[Coral-List] Sargassum in San Pedro, Belize July 25, 2018 Ken Mattes
JAMES ENGMAN
engmanj at hsu.edu
Thu Jul 26 07:26:44 EDT 2018
Back in mid-June, knowing there was a Sargassum problem, I was on this same
dock, and checked O2 concentration in the surface water. It was only 3.5
ppm.
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 4:58 AM Kenneth Mattes <MKMattes at belizetrec.com>
wrote:
> 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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> 3. deepwater reefs; reef recovery; predatory journal use
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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??
> To: coral list <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
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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&utm_medium=email&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
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> 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
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> 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
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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
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> Greeting all - I just participated in the excellent Great Barrier Reef
> Restoration Symposium
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> and learned that the Australians are forging ahead seriously on bleaching
> prevention using environmental engineering as one of the tools in their
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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
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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
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> https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/164b8c531aebaf5f?com
> pose=164b97ad9b450d8b
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> https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/german-scientists
> -frequently-publish-in-predatory-journals-64518
>
> open-access
>
> Predatory journals in Indian Ichthyology
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> http://indiabiodiversity.org/biodiv/content/projects/project
> -3bf78586-59b5-495e-ab46-f6a3563ab456/921.pdf
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> open-access
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> 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
> <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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