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

[Judith Lang]

Hi Jim,
Happy 25th, indeed!  Your steady endurance in keeping this important communication tool alive since 1995 is an inspiration to us all.

Coral-List is older than the widespread penetration of the Internet into our daily lives. Only this morning I thought to wonder what the term means. 
Finding none, I’m proposing it means "colleagues who feel happy when they think of coral reefs in the abstract or as they remember them from years past, sorrow about their current condition, and are striving to improve their future prospects."

Please keep up the worthy fights, but stay vigilant about your own health too, during this turbulent time,
Judy Lang
AGRRA Scientific Coordinator

> On 23 May 2020, at 08:49, Jim Hendee via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
> 
> 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
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