[Coral-List] trends in monitoring data on reefs in Barbados, short popular piece

Sat Nov 5 09:45:46 UTC 2022

Good to hear you Mike... but you didn’t ask...you made a concrete statement.

Henri Valles is a lecturer at the University of the West Indies ... and an excellent scientist. Thought I’d mention this as i’m not sure where you were going with your comment about McGill.

You can contact him directly for further info and that’s my final comment re this thread.

Peace
Angie

From: Risk, Michael <riskmj at mcmaster.ca>
Date: Friday, 4 November 2022 at 4:59 PM
To: Angie Brathwaite <abrathwaite at blue-finance.org>, coral list <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>, Douglas Fenner <douglasfennertassi at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Coral-List] trends in monitoring data on reefs in Barbados, short popular piece
Hi Angie. Nice to talk to you again. The article mentioned "hopeful signs of recovery", so it was fair of me to ask about those. Some of the large amounts of funding to Barbados devoted to reef recovery have now been running for several years. Given the enormous impact ANY hopeful signs would have in the Caribbean, may we hope for results to published soon?

As you say, the article discussed careers in science. The person featured, Henri Valles, got his degree at McGill, back in the day. McGill has now abandoned any pretense of being interested in marine science. For careers in this exciting yet frustrating field, young people would be advised to investigate (in Canada) places like Memorial, Dalhousie, UBC and Simon Fraser. (No, not McMaster.)

Mike
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From: Angie Brathwaite <abrathwaite at blue-finance.org>
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Subject: Re: [Coral-List] trends in monitoring data on reefs in Barbados, short popular piece

...but Mike...we don’t solely have pretty pictures. We have comprehensive data and reports ..produced since 1982...on temporal changes in coral reef communities. You can request these reports from the Coastal Zone Management Unit or CERMES of the University of the West Indies. This lovely article was to highlight careers in Marine Science...and it brought a smile to my day and a bounce to my step (and not only because I’m Barbadian).

These results are also not linked to any coral reef restoration programmes...

Thanks for posting Doug.

Peace

Angie

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Date: Thursday, 3 November 2022 at 4:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [Coral-List] trends in monitoring data on reefs in Barbados, short popular piece

   A pretty picture with no data is hardly convincing evidence of
   anything, let alone recovery.

   It would be far more interesting to see the results of the oceans of
   money Barbados has received for "Reef Restoration."
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   short popular piece

   Spotting hopeful signs for coral health in Barbados's backyard.
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   3. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/1-in-6-deaths-worldwide-can-be-attributed-to-pollution-new-review-shows/ar-AAXozQh
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