From anya at emu.usyd.edu.au Tue Jun 1 00:15:41 1999 From: anya at emu.usyd.edu.au (anya salih) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 14:15:41 +1000 Subject: coelenterate sensory systems Message-ID: >Is anyone familiar with the anatomy of surficial microstructures >on polyp tentacles. I have observed on SEM small (~1 micron) hair-like >structures and have seen them referred to, in a book entitled "Microbial >Seascapes", as a bacterial lawn. It has been brought to my attention >that they curiously resemble cilliated epithelium. If anyone has seen >these structures or has I have seen (by light microscopy) cilia on the epidermal layer of many corals. If coral tissues are mechanically broken up or chemically dissociated, the clumps of tissues will then rapidly rotate in seawater from the action of beating cilia on their surfaces. Bacteria are also present on the surface and can be just made out by light mircroscopy, are much smaller and thinner. The epidermal layer of coral larvae is also ciliated. I would think that the cilia increase the absorption surface area. Anya Anya Salih Internet: anya at emu.usyd.edu.au Marine Physiology Lab Telephone:02-93513006 (Zool) Zoology AO8 02-93517540 (EMU) School of Biological Sciences Facsimile:02-93517682 The University of Sydney Sydney, 2006, AUSTRALIA From van_treeck at uni-essen.de Tue Jun 1 04:42:34 1999 From: van_treeck at uni-essen.de (Peter van Treeck) Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 10:42:34 +0200 Subject: assessing grazing intensity Message-ID: <199906010911.JAA32791@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Dear Ivor, What about interval video camera? We did that and it worked fine. The camera took a sequence of 2 sec every 2 minutes the whole day. With high resolution cameras it is possible to identify the grazing species as well as the number of bites. First results can be found in van Treeck, Schuhmacher & Paster (1996)Grazing and Bioerosion by Herbivorous Fishes - Key Processes Structuring Coral reef Communities. in Reitner, Neuweiler, Gunkel (eds)Global and Regional Controls on Biogenic Sedimentation.I. Reef Evolution. Research Reports.- G=F6ttinger Arb. Geol. Palaeont. SB2, 133-137 Goettingen Check as well Bruggemann (1994)Parrotfish grazing on coral reefs- A trophic novelty. PhD Thesis Groningen, NL Cheers Peter Ivor Williams schrieb: > > I would very much appreciate some practical advice on field methods for > assessing grazing intensity by herbivorous fishes. I am currently doing = field > work in Belize looking at fish abundance and benthic communities and woul= d like > to assess fish bite rates within 5*5m plots on 12m deep forereef areas. > > I had planned to approximately follow the AGRA protocol (5 min abservatio= ns of > 1 sq meter areas), but find either (most of the time) there are no fish g= razing > during the 5 minute period, or there are about 20 small fish frantically > nibbling and it is impossible to keep track. The resulting data set is > something like 0, 0, 387, 0, 6, 513... so, not only is there are a large > element of guesstimation in the replicates with large numbers of bites, b= ut > also the replication necessary to get meaningful data looks horrendous. M= y > feeling now is that I might be better to follow individual fishes for fix= ed > periods and then try to use average grazing rates to convert fish abundan= ce > data into grazing intensity, but I would prefer to directly assessing gra= zing > itself.if it is feasible. > > Thanks for any help you can give > > Ivor Williams > > Centre for Tropical Coastal Management > Department of Marine Sciences > Ridley Building > University of Newcastle upon Tyne > NE1 7RU > Tel: +44 (0)191 222 5868 > Fax: +44 (0)191 222 7891 > Belize phone 00 501 26 3856 From woodley at uwimona.edu.jm Tue Jun 1 07:33:26 1999 From: woodley at uwimona.edu.jm (Jeremy Woodley) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 06:33:26 -0500 (GMT-0500) Subject: coelenterate sensory systems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Is it not well known that corals have a ciliated epidermis? It creates superficial currents used for cleaning and feeding. On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, anya salih wrote: > >Is anyone familiar with the anatomy of surficial microstructures > >on polyp tentacles. I have observed on SEM small (~1 micron) hair-like > >structures and have seen them referred to, in a book entitled "Microbial > >Seascapes", as a bacterial lawn. It has been brought to my attention > >that they curiously resemble cilliated epithelium. If anyone has seen > >these structures or has > > I have seen (by light microscopy) cilia on the epidermal layer of many > corals. If coral tissues are mechanically broken up or chemically > dissociated, the clumps of tissues will then rapidly rotate in seawater > from the action of beating cilia on their surfaces. Bacteria are also > present on the surface and can be just made out by light mircroscopy, are > much smaller and thinner. The epidermal layer of coral larvae is also > ciliated. I would think that the cilia increase the absorption surface > area. > > Anya > > Anya Salih Internet: anya at emu.usyd.edu.au > Marine Physiology Lab Telephone:02-93513006 (Zool) > Zoology AO8 02-93517540 (EMU) > School of Biological Sciences Facsimile:02-93517682 > The University of Sydney > Sydney, 2006, AUSTRALIA > > > From aszmant at rsmas.miami.edu Tue Jun 1 10:13:50 1999 From: aszmant at rsmas.miami.edu (Alina Szmant) Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 10:13:50 -0400 Subject: coelenterate sensory systems Message-ID: <3.0.32.19990601101349.006ff290@mail.rsmas.miami.edu> In response to Jeremy's comment, I hate to see coral-list degenerate to answering basic questions that are so fundamental to basic training that they indicate that whomever asked them hasn't bothered to do any background reading before undertaking a research project. Is this indicative of the level of training of young 'scientists' hese days? Anyone that plans to do research on corals should have read through Libby Hyman's works, Chapman, and all sorts of "old" 1960's papers and chapters. Doesn't anyone know how to use a library anymore? Alina Szmant >Return-Path: >Delivered-To: szmant at mail.rsmas.miami.edu >Delivered-To: aszmant at rsmas.miami.edu >Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 06:33:26 -0500 (GMT-0500) >From: Jeremy Woodley >To: anya salih >Cc: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov >Subject: Re: coelenterate sensory systems >Sender: owner-coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov >Reply-To: Jeremy Woodley > >Is it not well known that corals have a ciliated epidermis? It creates >superficial currents used for cleaning and feeding. > >On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, anya salih wrote: > >> >Is anyone familiar with the anatomy of surficial microstructures >> >on polyp tentacles. I have observed on SEM small (~1 micron) hair-like >> >structures and have seen them referred to, in a book entitled "Microbial >> >Seascapes", as a bacterial lawn. It has been brought to my attention >> >that they curiously resemble cilliated epithelium. If anyone has seen >> >these structures or has >> >> I have seen (by light microscopy) cilia on the epidermal layer of many >> corals. If coral tissues are mechanically broken up or chemically >> dissociated, the clumps of tissues will then rapidly rotate in seawater >> from the action of beating cilia on their surfaces. Bacteria are also >> present on the surface and can be just made out by light mircroscopy, are >> much smaller and thinner. The epidermal layer of coral larvae is also >> ciliated. I would think that the cilia increase the absorption surface >> area. >> >> Anya >> >> Anya Salih Internet: anya at emu.usyd.edu.au >> Marine Physiology Lab Telephone:02-93513006 (Zool) >> Zoology AO8 02-93517540 (EMU) >> School of Biological Sciences Facsimile:02-93517682 >> The University of Sydney >> Sydney, 2006, AUSTRALIA >> >> >> > > > ********************************************** Dr. Alina M. Szmant Coral Reef Research Group RSMAS-MBF University of Miami 4600 Rickenbacker Cswy. Miami FL 33149 TEL: (305)361-4609 FAX: (305)361-4600 or 361-4005 E-mail: ASZMANT at RSMAS.MIAMI.EDU ********************************************** From fpl10 at calva.net Tue Jun 1 13:38:32 1999 From: fpl10 at calva.net (Fabrice POIRAUD-LAMBERT) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 19:38:32 +0200 (MET DST) Subject: Fiji Message-ID: Hi All, I'm going to Fiji Thursday. Is there anything specific that I should visit there (Reef, Coral Farm, Clam Farm,...) ? Someone to contact ? Tx for any info Regards Fabrice POIRAUD-LAMBERT http://mars.reefkeepers.net From crevison at seas.marine.usf.edu Tue Jun 1 14:53:40 1999 From: crevison at seas.marine.usf.edu (Heidi L. Crevison) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 14:53:40 -0400 (EDT) Subject: coelenterate sensory systems (fwd) Message-ID: <199906021842.SAA42898@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> > In response to Jeremy's comment, I hate to see coral-list degenerate to > answering basic questions that are so fundamental to basic training that > they indicate that whomever asked them hasn't bothered to do any > background reading before undertaking a research project. Is this > indicative of the level of training of young 'scientists' hese days? > Anyone that plans to do research on corals should have read through > Libby Hyman's works, Chapman, and all sorts of "old" 1960's papers and > chapters. Doesn't anyone know how to use a library anymore? > > Alina Szmant > Regardless of whether or not graduate students can use the library, the only stupid question is that which goes unasked. The individuals that are on this list are some of the best resources for those getting started in coral reef biology. 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Sincerely yours, Jim Hendee Louis Florit Philippe Dubosq Ocean Chemistry Division Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 4301 Rickenbacker Causeway Miami, FL 33149-1026 USA From pottst at uncwil.edu Tue Jun 1 16:06:33 1999 From: pottst at uncwil.edu (Thomas Potts) Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 16:06:33 -0400 Subject: NURC/UNCW Announcement of Research Opportunities Message-ID: <199906021842.SAA42959@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> The National Undersea Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington is soliciting proposals for undersea research in the southeast U.S. and Gulf of Mexico in 2000. Regional research priorities are as follows, but projects aren't limited to these areas: Sustain Healthy Coasts =B7 Describe hypoxia associated with the Mississippi River plume (especially within the "dead zone"), including its relationship to natural and anthropogenic activities and its affect on living resources. =B7 Assess and monitor reef communities, especially those in the Grays' Reef, Florida Keys, and Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuaries and around offshore platforms, and determine their role in sustaining ecosystem productivity. =B7 Establish research and innovative monitoring programs in marine reserves (Tortugas, Florida Middle Grounds, and Oculina research reserves) and other protected areas in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary to help distinguish natural system variability versus change caused by "no-take" management strategies. Assess and Predict Global Environmental Change =B7 Determine impacts of global climate changes on marine communities and biodiversity, and identify potential indicator species or assemblages for this purpose. Building Sustainable Fisheries =B7 Examine waters and substrates necessary for fish spawning, feeding or growth to maturity. Specifically, studies that describe and identify Essential Fish Habitat (EFH), identify adverse impacts to EFH (pollution, nutrient runoff, and coastal development), and identify actions to conserve and enhance EFH. =B7 Fisheries oceanography and recruitment processes: Examine economically valuable fisheries (including highly migratory species) including fate of eggs, larvae, and post-settlement juveniles. =B7 Research to document the significance of spawning events (especially corals and fish aggregations) within the Gray's Reef, Florida Keys, and Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuaries. =B7 Identification of factors that affect recruitment of conch, lobster, and corals within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary; including, limits to spawning, reproductive behavior, larval supply, habitat limitation, post-settlement processes, and sources of recruits. Please see http://www.uncwil.edu/nurc or contact Tom Potts (pottst at uncwil.edu) for more information on available undersea systems and technology, award conditions, and deadlines. From james at winmarconsulting.com Wed Jun 2 16:09:19 1999 From: james at winmarconsulting.com (James Wiseman) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 15:09:19 -0500 Subject: ARTIFICIAL REEF Message-ID: <9187DAFC4EB1D21196B50008C733ED9104C8E0@163.61.winmar.hypercon.com> Sjujono, I would strongly recommend against using rubber tires for artificial reef construction. >From a purely technical standpoint, tire reefs have proven to be very unstable, moving around in storms. Keeping them all attached to each other is also very difficult. The actual placement of the tires is also very difficult. I will leave it to the rest of coral-list to explain the biological reasons against using rubber tires for reef creation. Cheers James Wiseman Winmar Consulting Services Houston TX -----Original Message----- From: sjujono [mailto:arsjujono at pbaru.wasantara.net.id] Sent: Saturday, May 29, 1999 2:05 PM To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: ARTIFICIAL REEF I NEED YOUR SUGGEST WE GONNA MAKE ARTIFICIAL REEF WITH TYRE IN RUPAT ISLAND HAVE ANY EFFECT WITH THAT MATERIAL??? THANK GOGOT FEBRYANTO From buddrw at kgs.ukans.edu Wed Jun 2 16:12:19 1999 From: buddrw at kgs.ukans.edu (Bob Buddemeier) Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 14:12:19 -0600 Subject: coelenterate sensory systems (fwd) References: <199906021842.SAA42898@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Message-ID: <3755901F.D5568369@kgs.ukans.edu> I think a few points have been missed: 1. "a simple suggestion as to where to look" would have been a reward and encouragement for behavior that at least some of us consider professionally inappropriate. 2. I may be a resource, but I am neither infinite nor unprioritized, and therefore not available on demand. 3. Those of us fortunate enough to have been educated before the onset of intellectual relativism and the deification of self-esteem can actually identify quite a few ways in which questions can be stupid without being unasked. 4. I usually opt for the delete button over curmudgeonly response, but I share Alina's concern about the cluttering and degeneration of the list server. Bob Buddemeier "Heidi L. Crevison" wrote: > > > In response to Jeremy's comment, I hate to see coral-list degenerate to > > answering basic questions that are so fundamental to basic training that > > they indicate that whomever asked them hasn't bothered to do any > > background reading before undertaking a research project. Is this > > indicative of the level of training of young 'scientists' hese days? > > Anyone that plans to do research on corals should have read through > > Libby Hyman's works, Chapman, and all sorts of "old" 1960's papers and > > chapters. Doesn't anyone know how to use a library anymore? > > > > Alina Szmant > > > > Regardless of whether or not graduate students can use the library, the > only stupid question is that which goes unasked. The individuals that are > on this list are some of the best resources for those getting started in > coral reef biology. A simple suggestion as to where to look for this > information would have sufficed. > > Heidi L. Crevison > ******************************************************************************* > Heidi L. Crevison > University of South Florida > Department of Marine Science > 140 Seventh Ave. S > St. Petersburg, FL 33701 > (813)553-1615 > > GO INDIANS! > ************************************************************************** -- Dr. Robert W. Buddemeier Senior Scientist, Geohydrology Kansas Geological Survey University of Kansas 1930 Constant Ave. Lawrence, KS 66047 ph (785) 864-3965 fax (785) 864-5317 buddrw at kgs.ukans.edu http://ghsun2.kgs.ukans.edu/staff/buddemeier.html From corals at caribe.net Wed Jun 2 16:16:23 1999 From: corals at caribe.net (CORALations) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 16:16:23 -0400 Subject: Who trapped who? Message-ID: <199906022019.QAA24212@mail.caribe.net> CORALations recently wrote an email to the list and a letter to Caribbean Fishery Management Council [CFMC] in support of ReefKeeper International's resolution to phase out the use of fish traps in the Caribbean. For the first time we received documents from this organization in advance of meetings. Normally we receive the announcement 2 weeks after local ReefKeeper meetings are held. The documents included 1) the announcement of where and when CFMC meetings were being held to discuss the phase out of reef traps (CFMC's adgenda), and 2) ReefKeeper's phase out resolution and petition. Today we received in the mail another document from ReefKeeper. This document was clearly meant for mailing prior to the CFMC meetings one month ago, and was entitled: Help Phase Out Fish Traps and Protect Scuba Spearfishing! It begins by announcing the CFMC meetings: " CFMC is seeking public input to determine the best ways to reduce the total number of fish caught as well as the number of unwanted fish caught. Options being considered include a ten year phase out of wire mesh fish traps, elimination of spearfishing and lobstering using scuba and the elimination of gill nets". As an ocean conservation org based in Puerto Rico we recognize all of the above practices as contributing to the decimation of fish populations and commend CFMC for opening discussions on the issue. ReefKeeper publication asks, and I quote: "So who does more harm to fisheries and the environment - fish trappers or scuba spearfishers?...[and answers]...the answer is obvious - fish traps destroy habitat and kill thousands of juvenile and tropical fish every year." The document continues: "There will be fish trappers present at the meeting that will blame scuba spearfishers for some harmful impacts to the reef fish and lobster fisheries. The trappers will blame scuba spearfishers as a way to distract from the subject of fish trap shortcomings." We are concerned that after extending our support (albeit with major qualifications) for the first documents ReefKeeper sent to us, which sounded like a reasonable proposal to phase out traps...we receive this document...one month later that attaches what appears to be some kind of non conservation minded agenda geared at appealing to recreational spear fishermen. Because of the support we previously gave to ReefKeeper on this list, we are writing to reiterate that CORALations strongly feels solutions to overfishing will have to come in large part from compliance of the fishermen. This may mean compliance to stricter fishing regs or by supporting the establishment of Marine Fishery Reserve areas, the latter being easier to enforce. Education and compliance are hard objectives to meet with the confrontational agenda of opposing the commercial trap fishing while endorsing other fishing practices which may also be argued as unsustainable. CORALations recognizes that recreational and commercial spears are taking a toll on reefs in Puerto Rico. The larger fish targeted are the most reproductive. We have been with a scientists who photographed small reef fish being taken and discarded by spears in one study area. We have personally witnessed spear fishermen target everything, including sea fans when fish aren?t there. We recognize that this list was not created to vent frustrations with other orgs. Since we already sent the message to the list backing the trap phase out in support of ReefKeeper's proposal, we felt it important to clarify our stand on these issues to the other orgs and scientists who may have received the document from ReefKeeper with the attached spearfishing agenda. CORALations in no way endorses one form of unsustainable fishing practice over another, especially in Puerto Rico where reef fish populations are so compromised. We would not endorse any policy which alienates the local commercial fishermen who have direct economic incentive and should be an integral part of creating management plans to protect marine fish populations. Mary Ann Lucking CORALations Amapola 14, Suite 901 Isla Verde, PR 00979 corals at caribe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/pipermail/coral-list-old/attachments/19990602/8ae7247b/attachment.html From aszmant at rsmas.miami.edu Wed Jun 2 17:09:50 1999 From: aszmant at rsmas.miami.edu (Alina Szmant) Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 17:09:50 -0400 Subject: Who trapped who? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19990602170950.006ed49c@mail.rsmas.miami.edu> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 5485 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/pipermail/coral-list-old/attachments/19990602/887004f5/attachment.bin From rogeru at batelco.com.bh Thu Jun 3 03:10:02 1999 From: rogeru at batelco.com.bh (rogeru at batelco.com.bh) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 10:10:02 +0300 Subject: ARTIFICIAL REEF Message-ID: <19990603071002.AAE8189@sv10.batelco.com.bh@[193.188.113.245]> >Sjujono, >I would strongly recommend against using rubber tires for artificial reef construction. From a purely technical standpoint, tire reefs have proven to be very >unstable, moving around in storms. Keeping them all attached to each other is also very difficult. The actual placement of the tires is also very difficult. > >Cheers >James Wiseman >Winmar Consulting Services >Houston TX > Hi there: We have a slightly different view of tires here in Bahrain. We do not have hurricanes or typhoons to move tire reefs. Depending on your local conditions, tires may or may not be appropriate. Are there any practical alternative uses for tires? Do you have strong storms and water currents? We have had tires in the water since 1982. We fill each tire with a few shovels of cement (for additional wieght). We string tires (20-40 tires) together using 22 mm rope (like a strand of pearls). Make sure that the rope has slack through the tires. This allows some tires to lay flat when deployed, and provide a base for other tires to lean against. This configuration makes deployment quick. Just pick up each rope with tires at the preparation site using a crane. On the barge, use a crane to dump in the water. Hope that this helps. Cheers, Roger K. Roger Uwate, Ph.D. Advisor Directorate of Fisheries P.O. Box 20071 Bahrain phone: (973) 729-595 fax: (973) 728-459 email: rogeru at batelco.com.bh From fisheries at fisheries.org Thu Jun 3 10:53:13 1999 From: fisheries at fisheries.org (American Fisheries Society) Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 10:53:13 -0400 Subject: AFS APPOINTS NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Message-ID: <2.2.32.19990603145313.00678368@mail.fisheries.org> AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY APPOINTS NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Bethesda, Md.--Ghassan ("Gus") Rassam, a recognized leader in the online publishing and nonprofit association communities, has been appointed the fifth executive director of the American Fisheries Society (AFS). As such, Rassam will head the world's largest and oldest organization of fisheries professionals at a time when the Society is launching a five-year strategic plan that focuses on fisheries and aquatic stewardship, professional development, and a greatly expanded communications program. "Gus is skilled and experienced in working with diverse audiences, which will be a great asset as he represents AFS with professional organizations, public agencies, and citizen conservation groups," said Society President Robert Carline. Rassam comes to the Society via the Optical Society of America, a professional society devoted to the fields of fiber optics and laser technology. There, in addition to functioning as a chief executive for a period, he served as director of publications as well as program and international development. His development of the organization's electronic journal publication, book publishing and marketing programs brought him wide recognition in the science publishing community. Rassam trained in the geosciences, earning a master's degree at Miami University (Ohio) and a Ph.D at the University of Minnesota. He has been a Fulbright scholar and did graduate study at the Sorbonne University in Paris. In addition to his tenure at the Optical Society, his professional experience includes several decades of work as a petroleum geologist, database developer, teacher, director of marketing and information services, and assistant director of publications. Rassam also has shared his expertise with numerous government and professional entities. He chaired the Commission on Geological Documentation of the International Union of Geological Sciences and served on the executive board of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information. He also was president of the Association of Earth Science Editors and served as a member of the governing board and executive committee of the American Institute of Physics. ### Formed in 1870, the American Fisheries Society has more than 9,000 members in 73 countries. From sh at dna.bio.warwick.ac.uk Thu Jun 3 13:17:11 1999 From: sh at dna.bio.warwick.ac.uk (Charles Sheppard) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 17:17:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: No subject Message-ID: <199906031617.RAA14397@pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk> You may be interested in the article, just out: Hodgson, G. 1999. A global assessment of human effects on coral reefs. Marine Pollution Bulletin 38:345-355 which is a summary of recent 'Reef Check' work. Reprints will be obtainable from the author at: Inst. Environment and Sustainable Development, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, (not from the editor or publisher please!) Best wishes Charles Sheppard Dept Biological Sciences University of Warwick Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK fax: 44 1203 524619 From coral at aoml.noaa.gov Thu Jun 3 12:39:07 1999 From: coral at aoml.noaa.gov (NOAA's CHAMP) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 12:39:07 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Coral Reef Videoconference #1 Message-ID: <199906031705.RAA50457@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Greetings, Fellow Coral-Listers! Have you ever wanted to meet that person on the other side of the globe who always asks those interesting questions or comes up with that great insight during discussions on coral-list? Or maybe you have always been impressed at the wisdom or wit of a particular colleague whom you have never met, and would like to meet, or maybe just see what they look like! Or maybe you'd just like to converse and meet with those colleagues who are primarily interested in your particular plight to save the reefs near your island. This may be your chance! Videoconferencing has become more affordable and is beginning to spread in popularity. In fact some videoconferencing software is freeware (see below). Also, you can conference without the video or the audio, i.e., just conduct online chat sessions or work on documents (even using commercial software on your end). With this message we are calling for a "get acquainted" videoconference so that those of you who are interested can "chat" and get to know one another over the Internet. This is an opportunity to foster greater communications among coral reef researchers and to facilitate real-time collaboration (through "whiteboarding") on projects and documents. Although this first meeting is designed to get acquainted with other researchers and the technology, we anticipate that future collaborations may spring from this for the purpose of regional discussions or specialty topics (e.g., the Pacific Basin, spawning, diseases, pollution, etc.). Drop us a line at coral at coral.aoml.noaa.gov if you are interested in attending this conference. If there is little interest, or if nothing further develops, well, at least you'll know the technology for your own use later on (i.e., save this message!). If a LOT of interest develops, I'll set up a separate listserver, coral-vc, for communications on this topic alone, so as not to compromise the usual coral-list discussions. Here are some links and facts to help you get you started on learning the technology before the Conference: Resource for downloading CU-SeeMe v1.0 (developed by Cornell University) freeware, a lot of information, and an evaluation on whether to use version 3.1.2 or 4.0 (v3.1.2 and earlier versions work for the Macintosh, as well as Windows): http://www.cu-seeme.net Home of White Pine Software, the people who sell the commercial version of CU-SeeMe (lots of good information, and good prices):: http://www.wpine.com MicroSoft Netmeeting (freeware, Windows only):: http://www.microsoft.com/netmeeting And of course you can always do a search on your browser to find out more. By the way, please note that depending upon all kinds of things, including your connection to the Internet, the quality and settings of your camera, microphone and speaker, you may not get a good connection. It takes a little time to learn this stuff, but it is easy to get started. You may not get the video or audio right the first time, but you can still "chat" by typing to a common screen online. Since setting up the "reflectors" for videoconferencing is expensive, we will meet at a public reflector to start off. If greater interest is generated, we will seek funding to support a reflector with greater capacity and specialty topic conference IDs. Tentatively, our meeting place (reflector) will be physiol.indstate.edu (Indiana State University) on June 23, 1999, off and on, from 1200 hrs GMT to 1800 hrs GMT. If these times are not convenient, let us know. There are three conferences at that site: #1 is General, #2 is Modem Users, and #3 is for high speed users (T1, etc.). Conference ID 4 is a self-reflector so you can see what you look like remotely. If that reflector is not available, try these instead: reflector.edi.gatech.edu (Georgia Institute of Technology) or kingfisher.cms.shu.ac.uk (Sheffield Hallam University). For specialty topics, we may meet under special multicast conferencing or point-to-point arrangements in which a reflector is not necessary (drop us a line if you're interested in specialty groups, point-to-point, etc.). Your feedback is most welcome. See you there! Cheers, Jim Hendee & Your NOAA Coral Colleagues NOAA's Coral Health and Monitoring Program From jlowrie at cscmail.org Fri Jun 4 16:03:26 1999 From: jlowrie at cscmail.org (Jonathan Lowrie) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 13:03:26 -0700 Subject: Seeking protocol for cyanide testing of fish Message-ID: <430B1492F8BDD111B03E080009EC8A4A4AE9F8@GENSERVER1> Dear Colleagues: I am seeking out an easy to use protocol for testing reef fish for cyanide use. Some of the ornamental aquarium trade exports from FIJI would like to utilize cyanide testing as a means to ensure their stock is ecologically collected, and they need a protocol that will provide a positive or negative for the presence of cyanide in fishes. Ideally, this would be a simple test, that can be used in the field. However, a more complex protocol could be taught, so any information would be appreciated. Thank you. Jonathan Jonathan Lowrie Aquarist Supervisor California Science Center Tel: 213 744-2612 Fax: 213 744-2547 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/pipermail/coral-list-old/attachments/19990604/c18a1012/attachment.html From delbeek at hawaii.edu Fri Jun 4 17:02:38 1999 From: delbeek at hawaii.edu (J. Charles Delbeek) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 11:02:38 -1000 Subject: Seeking protocol for cyanide testing of fish In-Reply-To: <430B1492F8BDD111B03E080009EC8A4A4AE9F8@GENSERVER1> Message-ID: On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Jonathan Lowrie wrote: > I am seeking out an easy to use protocol for testing reef fish for cyanide > use. Some of the ornamental aquarium trade exports from FIJI would like to > utilize cyanide testing as a means to ensure their stock is ecologically > collected, and they need a protocol that will provide a positive or negative > for the presence of cyanide in fishes. > > Ideally, this would be a simple test, that can be used in the field. > However, a more complex protocol could be taught, so any information would > be appreciated. Jonathan: As you probably know, the International MarineLife Association, in conjunction with the Haribon Foundation in the Philippines have developed and are using a cyanide detection test already, I would suggest you contact them. Also the USFWS will be exploring the use of such a test as well soon. J. Charles Delbeek M.Sc. Aquarium Biologist Waikiki Aquarium University of Hawaii "The fact that my physiology differs from yours pleases me to no end." Mr. Spock From Mark.Eakin at noaa.gov Fri Jun 4 18:03:55 1999 From: Mark.Eakin at noaa.gov (Mark Eakin) Date: 4 Jun 1999 18:03:55 U Subject: ARTIFICIAL REEF Message-ID: Subject: Time: 5:04 PM RE>ARTIFICIAL REEF Date: 6/4/99 I second the response that tires are an extremely poor material to use in areas prone to hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones or any other storms that can generate high waves. We spent weeks picking up tires off the bottom and off beaches after a weak (category 1 or 2) hurricane passed well to the east of a tire reef in Florida. Despite the fact that the hurricane did not hit the reef, it scattered tires over a wide area. To this day there are tires stuck in rock groins and under ledges. Cheers, Mark -------------------------------------- Date: 5/29/99 3:45 PM To: Mark Eakin From: sjujono I NEED YOUR SUGGEST WE GONNA MAKE ARTIFICIAL REEF WITH TYRE IN RUPAT ISLAND HAVE ANY EFFECT WITH THAT MATERIAL??? THANK GOGOT FEBRYANTO ------------------ RFC822 Header Follows ------------------ Received: by ogp.noaa.gov with ADMIN;29 May 1999 15:44:33 U Received: by coral.aoml.noaa.gov (980427.SGI.8.8.8/930416.SGI) for coral-list-outgoing id TAA15256; Sat, 29 May 1999 19:00:12 GMT Received: from mailgate.wasantara.net.id by coral.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP (980427.SGI.8.8.8/930416.SGI) for id OAA15134; Sat, 29 May 1999 14:59:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pbaru.wasantara.net.id (pbaru.wasantara.net.id [202.159.84.163]) by mailgate.wasantara.net.id (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA29296 for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 02:21:13 +0700 (JAVT) Received: from PBARU/SpoolDir by pbaru.wasantara.net.id (Mercury 1.40); 30 May 99 02:00:26 +0700 Received: from SpoolDir by PBARU (Mercury 1.40); 30 May 99 02:00:11 +0700 Received: from arsjujono (202.159.84.181) by pbaru.wasantara.net.id (Mercury 1.40); 30 May 99 02:00:05 +0700 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19990530020443.006851e4 at pbaru.wasantara.net.id> X-Sender: arsjujono at pbaru.wasantara.net.id (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 02:04:44 +0700 To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov From: sjujono Subject: ARTIFICIAL REEF Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sjujono From gregorh at hk.super.net Sat Jun 5 04:33:55 1999 From: gregorh at hk.super.net (Gregor Hodgson) Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 16:33:55 +0800 Subject: Seeking protocol for cyanide testing of fish References: <430B1492F8BDD111B03E080009EC8A4A4AE9F8@GENSERVER1> Message-ID: <3758E0F3.29AB701@hk.super.net> Jonathan, A colleague here at HKUST, Dr. Reinhard Renneberg of the Chemistry Dept, is a specialist in sensor design and has several on the market. He and a grad student have been working on an inexpensive and ultra sensitive cyanide detector that is portable, very rapid, and can detect the thiocyanate that cyanide is metabolized into in tissue. He is looking for funding to complete the system. Current cyanide testing systems typically require a wet lab set up, are slow and are so insensitive that cyanide, which is quickly washed out of fish in seawater and metabolized, is often not detectable even hours after exposure. Please contact Dr. Renneberg for further details. Regards, Greg Jonathan Lowrie wrote: > > > Dear Colleagues: > > I am seeking out an easy to use protocol for testing reef fish for > cyanide use. Some of the ornamental aquarium trade exports from FIJI > would like to utilize cyanide testing as a means to ensure their stock > is ecologically collected, and they need a protocol that will provide > a positive or negative for the presence of cyanide in fishes. > > Ideally, this would be a simple test, that can be used in the field. > However, a more complex protocol could be taught, so any information > would be appreciated. > > Thank you. > > Jonathan > > Jonathan Lowrie > Aquarist Supervisor > California Science Center > Tel: 213 744-2612 > Fax: 213 744-2547 -- Gregor Hodgson, PhD Coordinator, Reef Check Global Survey Program GPO Box 12375, Hong Kong Tel: 852-2358-0317 Fax: 852-2887-5454 Email: gregorh at hk.super.net Web: www.ReefCheck.org From aquafact at iol.ie Sat Jun 5 12:26:44 1999 From: aquafact at iol.ie (Aqua-Fact) Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 16:26:44 GMT Subject: Impact of explosives on coral fish Message-ID: <199906051626.QAA12866@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Dear All, I sent a message a few weeks ago looking for information on the assessment of the use of exposives on reef fish and I was surprised not to get any replies. I thought that someonemay have addressed this topic - can anyone shed light on this topic? Regards, Brendan. Aqua-Fact International Services Ltd., 12 Kilkerrin Park, Liosbaun, Tuam Rd, Galway. IRELAND Tel. 353-91-756812/3 Fax. 353-91-756888 email aquafact at iol.ie website http://www.iol.ie/aquafact/ From quenovib at naos.si.edu Sat Jun 5 19:15:21 1999 From: quenovib at naos.si.edu (Brice Quenoville) Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 19:15:21 -0400 Subject: Re Impact of explosives on coral fish Message-ID: Hi, I've been on the list for bit more that 1 year, and I guess I'd not be far from the truth if I say that questions about the impact of explosives on fish and about adequate materials for artificial reef have been already asked and fully replied at least 5 times each. Personnaly I don't mind to see these questions showing up again and again as I'm not a specialist and thus I don't reply, but specialists may be tired to reply and this would explain the 0 answer about explosives. Check out the following which is part of the coral list welcome message. 3) Please conduct as much preliminary research into a topic as possible before posting a query to the list. (In other words, you shouldn't expect others to do your research for you.) Please consider: o Your librarian (an extremely valuable resource) o The CHAMP Literature Abstracts area at the CHAMP Web: o The CHAMP Online Researcher's Directory (i.e., search for your topic, ask the experts directly) o The CHAMP (and other) Web sites' links page(s) But please *do* avail yourself of the list when you've exhausted other sources. The Coral-list as well as the FISH-SCI list archives have certainly all what you're looking for. Happy search, no hard feelings, I was just killing time between two experiments and I try to stop smoking! Brice From quenovib at naos.si.edu Sat Jun 5 19:15:21 1999 From: quenovib at naos.si.edu (Brice Quenoville) Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 19:15:21 -0400 Subject: Re Impact of explosives on coral fish Message-ID: Hi, I've been on the list for bit more that 1 year, and I guess I'd not be far from the truth if I say that questions about the impact of explosives on fish and about adequate materials for artificial reef have been already asked and fully replied at least 5 times each. Personnaly I don't mind to see these questions showing up again and again as I'm not a specialist and thus I don't reply, but specialists may be tired to reply and this would explain the 0 answer about explosives. Check out the following which is part of the coral list welcome message. 3) Please conduct as much preliminary research into a topic as possible before posting a query to the list. (In other words, you shouldn't expect others to do your research for you.) Please consider: o Your librarian (an extremely valuable resource) o The CHAMP Literature Abstracts area at the CHAMP Web: o The CHAMP Online Researcher's Directory (i.e., search for your topic, ask the experts directly) o The CHAMP (and other) Web sites' links page(s) But please *do* avail yourself of the list when you've exhausted other sources. The Coral-list as well as the FISH-SCI list archives have certainly all what you're looking for. Happy search, no hard feelings, I was just killing time between two experiments and I try to stop smoking! Brice From jguffy at home.com Mon Jun 7 03:16:06 1999 From: jguffy at home.com (Jason Guffy) Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 00:16:06 -0700 Subject: Who trapped who? References: <3.0.32.19990602170950.006ed49c@mail.rsmas.miami.edu> Message-ID: <375B71B6.7B2628BC@home.com> Of course recreational spear fishing and commercial net fishing is harmful. I am wondering about the effects of fishing for ornimental fish and coral? Alina Szmant wrote: > > I'd like to support CORALations' stand that spear-fishing is no better for coral reef fish communities than trapping, and in places, and in fact for certain species is MUCH worse. A specific example would be the groupers, where a small number of spear fishers (commercial as well as recreational) go in and wipe out a local population within a few days. In my opinion, there 'ain't no such thing as sustainable fishing' on coral reefs, at least not at anywhere near the levels that present day users would be agreeable to abide by for the desirable species that humans like to eat. > > Alina Szmant > > Return-Path: > Delivered-To: szmant at mail.rsmas.miami.edu > Delivered-To: aszmant at rsmas.miami.edu > From: "CORALations" > To: "ReefKeeper" , > "Michael Nemeth" , > "eco-isla" , > "Coral-List" > Subject: Who trapped who? > Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 16:16:23 -0400 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > Sender: owner-coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov > Reply-To: "CORALations" > > CORALations recently wrote an email to the list and a letter to Caribbean Fishery Management Council [CFMC] in support of ReefKeeper International's resolution to phase out the use of fish traps in the Caribbean. For the first time we received documents from this organization in advance of meetings. Normally we receive the announcement 2 weeks after local ReefKeeper meetings are held. The documents included 1) the announcement of where and when CFMC meetings were being held to discuss the phase out of reef traps (CFMC's adgenda), and 2) ReefKeeper's phase out resolution and petition. > Today we received in the mail another document from ReefKeeper. This document was clearly meant for mailing prior to the CFMC meetings one month ago, and was entitled: Help Phase Out Fish Traps and Protect Scuba Spearfishing! It begins by announcing the CFMC meetings: " CFMC is seeking public input to determine the best ways to reduce the total number of fish caught as well as the number of unwanted fish caught. Options being considered include a ten year phase out of wire mesh fish traps, elimination of spearfishing and lobstering using scuba and the elimination of gill nets". > As an ocean conservation org based in Puerto Rico we recognize all of the above practices as contributing to the decimation of fish populations and commend CFMC for opening discussions on the issue. ReefKeeper publication asks, and I quote: > "So who does more harm to fisheries and the environment - fish trappers or scuba spearfishers?...[and answers]...the answer is obvious - fish traps destroy habitat and kill thousands of juvenile and tropical fish every year." > The document continues: "There will be fish trappers present at the meeting that will blame scuba spearfishers for some harmful impacts to the reef fish and lobster fisheries. The trappers will blame scuba spearfishers as a way to distract from the subject of fish trap shortcomings." > We are concerned that after extending our support (albeit with major qualifications) for the first documents ReefKeeper sent to us, which sounded like a reasonable proposal to phase out traps...we receive this document...one month later that attaches what appears to be some kind of non conservation minded agenda geared at appealing to recreational spear fishermen. > Because of the support we previously gave to ReefKeeper on this list, we are writing to reiterate that CORALations strongly feels solutions to overfishing will have to come in large part from compliance of the fishermen. This may mean compliance to stricter fishing regs or by supporting the establishment of Marine Fishery Reserve areas, the latter being easier to enforce. Education and compliance are hard objectives to meet with the confrontational agenda of opposing the commercial trap fishing while endorsing other fishing practices which may also be argued as unsustainable. CORALations recognizes that recreational and commercial spears are taking a toll on reefs in Puerto Rico. The larger fish targeted are the most reproductive. We have been with a scientists who photographed small reef fish being taken and discarded by spears in one study area. We have personally witnessed spear fishermen target everything, including sea fans when fish aren?t there. > We recognize that this list was not created to vent frustrations with other orgs. Since we already sent the message to the list backing the trap phase out in support of ReefKeeper's proposal, we felt it important to clarify our stand on these issues to the other orgs and scientists who may have received the document from ReefKeeper with the attached spearfishing agenda. > CORALations in no way endorses one form of unsustainable fishing practice over another, especially in Puerto Rico where reef fish populations are so compromised. We would not endorse any policy which alienates the local commercial fishermen who have direct economic incentive and should be an integral part of creating management plans to protect marine fish populations. > Mary Ann Lucking > CORALations > Amapola 14, Suite 901 > Isla Verde, PR 00979 > corals at caribe > > ********************************************** > Dr. Alina M. Szmant > Coral Reef Research Group > RSMAS-MBF > University of Miami > 4600 Rickenbacker Cswy. > Miami FL 33149 > > TEL: (305)361-4609 > FAX: (305)361-4600 or 361-4005 > E-mail: ASZMANT at RSMAS.MIAMI.EDU > ********************************************** From jguffy at home.com Mon Jun 7 03:51:55 1999 From: jguffy at home.com (Jason Guffy) Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 00:51:55 -0700 Subject: ARTIFICIAL REEF References: Message-ID: <375B7A1B.74F4D94C@home.com> If you are putting the tyres into the water to establish artificial reefs then you are introducing garbage into the environment so if during a hurricane they are scatered around why does it matter? Rocks I assume also are scattered during Hurricanes. Tyres getting scattered on the beach during a hurricane seems not to be so bad either, since it not the only waste on the beach it just adds to the cleanup. To me useing Tyres as Artificial reefs is silly. its just an underwater dump sight for humane waste with a pinch of reason. Jason Guffy Mark Eakin wrote: > > Subject: Time: 5:04 PM > RE>ARTIFICIAL REEF Date: 6/4/99 > > I second the response that tires are an extremely poor material to use in > areas prone to hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones or any other storms that can > generate high waves. We spent weeks picking up tires off the bottom and off > beaches after a weak (category 1 or 2) hurricane passed well to the east of a > tire reef in Florida. Despite the fact that the hurricane did not hit the > reef, it scattered tires over a wide area. To this day there are tires stuck > in rock groins and under ledges. > > Cheers, > Mark > > -------------------------------------- > Date: 5/29/99 3:45 PM > To: Mark Eakin > From: sjujono > I NEED YOUR SUGGEST > > WE GONNA MAKE ARTIFICIAL REEF WITH TYRE IN RUPAT > ISLAND > > HAVE ANY EFFECT WITH THAT MATERIAL??? > > THANK > > GOGOT FEBRYANTO > > ------------------ RFC822 Header Follows ------------------ > Received: by ogp.noaa.gov with ADMIN;29 May 1999 15:44:33 U > Received: by coral.aoml.noaa.gov (980427.SGI.8.8.8/930416.SGI) > for coral-list-outgoing id TAA15256; Sat, 29 May 1999 19:00:12 GMT > Received: from mailgate.wasantara.net.id by coral.aoml.noaa.gov via ESMTP > (980427.SGI.8.8.8/930416.SGI) > for id OAA15134; Sat, 29 May 1999 14:59:55 > -0400 (EDT) > Received: from pbaru.wasantara.net.id (pbaru.wasantara.net.id > [202.159.84.163]) > by mailgate.wasantara.net.id (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA29296 > for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 02:21:13 +0700 (JAVT) > Received: from PBARU/SpoolDir by pbaru.wasantara.net.id (Mercury 1.40); > 30 May 99 02:00:26 +0700 > Received: from SpoolDir by PBARU (Mercury 1.40); 30 May 99 02:00:11 +0700 > Received: from arsjujono (202.159.84.181) by pbaru.wasantara.net.id (Mercury > 1.40); > 30 May 99 02:00:05 +0700 > Message-Id: <3.0.32.19990530020443.006851e4 at pbaru.wasantara.net.id> > X-Sender: arsjujono at pbaru.wasantara.net.id (Unverified) > X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) > Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 02:04:44 +0700 > To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov > From: sjujono > Subject: ARTIFICIAL REEF > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="us-ascii" > Sender: owner-coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov > Precedence: bulk > Reply-To: sjujono From riesigtiegel at hotmail.com Mon Jun 7 12:21:00 1999 From: riesigtiegel at hotmail.com (Mark van der Riesigtiegel) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 16:21:00 GMT Subject: Looking for a particular device Message-ID: <199906071621.QAA25803@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Dear Coral-Listers, I'm looking for a device which consists of a receiver that must be capable of detecting and storing the linear distance to a (acoustic or radio) signal transmitter placed within a 20-30 m range with an accuracy of aprox. 1 cm. Logged data must be exportable in some PC's compatible format. The transmitter's signal must be produced by a human operator an not automatically as some telemetry apparatus do. It's probably unnecessary to say that the whole stuff must be waterproof for it will be employed in marine experiments. I have visited lots of telemetry and marine acoustic devices sites but the systems I've found are either too sophisticated (and expensive) or do not suit my purposes. Could anybody help me? Best wishes. Mark. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From Bprecht at pbsj.com Mon Jun 7 10:09:09 1999 From: Bprecht at pbsj.com (Precht, Bill) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 09:09:09 -0500 Subject: With regard to recent flames on the list. Message-ID: <199906071622.QAA25783@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Dear Coral List: Besides the coral list...I am also on an Everglades Restoration list that is sponsored/managed by the Sierra Club. The header that goes out on many of the messages reads... Collegiality and Courtesy are the magic words to success for this list. Lets learn something from our terrestrial counterparts. These lists are very powerful tools for sharing information... even healthy scientific debate....lets not ruin the wonderful service that Jim Hendee and NOAA.AOML provide for all of us. Cheers, Bill William F. Precht EcoSciences Program Manager PBS&J From jch at aoml.noaa.gov Mon Jun 7 12:21:37 1999 From: jch at aoml.noaa.gov (coral-list administrator) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 16:21:37 GMT Subject: archived messages Message-ID: <199906071621.QAA25868@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Dear Coral-Listers, If you want to search for subjects that may have been covered under previous coral-list discussions, please see the archived coral-list discussions on the CHAMP Web Page at www.coral.noaa.gov. We do not have a search engine, but if you click on each year's file, you can use the Edit/Find function on your browser to search for key words, such as "cyanide" or "spawning". Hope this helps. Cheers, jch From U.Lindahl at kmf.gu.se Tue Jun 8 10:06:05 1999 From: U.Lindahl at kmf.gu.se (U.Lindahl at kmf.gu.se) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 14:06:05 +0000 Subject: References on coral dehydration Message-ID: <1283270702-151853836@kmf.gu.se> Dear coral listers, I would appreciate references on the effects of coral dehydration. I am studying the effects of dehydration of corals during transport, and I have found surprisingly few articles on this subject. I am aware of some of the work done at Waikiki Aquarium and other studies published in international journals, however I hope to find more interesting stuff in the "grey literature". Thanks Ulf Lindahl Kristineberg Marine Research Station 450 34 Fiskebackskil Sweden Tel. +46 523 18518 Fax +46 523 18502 From Peter_Craig at ccmail.itd.nps.gov Tue Jun 8 14:29:19 1999 From: Peter_Craig at ccmail.itd.nps.gov (Peter Craig) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 14:29:19 -0400 Subject: Coral reef overfishing in Am. Samoa Message-ID: <0026D342.1235@ccmail.itd.nps.gov> American Samoa, overfishing, scuba fishing The attached press release from the American Samoa Coral Reef Task Force states that local coral reefs are seriously overfished and that corrective action (including banning scuba fishing) is needed now rather than delays for further study. A full recovery plan should also include a network of protected areas, community-based management, monitoring the complete harvest, and better enforcement. Local contact: Peter Craig, National Park of American Samoa -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Ellen Horne The Coral Reef Alliance From Jim.Hendee at noaa.gov Wed Jun 9 12:09:22 1999 From: Jim.Hendee at noaa.gov (Jim Hendee) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:09:22 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Ellen Horne's request Message-ID: I'm afraid the listserver software chopped off Helen Horne's email when the message was forwarded. Please do not send messages to coral-list admin. Ellen, please let us know your email address. Jim listserver admin ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:38:44 EDT From: owner-coral-list at aoml.noaa.gov Reply-To: Listserver Administrator To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Need coral spawning dates for 2000 If anyone knows of a list of predicted dates for coral spawning around the world for the year 2000, or if you can provide the dates for any particular reef and we can aggregate them, please let me know by email. Thank you for your help! Ellen Horne The Coral Reef Alliance From GBUCK at crs.loc.gov Wed Jun 9 13:21:51 1999 From: GBUCK at crs.loc.gov (Gene Buck) Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 13:21:51 -0400 Subject: Puerto Rican coral reefs - a list?? Message-ID: An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available Url: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/pipermail/coral-list-old/attachments/19990609/ba982308/attachment.pl From abaker at rsmas.miami.edu Thu Jun 10 12:26:13 1999 From: abaker at rsmas.miami.edu (Andrew Baker) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 12:26:13 -0400 Subject: Field PC laptop Message-ID: <199906101618.QAA46340@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Can anyone recommend a humidity-resistant, durable laptop PC suitable for use in the field (humid/wet environments, bright sunlight, dirt etc.)? I have some info on the Panasonic "Toughbook" series, but was wondering if anyone knows of anything even more durable? Any supposed "rugged" models to avoid? Thanks. Please reply directly to me Andrew ************************************ Andrew C. Baker, Ph.D. Wildlife Conservation Society New York Aquarium Boardwalk at West 8th Street Brooklyn, New York 11224, USA Tel: (718) 265 3430 Fax: (718) 265 3420 From gregorh at hk.super.net Thu Jun 10 05:29:48 1999 From: gregorh at hk.super.net (Gregor Hodgson) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 17:29:48 +0800 Subject: [Fwd: ] Message-ID: <375F858C.FED1664E@hk.super.net> Please reply directly to the Chinese distributers. -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "Yan Yuanliang" Subject: no subject Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 15:46:17 +0800 Size: 10181 Url: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/pipermail/coral-list-old/attachments/19990610/2b970e17/attachment.mht From Seachild9 at aol.com Fri Jun 11 12:25:47 1999 From: Seachild9 at aol.com (Seachild9 at aol.com) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 12:25:47 EDT Subject: Reef Mooring Systems Message-ID: Aloha, My name is Dave Rubin, I'm a graduate student at The University of Hawaii studying Ocean Policy. I'm presently working on a study of reef mooring systems. I am in the process of gathering information regarding who is using moorings worldwide and how these moorings are funded. I would appreciate it if you could take a moment to answer the following questions: 1- Are there moorings installed at dive sites you use? 2- When were they first installed? 3- Privately funded or government? Shop name: Address: Country: Thank you, Dave Rubin From dipal at ibw.com.ni Fri Jun 11 06:34:49 1999 From: dipal at ibw.com.ni (Pdipal) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 03:34:49 -0700 Subject: Salinity of 43ppm Message-ID: <3.0.2.32.19990611033449.0068bda0@pop1.ibw.com.ni> I am working on the caribbean coast of Nicaragua where there are some patch reefs. During the months march through may the salinity 0.5m under the water surface rose untill 43 ppm. In this period the sun is hot, calm weather and there is no rain falling. The prevailing current is from the north and the prevailing wind from the northeast.The depth is around 15-20 m. During the rainy sesason it is likely that water from the big rivers eix with the blue water around the keys but i doubt that during the dry season this happens, moreover the highest salinities found in the rivermounths don't reach more then 38ppm. I was wondering if anybody else has found such incredible high salinity levels and would it be possible that this phenomenon negatively affects the corals. (they already are under a lot of sedimentation stress with a horizontal visibility between 3 and 9 meters). thank you for your thoughts mariska From mickyfit at club-internet.fr Sat Jun 12 07:55:09 1999 From: mickyfit at club-internet.fr (Micky Schoelzke) Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 13:55:09 +0200 Subject: Field PC laptop Message-ID: <002801beb4ca$6ca504a0$eca224c3@home> Hi everyone, I would be interested as well by some information about laptops you can "mihandle"!!! Cheers, Vanessa M. SCHOELZKE FRANCE mickyfit at club-internet.fr mickyfit at yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/pipermail/coral-list-old/attachments/19990612/c944e801/attachment.html From sjameson at coralseas.com Sat Jun 12 12:01:14 1999 From: sjameson at coralseas.com (Stephen C Jameson) Date: Sat, 12 Jun 99 12:01:14 -0400 Subject: Nicaragua reefs - Caribbean Message-ID: <199906121551.LAA13491@radagast.wizard.net> Dear Mariska, Below are a few recent references you might find useful in your work in Nicaragua. Trott, LB. (ed) (1996) Recommendations and reports for the management of fisheries in the Miskito Coast Marine Reserve of Nicaragua, Environmental Initiative of the Americas Fisheries Project October 1995 to September 1996. USAID Environment Center, Global Bureau, Washington, DC Jameson SC (1996) Miskito Coast Reserve; Coral reef ecosystem survey and management recommendations. In: Trott, LB. (ed) Recommendations and reports for the management of fisheries in the Miskito Coast Marine Reserve of Nicaragua, Environmental Initiative of the Americas Fisheries Project October 1995 to September 1996. USAID Environment Center, Global Bureau, Washington, DC Jameson SC (1996) Miskito Coast Reserve; Biosphere reserve concept analysis. In: Trott, LB (ed) Recommendations and reports for the management of fisheries in the Miskito Coast Marine Reserve of Nicaragua, Environmental Initiative of the Americas Fisheries Project October 1995 to September 1996. USAID Environment Center, Global Bureau, Washington, DC Jameson SC (1998) Rapid ecological assessment of the Cayos Miskitos Marine Reserve with notes on the stony corals off Nicaragua. Atoll Res Bull, September 1998, No. 457, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 15 pp Best regards, Dr. Stephen C. Jameson, President Coral Seas Inc. - Integrated Coastal Zone Management 4254 Hungry Run Road, The Plains, VA 20198-1715 USA Office: 703-754-8690, Fax: 703-754-9139 Email: sjameson at coralseas.com Web Site: www.coralseas.com From gregorh at hk.super.net Mon Jun 14 02:38:31 1999 From: gregorh at hk.super.net (Gregor Hodgson) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 14:38:31 +0800 Subject: Zip Virus Alert Message-ID: <3764A367.BA306039@hk.super.net> My university computer center has sent the following message which I must assume is reliable info and therefore a serious threat. I am posting the message as a public service. Please do not respond to me with queries. Greg This message is to alert you on a destructive PC virus called ZippedFiles, a new e-mail worm spreading rapidly through the Internet. This virus works like a chain letter and carries a destructive payload. It arrives to a user via an e-mail attachment with mail content looks like: I received your email and I shall send you a reply ASAP. Till then, take a look at the attached zipped docs. Sincerely Attachment: zipped_files.exe If you receive a message like this, do not open zipped_files.exe. In case you choose to open it, the virus will browse through the inbox of the Microsoft Outlook e-mail program and will send a reply to every message. In addition, it will try to overwrite your files on any accessible disk drives. To protect from this and other viruses attack, users are advised to: - update/install anti-virus utility to the latest version periodically - avoid running programs obtained from un-secured source, such as download from Internet or mail attachments received from friends From mkgolden at wam.umd.edu Tue Jun 15 10:26:21 1999 From: mkgolden at wam.umd.edu (Marykate Golden) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:26:21 -0400 (EDT) Subject: coral photos Message-ID: Hello, I am looking for photos of two species of Scleractinian corals, Agaricia tenuifolia and Acropora cervicornis, in there natual environment. My searchs on the net have thus far been unfruitful. Any suggestions? Thank you all. Katie Golden From jch at aoml.noaa.gov Wed Jun 9 13:21:03 1999 From: jch at aoml.noaa.gov (coral-list-admin) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 13:21:03 -0400 Subject: Rapid Assessment of Coral Stress Using Gene Expression Message-ID: <199906151411.OAA24985@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> The following may be of interest to some of you: Broadcast Message: Ecological Assessment Research The following message is a monthly summary of one or more new documents that have been added to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Center for Environmental Research and Quality Assurance (NCERQA) Home Page (http://www.epa.gov/ncerqa). Each document is referenced by a brief summary followed by a link (URL) to the document on EPA's Enviro$en$e server. Documents in this issue include: New Items Since May 1, 1999 See the end of this message to obtain details on this and other NCERQA broadcast services as well as how to unsubscribe to this list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 18:10:24 -0400 From: "NCERQA RFA Announcements (owner account)" Subject: New Items Since May 1, 1999 The following new items have been added to the NCERQA web site for the period May 1, 1999 through June 1, 1999. Rapid Assessment of Coral Stress Using Gene Expression - 3 Kb Summary: The work proposed here seeks to apply recent advances in molecular biology to monitor stress on coral reefs and identify the most likely stressors. We propose quantifying changes in gene expression as indicators of stress from natural and anthropogenic... URL: http://es.epa.gov/ncerqa_abstracts/grants/98/envbio/snell.html A National Assessment of Low-Strearnflow Estimation Using a Physically Based Statistical Methodology - 4 Kb Summary: Unfortunately, there is no agreed upon methodology for estimating low strearnflow statistics in the United States. The current methods for estimating low strearnflow statistics are based on techniques recommended for flood frequency analyses. The method . . . . . URL: http://es.epa.gov/ncerqa_abstracts/grants/98/statistics/kroll.html Detection and Identification of the Toxins from Pfiesteria and Related Harmful Algal Blooms - 4 Kb Summary: Pfiesteria is a dinoflagellate that, when it accumulates to toxic concentrations in response to unknown stimuli, it results in huge fish-kills. Concentrate the toxins on reversed-phase C-18 HPLC columns by filtration of aquarium water, then elute fractio ... URL: http://es.epa.gov/ncerqa_abstracts/grants/98/algal/gawley.html ------------------------------ End of Ecological Assessment Research V1 #5 ******************************************* Members of this list are encouraged to use the Web interface at: http://es.epa.gov/ncerqa/elists.html to unsubscribe to this list or subscribe to other lists available on Enviro$en$e. Alternatively, you can unsubscribe to this list by sending an email message to majordomo at envirosense.com and including this text in your message: "unsubscribe ecosystm your at emailaddress" For more information on this list, send mail to majordomo at envirosense.com Include this text in your message: "info ecosystm From Jim.Hendee at noaa.gov Tue Jun 15 12:15:01 1999 From: Jim.Hendee at noaa.gov (Jim Hendee) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:15:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Artificial Reefs source Message-ID: This is by no means an endorsement, but for those of you who are still interested in artificial reefs, here is a URL that may be of some interest: http://www.artificial-reefs.com/ Cheers, Jim From jch at aoml.noaa.gov Tue Jun 15 12:17:39 1999 From: jch at aoml.noaa.gov (coral-list-admin) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:17:39 GMT Subject: Closing coral-list to new subscribers Message-ID: <199906151617.QAA26032@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Greetings, Coral-Listers! Coral-list and coral-list-digest at this time have a combined subscribership of about 1,170. I'm afraid the list will have to be closed to new subscribers until further notice, *except* by recommendation from existing members. Unfortunately, there are many bounced messages that you don't see that bog down administration of the list (e.g., "forgot how to unsubscribe", people not on the list trying to post messages, people forget to unsubscribe under their old name, etc.). If we get personnel help in the future, things will change back to the way they were (unless everybody likes it the new way). Only existing coral-list and coral-list-digest members will be able to post to the list. Please remember that this is primarily a listserver for professional coral researchers and environmental managers who have some education and experience in coral biology and/or coral reef sanctuary management. If you are an instructor and you wish for your whole class (or selected students) to be subscribed, you can send me a list of their names, if you think they will use the list properly. If you wish to do this, I would appreciate it if you remind them to read the Welcome Message carefully. Thank you for your help and support. Cheers, Jim Hendee coral-list administrator From corals at caribe.net Tue Jun 15 14:54:12 1999 From: corals at caribe.net (CORALations) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:54:12 -0400 Subject: Artificial Reefs source Message-ID: <199906151858.OAA22053@mail.caribe.net> This is also by no means an endorsement, but for those of you who are still interested in artificial reefs, here is another URL that may be of some interest. http://www.reefball.com Is it me, or do these designs bear some similarities to each other? As distributors of the Reef Ball Artificial Reef Systems in Puerto Rico, we offer a word of caution to those people working with prefabricated artificial reef. These designs are powerful fish attractors. If the projects are not strictly controlled, fish populations can be further depleted. Our experience has been that some individuals may be tempted to abuse project guidelines to establish their own private spear fishing "holes." We have seen encouraging results with transplant studies using Reef Balls, which closely resemble old Montastraea reef in appearance. We believe that the stability of Reef Balls and their flexibility in placement make them excellent tools for use in reef restoration projects involving spur-and-groove-type reefs damaged by ship groundings or hurricanes. Everything from used tires to abandoned cars and ships have been sunk in the name of creating "habitat" for fish, or interesting dive destinations. We agree that reef systems are so compromised that they can benefit from creative intervention, but based on the many problems scientists have documented regarding "trash" reefs (of the past ?) we should be very cautious when implementing new designs in such a complex ecosystem. Mary Ann Lucking Project Coordinator CORALations Amapola 14, Suite 901 Isla Verde, PR 00979 787-791-7372 corals at caribe.net > From: Jim Hendee > To: coral-list at aoml.noaa.gov > Subject: Artificial Reefs source > Date: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 12:15 PM > > > This is by no means an endorsement, but for those of you who are still > interested in artificial reefs, here is a URL that may be of some > interest: > > http://www.artificial-reefs.com/ > > Cheers, > Jim > > From mkgolden at wam.umd.edu Wed Jun 16 11:18:59 1999 From: mkgolden at wam.umd.edu (Marykate Golden) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 11:18:59 -0400 (EDT) Subject: coral photos Message-ID: To all of you have had wonderful ideas....I have found just the photos I needed. Thank you. From tsocci at usgcrp.gov Wed Jun 16 12:04:38 1999 From: tsocci at usgcrp.gov (Tony Socci) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 12:04:38 -0400 Subject: June 22nd USGCRP Seminar: "Status of the Health of Coral Reefs: An Update" Message-ID: U.S. Global Change Research Program Seminar Series Status of the Health of Coral Reefs: An Update What is known about emerging diseases and pathogens affecting the health of coral reefs worldwide? What is known about the causes of these emerging diseases? What is the relationship, if any, between the observed global climate warming and other environmental stresses, and the ability of coral ecosystems to resist and overcome diseases and pathogens (new and old) in the marine environment? How do elevated sea-surface temperatures affect coral reefs? Do coral reefs generally have a temperature threshold beyond which they can suffer injury or mortality? If so, what is that threshold? What impact did the record warmth of 1998 have on reef ecosystems? What is the suspected cause of increased amounts of dust in the tropical oceans derived from the African continent since the mid-1970s? Has this increase in dust affected the health of reef ecosystems, and if so, how? Public Invited Tuesday, June 22, 1999, 3:15-4:45 PM Hart Senate Office Bldg., Room 902 (Use the north bank of elevators on the 1st floor to get to room 902) Washington, DC Reception Following SPEAKERS: Dr. Laurie L. Richardson, Associate Professor of Biology, Florida International University, Miami, FL Dr. James W. Porter, Professor of Ecology & Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA Dr. Richard Barber, Director of the Duke University/University of North Carolina Oceanographic Consortium, Durham, NC Emerging Coral Diseases Emerging coral diseases have increased dramatically in recent years, both in terms of increases in disease outbreaks and in the occurrence of new, previously undescribed diseases, worldwide. Four coral diseases have been characterized to date. Black band disease, the first coral disease to be discovered (1973), consists of a dark line, or band, that migrates across coral tissue at rates up to 1 cm per day, completely degrading coral tissue and leaving behind bare coral skeleton. The disease consists of a specific community of bacteria that work together to produce and maintain a toxic chemical environment that kills corals. While the disease normally is present at low levels on reefs (an incidence of <1%) it is a serious threat in that it targets slow growing (<1 cm/year), reef building corals and routinely kills corals that are several hundreds to a thousand years old. In the last 5 years this disease has spread to coral reefs on a global basis. Coral plague, another bacterial disease discovered in 1977, reemerged in a new, more virulent form in 1995 on reefs of the Florida Keys. Within months it spread to infect 17 species of corals and affected over 200 km of reef tract. This is one of the most severe coral diseases in that it has been known to kill, by rapid tissue degradation, up to 38% of the most susceptible coral species in a matter of weeks. Since 1996 this disease has spread throughout the Caribbean. Aspergillosis is a newly discovered disease that affects sea fans, a soft form of coral. This fungal, lesion-producing disease is responsible for a massive sea fan die-off that occurred throughout the Caribbean and the Florida Keys, killing >90% of sea fans in regional epidemics since 1996. This disease is linked to an increased supply of dust from the African continent. The last disease, white band disease, is also responsible for massive coral die-offs via complete coral tissue degradation. It has killed over 95% of the important, shallow reef-building staghorn and elkhorn corals throughout the Caribbean and the Florida Keys, and to date, is the only disease shown to have completely restructured a long-standing coral reef (4,000 years old) in less than a decade. The white band pathogen is unknown. A number of other emerging coral diseases (red band disease, rapid wasting disease, white pox, yellow band, and others) are incompletely characterized at this time. It is known that coral diseases represent a threat to coral reefs on a global basis. While the environmental causes of these diseases are just beginning to be understood, it is clear that multiple stressors are involved. Black band and coral plague disease activities are correlated with warmer water temperatures, thus supporting the notion that a global warming is contributing to the observed increase in coral disease. Additional, recently proven stressors (for black band disease) include increased nutrients and lowered salinities, with a positive correlation of disease incidence with lower coral diversity. While the environmental factors contributing to other disease outbreaks are not known at this time, factors such as prolonged elevated water temperature, increased turbidity, increased nutrient input and lower salinity are known to increase coral susceptibility to disease. Unpredictable Effects of Global Climate Change: Coral Bleaching, Coral Disease, and Coral Response to Elevated C0-2 Corals are photosynthetic. Based on the presence of symbiotic algae within their tissues, reef-building corals produce more oxygen than they consume. Survival and reproduction of shallow-water coral is dependent on maintaining a Production/Respiration ratio in excess of one. Factors that significantly lower the P/R ratio kill corals. Like most tropical marine organisms, corals exist much closer to their upper tolerance level in terms of water temperature than to their lower tolerance level. Elevated oceanic temperatures of as little as 2.7 degrees F (1.5 degrees C) over the average summer temperature destroy the symbiotic algae resident in corals. Resultant loss of this pigmented algae causes the coral animal to become transparent, revealing the white limestone coral skeleton beneath, hence the term "coral bleaching." If bleaching persists for an extended period of time, the likely outcome is reef mortality. While several stresses can cause bleaching, virtually all known examples of mass bleaching to date have been caused by elevated water temperature. Although the onset of coral bleaching is a response to elevated water temperatures, it does not prove the existence of a global warming. However, a global climate warming best explains the recent occurrence of mass bleaching worldwide. 1998 was the warmest year on record, and recent reports from the Indian Ocean suggest that up to 70% of all corals there died as a result of these record-breaking temperatures. There is considerable concern that any additional, future global warming will cause an increase in both the frequency and severity of coral bleaching. Elevated sea surface temperatures may also contribute to an increase in the reported incidence of marine diseases from both tropical and temperate oceans. For instance, some reefs in the Florida Keys have experienced a loss of coral cover and biodiversity due to disease (caused by a host of new pathogens). As a result of extensive surveys throughout the Florida Keys it has been discovered that there has been a quadrupling of the number of stations exhibiting disease, and a tripling of the number of coral species afflicted by disease. One locality, the deep (65 feet) reef at Carysfort Light, has experienced a 62% reduction of living coral cover during the three-year survey due, in part, to coral disease. The 1995 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's "business as usual" scenario (IS92a) projects that anthropogenic production of greenhouse gases will result in a doubling of the current atmospheric C0-2 concentration from 355 ppm (parts per million) to nearly 700 ppm by the end of the next century. Recent research on corals suggests that by the middle of the next century, such elevated levels of CO-2 will reduce by 30-40%, the ability of corals (and other tropical marine organisms) to deposit their limestone skeletons and to calcifv normally. Adding to the influence of elevated C0-2 on global temperatures, new research suggests that elevated CO-2 concentrations will likely have serious consequences with regard to corals, resulting from the direct effects of elevated CO-2. The Coral Response to Climate Change Worldwide episodes of coral bleaching, coral disease outbreaks and macroalgal overgrowth of coral are increasing in frequency, intensity and range. These deleterious events occur in all regions supporting reefs including the Indo-Pacific, the Western Atlantic and the Caribbean. Surprisingly, both inhabited and uninhabited regions are affected. These recent coral reef changes have been attributed to (in order of assumed importance) global warming, oxygen starvation, sediment loading, overfishing of plant-eating animals and increased UV radiation. Only global warming and increased UV radiation (resulting from ozone depletion) have the global-scale influence that is characteristic of the scale of the coral responses observed. In addition to a global vs. local issue, there is a temporal enigma that may well provide a key to understanding causality - many changes to coral ecosystems began very abruptly in the mid-1970s. Since the mid-1970s there have been increases in the frequency, intensity and range of outbreaks of a wide spectrum of "invader" micro-organisms, including numerous pathogens that affect coral, other invertebrates, amphibians and humans, and outbreaks of harmful algal blooms. Global warming has a complex relationship to coral bleaching. Bleaching occurs during episodes of elevated temperature that appear to be the result of a combination of natural phenomena and human-induced changes to the climate system. Global warming appears to elevate seasonal temperatures while natural, short-lived climate phenomena such as El Nino, add to the new seasonal maxima resulting in temperatures that can be lethal to coral ecosystems, especially if sustained over a significant increment of time. Thus, the combined effects of a long-term climate warming, superimposed on the operation of short-term climate phemonena like El Nino, seem to best explain the current epidemic of coral bleaching which was especially widespread in 1998. These complex interactions are likely involved in the increased incidence of disease outbreaks because bleaching weakens the coral's ability to resist pathogens or competitors. In addition, the observed global mean temperature increase may now be acting in concert with other recent climate-induced changes. For example, around 1976 there was a relatively abrupt climate shift in the Northern Hemisphere that was reflected most clearly in the change in the North Pacific and North Atlantic pressure systems. One consequence of this shift was a prolonged drought in the Sahel region of Africa that resulted in an increase by about a factor of five, the global supply of dust in the atmosphere. Because this dust is iron-rich, and because the productivity in tropical oceans is ordinarily limited by the lack of iron (which also serves as a nutrient in tropical waters), its transport to typically iron-poor regions of the tropical oceans leads to the reduction or removal of an otherwise natural limitation or check on microbial growth. Thus, this extra supply of iron may have spurred the growth of a variety of invader organisms harmful to coral ecosystems. The timing of this increased supply of atmospheric dust may help account for the peculiar timing of the change in the rate of disease outbreaks in coral ecosystems beginning in the mid-1970s. As scientists struggle to understand the plight of coral, several ideas seem particularly noteworthy: 1) In order to better understand the global decline in coral it will be necessary to investigate coral ecosystems, global warming and marine diseases and pathogens simultaneously, as a system, as opposed to isolated, unrelated pieces. 2) Anthropogenic climate change and natural climate variability occurring together may produce a biological response that is quite different from that of either process taken alone. 3) Significant ecological changes are probably already underway in the ocean. In order to better understand and predict the response of marine ecosystems, diseases and pathogens to climate-induced changes, it will be necessary to gain a better understanding of marine ecosystems and biological processes, and incorporate that knowledge into a more integrated climate model. Even more fundamentally, complex environmental problems such as this, require a research plan that is both strategic and integrated - a systems approach. Biographies Dr. Laurie L.Richardson is an Associate Professor of Biology at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, FL. Prior to her arrival at FIU in 1990, she spent three years in the Ecosystems Science and Technology Branch of NASA's Ames Research Center, California, first as a National Research Council Fellow and then as a senior research scientist. Dr. Richardson's area of specialization is the relationship between microorganisms and the aquatic environment. She is particularly interested in how microbial metabolism affects aquatic chemistry, and the environmental cues that control the behavioral and mobility patterns of microorganisms. Her research has been conducted in hot spring outflows, lakes, hypersaline ponds, coastal and estuarine environments, and most recently coral reefs. In recent years Dr.Richardson has focused her research efforts on identifying and understanding the biological mechanisms associated with coral diseases. This work involves characterizing pathogens of newly emerging coral diseases, determining the interactions between coral disease and reef degradation (reef stresses), and investigating the relationships between environmental perturbations and coral disease incidence. She is also actively involved in research in the area of remote sensing of aquatic ecosystems, including coral reefs. Dr. Richardson received her Ph.D. in microbial ecology and physiology in 1985, at the University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. Dr. James W. Porter is Professor of Ecology and Marine Sciences in the Institute of Ecology at the University of Georgia. After teaching at the University of Michigan from 1973 to 1997, he joined the faculty at the University of Georgia, where he has won both the University's Outstanding Teaching Award and Creative Research Award. Dr. Porter has also served as Editor of Ecology and Ecological Monographs from 1974 to 1978, as Graduate Coordinator for the Institute of Ecology from 1990 until 1997, and as Associate Director for the Institute from 1993 to 1997. He was later selected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Porter has also been called upon to testify before Congress on several occasions, most recently on coral reef conservation issues and the effects of global climate change on coral reefs. He is currently collaborating with the US Environmental Protection Agency on long-term monitoring of coral reefs, studying the distribution of coral diseases from Key Largo, Florida to the Dry Tortugas. Dr. Porter received his B.S. degree from Yale in 1969, and his Ph.D. from Yale in 1973. Dr. Richard T. Barber is the Harvey W. Smith Professor of Biological Oceanography in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. He also serves as director of the Duke/University of North Carolina Oceanographic Consortium, a program that operates R/V Cape Hatteras. Dr. Barber's research focuses on the interrelationship of large-scale thermal dynamics and oceanic productivity, emphasizing how biological/physical coupling contributes to partitioning of carbon between the ocean and the atmosphere. His interests also lie in the role of iron in the regulation of primary production in Antarctic waters as well as the equatorial Pacific. His interest in the global decline of coral reef ecosystems stems from observations on the apparent relationship between episodic influxes of iron to outbreaks of marine "invader" organisms. Dr. Barber has chaired numerous advisory and editorial committees related to national and global research programs. He served as an advisor on the NASA SeaWiFS (Sea-Viewing Wide-Field Sensor) Science Team and Review Panel and on the U. S. JGOFS (Joint Global Ocean Flux Study) Synthesis & Modeling Project. On behalf of the National Academy of Sciences, he served on the Committee on Ocean's Role in Global Change, the TOGA (Tropical Oceans and Global Atmosphere) Advisory Panel, and the International Ocean Science Policy Committee. Dr. Barber's honors and awards include the John Holland Martin Medal of Excellence from Stanford University, the National Science Foundation Creativity Award, the Rosenstiel Award in Oceanographic Science from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, and the Ecology Institute's Prize in Marine Ecology. He is a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, and the California Academy of Science. Dr. Barber received his B. S. in zoology and botany at Utah State University in 1962, and a Ph.D. in biological science at Stanford University in 1967. He later a postdoctoral fellowship at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) from 1967-1968, was an Assistant Scientist at WHOI in 1969, and joined Duke University in 1970, as an Associate Professor. From 1987 to 1990, he was the founding Executive Director of Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, and in 1990, he rejoined Duke University as the Harvey W. Smith Professor of Biological Oceanography. The Next Seminar is scheduled for Tuesday, July 20, 1999 Tentative Topic: Origin, Impact, and Implications of the "Dead Zone" in the Gulf of Mexico For more information please contact: Anthony D. Socci, Ph.D., U.S. Global Change Research Program Office, 400 Virginia Ave. SW, Suite 750, Washington, DC 20024; Telephone: (202) 314-2235; Fax: (202) 488-8681 E-Mail: TSOCCI at USGCRP.GOV. Additional information on the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and this Seminar Series is available on the USGCRP Home Page at: http://www.usgcrp.gov. A complete archive of seminar summaries can also be found at this site. Normally these seminars are held on the second Monday of each month. From mickyfit at club-internet.fr Thu Jun 17 03:59:21 1999 From: mickyfit at club-internet.fr (Micky Schoelzke) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 09:59:21 +0200 Subject: Nitrates and iron on coral reefs Message-ID: <000201beb897$6a4f31a0$f3ac24c3@home> Hi coral-listers, I was wondering whether anybody had found some high nitrate concentrations on coral reefs (1 to 2 ?M). In which specific areas and under what conditions. What about high concentrations of iron (over 1nM). What were the effects on coral metabolism? Thanks in advance, Micky V. SCHOELZKE mickyfit at club-internet.fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Apparently Americans are failing to ensure that their collective voice is being heard with respect to these issues; perhaps folks here are just not aware of the present precarious status of many coral reefs. Anyone who is a U.S. citizen and wishes increased funding for NOAA's reef research/survey/restoration projects is urged to contact his/her respective federal legislators and briefly explain the many economic, ecological, societal, aesthetic etc., reasons for conserving reefs, both in US waters and abroad. Judy Lang -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/pipermail/coral-list-old/attachments/19990617/3d304de0/attachment.html From Stephanie_Bailenson at commerce.senate.gov Thu Jun 17 13:24:56 1999 From: Stephanie_Bailenson at commerce.senate.gov (Stephanie Bailenson) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:24:56 -0400 Subject: Support for coral reef studies in the US Message-ID: <00226539.C22123@commerce.senate.gov> Dear Coral-Listers, While not a direct response to Judy's posting about coral funding, I wanted to bring to your attention a bill currently being considered in the US Senate. S. 725, the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 1999, was introduced on March 24, 1999 by Senators Snowe and McCain. In response to concerns about the declining conditions of coral reefs and the identification of needs raised by the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force and in the ICRI Renewed Call to Action, this bill focuses on community based conservation. The Subcommittee on Oceans and Fisheries has scheduled a hearing on June 30, 1999 to discuss S. 725. If you would like to see the bill you can download it at . The Senate homepage has a prompt for a bill search where you can input the bill number S. 725. I invite you all to take a look. Stephanie Bailenson Stephanie Bailenson Professional Staff Subcommittee on Oceans and Fisheries 428 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Ph:202-224-8172 Fx:202-228-0326 stephanie_bailenson at commerce.senate.gov ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: Support for coral reef studies in the US Author: Judith Lang & Lynton Land at Internet Date: 6/17/99 11:12 AM Dear Coral-Listers, As many of you in the US will have heard by now, the initial Senate committee budgets for NOAA in FY2000 contain no new funds for the coral reef-related projects that were requested by senior NOAA personnel! Although certain activities at the University of Hawaii and the National Coral Reef Institute in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, are apparently receiving favorable consideration, not being funded are other areas of NOAA's Lands Legacy Initiative (see http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s108.htm and http://192.64.69.47/BudgetRequest2000.htm). Apparently Americans are failing to ensure that their collective voice is being heard with respect to these issues; perhaps folks here are just not aware of the present precarious status of many coral reefs. Anyone who is a U.S. citizen and wishes increased funding for NOAA's reef research/survey/restoration projects is urged to contact his/her respective federal legislators and briefly explain the many economic, ecological, societal, aesthetic etc., reasons for conserving reefs, both in US waters and abroad. Judy Lang -------------- next part -------------- Re: Support for coral reef studies in the US Dear Coral-Listers,
As many of you in the US will have heard by now, the initial Senate committee budgets for NOAA in FY2000 contain no new funds for the coral reef-related projects that were requested by senior NOAA personnel!

Although certain activities at the University of Hawaii and the National Coral Reef Institute in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, are apparently receiving favorable consideration, not being funded are other areas of NOAA's Lands Legacy Initiative (see http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s108.htm and  
http://192.64.69.47/BudgetRequest2000.htm).

Apparently Americans are failing to  ensure that their collective voice is being heard with respect to these issues; perhaps folks here are just not aware of the present precarious status of many coral reefs. Anyone who is a U.S. citizen and wishes increased funding for NOAA's reef research/survey/restoration projects is urged to contact his/her respective federal legislators and briefly explain the many economic, ecological, societal, aesthetic etc., reasons for conserving reefs, both in US waters and abroad.  
Judy Lang

 From d.fenner at aims.gov.au Fri Jun 18 00:18:55 1999 From: d.fenner at aims.gov.au (Doug Fenner) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 14:18:55 +1000 Subject: Hawaii State of Reefs Report Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19990618141855.006e91e8@email.aims.gov.au> Coralisters, An excellent new release is "Hawaii's State of the Reefs Report (1998)". Its 41 pages are full of vivid graphics and pictures, interesting and important information (find out how much the state's reefs are worth- hint: it's in the billions!). Lots of great ideas of what such reports can contain. I highly recommend it. Copies are US$5, and can be obtained from: DLNR Division of Aqauatic Resources 1151 Punchbowl St. rm. 330 Honolulu, HI 96813 USA _____________________________ -Doug (I don't have copies) Douglas Fenner, Ph.D. Coral Taxonomist Australian Institute of Marine Science PMB No 3 Townsville MC Queensland 4810 Australia phone 07 4753 4241 e-mail: d.fenner at aims.gov.au web: http://www.aims.gov.au From carlson at soest.hawaii.edu Fri Jun 18 17:17:28 1999 From: carlson at soest.hawaii.edu (Bruce Carlson) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:17:28 -1000 Subject: internet corals Message-ID: <199906200337.DAA19945@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> For those of you who were following the growth of the corals on the live = camera on our web site, the coral has outgrown the picture so we will be = replacing it with a different species. Between April 5 and today (June = 18) the Montipora digitata grew 27 mm in height and now completely = covers the metric ruler placed in the picture. That represents 27mm / = 74 days =3D 0.36 mm/day or 13.32 cm on an annual basis. We may try a larger-polyped coral, e.g., Caulastrea furcata when we = re-set up the project later this month or in July. Bruce Carlson Waikiki Aquarium From fpl10 at calva.net Sun Jun 20 03:28:43 1999 From: fpl10 at calva.net (Fabrice POIRAUD-LAMBERT) Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 09:28:43 +0200 (MET DST) Subject: Back from Fiji Message-ID: Hi All, I'm just back from Fiji, and some of you asked me to provide some data, so here are some. Warning : - The following comments are only based on observations I did (with almost no tools other than my deep meter, temp meter, and my reef aquarist & Diver knowledge). - They are only relevant for the Rainbow reef (between Vanua Levu & Taveuni islands), because I didn't have the chance to dive elsewhere. - These information have been gathered during 20 dives and by talking to local people. - This report is for the period 5/06/99 - 17/06/99 - About coral problems reported below, I assume the following, based on my experience : - a white coral skeleton implies a death since less than 1 week - a light yellow coral skeleton implies a death between 1 and 2 weeks (yellow color is given by growth of small filamentous algae) Overall report : - The Rainbow reef seems to suffered a lot during the last hurricanes : 40% of the dive sites have been distroyed, some were displaying large colonies of Turbinaria reniformis (more than one meter high). However, according to divers I met and that were also in Fiji 3 years ago, it seems that this reef has improved (more corals, more bigger fishes) - I have seen the following corals problems on every sites I went : * Acanthaster planci : some sites (like the LEDGE) are highly attacked. I would say that 20% of the hard corals have been parlty or completely attacked in less than 2 (?) weeks (many skeletons still show a pure white color). Some Professional Divers try to slow down this problem by manualy removing Acanthaster from the reef each time they can. * (R)TN : Aside the Acanthaster attacks, I have seen what I called (Rapid) Tissue Necrosis, with a Question Mark on "Rapid" because the only clue I have to say that it's rapid is the skeleton color (pure white). I have to say that I have seen Snails' Attacks also, but their impact seems to me different than what I have seen. So, many species are suffering from this (R)TN, which can be described by a loss of tissue starting from the base of the small polyped colonies : - Seriatopora histrix (highly suffering) - Acropora sp (highly suffering) - Pocillopora sp - Stylophora sp - Herpolitha limax - Distichopora & Millepora (28 m depth) - Tubastrea micrantha on some sites, some colonies have stopped their (R)TN (white skeleton was no more visible). I would say that (R)TN started early May 99. There was no WBD, RBD, BBD visible on these colonies... * Bleaching : Many species are partly or completly bleached. However, bleaching is very low compared to (R)TN and Acanthaster attacks, and only few colonies are showing a bleaching : - Montipora danae - Acropora sp (only on a site in shallow water (less than 10 m depth) just near the cost : the rains could be the cause) - Platygyra daedalea (shallow reefs) - Sinularia (20 m depth) The water temp was 26-27? C. It was raining quite often. The visibility is often equal or under 15 m. - Sites show between less than 5% to 100% coral coverage on shallow parts (10 to 4 m depth). On some sites, many new hard coral colonies (Acropora, Pocilloporidae, Montipora, Porites,...) are visible (meaning less than 10 cm high). On a old dead Acropora table, 1 meter square, I counted about 15 different young colonies. - high growth rate on SPS is visible, according to tips color. - 1 site has been reconstructed 5 years ago by a biologist => Acropora colonies are now 1 meter high and are covering hundreds of square meters. Conclusion : I've been a bit disappointed by the sites I have seen. I would have bet that they were amazing, but despite a Great SPS diversity in some (few) sites, I found them less rich than what I have seen in Philippines for both Fish and corals. But this conclusion could be false for all the other reefs of Fiji !! I'll have soon some underwater photos developped that show (R)TN and bleaching, for the ones who want them. If some of you can explain to me what could be the cause of the (R)TN I saw in Fiji, but also in other countries, that would be great ! Hope this helps Best Regards Fabrice POIRAUD-LAMBERT http://mars.reefkeepers.net From Kaimasa at aol.com Mon Jun 21 11:51:57 1999 From: Kaimasa at aol.com (Kaimasa at aol.com) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:51:57 EDT Subject: Coral losing funding Message-ID: <199906221039.KAA40163@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> ---------------------- Forwarded by Suesan Saucerman/R9/USEPA/US on 06/21/99 08:42 AM --------------------------- Wendy Wiltse 06/18/99 08:08 PM To: dgulko at dar.ccmail.compuserve.com, ASEPA at samoatelco.com, Suesan Saucerman/R9/USEPA/US at EPA cc: Subject: [Fwd: Coral Reef Federal Funding] ---------------------- Forwarded by Wendy Wiltse/R9/USEPA/US on 06/18/99 08:06 PM --------------------------- allen.tom at noaa.gov on 06/18/99 05:17:57 AM Please respond to allen.tom at noaa.gov To: carol.Carey at noaa.gov, Naomi.Mcintosh at noaa.gov, Kellie.Araki at noaa.gov, Claire.Cappelle at noaa.gov, Cindy.Hylkema at noaa.gov, Jean.Souza at noaa.gov, Kellie.Araki at noaa.gov, kale at maui.net, wild at aloha.net, pmiller at k12.hi.us, walterh at aloha.net, kayaking at maui.net, rpoirier at dbedt.hawaii.gov, nachtig at nosc.mil, lherman at hawaii.edu, captcoon at gte.net, claud at aloha.net, egardner at iniki.soest.hawaii.edu, Jharrigan at eha.health.state.hi.us, Robert.Schroeder at noaa.gov, billf at ceros.org, Wendy Wiltse/R9/USEPA/US at EPA, kbeasley at cleanislands.com, greg at pacificwhale.org, ocean at lava.net, eugene.nitta at noaa.gov, harep at hula.net, cmacdona at dbedt.hawaii.gov, mtosatto at d14.uscg.mil, Brady.Phillips at ocrmhq.nos.noaa.gov, Stephanie.Thornton at ocrmhq.nos.noaa.gov, Nancy.Daschbach at noaa.gov, athline at aloha.net cc: Subject: [Fwd: Coral Reef Federal Funding] > ALOHA We have been advised by margaret Cummisky in Senator Inouye's > office that the Republicans in the Senate were successful in cutting all > funding for coral reef activities that was under the Lands Legacy > Program in the President's year 2000. Funding was suppose to be used to > preserve the health and stability of coral reef ecosystems in the > Western, Central Pacific. > The funding ($10 million per year for five years) would have supported, > in part, our U.S. Islands Coral Reef Initiative plan. WE MUST SAVE THIS > PROGRAM. We all have put too much work into the effort to loose now. > Please encourage your Governors to get involved. much mahalo > > We recommend that letters of support for restoration of the funds be > sent immediately to the following: > > The Honorable Trent Lott, Senate Majority Leader, S-230 Capitol > Building, Washington, D.C. 20510-7010 > The Honorable Tom Dascher, Senate Minority Leader, S-221 Capitol > Building, Washington, D.C. 20510-7020 > > The Honorable J. Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House, H232 Capitol > Building, Washington D.C> 20515-6501 > The Honorable Richard A. Gephardt, House Minority Leaders, H-204 Capitol > Building, Washington, D.C. 20515-6537 > > The Honorable Ted Stevens, Chairman, Senate Appropriations Committee, > S-128 Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. 20510-6025 > > The Honorable Robert C. Byrd, Ranking Minority Member above> > > The Honorable Judd Gregg, Chairman, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, > State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies, Senate Appropriations > Committee, S-146A Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. 20510-6027 > > The Honorable Ernest F. Hollings, Ranking Minority Member, subcommittee and address as above> > > The Honorable C.W. Bill Young, Chairman, House Committee on > Appropriations, H218 Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. 20515-6015 > > The Honorable David Obey, Ranking Minority Member > > The Honorable Harold Rogers, Chairman, Subcommittee on Commerce, > Justice, State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies, House Committee on > Appropriations > > They also strongly encouraged letters to both the Hawaii full > congressional delegation as well as the delegates from Guam and American > Samoa and CNMI's Representative. Copies of all letters should be faxed > to Senator Inouye (202) 224-6747. > > Senator Inouye is planning to start a round of meetings early next week > to try and get funding back in. > > -- > Jerry B. Norris > Executive Director > Pacific Basin Development Council > 711 Kapiolani Blvd. #1075 > Honolulu, HI 96813-5214 > (808) 596-7229 Fax (808) 596-7249 -- Allen Tom 726 S. Kihei Rd. Kihei HI 96753 808-879-2818 voice 808-874-3815 fax allen.tom at noaa.gov From osha at pobox.com Wed Jun 23 10:25:59 1999 From: osha at pobox.com (Osha Gray Davidson) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:25:59 -0500 Subject: Support NOAA's Reef Work Message-ID: <4.1.19990623091336.009a9880@mail> Dear Coral-Listers, As a follow-up on Jerry Norris's request for letters of support for Senator Inouye's effort to locate funding for programs that are already within NOAA's mandate but which did not receive funding, we would like to draw your attention to the following: 1. The House appropriators have not yet introduced the Commerce, Justice, and State appropriations bill, which includes all NOAA activities, of which the following are particularly relevant: National Marine Sanctuaries: $29 million to strengthen protections at 12 marine sanctuaries off California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Texas, Washington, and American Samoa, plan for future marine sanctuaries, and expand outreach activities with coastal communities. Coral reef restoration: $10.3 million to protect coral reefs from pollution and other human impacts and, in conjunction with the Department of the Interior, attempt to restore injured reefs in Puerto Rico, Florida, Hawaii and U.S. territories, and develop a coral nursery to grow donor material for restoration projects. Bill Young of Florida is the Chair of this committee. To encourage the House to support the proposal, write Rep. Young, send a copy to your state representative (and others listed by Norris). Representative C.W. Bill Young Chair, Committee on Appropriations H218 The Capitol Washington, DC 20515 202-225-5961 (V) 202-225-9764 (F) 2. Complementary but different funding is potentially available in Senate Bill S. 725, the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 1999, which is focused on community based conservation and includes $4 million in authorizations. A matching mechanism could double the amount! To voice your support, don't delay, because the Subcommittee on Oceans and Fisheries's hearing is scheduled next week, on June 30. Write a letter to Senator Snowe, who is the Subcommittee's Chair, asking to have your written testimony included in the hearing record, and send a copy to your own state senator. Senator Olympia J. Snowe Chair, Subcommittee on Oceans and Fisheries 250 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Olympia at snowe.senate.gov 202-224-5344. Thanks for your attention! Judy Lang and Osha Gray Davidson From raronson at jaguar1.usouthal.edu Wed Jun 23 22:02:06 1999 From: raronson at jaguar1.usouthal.edu (Richard B. Aronson) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 21:02:06 -0500 (CDT) Subject: 9icrs mini-symposia Message-ID: Dear All, The following message from David Hopley is a call for suggestions for mini-symposia at the Bali meeting. Please correspond with David directly; his email address is listed at the bottom of the message. Regards, Rich Aronson Corresponding Secretary, ISRS 9ICRS Scientific Programme Committee Call for Mini Symposium Topics The Ninth International Coral Reef Symposium is scheduled for 23-27 October 2000 in Bali and arrangements for a successful conference are well underway. For details and updated information visit our website at: http://www.nova.edu/ocean/9icrs Whilst the in-country arrangements are being made by our colleagues in Indonesia, the scientific programme is being co-ordinated by a committee set up by the International Society for Reef Studies. This call for mini-symposia topics comes from that committee. A traditional and highly successful part of previous international Coral Reef Symposia has been the practice of conducting mini-symposia within the main programme, which focus on important and topical issues. Persons interested in leading a mini-symposia and taking responsibility for organising peer-review of papers within that mini-symposia should complete Form 4 available on the website or contact the Scientific Programme Committee Chair, Dr. David Hopley, directly. Contact details are shown below. Examples of mini symposia topics from previous meetings can be obtained from the published Proceedings of the Symposia. Many of the issues highlighted by these topics may still be highly relevant but imaginative new topics will be most welcome. Please note that the final date for submission of Mini-Symposia to the Scientific Programme committee is 30 July 1999. Subsequently the committee will review proposals and put like minded proposers in contact with each other with a view to amalgamation, where appropriate, by 15 September 1999. It is hoped to have a draft programme of Mini-Symposia ready by mid October 1999 with a final programme of Mini-Symposia advertised on the home page by mid November 1999. We look forward to your imaginative and enthusiastic responses. Dr. David Hopley Chair Scientific Programme C/- CRC Reef Research Centre James Cook University Townsville Qld 4811 AUSTRALIA Fax: +61 7 4779 1400 Email: David.Hopley at ultra.net.au From cshumway at neaq.org Wed Jun 23 16:15:50 1999 From: cshumway at neaq.org (Caroly Shumway) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:15:50 -0400 Subject: experimental simulation of eutrophication and sedimentation Message-ID: <199906241710.RAA39296@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Dear fellow Coral-listers, I am just about to begin experiments looking at the effects of eutrophication and sedimentation on visually guided behavior in damselfish. This begins a long-term research effort on the importance of behavior in aquatic conservation (Shumway, 1999). I wondered if anyone had suggestions or references for how to mimic eutrophication and sedimentation in an experimental tank? Also, does anyone have suggestions on dealers that can help me quickly obtain Acanthochromis polyacanthis? Many thanks in advance! I'll post the answers. Sincerely, Dr. Caroly Shumway From lt at travelin.com Thu Jun 24 18:00:52 1999 From: lt at travelin.com (LT) Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 17:00:52 -0500 Subject: Thermal Tolerance? Message-ID: <001d01bebe8d$089c9be0$03000004@bigfoot> Hello: My name is Lloyd Thorndyke, and I am interested in any information that is available about temperature tolerance in corals. Specifically, what species are tolerant and intolerant of temperature fluctuations. Thanks in advance, Lloyd -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/pipermail/coral-list-old/attachments/19990624/ed4bae37/attachment.html From Jim.Hendee at noaa.gov Fri Jun 25 07:30:50 1999 From: Jim.Hendee at noaa.gov (Jim Hendee) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 07:30:50 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Coral Reef Protection Act of 1999 Message-ID: Greetings, Coral-Listers, In case you're interested, you can see the bill introduced into the U.S. Senate by Senator Inouye (Hawaii) and others on June 21, 1999 called the Coral Reef Protection Act of 1999 by searching for bill number S.1253 at www.senate.gov. From jacques at uclink4.berkeley.edu Fri Jun 25 13:59:59 1999 From: jacques at uclink4.berkeley.edu (Sarah Christie) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:59:59 -0800 Subject: GBRMPA Message-ID: Anyone know the email address ofr GBRMPA? Thanks Sarah Christie Program Coordinator MARE Lawrence Hall of Science University California, Berkeley Ca 94720 Ph. 510-642-5008 Fax. 510-642-1055 From howzit at turtles.org Sun Jun 27 13:13:28 1999 From: howzit at turtles.org (Ursula Keuper-Bennett) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 13:13:28 -0400 Subject: Cladophora "side effects" (if any) Message-ID: <4.1.19990627124308.00a9f420@pop.vex.net> Hi all, I am a lay person/recreational diver. My husband and I dive each summer in ocean off Honokowai, West Maui, Hawaii. This area is blighted by such noxious seaweeds as Hypnea musciformis since 1991. We also fell victim to three Cladophora blooms. One in 1989, another (the worst) in 1991 and then a "hiccup" in '92. Last summer after many years of not seeing this green stuff, our dive site experienced its fourth Cladophora bloom. I'm hoping someone has had experience with the "artifacts" of Cladophora blooms on a coral reef system. We already know this stuff can suffocate corals (that happened in our first bloom of 1989). Has anyone documented the effect a Cladophora bloom has on various fauna? We'll be diving this area again very soon and would appreciate a heads-up on just what potential effects to look for a year after such a bloom. Our old videotape from previous blooms suggests that one species of fish actually prospered during the blooms. But we also figure perhaps the effects can work the other way--negative impacts as well. And for all we know we could find on our first dive that the green slime is back for another kick at the kat! Any advice on the Cladophora "Experience" would be much appreciated. And also a very strange question...which is better? A Cladophora bloom that eventually fades away or one that "crashes" and disappears within 48 hours (that happened to us last summer and in 1992). Thanks in advance. ------------------------------------------------- ^ Ursula Keuper-Bennett 0 0 mailto: howzit at turtles.org /V^\ /^V\ /V Turtle Trax V\ http://www.turtles.org / \ Islands French Frigate Shoals Green sea turtles nest there Twenty-fifth Anniversary Silver --Patrick H. (age 12) \ / cinquaine poetry / \ / \ /__| V |__\ malama na honu From lizard at amsg.austmus.gov.au Mon Jun 21 20:13:58 1999 From: lizard at amsg.austmus.gov.au (lizard) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:13:58 +1100 Subject: Lizard Island Doctoral Fellowship 2000 Message-ID: <199906221328.NAA40165@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> LIZARD ISLAND RESEARCH STATION GREAT BARRIER REEF, AUSTRALIA Applications are now invited for the 2000 Lizard Island Doctoral Fellowship. The Fellowship provides funding for field work and equipment for a PhD student whose thesis research is based on coral reefs, of which a significant portion will be based at the Lizard Island Research Station. It is worth up to A$6,000 per year for up to three years. Funds for the first year of the 2000 Fellowship will be available in March 2000. For detailed information and application guidelines, see: www.austmus.gov.au/science/projects/lizard/lizfello.htm Applications close on 1 October 1999 __________________________________________________________________ Dr Anne Hoggett and Dr Lyle Vail, Directors Lizard Island Research Station PMB 37 Cairns QLD 4871 Australia Phone and fax: + 61 (0)7 4060-3977 lizard at amsg.austmus.gov.au http://www.austmus.gov.au/science/projects/lizard/index.htm _________________________________________________________________ From abemariko at wwf.or.jp Mon Jun 28 03:19:33 1999 From: abemariko at wwf.or.jp (abemariko) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 16:19:33 +0900 Subject: GBRMPA References: Message-ID: <37772205.971BB28C@wwf.or.jp> Dear Sarah Christie? > Anyone know the email address ofr GBRMPA? Thanks Their homepage URL is;http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/ e-mail address of rep. is; registry at gbrmpa.gov.au I hope above info helps. Mariko Abe webmaster WWF Japan http://wwfjapan.aaapc.co.jp