Yoga Energy Studio Yoga in the Park: Reef Relief Saturday, Feb 11, 2012 – 9:00AM to 10:15AM Because of weather this event will be held at the MADEIRA BAY RESORT, 13235 GULF BLVD, MADEIRA BEACH We have brought back our Yoga in the Park for Charity. Our theme will be “Yoga in the Park: Salutations […]
Senate Bill 724, Domestic Wastewater Discharged Through Ocean Outfalls We need your help, please forward this action alert DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN This years attempt by the Florida legislature to never let a good deed go unpunished is a renewed attack on the 2008 ocean outfall bill that outlaws the archaic […]
ScienceDaily (Jan. 30, 2012) — Nova Southeastern University (NSU) and Florida International University (FIU) researchers have drafted a plan to best prepare South Florida for an oil spill off the coast of Cuba. The proximity of intended Cuban oil drilling and production puts the U.S. coastal zone at risk from Florida to the Carolinas and […]
Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Key West Citizen. Letters to the Editor In 1996, as a volunteer certified diver, I went down to the Florida Keys to assist in mapping out the reef at John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park. I was one of more than 100 volunteer divers for this project. In three weeks we […]
Associated Press. January 30, 20 MIAMI — The U.S. is not ready to handle an oil spill if drilling off the Cuban coast goes awry but can be better prepared with monitoring systems and other basic steps, experts told government officials Monday. The comments at a congressional subcommittee hearing in the Miami Beach suburb of […]
Sunday 29 January 2012. Herald Scotland. By Rob Edwards Environment Editor Scottish fishing boats are under fire for trawling seas far from home for catches of tuna, shark, swordfish, mackerel and sardines. The Sunday Herald can reveal that at least five vessels registered in Scotland have been licensed to fish in the Indian Ocean and […]
ScienceDaily (Jan. 24, 2012) — Scientists at USC have uncovered evidence that even when hydrothermal sea vents go dormant and their blistering warmth turns to frigid cold, life goes on. Or rather, it is replaced. A team led by USC microbiologist Katrina Edwards found that the microbes that thrive on hot fluid methane and sulfur […]
Abstract The parrotfish Sparisoma viride often grazes live coral from edges undermined by the Caribbean encrusting and excavating sponge Cliona tenuis. To test whether parrotfish biting action has an effect on the dynamics of the sponge–coral interaction, we manipulated access of parrotfishes to the sponge–coral border in two species of massive corals. When parrotfish had […]
This video podcast highlights 50 years of photographic documentation of coral reefs in the Florida Keys. The photographs show 5 decades of changes that have taken place in both the size and the types of corals that were present at several coral reef sites from the early 1960s to today. The images capture events such […]