It’s going to be much easier to convince people Sea Fans are Super Cool now that National Geographic photographers trained their lens on new species…
View More Seahorses: nice backdrops for octocoralsCategory: Coral
Protection Sought For Deep Water Carolinian Reefs
Forwarded this article from yesterday’s Guardian by a colleague. To preserve the reefs, the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, a federal panel that regulates recreational…
View More Protection Sought For Deep Water Carolinian ReefsNaming a new species is tricky business
The bamboo coral Isidella tentaculum finally rolled of the presses over the holidays. I can finally speak the name aloud. DSN debuted the video of…
View More Naming a new species is tricky businessIs it all over for corals?
A recent study published in Science Express by Dr. Kent Carpenter of Old Dominion University and a consortium of nearly thirty coral reef ecologists has determined that one-third of coral face increased extinction threat due to anthropogenic influences. Carpenter refers to the problem as the “the human meteor”.
View More Is it all over for corals?Deep Water Corals Invade!
Sometimes research comes about that really makes my whole week. This time it is a little diddy from Lindner et al. in PLoS. We could…
View More Deep Water Corals Invade!I guess sea cucumbers are all right
Because of my previous trumpeting many of you may believe I scoff at anything non-mollusca. Untrue! I say! Indeed, I am friend of all invertebrate.…
View More I guess sea cucumbers are all rightOne day course in reef ecology
Deep coral biologists like myself are continually looking to shallow reefs for applicable paradigms. A new online seminar on coral reef futures sponsored by the…
View More One day course in reef ecologySigning off on Coral Week
Well, all good things must come to an end, so this is it for Coral Week. I wanted to finish things on a high note…
View More Signing off on Coral WeekThe naked coral hypothesis: a cause for optimism?
There remains a cause for optimism. Shallow-water corals have weathered a host of insults over the last 18,000 years. The Atomic Age is just one…
View More The naked coral hypothesis: a cause for optimism?Will bottom trawls have negative effects on deep-sea corals?
This is the fifth of five articles about the shared characteristics of shallow and deep-water corals. It’s far from complete, I’m afraid. Deep corals are…
View More Will bottom trawls have negative effects on deep-sea corals?