[Coral-List] Concerns over ICRS, 2021

Tue Sep 8 23:21:33 UTC 2020

Dear List,

I hesitate to write this, but seriously- are we kidding ourselves?  To plan
for ICRS to be held in July 2021 seems absurd, based on the many scientific
medical reports and the informed opinions of the experts, and despite
attempts by certain leaders and the media to deny the facts for economic or
political reasons. The experts tell us that there is a strong chance that
the pandemic will still be raging by next July, and with all the tremendous
energy required to pull off ICRS, is it really wise for the global coral
reef community to forge ahead like this- only to have all of these efforts
come to naught- yet again?   Am I the only one here who feels this way?

For perspective, I am writing this from the South Pacific, where we are
sealed off in a COVID-19 free bubble- no community spread, and only a few
cases intercepted at the border and in strict quarantine.  At least for us
in this region we may not be able to emerge from our secure bubble for a
long time, perhaps until the virus is as rare as SARS1?  Presently it is
very difficult to get flights in and out, and on returning we are required
to be in government quarantine for two weeks- which might be expanded to
three.  Barring some miracle cure or long lasting effective vaccine, ICRS
is certainly not going to happen for us unless it is pushed back to 2022 or
2023

Kind regards, and stay safe,

Austin

Austin Bowden-Kerby, PhD
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>       environmental factors underlie coral vulnerability and resilience
>       to thermal stress and bleaching? (Grottoli, Andrea)
>    3. September Reef e-talk - Opposing climate-change impacts on
>       poleward-shifting coral-reef fishes (Sonia Bejarano)
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> Dear Colleagues,
> Please remember to resubmit your abstract or consider submitting for the
> first time to our merged sessions: ?
> Session 7J, in Theme 7 Scalable observations and technologies:
> How can innovative techniques to investigate calcification and its
> mechanism shed light into the past, present and future of coral reef
> organisms?
> How do new insights into biomineralization help us understand the reef
> calcification response to global climate change?
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> The deadline for abstracts is the 15th September!
> For more information see:
> https://www.icrs2021.de/program/information-update/
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> Best regards,
> Alexander Venn 1, Sylvie Tambutte 1, Anton Eisenhauer 2, Virginie Chamard
> 3, Ed Hathorne 4, Fiorella Prada 5, Stefano Goffredo 5, Tali Mass 6, Jeana
> Drake 7
> 1 Centre Scientifique de Monaco (Monaco)
> 2 GEOMAR (Kiel, Germany)
> 3 Institut Fresnel (Marseille, France)
> 4 GEOMAR (Kiel, Germany)
> 5 University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy)
> 6 University of Haifa (Haifa, Israel)
> 7 University of California Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
> Alexander VennCentre Scientifique de Monacowww.centrescientifique.mc
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 03:58:22 +0000
> From: "Grottoli, Andrea" <grottoli.1 at osu.edu>
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> Subject: [Coral-List] ICRS2021 Session 10E: What phenotype, genotype,
>         and environmental factors underlie coral vulnerability and
> resilience
>         to thermal stress and bleaching?
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> Dear Colleagues:
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> Please consider submitting your abstract for the upcoming 14th
> International Coral Reef Symposium in Bremen, Germany to the session I am
> chairing (session 10E): What phenotype, genotype, and environmental factors
> underlie coral vulnerability and resilience to thermal stress and
> bleaching? Deadline is 15 September 2020.  I look forward to seeing you in
> Bremen next summer.
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> Cheers,
> Andrea
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> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 18:24:25 +0200
> From: Sonia Bejarano <sonia.bejarano at leibniz-zmt.de>
> To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
> Subject: [Coral-List] September Reef e-talk - Opposing climate-change
>         impacts on poleward-shifting coral-reef fishes
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> Dear Listers,
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> The Reef Systems Research group at ZMT invites you to register to the
> Reef e-talk this month: *Opposing climate-change impacts on
> poleward-shifting coral-reef fishes***by Professor David J. Booth,
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> Kind Regards,
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> Sonia
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