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

White, Susan susan_white at fws.gov
Sat May 23 15:15:46 UTC 2020


Congratulations and THANK YOU Jim and Louis... and the team!!  Coral-list is the benchmark standard I hold all other lists too, and not many even come close.  You’ve done a wonderful service for the world and created an important tool for coral reefs into the future.

Warmest regards,
Susan

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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Coral-List] Happy 25th Birthday, Coral-List!

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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