[Coral-List] Happy 25th Birthday, Coral-List!

[Nohora Galvis]

Congratulations !! We indeed joined your efforts for networking long time
ago and participated at the ICRS in Pnama.

Also when it was founded in 2008 #IYOR, the Fundación ICRI COLOMBIA.

All are invited to follow us on Twitter @ArrecifesCoral Instagram
ObservatorioArrecifesCoral y Facebook.com/ICRI.COLOMBIA

El sáb, may 23, 2020 08:23, Jim Hendee via Coral-List <
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> escribió:

> Greetings, /Coraleros/!
>
>      Twenty-five years ago today Coral-List began on an Indy Unix-based
> server with 100 email addresses, gleaned from the participant list of
> the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium in Panama, and assembled and
> programmed by Louis Florit (then a Florida International University
> intern at NOAA/AOML, and who is today an executive at Apple,Inc.), and
> myself, partly supported through $3K from NOAA's Office of Global
> Programs.   Since that time it has been a pillar of international
> communication for coral reef researchers, conservationists,
> environmental managers, and students; and as an information resource,
> currently with a subscribership of 9,855 members.  Coral-List has been
> used to help announce each International Coral Reef Sysmposium since the
> 8th, as well as many other events around the world, helped to spread the
> word on the  demise of coral reef ecosystems through various reasons at
> innumerable places around the globe, and has served to help a great many
> people obtain jobs in coral-related research.  Besides Louis and myself,
> there have been many administrators who have helped Coral-List keep on
> chugging, almost non-stop (except for a few hurricanes), including
> Clarke Jeffris, Lew Gramer and Mike Jankulak, who still continues to
> assist to this day, along with our NOAA/AOML Systems Administrator, John
> McKeever.
>
>      We have witnessed together a critical time of decline of coral reef
> ecosystems throughout the world.  There can be no doubt (now) that the
> steady rise of sea temperatures has resulted in coral bleaching, as well
> as the decline through the additional insults of ocean acidification,
> disease, land-based sources of pollution, overfishing, turbidity,
> blast-fishing, and so on.  Keep up the good fight and share your
> knowledge with others on this list so that we will know better and
> quicker how to try and save this precious and necessary resource of
> coral reef ecosystems.
>
>      (By the way, it was Dr. Judith Lang, my very first mentor on coral
> reef ecology, who coined that term "Coraleros," so far as I know.  She's
> still fighting the good fight with me on a collaborative project in the
> Caribbean.)
>
>      Sincerely yours,
>      Jim
>
>     James C. Hendee <http://www.coral.noaa.gov/people/jim-hendee.html>,
>     Ph.D.
>     Director, Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division
>     Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)
>     National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
>     4301 Rickenbacker Causeway
>     Miami, Florida  33149-1026
>     Voice: 305 361-4396
>     Fax: 305 361-4392
>     Jim.Hendee at noaa.gov
>     http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/oced
>
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