[Coral-List] Sargassum in San Pedro, Belize July 25, 2018 Ken Mattes

Wed Jul 25 16:02:15 EDT 2018

Sargassum in San Pedro, Belize July 25, 2018
A few days ago, the usually crystal-clear water near my dock cleared for the first time since February. I was able to see through what had been about 1 meter of water. It appeared a lot shallower. Not knowing how long it would stay clear I took advantage of the opportunity to get in and look around. This is what I saw. The lush turtle grass was gone from the shore to about 100 meters out. The bottom was only sand and about 0.5meters shallower than it was 6 months ago. There were many dead bivalves sitting on the surface still articulated so not long dead. I saw holes about a cm in diameter all around but at first didn’t know what they were from. There were few fish, only 6 spot fin Mojarra and 2 yellowfin Mojarra. The new sea wall that had developed a reasonable rocky shore community was completely devoid of life. At one point I stood up and my feet sank. I realized that the surface was just a sand coating over 0.5 meters of decomposing sargassum. Then I saw that the holes were caused by as large bubbles of gas (methane?) bursting through the sand layer. Earlier in the year we attempted a beach seine and found only foul, rotting sargassum with the occasional dead fish, no invertebrates. Since February the water half way out to the reef has been impenetrable to light. We had a sizable fish kill in an area with sand bars just off shore. So far it does not seem to have affected the reef. Today its murky again.
Ken Mattes, Belize TREC

Tropical Research & Education Center

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Today's Topics:

   1. do coral studies lack crucial species information??
      (Douglas Fenner)
   2. National Academies of Sciences Webinar
      (Tali Vardi - NOAA Affiliate)
   3. deepwater reefs; reef recovery;   predatory journal use
      widespread (Douglas Fenner)

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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 10:16:05 -1100
From: Douglas Fenner <douglasfennertassi at gmail.com>
Subject: [Coral-List] do coral studies lack crucial species
        information??
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I recently spotted this piece (open access):

Most insect studies lack crucial species information

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01541-0?
utm_source=briefing-dy&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=20180205

"Survey results suggest that a lot of entomology research could be
impossible to replicate."

"More than 98% of entomology papers contain so little species information
on the insects being studied that they are essentially impossible to
replicate, according to a survey of more than 550 articles published in
2016."
Come to think of it, I don't remember many studies on corals in the
Indo-Pacific that include this kind of info.  May not be necessary in the
Caribbean, where many of the corals are easy to ID, but nearly all
Indo-Pacific coral species have at least one other species (usually
several) that are the very devil to tell apart.  Many studies in the I-P
report results only at the genus level, which are vastly easier to ID, and
thus more certain.  But I think this is a potential problem for work done
with individual species in the Indo-Pacific.  What do you think?  We do
need information at the species level, species within genera differ on all
kinds of things, and can differ in dramatic ways.

Cheers,  Doug

--
Douglas Fenner
Contractor for NOAA NMFS Protected Species, and consultant
PO Box 7390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799  USA

New online open-access field guide to 300 coral species in Chagos, Indian
Ocean
http://chagosinformationportal.org/corals

By getting serious about limiting global warming, the world could save
itself more than $20 trillion.  (action would cost only a half trillion
over 30 years, a third the cost of the Iraq war, benefits would be 40 times
costs, that's a huge return on investment)  http://www.latimes.com/
science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-global-warming-costs-20180523-story.html

The cost of a warming climate  http://www.readcube.com/
articles/10.1038/d41586-018-05198-7

Climate costs  http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/d41586-018-05219-5

Large potential reduction in economic damages under UN mitigation targets
(and 30% loss of world economy if the climate is allowed to warm by 4oC)
http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/s41586-018-0071-9

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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 09:19:08 +1000
From: Tali Vardi - NOAA Affiliate <tali.vardi at noaa.gov>
Subject: [Coral-List] National Academies of Sciences Webinar
To: _NOAA Coral Collaboration <coral.collaboration at noaa.gov>
Cc: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
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Greeting all - I just participated in the excellent Great Barrier Reef
Restoration Symposium
<http://nesptropical.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/NESP-GBR-Symposium-2018-Schedule-V3.pdf>
and learned that the Australians are forging ahead seriously on bleaching
prevention using environmental engineering as one of the tools in their
toolbox for coral preservation. On Aug 2 our National Academies Panel is
hosting a webinar on these "environmental interventions". Please attend!
Registration below.
Best, Tali

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Date: Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 11:12 PM
Subject: FW: Upcoming Webinar: Environmental Interventions to Promote Coral
Reef Persistence
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Colleagues,

I wanted to share with you the announcement about an upcoming webinar
planned by the Committee on Interventions to Increase the Resilience of
Coral Reefs. We shared this announcement on Wednesday, and yesterday
afternoon were able to confirm our third speaker. This webinar will allow
the committee to hold an information-gathering discussion about the risks,
benefits, and feasibility of interventions that target the physical and
chemical reef environmental. Greg Rau (UCSC) will cover interventions
targeting ocean acidification, Mark Baird (CSIRO) will cover options for
shading and cooling, and Robert Wood (UW) will speak about Marine Cloud
Brightening.

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Note that the announcement also has a Save the Date for the next workshop
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 19:01:27 -1100
From: Douglas Fenner <douglasfennertassi at gmail.com>
Subject: [Coral-List] deepwater reefs; reef recovery;   predatory
        journal use widespread
To: coral list <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
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Deepwater coral reefs unlikely to welcome shallow-water animals (popular
article based on the recent Science article)

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/deepwater-coral-r
eefs-unlikely-to-welcome-shallow-water-animals--64531

open-access

Impaired recovery of the Great Barrier Reef under cumulative stress

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/7/eaar6127?utm_camp
aign=toc_advances_2018-07-20&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=2194481

open-access

Top researchers publish in predatory journals

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/164b8c531aebaf5f?com
pose=164b97ad9b450d8b

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/german-scientists
-frequently-publish-in-predatory-journals-64518

open-access

Predatory journals in Indian Ichthyology

http://indiabiodiversity.org/biodiv/content/projects/project
-3bf78586-59b5-495e-ab46-f6a3563ab456/921.pdf

open-access

Cheers,  Doug
--
Douglas Fenner
Contractor for NOAA NMFS Protected Species, and consultant
PO Box 7390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799  USA

New online open-access field guide to 300 coral species in Chagos, Indian
Ocean
http://chagosinformationportal.org/corals

By getting serious about limiting global warming, the world could save
itself more than $20 trillion.  (action would cost only a half trillion
over 30 years, a third the cost of the Iraq war, benefits would be 40 times
costs, that's a huge return on investment)  http://www.latimes.com/science
/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-global-warming-costs-20180523-story.html

The cost of a warming climate  http://www.readcube.com/articl
es/10.1038/d41586-018-05198-7

Climate costs  http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/d41586-018-05219-5

Large potential reduction in economic damages under UN mitigation targets
(and 30% loss of world economy if the climate is allowed to warm by 4oC)
http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/s41586-018-0071-9

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