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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:43:25 -0700 From: Christy Semmens <christy@reef.org> Subject: [Coral-List] REEF Marine Conservation Internship Accepting Fall Applications, Due June 30 To: Coral-List@coral.aoml.noaa.gov Message-ID: <5F504700-72A4-456C-91D5-BDDA0F48CF94@reef.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) is now accepting applications for the Fall 2013 Marine Conservation Internship! The internship is designed to provide in-depth experience in […]

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2013 conch season closes 1 month earlier The 2013 conch season, which usually expires at the end of June has been closed a month earlier. The harvest for this year, approximately a million pounds of crustacean meat, has been realized across all five fishing cooperatives. A notice has since been made public for fisher-folks who […]

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Ancient Maya discovery sheds new light on the origins of civilization Over 3,000 years ago, in the warm, fertile lands that are now Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala, the great Maya civilization arose — its vast pyramid temples appearing to come out of nowhere. But new evidence suggests a fascinating origin for this ancient, advanced culture. […]

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Green Turtles galore at Tres Cocos Manatee and 6 ft tarpon at Tuffy Dolphins at Caye Caulker Wreck Manatee at North Cut Dancing Morays in Caye Caulker Park – what a week.

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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 13:31:44 -0700 From: Rebecca Vega Thurber <rvegathurber@gmail.com> Subject: [Coral-List] NSF REU opportunity for undergraduates to work on coral reef ecology To: Coral-List Subscribers <coral-list@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Message-ID: <CAN9QqVhu+WcoiOP6UV4sgVnyK6Szw6gO2k7iL+N4zv+K4WWxBg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 We seek a highly motivated undergraduate to fill a National Science Foundation, Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) position in coral reef […]

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Sharks and Rays – Worth more alive than dead National News: Belize contributes to historic trade protection for sharks and rays Contributed by – Dr. Rachel Graham, Director Gulf and Caribbean Sharks and Rays Program, Wildlife Conservation Society Last week, government and conservation leaders in Belize made a historic and bold decision to protect sharks […]

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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:13:06 -0500 From: Phil Dustan <dustanp@cofc.edu> Subject: [Coral-List] Digital Reef Rugosity technique in PLoS1 To: Coral List <coral-list@coral.aoml.noaa.gov>, Abigail Alling <alling@pcrf.org>, Orla Doherty <orla@pcrf.org>, Shinta Pardede <shintril@yahoo.com>, Carol Fowler <csfowler52@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <CA+xMoTZ53+0ATYCTOXxLP31fN+A5CBSGuS4Teb2fcxpYp+OOjQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear Listers, I’d like to draw your attention to a recent publication in PLoS ONE […]

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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:40:37 -0500 From: Judith Lang <jlang@riposi.net> Subject: [Coral-List] Scolymia wellsi and S. cubensis To: “coral-list@coral.aoml.noaa.gov list” <coral-list@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Message-ID: <0F2FAD9A-ED6B-40C1-A7AA-71041C293F74@riposi.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Dear colleagues, A new classification system is emerging for scleractinian corals that integrates molecular data and skeletal morphology. The AGRRA collection of slides for identifying living corals is […]

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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:36:51 +0000 From: “Wiedenmann J.” <joerg.wiedenmann@noc.soton.ac.uk> Subject: [Coral-List] Function of green fluorescent protein (GFP)- like chromoproteins To: “coral-list@coral.aoml.noaa.gov” <coral-list@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Message-ID: <5587352C53F104408A996481DE48BBA904350A65@UOS-MSG00041-SI.soton.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”Windows-1252″ Dear colleagues, Please allow me to draw your attention to our paper on the function of green fluorescent protein (GFP) ? like chromoproteins that just came […]

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This year again there will be opportunities for the summer internship program at Academia Sinica, Taiwan.  Biodiversity Research Center, Dr. Allen Chen’s lab will have 1 position for the same. Interested students can apply through the online application procedure. The webpage link is; https://db1x.sinica.edu.tw/tigpSummer/ The application deadline for the TIGP-IIP is due on Feb 29, […]

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