[Coral-List] Bleaching refuges

Thu Mar 31 17:58:34 EDT 2016

In the U.S., there is a national law called the "Clean Water Act."  I
believe the U.S. federal government Environmental Protection Agency is
designated to enforce it.  Some states may have similar state laws and
agencies.  I am not familiar enough with any of these to say whether they
would cover this sort of thing, but they might.
    Cheers,  Doug

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Pedro M Alcolado <gmalcolado at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Funding should come from  environmental agencies in charge of
> controlling land based pollution from rivers close to coral reefs.
> Indeed it is quite difficult to be achieved  being it a very expensive
> and complex intervention. I think it is worth  to try to demand
> cleaning or improving pollution control of such polluted rivers by
> local or national relevant stakeholders and governmental instances in
> charge. Do you have any other idea about achieving it in some degree?
> There are many examples of rivers where  luxuriant coral reefs thrived
> very close to their mouth in the past.
> Pedro
>
> On 3/30/16, Damien Beri <beridl at g.cofc.edu> wrote:
> > I agree, where would funding come from?
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On Mar 29, 2016, at 4:03 PM, Douglas Fenner <
> douglasfennertassi at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Paul,
> >>    Well said, thank you very much for this idea.  I think this idea is a
> >> good one, and well worth trying.  We don't seem to have any other
> options
> >> at this point, and it could well work.     Cheers, Doug
> >>
> >>> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Paul Muir <paul.muir at qm.qld.gov.au>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I proposed this idea many years ago (~2005!) on coral list and am
> >>> wondering if anyone ever tried anything like this? Given the current
> >>> bleaching on the northern GBR and likelihood of other areas being hit
> >>> soon
> >>> perhaps it's worth someone doing a trial? Desperate times..
> >>>
> >>> Severe coral bleaching events can cause very high levels of coral
> >>> morality
> >>> and the recovery of reefs following such events can be very slow. For
> >>> example, recovery of corals in the Seychelles Islands following the
> >>> severe
> >>> 1998 bleaching event was extremely slow and regional extinction of some
> >>> species a possibility. Localised extinctions and slow recovery could be
> >>> mitigated if small areas of reef were protected during bleaching
> events:
> >>> corals have extremely high  fecundity and only a few healthy
> individuals
> >>> of
> >>> each species would needed to accelerate recovery. Field observations
> and
> >>> studies of the physiology of coral bleaching suggest that shading
> corals
> >>> during a high temperature event can reduce mortality rates. Small areas
> >>> of
> >>> reef (to 10,000m2 area) could be provided with moderate shading by the
> >>> use
> >>> of floating covers similar to those used in farm dams and industrial
> >>> ponds.
> >>> Such covers are light, float upon the water surface and could be
> rapidly
> >>> deployed from a small boat during a high-temperature event. The covers
> >>> would be held in place with small anchors and inflatable seams would
> >>> provide a flexible, semi-rigid structure that would resist small waves
> >>> and
> >>> swells at a protected site. High temperature bleaching events typically
> >>> occur during very flat, calm conditions over just a few weeks which
> >>> makes
> >>> deploying floating covers such as this feasible. Real-time monitoring
> of
> >>> the development of bleaching conditions and small-scale engineering
> >>> solutions may become increasingly important for the preservation of
> >>> thermally sensitive species at local scales.
> >>>
> >>> I can supply some ideas for a test-scale floating cover on request.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Dr. Paul Muir
> >>> Research Officer/ Collection Manager Corals, Biodiversity &
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> >> Douglas Fenner
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> >> Beever.
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> >>
> >> Record shattering February warmth bakes Alaska, Arctic 18oF
> >>
> >>
> http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/13/3759569/record-february-warmth-alaska-arctic/
> >>
> >> Sea level is now rising at the fastest rate in 3,000 years.
> >>
> http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/sea-levels-are-rising-their-fastest-rate-2000-years?utm_campaign=email-news-latest&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=292592
> >>
> http://mashable.com/2016/02/22/manmade-sea-level-rise-flooding/#fscPLGedCiqz
> >>
> >> Miami is flooding: "The Siege of Miami, as temperatures rise, so will
> sea
> >> levels."  Sea level rising an inch a year there.
> >> http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/12/21/the-siege-of-miami
> >>
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Douglas Fenner
Consultant, corals, coral reefs, coral identification
"have regulator, will travel"
PO Box 7390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799  USA

phone 1 684 622-7084

Join the International Society for Reef Studies.  Membership includes a
subscription to the journal Coral Reefs, and there are discounts for pdf
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"Belief in climate change is optional, participation is not."- Jim Beever.
  "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts."-
Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Solar can power more than 100 times America's current electricity needs, a
new report finds

http://www.theclimategroup.org/what-we-do/news-and-blogs/solar-can-power-more-than-100-times-americas-current-electricity-needs-new-report-finds

Record shattering February warmth bakes Alaska, Arctic 18oF

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/13/3759569/record-february-warmth-alaska-arctic/

Sea level is now rising at the fastest rate in 3,000 years.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/sea-levels-are-rising-their-fastest-rate-2000-years?utm_campaign=email-news-latest&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=292592
http://mashable.com/2016/02/22/manmade-sea-level-rise-flooding/#fscPLGedCiqz

website:  http://independent.academia.edu/DouglasFenner

blog: http://ocean.si.edu/blog/reefs-american-samoa-story-hope