[Coral-List] Coral-List Lives On (but I'm retiring!)

Paul Hearty kaisdad04 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 8 19:59:36 UTC 2020


Bravo Jim Hendee!  Thank you for your huge contribution to our environment!



On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 3:50 PM Mebrahtu Ateweberhan via Coral-List <
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:

> Thank you Jim Hendee for such an invaluable forum.
>
> May it see the end of the global tragedy reefs are facing.🙏🏾
>
> Mebrahtu
>
> > On 4 Sep 2020, at 18:19, Jim Hendee via Coral-List <
> coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
> >
> > Greetings!
> >
> >     Coral-List began through the efforts of Louis Florit and I on May
> 23, 1995, over 25. years ago, and since that day, with about one hundred
> subscribers, our membership has grown to 9,926 coral enthusiasts,
> professional researchers, academicians, agency representatives, and
> laypeople of all types and professions.  This will always be my most
> cherished legacy out of the 30 years that I have worked for NOAA, and it
> will continue, at least for now, under the watchful eye of our Systems
> Administrator (and coral researcher diver), Mike Jankulak.
> >
> >     I'm not elequent enough to tell you the pride I felt when people
> would walk up to me at international meetings, such as the quadrennial
> International Coral Reef Symposia, and say that they just wanted to thank
> me personally because they got the job they now have because of a job
> posted on Coral-List.  We've always been a not-very-fancy text online
> service (to keep the bandwidth down, but other reasons, too), but we have
> continued to be a main point of circulation for important coral reef
> conservation efforts over all these years.  At our NOAA Lab, the Atlantic
> Oceanographic and Meteorlogical Laboratory in Miami, FL, we have built a
> world class coral research group, and since the very beginning, we. have
> worked hand-in-glove with NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program to realize
> the NOAA mission in the conservation of corals in the U.S. jurisdictions,
> but also with our international partners.
> >
> >     I hope some of you who have remained silent over the years will
> speak up about your local coral reef conservation concerns and share with
> the Coral-List community.  As someone recently pointed out, there are a few
> users who do most of the contributing; but folks, we've got a global
> problem with corals, so please let us know the problems in your area and
> let us know what you think the (local) solution is.
> >
> >     I retire from NOAA next Friday, September 12, 2020, but I will
> remain engaged with NOAA as a private citizen as much as I can and
> hopefully see many of you at next year's 14th International Coral Reef
> Symposium.  I will keep my NOAA email address for at least another six
> months, so write to me if you'd like.
> >
> >     In closing, besides Mike Jankulak and Louis Florit, I would. also
> like to think Lew Gramer and Clarke Jeffris for their efforts during their
> tenure with our Division.
> >
> >     Your fan always,
> >     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
> >   National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
> >   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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Dr. Paul J. Hearty  (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul_Hearty &
Google Scholar).  Adjunct Prof., Geol. Sci., Jackson School, U TX Austin

*Veritas temporis filia*


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