[Coral-List] Short story features shark finning

Fri Jul 4 09:56:49 EDT 2014

I apologize if this isn’t an appropriate post for this list, but as a writer that focuses on scuba diving and the ocean, I attempt to work real issues and problems into my fiction. I’ve just begun a serial short story project with Scuba Diving Magazine and the focus of this story is shark finning. The first segment was released July 1, the second will be on July 8, then July 15 and it will finish up on July 22. I think the best way to reach the masses and let them know about a problem is by entertaining them. 

I would appreciate any help you can provide by helping me to distribute the links to this story. 
Sharks on Land: http://www.scubadiving.com/keywords/marine-life/sharks-land 
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Today's Topics: 

1. AGU Session: High resolution archives of marine 
biogeochemistry, climate, and environmental change (Michele LaVigne) 
2. Zone Tropical Coastal Oceans; Manage Them More Like Land 
(Peter Sale) 
3. FW: Launch of the GCRMN Caribbean Report (John McManus) 
4. FW: Launch of the GCRMN Caribbean Report (John McManus) 
5. Name change and identification key for species of the family 
Aiptasiidae. (Alejandro Grajales) 

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Message: 1 
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 13:50:37 +0000 
From: Michele LaVigne <mlavign at bowdoin.edu> 
Subject: [Coral-List] AGU Session: High resolution archives of marine 
biogeochemistry, climate, and environmental change 
To: "coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov" <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> 
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Dear Coral-List Colleagues, 

We would like to draw your attention to the following session planned for the 2014 Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco. "High resolution archives of marine biogeochemistry, climate, and environmental change" 

Confirmed invited presenters to date include: 

Owen Sherwood, INSTAAR, CU Boulder 

Alan Wanamaker, Iowa State University 

Please consider submitting an abstract (deadline Aug. 6) to: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/webprogrampreliminary/Session3314.html 

"High resolution archives of marine biogeochemistry, climate, and environmental change" 

Session ID#: 3314 

Session Description: 
The oceans play a key role in Earth?s climate via circulation and upwelling, biological activity, and carbon dynamics. However, instrumental records from remote areas of the ocean (e.g. the tropics, deep sea, and high latitudes) are sparse. We are still gaining an understanding of the mechanisms driving ocean biogeochemistry, physics, and responses to rapid climate change. Recently, the suite of high-resolution marine-based proxies has expanded to include novel tracers of temperature, salinity, circulation, nutrients and productivity, coastal runoff, and tectonic activity. Such information is critical for understanding the ocean?s role in past climates of the Cenozoic, the magnitude of modern environmental change, and impacts on coral habitats in the Anthropocene. We invite contributions focusing on high-resolution reconstructions of physical, biological, and geochemical variability in the ocean. Proxy development and application-based studies of archives such as surfac 
e and deep sea corals, coralline algae, molluscs, diatoms and foraminifera are of particular interest. 

Session Conveners: 
Eleni Anagnostou, University of Southampton, 
Mich?le LaVigne, Bowdoin College, 
Sindia Sosdian, Cardiff University 
Branwen Williams, Claremont McKenna-Pitzer-Scripps Colleges 
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Mich?le LaVigne 
Assistant Professor of Earth and Oceanographic Science 

Bowdoin College 
6800 College Station 
Brunswick, ME 04011 

207.798.4283 
mlavign at bowdoin.edu 

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Message: 2 
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 11:16:03 -0400 
From: Peter Sale <sale at uwindsor.ca> 
Subject: [Coral-List] Zone Tropical Coastal Oceans; Manage Them More 
Like Land 
To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov 
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<OFA6F388AA.A8F501F4-ON85257D09.0053925F-85257D09.0053DEF4 at uwindsor.ca> 

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Hi coral-listers, 
Zone Tropical Coastal Oceans; Manage Them More Like Land 
I want to draw attention to a new article just published on line at Marine 
Pollution Bulletin. It results from a project funded by the United 
Nations University?s institute for Water, Environment & Health (UNU-INWEH) 
with some assistance from the Univ of Queensland Global Change Institute. 
It is open access and found at 
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X1400366X 
In this article a geographically widely dispersed group with diverse 
expertise and with many decades of accumulated experience in tropical 
coastal and fisheries management makes five key points: 
1. One fifth of humanity live within 100km of a tropical shore; the 
current 1.36 billion will swell to 1.95 billion by 2050. Many are 
directly dependent on adjacent coastal waters for food and livelihoods 
2. Globally, the tropical coastal ocean continues to be degraded by a 
suite of human impacts, mostly local but now also global through climate 
change and ocean acidification 
3. Current policies and procedures for improving management of these 
important ecosystems, including their fisheries, almost always fail, 
although there are the inevitable small bright spots that flicker briefly 
and then usually fade; we spend too much time congratulating ourselves 
over the brief flickers of good news, while failing to notice that the 
stresses on these ecosystems grow worse year by year 
4. Current policies are not failing because we lack the technological 
expertise, but because of a complex of issues wrapped up in social 
structures, traditions, cultural and religious belief systems, 
conventional ways of doing things, governmental and legal structures, 
corruption, misplaced priorities, and lack of political will. Together 
these lead to short-term thinking, planning and implementation, 
small-scale projects, and failure of communities, stakeholders and 
governments to really commit to success. 
5. Needed is a more holistic, appropriately scaled (in both time and 
space) approach, appropriate to the particular socio-political structure 
present, to address management failure. This absolutely requires 
committed leadership within the community, but it also requires 
significant changes in how plans to improve management are designed and 
implemented 
As a way forward we suggest it is time to recognize we need to begin to 
zone the coastal ocean for competing uses, much as we do the land. We 
advocate considerably expanded use of marine spatial planning (MSP) as an 
effective, objective tool for doing this. We also suggest that MSP can 
serve as a Trojan horse to build the more integrated, holistic and 
appropriately scaled approach to management which is essential for real, 
lasting success. There is a need for serious reflection and changes to 
policy by virtually all sectors engaged in helping countries improve their 
environmental management. Otherwise we condemn a large portion of 
humanity to ever less quality of life. 
As I said, its open access so anyone can get a copy. It?s at 
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X1400366X 
We hope it will provoke vigorous discussion and real change because more 
of the same is simply not good enough. 

Peter Sale 
UNU-INWEH 
www.inweh.unu.edu 

+1-705-764-3359 
+1-705-764-3360 FAX 
sale at uwindsor.ca @PeterSale3 
www.uwindsor.ca/sale www.petersalebooks.com 

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Message: 3 
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 15:55:38 -0400 
From: John McManus <jmcmanus at rsmas.miami.edu> 
Subject: [Coral-List] FW: Launch of the GCRMN Caribbean Report 
To: <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> 
Message-ID: <00ba01cf962f$98f1b380$cad51a80$@rsmas.miami.edu> 
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" 

I attach below the announcement for the new GCRMN report on Caribbean reefs.. I have just read the document as a neutral party not involved in the effort. This is an excellent report, reflecting the hard work of a large group of scientists using the best information available. The results and recommendations are very clear and rational. While focused on the Caribbean, it has important implications for other reef areas. 

I encourage all persons interested in coral reefs to read this report. 

Cheers! 

John 

John W. McManus, PhD 

Director, National Center for Coral Reef Research (NCORE) 

Professor, Marine Biology and Fisheries 

Coral Reef Ecology and Management Lab (CREM Lab) 

Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) 

University of Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, 33149 

<mailto:jmcmanus at rsmas.miami.edu> jmcmanus at rsmas.miami.edu <http://ncore.rsmas.miami.edu/> http://ncore.rsmas.miami.edu/ 

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John_McManus/ 

"If you lose a diamond ring in the bedroom, don't look for it in the living room just because the light there is better". 

From: ICRI Secretariat [mailto:icri at env.go.jp] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 2:35 AM 
To: jmcmanus at rsmas.miami.edu 
Subject: Launch of the GCRMN Caribbean Report 

Dear colleagues, 

It has been a long time coming, but it?s finally here! The all-awaited GCRMN report Status and Trends of Caribbean Coral Reefs: 1970-2012 led by Jeremy Jackson is getting officially launched today. As you know, the findings of the report clearly show that we can still save Caribbean reefs if we take action to protect parrotfish and similar grazers, as reflected in a Recommendation adopted at our last meeting in Belize (available here <http://t.ymlp338.net/bhjanaubbuqaoaeujaxajmj/click.php> ). We managers and decision-makers can make this happen! 

The (former) ICRI Secretariat has sponsored the making of a video to illustrate the main findings of the report and promote the Call to Action 2013 (entitled ?From Despair to Repair?, by Sandy Cannon-Brown) ? check it out on Vimeo here <http://t.ymlp338.net/bhbavaubbuqaoaeujapajmj/click.php> . It features Jeremy and his wife Nancy Knowlton telling a sweet but bitter story about reefs in the Caribbean which should encourage viewers to access the report, find out more about the work of ICRI and take action! 

The press release, as well as the full report and its Executive summary are available at www.icriforum.org/caribbeanreport <http://t.ymlp338.net/bhhadaubbuqafaeujapajmj/click.php> . Keep an ear out for any news on this report in your country ? and please share any with us so we know it?s being picked up! 

Many of you contributed to make this happen ? so thanks to all those involved in getting data, editing and promoting the report, adopting the parrotfish recommendation, and now taking action in your own country: we can turn the trend around by working together in partnership ? that?s what ICRI is all about after all. Or, as Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae star likes to say, ?You can get it if you really want, but you must try, try and try. You?ll succeed at last?. 

With hope, 

The International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) Secretariat (former and present) 

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Message: 4 
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 18:24:20 -0400 
From: John McManus <jmcmanus at rsmas.miami.edu> 
Subject: [Coral-List] FW: Launch of the GCRMN Caribbean Report 
To: <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> 
Message-ID: <010b01cf9644$5e4b2800$1ae17800$@rsmas.miami.edu> 
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" 

I attach below the announcement for the new GCRMN report on Caribbean reefs.. I have just read the document as a neutral party not involved in the effort. This is an excellent report, reflecting the hard work of a large group of scientists using the best information available. The results and recommendations are very clear and rational. While focused on the Caribbean, it has important implications for other reef areas. 

I encourage all persons interested in coral reefs to read this report. 

Cheers! 

John 

John W. McManus, PhD 

Director, National Center for Coral Reef Research (NCORE) 

Professor, Marine Biology and Fisheries 

Coral Reef Ecology and Management Lab (CREM Lab) 

Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) 

University of Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, 33149 

<mailto:jmcmanus at rsmas.miami.edu> jmcmanus at rsmas.miami.edu <http://ncore.rsmas.miami.edu/> http://ncore.rsmas.miami.edu/ 

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John_McManus/ 

"If you lose a diamond ring in the bedroom, don't look for it in the living room just because the light there is better". 

From: ICRI Secretariat [mailto:icri at env.go.jp] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 2:35 AM 
To: jmcmanus at rsmas.miami.edu 
Subject: Launch of the GCRMN Caribbean Report 

Dear colleagues, 

It has been a long time coming, but it?s finally here! The all-awaited GCRMN report Status and Trends of Caribbean Coral Reefs: 1970-2012 led by Jeremy Jackson is getting officially launched today. As you know, the findings of the report clearly show that we can still save Caribbean reefs if we take action to protect parrotfish and similar grazers, as reflected in a Recommendation adopted at our last meeting in Belize (available here <http://t.ymlp338.net/bhjanaubbuqaoaeujaxajmj/click.php> ). We managers and decision-makers can make this happen! 

The (former) ICRI Secretariat has sponsored the making of a video to illustrate the main findings of the report and promote the Call to Action 2013 (entitled ?From Despair to Repair?, by Sandy Cannon-Brown) ? check it out on Vimeo here <http://t.ymlp338.net/bhbavaubbuqaoaeujapajmj/click.php> . It features Jeremy and his wife Nancy Knowlton telling a sweet but bitter story about reefs in the Caribbean which should encourage viewers to access the report, find out more about the work of ICRI and take action! 

The press release, as well as the full report and its Executive summary are available at www.icriforum.org/caribbeanreport <http://t.ymlp338.net/bhhadaubbuqafaeujapajmj/click.php> . Keep an ear out for any news on this report in your country ? and please share any with us so we know it?s being picked up! 

Many of you contributed to make this happen ? so thanks to all those involved in getting data, editing and promoting the report, adopting the parrotfish recommendation, and now taking action in your own country: we can turn the trend around by working together in partnership ? that?s what ICRI is all about after all. Or, as Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae star likes to say, ?You can get it if you really want, but you must try, try and try. You?ll succeed at last?. 

With hope, 

The International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) Secretariat (former and present) 

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Message: 5 
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 18:32:54 -0400 
From: Alejandro Grajales <alejogr at gmail.com> 
Subject: [Coral-List] Name change and identification key for species 
of the family Aiptasiidae. 
To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov 
Message-ID: 
<CALc__eMTYEFhm=PWxQAxCNny-nWDrc8zmKW44+KASstwkEnKKA at mail.gmail.com> 
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Hello all. 

I wanted to raise awareness about the new revision of the family 
Aiptasiidae (Anthozoa: Actiniaria) of symbiotic sea anemones recently 
published in Zootaxa 3826 (1): 055-100 

Despite the fact it looks like self-advertisement, there are several pieces 
of information within this monograph that might be useful for the community.. 

1. The split of the genus *Aiptasia* into *Aiptasia* and *Exaiptasia*. 
2. The synonymization of most species within former *Aiptasia*, including *A. 
pallida*, *A.pulchella* and *A.californica *into a single widespread species*, 
Exaiptasia pallida.* 
*3. *An identification key for currently valid species of the family. 

I hope this can be of assistance in your future research using this "model 
in the rise" 

Alejandro Grajales 
Department of Invertebrate Zoology 
American Museum of Natural History 
agrajales at amnh.org 

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