[Coral-List] Coral List Submission

Erik Gauger erik at notesfromtheroad.com
Sat Sep 24 17:41:12 EDT 2005


At the beginning of this week, Kalai posted a public reply to my
email about Guana Cay.  He asked, "how close is the reef to the
golf course?"

The answer is that the reef is 45 feet from the shore.  There is a
photo here.  The land is a proposed fairway.

http://www.notesfromtheroad.com/WestIndies/bakers_bay_intro4.htm

I have received over 50 gracious replies to my original query.  It
may take me a few weeks to respond to everybody.  However, the
assistance I have received has been enormous.  I understand that
with bleaching, etc there are more pressing issues in the coral
world.

I want to make it clear that the proposed golf course is very
'green' and that this issue is one of 'best practices' versus 'what
will actually happen to the reef.'  The golf course uses seagrass
paspalam, and the land will be terraformed so that the runoff from
the fertilizer will go into a manmade wetlands (the mangroves are
being cleared for a 250 slip marina).

Several of you have written me that golf courses can be built in a
very green way.  I am familiar with such golf course projects in
places like Hawaii, where the golf course and reef are separated by
hundreds of yards and even hills.  Guana Cay is very different
because it is a tiny island only an 1/8th of a mile wide and seven
miles long.  The 250 boat marina will be dredged from mangroves or
wetlands, and will be as close to the reef as the Disney dredging
project, which was estimated to have killed off 1/3 of the corals
on the Northeastern edge of the island.

A large pdf of the golf course plan:

http://www.discoverylandco.com/images/bakersbay/illustrative_plan.p
df

and my map of the island:

http://www.notesfromtheroad.com/WestIndies/guana_map.html

Thanks for all your assistance in helping someone from the outside.

Erik
notesfromtheroad.com

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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 08:28:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kristen Hoss <kristenhoss at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Present Bleaching Event - PR & USVI etc.
To: "scott.stripling" <scott.stripling at noaa.gov>,	Alan E Strong
	<Alan.E.Strong at noaa.gov>
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Hello,

I was wondering if anyone has ever studied the correlation of coral
bleaching episodes as possible indicators of what hurricane
activity may be like during the year?  I was wondering if there was
a connection that could be used as a prediction tool, or if the
correlation would just be related to the already known water
temperatures and weather patterns, etc....

-Kristen Hoss
Marine Researcher
and Wildlife Biologist-USDA/APHIS/WS

"scott.stripling" <scott.stripling at noaa.gov> wrote:
With the NE Caribbean currently located underneath an elongated
area of
low pressure,
light and variable winds will continue to dominate the region for
the
next 1 to 2 weeks.
Computer models are forecasting only brief (6-12 hour periods) of
anything
approaching normal trade wind flow during this time. Thus the
stagnant
mixing conditions will
persist regionally through the first week of October, at the least.

Scott Stripling
NOAA/NWS San Juan

Alan E Strong wrote:

> *NOTICE - Bleaching continues to evolve throughout Eastern
Caribbean*
>
> Beginning in the central Keys during August (Sombrero Key
especially)
> the warm water episode and accompanying bleaching for this year
is
> progressing south and eastward through Cuba, Puerto Rico and the
> Virgin Islands. This can visually be seen in our recent 12-week
> composite of HotSpot accumulations - Degree Heating Weeks (DHWs):
>
> http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/data2/dhwa.9.19.2005.gif
>
> and HotSpots:
>
> http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/data/hotspotwnc.gif
>
> Extremely high DHWs above "8" in much of the Virgin Islands are
quite
> worrisome as these levels in past bleaching events typically
bring
> some mortality to corals. This evolving episode continues to be
at
> near unprecedented levels of thermal stress for this region since
our
> satellite records began in the mid-80s. From the chart one can
observe
> that eastern Puerto Rico is under higher levels of thermal stress
at
> present than western PR....hence the recent reports of
considerable
> bleaching. Until some reduced solar radiation and/or wind &
mixing
> comes to the "rescue" we worry about prospects along much of the
> Windward Islands toward South America over the next month or so.
>
> Sorry our repot couldn't be more positive.
>
> Regards,
>
> Al Strong
> NOAA's Coral Reef Watch
> http://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/index.html
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Jim=2C

That is the focus of much research in American samoa=2E The reefs
there =

are so remarkably resilient to multiple disturbances and
stresses=2C we =

are trying to determine the mechanisms=2E Are they
acclimatization=2C =

adaptation=2C small-scale environmental factors or particular =

combinations=3F Abstract (first draft) for the USCRTF meeting reads
as =

follows=3A

Long-Term Research in American Samoa on Adjustments of Corals to =

Climate Changes

Coral reefs have always been dynamic systems=2C constantly in a
state of =

recovery from disparate disturbances that have been a perpetual
part =

of the environment=2E In the past three decades=2C however=2C a
large num=
ber =

of reefs around the world have lost the ability to recover and have
=

continued to decline=2C even after the disturbance has gone=2E
There is a=
 =

crucial need for coral-reef management to determine the factors
that =

promote resilience=2C the ability to recover=2C in coral reefs=2E
The cor=
al =

reefs of American Samoa (AS) have continued to be remarkably
resilient =

to large scale disturbances=2C recovering within about 15 years
after a =

crown-of-thorns starfish outbreak (1977) and also after two
hurricanes =

(1990 and 1991)=2C and even more rapidly after widespread bleaching
=

associated with warm seawater (1994=2C 2002=2C and 2003)=2E The
corals in=
 AS =

have also shown special resistance to local stress in particular =

sites=2E In the shallow backreef moat in the National Park on Ofu =

Island=2C at least 80 species of scleractinian corals withstand
brief =

but severe fluctuations in water temperature (up to 6=2E5=BA C
within a =

day=2C reaching 35=2E5=BA C)=2C fluctuations in dissolved O2 (15 to
220 =

percent saturation)=2C and strong UV radiation=2E  The
determination of =

the mechanisms of resilience of Samoan reefs will provide important
=

guidance for reef management and for selection of sites for MPAs=2E
In =

order to tease out the roles of acclimatization (physiological and
=

biochemical changes in the corals=2C and shifts in types of =

zooxanthellae)=2C adaptations (genetic changes)=2C and extrinsic
factors =

(e=2Eg=2E=2C patterns of water motion)=2C transplant experiments
were =

undertaken by Lance Smith and Dan Barshis=2E Smith and Barshis
performed =

754 reciprocal and controlled transplantations of corals between =

stressful and benign habitats=2E Lance found that both
acclimatization =

and water motion have significant roles in the resilience of corals
in =

the Ofu backreef moat=2E Dan is performing biochemical analyses of
the =

coral tissues to assess changes in levels of heat-shock proteins=2C
=

antioxidants and other chemicals that indicate disruption of =

photosynthetic and metabolic processes in time sequences following
=

transplantation=2E He is aided by Ruth Gates and Rob Toonen (Hawaii
=

Institute of Marine Biology) and Jonathan Stillman (San Francisco =

State Univ=2E)=2E Greg Piniak (NOAA) took over 600 determinations
of =

fluorescence yield of zooxanthellae to estimate how well the =

photosynthetic system is working in the symbiotic relation with the
=

coral community=2E Changes in phylotypes of zooxanthellae are being
=

assessed by Andrew Baker (WCS and Columbia University)=2E Virginia
=

Garrison and Christina Kellogg (USGS) are determining changes in =

associated microbial communities on the corals=2E Adaptation will
be =

tested by comparing the thermal tolerance of juvenile corals from =

planulae originating from adults transplanted from the forereef
over a =

year before parthenogenic planulation=2C with thermal tolerance of
=

juvenile corals from planulae from adults transplanted from the =

backreef=2E Genetic differences from forereef and backreef
populations =

are also being examined=2E These experimental studies are within a
=

backdrop of long-term studies=2E The first permanent transect in AS
that =

has been quantitatively monitored to this day was started in
1917=2E =

Some large colonies of Porites have recorded climatic changes in
their =

skeletons for hundreds of years=2E The goals of these studies are
to =

provide an understanding of the sensitivity and adaptability of
coral =

reef systems to environmental changes so that we can predict the =

effects of climate changes=2C and to provide insight into which
coral =

reef sites are most important to protect from disruptive human =

activities so as to provide broodstock of corals for reef
recovery=2E


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=3E Georgina=2C
=3E =

=3E    Great thought!  Instead of focusing quite so much on where
and why=

=3E =22the sky is falling=22 on our coral reefs=2C focus on where
and why=
 =

(under
=3E apparently similar conditions) the sky is not falling=2C and
protect =

=3E thoseareas so they can recruit still larger areas=2E  It will
be =

=3E interesting to
=3E learn if it is the conditions=2C or the physiology=2C or both
(most =

=3E likely)=2Cfor areas of non-bleaching where high sea
temperature/high
=3E irradiance/whatever models predict bleaching=2E  It sounds like
a gre=
at
=3E line of research=2E
=3E =

=3E    Cheers=2C
=3E    Jim
=3E =

=3E Georgina Bustamante wrote=3A
=3E =

=3E =3EI hope observers can also detect (and eventually identify)
specifi=
c
=3E =3Econditions under which some coral reefs located in areas
with =

=3E high risk
=3E =3E(high temeperature=2C etc=2E) are not bleaching at all=2E
That ma=
y =

=3E provide useful
=3E =3Einformation for MPA design and planning=2E
=3E =3E
=3E =3EGeorgina Bustamante=2C Ph=2ED=2E
=3E =3EMarine Science and Policy Consultant
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:54:06 -0400
From: "Beth Dieveney" <Beth.Dieveney at noaa.gov>
Subject: [Coral-List] U.S. Coral Reef Task Force Meeting
To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
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Apologies for Cross Posting

Update for the upcoming U.S. Coral Reef Task Force Meeting,
November 4-7
in the Republic of Palau.

Please see below for information on Registration, Dates, Location,
Travel, Hotel, Exhibit Information, Public Comment, and a
Sustainable
Finance workshop on November 3.
For more information contact: beth.dieveney at noaa.gov


Meeting Details:

Registration:
Please register in advance.  Registration is available on the Coral
Reef
Task Force website: www.coralreef.gov.

Dates:
The Business Meeting will take place on Saturday, November 5 and
Monday,
November 7.  Agendas for the full weeks activities and the
Business
Meeting will soon be available on the website

Location:
Business Meeting  Ngarachamayong Cultural Center

Travel:
Plan your travel in advance.  Contact Continental and Micronesian
Continental Airlines: www.continental.com   1-800-231-0856.
We have a group discount rate.  When making reservations provide
the Z
Code ZQRZ and Agreement Code UEKRWB.  This discount is good for
October
28  November 13, 2005.

Hotel Information:
PALASIA HOTEL
70 rooms have been made available and guaranteed for October 29 
November 8. Cut-off date is October 22, 2005

Room rate is offered at; ~ $80.00 plus 15% tax inclusive of daily
breakfast for single occupancy (subject to 1 guest in a room), and
space
availability to a Deluxe Town View or Deluxe Bay View room category
~
$100.00 plus 15% tax inclusive of daily breakfast for two (subject
to 2
guest in a room), and space availability to a Deluxe Town View or
Deluxe
Bay View room category ~ $180.00 plus 15% tax inclusive of daily
breakfast based on single or double room occupancy and subject to
space
availability to Junior Suite room category ~ $250.00 plus 15% tax
inclusive of daily breakfast based on single or double room
occupancy
and subject to space availability to Executive Suite room category

Upon confirming Room reservation to guest credit card information
is
required or one night's room rate payment for room guarantee 6.

PALASIA HOTEL CONTACT
Janice Aguon, Asst. Manager
Reservation Department
Palasia Hotel, Palau
P.O. Box 10027
Koror, Republic of Belau 96940
Tel: (680) 488-8803 ext. 122
Fax: (680) 488-8800
Email: res.palasia at palaunet.com

Exhibit Information:
Exhibit space is available for approximately 20 exhibits at the
Ngarachamayong Cultural Center, site of the public meeting for the
U.S.
Coral Reef Task Force meeting.  These spaces will be offered on a
first-come, first-served basis.  We offer either space for
pop-up/stand-alone displays, or tables for literature.  Exhibits
must
be set up during the day of Thursday, 4 November, and should be
removed
after the Task Force meeting (i.e. after 5 pm) Monday, 7 November.

Exhibits may be shipped to Palau (see below) or brought by the
exhibitor
to Palau and delivered to the Ngarachamayong Cultural Center, with
prior
arrangement.

To Reserve space, Schedule delivery of exhibits, or for Questions
Call
or E-mail:
  Andrew Bauman
abauman at palau-oerc.net
Ph: 011.680.488.6950
Fx: 011.680.488.8638

  Beth Dieveney
  Beth.Dieveney at noaa.gov
  Ph: 301.713.2989 x 200
Fx: 301.713.4389


In the email please indicate the following:
1. Name
2. Contact information (email, fax, phone number)
3. Organization/affiliation
4. Request  table, space for stand-up exhibit
5. Special needs  electrical outlets, etc
6. Whether you plan to ship or carry materials to Palau

Ship to/from Address:
Andrew Bauman
Re: Coral Reef Task Force
P.O. Box 7086
Koror, Palau 96940
Micronesia


Public Comment Information:
There will be opportunity during the first day of the Business
meeting,
November 5 to provide public comment.  You need to sign up in
advance;
email beth.dieveney at noaa.gov.  We are requesting that you provide
public
comment in written format at the time of the meeting.
Please provide the following information:
1. Name
2. Contact information (email, fax, phone number)
3. Organization/affiliation

If you are unable to attend but would like to provide written
comments
in advance, please email comments to beth.dieveney at noaa.gov by
October
22.  These will be compiled and addressed at the meeting.


Sustainable Financing Workshop  November 3
International Coral Reef Initiative  U.S. Coral Reef Task Force
with
The Nature Conservancy are hosting a Sustainable Financing
Workshop.
Information will soon be posted on the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force
website: www.coralreef.gov and the International Coral Reef
Initiative
website: www.icriforum.org.


--
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Elizabeth Dieveney
U.S. Coral Reef Task Force Coordinator
NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program
1305 East-West Highway, N/ORR, Rm. 10127
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: (301) 713-2989 x 200
Fax: (301) 713-4389
Email: Beth.Dieveney at noaa.gov


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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:50:49 -0400
From: "Alan E Strong" <Alan.E.Strong at noaa.gov>
Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Re: Coral-List Digest, Vol 27, Issue 20
To: gbustamante at bellsouth.net
Cc: Charles Birkeland <charlesb at hawaii.edu>,
	coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov,	"Dr. William Skirving"
	<William.Skirving at noaa.gov>,	Scott Heron <Scott.Heron at noaa.gov>,
Jim
	Hendee <Jim.Hendee at noaa.gov>
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Hi Georgina,

Great question!!!

You need to get a copy of the latest report we have just submitted
to
TNC for a project in Palau to do just what you talk about.  We are
developing hydrodynamic models for use in these coastal areas after
finding several years ago with our work on the Great Barrier Reef
with
some Australian colleagues that these tools may prove the most
useful in
identifying areas withing reef ecosystems that might have more
resistance and/or resilience to bleaching.

Papers are in various stages of progress...

I am coying this to Drs. William Skirving and Scott Heron, our
Australian contractors who helped us develop these models, and am
hopeful that they can give you further guidance...if necessary.

Cheers
Al

Charles Birkeland wrote:

>Jim,
>
>That is the focus of much research in American samoa. The reefs
there
>are so remarkably resilient to multiple disturbances and stresses,
we
>are trying to determine the mechanisms. Are they acclimatization,
>adaptation, small-scale environmental factors or particular
>combinations? Abstract (first draft) for the USCRTF meeting reads
as
>follows:
>
>Long-Term Research in American Samoa on Adjustments of Corals to
>Climate Changes
>
>Coral reefs have always been dynamic systems, constantly in a
state of
>recovery from disparate disturbances that have been a perpetual
part
>of the environment. In the past three decades, however, a large
number
>of reefs around the world have lost the ability to recover and
have
>continued to decline, even after the disturbance has gone. There
is a
>crucial need for coral-reef management to determine the factors
that
>promote resilience, the ability to recover, in coral reefs. The
coral
>reefs of American Samoa (AS) have continued to be remarkably
resilient
>to large scale disturbances, recovering within about 15 years
after a
>crown-of-thorns starfish outbreak (1977) and also after two
hurricanes
>(1990 and 1991), and even more rapidly after widespread bleaching
>associated with warm seawater (1994, 2002, and 2003). The corals
in AS
>have also shown special resistance to local stress in particular
>sites. In the shallow backreef moat in the National Park on Ofu
>Island, at least 80 species of scleractinian corals withstand
brief
>but severe fluctuations in water temperature (up to 6.5: C within
a
>day, reaching 35.5: C), fluctuations in dissolved O2 (15 to 220
>percent saturation), and strong UV radiation.  The determination
of
>the mechanisms of resilience of Samoan reefs will provide
important
>guidance for reef management and for selection of sites for MPAs.
In
>order to tease out the roles of acclimatization (physiological and
>biochemical changes in the corals, and shifts in types of
>zooxanthellae), adaptations (genetic changes), and extrinsic
factors
>(e.g., patterns of water motion), transplant experiments were
>undertaken by Lance Smith and Dan Barshis. Smith and Barshis
performed
>754 reciprocal and controlled transplantations of corals between
>stressful and benign habitats. Lance found that both
acclimatization
>and water motion have significant roles in the resilience of
corals in
>the Ofu backreef moat. Dan is performing biochemical analyses of
the
>coral tissues to assess changes in levels of heat-shock proteins,
>antioxidants and other chemicals that indicate disruption of
>photosynthetic and metabolic processes in time sequences following
>transplantation. He is aided by Ruth Gates and Rob Toonen (Hawaii
>Institute of Marine Biology) and Jonathan Stillman (San Francisco
>State Univ.). Greg Piniak (NOAA) took over 600 determinations of
>fluorescence yield of zooxanthellae to estimate how well the
>photosynthetic system is working in the symbiotic relation with
the
>coral community. Changes in phylotypes of zooxanthellae are being
>assessed by Andrew Baker (WCS and Columbia University). Virginia
>Garrison and Christina Kellogg (USGS) are determining changes in
>associated microbial communities on the corals. Adaptation will be
>tested by comparing the thermal tolerance of juvenile corals from
>planulae originating from adults transplanted from the forereef
over a
>year before parthenogenic planulation, with thermal tolerance of
>juvenile corals from planulae from adults transplanted from the
>backreef. Genetic differences from forereef and backreef
populations
>are also being examined. These experimental studies are within a
>backdrop of long-term studies. The first permanent transect in AS
that
>has been quantitatively monitored to this day was started in 1917.
>Some large colonies of Porites have recorded climatic changes in
their
>skeletons for hundreds of years. The goals of these studies are to
>provide an understanding of the sensitivity and adaptability of
coral
>reef systems to environmental changes so that we can predict the
>effects of climate changes, and to provide insight into which
coral
>reef sites are most important to protect from disruptive human
>activities so as to provide broodstock of corals for reef
recovery.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: coral-list-request at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
>Date: Friday, September 23, 2005 6:00 am
>Subject: Coral-List Digest, Vol 27, Issue 20
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>>Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:24:03 -0400
>>From: "Jim Hendee" <Jim.Hendee at noaa.gov>
>>Subject: Re: [Coral-List] no-bleaching data
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>>Georgina,
>>
>>   Great thought!  Instead of focusing quite so much on where and
why
>>"the sky is falling" on our coral reefs, focus on where and why
>>
>>
>(under
>
>
>>apparently similar conditions) the sky is not falling, and
protect
>>thoseareas so they can recruit still larger areas.  It will be
>>interesting to
>>learn if it is the conditions, or the physiology, or both (most
>>likely),for areas of non-bleaching where high sea
temperature/high
>>irradiance/whatever models predict bleaching.  It sounds like a
great
>>line of research.
>>
>>   Cheers,
>>   Jim
>>
>>Georgina Bustamante wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>I hope observers can also detect (and eventually identify)
specific
>>>conditions under which some coral reefs located in areas with
>>>
>>>
>>high risk
>>
>>
>>>(high temeperature, etc.) are not bleaching at all.  That may
>>>
>>>
>>provide useful
>>
>>
>>>information for MPA design and planning.
>>>
>>>Georgina Bustamante, Ph.D.
>>>Marine Science and Policy Consultant
>>>3800 N Hills Dr. #216
>>>Hollywood, Florida 33021
>>>U.S.A.
>>>tel/fax(request) 954-963-3626
>>>
>>>
>>>
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