[Coral-List] Happy 25th Birthday, Coral-List!

Jim Hendee jim.hendee at noaa.gov
Sat May 23 12:49:24 UTC 2020


Greetings, /Coraleros/!

     Twenty-five years ago today Coral-List began on an Indy Unix-based 
server with 100 email addresses, gleaned from the participant list of 
the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium in Panama, and assembled and 
programmed by Louis Florit (then a Florida International University 
intern at NOAA/AOML, and who is today an executive at Apple,Inc.), and 
myself, partly supported through $3K from NOAA's Office of Global 
Programs.   Since that time it has been a pillar of international 
communication for coral reef researchers, conservationists, 
environmental managers, and students; and as an information resource, 
currently with a subscribership of 9,855 members.  Coral-List has been 
used to help announce each International Coral Reef Sysmposium since the 
8th, as well as many other events around the world, helped to spread the 
word on the  demise of coral reef ecosystems through various reasons at 
innumerable places around the globe, and has served to help a great many 
people obtain jobs in coral-related research.  Besides Louis and myself, 
there have been many administrators who have helped Coral-List keep on 
chugging, almost non-stop (except for a few hurricanes), including 
Clarke Jeffris, Lew Gramer and Mike Jankulak, who still continues to 
assist to this day, along with our NOAA/AOML Systems Administrator, John 
McKeever.

     We have witnessed together a critical time of decline of coral reef 
ecosystems throughout the world.  There can be no doubt (now) that the 
steady rise of sea temperatures has resulted in coral bleaching, as well 
as the decline through the additional insults of ocean acidification, 
disease, land-based sources of pollution, overfishing, turbidity, 
blast-fishing, and so on.  Keep up the good fight and share your 
knowledge with others on this list so that we will know better and 
quicker how to try and save this precious and necessary resource of 
coral reef ecosystems.

     (By the way, it was Dr. Judith Lang, my very first mentor on coral 
reef ecology, who coined that term "Coraleros," so far as I know.  She's 
still fighting the good fight with me on a collaborative project in the 
Caribbean.)

     Sincerely yours,
     Jim

    James C. Hendee <http://www.coral.noaa.gov/people/jim-hendee.html>,
    Ph.D.
    Director, Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division
    Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)
    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
    4301 Rickenbacker Causeway
    Miami, Florida  33149-1026
    Voice: 305 361-4396
    Fax: 305 361-4392
    Jim.Hendee at noaa.gov
    http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/oced



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