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REEF ISSUES

• NEW Golf course fertilizer runoff causes algae blooms in a Bahamian coral reef. Bahamas National Natural History Conference, Nassau, March 5-8 2013

• NEW Restoration of reefs, fisheries, and beaches against climate change (in Spanish), 1st Scientific Conference on Marine Science, Panama Maritime University, December 6 2012
  NEW Another Bahamas golf course pollutes coral reefs, Bahamas Press raises alarm over environmental concerns near the Paradise Island Golf Course, Dec 02, 2012

• NEW The end of the reef? Interview with Dr. Peter Bell about eutrophication of the Great Barrier Reef. ABC Queensland - Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

• NEW Global sea level rise and low lying coasts: Don't be fooled by the calm before the storm that is about to hit us, Thomas Goreau, 10/7/2012

• NEW Comments on Environment Impact Study for proposal for golf course and marina on the Great Barrier Reef, Thomas J. Goreau, PhD, September 6, 2012

• NEW Scientists find hundredfold increase in plastic trash in Pacific Ocean since 1970s, Paul Rogers, Oakland Tribune, 05/09/2012

• NEW Please support this petition against destroying Australian corals by pollution from golf course development and dredging wetlands for marina development. This area is known for having some of the highest coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef.

• NEW Expansion of Port Everglades threatens fragile South Florida corals. Sierra Club, March 16 2012.

• NEW Victory for coral reefs against sewage, thanks to public outcry. Ed Tichenor, Palm Beach Reef Rescue, March 11 2012

• Bahamas Coral Reef Dying because of Golf Course, Scientists confirm Great Guana Cay reef is sick from fertilizer seeping from shoreline golf course, Press Release, January 19 2012

• Videos showing the MSC Poesia that grounded on a reef on Jan. 7th 2012 off Lucaya Beach, Grand Bahama.

  1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oTalnP984Q&context=C3852c88ADOEgsToPDskL4j8WYMeimeFOtYT292_8K

  2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNndwXuepp0&feature=related

  3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpIJ6ONrgBk&feature=related

• Friend and foe: Nitrogen pollution's little-known environmental and human health threats, News release American Chemical Society, Please sign petition to keep waters clean

• Evidence that the BP oil leak was not stopped and is still flowing. Members of EcoRigs found surface water crude oil in September 2010, April 2011, and August 2011 originating from the blowout well.

• Coastal Marine Institute, Characterization of Algal-Invertebrate Mats at Offshore Platforms and the Assessment of Methods for Artificial Substrate Studies, Final Report, R.S. Carney, June 2005

  Excrement and Coral, Andy Soos, ENN, August 19, 2011

  Coastal Marine Institute. Rigs and Reefs: A Comparison of the Fish Communities at Two Artificial Reefs, a Production Platform, and a Natural Reef in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Final Report, Charles A. Wilson, Aaron Pierce, Mark W. Miller, August 2003

  Internationally renowned photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand makes his feature directorial debut with this environmentally conscious documentary shot in 54 countries and 120 locations 

• FDEP Slams Hillsboro Beach Renourishment Project

• Feds issue Cease and Desist Order to shut down beach renourishment project  

• Collusion, corruption, incompetence, complicity, ineptitude or just a party to outright fraud?

• Broward wants to keep dumping treated sewage in ocean, County says state law would double residents' sewage bills, (Article and video) Sun Sentinel

• Vibrio species induce pathogenic effects on tropical reef corals and their Symbiodinium clade phylo-types in situ and in vitro, Poster

• Impact of coccolith formation on the carbon cycle. T. J. Goreau, Science (E-Letter, 20 October 2008)

• A Petition for Designating Nearshore Ft. Lauderdale Lauderdale-By-The-Sea and Pompano Beach Outstanding Florida Waters, (PDF) Cry of the Water & Global Coral Reef Alliance, Stephanie Clark & Thomas Goreau

• Petition to Support Outstanding Florida Waters in Broward County , State of Florida Department of Environmental Protection, (Link to newspaper) Sponsored by: Cry of the Water, October, 2009

• Reef Rescue supporters urge town not to fight extension of coral protection area, David Rogers, Palm Beach Daily News

 

• A Call to the new FMN Government, Save Guana Cay Reef Association, Frederick R. M. Smith, Press Release 11.7.07
• A message to students about the future of coral reefs, Letter from Laura Byno's 8th Grade Science Class, Irving, TX, Response from Tom Goreau. 9.20.2005
• Argument carried to UN, Krystel Rolle , Nassau Guardian , May 18, 2007
• Artificial Reefs
• Baker's Bay Development Project, Thomas J. Goreau, GCRA, Save Guana Cay Reef, Bahamas 4/20/2007
• Bali Reef Bombers, Photos depict the capture of poachers caught dynamiting Bali reefs in March of 2002.
• Biorock Workshop Information. See this link for various items pertaining to the coming workshop.
• Broward Coral Reefs Need Protection Now, Cry of the Water, July 11, 2004
• Can Coral Calcium Pills Be Good For You and for Coral Reefs?
• Can Global Warming Be Studied Too Much?
• Case Against Marine Mammals in Captivity: The Third Revised Edition,The Humane Society of the United States
• Case may rock nation, Sam Smith, Nassau Guardian, May 18, 2007
• Children's underwater coral reef education programs, Thomas Goreau, Marina Goreau, January 11, 2008 
• Climate Researchers Feeling Heat from White House, Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, April 6, 2006,
• CO2 Emissions Put Corals at Risk, BBC News Roger Harrabin 2/1/2005
• Comments by Bernard Judge, Friends of Tetiaroa, on Preservation of Tetiaroa, (French)
• Comments on Delray Beach Sewage Effluent Permit, Thomas J. Goreau, Ph.D.
• Comments on Preservation of Tetiaroa, Thomas J. Goreau, Ph.D.
• Comments to the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force, Dan Clark, Cry Of The Water February, 13, 2009
• Comments to US Army Corps of Engineers on failure to monitor atmospheric impacts of Comprehensive Everglades restoration Plan,Thomas J. Goreau, Ph.D., 6/6/2005
• Coral Reef Bleaching and Sea Surface Temperature
• Corals and Coral Reefs
• Costly plan would end dumping of treated sewage off S. Florida coast, David Fleshler, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, April 6, 2007
• Cry Of The Water and Global Coral Reef Alliance Statement on DEP Press Release on Current Status of Ft. Lauderdale Corals, August 30, 2009
• Dangers of Plastic: Interview with Charles Moore
• Delray Beach Ocean Outfall Closed, Palm Beach County Reef Rescue, April 2,2009
• Designation and Management of Critical Habitat for Acropora in Broward County, Florida, Thomas J. Goreau, May 27, 2006
• Diseases
• Do as I pay, not as I do, Even developers have a place in environmental discourse, The Daily Tar Heel, Editorial Board, 4/20/07
• Dr. Thomas J. Goreau, President, Global Coral Reef Alliance
• Eutrophication and Water quality
• Expansion of Port Everglades assailed by state, U.S. agencies, David Fleshler | South Florida Sun-Sentinel, (The video clip associated with the article features an interview with Dan Clark of Cry of the Water), April 3, 2008
• Fiddling While Rome Burns--Tsunamis and Reef Restoration?  Letter to New Scientist, Thomas J. Goreau, 5/14/2005
• Florida Green Algae Bloom, Video (16MB) Palm Beach County Reef Rescue, Boynton
• Florida judge rules to protect Palm Beach County reefs, Palm Beach County Reef Rescue, 03,09,2009
• GCRA Signs on to Recommendation for the Adoption and Implementation of an Oceans, Coasts and Great Lakes National Policy, Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, September, 2009
• Global Issues
• Global Warming and the Future of Coral Reefs, Poster from Tom Goreau presentation in Hawaii, July, 2006.
• Great Guana Cay, Abaco, Bahamas: A Case Study featuring the results of unchecked Development and the challenges surrounding Environmental and Cultural protection, Mr. Troy Albury, President, Save Guana Cay Reef Association
• GRIEVANCE to US Coral Reef Task Force Meeting, Washington DC, Spring 2005, Cry of the Water & Global Coral Reef Alliance
• Growing Taste for Reef Fish Sends Their Numbers Sinking, New York Times, Jennifer Pinkowski, 1/20/2009
• Help save Marlon Brando's island paradise in Tetiaroa - 35 miles from Tahiti. Sign a petition
• Help the Poor, Maya Goreau, December, 1989
• HotSpots and WarmSpots, Thomas J. Goreau, September 27, 2006
• Impacts of Everglades Restoration on the Atmosphere, Abstract, 16TH Global Warming International Conference, New York, NY, April 19-21 2005, Thomas J. Goreau 
• Importance of Assessing Impacts of Nutrients from Dolphins and Sewage on Coral Reefs,  Dr. Thomas J. Goreau, President, Global Coral Reef Alliance
• Importance of Coral Reefs
• It’s Not Too Late to Say No to LNG, Sam Duncombe, Information relative to a proposed LNG pipeline for the Bahamas, October, 2006
• Ko Samui, Paradise Restored by Regreening and Reblueing, A Concept Paper for a Proposal to the Ko Samui Government, Business, Tourism, and Environmental Communities, Thomas Sarkisian, President, Biorock Thailand; Cholnakochorn Anumart, Vice President, Biorock Thailand; Thomas J. Goreau, PhD, President, Global Coral Reef Alliance, President, Biorock SA; Wolf Hilbertz,Vice President, Biorock SA
• Lake Worth Florida seeking permit to allow nutrient laden water near a pristine coral reef. 9/03/007
• Lake Worth might hire lobbyist for permit push, Nicole Janok, Palm Beach Post, September 1, 2007
• Letter from Bernard Judge, Friends of Tetiaroa, January, 2006
• Letter from Chris Wilkens, AmeriDive Scuba, Boynton Beach, FL to EPA, June 1, 2006
• Letter to The World Heritage Committee, UNESCO, Durban Meeting, July 10-17 2005, Thomas J. Goreau, Ph.D.
• Lobby must pay or appeal fails, Nassau Guardian, Raymond Kongwa, 4/26/2007
  (Urgent appeal for donations)
• Mud and Mismanagement, Trinidad & Tobago Express, details the environmental havoc being wreaked on the fringing coral reefs,  May 2004
• National Trust Slammed, Quincy Parker, The Bahama Journal, 5/7/2007
• Need To Monitor Atmospheric Impacts of South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Project, Thomas J. Goreau, PhD, 12/3/2004
• New study links sewage and reef,  Florida Keys Keynoter, Pamala J. Suarez, July 20, 2007
• Ocean of Plastic
• Oceans of Waste, Waves of junk are flowing into the food chain, Paula Bock, The Seattle Times, Pacific Northwest, April 23, 2006
• Other stories from Marine Attractions: Below the Surface, Sally Kestin, Sun-Sentinel
• Patagonia Oceans as Wilderness- Synthetic Seas
• Petition: An Oceanic Crisis   For more information, and to sign a  petition to end the cruel and wasteful practice of shark finning, October 21, 2004
• Plastic killing fields, The Algalita Foundation, December 29, 2007
• Plastic Vortex
• Plastics and Marine Debris
• Predicting Coral Bleaching by Hotspot Analysis, April, 2003, Thomas J. Goreau
• Public Comments to the Us Coral Reef Task Force From the Global Coral Reef Alliance, Thomas J. Goreau, PhD, President, Global Coral Reef Alliance
• PUBLIC REVIEW MEETING COMMENTS, SOUTH EAST FLORIDA CORAL REEF INITIATIVE (SEFCRI), UNITED STATES CORAL REEF TASK FORCE (USCRTF), Thomas J. Goreau, PhD., Anne Kolb Nature Center, Hollywood, Broward, Florida, February 12 2007,
• Recommendations for the Secretary-General's report to the 2007 Commission on Sustainable Development, Thomas J. Goreau, August 18, 2006
• Recycling Florida sewage water and nutrients, Letter to and response from Charlie Crist, Governor  of Florida, Tom Goreau, December 29, 2007
• Reef Fisheries--Coral Reef Habitat Destruction and Fisheries Management
• Reef Is Dying: Officials Rethink Why, Mark Howell, Reef Relief, 12/10/2004
• Reef Relief: Coral Bleaching and Coral Disease, Reef Relief, September 2007.
• Reef Relief; Coral Bleaching Key West 1997, Reef Relief, September 2007
• Reef Rescue Volunteers Take to the Air and Sea, Palm Beach County Reef Rescue, 3/1/2007
• Save the Sawfish, Cinamaquatics, You Tube video
• Saya De Malha Bathymetric Survey Report, Dr. Thomas Goreau, Wolf Hilbertz, Frank Gutzeit, Lange Reihe, Funded by the Lighthouse Foundation, September, 2002,
• Saya De Malha, Complete Report, Dr. Thomas Goreau, Wolf Hilbertz, Frank Gutzeit, Lange Reihe, Funded by the Lighthouse Foundation, September, 2002, (2MB PDF)  
• Scientists and Divers Urgently Petition State of Florida and the Federal Government to Save North America's Last Healthy Near Shore Coral Reefs, May 5, 2006
• 'Scientists' giving wrong impression of golf course, The Daily Tar Heel, 4/18/07
• Sedimentation
• Sewer Plant Responds to Public Pressure, Emergency Meeting Called to Focus on Alternatives to Ocean Dumping, Delray Beach, Florida, 12/12/2006.
• SMALL ISLANDS VOICE, Thomas J.  Goreau, GCRA, May 2, 2006
• South Florida sewage pipes cause a stink, Local governments are taking exception to a proposal by state regulators to reuse wastewater that is now dumped in the ocean, Charles Rabin and Curtis Morgan, MiamiHerald.com, 10/25/2007.
• Southeast Florida Coral Reef Initiative Maritime Industry and Coastal Construction Impacts Workshop: A Study to Identify and Evaluate Existing and Emerging Innovative Technologies for Coastal Construction, May 22-23 2006, Public Comments on Day 2, Thomas J. Goreau
• SOUTHEAST FLORIDA CORAL REEF INITIATIVE, Land Based Sources of Pollution Technical Advisory Committee Meeting, May 22-23 2006, Public Comments on Day 2, Thomas J. Goreau
• Staghorn coral protection area extension could hinder town's beach nourishment efforts, William Kelly, Palm Beach Daily News, September 19, 2009
• Stonewalling? of the Official request on Outstanding Florida Waters Petition?, Thomas J. Goreau, GCRA, Dan Clarke, Cry of the Water.
• Stop the Charade & Accept Reality, Sewage Kills Coral, Ed Tichenor, Palm Beach Rescue, March 12, 2007
• Sulawesi Mine Waste, Environmentally Concerned Indonesian Policymakers and Public,  
• The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan, Why plastic is the scourge of sea life, The Independent, Kathy Marks, Asia-Pacific Correspondent, and Daniel Howden, February 5, 2008
• Time to plug the pipes, Palm Beach Post Editorial, September 21, 2007
• TOP FLORIDA OFFICIAL ADMITS POLLUTION LINK TO ALGAE BLOOMS, Email to Governor Bush Contradicts Repeated Public Denials of Connection, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), Carol Goldberg
• Tourism, Water Quality and Coral Reef Health, Filmed and edited by Tom Goreau, Copyright 2006 Global Coral Reef Alliance
• UM crew damages reef, keeps it quiet, A UM research ship ran aground on a coral reef last month but never reported the damage. The school now faces potentially heavy penalties and costs. Curtis Morgan, MiamiHerald.com, Nov. 20, 2007
• US Coral Reef Task Force: Public Comments, Thomas J. Goreau, Dan Clark, Stephanie Clark
• Warmer waters threaten pink coral, James Randerson, The Guardian, July 21, 2007
• Why are Coral Reefs Dying? Threats to Coral Reefs, Signs, Causes, Solutions
• Woods urged to walk away from Albany Woods urged to walk away from Albany, Rogan M. Smith, Guardian Senior Reporter, April 4, 2008
• World biggest garbage dump - plastic in the Ocean

02/09/2013