Belize TREC

Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 11:17:03 -0500 From: Judith Lang <jlang@riposi.net> Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Tubastraea vs. Tubastrea? To: “Delbeek, Charles” <CDelbeek@calacademy.org> Cc: “coral-list@coral.aoml.noaa.gov” <coral-list@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Message-ID: <3E149249-9CA9-46AB-9AF5-EC6B2A5AC85A@riposi.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi Charles, In the early 1970’s, when Cornell University’s John Wells, at the time senior scientist scleractinian taxonomist in the English-speaking world, sent me his re-working […]

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Hemond, E. M., & Vollmer, S. V. (2010). Genetic diversity and connectivity in the threatened staghorn coral (*Acropora cervicornis*) in Florida. *PloS one*, *5*(1), e8652. The punchline to this paper reads as follows – ” Despite the current patchiness of *A. cervicornis* in Florida, the relatively high genetic diversity and connectivity within Florida suggest that […]

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Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 18:39:25 +0000 From: Marilyn Brandt <mbrandt@live.uvi.edu> Subject: [Coral-List] Job Opening: Assistant Professor of Natural Resource Management at the University of the Virgin Islands To: “coral-list@coral.aoml.noaa.gov” <coral-list@coral.aoml.noaa.gov> Message-ID: <E3C24B5709B9C948BE940FBED66988A82DC84999@BY2PRD0810MB369.namprd08.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii” The University of the Virgin Islands in St Thomas, US Virgin Islands invites applicants for the position of Assistant […]

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What is Garifuna Settlement Day? On November 19th the celebrations commence to mark the arrival of the first Garifuna to Belize in 1832. The festival marks the arrival of the Garifuna people to Dangriga. A mixture of African music and religion with native Carib language and traditions blends into a vibrant, tasty, stimulating experience. Garifuna […]

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A paper published recently in Nature Climate Change might be of interest to list subscribers. It shows that corals with too many algal symbionts are more susceptible to bleaching, contrary to conventional wisdom that corals with more symbionts are protected from bleaching because they have “more symbionts to lose”. It suggests that corals have to […]

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Dear Colleagues, Just a note to let you know the following paper was published in the latest edition of the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Jameson SC, Cairns SD (2012) Neotypes for Porites porites (Pallas, 1766) and Porites divaricata Lesueur, 1821 and remarks on other western Atlantic species of Porites (Anthozoa: Scleractinia).  Proceedings […]

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*Job Title: Coral Reef Ecology Internship Spring 2013 Organization: CIEE Research Station Bonaire Location: Bonaire, Dutch Caribbean Duration: 17 weeks (**12 January – ** 11 May 2013) Deadline for applications: 31 October 2012* Description: The CIEE Tropical Marine Ecology and Conservation program is a study abroad program for undergraduate students that is located in Bonaire […]

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As you may have known, the Conch Season was closed earlier this year, almost 2 months short of its actual closing date which is June 30th due to the distressing of the conch in the country. The Queen Conch is easily recognizable by its large pinkish shell, reaching a length of 30 cm and weighing […]

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We would like to give you all a “heads up” on a new paper we have just had published in the Journal of Phycology. Put briefly, two new species of Symbiodinium were formally described primarily using DNA sequences. The paper is: A genetics-based description of Symbiodinium minutum sp. nov. and S. psygmophilum sp. nov. (dinophyceae), […]

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Hi all – the same issue of Phycologia with the new Symbiodinium species also has a paper from my lab (Casamatta et al., 2012) formally describing the black band disease cyanobacterium.  This cyanobacterium, referred to over the years as Phormidium, Oscillatoria, Pseudoscillatoria, and various strains, was characterized using a polyphasic approach (sequencing, phylogeny, ecology, physiology) […]

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