Ultimate guide to managing coral disease
8 July 2008: The definitive management guide - handbook plus id cards for Caribbean and Indo-Pacific regions - to identifying, assessing and managing coral reef diseases was launched at the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS) and can be ordered online now.
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Top award for CRTR researcher
21 May 2008: CRTR Program researcher, Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, has been awarded the Queensland Government’s top science award. Chair of the CRTR Bleaching Working Group, and also of its Australasian Centre of Excellence, Professor Hoegh-Guldberg was one of the world's first scientists to show how projected changes in global climate threaten coral reefs including Australia's Great Barrier Reef......
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Indian Ocean coral shows partial recovery
15 May 2008: An unusual spike in sea temperatures a decade ago killed coral throughout the Indian Ocean, dropping the average healthy, hard coral cover to 15 percent of reefs from 40 percent before. CRTR researcher, Dr Tim McClanahan, said hard coral cover had recovered to 30 percent by 2005, although the data masked big variations.....
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Strange days on planet earth
5 May 2008: The award winning National Geographic program Strange Days on Planet Earth recently premiered Episode 6 (Dirty Secrets). This features the CRTR Program’s Roberto Iglesias-Prieto and his colleagues in the Caribbean who are “studying how CO2, one of our largest industrial waste products, is impacting coral reefs”.
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Corals on the brink of .....
24 April 2008: Predicted mass spawning at Palau   (Philippines) was the subject of a feature on BBC News on 20 April. Much of the article focused on the reef restoration work of CRTR scientists Dr Andrew Heyward (“one of the first biologists to describe the phenomenon of coral mass spawning in the 1980s”) and Dr James Guest, along with Dr Maria Vanessa Baria from the University of the Philippines.
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International Network on Water, Environment & Health, United Nations University, Canada
*INWEH manages the Connectivity WG on behalf of The University of Queensland, and is home to the WG chair, Peter Sale

Biology Department, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines

Lab. Ecologia de Ecosistemas de Arrecifes Coralinos, Dpto Recursos del Mar, Mexico

Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, USA

Marine Biology and Fisheries, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, USA

Paulson College of Science & Technology, Georgia Southern University, USA

School of Marine Biology & Aquaculture, James Cook University, Australia

Centre National pour leRecherche Scientfique, Universite de Perpignan, France

Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Canada

Department of Ecology and Biodiversity, The University of Hong Kong, China

School of Marine Sciences/Darling Marine Center, University of Maine, USA

Coral Reef Research Group, Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA

Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA

Division of Marine and Environmental Systems, Florida Institute of Technology, USA

Centre for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation,  Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA 

Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, Canada

Department of Geography, University of Waterloo, Canada 

Department of Geological Sciences, University of Buffalo, USA

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