ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT:DR. PAUL SAMMARCO

Congressional Testimony;  September 17, 2003 ;     787 words ......recent findings on the development of coral communities on offshore oil and gas platforms...and cooperation. Development of Coral Communities on Oil and Gas Platforms in the Gulf...found are characteristic of mature coral communities. Madracis decactis was the dominant...

"Deep-sea corals are perhaps the most vulnerable to bottom trawling of all...

Earth Island Journal;  December 22, 2004 ;   Danson, Ted;   618 words ......most of the world's known deep-sea coral communities are found. A recent study by the...Unfortunately, many of the deep-sea coral communities of the world have already been destroyed...probably forever. But many deep-sea coral communities remain, and new ones are still being...

Coral gardens in the dark depths: scientists seek to learn more about...

Oceanus;  September 22, 2005 ;   Mullineaux, Lauren S. Mills, Susan W.;   787 words ......discovered these deep-sea coral communities, too. Unfortunately, commercial...populations and serious damage to coral communities. Like ancient, solitary...oil land, these deep-sea coral communities may be easily disrupted...

The struggle to save Earth's largest life form.(FEATURES)(PLANET)

The Christian Science Monitor;  March 10, 2005 ;     787 words ......devising strategies to save the world's coral communities and, by extension, the thousands...could prompt large declines in coral communities by 2050, according to Ray Berkelmans...for adapting to warmer waters. Some coral communities have been able to survive warmer...

Reef at airport brings the sea to millions

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  March 23, 1997 ;   CYRIL T. ZANESKI;   442 words ......an educational program to accompany it. Behind two large aquariums with living coral communities, the exhibit includes underwater videos of coral communities and several large, bright panels explaining the biology of coral reefs, the threats...

Hawai'i Coral Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program: spatial patterns and...

Pacific Science;  April 1, 2004 ;   Jokiel, Paul L. Brown, Eric K. Friedlander, Alan Rodgers, S. Ku'ulei Smith, William R.;   787 words ......species richness and diversity. Reef coral communities can undergo natural oscillations...the spatial and temporal trends in coral communities around Hawai'i and evaluates the...benchmark for future monitoring of coral communities in Hawai'i as part of the National...

Danger to Coral Reefs May Outpace Discovery; Despite Conservation Effort,...

The Washington Post;  August 18, 2003 ;   Rick Weiss;   787 words ......time, researchers are discovering entirely new kinds of coral communities, including some that live at tremendous depths, far from...commonly associated with coral reefs. But these "deep sea coral" communities, too, are being damaged and destroyed at alarming rates...

Fishing threat to coral reefs.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  February 26, 2002 ;     164 words ......years old, have only recently been discovered, but research shows they are being destroyed by modern fishing practices. Coral communities have been located off the coasts of Scotland, Ireland and Norway during oil surveys. Severe damage has been recorded to...

hka -- New Marine Park Opens in HK for Better Sea Conservation

Xinhua News Agency;  November 17, 2001 ;     211 words ......of the park "would enable better protection of the rich coral communities along the coastal and sea area of Tung Ping Chau and further...decussata, Platygyra sinensis and Acropora tumida. etc. These coral communities support more than 130 species of reef fish. Other marine...

Numerical and taxonomic scale of analysis in paleoecological data sets:...

Journal of Paleontology;  May 1, 2001 ;   Pandolfi, John M;   787 words ......numerical and taxonomic scale of analysis in Pleistocene coral communities from the Caribbean Sea. Patterns of community differentiation...suggest that paleoecological interpretations of Quaternary coral communities are robust to numerical scale of analysis at the species...

New Marine Park Opens in HK for Better Sea

Xinhua News Agency;  November 17, 2001 ;     219 words ......of the park "would enable better protection of the rich coral communities along the coastal and sea area of Tung Ping Chau and further...decussata, Platygyra sinensis and Acropora tumida. etc. These coral communities support more than 130 species of reef fish. Other marine...

Back from the Deep ; A UMaine professor was chief researcher on a journey...

Portland Press Herald (Maine);  July 27, 2003 ;   MEREDITH GOAD Staff Writer;   787 words ......chemicals that could be used to develop new drugs. Deep-sea coral communities have been called the redwood forests of the ocean. "If...the expansion of trawling into areas that might contain coral communities. Intensive fishing has already destroyed many of the corals...

LESSON UNDERWATER:

The Boston Globe;  August 10, 2003 ;   DIANA BROWN;   534 words ......VOLUNTEERS GATHERED DATA FOR AUSTRALIAN SCIENTISTS DAVID J. BOOTH AND GIGLIA A. BERETTA ON THE HUMAN IMPACT ON WORLDWIDE CORAL COMMUNITIES. SHE PLANS TO REPORT BACK TO HER STUDENTS AT THE COLONEL MOSES PARKER MIDDLE SCHOOL ABOUT HER FINDINGS AS WELL AS TO DESIGN...

Anthropogenic and natural stresses on selected coral reefs in Hawai'i: a...

Pacific Science;  April 1, 2004 ;   Dollar, Steven J. Grigg, Richard W.;   787 words ......difficult but important objective in coral reef science. Coral communities are normally long-lived, slow-growing, but ever-changing...successional maturity (Grigg and Maragos 1974, Pearson 1981). Coral communities are also notably patchy in their pattern of distribution...

Corals may not recover from bleaching

The Hindustan Times;  August 4, 2008 ;     279 words ...Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Sydney, Aug. 4 -- Coral communities in Australia's Great Barrier Reef might not be able to recover from bleaching as easily as previously presumed, says a new study...