[Coral-List] Online Indo-Pacific Coral ID Workshops: Jan 2023, Registration Open Now

[Dr. Kevin Erickson]

The Online Coral ID Workshops with Russell Kelley and BYOGUIDES are back!

After overwhelming positive feedback from the previous workshops, they are
now spanning 4 days. That is 16 hours of Indo-Pacific Coral ID Training!

Info and Registration at: https://byoguides.com/

The workshop will be based around the new 2022 Coral Finder Toolkit, a
suite of proven, practical resources for coral identification.

The Indo-Pacific Coral Finder uses a visual approach that makes it possible
for beginners to advance rapidly with little prior knowledge.

Led by Russell Kelley – author of the Indo-Pacific Coral Finder (5
editions) & the Reef Finder with assistance from Kevin Erickson.

Target Audience: Scientists, Students, Naturalists, CITES, Coral
Collectors, Exporters, Importers, Wholesalers, Retailers, Hobbyists,
Academics, Researchers.

The workshop uses audio-visual and hands-on training, tutorials and
instruction and includes a take home Coral Finder Toolkit: Coral Finder
2022, a comprehensive workshop manual and audiovisual training.
Participants learn how to use the newly updated Indo Pacific Coral Finder
2022 to identify Indo Pacific hard corals to genus regardless of growth
form. (Also includes the stony non-scleractinians.)

Special emphasis is placed on techniques for field identification, self
directed learning and problem solving. For non-coral specialists, the
workshop rapidly develops basic coral identification skills. Current or
future coral specialists will upgrade their ID skills to the current state
of molecular taxonomy.

The workshop provides an introduction to species identification and how to
approach it maturely. The training applies equally topside or underwater.
Even people with extensive prior knowledge of corals benefit significantly
from the problem solving training built into the Coral Finder workshop.

The workshop also summarizes the changes and implications of new molecular
taxonomy findings while providing an easy-to-grasp, practical, field
focussed approach to coral identification.