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

[Dr Stuart P Wynne]

Dear Alina and Coral-list,

Such a repository is a great idea, and in fact this is something we (The 
Coral Reef Research Hub) have recently starting to compile on our 
YouTube channel - see here under 'Coral Reef Historical Archive' 
Playlist. (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyF57OYQvSXOQS9qTNzr4Ew)

These videos are currently fairly recent footage taken at a growing 
number of locations (many more are being edited together as we speak) 
but it would also be possible to compile a collections of stills into a 
video file with annotations - which would be great in terms of 
documenting 1970s/80s/90s when underwater video was a much bigger 
undertaking than it is today. We would produce and post a separate video 
for each general location and year as we are currently doing for the 
modern footage (that we hope in twenty years time will continue to serve 
against the shifting baselines issue!) - As Alina says - this will 
create non-systematic data points that can be used as needed by 
researchers/managers/etc.

If you have such material to contribute (or modern footage) please get 
in touch with me either at stuart at stuartwynne.co.uk or 
admin at thecoralreefresearchhub.com and we will take it from there.

I think this is a very important initiative,

Best regards,

Dr Stuart P. Wynne

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Tropical Marine Ecologist
www.stuartwynne.co.uk [1]

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Date: Thu, 4 May 2023 20:29:35 +0000
 From: Alina Szmant <alina at cisme-instruments.com>
To: Douglas Fenner <douglasfennertassi at gmail.com>, coral list
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     the    Caribbean was like
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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 LLD

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