455

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