ICRIN's Coral Reef Directory

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Dear Ivan,
Have you tried searching ICRIN's International Directory of Coral Reef
Organizations (http://directory.coralreef.org/)?  This is a database of
hundreds of organizations from around the world that work on coral reef
related issues, including non-governmental organizations (NGOs), research
institutions, aquariums, marine protected areas (MPAs), government agencies,
international programs and more.  If you type "Vietnam" in the keyword
search, you will come up with organizations that work in that region.

This database is a work in progress.  If your coral reef organization is not
yet listed, please add it to the Directory by clicking "Add Your
Organization" and answering the questions.  If your organization is already
listed and you would like to add additional information, click "Edit Your
Organization."  If you do not know your email login and password, please
contact ngo at coral.org.

Best of luck.

Sherry Flumerfelt
Program Coordinator

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> coral-list-daily       Monday, February 10 2003       Volume 03 : Number
029
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> Re: Coral symbionts
> RE: carrying capacity, LACs and economic values paper
>
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> Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 00:15:07 -0800
> From: "Gregor Hodgson" <gregorh at ucla.edu>
> Subject: Re: Coral symbionts
>
> Dear Ivan,
>
> Coral reefs in Vietnam are some of the most overfished in the world and
the
> reefs are subject to many other impacts. You may be interested in the
> following:
>
>
>
> Thang, H.V., G. Hodgson, E. Hresko, C. Ovel (eds) 1998. Coastal
Biodiversity
> Priorities in Vietnam. Proceedings of the Workshop on Coastal Priorities
in
> Vietnam, Hanoi 4-6 November 1997. Institute for Environment and
Sustainable
> Development Publication 98-02, Hong Kong University of Science and
> Technology, Hong Kong.
>
>
>
> Vo S.T. and Hodgson G. 1997. Coral reefs of Vietnam: Recruitment
limitation
> and physical forcing. p. 477-482. Vol. 1. In: HA Lessios (ed) Proc. 8th
> Intl. Coral Reef Symposium, June 24-29, 1996, Panama City, Smithsonian
> Tropical Research Institute, Panama.
>
>
>
> Gregor Hodgson, PhD
> Director, Reef Check
> Professor (Visiting)
> Institute of the Environment
> 1362 Hershey Hall Mailcode 149607
> University of California at Los Angeles
> Los Angeles CA 90095 USA
>
> Tel: (1) 310-794-4985 Fax: (1) 310-825-0758
> Email: gregorh at ucla.edu
> www.ReefCheck.org
>
>
>
>
>
> - ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ivan Marin" <coralliodecapoda at mail.ru>
> To: <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 7:00 AM
> Subject: Coral symbionts
>
>
>> Dear Coral-lers,
>>
>>     Our laboratory has been studing simbiotic relationships between
> different
>> sea invertebrates. Personally, I am studing coral-associated crustaceans
> as one
>> of the component of coral reef community. Generally, we are interested in
> all
>> animals and their complex associated with scleractinian coral colonies.
>>    Since 2001 members of our laboratory has been working in South Vietnam
>> waters investigating coral reef community and all influinced factors. As
> one
>> knows, corals in Vietnam are hardly exploited by fishing, pollution and
> others,
>> that why this region is very interesting to study effect of exploitation.
> My
>> supervisor, T.A. Brytaev, and I try to investigate the changes in coral
>> associated communities as factors and indexes of coral community
> pollution.
>>    Here, we are looking for scientist or societies, who are interested in
>> cooperation in this topic. We are interested in any contacts with
> scientists
>> who make same investigations in other regoins.
>>
>>     And yet one. Could you help me to find organizations, societies or
> funds
>> (their Internet pages), which are supporting and funding different joint
>> projects, scientific projects on studing coral associated communities and
>> grants for PhD student to make joint coral reef condition investigations
> in
>> Indo-West Pacific.
>>
>>
>>     Thank You very much.
>>
>> Sincerely yours
>>
>> Ph.D. student, Ivan N. Marin
>> Laboratory of Evolutional Morphology of Marine Invertebrates
>> (T.Brytaev Laboratory)
>> A.N. Severtzov Institute of Ecology and Evolution (RAS)
>> Leninsky pr. 33
>> 117071 Moscow
>> Russia
>> Fax: 095 954 5534
>>
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> Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 19:14:54 -0000
> From: "Spurgeon, James" <James.Spurgeon at jacobs.com>
> Subject: RE: carrying capacity, LACs and economic values paper
>
> Dear Pedro and listers
>
> The visitor "carrying capacity" of a coral reef is a function of the
> following factors:
>
> ·Number of people entering the water
> ·*Means of accessing the water (anchoring, shoreline, boardwalks etc)
> ·*Activity they undertake (diving, snorkelling, with gloves etc)
> ·*Visitor experience, training and education
> ·*Management tools (fines, visitor facilities, restricting access etc)
> ·Natural physical conditions (depth, topography, currents, waves, etc)
> ·Type of corals (form and fragility)
> ·*Extent of other stresses (wastewater, sea temperature etc)
> ·*Levels of acceptable change (extent of acceptable coral cover etc)
>
> Consequently, reef carrying capacities will differ enormously (and
Duncan's
> point is certainly valid).  However, for management purposes,
> generalizations could be made for several different categories of reef.
>
> Furthermore, because several factors* can be modified, carrying capacity
at
> any site can be changed significantly. Note that in the Galapagos Islands,
a
> maximum carrying capacity of 20,000 visitors per year was set in 1985.
> Currently, over 65,000 people visit each year.  Through various management
> measures, associated visitor damage is minor, especially compared to other
> stresses (e.g. introduction of domestic animals).
>
> I've not seen Jamie Oliver's paper, but "limits of acceptable change" is a
> great concept if you are confident of the cause-effect relationships.
This
> is more the case for terrestrial systems than marine.  LAC also requires
> legislation and management controls strong and flexible enough to allow
> effective and timely changes in management.
>
> Controlling visitor numbers also does significantly affect potential
> economic, financial and social benefits. For many asscociated reasons it
> will be better to build up capacity cautiously over time!
>
> All these issues are being explored in some current/proposed research:
> Spurgeon, J. (in prep) "Maximizing benefits and revenues from coral reef
> management", hopefully culminating in a paper to be presented in Japan.
In
> the near future I'll be looking for partial funding and additional
materials
> to draw upon.  Offers for either would be greatly appreciated!
>
> In addition to those who requested it a while ago, anyone wanting a pdf
copy
> of Spurgeon J. (2001) "Economic Value of Coral Reefs: The Next Ten Years",
> let me know.
>
> James Spurgeon
> Executive Environmental Economist/Scientist
>
> Jacobs (formerly JacobsGIBB)
> Tel: +44 (0)118 963 5346
> Fax: +44 (0)118 926 3888
> E-mail: james.spurgeon at jacobs.com
> Web: www.jacobs.com
> www.gibbltd.com
>
>
>
>
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