[Coral-List] hurricane damage to Bahama reefs; jellyfish stingers in mucus or swimming

[Douglas Fenner]

Hurrcane Dorian ravaged Bahamas' reefs, researchers find
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/climate/hurricane-dorian-reefs-coral.html?te=1&nl=climate-fwd:&emc=edit_clim_20200219&campaign_id=54&instance_id=16102&segment_id=21412&user_id=a61bfa602a1dd7b19a21dad22e11decb&regi_id=7401879420200219


Preliminary assessment of Hurricane Dorian's impact on coral reefs of Abaco
and Grand Bahama

http://www.perryinstitute.org/dorianreport/

You didn't touch these jellyfish, but they can sting you with tiny grenades

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/science/jellyfish-stingers-floating.html?te=1&nl=science-times&emc=edit_sc_20200218&campaign_id=34&instance_id=16071&segment_id=21373&user_id=a61bfa602a1dd7b19a21dad22e11decb&regi_id=7401879420200218


 Cassiosomes are stinging-cell structures in the mucus of upside-down
jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-0777-8.pdf

open-access.

Cheers,  Doug
-- 
Douglas Fenner
Lynker Technologies, LLC, Contractor
NOAA Fisheries Service
Pacific Islands Regional Office
Honolulu
and:
Consultant
PO Box 7390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799  USA

"Already, more people die  <http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/hazstats.shtml>from
heat-related causes in the U.S. than from all other extreme weather events."


https://www.npr.org/2018/07/09/624643780/phoenix-tries-to-reverse-its-silent-storm-of-heat-deaths


Even 50-year old climate models correctly predicted global warmng
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/even-50-year-old-climate-models-correctly-predicted-global-warming?utm_campaign=news_weekly_2019-12-06&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=3113276

"Global warming is manifestly the foremost current threat to coral reefs,
and must be addressed by the global community if reefs as we know them will
have any chance to persist."  Williams et al, 2019, Frontiers in Marine
Science