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.
http://aem.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/61/6/2230 John H. Paul, Joan B. Rose, Jordan Brown, Eugene A. Shinn, Steven Miller, and Samuel R. Farrah Appl. Environ. Microbiol., Jun 1995, 2230-2234, Vol 61, No. 6 1995, American Society for Microbiology ABSTRACT Domestic wastewater disposal practices in the Florida Keys are primarily limited to on-site disposal systems such as septic tanks, injection ...Click Here to Read More.
Nutrient Thresholds Brian E. Lapointe Director, Florida Keys Programs Division of Marine Science Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution Limnology & Oceanography 42(5, part 2) 1997 p.1119-1131. 1997 ABSTRACT Some scientists have speculated that recent dramatic macroalgal overgrowth of fringing coral reefs on the north coast of Jamaica resulted primarily from reduced grazing due to ...Click Here to Read More.
http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/32/6/625 American Zoologist 1992 32(6):625-640; doi:10.1093/icb/32.6.625 1992. The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology James W. Porter And Ouida W. Meier Department of Zoology, University of Georgia Athens, Georgia 30602 SYNOPSIS Six coral reef locations between Miami and Key West were marked with stainless steel stakes and ...Click Here to Read More.
Water Flow, Water Quality and Threatened Florida Corals The problem is that corals and the Everglades are sensitive to different pollutants, even those in the general category of “nutrients.” Craig analyzes the impact of listing corals on the endangered species list. Reprinted from Natural Resources and Environmenta, Volume 22 No. 2 Fall 2007 Share and ...Click Here to Read More.
Presented at Reef Relief’s Annual Membership Meeting, July, 1997, Key West, Florida CORALS IN CRISIS SAY EXPERTS Reef Relief’s annual membership meeting featured presentations by Craig Quirolo, Reef Relief’s founder and Director of Marine Projects, Katy Thacker of the Negril Coral Reef Preservation Society and Dr. James Porter of the University of Georgia. Reef Relief’s Annual ...Click Here to Read More.
Occurence of Fecal Indicator Bacteria APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, June 1995, p. 2235–2241 Vol. 61, No. 610q 1995, American Society for Microbiology JOHN H. PAUL, Department of Marine Science, University of South Florida, Center for Coastal Geology, Received 17 January 1995/Accepted 20 March 1995 1 and U.S. Geological Survey2 St. Petersburg, Florida 33701 Sewage ...Click Here to Read More.
This graphic was created as part of Reef Relief’s Clean Water Campaign to educate the public on why it was critical to have advanced wastewater treatment throughout the Florida Keys. As a result of years of efforts, the Key West sewer outfall has been phased out with advanced wastewater treatment and efforts are underway throughout the Florida Keys to upgrade sewage treatment to ...Click Here to Read More.
Nutrient Inputs from the Watershed Esstuaries Vol. 15 No. 4 p 465-476 December 1992 http://www.erf.org/estuaries-coasts Brian E. Lapointe1, 2 and Mark W. Clark2 (1) Division of Estuarine, Coastal, and Ocean Sciences, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Inc., Route 3, Box 297A, 33043 Big Pine Key, Florida (2) Florida Keys Land & Sea Trust, P.O. Box 536, ...Click Here to Read More.
Gainesville, Florida July 2000 Dr. Alevizon, a former Reef Relief Scientific Advisor, provided this important paper which helped Reef Relief efforts to achieve a ban on fishfeeding in the State of Florida. INTRODUCTION: This paper summarizes available information supporting the proposed rule of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FFWCC), that the feeding of fishes and ...Click Here to Read More.
Effects of Stormwater Nutrient Discharges on Eutrophication Processes in Nearshore Waters of the Florida Keys, by Brian E. Lapointe and William R. Matzie © 1996 Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation. Estuaries Vol 19 No.28 pp422-435 http://www.erf.org/estuaries-coasts Abstract Rainfall events cause episodic discharges of groundwaters contaminated with septic tank effluent into nearshore ...Click Here to Read More.
Nutrient couplings between on-site sewage disposal systems, groundwaters, and nearshore surface waters of the Florida Keys BRIAN E. LAPOINTE, JULIE D. O’CONNELL, & GEORGE S. GARRETT Biogeochemistry (10) 1990. 289-307 Abstract We performed a one-year study to determine the effects of on-site sewage disposal systems (OSDS, septic tanks) on the nutrient relations of limestone ...Click Here to Read More.
Health Dangers Arise From Pumping Of Sewage Into Deep Sea From Ocean Update September 1999 Vol. 4, No. 9 Paul R. Epstein, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School. Tel (617) 432-0493 An outbreak of cholera on the southern Coast of Bangladesh in 1992 may presage the risks posed to developed and less-developed countries alike from deep-sea dumping of human sewage, ...Click Here to Read More.
http://www.globalcoral.org/Zooxanthellae%20Regulation%20in%20Yellow%20Blotch-Band%20and%20Other%20Coral%20Diseases%20Contrasted%20with%20Temperature%20Related%20Bleaching.pdf by JAMES M. CERVINO 1*, RAYMOND HAYES2, THOMAS J. GOREAU3, and GARRIET W. SMITH4 1University of South Carolina, Marine Sciences Department,Columbia, SC 29208, Email. cnidaria@earthlink.net; 2 College of Medicine, ...Click Here to Read More.
Coral Reefs 18 (1): 1997. by D.L. Santavy*, E.C. Peters, C. Quirolo, J.W. Porter, C.N. Bianchi. Corresponding author: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Gulf Ecology Division, Gulf Breeze, FL., 32561, USA. e-mail: santavy.debbie@epamail.epa.gov Esther C. Peters Tetra Tech, Inc. 10306 Eaton Place, Suite 340 Fairfax, VA 22030 (703) 385-6007 Reef Relief’s Craig Quirolo first observed ...Click Here to Read More.
https://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/StockAssessment/workshop_documents/nsaw5/bohnsack.pdf Incorporating No-Take Marine Reserves into Precautionary Management and Stock Assessment by James A. Bohnsack Proceedings, 5th NMFS NSAW. 1999. NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-F/SPO-40. NMFS, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, 75 Virginia Beach Drive, Miami, Florida 3314. Abstract No-take ...Click Here to Read More.
http://www.aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_42/issue_5_part_2/1119.pdf Landmark Study Published in 1997 by the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Inc. Nutrient thresholds for bottom-up control of macroalgal blooms on coral reefs in Jamaica and southeast Florida Brian E. Lapointe Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Tnc., 5600 US 1 North, Fort Pierce, Florida 34946 Abstract During the ...Click Here to Read More.
Florida Bay Nutrients: Perspectives on the July 1-2, 1996 workshop Report of the Florida Bay Science Oversight Panel Ad Hoc Committee on Nutrients, National Academy of Science D.F. Boesch (Chair), J.M. Caffrey, J.E. Cloern, C.F. D’Elia, D. M. DiToro and W. W. Walker,Jr. Submitted to the Program Management Committee, Florida Bay Research Program 15 July 1996 This was the first ...Click Here to Read More.
Roland E. Ferry, Ph.D.-Water Management Division/Coastal Programs Section Note: Reef Relief’s Craig Quirolo provided vessel and technical support for this study, which helped us finally end ocean dumping in Key West. This outfall has been replaced with advanced nutrient-stripped wastewater treatment and a deep injection well. Summary: The US Environmental Protection Agency, Region4, ...Click Here to Read More.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 13, Number 11, 1 November 1998 , pp. 438-443(6) Laurie L. Richardson Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA (ricardl@fiu.edu) Reports of new and emerging coral diseases have proliferated in recent years. Such coral diseases are often cited as contributing to coral reef decline. Many of these diseases, ...Click Here to Read More.
Microbial Pests–Coral Disease in the Western Atlantic Proc. 8th Int. Coral Reef Symp. 1:607-612. 1997 D.L. Santavy and E.C. Peters U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Gulf Ecology Division, 1 Sabine Dr., Gulf Breeze, Florida 32561, U.S.A Tetra Tech., Inc. 10306 Eaton Place, Suite 340, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, U.S.A ABSTRACT Diseases of sceleractinian corals have increased ...Click Here to Read More.
Am Nat 2004. Vol. 164, pp. S52–S63 © 2004 by The University of Chicago. 0003-0147/2004/1640S5-40257$15.00DOI: 10.1086/424609 Kiho Kim1,* and C. Drew Harvell2,† 1. Department of Biology, American University, Washington, D.C. 20016‐8007; 2. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 Abstract: Drivers of disease cycles are poorly ...Click Here to Read More.
http://www.everglades.org/articles/special-report-pg1.html by Larry E. Brand, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami. INTRODUCTION: Florida Bay and the Florida Keys are at the downstream end of the Kissimmee River-Lake Okeechobee-Everglades watershed. Their ecological health depends on what happens upstream. Within the past 20 years, a number of ecological ...Click Here to Read More.
Erin K. Lipp, , a, Jennifer L. Jarrella, 1, Dale W. Griffina, 2, Jerzy Lukasikb, Jennifer Jacukiewicza and Joan B. Roseaa College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, 140, 7th Ave. S, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, USA b Biosecure, 4641 W 6th St. Suite A, Gainesville, FL 32609, USA Abstract Corals and reef environments are under increased stress from anthropogenic activities, ...Click Here to Read More.
John H. Paula, , Joan B. Rose*a, Sunny C. Jianga, Xingting Zhoua, Pamela Cochrana, Christina Kellogga, Jordan B. Kanga, Dale Griffina, Samual Farrah*b and Jerzy Lukasikb a University of South Florida, St Petersburg, FL 33701, U.S.A. b University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, U.S.A. Water Research Volume 31, Issue 6, June 1997, Pages 1448-1454 ABSTRACT Injection wells (Class V disposal ...Click Here to Read More.
http://marine.unc.edu/announce_seminars/news/UNC%20Marine%20Research%20Garner%20Press%20Coverage/ Indo-Pacific Coral Reefs Disappearing more rapidly than expected. UNC News Release 8 p.m. ET, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2007 Indo-Pacific coral reefs disappearing more rapidly than expected CHAPEL HILL – Corals in the central and western Pacific ocean are dying faster than previously thought, ...Click Here to Read More.