Scientific Studies

Fisheries

• EVALUATIONS OF TURTLE EXCLUDER DEVICE (TED) PERFORMANCE IN U.S. SOUTHEAST ATLANTIC AND GULF OF MEXICO SKIMMER TRAWL FISHERIES BY BLAKE PRICE AND JEFF GEARHART. NOAA, NMFS. May 2011
• Right From the Start: Open-ocean Aquaculture in the United States. Ocean Conservancy. March 2011
• Goliath Grouper Review & Discussion Feb. 23, 2011. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
• WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE? The relative value of reef sharks as a fishery and an ecotourism asset in Palau. GMS Vianna,  MG Meekan1, D Pannell, S Marsh and JJ Meeuwig. 2010
• Fewer Fish in Caribbean Reefs by Nils Br. 2009
• Landmark U.S. Geological Survey Study Demonstrates How Methylmercury, Known to Contaminate Seafood, Originates in the Ocean by David Krabbenhoft & Company
• Waste from Fish Farming Spreads Far by Catherine Ho. 2009
• Too few fish in the sea: How governments can prevent a complete wipeout of seafood species by curbing the number of fishing boats. – DAVID HELVARG. November 2006
• You Are What You Fish By Jim Harper BBT Columnist
• IN DEAD WATER: MERGING OF CLIMATE CHANGE WITH POLLUTION, OVER-HARVEST, AND INFESTATIONS IN THE WORLD’S FISHING GROUNDS UNEP Feb. 2008
• The Loss of Large Fish on Coral Reefs by Doug Fenner, Ph.D. 2008
• A retrospective (1979-1996) multispecies assessment of coral reef fish stocks in the Florida Keys. Fishery Bulletin 96(3): 395-414. Ault, J.S., J.A. Bohnsack, and G.A. Meester. 1998.
• Building sustainable fisheries in Florida’s coral reefecosystem: positive signs in the Dry Tortugas. Bulletin of Marine Science 78(3): 633-654. Ault, J.S., S.G. Smith, J.A. Bohnsack, J. Luo, D.E. Harper, and D.B. McClellan. 2006.
• Evaluation of average length as an estimator of exploitation status for the Florida coral reef fish community. ICES Journal of Marine Science 62: 417-423. Ault, J.S., S.G. Smith, and J.A. Bohnsack. 2005.
• Towards sustainable multispecies fisheries in the Florida USA coral reef ecosystem. Bulletin of Marine Science 76(2): 595-622. Ault, J.S., J.A. Bohnsack, S.G. Smith, and J. Luo. 2005.
• Are the coral reef finfish fisheries of south Florida sustainable? Proceedings International Coral Reef Symposium 11: 989-993. Ault, J.S., S.G. Smith and J.T. Tilmant. 2009.
• Length-based assessment of sustainability benchmarks for coral reef fishes in Puerto Rico. Environmental Conservation 35(3): 221-231. Ault, J.S., S.G. Smith, J. Luo, M.E. Monaco and R.S. Appeldoorn. 2008.
• Grouper and snapper movements and habitat use in Dry Tortugas, Florida. Marine Ecology Progress Series 433: 169-184. Farmer, N.A., and J.S. Ault. 2011.
• Multispecies survey design for assessing reef-fish stocks, spatially-explicit management performance, and ecosystem condition. Fisheries Research 109(1): 25-41. Smith, S.G., J.S. Ault, J.A. Bohnsack, D.E. Harper, J. Luo, and D.B. McClellan. 2011.
• Shedding Light on Fish Otolith Biomineralization Using a Bioenergetic Approach Ronan Fablet, Laure Pecquerie, He´ le`ne de Pontual, Hans Høie, Richard Millner, Henrik Mosegaard, Sebastiaan A. L. M. Kooijman

Seagrass/Mangroves

• N-Control Seagrass Restoration Monitoring Report Monitoring Events 2003-2008 Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Monroe County, Floridaby,A. A. Farrer.  November 2010
• Are mangroves in the tropical Atlantic ripe for invasion? Exotic mangrove trees in the forests of south Florida Authors: JW Fourqurean, TJ Smith III, J Possley, TM Collins, D Lee and S Namoff. 2009
• Florida Keys Carrying Capacity Study Assessment of Nearshore Benthic Communities of the Florida Keys
• In the Frontline: Shoreline protection and other ecosystem services from mangroves and coral reefs. IUCN, UNEP, WCMC & ICRAN. 2006
• Comment by BRIAN E. LAPOINTE and PETER J. BARILE on J. C. Zieman, J. W. Fourqurean, and T. A. Frankovich. Seagrass Dieoff in Florida Bay: Long-term Trends in Abundance and Growth of Turtle Grass, Thalassia testudinum. 2004

Climate Change & Oil/Gas Drilling

• The State of Marine and Coastal Adaptation in North America: A Synthesis of Emerging Ideas ShareThis Rachel Gregg, Lara Hansen, Kirsten Feifel, Jessica Hitt, Alex Score, Jennie Hoffman, and Jessi Kershner January 15, 2011
• Kenkel CD, Aglyamova G, Alamaru A, Bhagooli R, Capper R, et al. (2011) Development of Gene Expression Markers of Acute Heat-Light Stress in Reef-Building Corals of the Genus Porites. PLoS ONE 6(10): e26914. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026914
• Experts create first legal roadmap to tackle ocean acidification ‘hotspots’
• EPA Evaluates Ocean Acidification as a Threat to Water Quality Under Clean Water Act by Miyoko Sakashita
• Rising Temps Puts Sea Life at Risk
• Climate change and the greenhouse effect A briefing from the Hadley Centre December 2005
• Emerging Marine Diseases – Climate Links (C.D. Harvell, K. Kim, J.M. Burkholder, R.R. Coldwell, P.R. Epstein, D.J. Grimes, E.E. Hofmann, E.K. Lipp, A.D.M.E. Osterhaus, R.M. Overstreet, J.W. Porter, G.W. Smith, G. R. Vasta) SCIENCE Magazine Article VOL. 285 (September 3, 1999)
• Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Coral Reefs and other Marine Calcifiers: A Guide for Future Research
• The Carbon Boom
• Need To Monitor Atmospheric Impacts of South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Project Thomas J. Goreau, PhD, President, Global Coral Reef Alliance December 3 2004
• Climate Change Concerns for Everglades Restoration Planning
• The Ocean in a High-CO2 World on 10-12 May 2004 in Paris, France Report
• Global Warming Could Kill Most Reefs By 2100 by Peter Pockley NATURE Magazine Article VOL. 400 (July 8, 1999)
• Climate Change Coral Bleaching and the Future of the World’s Coral Reefs. Ove Hoegh-Gulberg 1999

Marine Debris & Pollution

• Great Pacific Garbage Patch Graphic by Unknown
• Link Between Unexploded Munitions in Oceans and Cancer-Causing Toxins Determined by James W. Porter
• Progress Report for FY 1997 An Ecotoxicological Assessment of Agricultural Nonpoint Source Runoff into Florida Bay and Surrounding Environments With an Emphasis on the Organochlorine Insecticide Endosulfan
• A historical record of mercury contamination in southern florida (USA) as inferred from avian feather tissue: Contribution R-09888 of the Journal Series, Florida Agricultural Experiment Station (pages 1474–1478)
• Mercury and Selenium Tissue Concentrations in Double-Crested Comorants: Correlation with Histopathologic Findings (RH Poppenga, DVM, PhD, WJ Birdsall, PhD, RY Reams, DVM, PhD, and RB Quinn)

Marine Management

• Managing the growing impacts of development on fragile coastal and marine ecosystems: Lessons from the Gulf
  Hanneke Van Lavieren, John Burt, David A. Feary, Geórgenes Cavalcante, Elise Marquis, Lisa Benedetti, Charles Trick, Björn Kjerfve and Peter F. Sale
• Record of Decision for the Coral PEIS. NOAA. January 2011
• The Roles of Dimensionality, Canopies and Complexity in Ecosystem Monitoring. PLoS ONE 6(11): e27307. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0027307. Goatley CHR, Bellwood DR (2011)
• Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) on Coral Restoration in the Florida Keys and Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuaries. NOAA. July 2010
• Leading Marine Scientists Release New Evidence Marine Reserves Produce Enormous Benefits
• Climate Change, Human Impacts, and the Resilience of Coral Reefs. Hughes, et al.
• MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES TO CONSERVE MARINE BIODIVERSITY James A. Bohnsack & Jerald S. Aul
• Marine Zones & Zone Monitoring, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
• Coral Reef Fish & Marine Zones, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
• Spiny Lobster & Marine Zones, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
• Management strategies to conserve marine biodiversity. Oceanography 9(1): 73-82. Bohnsack, J.A., and J.S. Ault. 1996
• Ault, J.S., J.A. Bohnsack, and G.A. Meester. 1997. Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary: retrospective (1979-1995) assessment of reef fish and the case for protected marine areas. Pages 415-425 in Developing and Sustaining World Fisheries Resources: The State of Science and Management, Hancock, D.A., Smith, D.C., Grant, A., and Beumer, J.P. (eds.). 2nd World Fisheries Congress, Brisbane, Australia, 797 p.
• Designing marine reserves for fishery management. Management Science 50(8):1031-1043. Meester, G.A., A. Mehrotra, J.S. Ault, and E.K. Baker. 2004.
• Why have no-take marine protected areas? American Fisheries Society Symposium 42: 185-193. Bohnsack, J.A., J.S. Ault, and B. Causey. 2004.
• Influence of marine reserve size and boundary length on the initial response of exploited reef fishes in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, USA. Landscape Ecology 23(Suppl. 1): 55-65. Bartholomew, A., J.A. Bohnsack, S.G. Smith, J.S. Ault, D.E. Harper, and D.B. McClellan. 2008.

Wastewater/Sewage/Water Quality

• Stormwater Pollution: Getting at the Source by Lawrence A. Baker
• Sewage-Contaminated Water Reaching Florida’s Offshore Keys, Study Finds Article adapted by Medical News Today from original press release.
• A Blooming Battle Over Red Tide By MIKE SALINERO The Tampa Tribune- June 2007
• An Ecotoxicological Assessment of Agricultural Nonpoint Source Runoff into Florida Bay and Surrounding Environments With an Emphasis on the Organochlorine Insecticide EndosulfanStudy
• Says Raw Sewage Killing Coral Reefs
• Anthropogenic nutrient enrichment of seagrass and coral reef communities in the Lower Florida Keys: discrimination of local versus regional nitrogen sources
• Case Study-Waste Nutrients: Impacts on Coastal Coral Reefs and Fisheries
• New Evidence Points to Pollution as Main Cause of Much Coral Reef Destruction
• Scientist: Everglades restoration may kill reefs in Florida Keys
• Sewage nutrients fuel coral disease
• An Evaluation of the Scientific Basis for “Restoring” Florida Bay by Increasing Freshwater Runoff from the Everglades.
• IS HISTORICAL RED TIDE RESEARCH VALID ?
• Nutrient Thresholds for Bottom-up Control of Macroalgal Blooms on Coral Reefs
• Nutrient Inputs from the Watershed and Coastal Eutrophication in the Florida Keys
• FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Division of Environmental Assessment and Restoration Water Quality Assessment Report 2008 Florida Keys
• Occurrence of Fecal Indicator Bacteria in Surface Waters and the Subsurface Aquifer in Key Largo, Florida
• Dr. Maier’s Technical Survey: Drinking Water Treatment Facilities, EPA ICR Number 2176.01
• Final Report: Physiology and Ecology of Macroalgal Blooms on Coral Reefs off Southeast Florida
• Are us coral reefs on a slippery slope to slime
• Florida’s Harmful Algae Blooms Claims Thirteen Victims By Donald Sutherland 1999
• Florida Bay Nutrients: Perspectives on the july 1-2, 1996 workshop
• Syllabus for the Reef Care Curacao workshop on nutrient pollution. Dr. Lapointe 1998
• Final Environmental Assessment FKWQIP City of Key West Stormwater Treatment Wells 2005
• State of Florida Department of Community Affairs Areas of Critical State Concern,  Keys Annual Assessment Report 2006
• FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, Division of Water Resource Management, Water Quality Status Report, SOUTH • GROUP 5 BASIN • 2005, Florida Keys
• Waterfront Property Owners Guide, FL DEP 2008
• Water Quality : Frequently Asked Questions
• WATER QUALITY CONCERNS IN THE FLORIDA KEYS: SOURCES, EFFECTS, AND SOLUTIONS by WILLIAM L. KRUCZYNSKI, FLORIDA KEYS NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY, WATER QUALITY PROTECTION PROGRAM. Sept.1999
• Determination of Groundwater-Flow Direction and Rate Beneath Florida Bay, the Florida Keys and Reef Tract. E.A. Shinn, Chris Reich, Don Hickey, Ann B. Tihansky. 1999
• Increased Everglades Flows Impact Coral Reefs: A talk by Dr. Brian Lapointe. 1997
• Viral Tracer Studies Indicate Contamination of Marine Waters by Sewage Disposal Practices in Key Largo, Fl.JOHN H. PAUL,1* JOAN B. ROSE,1 JORDAN BROWN, EUGENE A. SHINN, STEVEN MILLER, AND SAMUEL R. FARRAH. 1995
• Dilution Study – Key West POTW Discharge KEY WEST, FL (May 9-16, 1994)
• KEY WEST OCEAN OUTFALL STUDY:SYNOPSIS OF RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS. 1994
• INITIAL AND NEAR-FIELD SUBSEQUENT DILUTION AT THE KEY WEST OUTFALL. 1994
• Quantification of Loss and Change in Floridian Reef Coral Populations. JAMES W. PORTER. OUIDA W. MEIER. 1992
• Viruses in Water: Their Detection, Survival and Disease Potential. Philip С. Loh, Roger S. Fuji Oka. 1980
• Influence of Domestic Wastes on Energetic Pathways in Rocky Intertidal Communities. Mark M. Littler and Steven N. Murray .1978
• Impact of Sewage on the Distrubution, Abundance and Community Structure of Rocky-IntertidalL Macro-Organisms. 1972

Coral Disease

• Production of a reference transcriptome and transcriptomic database (PocilloporaBase) for the cauliflower coral, Pocillopora damicornis. Nikki Traylor-Knowles, Brian R Granger, Tristan Lubinski, Jignesh R Parikh, Sara Garamszegi, Yu Xia, Jarrod A Marto, Les Kaufman and John R Finnerty
• A hypothesis linking sub-optimal seawater pCO2 conditions for cnidarian-Symbiodinium symbioses with the exceedence of the interglacial threshold (>260 ppmv), S. A. Wooldridge
• Relationship of Vibrio Species Infection and Elevated Temperatures to Yellow Blotch/Band Disease in Caribbean Corals
• Longitudinal study of aspergillosis in sea fan corals
• Zooxanthellae Regulation in Yellow Blotch/Band and Other Coral Diseases
• Coral Diseases: What is Really Known?
• Coral Yellow Band Disease; current status in the Caribbean, and links to new Indo-Pacific outbreaks
• Widespread disease in Caribbean sea fans
• Microbial Pests Coral Disease in the Western Atlantic
• Thermal Stress and Coral Cover as Drivers of Coral Disease Outbreak
• The Elusive Baseline of Marine Disease: Are Diseases in Ocean Ecosystems Increasing? Jessica R. Ward, Kevin D. Lafferty

Artificial Reefs

• Community structure of stony and soft corals on vertical unplanned artificial reefs in Eilat (Red Sea): comparison to natural reefs. Coral Reefs 23: 195-205. Perkol-Finkel S. and Benayahu Y. (2004)
• Fouling coral communities of artificial reefs: does age matter? Biofouling 21: 127–140. Perkol-Finkel S., Shashar N., Barnea O., Ben David-Zaslaw R., Oren U., Reichart T., Yacobovich T., Yahel G., Yahel R., Benayahu Y. (2005)
• Can artificial reefs mimic natural reef communities? The roles of structural features and age. Marin Environmental Research 61: 121-135. Perkol-Finkel S., Shashar N., Benayahu Y. (2006)
• Floating and fixed artificial reefs: the effect of substratum motion on benthic communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 317: 9-20. Perkol-Finkel S., Miloh T., Zilman G., Sella I., Benayahu Y. (2006)
• Differential recruitment of corals onto artificial and natural reefs. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 340: 25–39. Perkol-Finkel S. and Benayahu Y. (2007)
• Floating and fixed artificial habitats: spatial and temporal patterns of benthic communities in a coral reef environment. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 77: 491-500.Perkol-Finkel S., Miloh T., Zilman G., Sella I., Benayahu Y. (2008).
• Differential survivorship of two coral species on artificial and natural reefs. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 369: 1–7. Perkol-Finkel S. and Benayahu Y. (2009)

Marine Invasives

• Are Native and Nonindigenous Seaweeds Overgrowing Florida’s East Coast Reefs?
• Reciprocal Caulerpa Invasion: Mediterranean native Caulerpa ollivieri in the Bahamas supported by human nitrogen enrichment
• A hotspot of non-native marine fishes: evidence for the aquarium trade as an invasion pathway Brice X. Semmens, Eric R. Buhle, Anne K. Salomon, Christy V. Pattengill-Semmens

Tourism/Diving/Snorkeling

• A Case for Regulation of the Feeding of Fishes and Other Marine Wildlife by Divers and Snorkelers
• The Impacts of Climate Change on Australian Tourism Destinations
• Scuba diver behaviour and the management of diving impacts on coral reefs. Nola H. L. Barkerand Callum M. Roberts. 2004
• Effects of Recreational Scuba Diving on Caribbean Coral and Fish Communities.  Julie P Hawkins, Callum M Roberts, T Van’t Hof, K De Meyer, Jamie Tratalos, Chloe Aldam. 1999
• The Environmental Impacts of Boating proceedings of a workshop held at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 1998
• Impacts of recreational SCUBA diving at sites with different reef topographies. Anthony B. Rouphael, and Graeme J. Inglis. 1997
• Recreational scuba-diving and carrying capacity in marine protected areas. DerDerrin Davis and Clem Tisdell. 1995
• Effect of briefings on rates of damage to corals by scuba divers. D. Medio, R. F. G. Ormond and M. Pearson. 1994
• Restoration Strategies for Coral Reefs Damaged by Recreational Activities: The Use of Sexual and Asexual Recruits. Baruch Rinkevich. 1994
• Effects of Recreational Scuba Diving on Coral Reefs: Trampling on Reef-Flat Communities. Julie P Hawkins, C M Roberts. 1993

Marine Life

• ITS Ribosomal DNA Distinctions between and the Genetic Structures of Populations of Two Sympatric Species of Pavona (Cnidaria: Scleractinia) from Mauritius. Kamla Ruby Moothien Pillay, Takashi Asahida, Chaolun Allen Chen, Hiroaki Terashima, and Hitoshi Ida^. 2005
• Generalist dinoflagellate endosymbionts and host genotype diversity detected from mesophotic (67-100 m depths) coral Leptoseris. Yvonne L Chan, Xavier Pochon^, Marla A Fisher, Daniel Wagner, Gregory T Concepcion, Samuel E Kahng, Robert J Toonen and Ruth D Gates . BMC Ecology 2009, 9:21 doi:10.1186/1472-6785-9-2
• More evidence for pervasive paraphyly in scleractinian corals: Systematic study of Southeast Asian Faviidae (Cnidaria; Scleractinia) based on molecular and morphological data. Danwei Huang, Rudolf Meier, Peter A. Todd, Loke Ming Chou^. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Volume 50, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 102-116
• A molecularly based phylogeny reconstruction of mushroom corals (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) with taxonomic consequences and evolutionary implications for life history traits. Arjan Gittenberger, Bastian T. Reijnen, Bert W. Hoeksema^. Contributions to Zoology, 80 (2) – 2011
• Some Rare Indo-Pacific Coral Species Are Probable Hybrids. PLoS ONE 3(9): e3240. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003240. Richards ZT, van Oppen MJH, Wallace CC, Willis BL, Miller DJ, 2008
• Species boundaries within the Acropora humilis species group (Cnidaria; Scleractinia): a morphological and molecular interpretation of evolution . J. K. Wolstenholme, C. C. Wallace and C. A. Chen
• Hybridization and the Evolution of Reef Coral Diversity. Steven V. Vollmer, et al., Science 296, 2023 (2002)
• Spawning times, reproductive compatibilities and genetic structuring in the Acropora aspera group: evidence for natural hybridization and semi-permeable species boundaries in corals. Madeleine J. H. Van Oppen^, Bette L. Willi, Teun Van Rheede, David J. Miller
• Phylogenetic Relationships in the Coral Family Acroporidae, Reassessed by Inference from Mitochondrial Genes. Hironobu Fukami^, Makoto Omori, Masayuki Hatta
• The Evolutionary History of the Coral Genus Acropora (Scleractinia, Cnidaria) Based on a Mitochondrial and a Nuclear Marker: Reticulation, Incomplete Lineage Sorting, or Morphological Convergence? Madeleine J. H. van Oppen, Brenda J. McDonald, Bette Willis, and David J. Miller
• The Diversity of Coral Reefs: What Are We Missing? Laetitia Plaisance, M. Julian Caley, Russell E. Brainard, Nancy Knowlton
• CORAL REEF FRAMEWORK CAVITIES: IS FUNCTIONAL SIMILARITY REFLECTED IN COMPOSITION OF THE CRYPTIC MACROFAUNAL COMMUNITY? BY SANDER R. SCHEFFERS, ROB W. M. VAN SOEST, GERARD NIEUWLAND, AND ROLF .P. M. BAK. Dec. 2010
• Endangered Species Bulletin Summer 2009 vol.34, No.2 pg.12 Finding a New Future for Corals,   pg.14 CITES Gives Hope to the Queen Conch, pg.16 A Brighter Future for the Kemp’s Ridley
• Cold-water Coral Reefs: Out of Sight – No Longer Out of Mind
• Seamounts, deep-sea corals and fisheries: Census of Marine Life on Seamounts (CenSeam) Data Analysis Working Group
• Long-Lived, Slow-Growing Corals in Deep Waters of the Gulf of Mexico by Nancy Prouty March 2011
• Probability sampling of stony coral populations in the Florida Keys. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 183(1-4): 121-138. Smith, S.G., Swanson, D.W., Chiappone, M., Miller, S.L., & Ault, J.S. 2011.
• Bleaching of the giant barrel sponge Xestospongia muta in the Florida Keys. Limnology and Oceanography, 56: 2243-2250.McMurray, S.E., Blum, J.E., Leichter, J.J. and Pawlik, J.R.  2011.
• The Chemical Ecology of Spongeson Caribbean Reefs: Natural Products Shape Natural Systems. BioScience • November 2011 / Vol. 61 No. 11. Joseph R. Pawlik.
• Compartive Coral Cytogenetics. Flot J-F, Ozouf-Costaz C, Tsuchiya M, van Woesik R  Proceedings of the 10th International Coral Reef Symposium 1:4-8. 2006
• Parrotfish mediation in coral mortality and bioerosion by the encrusting, excavating sponge Cliona tenuis. Juan Carlos Márquez, Sven Zea .23 JAN 2012 DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.2011.00506.x
• Eric Pante and Phillip Dustan, “Getting to the Point: Accuracy of Point Count in Monitoring Ecosystem Change,” Journal of Marine Biology, vol. 2012, Article ID 802875, 7 pages, 2012. doi:10.1155/2012/802875

Other Studies/Reports

• The State of Coral Reed Ecosystems of the United States and Pacific Freely Associated States: 2002
• The State of Coral Reef Ecosystems of the United States and Pacific Freely Associated States: 2005
• The State of Coral Reef Ecosystems of the United States and Pacific Freely Associated States: 2008
• Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2008 Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network and Reef and Rainforest Research Center, Townsville, Australia. 296pp.
• Mother Natures Medicine Cabinet by Dr. Halter
• Marine and Coastal Services at Risk: The Sleeping Dragon Tundi Agardy, Ph.D.
• ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies- Find out more about keeping the world’s coral reefs healthy with NOVA at the Australian Academy of Science.
• The State of Coral Reef Ecosystems of the United States and Pacific Freely Associated States: 2005
• The State of the world? It is on the brink of disaster
• Coral Reef Monitoring Project Executive Summary 2000
• US Coral Reef Task Force: Public Comments Thomas J. Goreau, PhD, President Global Coral Reef Alliance December 2 2004
• UNEP Yearbook 2010: New Science and Developments in our Changing Environment
• Global Trajectories of the Long-Term Decline of Coral Reef Ecosystems. Pandolfi, et al.
• Reefs at Risk Revisited. World Resources Institute. Feb. 2011
• Millennium Global Coral Reef Mapping Project, http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/news/news-archive/news_0031.html