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

[Dennis Hubbard]

Hi Alina:

I am totally in agreement. I have hundreds (thousands?) of dated photos
(and vertical video with scale) from St. Croix, Puerto Rico, and  the
Dominican Republic plus others from many other sites throughout the
tropics. Many are vertical and could  be subjected to some sort of
point-counting regimen. I am in the process of handing all my cores and
logs over to a young reef scientist so their usefulness will live on. I
wish there was a more systematic way of doing such things. A long time ago,
the paleo community set up the paleo-botany database (PBDB) for people to
enter their data. There was an effort to get NSF support but I don't think
it was successful and had to be run on a more ad hoc basis. It would be a
real shame to lose these records before folks who could provide useful
contextual information are gone.

Denny

On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 4:46 PM 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
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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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