Links to Additional Coral Reef Resources

http://ocean.si.edu/blog/coral-reefs-need-you/

http://www.marine.usf.edu/oilspill/

Bob Weisberg, Yonggang Liu, and Lianyuan Zheng in collaboration with Chuanmin Hu are providing oil spill trajectory forecasts both at the surface and subsurface using a variety of models and observations. Visit the Ocean Circulation Group webpage at the link above to view the trajectory forecasts.  Plus lots of access to research and information.  Great site! 

 

www.protectfloridabeaches.org

Great site on offshore oil in Florida

http://na.oceana.org/en/stopthedrill?key=31485793

Sign their petition to stop offshore oil drilling

NoRigs.org

How Many Days since the BP Blow-Out?  Click below to find out.

http://www.norigs.org/

 

A marine conservation organization based out of Tallahassee, FL.  

http://www.sosfla.org/

Earth Platform

a great environmental search platform

http://www.earthplatform.com/

The Sponge Guide

Everything you ever wanted to know about Caribbean sponges

http://www.spongeguide.org/aboutus.php 

 

An incredible resource on coral reefs

http://www.solcomhouse.com/coralreef.htm

The report provides strategies to motivate changes in thinking and behavior on global warming communications.

https://sites.google.com/a/thesocialcapitalproject.org/scp/The-Social-Capital-Project/publications/climate-communications-and-behavior-change

a great site all about the ocean

http://www.ocean.com

Coral Bones

Will tropical coral reefs be the first ecosystem to be eliminated by climate change?

a great blog on coral reef issues

http://coralstory.blogspot.com/

Coral Reef

WWW Sites

a listing of the leading coral reef conservation organizations

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/tcmweb/tcm/crlinks.htm

Great resource on oceanic marinelife.

http://oceanlink.island.net/index.html

http://www.foeme.org/projects.php?ind=62

Interesting site; one section documents the impacts of war on the environment

Global Warming Resources–including some great books and a list of orgs from the Step it Up Action

http://www.billmckibben.com/fightglobalwarmingnow/global-warming-resources.html

 

     Ocean World by the Jason Project                                                              

Wonderful site on all things oceanic…

http://www.oceanworld.tamu.edu

a great site for children to learn about coral reefs and marinelife

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/coralreef/coralreef.shtml

World Ocean Observatory:

Home

http://www.thew2o.net/

great site featuring a blog by Richard Charter, our hero in the fight against offshore oil…

http://www.defendersblog.org/ and http://www.gulfoilspillrecovery.org/

Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson recently resigned as president of Reef Relief after a long and honorable career protecting coral reefs at the state level, in addition to his consideration contributions as Chairman of the Board of Reef Relief for over 8 years. Among his many achievements for Reef Relief was passage of a ban on feeding fish that helps protects sharks, a regulation on the use of shallow injection wells in the Florida Keys and efforts to Continue reading Paul Johnson

Maryann Lucking

http://www.coralations.org/about_coralations/index.htm

http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2002/vol6n35/ConserConster-en.html

Maryann Lucking is the founder and current Director of CORALations , a nonprofit membership coral reef conservation organization based in Puerto Rico.   Since 1995, the tall blond powerhouse has worked tirelessly to fulfill the mission of CORALations to CONSERVE, NURTURE, and EDUCATE  by working with Caribbean communities to protect and restore their coral reefs.   She leads CORALations to implement aggressive conservation initiatives with public education and community participation. These initiatives focus on “real time” solutions to coral reef  Continue reading Maryann Lucking

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