The Heat is On! Climate Change and Coral Reef Ecosystems

NOAA/NSTA Web Seminars

Check on this invitation to participate in two free web Seminars about ocean acidification and coral bleaching. Click anywhere to visit the NSTA site.

Coral reef ecosystems will be heavily impacted by climate change and can be used to illustrate its disastrous effects. While these remarkable systems are robust enough to create structures like the Great Barrier Reef, visible from space, they can be damaged and destroyed by even small changes in the Earth's climate.

Great Article on Jellyfish

Jellyfish Sea Science comes from the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Marine Division. You can even download a PDF file of this information at the bottom of their web page! Just click on Jellyfish to take a look.

In Roatan we often see the Mangrove Upsidedown Jelly at the mangroves, an occasional Moon Jelly, a few Box Jellyfish called a Sea Wasp and lots of Comb Jellies which aren't Jellyfish at all!

Deposit Deadline Extended

It's not too late to join this summer's workshop in Roatan! The deposit deadline has been extended to March 24, 2009. Have questions? We have answers! Feel free to call or e-mail...
Helen Domske, Sea Grant Resource Agent, (716)645-3610; hmd4@cornell.edu
Garry Dole, Science Resources Coordinator, Erie 2 BOCES, (716) 679-3419; garrydole@aol.com