[Coral-List] The Future of the list and geology articles, Eugene Shinn

[Douglas Fenner]

I agree.
     The study of coral reefs is very multidisciplinary these days.  The
list of topics is not meant to be completely exhaustive, and posts are not
restricted to topics ointhe list, it is a list of suggestions.  Might I
suggest adding coral reef ecology, biology of coral reef organisms, reef
invertebrate zoology, reef algology, reef ichthyology, reef marine
protected areas, reef oceanography, reef systematics, taxonomy and
identification, reef natural history, genetics, climate science, and reef
medical and veterinary science.  The list is near endless, but maybe some
of the major academic disciplines would be good to mention, certainly
including geology.
       And geology of reefs includes places in other parts of the world in
addition to Florida.
Cheers, Doug

On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 2:20 PM Eugene Shinn via Coral-List <
coral-list at lists.coralreefs.org> wrote:

> eugeneshinn2 at gmail.com
> Dear Mark, I greatly appreciate what you have done to keep the coral-list
> up and running. I was one of the early subscribers back when the
> discussions were mainly about what I call hard-core coral reef science.
> That of course changed with the times as coral reefs and Scuba Diving
>  gained increasing popularity. Popularity and commercialism also increased
> with the creation of the NOAA Coral reef Sanctuary Program. (I was doing
> coral reef research before all these changes) I would like to make one
> suggestion. We should also list "CORAL REEF GEOLOGY" as one of the items of
> interest.  The  U S Geological Survey did an abundance of geological
> research (all published) with major works and mapping published by Barbara
> Lidz before she passed. The importance of geology is well expressed at the
> State Park and museum at Windley Key. Where the major exhibit is a
> geological model demonstrating what underlies the modern coral
> reefs.Hundreds of geology students and their professors visit the Keys
> annually to learn this geology and offshore reefs.
>      Unfortunately I watched and documented the reef demise beginning back
> in 1983. We drilled some 100 monitoring wells to trace the movement of
> sewage contaminated groundwater.  These wells also revealed much regarding
> the geology on which the Keys communities are built.  This geology along
> with the geometry also has a major control on the distribution of reefs.
> Remember: No Rocks, No Water, No Ekosystem. Gene
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