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

[Paul Muir]

We also really need something like this for the GBR, which I suspect is
running 50 years behind the Caribbean and already having local species
extinctions (although there’s precious little data re species loss/recovery
and bleaching susceptibility).

Paul Muir,

Private consultant


On Fri, 5 May 2023 at 6:49 am, Alina Szmant via Coral-List <
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> 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
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>
> 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
>
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> for itself.
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