Reef Science

http://www.earthtimes.org/pollution/co2-fish-eggs-larvae-ocean-acidification/1706/ ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES & NEWS >> POLLUTION >> Posted Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:00:00 GMT by Colin Ricketts It’s the ‘other CO2 problem’, global warming’s little brother, and ocean acidification could be even more damaging than had previously been thought according to new research on how fish ...Click Here to Read More.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es202351y Jacob Carstensen,*,† María S
anchez-Camacho,‡ Carlos M. Duarte,‡,§ Dorte Krause-Jensen,† and N
uria Marba‡ †Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark ‡Department of Global Change Research, IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Instituto Mediterr
aneo de Estudios Avanzados, Miquel Marques 21, 07190 ...Click Here to Read More.

http://news.ufl.edu/2011/10/11/coral-bacteria/ Filed under Business, Economic Impact, Environment, Florida, Research on Tuesday, October 11, 2011. GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Bacteria that could potentially help corals resist the devastating disease white pox have been found by researchers at the University of Florida and Mote Marine Laboratory. The findings could help maintain the health of ...Click Here to Read More.

Tracking Nonpoint Source Nitrogen Pollution in Human-Impacted Watersheds_ES&T_Oct2011-1 Share and Enjoy: ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/602635–kitchener-biologist-studying-effects-of-gulf-oil-spill By Mirko Petricevic, Record staff Galvez Kitchener native Fernando Galvez is an assistant professor in the biology department at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA. A Kitchener biologist studying the effects of last year’s sprawling oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/Media-Center/News-by-Topic/Wildlife/2011/09-26-11-New-Study-Documents-BP-Oils-Impact-on-Gulf-Ecosystem.aspx Alarming New Study Documents BP Oil’s Impact on Gulf Ecosystem Washington, DC (September 26, 2011) – A study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences documents the effect of BP oil on the Gulf killifish. The ...Click Here to Read More.

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/08/human-excrement-to-blame-for-cor.html Reef Relief Founder Craig Quirolo first observed white pox disease and alerted Dr. Porter to it; Reef Relief worked for years to encourage the City of Key West to adopt advanced wastewater treatment, despite a sea of denial. So glad we succeeded! DV by Gisela Telis on 17 August 2011, 5:00 PM Coral killer. ...Click Here to Read More.

http://news.yahoo.com/study-coral-may-lead-sunburn-pill-110251383.html see also Mother Nature Network article at: http://www.mnn.com/family/protection-safety/blogs/sunscreen-pills-from-coral-reefs A study of underwater coral reefs by researchers of King’s College London may lead to the development of a pill to prevent sunburn. The research team hope within the next two years to test a ...Click Here to Read More.

http://healthygulf.org/201108041709/blog/healthy-waters-/-dead-zone/epa-denies-petition-to-curb-river-pollution-while-gulf-dead-zone-rages#.Tjxv1kDXo2c.facebook Blog – Healthy Waters / Dead Zone Thursday, 04 August 2011 14:35 New Orleans, LA—EPA has denied a petition to implement a clean-up plan for an aquatic Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico, despite heavy economic losses to the U.S. ...Click Here to Read More.

Just a note that /A. palmata/ (i.e. Elkhorn coral) colonies were observed to spawn Tuesday night July 19th.(Looe Key- Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Special Protected Area), at about 2 hours after sunset. This is one month earlier than usual (3-4 days after full moon in August). Could this be a new trend with warmer seawater temperatures? It seams that corals may have spawned earlier ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.tgdaily.com/sustainability-features/57323-mississippi-runoff-expands-gulf-dead-zone Posted on Jul 19th 2011 by Kate Taylor The so-called Gulf Dead Zone is looking set to be the biggest ever this year. It’s currently about 3,300 square miles, or roughly the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined, but researchers at Texas A & M University say it’s likely to become ...Click Here to Read More.

Conservation Letters 4 (2011) 228–233 cetacean carcasses and oil spills 1 Author affiliations: 1Marine Mammal Research Unit, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 2Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada 3Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research, Cetacean Research Unit, Murdoch University, Western Australia 4Cascadia Research Collective, Olympia, WA, USA 5New ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/28-12 Published on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 Documents obtained by Greenpeace show prominent opponent of climate change was funded by ExxonMobil, among others by John Vidal One of the world’s most prominent scientific figures to be skeptical about climate change has admitted to being paid more than $1m in the past decade by major US oil and coal ...Click Here to Read More.

http://lenfestocean.org/sites/default/files/pollution_plume_summary_final.pdf Venayagamoorthy, S.K., H. Ku, O.B. Fringer, A. Chiu, R.L. Naylor and J.R. Koseff. 2011. Numerical modeling of aquaculture dissolved waste transport in a coastal embayment. Environmental Fluid Mechanics. A recent scientific study published in the journal Environmental Fluid Mechanics shows that the location of coastal ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/20/ipso-2011-ocean-report-mass-extinction_n_880656.html by Travis Donovan If the current actions contributing to a multifaceted degradation of the world’s oceans aren’t curbed, a mass extinction unlike anything human history has ever seen is coming, an expert panel of scientists warns in an alarming new report. The preliminary report from the ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/15-8 Published on Wednesday, June 15, 2011 by Doyle Rice The “Dead Zone” in the Gulf of Mexico – a region of oxygen-depleted water off the Louisiana and Texas coasts that is harmful to sea life and the commercial fishing industry – is predicted to be the largest ever recorded this year, federal scientists announced Tuesday. The ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/13-5 Published on Monday, June 13, 2011 by The Guardian/UK by Tracy McVeigh Global warming has long been blamed for the huge rise in the world’s jellyfish population. But new research suggests that they, in turn, may be worsening the problem by producing more carbon than the oceans can cope with. Dr Carol Turley, a scientist at Plymouth ...Click Here to Read More.

The link to the original article is http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate1122.html by Katharina E. Fabricius, Chris Langdon, Sven Uthicke, Craig Humphrey, Sam Noonan, Glenn De’ath, Remy Okazaki, Nancy Muehllehner, Martin S. Glas & Janice M. Lough Reference: Fabricius KE, Langdon C, Uthicke S, Humphrey C, Noonan S, De’ath G, Okazaki R, Muehllehner N, Glas ...Click Here to Read More.

http://data.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/Bios-Eco-Mar-Cor-027.pdf by Kaufman L, Sandin S, Sala E, Obura D, Rohwer F, and Tschirky T (2011) Coral Health Index (CHI): measuring coral community health. Science and Knowledge Division, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA. There is a new tool for assessing coral healthwhich has just been released by Conservation International (CI) and is ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13605113#story_continues_1 31 May 2011 Last updated at 19:47 ET By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News Clownfish, the spectacular tropical species featured in the movie Finding Nemo, appear to lose their hearing in water slightly more acidic than normal. At levels of acidity that may be common by the end of the century, the fish did ...Click Here to Read More.

Published on Sunday, May 29, 2011 Carbon dioxide pollution adds to threat to world’s oceans and marine species by Robin McKie, science editor The infernal origins of Vulcano Island are easy to pinpoint. Step off the hydrofoil from Sicily and the rotten-egg smell of hydrogen sulphide strikes you immediately. Beside the quay, there are piles of yellow sulphurous rocks and chunks of pumice; ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/ 110511134221.htm ScienceDaily (May 11, 2011) —Marine species facing threats from the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico far exceed those under legal protection in the United States, a new paper in the journal BioScience finds. University of New Hampshire professor Fred Short and others found 39 additional marine species ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.balidiscovery.com. (5/7/2011) 5 hectares of coral surrounding Serangan island near Sanur in Bali have been destroyed by beach reclamations work done at the location in 1996. According to Beritabali.com, an estimated 20 years is now needed to rehabilitate the reef. Wayan Patut, who is a an environmental activist and the head of the Sari Mertasegara fishing group, said: “When the ...Click Here to Read More.

Dear colleagues, Following up on the IUCN report of the Bonaire Marine Park, I would like to draw your attention to a recently published article in Bulletin of Marine Science: “Coral community decline at Bonaire, Southern Caribbean” Website: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/umrsmas/bullmar/pre-prints/8737;jsessionid=3qmvimw0g0nli.alice Abstract: We assessed the status of coral ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2011/vims-study-propeller-turbulence-may-affect-marine-food-webs-123.php by David Malmquist | April 25, 2011 A new study by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science shows that turbulence from boat propellers can and does kill large numbers of copepods-tiny crustaceans that are an important part of marine food webs. The study-by VIMS graduate student ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.wri.org/publication/reefs-at-risk-revisited This comprehensive report is well done and irreplaceable–an incredible resource.  DV Share and Enjoy: ...Click Here to Read More.

8 April 2011 | EN Biodiversity of wetlands may help keep water clean Flickr/Brenda Anderson Conserving biodiversity could help shield waterways against nitrogen pollution, says a study that showed how streams with more species are better at removing excess nutrients from water. The findings imply that developing countries that keep rivers and lakes species-rich could save money on water ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6022/1295.abstract Science 11 March 2011: Vol. 331 no. 6022 pp. 1295-1299 DOI: 10.1126/science.1200320 Abstract A large fraction of atmospheric aerosols are derived from organic compounds with various volatilities. A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) WP-3D research aircraft made airborne measurements of the gaseous and aerosol ...Click Here to Read More.

The Huffington Post  Joanna Zelman  Posted: 02/25/11 08:37 AM   A recent study has found that all of the world’s coral reefs could be gone by 2050. If lost, 500 million people’s livelihoods worldwide would be threatened. The World Resources Institute report, “Reefs at Risk Revisited,” suggests that by 2030, over 90 percent of coral reefs will be threatened. If ...Click Here to Read More.

Colleagues, the following global coral reproduction review chapter has recently been published in Dubinsky and Stambler’s book: Harrison, P.L. (2011). Sexual reproduction of scleractinian corals. In: Z. Dubinsky and N. Stambler (Editors), Coral Reefs: An Ecosystem in Transition Part 3, 59-85, DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0114-4_6 Springer Publishers. This new review presents a synthesis of ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.coraldisease.org/ The GCDD is the result of a collaboration between UNEP-WCMC and NOAA NMFS. The project aims to collate information on the global distribution of coral diseases, in order to contribute to the understanding of coral disease prevalence. The GCDD is a compilation of information from scientific literature gathered before 2007 (archive data), as well as new contributions ...Click Here to Read More.

download the entire report at: http://na.oceana.org/sites/default/files/reports/Ocean_Acidification_The_Untold_Stories.pdf November 1, 2010 Our use of fossil fuels, deforestation and land use changes are wreaking havoc on the  oceans. Besides causing global climate change, which could cause catastrophic impacts around the world, the release of carbon dioxide from these activities is also ...Click Here to Read More.

snorkeling trails[1] Conservation Biology. Vol 14 No. 6 December 2000 Share and Enjoy: ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.articlesafari.com/2010/10/dolphin-human-dna/ Seema Kumar, of Discovery Channel Online, writes that scientists have discovered that the genetic make-up of dolphins is amazingly similar to humans. They’re closer to us than cows, horses, or pigs, despite the fact that they live in the water. “The extent of the genetic similarity came as a real surprise to us,” says David Busbee of ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.sharksavers.org/en/education/sharks-are-in-trouble/399-loss-of-large-fish-on-coral-reefs.html Special thanks to Doug Fenner & Coral-list Share and Enjoy: ...Click Here to Read More.

Science Now reports that NASA says this year so far is the hottest on record in the 131 years of record keeping.  Nearly 0.7 C hotter than the average from 1951 to 1980, and NOAA has found essentially the same thing using different data.  Nightime temperatures hit record highs in 37 states of the US this summer.  The National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, has found ...Click Here to Read More.

  Desired (but not required) qualifications: - MSc in Marine Science, Geology, Biology, or any physical science.  Exceptional applicants without an MSc will also be considered. - Experience in isotope biogeochemistry, organic chemistry, or relevant coursework - Tropical fieldwork experience or coral aquaculture experience - The successful candidate must be accepted into the graduate ...Click Here to Read More.

2010 WINTER COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT (December 20th- January 9th) FIELD COURSE IN CORAL REEF ECOLOGY (Caribbean of Panama) http://www.itec-edu.org/coral6.html LOCATION:  The field courses will take place at the Institute for Tropical Ecology and Conservation (ITEC) Bocas del Toro Biological Station, Boca del Drago, Isla Colon, Bocas del Toro, Panama: http://www.itec-edu.org/index.html The Bocas del ...Click Here to Read More.

 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/science/earth/21coral.html?_r=1&hp Coral bleaching, like that seen in the Flower Garden Banks off the Texas-Louisiana border, is an indicator of heat stress.    By JUSTIN GILLIS Published: September 20, 2010 By JUSTIN GILLIS >From Thailand to Texas, many corals are reacting to heat stress by shedding their color and going into survival mode, ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.globalcoral.org/Coral%20Reefs,%20Sewage%20and%20Quality%20Standards.pdf Share and Enjoy: ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.globalcoral.org/sustainability-02-02919%5B1%5D.pdf Share and Enjoy: ...Click Here to Read More.

Reply |Bill Allison to Steve, coral-list show details August 29, 2010 Good-day Steve: Disclosure is not a novel concept (e.g., Harding, 1949), and is required by most journals (e.g., Davidoff and DeAngelis, 2001). Is it unreasonable to expect it in politically and economically freighted discussions on this list? Harding, T. S. (1949). “Vested Interests in Scientific Research.” ...Click Here to Read More.

Williams GJ, Knapp IS, Maragos JE, Davy SK (2010) Marine Pollution Bulletin 60: 1467-1476 Link to paper through ...Click Here to Read More.

(August 2010) *SUMMARY: * The Coral Reef Watch (CRW) satellite coral bleaching monitoring shows sea surface temperatures (SSTs) have been above average throughout the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, and are already above the bleaching threshold in some areas. The CRW Coral Bleaching Thermal Stress Outlook indicates that there is a high potential for thermal stress capable of causing coral ...Click Here to Read More.

Hi all,        I would like to inform you all of a new peer reviewed book just published titled ‘Marine Research and Conservation in the Coral Triangle: The Wakatobi National Park’. This is now available for purchase on Amazon.com etc (see ...Click Here to Read More.

New Coral Reef Rehabilitation Manual The Coral Reef Targeted Research (CRTR) Program has recently released a new Reef Rehabilitation Manual.  The manual is the culmination of research from the CRTR Program, CRISP and ReefRES projects, and is intended to complement the Reef Restoration Concepts & Guidelines.  The Manual captures the experience of international research into ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.dep.state.fl.us/coastal/programs/coral/reports/ This site features links to all the published science of the South East Florida Coral Reef Initiative, hosted by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, including the following topics:   * land-based sources of pollution * awareness and appreciation *  fishing diving and other uses, and *  maritime industries and coastal ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100802/full/news.2010.387.html August 2, 2010 Special thanks to Dr. Thomas Goreau Share and Enjoy: ...Click Here to Read More.

The Atlantic Lionfish has a New Friend:  A new species of coral has been discovered on one of the oil platforms just southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River.  It is Tubastraea micranthus, a western Indo-Pacific coral which has now gained a foot-hold in the Gulf of Mexico.  It has been sighted in the Grand Isle lease area, off the Louisiana coast, southeast of Port Fourchon.  What ...Click Here to Read More.

  Due Date: Full proposals are due October 21, 2010 at 3 p.m. Eastern Time. Description: NOAA’s Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research (NOAA/CSCOR), in partnership with the NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (NOAA/OER), National Marine Fisheries Service Southeast Regional Office, and Gulf of Mexico Regional Collaboration Team, is ...Click Here to Read More.

 http://www.coralcoe.org.au/pub-scientific.html July 26, 2010 Examples of articles published in the first half of 2010 and added to the Centre’s publications listing include: Ainsworth, TD, Thurber, RV and Gates, RD (2010). The future of coral reefs: a microbial perspective. /Trends in Ecology & Evolution/ 25(4): 233-240. Babcock, RC, Shears, NT, Alcala, AC, Barrett, NS, Edgar, GJ, ...Click Here to Read More.

   Alcolado et al Ciencias Marinas 2010[1] Special thanks to Robert Ginsberg Share and Enjoy: ...Click Here to Read More.

http://news.sciencemag.org/oilspill/ Our reporting team tackles five key issues: The Fate of the Oil Life on the Sea Floor Marine Life Coastal Ecosystems Fisheries and Food plus…. All Oil Spill Articles and Daily trajectory of the ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.setacjournals.org/view/0/ieamfeaturedoilspills.html IEAM brings together a selection of peer-reviewed articles previously published and still relevant to scientists and other respondents to the 20 April 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. These articles exemplify the application of science in environmental decision-making, management, and sound approaches to environmental problem ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.setacjournals.org/view/0/virtualissueoilspills.html This virtual issue on the 1989 oil spill of the Exxon Valdez in Prince William Sound, Alaska is being published by SETAC/Wiley-Blackwell as a resource to enhance informed decision-making in the public and private sectors on the environmental effects of the 20 April oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The papers represent ET&C’s ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.sharksavers.org/en/education/sharks-are-in-trouble/399-loss-of-large-fish-on-coral-reefs.html Here’s an updated version of the post above, provided by Dr. Fenner: The Largest Fish on Coral Reefs were the First to Go.  “You don’t know what you’ve got ‘till it’s gone,” as we’re only now finding out. Douglas Fenner, Ph.D.       Many reef scientists (including ...Click Here to Read More.

Coral-list May 18, 2010 In response to Ed Blume’s and others’ question on the effects of Corexit oil dispersant on corals, here is the summary from a Master’s Thesis by a past graduate student of mine who performed some experiments on coral gametes and larvae: MENDIOLA, W.J.C.  2004.  The effect of the oil dispersant, Corexit 9527, on reproduction of the spawning coral, ...Click Here to Read More.

This month’s Marine Science Review–371 has published a special edition: “Oil and oil spills: the Gulf of Mexico” http://www.seaweb.org/resources/documents/MSR_371SpecialEdition-Oilandoilspills.pdf as reported on Coral-list Gino Sabatini Biol Oceanographer, Consultant. Share and Enjoy: ...Click Here to Read More.

http://cmbc.ucsd.edu/content/1/docs/jackson1989.pdf Science, New Series, Vol 243 No 4887 (January 6, 1989) 37–44. Even today, the most definitive study of the impacts of a major oil spill on a coral reef ecosystem–DeeVon Share and Enjoy: ...Click Here to Read More.

  05-02-2010 The effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on natural resources are dependent on multiple factors including oil composition, oil quantity, dispersal techniques, and contact with organisms. Broadly speaking, when offshore, impacts may occur in the upper meter or so of the water column, mid-level mixing layer (through dispersal of oil and toxic components) and at the sea ...Click Here to Read More.

2008 piece provided as background: http://www.eurekalert.org/aaasnewsroom/2008/index.php?start=25 Public release date: 16-Feb-2008 Contact: Ben Sherman ben.sherman@noaa.gov 202-253-5256 NOAA Research Scientist John Incardona will tell a scientific detective story that uncovers a previously unrecognized threat to human health from a ubiquitous class of air pollutants. Incardona of the National ...Click Here to Read More.

Dear listers, This is to inform you that you can now register and submit abstracts for the isrs2010 symposium “Reefs in a Changing Environment” in The Netherlands, December 13-17, 2010. Please, visit www.isrs2010.org for further details. We hope to welcome many of you in Wageningen. On behalf of the Organizing Committee, Ronald Osinga International Society for Reef Studies Share ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.caribsave.org/index.php?id=5 A new report spearheaded by the CARIBSAVE project under UNDP funding highlights the impacts of climate change on Caribbean nations and natural resources. In particular, the report highlights the difference in the impacts at the 2.0°C increase being pushed by many UN negotiators vs. the 1.5°C increase promoted by the Alliance of Small Island States. The ...Click Here to Read More.

Ocean acidification reduces sperm flagellar motility in broadcast spawning reef invertebrates. http://aical-sesoko.jp/en Sesoko ocean acidification project is one of subtopics of “Experimental studies of the effects of ocean acidification on calcifying organisms” which is supported by 2008 Global Environment Research Fund (No. B-084) by Ministry of the Environment Government of ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.researchstationcarmabi.org/ Nature, both above as below the water, has been intensively studied on Curaçao for more than five decades resulting in a large number of studies and publications. To facilitate this research, CARMABI, short for the Caribbean Marine Biological Institute was founded in 1955. In addition to facilitating and conducting research, this institute now plays an ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.lenfestocean.org/publications/catch_shares.html and http://www.pnas.org/content/107/2/754.full Ecological indicators display reduced variation in North American catch share fisheries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Essington, T. 2009. In a new study funded by the Lenfest Ocean Program, Dr. Tim Essington studied 15 North American catch share programs to determine ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100221200908.htm Will Coral Reefs Disappear? ScienceDaily (Feb. 23, 2010) — Will coral reefs disappear? This is the title of a symposium presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual conference in San Diego, California. And it’s a topic that should not be taken lightly. NSERC-funded researcher Dr. Simon ...Click Here to Read More.

Wilson et al 2010 JEB[1] The Journal of Experimental Biology 213, 894-900  © 2010. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd  special thanks to Andrew Halford <andrew.halford@gmail.com>  S. K. Wilson  A. Cheal  B. S. Halpern  T. L. De Loma  M. C. Öhman 1,*, M. Adjeroud2, D. R. Bellwood3,4, M. L. Berumen4,5,6, D. Booth7, Y.-Marie Bozec8, P. Chabanet9,10, J. Cinner4, M. ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0004514 Ivana Vu1, Gillian Smelick1, Sam Harris1, Sarah C. Lee1, Ernesto Weil2, Robert F. Whitehead3, John F. Bruno1* 1 Department of Marine Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, 2 Department of Marine Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Lajas, Puerto ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0009264 Gareth J. Williams1*, Greta S. Aeby2, Rebecca O. M. Cowie1, Simon K. Davy1* 1 School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, 2 Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Kaneohe, Hawaii, United States of America Abstract  Diseases often display complex and distinct associations with ...Click Here to Read More.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es9018404 Owen A. Sherwood*†, Brian E. Lapointe‡, Michael J. Risk§ and Robyn E. Jamieson Department of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 300 Prince Phillip Avenue, St. John’s, NL, A1B3X9, Canada; Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University, 5600 US 1 North, Fort Pierce, Florida 34946; School of Geography and ...Click Here to Read More.

Lapointe & Bedford HA 2009[1]   Harmful Algae  Volume 9, Issue 1, January 2010, Pages 1-12 Ecology and nutrition of invasive Caulerpa brachypus f. parvifolia blooms on coral reefs off southeast Florida, U.S.A. by Brian E. Lapointe, a, and Bradley J. Bedforda aCenter for Marine Ecosystem Health, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Florida Atlantic University, 5600 U.S. I ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2009/ocean-acidification-04-14-2009.html For Immediate Release, April 14, 2009 Contact: Miyoko Sakashita, Center for Biological Diversity, (415) 436-9682 x 308 or (510) 845-6703 (cell) EPA Evaluates Ocean Acidification as a Threat to Water Quality Under Clean Water Act; Action Marks First Step Toward Regulation of Carbon Dioxide Emissions ...Click Here to Read More.

  Wednesday, Apr 8, 2009 6:43AM / Standard Entry FEWER FISH IN CARIBBEAN REEFS Nils Bruzelius- The Washington Post Populations of both large and small fish have been declining sharply across the Caribbean in the past 10 years, say researchers, who combined data from 48 studies of 318 coral reefs conducted over more than 50 years. The data show that fish “densities” that had held ...Click Here to Read More.

dfenner@blueskynet.as to coral-list 11/4/09 A team of researchers has been making rapid assessments of damage to coral reefs in American Samoa from the tsunami of Sept 29, 2009. We have examined about 37 sites so far. There is a wide range of damage, from no damage to complete removal of one patch of coral. Sites with little or no damage are more common than sites with heavy damage. Why some ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.crisponline.net/ The Coral Reef InitiativeS for the Pacific (CRISP) aims to develop a vision for the future of coral reefs and the communities that depend on them and to introduce strategies and projects to conserve their biodiversity, while developing the economic and environmental services that they provide both locally and globally. See reports on Ocean Acidification, ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.die.net/earth/hemisphere.html Watch the sun rise and set all over the world on this real-time, computer-generated illustration of the earth’s patterns of sunlight and darkness. The clouds are updated every 3 hours with current weather satellite imagery. Share and Enjoy: ...Click Here to Read More.

http://tos.org/oceanography/issues/current.html Current Issue December 2009 Volume 22, Number 4 Special Issue on the the Future of Ocean Biogeochemistry in a High-CO2 World Share and Enjoy: ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/abuses_of_science/case_studies_and_evidence/a-to-z-guide-to-political.html?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=fb In recent years, scientists who work for and advise the federal government have seen their work manipulated, suppressed, distorted, while agencies have systematically limited public and policy maker access to critical ...Click Here to Read More.

Atlantic Acropora Status Review March 3, 2005 Text and Images describing status of Acropora corals prior to their designation as a threatened species under the US Endangered Species Act. Share and Enjoy: ...Click Here to Read More.

Landmark U.S. Geological Survey Study Demonstrates How Methylmercury, Known to Contaminate Seafood, Originates in the Ocean, Published May 4, 2009 in Stormwater, the Journal for Surface Water Quality Professionals (Washington, D.C. – May 1, 2009) A new landmark study published today documents for the first time the process in which increased mercury emissions from human sources across the ...Click Here to Read More.

http://people-press.org/report/556/global-warming Overview There has been a sharp decline over the past year in the percentage of Americans who say there is solid evidence that global temperatures are rising. And fewer also see global warming as a very serious problem – 35% say that today, down from 44% in April 2008. The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.unep.org/compendium2009/ Climate Change Science Compendium 2009 The Climate Change Science Compendium is a review of some 400 major scientific contributions to our understanding of Earth Systems and climate that have been released through peer-reviewed literature or from research institutions over the last three years, since the close of research for consideration by the IPCC Fourth ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/resources/reports/climate-change/climate-change-coral-bleachin Climate Change Coral Bleaching  Ove Hoegh-Gulberg, Foundation Professor Marine Studies, University of Queensland EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Sea Temperatures in the tropics have increased by almost 1 degree Centigrade over the past 100 years and are currently increasing at the rate of 1-2 degrees ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.nrdc.org/media/2009/090729.asp Beach Closing Days Nationwide Top 20,000 for Fourth Consecutive Year New Report Offers 5-Star Rating Guide for 200 Popular U.S. Beaches and Analysis Revealing Climate Change to Make Water Pollution Worse   WASHINGTON (July 29, 2009) – The water at American beaches was seriously polluted and jeopardized the health of swimmers last year with the ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.pnas.org/content/99/13/8725.full PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America June 25, 2002 vol. 99 no. 13 8725-8730 Kathryn L. Patterson*,†, James W. Porter‡, Kim B. Ritchie§,¶, Shawn W. Polson‖, Erich Mueller**, Esther C. Peters‡‡, Deborah L. Santavy††, and Garriet W. Smith§§ + Author Affiliations *Department of Marine ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.uga.edu/news/specialreport/porter.html EMBARGOED UNTIL Monday, June 17, 2002 5 p.m. Eastern Time University of Georgia News Bureau UGA CONTACT: Kim Carlyle, (706) 583-0913, kosborne@uga.edu EPA CONTACT: Ann Brown, (919) 541-7818, brown.ann@epa.gov NOAA CONTACT: Cheva Heck, (305) 292-0311, cheva.heck@noaa.gov White pox disease was first documented in 1996 on Eastern Dry Rocks Reef ...Click Here to Read More.

http://isurus.mote.org/Keys/microbiology/chapter16_patterson-sutherland_ritchie.pdf Coral Health and Disease, Chapter 16, 2004 by Katherine P. Sutherland and Kim B. Ritchie White pox disease was first observed in the Lower Florida Keys by Craig Quirolo as part of his ongoing Coral Survey. He documented the emerging and fast acting disease on Elkhorn  corals and alerted Dr. James Porter, who ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.uga.edu/aboutUGA/research-bombs.html Link Between Unexploded Munitions & Cancer by Dr. James Porter, University of Georgia Department of Ecology Bombs away! Visit these Web sites for more information Complete story Odum School of Ecology During a research trip to Puerto Rico, ecologist James Porter took samples from underwater nuclear bomb target USS ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/harvell/Site/%3C2005_files/Alker04.pdf Coral Reefs (2004) 23: 397–405 published July 2004 by  Alisa P. Alker, Kiho Kim, Danielle H. Dube, C. Drew Harvell This study, based on studies in the Florida Keys supported by Reef Relief, finds that sea fans exhibit a purpling response to biotic agents that reduces subsequent damage to the tissue.   There was speculation ...Click Here to Read More.

 http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/harvell/Site/%3C2005_files/Kim04.pdf Craig Quirolo first observed the presence of a fungus on purple sea fans and documented it as part of his multi-year ongoing Coral Survey.  He alerted Dr. Drew Harvell of Cornell University who became a Reef Relief Scientific Advisor. She and her student, now Dr. Kiho Kim, accompanied Quirolo to the site and thus began a ...Click Here to Read More.

Effects of Nutrient Enrichment  NOAA’s 2007  National Estuarine Eutrophication Assessment Update for the period from the 1990′s to 2004 by multiple authors with chapters by individual authors. In 1999, the National Estuarine Eutrophication Assessment described the scale, scope, and characteristics of nutrient enrichment and eutrophic conditions in the Nation’s estuaries. At the ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/12/30/a1a_NEW_CORAL_1231.html By KIMBERLY MILLER Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 31, 2008 The discovery of three deep-sea coral reefs this month by Florida Atlantic University scientists could lead to new protections for delicate ocean habitats off Florida’s east coast. The never-before identified reefs ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122680126/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 Early Molecular responses of coral larvae to hyper thermal stress Published in Molecular Ecology Volume 18 Issue 24, Pages 5101 - 5114 Published Online: 9 Nov 2009 © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd MAURICIO RODRIGUEZ-LANETTY*, SAKI HARII† and OVE HOEGH-GULDBERG‡   *Department of Biology, University ...Click Here to Read More.

Eutrophication Brian E. Lapointe, David A. Tomasko, and William R. Matzie Bulletin of Marine Science, 54(3) 696-717, 1994 ABSTRACT “Cultural eutrophication is the most frequently cited factor correlating with the marked global decline in areal extent and vigor of seagrass communities over the past two decades.” — (Larkum, 1976; Kemp et al.;1983; Cambridge and McComb, 1984; ...Click Here to Read More.

THE IMPACTS OF STORMWATER DISCHARGES ON EUTROPHICATION IN THE FLORIDA KEYS Brian E. Lapointe, Ph.D. William R. Matzie, International Marine Research, Inc. Route 3, box 297A Big Pine Key, FL 33043 Phone (305) 872-2247 Estuaries, v19 n2B p422-435, June. 1996 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Storm water discharge is a major pathway by with land-based pollutants enter coastal waters. This project involved ...Click Here to Read More.

Lapointe etal 05 1 Macroalgal Blms on SE FL Crl Rfs Nut Stoich of C isthmocladum wider Carib This leading study documents that the invasive algal blooms of codium along the Palm Beach and Broward County coasts during the summer of 1990 and thereafter were caused by increasing land-based sources of pollution, particularly sewage critical to providing the needed nutrients for such an extensive ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/info/pressreleases/ancient-coral.html Key To Florida Bay Locked In Ancient Coral AUGUST 6, 1996VIRGINIA KEY, Fla.–During the past several years, the water quality of Florida Bay, part of the Everglades ecosystem, has deteriorated at a steady rate. Since 1987 large areas of sea grass have died, algae blooms have created “dead zones” in parts of ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/journals_publications/journalofappliedecology/index.php Julie P. Hawkins and Callum M. Roberts Research Center, Sharim-el- Sheikh, Egypt Journal of Applied Ecology 1993, 30, p.25-30. ABSTRACT This study investigated the effects of trampling by scuba divers and snorkelers on reef-flats of coral reefs near Sharim-el- Sheikh, a popular resort in Egypt. There ...Click Here to Read More.

http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/ofr/94-276/index.html\ Eugene A. Shinn, Ronald S. Reese and Christopher D. Reich USGS Coastal Geology Center, St. Petersburg, Florida USGS Water Resources Division Office, Miami, Florida US Department of the Interior, US Geological Survey OFR 94-276 1994   EXECUTIVE SUMMARY I. Twenty four wells (21 locations) were core drilled into the limestone beneath the ...Click Here to Read More.