From Bprecht at pbsj.com Mon Apr 1 10:12:08 2002 From: Bprecht at pbsj.com (Precht, Bill) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 09:12:08 -0600 Subject: Black Water killing Coral Message-ID: Dear Coral List: This is the most recent news flash on the ongoing "black water" event in south Florida. From this its hard to see where the science starts and the hype ends and visa versa. None the less, the event whether natural or man induced (or enhanced) is disturbing. William F. Precht, P.G. Ecological Sciences Program Manager PBS&J 2001 NW 107th Avenue Miami, FL 33172 305-592-7275 fax:305-594-9574 1-800-597-7275 bprecht at pbsj.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Divers find evidence of black water's devastation Monday, April 1, 2002 Naples Daily News http://www.naplesnews.com/02/04/naples/d485365a.htm By CATHY ZOLLO, crzollo at naplesnews.com Dead and dying sponges crumbled in Ken Nedimyer's hand as he made his way along the bottom of the Northwest Channel off Key West last week. Nearby, brain corals had recently died or were dying as well, the tiny animals that build the corals decaying in their chambers. Not everything was affected, but other corals normally golden brown had an odd white crust on them, Nedimyer noted last week and in dives over recent days since black water from the Southwest Florida coast bathed the keys. "I've seen these corals under every imaginable circumstance, from 55 degree water to 90 degree water, from calm, clear sea conditions to rough cloudy conditions, and I've never seen them look quite like this," Nedimyer said. He's been diving the keys since the 1970s, collecting sea life for his business and growing heartsick over the declining state of the coral reefs while doing it. He's seen the effects of an explosion in coral diseases and the impact of human activity all around the reefs. Entire sections have been nearly stripped of live corals and taken over by algae. What he's seen since the black water moved through the keys depresses him even more and has him wondering how long he'll be in business. He may not be alone. The Keys supports a $1.3 billion tourism industry that attracts about 3 million visitors each year, who come to snorkel, dive, fish and relax. Annual commercial landings of fish are valued at roughly $50 million. Though commercial fishermen reported scant catches of Spanish mackerel and kingfish this season, landing numbers won't be available for six months, fisheries officials said Friday. First spotted by fishermen in January, the black water looked from satellite pictures to have trailed in along the west coast of Florida late last year and intensified when it reached western Florida Bay off the Shark River just below Marco Island and Naples. It now sits atop the lower half of the island chain as it dissipates. By the time it reached the 126-mile chain of islands, the black water had become diluted to about a 10th its intensity, according to fishermen who first reported the water in January. Divers out to assess its impact last week said it hadn't yet hit reefs south of the chain that are most popular with tourists but appeared to be heading there. Nedimyer said in visits to dive sites up and down the Keys this week, he saw similar recent effects where the water had moved through. Sea urchins seem unharmed by the phenomenon but starfish, including the common serpent star, were gone in the areas he dived. In a normal dive it's easy to find 50 or more, but in four dives last week, he found one and it was dead. Half or more of some sponge species - animals that filter quarts of water per hour as they feed - were dead after the black water moved through. "I also saw dead vase sponges, 'stinker' sponges, red and yellow ball sponges, and red tree sponges," Nedimyer said in a report of a March 22 dive trip. Erich Mueller, head of Mote Marine Laboratory's Tropical Research Center in Summerland Key, was also out on the water last week and noted that some water was beautiful blue compared to the churned up olive green of the dissipating black water. Mueller couldn't get a good fix on what was happening in the channel because of the current and what it might have already swept away, but he said close monitoring is in order. "Everything isn't dead down there," he said. "But that's not to say things aren't affected. ... (Researchers) need to get out more." Others, including backwater guides and fishermen, reported the water making its way in and around the Keys as of Friday, killing bottom life but seeming not to affect fish, birds and mammals. While Keys residents were on the water assessing the black water damage, state scientists and those from the University of South Florida generally downplayed the significance of the algae bloom that likely caused it at a meeting in St. Petersburg on Thursday. Researchers who are still looking into the phenomenon noted that water samples appear normal in most respects, and there have been no fish kills associated with the water. They say it might be a natural phenomenon, much like a 100-year flood. Something that sounds similar to the black water was reported in a 1902 science journal that cited an 1878 ship's log detailing "cypress colored" water in the same area that killed large numbers of fish, plant life and corals. But even if it is a once-in-a-lifetime natural event, Keys residents wonder at the seemingly nonchalant response from state officials and others. "I don't understand the state trying to ignore it," said Craig Quirolo, founder and director of Marine Projects for Reef Relief, an environmental watchdog group. "People are very concerned. We are getting a lot of calls in our office from backwater guides who are seeing the downside of this." Quirolo, who dove Friday for a look, described the water as putrid-looking and murky, but the destruction in some areas is plain and even more apparent on video footage. "Even if these things happen on a natural basis, we're accelerating everything with the nutrient loading we're doing," Quirolo said. He was talking about agricultural and sewage runoff from mainland Florida rivers that makes its way to the Keys via gulf currents and local pollution from Keys septic tanks. If scientists link all the data together, the Keys have seen more than 90 percent mortality of coral near the Keys since 1975, said coral expert Phil Dustan, professor of biology at the College of Charleston in South Carolina and science adviser for the Cousteau Society. "The state doesn't want to discuss that," Dustan said. Scientists at Thursday's meeting said discolored water is typical for the area, though fishermen and pilots on the water for decades said they'd never seen anything like it. State officials also said there was no cause for alarm for boaters, divers and fishermen, and that bottom communities can rebound in as little as three years. Researchers are now spot-checking the bottom of the western bay from Naples to Key West to see if the water did anything to aquatic life there. The largest part of western Florida Bay, where the water was darkest and remained for the longest time, is home to sea grass beds, soft corals, sea whips, sponges and other bottom life that provide shelter for other aquatic life. State scientists and others are now scrambling to collect more water samples and find samples that may have been inadvertently collected during sampling expeditions out on other business when the black water was in the bay. Though state officials say they knew about the phenomenon as early as January, a concerted effort to determine its cause and effects wasn't launched until late March and headed by the Florida Marine Research Institute. Dustan said some bottom-dwelling species will come back fairly quickly under the right conditions but not all. "Brain corals might grow a centimeter a year," he said. So a 24-inch brain coral is about 60 years old. "A lot of corals grow slower than that." Dustan has been studying Keys reefs for decades and echoed Quirolo, saying the black water is a symptom of a much larger problem involving nutrients and other pollutants being dumped in the oceans. "There may be times when these blooms occur, and they may be a natural event," he said. "But if you look at the emerging marine diseases on the planet today and you start to look at the diseases in birds and mammals and coral and all the various brown tides we've seen to date, there's only one conclusion you can draw. The oceans are in a lot trouble and we're causing it." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From scottie at 99main.com Mon Apr 1 12:47:16 2002 From: scottie at 99main.com (scottie) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 12:47:16 -0500 Subject: Cayman Message-ID: The Government of Grand Cayman is about to okay a commerical dock to be located near the dive site Iron Shore Gardens in the East End of Grand Cayman. The site is historically non commercial. The area has some of the best coral and marine life you will find any where. The East End of Cayman is a world apart from the South side of Cayman. The coral are healthy and the marine life is abundant. The government basically has done a 14 week impact study. I am an environmental proffessional whose career is on the marine contractor side of the fence. But the rules are the rules. How can any one make a determination of feasibility on such a diverse site in 14 weeks? The person who is conducting this study is related to the largest property owner on the east end. Cayman is a Crown Colony and Great Britian has signed many treaties to protect coral. So if any are interested, I will put out the contact list that I have. If any one has had contact with the British environmental agencies, please contact them. Thank you Janet Malloy From tgrogan at cisco.com Mon Apr 1 14:46:10 2002 From: tgrogan at cisco.com (Tracy Grogan) Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 11:46:10 -0800 Subject: Cayman Message-ID: For that it's worth, the following was posted about two months ago, on the same topic: There is a proposal to move all of the commercial shipping, including Exxon & Texaco (with their tanker trucks) out to the East End -- the Ironshore Gardens/Blow Hole area to be specific -- a HUGE commercial dock/marina. Residents will not only have no roads left, but will have an amazing view of the commercial shipping industry, including the huge freighters that will be sitting offshore, unable to get into the dock (those who have been diving the East End know how iffy the waters can be there). THEN they propose building a huge dock system in the George Town Harbor so they can have up to TEN (10) cruise ships docked there each day. WRITE TO: Department of Environment, P.O. Box 486 GT, Cayman Islands, B.W.I. - 345-949-8469 Arden McLean (Government Officer for the East End) - cteam at candw.ky McKeeva Bush - Minister for Tourism, Environment & Transport, Government Administration Building, George Town, Grand Cayman, B.W.I. 345-244-2458 - jacui.bush at gov.ky My $0.02, Tracy Tracy Grogan Business Development Manager, US CA Field Marketing Cisco Systems, Inc. 725 Alder Drive, Milpitas Bldg 20/2 Floor San Jose, CA 95134-1706 phone:408-526-4396 fax:-408-527-1047 email:tgrogan at cisco.com ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From barbarela_blu at yahoo.com Mon Apr 1 20:53:47 2002 From: barbarela_blu at yahoo.com (Bárbara Ramos) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 17:53:47 -0800 (PST) Subject: coral bleaching Message-ID: Hello! My name is B?rbara and I'm a brazilian student. I'm finishing the graduation in biology at the federal university of Pernambuco and my monografy is about coral bleaching from the reef table type of Maracajau-RN. I've been orinted by Elga Ma?al.I`m working with 2 endemic corals (Siderastrea stellata, Favia gravida) and Porites astreoides; analising stable isotops and zooxanthellae density. The fact is that I'm having some difficulties with metodology and references, so I'd like to ask you if its possible for you to send me some articles. sinceraly grateful, B?rbara __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From reiag at hotmail.com Tue Apr 2 16:27:05 2002 From: reiag at hotmail.com (Reia Guppy) Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 21:27:05 +0000 Subject: Coralliophila abbreviata development Message-ID: Hi, Does anyone know of any research being conducted on the development of Coralliophila abbreviata? Including times of year that egg capsules are produced, number of capsules per female, and any info pertaining to the number of males vs. females when collected (and on what coral). Thanks, Reia Reia Guppy Graduate Student Biology Department University of Central Arkansas 201 Donaghey Avenue Conway, AR 72035 Tel: (501) 450-3146 Fax: (501) 450-5914 Email: reiag at hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From chiaracaligara at hotmail.com Wed Apr 3 09:44:42 2002 From: chiaracaligara at hotmail.com (chiara caligara) Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 16:44:42 +0200 Subject: New Caledonia Message-ID: Dear Coral List, I'm a student of the University of Nice France and I'm doing a research with other students about the reefs of New Caledonia. I'm looking for informations about the interest of the site: species and their environnement which make that region a place that must be protected. I would like to know which are the problems concerning the management of this area and which are the rastoration projects accepted or that could (should) be accepted by the gouvernement. This is a research about different regions that could make part to the project Natura 2000. I hope that there will be somebody able to help us! Thank you, regards Chiara _________________________________________________________________ Rejoignez le plus grand service de messagerie au monde avec MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com/fr ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From cschoenb at mpi-bremen.de Thu Apr 4 00:49:50 2002 From: cschoenb at mpi-bremen.de (Christine Schoenberg) Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 07:49:50 +0200 Subject: New Caledonia Message-ID: Dear Chiara, maybe you should try to contact two places: Institute de recherche pour le developpement BP A5 Noumea Cedex Nouvelle Caledonie You might try Dr. Pascal Douillet via: douillet at noumea.ird.nc And there's an environmental organisation called Corail Vivant. They can tell you a lot about management and restoration. The person to contact would be Didier Baron: baron at offratel.nc There's also some information in the internet, but there's not much on nature, and forget conservation. Hope that will help a bit. Cheers, Christine Dr. Christine Schoenberg Microsensor Research Group Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Celsiusstr. 1 D- 28359 Bremen Germany ph +49-421-2028-832 fax +49-421-2028-690 email cschoenb at mpi-bremen.de ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From florosc at nu.ac.za Thu Apr 4 03:40:18 2002 From: florosc at nu.ac.za (Camilla Floros) Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 10:40:18 +0200 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Dear Coral List I am trying to locate DR. R. Smith (unfortuntaley I do not have his first name). He completed his PhD in 1985 from James Cook Univarsity in Queensland. It was titled, 'Photoreceptors of serpulid polychaetes'. I would appreciate any leads. Best regards Camilla Camilla Floros School of Botany and Zoology University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg Private Bag X01 Scottsville 3209 South Africa Email: FlorosC@ nu.ac.za. ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From tvs at uskonet.com Thu Apr 4 05:50:36 2002 From: tvs at uskonet.com (Tania van Schalkwyk) Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:50:36 +0400 Subject: L'ile aux Benitiers follow-up Message-ID: The effort to save L'ile aux Benitiers from a hotel/resort/delux villas project continues. For a copy of the following report, please email tvs at uskonet.com REPORT ON L'ILE AUX BENITIERS, MAURITIUS: Arguments (Factual & Hypothetical) for Protecting the Islet from Development. ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From jreed at HBOI.edu Fri Apr 5 08:43:07 2002 From: jreed at HBOI.edu (John Reed) Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 08:43:07 -0500 Subject: coral-list-digest V7 #65 Message-ID: Hello, I am trying to measure coral growth by using water displacement to measure volume change. The colonies that I intend to measure can be moved and cannot be damaged at the end of the study. I would like to be able to place the colony in a vessel of water of known surface area and measure the change in water height once the colony has been added, thus obtaining a volume that will change with growth. Has anyone measured coral growth in this manner before? If so, what type of vessel and measuring device did you use? Does anyone know if a company makes such a measuring device for items ranging in size from 1cm to 30 cm in diameter? Any help would be appreciated . Thanks R. Sean Coats Sr. Biologist The Florida Aquarium I did this with measuring the growth of deep- and shallow-water Oculina varicosa. Take a 5 gallon plastic bucket (if the diameter is large enough for your corals) and cut a hole near the top lip. Insert a plastic pipe so it sticks out a few inches and secure with silicone caulk. Have the pipe at a slight angle down. Place a container under the end of the pipe. Fill the bucket with seawater until it overflows through the pipe and stops dripping. Empty the overflow container. Take the coral and hold with hook and string; slowly dip the coral into the bucket until completely covered. Catch the water overflow in the container. Pour this water into a graduated cylinder and measure the exact volume displaced. Reed, J.K. 1981. In situ growth rates of the scleractinian coral Oculina varicosa occurring with zooxanthellae on 6-m reefs and without on 80-m banks. Pp. 201-206, In Proceedings Fourth International Coral Reef Symposium, Vol. 2, May 1981, Manila, Philippines. John Reed Senior Research Specialist Division of Biomedical Marine Research Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution 5600 U.S. 1, North Fort Pierce, FL 34946 USA Telephone- 561-465-2400, ext. 205 Fax- 561-461-2221 e-mail- jreed at hboi.edu -----Original Message----- From: owner-coral-list-digest at coral.aoml.noaa.gov [mailto:owner-coral-list-digest at coral.aoml.noaa.gov] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 12:00 AM To: coral-list-digest at coral.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: coral-list-digest V7 #65 coral-list-digest Friday, April 5 2002 Volume 07 : Number 065 Marea Eleni Hatziolos/Person/World Bank is out of the office. measuring coral growth Dendrogyra cylindrus Volunteer Internship digests & etiquette Black Water killing Coral Cayman Re: Cayman coral bleaching Coralliophila abbreviata development New Caledonia Re: New Caledonia [none] L'ile aux Benitiers follow-up ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 01:10:56 -0500 From: Mhatziolos at worldbank.org Subject: Marea Eleni Hatziolos/Person/World Bank is out of the office. I will be out of the office starting 03/29/2002 and will not return until 04/08/2002. I will be out on annual leave from March 29 through April 7 and will not be accessing my e-mails. I will try to respond to your message on my return. Thanks! Marea ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 07:20:41 -0500 From: Sean Coats Subject: measuring coral growth This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. - ------_=_NextPart_001_01C1D71C.24850CC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hello, I am trying to measure coral growth by using water displacement to measure volume change. The colonies that I intend to measure can be moved and cannot be damaged at the end of the study. I would like to be able to place the colony in a vessel of water of known surface area and measure the change in water height once the colony has been added, thus obtaining a volume that will change with growth. Has anyone measured coral growth in this manner before? If so, what type of vessel and measuring device did you use? Does anyone know if a company makes such a measuring device for items ranging in size from 1cm to 30 cm in diameter? Any help would be appreciated . Thanks R. Sean Coats Sr. Biologist The Florida Aquarium - ------_=_NextPart_001_01C1D71C.24850CC0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
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I am trying to measure coral growth by using water displacement to measure volume change.  The colonies that I intend to measure can be moved and cannot be damaged at the end of the study.   I would like to be able to place the colony in a vessel of water of known surface area and measure the change in water height once the colony has been added, thus obtaining a volume that will change with growth.  Has anyone measured coral growth in this manner before?  If so, what type of vessel and measuring device did you use?  Does anyone know if a company makes such a measuring device for items ranging in size from 1cm to 30 cm in diameter?  Any help would be appreciated .
 
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R. Sean Coats
Sr. Biologist
The Florida Aquarium
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This is a forum comprised primarily of researchers who devote major portions of their work time to the study of corals or coral-related issues. 5) Succinct postings are greatly appreciated by all. 6) Archives Archives of all previous coral-list messages (updated at the end of each month) can be found at this Web Page: http://www.coral.aoml.noaa.gov/lists/list-archives.html Please review these messages on topics that may have already been discussed in detail before you post new messages on the same topic. ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 09:12:08 -0600 From: "Precht, Bill" Subject: Black Water killing Coral Dear Coral List: This is the most recent news flash on the ongoing "black water" event in south Florida. From this its hard to see where the science starts and the hype ends and visa versa. None the less, the event whether natural or man induced (or enhanced) is disturbing. William F. Precht, P.G. Ecological Sciences Program Manager PBS&J 2001 NW 107th Avenue Miami, FL 33172 305-592-7275 fax:305-594-9574 1-800-597-7275 bprecht at pbsj.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Divers find evidence of black water's devastation Monday, April 1, 2002 Naples Daily News http://www.naplesnews.com/02/04/naples/d485365a.htm By CATHY ZOLLO, crzollo at naplesnews.com Dead and dying sponges crumbled in Ken Nedimyer's hand as he made his way along the bottom of the Northwest Channel off Key West last week. Nearby, brain corals had recently died or were dying as well, the tiny animals that build the corals decaying in their chambers. Not everything was affected, but other corals normally golden brown had an odd white crust on them, Nedimyer noted last week and in dives over recent days since black water from the Southwest Florida coast bathed the keys. "I've seen these corals under every imaginable circumstance, from 55 degree water to 90 degree water, from calm, clear sea conditions to rough cloudy conditions, and I've never seen them look quite like this," Nedimyer said. He's been diving the keys since the 1970s, collecting sea life for his business and growing heartsick over the declining state of the coral reefs while doing it. He's seen the effects of an explosion in coral diseases and the impact of human activity all around the reefs. Entire sections have been nearly stripped of live corals and taken over by algae. What he's seen since the black water moved through the keys depresses him even more and has him wondering how long he'll be in business. He may not be alone. The Keys supports a $1.3 billion tourism industry that attracts about 3 million visitors each year, who come to snorkel, dive, fish and relax. Annual commercial landings of fish are valued at roughly $50 million. Though commercial fishermen reported scant catches of Spanish mackerel and kingfish this season, landing numbers won't be available for six months, fisheries officials said Friday. First spotted by fishermen in January, the black water looked from satellite pictures to have trailed in along the west coast of Florida late last year and intensified when it reached western Florida Bay off the Shark River just below Marco Island and Naples. It now sits atop the lower half of the island chain as it dissipates. By the time it reached the 126-mile chain of islands, the black water had become diluted to about a 10th its intensity, according to fishermen who first reported the water in January. Divers out to assess its impact last week said it hadn't yet hit reefs south of the chain that are most popular with tourists but appeared to be heading there. Nedimyer said in visits to dive sites up and down the Keys this week, he saw similar recent effects where the water had moved through. Sea urchins seem unharmed by the phenomenon but starfish, including the common serpent star, were gone in the areas he dived. In a normal dive it's easy to find 50 or more, but in four dives last week, he found one and it was dead. Half or more of some sponge species - animals that filter quarts of water per hour as they feed - were dead after the black water moved through. "I also saw dead vase sponges, 'stinker' sponges, red and yellow ball sponges, and red tree sponges," Nedimyer said in a report of a March 22 dive trip. Erich Mueller, head of Mote Marine Laboratory's Tropical Research Center in Summerland Key, was also out on the water last week and noted that some water was beautiful blue compared to the churned up olive green of the dissipating black water. Mueller couldn't get a good fix on what was happening in the channel because of the current and what it might have already swept away, but he said close monitoring is in order. "Everything isn't dead down there," he said. "But that's not to say things aren't affected. ... (Researchers) need to get out more." Others, including backwater guides and fishermen, reported the water making its way in and around the Keys as of Friday, killing bottom life but seeming not to affect fish, birds and mammals. While Keys residents were on the water assessing the black water damage, state scientists and those from the University of South Florida generally downplayed the significance of the algae bloom that likely caused it at a meeting in St. Petersburg on Thursday. Researchers who are still looking into the phenomenon noted that water samples appear normal in most respects, and there have been no fish kills associated with the water. They say it might be a natural phenomenon, much like a 100-year flood. Something that sounds similar to the black water was reported in a 1902 science journal that cited an 1878 ship's log detailing "cypress colored" water in the same area that killed large numbers of fish, plant life and corals. But even if it is a once-in-a-lifetime natural event, Keys residents wonder at the seemingly nonchalant response from state officials and others. "I don't understand the state trying to ignore it," said Craig Quirolo, founder and director of Marine Projects for Reef Relief, an environmental watchdog group. "People are very concerned. We are getting a lot of calls in our office from backwater guides who are seeing the downside of this." Quirolo, who dove Friday for a look, described the water as putrid-looking and murky, but the destruction in some areas is plain and even more apparent on video footage. "Even if these things happen on a natural basis, we're accelerating everything with the nutrient loading we're doing," Quirolo said. He was talking about agricultural and sewage runoff from mainland Florida rivers that makes its way to the Keys via gulf currents and local pollution from Keys septic tanks. If scientists link all the data together, the Keys have seen more than 90 percent mortality of coral near the Keys since 1975, said coral expert Phil Dustan, professor of biology at the College of Charleston in South Carolina and science adviser for the Cousteau Society. "The state doesn't want to discuss that," Dustan said. Scientists at Thursday's meeting said discolored water is typical for the area, though fishermen and pilots on the water for decades said they'd never seen anything like it. State officials also said there was no cause for alarm for boaters, divers and fishermen, and that bottom communities can rebound in as little as three years. Researchers are now spot-checking the bottom of the western bay from Naples to Key West to see if the water did anything to aquatic life there. The largest part of western Florida Bay, where the water was darkest and remained for the longest time, is home to sea grass beds, soft corals, sea whips, sponges and other bottom life that provide shelter for other aquatic life. State scientists and others are now scrambling to collect more water samples and find samples that may have been inadvertently collected during sampling expeditions out on other business when the black water was in the bay. Though state officials say they knew about the phenomenon as early as January, a concerted effort to determine its cause and effects wasn't launched until late March and headed by the Florida Marine Research Institute. Dustan said some bottom-dwelling species will come back fairly quickly under the right conditions but not all. "Brain corals might grow a centimeter a year," he said. So a 24-inch brain coral is about 60 years old. "A lot of corals grow slower than that." Dustan has been studying Keys reefs for decades and echoed Quirolo, saying the black water is a symptom of a much larger problem involving nutrients and other pollutants being dumped in the oceans. "There may be times when these blooms occur, and they may be a natural event," he said. "But if you look at the emerging marine diseases on the planet today and you start to look at the diseases in birds and mammals and coral and all the various brown tides we've seen to date, there's only one conclusion you can draw. The oceans are in a lot trouble and we're causing it." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 12:47:16 -0500 From: "scottie" Subject: Cayman This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_002C_01C1D97B.5AA2AD60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The Government of Grand Cayman is about to okay a commerical dock to be = located near the dive site Iron Shore Gardens in the East End of Grand = Cayman. =20 The site is historically non commercial. The area has some of the best = coral and marine life you will find any where. The East End of Cayman = is a world apart from the South side of Cayman. The coral are healthy = and the marine life is abundant. =20 The government basically has done a 14 week impact study. I am an = environmental proffessional whose career is on the marine contractor = side of the fence. But the rules are the rules. How can any one make a = determination of feasibility on such a diverse site in 14 weeks? The = person who is conducting this study is related to the largest property = owner on the east end. =20 Cayman is a Crown Colony and Great Britian has signed many treaties to = protect coral. So if any are interested, I will put out the contact = list that I have. If any one has had contact with the British = environmental agencies, please contact them. Thank you Janet Malloy - ------=_NextPart_000_002C_01C1D97B.5AA2AD60 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
The Government of Grand Cayman is about to okay = a=20 commerical dock to be located near the dive site Iron Shore Gardens in = the East=20 End of Grand Cayman. 
 
The site is historically non commercial.  = The area=20 has some of the best coral and marine life you will find any = where.  The=20 East End of Cayman is a world apart from the South side of Cayman.  = The=20 coral are healthy and the marine life is abundant. 
 
The government basically has done a 14 week = impact=20 study.  I am an environmental proffessional whose career is on the = marine=20 contractor side of the fence.  But the rules are the rules.  = How can=20 any one make a determination of feasibility on such a diverse site in 14 = weeks?  The person who is conducting this study is related to the = largest=20 property owner on the east end. 
 
Cayman is a Crown Colony and Great Britian  = has=20 signed many treaties to protect coral.  So if any are interested, I = will=20 put out the contact list that I have.  If any one has had contact = with the=20 British environmental agencies, please contact them.
 
Thank you
 
Janet Malloy
 
 
 
- ------=_NextPart_000_002C_01C1D97B.5AA2AD60-- ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 11:46:10 -0800 From: Tracy Grogan Subject: Re: Cayman For that it's worth, the following was posted about two months ago, on the same topic: There is a proposal to move all of the commercial shipping, including Exxon & Texaco (with their tanker trucks) out to the East End -- the Ironshore Gardens/Blow Hole area to be specific -- a HUGE commercial dock/marina. Residents will not only have no roads left, but will have an amazing view of the commercial shipping industry, including the huge freighters that will be sitting offshore, unable to get into the dock (those who have been diving the East End know how iffy the waters can be there). THEN they propose building a huge dock system in the George Town Harbor so they can have up to TEN (10) cruise ships docked there each day. WRITE TO: Department of Environment, P.O. Box 486 GT, Cayman Islands, B.W.I. - 345-949-8469 Arden McLean (Government Officer for the East End) - cteam at candw.ky McKeeva Bush - Minister for Tourism, Environment & Transport, Government Administration Building, George Town, Grand Cayman, B.W.I. 345-244-2458 - jacui.bush at gov.ky My $0.02, Tracy Tracy Grogan Business Development Manager, US CA Field Marketing Cisco Systems, Inc. 725 Alder Drive, Milpitas Bldg 20/2 Floor San Jose, CA 95134-1706 phone:408-526-4396 fax:-408-527-1047 email:tgrogan at cisco.com ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 17:53:47 -0800 (PST) From: "B?rbara" Ramos Subject: coral bleaching Hello! My name is B?rbara and I'm a brazilian student. I'm finishing the graduation in biology at the federal university of Pernambuco and my monografy is about coral bleaching from the reef table type of Maracajau-RN. I've been orinted by Elga Ma?al.I`m working with 2 endemic corals (Siderastrea stellata, Favia gravida) and Porites astreoides; analising stable isotops and zooxanthellae density. The fact is that I'm having some difficulties with metodology and references, so I'd like to ask you if its possible for you to send me some articles. sinceraly grateful, B?rbara __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 21:27:05 +0000 From: "Reia Guppy" Subject: Coralliophila abbreviata development Hi, Does anyone know of any research being conducted on the development of Coralliophila abbreviata? Including times of year that egg capsules are produced, number of capsules per female, and any info pertaining to the number of males vs. females when collected (and on what coral). Thanks, Reia Reia Guppy Graduate Student Biology Department University of Central Arkansas 201 Donaghey Avenue Conway, AR 72035 Tel: (501) 450-3146 Fax: (501) 450-5914 Email: reiag at hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 16:44:42 +0200 From: "chiara caligara" Subject: New Caledonia Dear Coral List, I'm a student of the University of Nice France and I'm doing a research with other students about the reefs of New Caledonia. I'm looking for informations about the interest of the site: species and their environnement which make that region a place that must be protected. I would like to know which are the problems concerning the management of this area and which are the rastoration projects accepted or that could (should) be accepted by the gouvernement. This is a research about different regions that could make part to the project Natura 2000. I hope that there will be somebody able to help us! Thank you, regards Chiara _________________________________________________________________ Rejoignez le plus grand service de messagerie au monde avec MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com/fr ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 07:49:50 +0200 From: Christine Schoenberg Subject: Re: New Caledonia Dear Chiara, maybe you should try to contact two places: Institute de recherche pour le developpement BP A5 Noumea Cedex Nouvelle Caledonie You might try Dr. Pascal Douillet via: douillet at noumea.ird.nc And there's an environmental organisation called Corail Vivant. They can tell you a lot about management and restoration. The person to contact would be Didier Baron: baron at offratel.nc There's also some information in the internet, but there's not much on nature, and forget conservation. Hope that will help a bit. Cheers, Christine Dr. Christine Schoenberg Microsensor Research Group Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Celsiusstr. 1 D- 28359 Bremen Germany ph +49-421-2028-832 fax +49-421-2028-690 email cschoenb at mpi-bremen.de ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 10:40:18 +0200 From: "Camilla Floros" Subject: [none] Dear Coral List I am trying to locate DR. R. Smith (unfortuntaley I do not have his first name). He completed his PhD in 1985 from James Cook Univarsity in Queensland. It was titled, 'Photoreceptors of serpulid polychaetes'. I would appreciate any leads. Best regards Camilla Camilla Floros School of Botany and Zoology University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg Private Bag X01 Scottsville 3209 South Africa Email: FlorosC@ nu.ac.za. ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:50:36 +0400 From: "Tania van Schalkwyk" Subject: L'ile aux Benitiers follow-up The effort to save L'ile aux Benitiers from a hotel/resort/delux villas project continues. For a copy of the following report, please email tvs at uskonet.com REPORT ON L'ILE AUX BENITIERS, MAURITIUS: Arguments (Factual & Hypothetical) for Protecting the Islet from Development. ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. ------------------------------ End of coral-list-digest V7 #65 ******************************* ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From tawake_a at usp.ac.fj Fri Apr 5 11:05:00 2002 From: tawake_a at usp.ac.fj (Alifereti Tawake, IAS) Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 16:05:00 GMT Subject: No subject Message-ID: , coral-list Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 19:45:28 -0800 Subject: Re: Fw: community-based monitoring CC: lizmat at palaunet.com, coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov, emat2715 at postoffice.uri.edu Sender: owner-coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov Hi Dan and Liz mathews, Thanks for your interest. I ve been on the road for the last few weeks. Regarding your request about the reprint of the CBIP paper, Lissette will be bringing a copy over to you to Sol Islands and some other infor on the LMMA, the LMMA Learning Framework which may of help to you. The Fiji LMMA Network member projects ie community-based are using this framework and are finding it useful as a learning tool where we can systematically collect "comparable" (close to standardised) information in assessing how our interventions (MPAs, no-take, effort restrictions, awareness etc) are influencing our inshore fishery, the marine resources and the people that depended on them. I hope you'll find it useful. As per Community based monitoring, we are doing some community based reef monitoring. We are still exploring the methods that is useful, measurable but cheap and easy for the community to implement for their own marine resource management decisions and adaptive management. Liz Mathews i can send you some of the lessons that weve learned from this exploration work once ive settled in.May be you can let me know what specific information you need. You can also check out the article that we published in the Conservation Biology in Practice journal (Vol 2 No 4).Fall 2001 issue on Harvesting Clams and Data.(pg 32-35) Liz FYI the CRC team (Lyne and Don) is here in Fiji this week for the Fiji ICZM workshop. Later alifereti Tawake Re: your request On 23 Mar 2002, at 16:59, wwf wrote: Date sent: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 16:59:09 +1100 From: wwf Subject: Fw: community-based monitoring To: tawake_a at usp.ac.fj > Hey Alifereti > Hope things are going well. Don't know if you're on the coral list, > but thought you could answer this question very well. Attached is the > way to join. Cheers mate, Dan > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Liz Matthews" > To: "Coral-list" > Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 12:36 PM > Subject: community-based monitoring > > > > Dear Listers, > > > > The Palau Conservation Society is developing a strategy to more > > closely involve community members in the monitoring of marine > > conservation areas - both as a means to monitor the fish, > > invertebrates, etc. in the conservation areas as well as to create > > opportunities for local people to see for themselves the benefits of > > conservation. I would like to hear from any of you who have > > experience with community-based monitoring of coral reefs and marine > > resources. What has worked? What hasn't? Any help is greatly > > appreciated. > > > > Thanks. > > Liz Matthews > > > > > > >>><<>><<< <\\>< <\\>< > > Palau Conservation Society > > Box 1811 > > Koror, Palau 96940 > > > > tel: 680.488.3993 > > > > lizmat at palaunet.com > > emat2715 at postoffice.uri.edu > > > > > > ~~~~~~~ > > For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the > > digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on > > the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. > ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From john.naughton at noaa.gov Fri Apr 5 12:27:15 2002 From: john.naughton at noaa.gov (John Naughton) Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 07:27:15 -1000 Subject: community-based monitoring Message-ID: Hi Liz: Sorry for the late reply. I'm curious if PCS is considering community based monitoring in Palau for the Ngeremeduu Conservation Area off the west side of Babeldaob Island. As you know, this 30,000 acre MPA has been established as partial mitigation for the huge Palau Compact Road project, for which I represent NMFS/NOAA as a Cooperating Agency partner for all environmental issues associated with the project. During one of our recent bi-annual survey trips the Cooperating Agencies met with the PCS, PICRC, etc to encourage a community-based monitoring project for this large and very significant MPA (protecting an entire ecosystem from the watershed, mangroves, lagoonal habitat, all the way out to and including a large portion of the west barrier reef). I've had considerable experience in monitoring of large scale coral reef ecosystems, and would like to get together with you during our next survey trip to Palau in June (to be held in conjunction with the EPA Pacific Islands Conference). Aloha, John Liz Matthews wrote: > Dear Listers, > > The Palau Conservation Society is developing a strategy to more closely > involve community members in the monitoring of marine conservation areas > - both as a means to monitor the fish, invertebrates, etc. in the > conservation areas as well as to create opportunities for local people > to see for themselves the benefits of conservation. I would like to > hear from any of you who have experience with community-based monitoring > of coral reefs and marine resources. What has worked? What hasn't? Any > help is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks. > Liz Matthews > > > > >>><<>><<< <\\>< <\\>< > Palau Conservation Society > Box 1811 > Koror, Palau 96940 > > tel: 680.488.3993 > > lizmat at palaunet.com > emat2715 at postoffice.uri.edu > > ~~~~~~~ > For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the > digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the > menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From peck at hawaii.edu Fri Apr 5 13:24:28 2002 From: peck at hawaii.edu (Sara Peck) Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 08:24:28 -1000 Subject: community-based monitoring Message-ID: Aloha John and All, I am pleased to hear that people are comparing notes on community-based monitoring. We have been doing this on a small scale (compared to the Ngeremeduu Conservation Area) here in West Hawaii for over two years. We have finally begun to put our data into excel database format, to see what we have so far in terms of data. We are gaining more interest around the Big Island of Hawaii...people want to join the effort. Our protocols were developed in collaboration with our aquatic biologist, Dr. Bill Walsh, Dr. Brian Tissot, and the volunteers themselves. The survey list is mainly of fishes Walsh and Tissot requested. Our challenge was to develop methods people wouldn't tire of quickly and would enjoy doing. So far, these protocols are working well for this particular focus. If anyone wants information about these protocols, please contact me. In addition, we are now working with isolated communities comprised more of subsistence indigenous fishers. I am looking for protocols (as is Liz, I see) that have been successfully used by community members for monitoring shoreline and near shore food fishes, inverts and algae. Mahalo in advance for your time. Sara Peck, UH Sea Grant Extension Service, West Hawaii PO Box 489 Kailua-Kona HI 96745 808.329.2861=v; 329.6998-fx At 07:27 AM 4/5/02 -1000, John Naughton wrote: >Hi Liz: > >Sorry for the late reply. I'm curious if PCS is considering community based >monitoring in Palau for the Ngeremeduu Conservation Area off the west side >of Babeldaob Island. As you know, this 30,000 acre MPA has been established >as partial mitigation for the huge Palau Compact Road project, for which I >represent NMFS/NOAA as a Cooperating Agency partner for all environmental >issues associated with the project. > >During one of our recent bi-annual survey trips the Cooperating Agencies met >with the PCS, PICRC, etc to encourage a community-based monitoring project >for this large and very significant MPA (protecting an entire ecosystem from >the watershed, mangroves, lagoonal habitat, all the way out to and including >a large portion of the west barrier reef). I've had considerable experience >in monitoring of large scale coral reef ecosystems, and would like to get >together with you during our next survey trip to Palau in June (to be held >in conjunction with the EPA Pacific Islands Conference). > >Aloha, John > > >Liz Matthews wrote: > > > Dear Listers, > > > > The Palau Conservation Society is developing a strategy to more closely > > involve community members in the monitoring of marine conservation areas > > - both as a means to monitor the fish, invertebrates, etc. in the > > conservation areas as well as to create opportunities for local people > > to see for themselves the benefits of conservation. I would like to > > hear from any of you who have experience with community-based monitoring > > of coral reefs and marine resources. What has worked? What hasn't? Any > > help is greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks. > > Liz Matthews > > > > > > >>><<>><<< <\\>< <\\>< > > Palau Conservation Society > > Box 1811 > > Koror, Palau 96940 > > > > tel: 680.488.3993 > > > > lizmat at palaunet.com > > emat2715 at postoffice.uri.edu > > > > ~~~~~~~ > > For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the > > digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the > > menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. > >~~~~~~~ >For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the >digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the >menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From debimack at auracom.com Mon Apr 8 11:42:50 2002 From: debimack at auracom.com (Debbie MacKenzie) Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 12:42:50 -0300 Subject: "Hot" news - seaweed burns in winter? Message-ID: Dear coral list, Regarding marine organisms suffering undue "heat" stress, we have an interesting aberration in intertidal seaweeds in Atlantic Canada at this time. Some of you may be familiar with "Ascophyllum nodosum," if not, it's the dominant brown seaweed in this temperate zone. The plant is a fairly large, very long lived perennial - and individuals can live for many decades. Ascophyllum with lowered pigmentation appears yellow, although the color of the plant when it is healthy is a deep olive green. Anyhow, in areas with the lowest nutrient regimes (highest intertidal points, lowest water flow rates) Ascophyllum is now dying off. The dead seaweed initially appears red, then black, looking for all the world like something that has been burned. Inquiries to phycologists have received the consistent answer that these plants have been damaged by excessive degrees of "heat"....which was semi-plausible until the burnt effect started to appear in the winter. I've posted an article on this with pictures at: http://www.fisherycrisis.com/seaweed3.html , in which I've argued that the immediate stress killing these seaweeds is more likely to be dessication than heat (we have low temperatures, high winds and low relative humidity at this time, although the weather is completely normal for this season, it seems to be killing off these stressed seaweeds.) Due to their longevity, spanning decades, it appears that some Ascophyllum plants are now finding themselves situated in a hostile environment, at a location that was once hospitable. Has the quality of the seawater deteriorated in recent decades to the point that it will no longer sustain seaweeds in these (very clean) locations where they once thrived? That's what it looks like to me - and although I'm certainly open to entertaining other explanatory ideas, I've not seen any yet. I've posted this to the coral list because, as you know, I've been trying to plant a little seed of doubt that all the changes that we think we're seeing due to elevated temperatures are in fact entirely hinged on "heat"...and also that marine nutrient cycling might not be all that it used to be... cheers, Debbie MacKenzie ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From jaq at pipeline.com Mon Apr 8 13:38:57 2002 From: jaq at pipeline.com (Jack Stephens) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 13:38:57 -0400 Subject: condition of reefs at Kargh Island.... Message-ID: I am writting a book to be published in conjunction with an IMAX film whose topic is coral reefs. Can anybody tell me what the condition of the reefs around Kargh Island in the Persian Gulf currently are? This was held up as an example by the oil industry, 40 years ago, of an area not impacted by oil drilling when drilling on the Great Barrier Reef was the issue. Any info much appreciated. Thanks. Jack Stephens From oveh at uq.edu.au Mon Apr 8 18:09:19 2002 From: oveh at uq.edu.au (Ove Hoegh-Guldberg) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 08:09:19 +1000 Subject: "Hot" news - seaweed burns in winter? Message-ID: Except that colder than normal conditions will cause the identical symptoms to those of elevated temperature (well established in the plant physiological literature). Given that warm disturbances like El Nino events may also be accompanied/followed by periods of lower than normal temperatures (which we have seen on the southern GBR in 1999 for example - and, yes, coral bleaching in winter), the observation of "burning" seaweeds in winter is not too disturbing. What was the temperature relative to the long term average? Cheers, Ove -----Original Message----- From: owner-coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov [mailto:owner-coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov] On Behalf Of Debbie MacKenzie Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 1:43 AM To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: "Hot" news - seaweed burns in winter? Dear coral list, Regarding marine organisms suffering undue "heat" stress, we have an interesting aberration in intertidal seaweeds in Atlantic Canada at this time. Some of you may be familiar with "Ascophyllum nodosum," if not, it's the dominant brown seaweed in this temperate zone. The plant is a fairly large, very long lived perennial - and individuals can live for many decades. Ascophyllum with lowered pigmentation appears yellow, although the color of the plant when it is healthy is a deep olive green. Anyhow, in areas with the lowest nutrient regimes (highest intertidal points, lowest water flow rates) Ascophyllum is now dying off. The dead seaweed initially appears red, then black, looking for all the world like something that has been burned. Inquiries to phycologists have received the consistent answer that these plants have been damaged by excessive degrees of "heat"....which was semi-plausible until the burnt effect started to appear in the winter. I've posted an article on this with pictures at: http://www.fisherycrisis.com/seaweed3.html , in which I've argued that the immediate stress killing these seaweeds is more likely to be dessication than heat (we have low temperatures, high winds and low relative humidity at this time, although the weather is completely normal for this season, it seems to be killing off these stressed seaweeds.) Due to their longevity, spanning decades, it appears that some Ascophyllum plants are now finding themselves situated in a hostile environment, at a location that was once hospitable. Has the quality of the seawater deteriorated in recent decades to the point that it will no longer sustain seaweeds in these (very clean) locations where they once thrived? That's what it looks like to me - and although I'm certainly open to entertaining other explanatory ideas, I've not seen any yet. I've posted this to the coral list because, as you know, I've been trying to plant a little seed of doubt that all the changes that we think we're seeing due to elevated temperatures are in fact entirely hinged on "heat"...and also that marine nutrient cycling might not be all that it used to be... cheers, Debbie MacKenzie ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From szmanta at uncwil.edu Mon Apr 8 18:24:59 2002 From: szmanta at uncwil.edu (Alina M. Szmant) Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 18:24:59 -0400 Subject: Summer 2002 Spawning best guesses Message-ID: Dear All: I have received multiple inquiries these past few days about coral spawning dates for the summer of 2002. For the Florida Keys (and nearshore waters...) my best estimate is as follows: Full moon is on August 22 at 22:30 hr (very unambiguous full moon date). Acropora has spawned for us in the past 2 to 4 days after the full moon (but last year 5 days after full moon): August 24 to 26 Montastraea usually spawns 6 to 8 nights after the full moon (best night, 7 nights after the full moon): Aug 28 to 30. As usual, the corals have full authority to do it whenever they wish, and I make no guarantees that these are accurate predictions, just our best guess based on experience. Towards the lower Caribbean I would expect spawning to be a month later or maybe both months since it is so late in August. For the mid-Caribbean (e.g. Puerto Rico) and Bahamas, I expect the corals to use the August spawn period. Bermuda corals might spawn in late July as well as in August. Please let me know what you see out there next summer. the more observations we collect, the more we can refine our estimates (maybe...). Best wishes, Alina Szmant ******************************************************************* Dr. Alina M. Szmant Coral Reef Research Group Professor of Biology Center for Marine Science University of North Carolina at Wilmington 5600 Marvin K. Moss Lane Wilmington NC 28409-5928 tel: (910)962-2362 fax: (910)962-2410 email: szmanta at uncwil.edu http://www.uncwil.edu/people/szmanta/ ****************************************************************** From imiller at aims.gov.au Tue Apr 9 02:22:46 2002 From: imiller at aims.gov.au (imiller) Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 16:22:46 +1000 Subject: AIMS LTMP Survey Update Message-ID: Dear Listers Please find the latest survey update from the Australian Institute of Marine Science Long Term Monitoring Program (AIMS LTMP) at http://www.aims.gov.au/pages/research/reef-monitoring/ltm/ltm20020205-gbr.html The update includes information on crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks and coral bleaching in the Townsville sector of the Great Barrier Reef. If you would like to look at other trips by the LTMP these are archived on our web page at http://www.aims.gov.au/pages/research/reef-monitoring/reef-monitoring-index. html This page also contains a host of information from the LTMP. I look forward to any comments that you may have. Cheers Ian Ian Miller MSc BSc Coordinator Broadscale Surveys AIMS Long-term Monitoring Program email: i.miller at aims.gov.au Ph:07 47 534 471 ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From matz at whitney.ufl.edu Tue Apr 9 10:24:50 2002 From: matz at whitney.ufl.edu (Mikhail Matz) Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 10:24:50 -0400 Subject: FL Keys reef directory? Message-ID: Dear Listers, Could anybody please direct me to the kind of directory of the coral reefs of Florida Keys? I am [almost] sure there is sometyhing like this around; I am interested in the list of the best known locations with brief descriptions. The descriptions I am looking for would include latitude-longitude, depth, reef type, major reef-building species, and relevant events documented in the recent past (such as hurricane damage or bleaching). This information I need to pick out several ecologically different locations to study the distribution of color morphs of certain coral species between them. I would greatly appreciate your advice. cheers, Mike -- Mikhail V. Matz, Ph.D. Whitney Laboratory University of Florida 9505 Ocean Shore blvd St Augustine FL 32080-8610, USA phone +1 904 461 4025 fax +1 904 461 4008 ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From ginger_garrison at usgs.gov Tue Apr 9 10:48:10 2002 From: ginger_garrison at usgs.gov (Virginia H Garrison) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 10:48:10 -0400 Subject: Postion Announcement Message-ID: Hello all, A US Geological Survey position for an Ecologist (coral reefs) GS-11 has opened, to be based in the Virgin Islands (with some time spent in St. Petersburg, FL). The announcement (USGS-S-02-205) can be found at http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/. This is for a 13 month term appointment, renewable up to 4 years. Please forward this to all who might be interested in the position. Thank you, Ginger Ginger Garrison Marine Ecologist USGS 600 Fourth Street South St. Petersburg, FL 33701 Tel: 727 803-8747 ext. 3061 Fax: 727 803-2030 ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From palandro at seas.marine.usf.edu Tue Apr 9 11:03:38 2002 From: palandro at seas.marine.usf.edu (david palandro) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 11:03:38 -0400 Subject: FL Keys reef directory? Message-ID: Mike, For starters, try the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Site: http://www.fknms.nos.noaa.gov. They give an excellent base description of the different reef sites. Good luck, Dave David Palandro Institute for Marine Remote Sensing College of Marine Science University of South Florida 140 7th Avenue South Saint Petersburg, Florida 33701 (727)-553-1186 (727)-553-1103 (fax) palandro at seas.marine.usf.edu http://imars.marine.usf.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mikhail Matz" To: "Coral-List" Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 10:24 AM Subject: FL Keys reef directory? > Dear Listers, > > Could anybody please direct me to the kind of directory of the coral > reefs of Florida Keys? I am [almost] sure there is sometyhing like this > around; I am interested in the list of the best known locations with > brief descriptions. The descriptions I am looking for would include > latitude-longitude, depth, reef type, major reef-building species, and > relevant events documented in the recent past (such as hurricane damage > or bleaching). > This information I need to pick out several ecologically different > locations to study the distribution of color morphs of certain coral > species between them. I would greatly appreciate your advice. > > cheers, > Mike > > -- > Mikhail V. Matz, Ph.D. > > Whitney Laboratory > University of Florida > 9505 Ocean Shore blvd > St Augustine FL 32080-8610, USA > phone +1 904 461 4025 > fax +1 904 461 4008 > > > > > ~~~~~~~ > For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the > digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the > menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. > > > ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From jhowe at earthwatch.org Tue Apr 9 15:24:36 2002 From: jhowe at earthwatch.org (Jonathan Howe) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 15:24:36 -0400 Subject: Research Funding through Earthwatch Institute Message-ID: From HCRIResearchProgram at hawaii.rr.com Tue Apr 9 18:13:28 2002 From: HCRIResearchProgram at hawaii.rr.com (HCRI Research Program) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 12:13:28 -1000 Subject: Just released! "Coral Reef Ecosystems of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands" Message-ID: From dobura at africaonline.co.ke Wed Apr 10 01:46:52 2002 From: dobura at africaonline.co.ke (David Obura) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:46:52 +0400 Subject: Community Based Monitoring Message-ID: Dear listers, Apologies for being a little late to the game (thanks to fieldwork) ... The last 5 years has seen a significant growth in the used of Community-Based Monitoring mostly in community and protected-area projects in Mozambique, Tanzania and Kenya. We recently reported on this in three projects - the Kiunga Marine Reserve, Kenya (Kenya Wildlife Service and WWF), the Diani area, Kenya (not a project, supported by CORDIO) and the Tanga Coastal Zone Conservation and Development Project, Tanzania (District government and IUCN) - in a paper that is just coming out in Marine and Freshwater Fisheries and is available electronically now and in print soon. The reference is- Obura, D.O., Wells, S., Church, J., Horrill, C.. (2002) Monitoring of fish and fish catches by local fishermen in Kenya and Tanzania. Marine and Freshwater Fisheries 53(2) xx-xx Each of the projects has a great deal more experience than can be written in peer-reviewed publications and we are trying to get a more coherent framework for sharing experiences for ourselves and for the community participants in the projects. For more information on any of these, feel free to contact the projects directly, and two of the most accessible references are also given below. regards, David CONTACTS Kiunga Marine Reserve - wwfkiungu at eikmail.com Diani area - dobura at africaonline.co.ke Tanga Project - tangacoast at kaributanga.com ADDITIONAL REFERENCES Horrill JC, Kalombo H, and Makoloweka S 2001. Collaborative Reef and Reef Fisheries Management in Tanga, Tanzania. Tanga Coastal Zone Conservation and Development Programme/IUCN Eastern Africa Programme. IUCN Eastern Africa Regional Office, Nairobi, Kenya. 37 pp. Obura, D.O. 2001. Participatory Monitoring Of Shallow Tropical Marine Fisheries By Artisanal Fishers In Diani, Kenya. Bulletin of Marine Science. 69:777-792. -- <+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+> David Obura CORDIO-East Africa P.O.BOX 10135, Mombasa, Kenya Tel/fax: +254-11-486473; Home: 474582; 0733-851656 Email: dobura at africaonline.co.ke Web: http://www.cordio.org ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From phil.pepe at pcmail.maricopa.edu Wed Apr 10 14:27:58 2002 From: phil.pepe at pcmail.maricopa.edu (Phil Pepe) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:27:58 -0700 Subject: MB in Australia Information Message-ID: >> >> >> Phoenix College Marine Biology Courses at Whitsunday College, Australia >> >> This unique, marine biology program will be open to 15 students and >> faculty that are in good physical condition, are proficient swimmers, >> and have the ability to adapt to unfamiliar food, culture and >> surroundings. Participants will enroll in BIO 149AL Ecological Field >> Experience (2 credits) and BIO 148 Coral Reef Ecology (1 credit) through >> Phoenix College and Great Barrier Reef Naturalist Course through >> Whitsunday College and Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. They >> will be required to attend a field trip to Australia from June 1 to 16, >> 2002. The Whitsunday College Campus in Cannonvale, Queensland will be >> our base of operations in Australia. 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The program will >> include trips to the Whitsunday Islands and the Great Barrier Reef. >> >> Tentative Schedule (subject to change): >> >> June 1 (Sat) Fly from Los Angeles to Brisbane, Australia >> June 2 (Sun) Arrive Brisbane and Transfer to Cannonvale (includes a >> flight and a bus) >> Unpack and settle in >> June 3 (Mon) Orientation Meeting at Whitsunday College >> Water Safety Workshop at Whitsunday College >> Snorkel Checkout >> "Nature Walk" >> June 4 (Tue) Snorkel/Shore Dive >> "Nature Walk" >> ?Reef Talk? >> June 5 (Wed) Day trip to Snorkel/Dive in Whitsunday Islands (boat >> charter) >> ?Reef Talk? >> June 6 (Thu) "Nature Walk" >> ?Reef Talk? >> June 7 (Fri) Day trip to Snorkel/Dive in Whitsunday Islands (boat >> charter) >> ?Reef Talk? >> June 8 (Sat) Free time >> June 9 (Sun) Free time >> June 10 (Mon) Snorkel/Shore Dive >> "Nature Walk" >> ?Reef Talk? >> June 11 (Tue) Snorkel/Shore Dive or "Nature Walk" >> Prepare for Live-aboard Boat Trip >> Depart from Shute Harbor in evening on >> Live-aboard >> June 12 (Wed) Snorkel/Dive on Great Barrier Reef from Live-aboard >> June 13 (Thu) Snorkel/Dive on Great Barrier Reef from Live-aboard >> June 14 (Fri) Snorkel/Dive in Whitsunday Islands from Live-aboard >> Return to Shute Harbor by Lunchtime?Reef Talk? >> >> June 15 (Sat) Packing and readying for Departure >> Transfer to Brisbane (includes bus and a >> flight) >> June 16 (Sun) Fly from Brisbane to Los Angeles >> >> >> Expenses associated with the program (these are estimated expenses): >> >> EXPENSE ITEM COST PER STUDENT >> Transportation (air from LAX, bus, other) $1,750.00 >> Lodging $500.00 >> >> Food >> $250.00 >> Program Fees $200.00 >> Boat Charters (day trips, live-aboard) $465.00 >> Contingency $100.00 >> Tuition and Fees $239.00 >> >> Total Cost of Program $3,504.00 >> >> > Philip Pepe Philip Pepe Fax: (602) 285-7349 Home: (602) 460-0179 Work: (602) 285-7106 Additional Information: Last Name Pepe First Name Philip Version 2.1 From debimack at auracom.com Thu Apr 11 11:26:01 2002 From: debimack at auracom.com (Debbie MacKenzie) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:26:01 -0300 Subject: "Hot" news - seaweed burns in winter? (due to UV?) Message-ID: Dear Coral list, Thanks for the feedback. Ove suggested that the Ascophyllum may have been damaged by unusually cold winter weather, and asked: >. What was the temperature >relative to the long term average? I had described it as "cold" but what I meant was only that it is still uncomfortable to take photos without gloves on - which is not unusual. Temperatures here have been within normal, a bit milder than average if anything, during the last 6 weeks. We had a cold snap early in February with temperature dropping below the long term average, but this does not stand out as unusual since it seems to happen every winter at some point during January-February. List members tend not to appreciate email attachments so if you're interested, I've added a temperatue graph from Environment Canada to the bottom of the references for my 'burnt seaweed' article. It shows temperature fluctuations for the past year as compared to a 30 year average. ( http://www.fisherycrisis.com/seaweed3.html ) Also, Ascophyllum has a very high tolerance for cold, extending it's range well into northern areas that are far colder than this one. Simple cold injury looks extremely unlikely. Several people suggested that the damage to the seaweed might have been caused by an increase in UV radiation and that I'd dismissed that possibility too quickly. Maybe so, probably UV damage deserves a closer look, although the pattern of vulnerability and resistance certainly does not correlate well simply to degrees of solar radiation exposure. But I can't rule out the possibility that it's the combination of rising UV radiation and lowered nutrient availability. (BTW, Environment Canada estimates that UV radiation has increased by 7 - 10% over the last few decades in this area.) The biggest reason that I don't see this new 'natural mortality' in Asclophyllum as likely to be primarily caused by increasing UV is that increasing UV simply does not explain coincident and very similar changes that are visible in other organisms in the immediate area. For example, there has been a major change in populations of barnacles and mussels in the area, with vertical range contraction very apparent in the barnacles and concentration of both species now being limited to high water flow areas (or heavily nutrient enriched areas such as polluted harbours). It is hard to imagine these species, with their heavy shells, being particularly vulnerable to UV or being the earliest casualties...and even if they were, their pattern of redistribution only makes sense in relation to feeding opportunities. I have described this in detail in http://www.fisherycrisis.com/barnacles.html . And comparing the 'burnt' damage in Ascophyllum to a very similar pattern occuring in neighbouring perennial "fucus" seaweeds seems to strengthen the 'nutrient' connection. (Very interesting, two brown seaweeds, one capable of translocation of nutrients to the growth tips (fucus), one not (Asco)... with the result being that fucus appears to 'burn' in reverse - "heat" or "light" or "whatever" damage occurring from the holdfast up. If you'd like to see what I mean, look at http://www.fisherycrisis.com/seaweed2.htm ). I see the whole ecosystem as changing, looking 'sick,' and a symptom like the 'burnt Asco' needs to be assessed in the context of the total picture of co-occurring signs/symptoms/changes. Regarding the area of the rocky reef that I featured in the 'burnt Asco' article, the last few decades have seen enormous change in the marine life living there. Once there were many mussels growing on the reef (now there are none), and many species of small fish lived in the water (little perch, flatfish, sculpins, eels, etc...now these are never seen). Starfish and anemones have disappeared, as have clams. A bed of eelgrass grew beside the reef, but not a blade has been seen for at least 20 years. The salt marsh is gradually shrinking. There is no reason to think that terrestrial source organic input to the cove has changed, yet water clarity seems to have improved. There are a few snails (much fewer than years ago) and a few very small crabs and virtually nothing else visible that moves. Visible new organisms include a very heavy brown filamentous epiphyte on the subtidal rockweeds and short-lived green filamentous growths on the rocks and upper rockweeds. Like a patient presenting to a doctor with 'dry itchy skin,' the 'burnt Asco' is only one sign of what seems to be a systemic malady. Efforts to diagnose the cause of 'itchy skin' must obviously go far beyond looking at temperature and UV exposure patterns and examining skin scrapings under a microscope (although these investigations are relevant). A complete 'history and physical' needs to be done. If the patient turns out to have split fingernails, falling hair, losing teeth, extremely low body weight, depression and anorexia...the 'dry itchy skin' fits perfectly into a pattern of chronic malnutrition. If the patient, on the other hand, appears to be in otherwise normal health, the 'dry itchy skin' might simply be the result of transient exposure to environmental extremes of temperature or solar radiation. sincerely, Debbie MacKenize ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From delbeek at waquarium.org Thu Apr 11 13:37:45 2002 From: delbeek at waquarium.org (Charles Delbeek) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 07:37:45 -1000 Subject: Healthy Reef Foundation? Message-ID: Has anyone heard of an organization called the "Healthy Reef Foundation" or a company called Applied Marine Technology LTD both located in the Dominican Republic? They claim to have propagated 38,000 pieces of coral and replanting these on local reefs. They also claim to treat diseased corals and cure them. Aloha! J. Charles Delbeek Aquarium Biologist Waikiki Aquarium 2777 Kalakaua Ave. Honolulu, HI, USA 96815 808-923-9741 808-923-1771 FAX ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From delbeek at waquarium.org Thu Apr 11 18:57:06 2002 From: delbeek at waquarium.org (Charles Delbeek) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:57:06 -1000 Subject: Healthy Reef Foundation Message-ID: Thanks to all who replied concerning this operation. My mistake, I meant they were on Dominica, not the Dominican Republic.... though rumor has it they may be moving to Jamaica. Aloha! J. Charles Delbeek Aquarium Biologist Waikiki Aquarium 2777 Kalakaua Ave. Honolulu, HI, USA 96815 808-923-9741 808-923-1771 FAX ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From stinapa at bonairelive.com Fri Apr 12 13:28:12 2002 From: stinapa at bonairelive.com (STINAPA Bonaire) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:28:12 -0400 Subject: Vacancy: Bonaire National Marine Park Project Manager Message-ID: The FOUNDATION NATIONAL PARKS BONAIRE (STINAPA Bonaire) manages the = Bonaire National Marine Park and the Washington Slagbaai National Park = and advises the government and private entities. The organization staffs = 16 and strives for further professionalization. In this framework the = board of the foundation is looking for a MARINE PARK PROJECT MANAGER Main characteristics of the function. The project manager supports the Marine Park manager and takes part in = the development and further professionalization of STINAPA Bonaire in = general and the Marine Park in particular. The project manager is = responsible for the development and implementation of specific projects = (amongst others design interpretative materials, assist in formulating = different management plans for the Marine Park) and assists the Marine = Park manager in the day-to-day management of the Marine Park. The = project manager is accountable to the Marine Park manager. The profile. The project manager has had an education of at least a Bachelors degree = in Marine Biology but preferably a Masters degree. Experience in = management in a relevant function and excellent communicative skills = required. The functionary has a thorough command of the languages Dutch, = Papiamento and English, orally and in writing. The offer. The salary depends on age, education and experience. STINAPA Bonaire = offers excellent primary and secondary terms of employment. Your response. Should you be interested, then send your letter before April 26, 2002, = together with your curriculum vitae to: The Board of STINAPA Bonaire, = P.O.Box 368 Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles. e-mail: = stinapa at bonairelive.com ------=_NextPart_000_0068_01C1E225.E4F65220-- ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From craig at caribe.net Fri Apr 12 13:49:46 2002 From: craig at caribe.net (Craig Lilyestrom) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:49:46 -0400 Subject: clove oil Message-ID: If anyone has information about the potential effect of clove oil (as used as an aid to collection of reef fish specimens) on corals or other marine organisms, I would appreciate your sharing it with me. If it has no negative effect, of course I'd like to know that also. Thank you, Craig -- ***************************** Craig G. Lilyestrom, Ph.D. Director, Marine Resources Division Department of Natural and Environmental Resources P.O. Box 9066600 San Juan, P.R. 00906-6600 (787) 724-8772 ext. 4042 (787) 723-2805 (FAX) craig at caribe.net ***************************** ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From Roger.B.Griffis at noaa.gov Fri Apr 12 14:49:42 2002 From: Roger.B.Griffis at noaa.gov (Roger B Griffis) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:49:42 -0400 Subject: clove oil Message-ID: Clove oil is a powerful sedative on crustaceans. Don't know anything about its use in the field, but understand photographers use it to sedate crustaceans for professional grade, close-up photos because it sedates without effecting color patterns (= motionless subject in full natural color patterns). No idea what other effects might be, or how long the effect lasts. Craig Lilyestrom wrote: > If anyone has information about the potential effect of clove oil (as > used as an aid to collection of reef fish specimens) on corals or > other marine organisms, I would appreciate your sharing it with me. > If it has no negative effect, of course I'd like to know that also. > > Thank you, > > Craig > -- > ***************************** > Craig G. Lilyestrom, Ph.D. > Director, Marine Resources Division > Department of Natural and Environmental Resources > P.O. Box 9066600 > San Juan, P.R. 00906-6600 > (787) 724-8772 ext. 4042 > (787) 723-2805 (FAX) > craig at caribe.net > ***************************** > ~~~~~~~ > For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the > digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the > menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger B. Griffis Policy Advisor National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration U.S. Department of Commerce Roger B. Griffis Policy Advisor National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration U.S. Department of Commerce NOAA/NOS/ORR Rm 10116 1305 East West Highway Pager: 877-632-5370 Silver Spring Fax: 301-713-4389 MD Work: 301-713-2989 x 115 20910 USA Additional Information: Last Name Griffis First Name Roger Version 2.1 From emueller at mote.org Fri Apr 12 18:56:49 2002 From: emueller at mote.org (Erich Mueller) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 18:56:49 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Subject: Coral Disease Course Message-ID: Diseases of Corals and Other Reef Organisms Esther Peters and Robert Jonas Mote Marine Laboratory's Center for Tropical Research Summerland Key, FL 6-14 July, 2002 This course is closing soon but several spaces remain. See Website below for information and application form. http://www.mote.org/~emueller/courses.phtml <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Erich Mueller, Ph.D., Director Phone: (305) 745-2729 Mote Marine Laboratory FAX: (305) 745-2730 Center for Tropical Research Email: emueller at mote.org 24244 Overseas Highway (US 1) Summerland Key, FL 33042 Center Website-> http://www.mote.org/~emueller/CTRHome.phtml Mote Marine Laboratory Website-> http://www.mote.org Remarks are personal opinion and do not reflect institutional policy unless so indicated. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From liling_koh at hotmail.com Fri Apr 12 21:31:49 2002 From: liling_koh at hotmail.com (Koh Li Ling) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 09:31:49 +0800 Subject: clove oil Message-ID: Some of my lab mates have tried using clove oil to catch fishes at tide pools before and it works beautifully. Clove oil acts as an anaesthesia and temporarily knocks fishes out. Once they are placed in clean fresh seawater again, they will regain consciousness after some time. This method is good for hard to catch and cryptic fishes such as bennies and gobies. We have got crustaceans before as well. However, the down side to this method is, it is only effective in enclosed areas (eg tidal pools). It won't work in the open seas or on reefs. Usually clove oil is mixed with acetone in the ratio of 1:1 for the purpose of catching fishes. Li Ling ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Roger B Griffis" To: Craig Lilyestrom CC: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: clove oil Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:49:42 -0400 Clove oil is a powerful sedative on crustaceans. Don't know anything about its use in the field, but understand photographers use it to sedate crustaceans for professional grade, close-up photos because it sedates without effecting color patterns (= motionless subject in full natural color patterns). No idea what other effects might be, or how long the effect lasts. Craig Lilyestrom wrote: > If anyone has information about the potential effect of clove oil (as > used as an aid to collection of reef fish specimens) on corals or > other marine organisms, I would appreciate your sharing it with me. > If it has no negative effect, of course I'd like to know that also. > > Thank you, > > Craig > -- > ***************************** > Craig G. Lilyestrom, Ph.D. > Director, Marine Resources Division > Department of Natural and Environmental Resources > P.O. Box 9066600 > San Juan, P.R. 00906-6600 > (787) 724-8772 ext. 4042 > (787) 723-2805 (FAX) > craig at caribe.net > ***************************** > ~~~~~~~ > For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the > digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the > menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. << Roger.B.Griffis.vcf >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: Click Here ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From cnidaria at pop.earthlink.net Sat Apr 13 10:22:19 2002 From: cnidaria at pop.earthlink.net (James M. Cervino) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 10:22:19 -0400 Subject: Is this legal/ moral? Message-ID: Dear Craig & Li Ling, I recently tested clove oil on A. pallida and the preliminary results indicate stress and high algal (zooxanthellae) cell division leading to loss of these symbiotic alga. This coupled with other results collected indicate clove oil and acetone are chemicals that can harm the already stressed reefs in the tropics. I strongly advise this method of capture not be used. Do we not have laws in line to prevent this method of capture in PR? Can this be happening given all the information we have on chemical exposure to corals ? Regards, James Status: U X-Originating-IP: [137.132.3.7] From: "Koh Li Ling" To: Roger.B.Griffis at noaa.gov, craig at caribe.net Cc: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov From bogus@does.not.exist.com Fri Apr 12 21:31:49 2002 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 09:31:49 +0800 Subject: clove oil Message-ID: Some of my lab mates have tried using clove oil to catch fishes at tide pools before and it works beautifully. Clove oil acts as an anaesthesia and temporarily knocks fishes out. Once they are placed in clean fresh seawater again, they will regain consciousness after some time. This method is good for hard to catch and cryptic fishes such as bennies and gobies. We have got crustaceans before as well. However, the down side to this method is, it is only effective in enclosed areas (eg tidal pools). It won't work in the open seas or on reefs. Usually clove oil is mixed with acetone in the ratio of 1:1 for the purpose of catching fishes. Li Ling ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Roger B Griffis" To: Craig Lilyestrom CC: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov Subject: Re: clove oil Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:49:42 -0400 Clove oil is a powerful sedative on crustaceans. Don't know anything about its use in the field, but understand photographers use it to sedate crustaceans for professional grade, close-up photos because it sedates without effecting color patterns (= motionless subject in full natural color patterns). No idea what other effects might be, or how long the effect lasts. Craig Lilyestrom wrote: > If anyone has information about the potential effect of clove oil (as > used as an aid to collection of reef fish specimens) on corals or > other marine organisms, I would appreciate your sharing it with me. > If it has no negative effect, of course I'd like to know that also. > > Thank you, > > Craig > -- > ***************************** > Craig G. Lilyestrom, Ph.D. > Director, Marine Resources Division > Department of Natural and Environmental Resources > P.O. Box 9066600 > San Juan, P.R. 00906-6600 > (787) 724-8772 ext. 4042 > (787) 723-2805 (FAX) > craig at caribe.net > ***************************** > ~~~~~~~ > For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the > digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the > menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. << Roger.B.Griffis.vcf >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: Click Here ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. -- ************************************ James M. Cervino PhD. Program Marine Science Program University of South Carolina e-mail:cnidaria at earthlink.net ************************************* From Thi.Minh.Phuong.Nguyen at vub.ac.be Sat Apr 13 11:38:48 2002 From: Thi.Minh.Phuong.Nguyen at vub.ac.be (Thi Minh Phuong Nguyen) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 17:38:48 +0200 (MET DST) Subject: Fishing explosion Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Sir/Madam, My name is Nguyen Thi Minh Phuong, 1st year student of Vrije Universiteit Brussel. I would like to know any information about the fishing explosion and the methods to prevent applying this in many countries, especially in China, because this can destroy coral reefs for instance and because it damages the fish population. If you have any information sources related to the matter mentioned above, could you please send it to me via this email address. Thank you very much. Best regards. Nguyen Thi Minh Phuong ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From osha at oshadavidson.com Sun Apr 14 13:55:25 2002 From: osha at oshadavidson.com (Osha Gray Davidson) Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 12:55:25 -0500 Subject: ICRI Message-ID: I'm looking for information on how effective the various ICRI action plans have been in meeting their stated goals. I know this will vary from country to country, but any feedback on this will be helpful and much appreciated. Cheers, Osha ================================ Osha Gray Davidson Home page: www.OshaDavidson.com 14 S. Governor St. Phone: 319-338-4778 Iowa City, IA 52240 E-Mail: osha at oshadavidson.com USA The Turtle House Foundation: www.turtlehousefoundation.org ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From jaq at pipeline.com Mon Apr 15 07:39:32 2002 From: jaq at pipeline.com (Jack Stephens) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 07:39:32 -0400 Subject: coral islands Message-ID: Has anyone counted or estimated how many islands exist thanks to hermatypic corals? By this I mean 1) coral islands and islets, 2) atolls, and 3) and limestone islands which are emerged ancient reefs, and exclusive of those which are protected from erosion by them. Thanks From jon.brodie at jcu.edu.au Tue Apr 16 01:01:07 2002 From: jon.brodie at jcu.edu.au (Jon Brodie) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:01:07 +1000 Subject: CRC Reef Winter School Message-ID: Unfortunately, due to lack of numbers, the CRC Reef Winter School on Hydrodynamic and Biological Models ( including the Forum and Workshop) planned for 14 - 19 July has been cancelled. The organizers of the Winter School would like to apologise to those who expressed interest in attending the School for their inability at this time to run the School. All funds paid for registration at the School will be refunded in full. Jon Brodie James Cook University Townsville, Australia on behalf of the organizing group and the CRC Reef. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Principal Research Officer Australian Centre for Tropical Freshwater Research James Cook University, Townsville, 4811. Tel: 07 4781 6435 Fax: 07 4781 5589 Jon Principal Research Officer Australian Centre for Tropical Freshwater Research James Cook University, Townsville, 4811. Tel: 07 4781 6435 Fax: 07 4781 5589 James Cook University Fax: 07 4781 5589 Townsville Home: 07 4778 5423 Qld Work: 07 4781 6435 4811 Australia Additional Information: Last Name Brodie First Name Jon Version 2.1 From b.p.horton at durham.ac.uk Tue Apr 16 09:04:45 2002 From: b.p.horton at durham.ac.uk (Ben Horton) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:04:45 +0100 Subject: Job advert Message-ID: UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY Lectureship in Quaternary Environmental Change The Department of Geography seeks to appoint a lecturer (A or B scale) to join their Quaternary Environmental Change Research Group as part of its ongoing strategic investment in research, teaching and postgraduate activities. The Department was awarded a 5* in the 2001 RAE, with the largest return of research active staff from any Geography Department in the UK. We now seek to appoint a lecturer (A or B scale) in the field of reconstructing environmental change from marine records. The successful applicant will have (1) a growing international research reputation in this field (2) a clear field of innovative research (3) an established or growing record of research publications and presentations (4) a commitment to highest quality teaching and research (5) an interest in the development and application of new techniques of environmental reconstruction (6) an interest in exploring linkages between marine records and those from the nearshore and terrestrial realms In addition, we would see it as an advantage to have (1) a commitment to enhancing the activities of the Quaternary Environmental Change research group, including linkages with the other groups as appropriate (2) a potential to attract research support The Quaternary Environmental Change Research Group (http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/research/qec/index.html) Research by the QEC Research Group covers a broad range of inter-related topics concerned with Quaternary Environmental Change, but with particular interests in the following four themes: Late Devensian and Holocene sea-level change, crustal rebound and coastal evolution; stratigraphy and bio-stratigraphy of Quaternary marine environments and ice sheet histories; Quaternary history and fluvial records; compilation of databases/archives for paleoenvironmental reconstruction. The Group sees this spread of interests, which link the ocean, coastal, fluvial and terrestrial environments, as one of its key strengths. As can be seen from the individual member details (see WWW), the Quaternary Environmental Change Research Group has a reputation for theoretical, methodological and applied research relating to Quaternary environmental change. QEC staff have expertise in palaeoceanography, ice sheet history in Antarctica and Greenland (Bentley, Long, Lloyd, Roberts); the dynamics of ice sheet flow and ice sheet interaction with sea-level change (Bentley, Roberts); climate change and continental shelf evolution (Lloyd, Bentley); shallow marine and coastal environments (Horton, Lloyd, Long, Roberts, Shennan, Zong); as well as Quaternary fluvial and vegetation history (Bridgland, Simmons). Linkage across these realms is a major strength, as is the integration of empirical field observations with modelling over a range of spatial and temporal scales. Group members often work in collaboration on research programmes throughout the World, including Britain, Europe, Antarctica, South America, Greenland, the North Atlantic, North America, Australia, Indonesia and China. Members of QEC and the other main Physical Geography research group in the Department (Earth Surface Systems (ESS)) are closely involved in a cross-department research group known as the Environmental Research Centre, which brings under a single umbrella specialists from Geography, Archaeology, Biological Sciences, Engineering and Geology. Excellent facilities exist for many types of Quaternary sediment analysis, with a well equipped laboratory and full time technical support. ******************************************** Dr Ben Horton Lecturer in Physical Geography Department of Geography University of Durham Durham DH1 3LE, UK Fax: 0191 374 2456 Tel: 0191 374 2486 Webpage: http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/information/official_sites/bph.html ******************************************** ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From Satighe at aol.com Tue Apr 16 19:14:46 2002 From: Satighe at aol.com (Satighe at aol.com) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 19:14:46 EDT Subject: community-based monitoring and Indonesia Message-ID: Sara: I would love to hear more about the Sea Grant community-based methods. I am also interested in learning how Sea Grant is used to support your program. This has been a very useful discussion thread, so I am motivated to join in with a description of our preliminary work. As part of the URI/CRC project in Indonesia, we have begun a "stakeholder-operated" monitoring collaboration this spring (2002). The model is simple: stakeholders monitor their own resources (fishermen, dive centers, hotels, national park, env agency) per their interest or mandates. Only real responsibility is to a) use standard protocols for similar management questions where possible, b) get trained by one of the volunteer training centers (starting out as university, Reefcheck and NGO, will diverge in future), c) report info on "standard forms" and d) attend an annual workshop where the compiled results and some analysis/interpretation are discussed. The local univ will use a statistics course and volunteers to process data (our project will help set up module), and all participants will get a CD with data and 1-page summary interpretations at community-reading level each year. Non-standard or special studies from donors, etc., will be added to the annual CD for completenes! s if not compatibility. The only real program costs are for a coordinator and the annual workshop--everyone else's time is volunteered. We have over 50 sets of stakeholders committed to collecting info this year, and plan to write a guidebook for how to set up this for other Indonesian (or generic) districts including the method, data processing exercises, etc., following the program over the next year. I will be presenting this approach/model at CZ-Asia-Pacific in May in Bangkok, and should have the background paper completed shortly if anyone is interested. Best regards, Stacey T. ========================================================== Stacey A. Tighe, Ph.D. Sr. Technical Advisor, Proyek Pesisir URI/CRC Coastal Resources Management Project Jakarta, Indonesia Email: satighe at aol.com or stighe at cbn.net.id Tel: (62-21) 720-9596 From tvs at uskonet.com Wed Apr 17 02:17:04 2002 From: tvs at uskonet.com (Tania van Schalkwyk) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:17:04 +0400 Subject: LETTER TO PROTECT LILE AUX BENITIERS, MAURITIUS Message-ID: I am writing as a concerned citizen of Mauritius. There are many of us. You may already be aware of the hotel/delux villas/resort project planned for L'ile aux Benitiers, an islet in the middle of a lagoon on the west coast of Mauritius. If not, subsequent emails including: * a petition called 'Mauritius: Paradise Lost?' (circulating since a month), * and a report compiled of factual & hypothetical arguments for protecting L'ile aux Benitiers from Development, will be sent to you in the next 24 hours. Should you not receive these, please contact: tvs at uskonet.com This email is being sent to request your help and actions to save L'ile aux Benitiers. Our Mauritian government needs to be made aware that there are concerned citizens, organisations and experts locally and internationally that are worried about and/or against the exploitation/development of L'ile aux Benitiers. Therefore, we urge you to write to our Prime Minister and ministers concerned, voicing your opinions, concerns, opposition, arguments, etc. regarding L'ile aux Benitiers. Below please find the names & email addresses to write to: - The Honourable Karl Hoffman, President: statepas at intnet.mu - The Right Honourable Sir Anerood Jugnauth, Prime Minister: primeminister at intnet.mu - The Honourable Paul Raymond B?renger, Deputy Prime Minister: minister at mof.intnet.mu - The Honourable Karl Hoffman, President: statepas at intnet.mu - The Honourable Rajesh Anand Bhagwan, Minister of the Environment: minisenv at intnet.mu - The Honourable Ananda Rajoo, Adviser to the Minister of the Environment: rajooananda at hotmail.com - The Honourable Nandcoomar Bodha, Minister of Tourism: mot at intnet.mu - The Honourable Sylvio Louis Michel, Minister of Fisheries: smichel at mail.gov.mu - The Honourable Pravin Kumar Jugnauth, Minister of Agriculture, Food Technology & Natural Resources: moamic at intnet.mu - The Honourable Mookhusswur Choonee, Minister of Housing & Lands: mchoonee at mail.gov.mu - The Honourable Ashock Kumar Jugnauth, Minister of Health & Quality of Life: mohql at intnet.mu - The Honourable Motee Ramdass, Minister of Arts & Culture: minoac at intnet.mu - The Honourable Emmanuel Jean Leung Shing, Attorney General & Minister of Justice & Human Rights: sgo at intnet.mu - The Honourable Steven Obeegadoo , Minister of Education & Scientific Research: meduhrd at bow.intnet.mu primeminister at intnet.mu; minister at mof.intnet.mu; statepas at intnet.mu; mohql at intnet.mu; rajooananda at hotmail.com; mot at intnet.mu; minisenv at intnet.mu; meduhrd at bow.intnet.mu; smichel at mail.gov.mu; mchoonee at mail.gov.mu; minoac at intnet.mu; sgo at intnet.mu; moamic at intnet.mu; tvs at uskonet.com Please copy your letter(s) to the following address: tvs at uskonet.com so that a track can be kept. These letters will alert the government of the urgent need for them to acknowledge & act on the requests made in the petition. The petition is currently being signed and distributed on a national and international level; and copies will be delivered to the necessary officials in the near future. Please continue to sign and pass on the petition! Please include your job title/organisation/professional function and country of residence in your letter. This is of course, optional and at your discretion. You are free to use your own words, or copy & paste the following passage, based on the requests made at the end of the petition, as they appear below: WE WILL NOT ACCEPT THE DEGRADATION NOR THE DISFIGUREMENT OF L'ILE AUX BENITIERS. - We therefore categorically oppose ANY DEVELOPMENT, including hotel/residential/golf course/restaurant/recreational/commercial projects, occurring on L'ile aux Benitiers An islet so important to us all: - La Gaulette villagers, Mauritian citizens, foreign tourists, the plant, animal and sea life of Mauritius, the tropical ecosystem of the Indian Ocean and therefore the planet and all its inhabitants. We launch an international appeal for the protection, conservation and restoration of the terrestrial and marine biodiversity of L'ile aux Benitiers. We urge the Mauritian government to review its position and procedures towards the classification of our country's islets. We request L'ile aux Benitiers to be reclassified as a nature reserve. We urgently request the relevant authorities to implement an environmental education & information programme in the region, so that all persons using our islets, beaches and lagoon can do so in a well-informed manner, therefore ensuring responsability towards the social and environmental protection of our coastal heritage. For the Future of Our Children. For the Future of Our Planet. Only after the Last Tree has been cut down,Only after the Last River has been poisoned, Only after the Last Fish has been Caught, Only then will you find that Money Cannot be Eaten. -Cree Indian Prophecy *********************************** Thank you for your time and help. PLEASE FORWARD THIS LETTER TO AS MANY PEOPLE/ORGANISATIONS AS POSSIBLE. THANK YOU. Please do not hesitate to write to tvs at uskonet.com with comments, requests, suggestions ;or for more information, such as copies of recent articles about Lile aux Benitiers, from our local newspapers. PLEASE DO TAKE TIME TO WRITE/COPY THIS LETTER, EVEN IF YOU HAVE SIGNED THE PETITION. YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE BY ADDING YOUR VOICE & WORDS TO THOSE OF OTHERS. THANK YOU! Yours Truly, Tania Haberland - van Schalkwyk (a concerned citizen) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: winmail.dat winmail.dat Type: Notepad (application/x-unknown-content-type-Notepad.exe) Encoding: base64 From mr-t at dml.ac.uk Wed Apr 17 10:03:04 2002 From: mr-t at dml.ac.uk (Murray Roberts) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:03:04 +0100 Subject: PhD available Message-ID: The Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) PhD Studentship 'Environmental sensitivity of cold water corals' This 3 year studentship will start in September 2002 and will be based at = the SAMS Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory near Oban on the west coast of = Scotland. The project will involve close liaison with the offshore oil = industry through the Atlantic Frontier Environment Network. The work will = entail periods of time offshore for which full training will be given. The = research will examine the sensitivity of cold-water corals to environmental= disturbance, particularly in relation to drilling discharges and will = focus on four broad themes: =B7 Mapping current coral distribution in relation to drilling activity = (GIS) =B7 Monitoring the coral environment in situ =B7 Isotopic, trace element and hydrocarbon analysis of coral skeleton =B7 Effect of environmental disturbance on coral behaviour and physiology Candidates should possess a minimum of a First or Upper 2nd class degree = in biological or environmental sciences and excellent communication = skills. Applicants should submit a CV and covering letter by 10 May 2002. = For more information contact Murray Roberts, The Scottish Association for = Marine Science, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Oban, Argyll, PA37 1QA, = UK. Tel: +44 (0)1631-559000, Fax: +44 (0)1631-559001, e-mail: m.roberts at dml= .ac.uk, website: www.sams.ac.uk ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From GBUCK at crs.loc.gov Thu Apr 18 13:27:47 2002 From: GBUCK at crs.loc.gov (Gene Buck) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:27:47 -0400 Subject: Passing along a query I received... Message-ID: From sandy.zetlan at emcmail.maricopa.edu Thu Apr 18 15:09:54 2002 From: sandy.zetlan at emcmail.maricopa.edu (Sandy Zetlan) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:09:54 -0600 Subject: opportunities for students? Message-ID: Colleagues- I am looking for any internship opportunity (prefereably paid) for two of my students this summer. They showed up after most of the deadlines had passed. If you have any ideas on where they might apply, I would appreciate the information. Thanks- -- Sandy Zetlan, Ph.D. Biology Faculty Estrella Mountain Community College Avondale, AZ 85323 623-935-8458 ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From j.oliver at cgiar.org Fri Apr 19 06:31:02 2002 From: j.oliver at cgiar.org (Jamie Oliver) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 03:31:02 -0700 Subject: New ReefBase Website Message-ID: Dear coral listers, A new version of the ReefBase website & database is now online at http://www.reefbase.org . This is a totally revised site with a great deal of new information which we feel will be valuable to managers, policy makers researchers and genera reef users. We would like to point out some of the highlights of the ReefBase website: - an attractive homepage with daily "fresh" coral reef news items from international media - easy to use navigation system allowing you to find any information for any country in less than 3 clicks - easy access to coral reef status reports, as well as the Reefs at Risk reports - online GIS: view interactive coral reef maps online! (this one is fast!) - a search facility for coral reef photos in our photo gallery containing a growing number of new high resolution images - a search facility for coral reef references (>12 000 records, including over 350 online documents!) The key text-based information in ReefBase is organized by country, and covers the following themes: - Description of Coastal and Marine Resources - Status of Coastal and Marine Resources - Threats to Coastal and Marine Resources - Management of Coastal and Marine Resources As the central repository of the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN), the core of ReefBase's content originated from the various national coral reef status reports produced under the GCRMN. In addition, substantial data and information has been contributed by UNEP-WCMC as well as the World Resources Institute (WRI). We are continuously adding more information as reports become available to us. A number of online forms allow you to contribute information, and assist us in making ReefBase a great repository for all of us with an interest in coral reefs. Currently, you can: - upload coral reef related documents, reports and other types of publications - upload coral reef photographs - submit a coral bleaching report (in collaboration with NOAA-NESDIS) - submit a coral bleaching questionnaire We hope you will give the new ReefBase website a try: http://www.reefbase.org and give us feed back either by return email or using the online feedback form. Best regards, Dr. Jamie Oliver Mr. Marco Noordeloos Project Leader, ReefBase Manager, ReefBase Project ICLARM - The World Fish Center ICLARM - The World Fish Center PS. A website is never a finished product. Although we are confident that most of you will be pleased with the new interface of ReefBase, I do need to advice that we are currently still working on a few issues to improve performance in Netscape browsers, as well as on Apple Macintosh platforms. People using IE under some form of Windows environment, and should not experience any difficulty using the ReefBase website. =============================== Jamie Oliver Senior Scientist (Coral Reef Projects) ICLARM - The World Fish Center PO Box 500, Penang 10670 Phone: (604) 626 1606 Fax: (604) 626 5530 email: J.Oliver at cgiar.org =============================== ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From bill.millhouser at noaa.gov Fri Apr 19 16:07:14 2002 From: bill.millhouser at noaa.gov (Bill.Millhouser) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 16:07:14 -0400 Subject: Coral Reef Conservation Grants Message-ID: Two documents providing Guidance for the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Grant Program were published in the Federal Register Friday April 19, 2002. The "Final Guidelines" provide a general overview of the program, while the "Fiscal Year 2002 Funding Guidance" provides specific information on the eligibility, proposal content, etc. for each of the six program areas included in this years funding. Both of the documents may be found at http://www.coral.noaa.gov/crcp. Applications for funding are due to NOAA on May 24, 2002. For additional information on specific programs, please contact the technical points of contact listed in the "Supplementary Information" section of the FY 2002 Guidance. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Bill Millhouser, Pacific Regional Manager Coastal Programs Division, OCRM, NOAA N/ORM-3, Room 11206 1305 East-West Hwy, Silver Spring, MD 20910 Ph: 301-563-1189 Fax: 301-713-4367 Mobile: 703-623-9909 E-Mail: bill.millhouser at noaa.gov http://www.ocrm.nos.noaa.gov/ ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From Jim.Hendee at noaa.gov Tue Apr 23 08:43:36 2002 From: Jim.Hendee at noaa.gov (Jim Hendee) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:43:36 -0400 Subject: [Fwd: [Fwd: coral growth rates]] Message-ID: Approved: 511kazz Subject: coral growth rates From: "gino sabatini" To: coral-list Ms/Sir, I'm presently working on a project involving the coral reefs of the Persian Gulf. I know that the Persian Gulf represents the northern limit for corals, as well as a stressful environment in terms of temperature and salinity. Coral reefs in that area of the world have a low diversity. I was wondering if you could guide me to literature that addresses coral growth rates in the Persian Gulf or if your organization has such information. Thank you for your attention. Gino Sabatini --------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: coral growth rates Resent-From: answers at noaa.gov Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:19:15 -0500 From: "gino sabatini" To: answers at noaa.gov Ms/Sir, I'm presently working on a project involving the coral reefs of the Persian Gulf. I know that the Persian Gulf represents the northern limit for corals, as well as a stressful environment in terms of temperature and salinity. Coral reefs in that area of the world have a low diversity. I was wondering if you could guide me to literature that addresses coral growth rates in the Persian Gulf or if your organization has such information. Thank you for your attention. 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From matz at whitney.ufl.edu Tue Apr 23 16:23:09 2002 From: matz at whitney.ufl.edu (Mikhail Matz) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:23:09 -0400 Subject: sex determination in corals Message-ID: Hello listers, Does anybody know the mechanism of sex determination in great star coral Montastraea cavernosa? And how to tell a boy from a girl?.. Mike -- Mikhail V. Matz, Ph.D. Whitney Laboratory University of Florida 9505 Ocean Shore blvd St Augustine FL 32080-8610, USA phone +1 904 461 4025 fax +1 904 461 4008 ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From acohen at whoi.edu Tue Apr 23 16:53:00 2002 From: acohen at whoi.edu (anne cohen) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:53:00 -0400 Subject: New Science paper on Astrangia Message-ID: Dear All I want to draw your attention to our paper published last week in Science (April 12th, pp 331). It describes the differences in skeletal chemistry between symbiotic and asymbiotic colonies of Astrangia poculata. We attributed these differences, which have implications for coral-based climate records, to the presence/absence of algal symbionts in the host tissue. Regards, Anne. -- Dr A.L. Cohen Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Geology and Geophysics, ms#23 Woods Hole MA 02543 USA T: 508 289 2958 F: 508 457 2175 ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From michael.rard at univ-reunion.fr Wed Apr 24 03:15:52 2002 From: michael.rard at univ-reunion.fr (Michaël RARD) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:15:52 +0300 Subject: Clove oil Message-ID: Dear all, I'm study the coral physiology (one point is zooxanthellae density) in relation with water quality, season and some times with bleaching events in Reunion Island. What you talk about the effect of clove oil and acetone is for me very interessant. I would appreciate any references or other informations about these impacts. If it has no negative effect, of course I'd like to know that also. Many thanks for all. Best regards, Micha?l -- Micha?l RARD Laboratoire d'Ecologie Marine, Universit? de la R?union 97715 Saint Denis messag CEDEX 9, France Tel : (262) 262-93-81-57, Fax : (262) 262-93-86-85 http://perso.wanadoo.fr/mika.dit.kl/html/ContactsMika.htm From jware at erols.com Wed Apr 24 08:00:27 2002 From: jware at erols.com (John Ware) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:00:27 -0400 Subject: sex determination in corals Message-ID: Assuming that the method is not invasive, I'm interested too. Please respond to list. Thanks, John Mikhail Matz wrote: > > Hello listers, > > Does anybody know the mechanism of sex determination in great star coral > Montastraea cavernosa? And how to tell a boy from a girl?.. > > Mike > > -- > Mikhail V. Matz, Ph.D. > > Whitney Laboratory > University of Florida > 9505 Ocean Shore blvd > St Augustine FL 32080-8610, USA > phone +1 904 461 4025 > fax +1 904 461 4008 > > ~~~~~~~ > For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the > digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the > menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. -- ************************************************************* * * * John R. 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From tdhickey at usgs.gov Wed Apr 24 09:19:15 2002 From: tdhickey at usgs.gov (T D Hickey) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:19:15 -0400 Subject: tissue loss on M. cavernosa Message-ID: Hi Coral Folks, I have been involved in a project with Bob Halley and Chris Reich assessing the effects of Hurricane Mitch on the coral reefs of the Bay Islands, Honduras. Our last trip was in November and while diving off the island of Guanaja, I came across this M. cavernosa that appears to be losing its living tissue rapidly. I have talked with a few local coral experts and the consensus is, "some call this a white wasting disease" and they have observed similar outward symptoms in other areas of the Caribbean (i.e. south Florida and USVI). I have about 1 minute of digital video of this one particular head (I have not seen this before). In some cases, half of the polyp has living tissue and the other half is skeleton. The skeleton is absolutely tissue-free. Is this a type of plague? The literature that I have found does not mention this syndrome. Do you know anyone that may be working on this? And of course I must ask the impossible... Has a pathogen been identified? Please see the below web address for a still image taken from the video. http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/~tdhickey/Mcav.jpg Thank you in advance for your time and any information you may provide, Don ------------------------------- T. Donald Hickey U.S. Geological Survey Center for Coastal Studies 600 4th St. South St. Petersburg, FL 33701 Phone: (727) 803-8747 ext. 3040 Fax: (727) 803-2032 tdhickey at usgs.gov http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/ ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From david.browne at mail.mcgill.ca Wed Apr 24 14:17:03 2002 From: david.browne at mail.mcgill.ca (David Browne) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:17:03 -0400 Subject: Call for directors and volunteers Message-ID: Interested in saving marine ecosystems? Want to use or develop your leadership skills? Interested in being part of an international team? Ocean Voice International is looking for new Directors and committee members! Ocean Voice International is a small, non-profit, marine conservation organization based in Ottawa, Canada. Founded in 1987, Ocean Voice works toward the protection of marine habitats and sustainable marine resource use. We focus on community-based projects and alternative livelihoods for coastal communities in Canada and overseas. Past projects have included sustainable aquarium fish harvest in the Philippines, community participation in marine park management and coastal zone management in Indonesia, and public education on coral reef conservation in the Caribbean. Ocean Voice also publishes a quarterly marine conservation journal, Sea Wind, and technical reports on the status of marine resources. We are looking for individuals from Canada and other countries with varying levels and types of experience and an interest in marine conservation issues who are interested in serving on the Board of Directors or one of the working committees of Ocean Voice. Members of the Board of Directors have worked on developing new projects and establishing links with other organizations and governments. They oversee the administration of the organization. Working committees include the editorial board of Sea Wind, the environmental education committee, and the fundraising committee. Individuals with experience working on Boards/Committees and in areas such as research, administration, policy development, fundraising, marketing or communications are especially encouraged to get involved. We will be holding our Annual General Meeting on June 1st in Ottawa. If you are interested in becoming involved with Ocean Voice, please contact us at: Ocean Voice International Box 37026 3332 McCarthy Rd. Ottawa, Ontario K1V 0W0 Tel 613-721-4541 Fax 613-721-4562 Email oceans at superaje.ca www.ovi.ca ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From jpquod.arvam at wanadoo.fr Wed Apr 24 23:28:04 2002 From: jpquod.arvam at wanadoo.fr (Jean Pascal QUOD) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:28:04 +0800 Subject: Fihs kill in Réunion, SW Indian ocean Message-ID: Dear Coral listers, We are writing today as since february, west coast of R?union is experiencing a fish kill event, still running on. We have suffered from a previous outbreak in november 2000 wich killed deep species such as carnivorous species cf groupers V louti, and herbivorous fishes. The actual situation seems to coincide with the cyclone DINA but we have not been able to confirm either this occurence nor the triggering factors. Streptoccocus bacteria have been identified both in 2002 & 2002. If you can contribute to understanding key issues, give us accurate protocols, please contact Jean Turquet, Environment Toxicology Unit, R?union (Email jturquet.arvam at wanadoo.fr). Best regards, From Jim.Hendee at noaa.gov Thu Apr 25 08:24:54 2002 From: Jim.Hendee at noaa.gov (Jim Hendee) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:24:54 -0400 Subject: What you send or post Message-ID: Greetings Coral-Listers, I just wanted to remind you that the coral-list software (majordomo) will not accept the posting of large files (i.e., over 30K characters). Thus, if you have documents (especially as binary word processor files) or pictures that you try to post, they will be rejected and your post will not appear. Your best bet is to refer to a URL on a Web site where that information is stored. Majordomo is meant to serve as a fairly brief email information and/or discussion outlet, not as a large data service. Thank you for your cooperation. Cheers, Jim Hendee coral-list administrator ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From mekvinga at yahoo.com Thu Apr 25 08:31:19 2002 From: mekvinga at yahoo.com (Melissa Keyes) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 05:31:19 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Clove oil and acetone Message-ID: Hello everyone, Clove oil, topically applied, will dull the pain of a toothache in humans. Strong stuff. Acetone is the same as nail polish remover. Try this: put your head in a bag with a dish of evaporating acetone, breathe the fumes for a few minutes, and see how you feel, then tell me it must be harmless. Cheers, Melissa Keyes St. Croix, USVI ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more From Jim.Hendee at noaa.gov Thu Apr 25 09:35:35 2002 From: Jim.Hendee at noaa.gov (Jim Hendee) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 09:35:35 -0400 Subject: Clove oil and acetone Message-ID: That was kind of funny, but for those of you not familiar with acetone, don't try that! It will kill you! cheers, Jim Melissa Keyes wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Clove oil, topically applied, will dull the pain of a toothache in > humans. Strong stuff. > > Acetone is the same as nail polish remover. Try this: put your head > in a bag with a dish of evaporating acetone, breathe the fumes for a > few minutes, and see how you feel, then tell me it must be harmless. > > Cheers, > > Melissa Keyes > > St. Croix, USVI > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From david.browne at mail.mcgill.ca Thu Apr 25 10:34:47 2002 From: david.browne at mail.mcgill.ca (David Browne) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 10:34:47 -0400 Subject: Ocean Voice call for directors correction Message-ID: CORRECTION The email given for Ocean Voice in the call for directors and volunteers should be oceans at superaje.com David Browne Ocean Voice International ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From szmanta at uncwil.edu Thu Apr 25 11:03:16 2002 From: szmanta at uncwil.edu (Alina M. Szmant) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:03:16 -0400 Subject: sex determination in corals Message-ID: Unfortunately, you need to take a tissue sample to see if the colony carries sperm or eggs. At 08:00 AM 04/24/2002 -0400, you wrote: > Assuming that the method is not invasive, I'm interested too. Please > respond to list. > > Thanks, > John > > Mikhail Matz wrote: > > > > Hello listers, > > > > Does anybody know the mechanism of sex determination in great star coral > > Montastraea cavernosa? And how to tell a boy from a girl?.. > > > > Mike > > > > -- > > Mikhail V. Matz, Ph.D. > > > > Whitney Laboratory > > University of Florida > > 9505 Ocean Shore blvd > > St Augustine FL 32080-8610, USA > > phone +1 904 461 4025 > > fax +1 904 461 4008 > > > > ~~~~~~~ > > For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the > > digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the > > menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. > > -- > ************************************************************* > * * > * John R. Ware, PhD * > * President * > * SeaServices, Inc. * > * 19572 Club House Road * > * Montgomery Village, MD, 20886, USA * > * 301 987-8507 * > * jware at erols.com * > * seaservices.org * > * fax: 301 987-8531 * > * _ * > * | * > * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * > * _|_ * > * | _ | * > * _______________________________| |________ * > * |\/__ Undersea Technology for the 21st Century \ * > * |/\____________________________________________/ * > ************************************************************** > ~~~~~~~ > For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the > digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the > menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. ******************************************************************* Dr. Alina M. Szmant Coral Reef Research Group Professor of Biology Center for Marine Science University of North Carolina at Wilmington 5600 Marvin K. Moss Lane Wilmington NC 28409-5928 tel: (910)962-2362 fax: (910)962-2410 email: szmanta at uncwil.edu http://www.uncwil.edu/people/szmanta/ ****************************************************************** From yaelll at yahoo.com Thu Apr 25 12:48:32 2002 From: yaelll at yahoo.com (Yael Ben-Haim) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 09:48:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Tissue loss on M. cavernosa (and other corals) Message-ID: Hi Don, I have been studying tissue loss (tissue lysis as we term) of stony corals for the last few years, in relation to bacterial infection, as well as effect of increased seawater temperatures. We have isolated and characterized a new bacterial pathogen that is the causative agent of tissue lysis of Pocillopora damicornis corals. The pathogen was isolated originally from diseased corals in the Indian Ocean , and was reisolated, identified and tested for pathogenicity in the Red Sea as well. It is a novel species of the genus Vibrio , named Vibrio coralyticus. The paper summarizing the research will be very soon published in Marine Biology , and hopegully answer a few of your questions. The picture of the M. cavernosa showing tissue loss, and your descriptions of the syndromes are very similar to our cases , and it may be caused by a similar or closely related pathogen. Will it be possible to view somehow the video you've filmed? Did you by any chance recorded the sea temperature, when you saw the lysing corals? Hope this helps, Yael Yael Ben-Haim Dept. of Microbiology and Biotechnology Tel Aviv University Israel Tel: (972) 3 6407627 Fax: (972) 3 6429377 e-mail: yaelbh at post.tau.ac.il ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more From matz at whitney.ufl.edu Thu Apr 25 15:29:58 2002 From: matz at whitney.ufl.edu (Mike Matz) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 15:29:58 -0400 Subject: sex determination in corals - 2 Message-ID: Hi, thanks a lot to everybody who replied to my question; it looks like there is no non-invasive way (yet) to tell a boy from a girl; but: What about the biological mechanisms that determine sex in corals? For example, is it genetically pre-determined, or sex of a colony can change, say, depending on age and/or environmental conditions? Any information of this sort will be much appreciated. Mike Mikhail V. Matz, Ph.D. Whitney Laboratory University of Florida 9505 Ocean Shore blvd St Augustine FL 32080-8610, USA phone +1 904 461 4025 fax +1 904 461 4008 ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From Eileen.Alicea at noaa.gov Thu Apr 25 16:57:40 2002 From: Eileen.Alicea at noaa.gov (Eileen Alicea) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 16:57:40 -0400 Subject: Internat'l coral funding Message-ID: A new opportunity for funding of international coral reef projects is now available through NOAA?s Coral Reef Conservation Grant Program, which was published in the Federal Register on Friday, April 19. The international grant information below is excerpted from the Federal Register, Vol. 67, No. 76 The Final Program Guidelines provide a general overview of the program, while the Fiscal Year 2002 Funding Guidance provides specific information on the eligibility, proposal content, etc. for each of the six program areas included in this year?s funding. Both of the documents may be found at http://www.coral.noaa.gov/crcp. Applications for funding are due to NOAA on MAY 24, 2002. Eligible Applicants Applicants will be international governmental and non-governmental organizations and institutions including Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, and the Marshall Islands The International grant program has four objectives: 1. Promote Monitoring of Coral Ecosystems: The National Action Plan gives priority to collaboration with the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN), recognizing the importance of its biennial Status of Coral Reefs of the World reports, and extensive partnerships with regional and national monitoring efforts. Therefore, activities will focus on expanding biophysical monitoring networks that contribute to understanding the status of coral reefs, promoting public awareness, and contributing to local management objectives. In FY 2002, emphasis will be placed on community participation in monitoring programs, communication of results to policy makers, and commitment to make data available to the GCRMN Data Centre at the International Centre for Living Aquatic Resources. 2. Enhance Management Effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs): The National Action Plan calls for strengthening the protection of resources within existing MPAs. NOAA has launched strategic partnerships with the World Conservation Union's (IUCN) World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) and World Wildlife Fund (WWF)International to improve the management of MPAs by providing managers, planners, and other decision-makers with methods for assessing the effectiveness of MPA sites and national systems of MPAs. Therefore, funded activities will focus on assessing the effectiveness of management at those pilot coral MPAs that apply and test the approach and indicators developed therein. 3. Encourage Regional Approaches to Further Marine Reserves in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia: The National Action Plan highlights the role that highly protected areas (i.e., no-take ecological reserves) play in creating a network of coral marine protected areas for biodiversity conservation and sustainable fisheries management. The Program will fund activities that support the development of networks of marine reserves in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia. The Program will fund regional-level activities that promote the design and implementation of no-take marine reserves such as awareness campaigns on the value of marine reserves for government officials and policy makers throughout the region, or training workshops on sustainable financing mechanisms for marine reserve management. The Caribbean and Southeast Asia regions were selected in part because of the substantial interest and existing experience with marine reserves. 4. Promote the Use of Socio-Economic Assessments in Marine Protected Areas: The National Action Plan recognizes that the human dimension is often overlooked in developing coral reef management strategies and calls for measures to enhance understanding of stakeholder benefits and resolve important user conflicts. Recognizing the importance of the human dimension, the GCRMN, in partnership with NOAA, WCPA, and the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), recently published The Socioeconomic Manual for Coral Reef Management, a guide to conducting socioeconomic assessments of reef user groups. Awards Awards will be for $30,000 ?$40,000 each for 12-18 month duration with an Oct 1st start date. Project duration should be 12-18 months and matching contributions should be from non-US Federal sources. If an organization has no reasonable means to provide a match, please refer to Section VIII. Matching funds of the Program Guidelines Federal Register Notice at http://www.coral.noaa.gov/crcp/ for detailed instructions How to apply: One original and two signed project proposal packages of federal forms and work proposal should be submitted to: David Kennedy, NOAA Coral Program Coordinator, Office of Response and Restoration, N/ORR, NOAA National Ocean Service, 1305 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910 with ATTENTION to International Coral Reef Conservation. Fax Number is 301-713-4389. Applications must be received by FRIDAY, MAY 24, 2002. Notice of intent to fund will be sent to applicants by June 28, 2002 and final applications are due to NOAA on July 19, 2002. Please consider delivery times from international or remote locations. No electronic mail applications will be accepted. International funding information begins at IX. International Coral Reef Conservation of the Funding Guidelines FRN. Pertinent federal forms include forms SF-424, SF-424A, SF-424B, CD 511,CD 512, and SF-LLL, and can be obtained from the NOAA grants Website at www.rdc.noaa.gov/~grants/pdf. For more information, please contact Eileen Alicea at eileen.alicea at noaa.gov or 301-713-3078 x218. ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From Mark.Vermeij at noaa.gov Thu Apr 25 18:21:23 2002 From: Mark.Vermeij at noaa.gov (Mark Vermeij) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 18:21:23 -0400 Subject: wrecks as natural laboratorium Message-ID: Aloha- For the past few days I have been swimming over the reefs on the Florida Keys to look for areas with high coral recruitment. On average you'll find between 8-15 juveniles (<1cm diameter) within a square meter. Surprisingly, the number of recruits increases enormously on wrecks (as it does in other regions in the Caribbean) and up to 100 juvenile individuals can easily be found per m^2. Although the composition of such communities is biased towards "opportunistic" species (i.e. Siderastrea, Porites, Madracis, Agaricids, Dichocoenia), there is still a lot of potential to use such communities in life history analyses since signs of reduced growth or increased (partial) mortality resulting from their position on a "unnatural substratum" seem absent. Adult colonies are also more abundant and also do well. Despite these promising characteristics (high density, survival and low "stress") I wonder whether anybody can explain why coral recruits do so well on these structures that have been submerged for >30 years? Is it because of an settlement preference for metal structures, a large reduction of in the competition for space with macro algae (these are nearly absent on the wrecks I saw) or something else? I look forward to your suggestions/ hypotheses to clarify this phenomenon. Best regards, Mark -- Dr. Mark Vermeij Post Doctoral Associate Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies NOAA Fisheries, Southeast Science Center 75 Virginia Beach Dr, Miami, FL 33149 USA Tel: +1 305-361-4230, Fax: +1 305-361-4562 E-mail: Mark.Vermeij at noaa.gov http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/groups/cimas/ http://www.noaa.gov From lakehills1 at juno.com Fri Apr 26 12:31:12 2002 From: lakehills1 at juno.com (George Stettner) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 09:31:12 -0700 Subject: coral-list-daily V2 #408 Message-ID: On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 04:00:31 GMT owner-coral-list-daily at coral.aoml.noaa.gov (coral-list-daily) writes: Hi Don, [snip] It is a novel species of the genus Vibrio , named Vibrio coralyticus. The paper summarizing the research will be very soon published in Marine Biology , and hopegully answer a few of your questions. [snip] Yael Yael Ben-HaimDept. of Microbiology and BiotechnologyTel Aviv UniversityIsraelTel: (972) 3 6407627Fax: (972) 3 6429377e-mail: yaelbh at post.tau.ac.il Yael, Could you please post on the list when this is published, or a URL where it might be found? Thanks, George Stettner Aquarium/Reptile Supervisor San Antonio Zoo ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From fouke at uiuc.edu Fri Apr 26 13:44:16 2002 From: fouke at uiuc.edu (Bruce W. Fouke) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:44:16 -0500 Subject: black band disease molecular microbiology Message-ID: For those interested in coral black band disease, our preliminary data set on the molecular microbiology of BBD has just appeared in press. Frias-Lopez, J., Zerkle, A.L., Bonheyo, G.T., and Fouke, B.W., 2002, Partitioning of bacterial communities between seawater and healthy, black band diseased, and dead coral surfaces. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Vol. 68, No. 5, p. 2214-2228. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bruce W. Fouke, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Geology University of Illinois 1301 W. Green Street Urbana, IL 61801 USA Office Phone: (217) 244-5431 Office FAX: (217) 244-4996 Lab Phones: (217) 333-0672 or (217) 244-9848 Email: fouke at uiuc.edu Web Site: http://www.geology.uiuc.edu/~bfouke/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From eshinn at usgs.gov Fri Apr 26 16:38:36 2002 From: eshinn at usgs.gov (Gene Shinn) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:38:36 -0400 Subject: American Scientist lead article Message-ID: The current issue of American Scientist contains a review paper on African dust, microbes, and corals by, Griffin et al. For a preview go to http://www.sigmaxi.org/amsci/articles/02articles/Griffin.html ------------------------------------ ----------------------------------- http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/african_dust/ | E. A. Shinn email eshinn at usgs.gov USGS Center for Coastal Geology | 600 4th St. South | voice (727) 803-8747 x3030 St.Petersburg, FL 33701 | fax (727) 803-2032 ------------------------------------ ----------------------------------- ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From yaelll at yahoo.com Sat Apr 27 05:51:59 2002 From: yaelll at yahoo.com (Yael Ben-Haim) Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 02:51:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Isolation of a novel bacterial coral pathogen Message-ID: Hi all Coral-Listers, George and Don , Hereby attached the online publication url in Marine Biology, of the paper describing the isolation and characterization of the novel bacterial pathogen of Pocillopora damicornis corals: A novel Vibrio sp. pathogen of the coral Pocillopora damicornis (2002) Ben-Haim Y. and Rosenberg E. http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00227/contents/02/00797/ Yael Ben-Haim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yael Ben-Haim Dept. of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology Tel Aviv University Israel Tel: (+972) 3 6407627 Fax: (+972) 3 6429377 e-mail: yaelbh at post.tau.ac.il ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From roi at pob.huji.ac.il Sun Apr 28 14:22:24 2002 From: roi at pob.huji.ac.il (Roi Holzman) Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 20:22:24 +0200 Subject: Diagonal butterflyfish Message-ID: hallow all does anybody knows a reference on the diel behavior and activity of the above fish or a similar butterflyfish ? thanks in advance Roi Holzman roi at pob.huji.ac.il InterUniversity Institute For Marine Science of Eilat P.O. box 469, Eilat, 88103, Israel. Phone: 972-8-6360129/143 Fax: 972-8-6374329 From George.Schmahl at noaa.gov Mon Apr 29 14:38:39 2002 From: George.Schmahl at noaa.gov (George Schmahl) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 13:38:39 -0500 Subject: Monitoring at Flower Garden Banks Message-ID: An announcement has been posted by the Minerals Management Service (U.S. Department of Interior) asking for "Statements of Capability" from those entities interested in being considered for a contract to conduct coral reef monitoring activities at the East and West Flower Garden Banks in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. The announcement can be viewed at the following web address: http://www.eps.gov/spg/DOI/MMS/PO/1435-01-02-RP-85088/SynopsisP.html The potential contract is jointly funded by MMS and the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, and will cover the next two years (2002-2003) of monitoring activities associated with a long term monitoring program that has been in effect since 1989. General information about the monitoring program can be obtained from the following web site: http://www.gomr.mms.gov/homepg/regulate/environ/flow_gar/flowgard.html Interested parties should direct inquiries to the Minerals Management Service contact person identified in the announcement. -- G.P. Schmahl Sanctuary Manager National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary 216 W. 26th Street, Suite 104 Bryan, TX 77803 (979) 779-2705 (979) 779-2334 (fax) george.schmahl at noaa.gov http://www.flowergarden.nos.noaa.gov ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From apile at bio.usyd.edu.au Mon Apr 29 20:15:00 2002 From: apile at bio.usyd.edu.au (Adele Pile) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:15:00 +1000 Subject: postgraduate(PhD) scholarship Message-ID: Postgraduate Scholarship in Marine Biology Open to candidates with good honours degree in science; PhD project investigates the effect of pulsed water events on benthic communities; must be willing to conduct field work in South Australia; ability to SCUBA dive desirable; prefer candidate to begin studies in August 2002; must be citizens or permanent residents of Australia; renewable for up to 3 years; AU$17,609pa. Closing Date: 14 June 2002 Further information: http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/reschols/scholarships/ Or contact Dr. Adele Pile apile at bio.usyd.edu.au ************************************************************ Dr Adele Pile Lecturer in Marine Biology University of Sydney School of Biological Sciences Heydon-Laurence Building (A08) Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia phone: + 61 02 9351 2440 fax: +61 02 9351 4119 http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/staff/adelepile/AdelePile.htm *********************************************************** --=====================_432246802==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Postgraduate Scholarship in Marine Biology

Open to candidates with good honours degree in science; PhD project investigates the effect of pulsed water events on benthic communities; must be willing to conduct field work in South Australia; ability to SCUBA dive desirable; prefer candidate to begin studies in August 2002; must be citizens or permanent residents of Australia; renewable for up to 3 years; AU$17,609pa.

Closing Date: 14 June 2002

Further information: http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/reschols/scholarships/
Or contact Dr. Adele Pile apile at bio.usyd.edu.au


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Dr Adele Pile

Lecturer in Marine Biology
University of Sydney
School of Biological Sciences
Heydon-Laurence Building (A08)
Sydney, NSW 2006
Australia

phone:  + 61 02 9351 2440
fax: +61 02 9351 4119
*********************************************************** --=====================_432246802==_.ALT-- ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver. From kat1003 at cus.cam.ac.uk Tue Apr 30 12:55:02 2002 From: kat1003 at cus.cam.ac.uk (K.A. Teleki) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 17:55:02 +0100 (BST) Subject: Reef Encounter - Call for Contributions Message-ID: MAGAZINE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR REEF STUDIES News, Views and Reviews REEF ENCOUNTER No. 32 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Reef Encounter is looking for articles for the next issue (due out in September 2002). We welcome contributions from 300 - 1200 words on any aspect of reef studies, including news, comments, short reviews (but not original scientific data) and also illustrations/cartoons. Our final deadline is 1st July, but we appreciate receiving early contributions. Please send your ideas for articles and the articles themselves to our NEW email address: editors at reefencounter.org You will receive an email acknowledgment from one of the editors within a couple of days (if you don't please check back!). If you need style guidelines, take a look at recent back issues at the society's webpage www.uncwil.edu/isrs. Thank you! Kristian Teleki Maggie Watson Maria Joao Rodrigues If you are interested in joining the society and receiving Reef Encounter and the journal Coral Reefs, you can find more details on the web page. www.uncwil.edu/isrs ~~~~~~~ For directions on subscribing and unsubscribing to coral-list or the digests, please visit http://www.coral.noaa.gov, click on Popular on the menu bar, then click on Coral-List Listserver.