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Aquatic Academy Isn’t Kid Stuff
Aquariums - Tue, 03/19/2013 - 00:00
Not the typical program for older students, the academy includes required reading and homework and aims to transform the Aquarium of the Pacific into a serious adult-learning environment.
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Fluorescent light revealed as gauge of coral health: Mysterious glow of light found to correlate with coral stress prior to bleaching
ScienceDaily: Coral Reef News - Tue, 03/12/2013 - 08:29
Coral reef decline in recent years due to a variety of threats -- from pollution to climate warming -- has lent urgency to the search for new ways to evaluate their health. A new study has revealed that fluorescence, the dazzling but poorly understood light produced by corals, can be an effective tool for gauging their health.
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5 Shark Species May Gain Protection Boost from New Findings
Scientific American Topic - Coral Reefs - Wed, 03/06/2013 - 10:00
As 177 nations gather in Bangkok this week to deliberate trade restrictions on potentially endangered animals, new research reveals how important these deliberations are to the long-term survival of five species of sharks.
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New marine species discovered in Pacific Ocean
ScienceDaily: Coral Reef News - Thu, 02/28/2013 - 15:54
An international expedition in Papua New Guinea has found a new species of sea slugs, feather stars and amphipods, a shrimp-like animal.
Categories: Coral Feeds
New maps depict potential worldwide coral bleaching by 2056
ScienceDaily: Coral Reef News - Mon, 02/25/2013 - 12:20
New maps by scientists show how rising sea temperatures are likely to affect all coral reefs in the form of annual coral bleaching events under different emission scenarios. If carbon emissions stay on the current path most of the world's coral reefs (74 percent) are projected to experience coral bleaching conditions annually by 2045, results of the study show.
Categories: Coral Feeds
Conserving corals by understanding their genes
ScienceDaily: Coral Reef News - Thu, 02/21/2013 - 19:40
In reef-building corals variations within genes involved in immunity and response to stress correlate to water temperature and clarity, finds a new study. This information could be used to conserve or rebuild reefs in areas affected by climate change, by changes in extreme weather patterns, increasing sedimentation or altered land use.
Categories: Coral Feeds
Picky eater fish clean up seaweeds from coral reefs
ScienceDaily: Coral Reef News - Tue, 02/12/2013 - 15:44
Using underwater video cameras to record fish feeding on South Pacific coral reefs, scientists have found that herbivorous fish can be picky eaters – a trait that could spell trouble for endangered reef systems.
Categories: Coral Feeds
How new corals species form in the ocean
ScienceDaily: Coral Reef News - Wed, 02/06/2013 - 16:23
Biological sciences professors have investigated how corals specialize to particular environments in the ocean. They propose that the large dispersal potential of coral larvae in open water and the proximity of different species on the ocean floor creates a mystery for researchers who study speciation, asking, "How can new marine species emerge without obvious geographic isolation?"
Categories: Coral Feeds
Tortugas Marine Reserve yields more, larger fish
ScienceDaily: Coral Reef News - Mon, 02/04/2013 - 18:46
Both fish populations and commercial and recreational anglers have benefited from "no-take" protections in the Tortugas Ecological Reserve in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, a new report shows.
Categories: Coral Feeds
