[Coral-List] Reef scientists benefit from global change?

[John Ware]

Dear List,

There is a phenomenon that I have observed and noted for about the last 
10 years.  That is:

While global change is bad for corals and coral reefs, it seems to 
really benefit coral-reef scientists.

Here are some data:

1- About 10+ years ago, membership in the ISRS in ICRS years was about 
1000.  Membership is now ~1700 (a "run-up" year for ICRS).

2- Back in 1992 (the first year I went to ICRS) my guess is that there 
were less than 300 delegates, maybe only 200.  For 2016, the estimate is 
about 2000.

3- Since 2005 I counted 109 papers in Nature or Science on the topic of 
coral reefs.  Of these, 67 mentioned some aspect of climate change.

4- In a recent issue of the ISRS journal Coral Reefs (Vol 34, #3), there 
were 20 reports.  13 of these mentioned the applicability of the results 
to some aspect of global change.

Too late to jump on the bandwagon??

John Ware

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