Over 1.1 million pounds of conch to be harvested during the 2013-2014 season The Belize Fisheries Department declared October 1st as the opening of the 2013 – 2014 conch season. During this season, which runs until the end of June 2014, over 1 million, 100 thousand pounds of Caribbean Queen Conch (scientifically known as strombusgigas) […]
DNA analysis is shaking up the nomenclature of some common corals. Make note: Boulder Corals: Montastraea faveolata and M. franksi now Orbicella faveolata and O. franksi Lettuce Leaf Coral: Agaricia tenuifolia now Undaria tenuifolia Brain Corals: Diploria strigosa and D. clivosa now Pseudodiploria strigosa and P. clivosa
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:21:39 -0500 From: “Anastazia Banaszak” <banaszak@cmarl.unam.mx> Subject: [Coral-List] Light and Photosynthesis on Coral Reefs course 2014 To: coral-list@coral.aoml.noaa.gov Message-ID: <f70dff40cb58a4e7e84174de3c4eae4e.squirrel@correo.cmarl.unam.mx> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 The UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUT?NOMA DE M?XICO (UNAM) and the CENTRO DE INVESTIGACI?N CIENT?FICA Y DE EDUCACI?N SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA (CICESE) are pleased to announce the international course titled […]
“Ecological Complexity of Coral Recruitment Processes: Effects of Invertebrate Herbivores on Coral Recruitment and Growth Depends Upon Substratum Properties and Coral Species” that is now available online. http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0072830.
Unmanned aerial drones to police Belizean waters Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing continues to be a bane not just locally – but also internationally, and enforcement personnel of the Belize Fisheries Department met today to discuss a proposal for the Belize Fisheries Department to begin using “automated aircrafts” or unmanned conservation drones to […]
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 14:38:58 -0400 From: Colin Howe <chowe015@odu.edu> Subject: [Coral-List] Reef Environmental Education Foundation Spring Internship Fall 2014 To: coral-list@coral.aoml.noaa.gov Message-ID: <CAOD+BDcsr6HxVwt1EiUcDFv6rB5Nw=MmBX1wcWxUXx-UqjthdA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Greetings, Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) is now accepting applications for the Spring 2014 Marine Conservation Internship! The internship is designed to provide in-depth experience in marine […]
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 20:45:11 -0400 From: John McManus <jmcmanus@rsmas.miami.edu> Subject: Re: [Coral-List] FW: RE: What is a coral reef and where is it’s edge? To: <coral-list@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Message-ID: <007c01cea451$04b79750$0e26c5f0$@rsmas.miami.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii” In setting up the original, data-repository version of ReefBase, we had to deal with a lot of conflicting definitions. We finally decided […]
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OPEN TO ALL College Students Semester Abroad Course offerings at: Belize Marine Tropical Research & Education Center San Pedro, Belize In conjunction with: Farleigh Dickenson University (accrediting university) Belize 2014 Itinerary / Semester – 18 credits / 10 weeks (68 days and 67 nights) Monday, February 17, 2014, Arrive February 18 – March 7, 2014, […]
Reef Survey shows good news for Belize The Catlin Seaview Survey is organized by the University of Queensland and promoted by the Catlin Insurance Company. It is a global campaign and a race against time to study coral reef. In the Caribbean reef health has declined and that is why the marine scientists from the […]