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Marine Sciences in the News
February 2008
World News Media shows love to UNC researchers and coral reef study on Valentine's Day!
A recently published collaborative research effort about the state of coral reefs and involving members of the UNC-CH Department of Marine Sciences has garnered a large amount of media attention in the past 24 hours. Please browse the links below for more information about this eexciting study and the coverage it has received.
A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems paper by B. Halpern et al (2008) pdf
Interview with Elizabeth Selig (via podcast) about collaborative project
View an image of the Ocean Temperature Map from the project
NPR interview with Benjamin Halpern
Scientists: Human Activities Affecting World's Oceans
Washington Post article which chronicles the correlation between human activity and coral reef decline, with input from a UNC-CH doctoral candidate who also co-authored a study which was published online today (02/14/2008) in the journal, Science.
January 2008
Doing Battle With the Green Monster of Lake Taihu
In attempting to subdue a vicious algal bloom, scientists aim to restore the health of a major lake in China and hone strategies for heading off toxic soups elsewhere
Pea soup: Dr. Hans Paerl samples cyanobacteria in ailing Taihu Lake. Photo downloaded from www.sciencemag.org
UNC-CH Marine Sciences Professor to be honored at regional meeting of The Geological Society of America
The 57th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Region of The Geological Society of America will feature a symposium in honor of Dr. A. Conrad Neumann, Professor Emeritus, in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Regional Meeting will be held in Charlotte, NC on April 10-11, 2008, and the symposium will be hosted by Dr. Tony Rodriguez from the UNC-CH Institute of Marine Sciences. Details on the guest program, symposia, and theme sessions are listed at www.geosociety.org/meetings.
Ah, she's a beauty!: Conrad with algal mat in Storr's Lake, San Salvador, Bahamas circa 1995
The Flow Below
How our planet depends on waves that we can't see.
Alberto Scotti fills a miniature version of the 130-foot channel that will soon run the length of his basement-level lab. He mixes food coloring into a compartment of saltwater and then releases it to observe the green underwater wave that rolls beneath a layer of clear water down the channel. Photo by Margarite Nathe; ©2007 Endeavors.
Coral Reefs and Climate Change
Insightful and in-depth research presentation by Dr. John Bruno outlining the correlation evident between changes in climate and coral reef decline. Featured as teh Environment In Focus Topic of the Week of on the EarthPortal.org, published January 17, 2008. Click here for full article, which features photographs, data charts, notes and suggested articles for further reading.
In Hot Water
A one of-a-kind study exposes the sharp decline of coral reefs around the world.
A coral colony on the Great Barrier Reef that is infected with white syndrome, a disease that is increasingly responsible for the declining health of dense coral reefs. Photo courtesy AIMS Long Term Monitoring Program; ©2008 Endeavors.
Article featured in UNC-CH research and creative activity publication Endeavors about research findings of Dr. John Bruno and Elizabeth Selig on coral reef decline.December 2007
Warming seas, disease take toll on coral reefs
MSNBC.com article featuring commentary from UNC-CH Marine Sciences faculty member, Dr. John Bruno, discussing the rapid loss of the world's coral reefs, how it impacts the environment, and what can be done about it.
Photo credit: AIMS Long Term Monitoring Program
UNC-CH Marine Sciences Faculty Member makes personal appeal for coral
Photo credit:J. Bruno
One professor's account of the coral decline over the last three decades.
Coral Reef Ecology Management Class Launches Website
Photo credit: J. Bruno
Informational website recently created by the students of a coral
reef ecology and management class at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, providing information and current issues in coral reef
decline and management.