[Coral-List] Webinars

[Douglas Fenner]

The presentation for the Aquarium of the Pacific on "Can we save coral
reefs?" will be this afternoon, 7pm Pacific Daylight time.  It will be
about 45 min presentation plus 15 min questions.  Open access streaming, no
registration required.  It should also be available on the web page
afterwards.  It will be for a general audience, not technical or research.
 Cheers, Doug

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 2:18 AM Steve via Coral-List <
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:

>
> Dear Listers,
>
> Just a heads up regarding a couple of webinars that may be of interest to
> some.
>
> Corals in crisis: How scientists are racing to stop a deadly disease.
> (SCTLD)
>
> This presentation is tonight (Wednesday, June 3) presented by Woods Hole
> Oceanographic Institute and features Dr. Sylvia Earle. Pre-registration is
> required.
>
> https://www.whoi.edu/ocean-encounters/
>
> Can we save coral reefs?
>
> This lecture is presented by Aquarium of the Pacific and features our own
> Doug Fenner. Thursday, June 4.
>
> http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/events/info/can_we_save_coral_reefs/
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve
>
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>
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-- 
Douglas Fenner
Lynker Technologies, LLC, Contractor
NOAA Fisheries Service
Pacific Islands Regional Office
Honolulu
and:
Consultant
PO Box 7390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799  USA

"mitigating climate change is the critical wedge to set coral reefs on a
recovery trajectory"  Duarte et al 2020 Rebuilding marine life Nature

"Already, more people die  <http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/hazstats.shtml>from
heat-related causes in the U.S. than from all other extreme weather events."


https://www.npr.org/2018/07/09/624643780/phoenix-tries-to-reverse-its-silent-storm-of-heat-deaths


Even 50-year old climate models correctly predicted global warmng
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/even-50-year-old-climate-models-correctly-predicted-global-warming?utm_campaign=news_weekly_2019-12-06&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=3113276

"Global warming is manifestly the foremost current threat to coral reefs,
and must be addressed by the global community if reefs as we know them will
have any chance to persist."  Williams et al, 2019, Frontiers in Marine
Science