Reef Relief

Reef Relief Goals

 

 

 

 

 

• Increase public awareness of the importance and value of living coral reef ecosystems
• Increase scientific understanding and knowledge of living coral reef ecosystems
• Strengthen grassroots community-based efforts to protect coral reef ecosystems
• Design, develop, and help implement strategies for marine protected areas associated with coral reef ecosystems
• Encourage and support eco-tourism as part of sustainable community development that protects and preserves coral reef ecosystems
• Strengthen our organizational capacity to carry out our mission
• Reef Relief’s goal is S.E.A. for C.P.R.

Reef Relief has great educational resources at their site.

Student's Coral Reef Art Inspires Marine Conservation

A large-scale (10-feet wide and nearly 15-feet high) ceramic coral reef art installation will be on display from April 15 to June 15, 2011 in the lobby of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration headquarters in the Herbert C. Hoover Building, US Department of Commerce, 14th Street NW at Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC.

The work of art brings to the surface, and to the capital, a submarine scene more commonly viewed through a diving mask. Each piece in the installation is handcrafted ceramic. Various species of coral and other marine life—in varying states of vitality or degradation—populate the scene and tell a story of impacts to reefs from human-caused threats. In the photo: Dr. Lubchenco, NOAA Administrator, with the artist during the opening reception of the installation. Photo credit: NOAA, Derek Parks
Read more and check out NOAA's Coral Reef Resources

Ocean Acidification and Coral Reefs: An Emerging Big Picture

John E. N. Veron
Review: Ocean Acidification and Coral Reefs: An Emerging Big Picture
Abstract: This article summarises the sometimes controversial contributions made by the different sciences to predict the path of ocean acidification impacts on the diversity of coral reefs during the present century.

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