[Coral-List] new book with lots of photos showing what the Caribbean was like

[Alina Szmant]

I have a 3 ring binder of slides taken from 1970 on with my Niikonos 2 from Puerto Rico, US VI, some from Bahamas and Curacao. I think there should be a repository somewhere for the non-systematic data points. I am sure that I am not the only one who has this.

Maybe the ISRS should consider maintaining such a collection of historical photographs.



Dr. Alina M. Szmant,  CEO
CISME Instruments LLC



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From: Douglas Fenner via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
Date: 5/4/23 3:05 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: coral list <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
Subject: [Coral-List] new book with lots of photos showing what the Caribbean was like

The Caribbean Coral Reef, a record of an ecosystem under threat
by William Sacco

Photos of the reefs in Jamaica, Panama, and Curacao in the 1970's.  It is
extremely important for us to know what reefs were like before they
degraded, so we know what we have lost.  It is way too easy to have
"shifting baselines," thinking that the way we first saw reefs is the way
they always were.

https://www.globalcoral.org/caribbean-coral-reefs-natures-nearly-extinct-treasure-at-its-prime/

https://www.amazon.com/Caribbean-Coral-Reef-Record-Ecosystem/dp/1032414502/ref=sr_1_12

Check the reviews by Tom Goreau, Chuck Birkeland, Jim Porter, and Bob
Kinzie.

Cheers, Doug
--
Douglas Fenner
Lynker Technologies, LLC, Contractor
NOAA Fisheries Service
Pacific Islands Regional Office
Honolulu
and:
Coral Reef Consulting
PO Box 997390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799-6298  USA

Degrowth can work - here's how science can help
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04412-x

CoP 27, CoP 17, the party's over https://www.petersalebooks.com/?p=3324

Fixing methane leaks is a fast and vast help for climate change, and pays
for itself.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-fixing-methane-leaks-oil-132702814.html
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