Revista de Biologia Tropical : e- version

[Yael BenHaim]

Hi to all coral listers,
Thanks a lot to all that answered me and helped me. 
I got the accessible electronic version of this
journal. The internet site is :

http://www.biologia.ucr.ac.cr/
7Erbt/tbonline/annosi.htm
 
By.

Yael Ben - Haim
Dept. of Microbiology and Biotechnology
Tel Aviv University
Israel


--- owner-coral-list-daily at coral.aoml.noaa.gov wrote:
> 
> coral-list-daily            Sunday, 9 April 2000    
>    Volume 01 : Number 014
> 
> In this issue:
> 
> 		Mlle Blandine Mélis
> 		April 12th Global Change Seminar
> 		Fiji bleaching event
> 
>
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> 
> From: "blandine melis" <bmelis at hotmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 02:08:43 PDT
> Subject: Mlle Blandine Mélis
> 
> Dear Coral-Listers,
> 
> 	Having recently completed my postgraduate diploma
> (bac +5) in Biology and 
> the affects of human and natural activities at the
> Sea’s ecosystems at the 
> University of Marseille (France). I Completed this
> formation in January 2000 
> by the seminar “Coral reef Ecology and litoral
> tropical field ”EPHE, 
> Perpignan University (France).
> 
> During the last three years, I have gained
> experience in working in both 
> France and abroad with coral reef research centers
> as a scientist and as a 
> diver. This has given me sound theoretical knowledge
> and has allowed me to 
> acquire practical skills in order to preserve and
> survey the coral reff 
> ecosystem.
> 
> I am looking for a position in a team where I will
> be involved in the 
> prevention of environmental damage and also to make
> people more aware of the 
> necessity to preserve this area.
> 
> 	If there is any interest in my proposal, I will
> very pleased to send you my 
> curriculum vitae.
> 
> Many things in advance, Yours faithfully            
>    Blandine Mélis
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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> ------------------------------
> 
> From: Tony Socci <tsocci at usgcrp.gov>
> Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 13:13:38 GMT
> Subject: April 12th Global Change Seminar
> 
>          U.S. Global Change Research Program Seminar
> Series
> 
>         The Record of Surface Warming in the 20th
> Century:
>                 Recent Observations and Model
> Results
> 
> 
> What does the borehole record of temperature change
> tells us about climate
> change, particularly in the 20th century?  Is the
> borehole record of
> temperature change at the Earth's surface consistent
> with recent
> observations of temperature change and other proxy
> records of past
> temperature changes, regionally and globally?  From
> an observational
> perspective, what are the most notable changes in
> the surface temperature
> in the 20th Century, especially in the U.S.?  From a
> modeling perspective,
> can the warming of the 20th Century be attributed
> entirely to natural
> climate variability?  Are the regional and global
> warming trends consistent
> with a climate change resulting, in part, from a
> buildup of greenhouse
> gases?
> 
> 
>                                     Public Invited
> 
>                  Wednesday, April 12, 2000,
> 3:15-4:45 PM
>                    Dirksen Senate Office Bldg., Room
> 138
>                                     Washington, DC
> 
>                                  Reception Following
> 
> 
> INTRODUCTION:
> 
> Michael E. Mann, Department of Environmental
> Sciences, University of
> Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
> 
> SPEAKERS:
> 
> Henry N. Pollack, Professor of Geophysics,
> Department of Geological
> Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
> 
> David Easterling, Principal Scientist, National
> Climatic Data Center,
> National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
> Asheville, NC
> 
> Thomas R. Knutson, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
> Laboratory (GFDL), National
> Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Princeton,
> NJ
> 
> 
> Temperature Trends Over the Past Five Centuries
> Reconstructed from
>                          Subsurface Temperatures
> 
> Temperature changes that occur at the Earth's
> surface propagate slowly
> downward into the rocks beneath the surface.  Thus,
> rock temperatures at
> shallow depths provide evidence of changes that have
> occurred at the
> surface in the recent past.  The pace of heat
> transfer in rocks is such
> that the past 500 years of surface temperature
> history is imprinted on and
> contained within the upper 500 meters of the Earth's
> crust.
> 
> Analyses of underground temperature measurements
> from more than six
> hundred boreholes from all continents except
> Antarctica show that:
> 
> * The global average ground surface temperature has
> increased by at least
> 0.9 degrees F (0.5 degrees C) in the 20th century.
> This is a conservative
> estimate of the century-long rate of warming because
> many boreholes used
> in this study were drilled and logged 15 to 20 years
> ago, prior to the
> extraordinary warming of the final decades of the
> 20th century.
> 
> * The 20th century has been the warmest century of
> the last five centuries.
> 
> * The present-day mean temperature is at least 1.8
> degree F (1.0 degree C)
> warmer than five centuries ago; of this change about
> half has occurred in
> the 20th century alone, and 80% has occurred since
> the year 1800.
> 
> The five-century change can be thought of as a time-
> and space-averaged
> overall measure of climate sensitivity (the response
> of the global mean
> surface temperature to changes in climate forcing
> factors over this time
> interval).
> 
> These interpretations provide an historical
> perspective that indicates that
> the 20th century has not been just another century
> in terms of temperature
> change.  In the context of the five-century interval
> investigated, the 20th
> century is clearly unusual.
> 
> 
> 
>          Observed Temperature Changes in the 20th
> Century
> 
> Changes in Temperature Extremes
> 
> One of several pieces of evidence used to gauge
> climate change is an
> increase in extreme climate events.  The two types
> of extremes examined
> 
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