[Coral-List] Worthing, Barbados

[Pawlik, Joseph]

The SW coast of Barbados has better coral cover and lower seaweed cover than many reefs elsewhere in the Caribbean.  Here's a video tour from January 2019:

https://youtu.be/pFA5pw5FMVE


Notice the huge biomass of giant barrel sponges!!!!




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Joseph R. Pawlik

Frank Hawkins Kenan Distinguished Professor of Marine Biology

Dept. of Biology and Marine Biology

UNCW Center for Marine Science

5600 Marvin K Moss Lane

Wilmington, NC  28409

Office:(910)962-2377; Cell:(910)232-3579

Website: http://people.uncw.edu/pawlikj/index.html

PDFs: http://people.uncw.edu/pawlikj/pubs2.html

Video Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/skndiver011

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From: Coral-List <coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> on behalf of Angie via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
Sent: Monday, August 5, 2019 11:27 AM
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Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Worthing, Barbados

According to Dr. Risk…Barbados is "…..an island which could be characterized as an outhouse built on a karst outcrop”. That´s pretty uncharitable. I´m trying as a Barbadian not to be offended and as a scientist to stick to facts so I have to add that we have two sewage treatment plants, one primary servicing the south and slated to be upgraded to tertiary and the other secondary, servicing the Capital. An increasing number of householders are choosing septic tanks over the traditional suck wells and our nearshore water quality (which is monitored twice monthly) is not the sewer one would expect given that analogy.

Angelique Brathwaite


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