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Peter Symes, publisher of a digital lifestyle magazine with an ocean focus and I were at the 39th edition of Our World Underwater. For some video and audio, check out www.xray-mag.com.

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A sign for the times?

EcoAlert with Nadine Patrice

The BlueGreen Network is a promotional channel on BlogTalkRadio.com for environmental and non-profit organizations. On Saturday at 10 AM, Nadine Patrice talks with people involved with environmental issues in South Florida and the Caribbean.

Nadine, founder and executive director of Operation Green Leaves – OGLHaiti - has been a vocal champion of reforesting Haiti since 1991.

Coral Reef Symposium 2008

The prognosis is grim, but not hopeless. So say the most optimistic of the world’s coral reef researchers. The pessimistic ones are another story.

One-third of the world’s coral reefs will be dead in the next 20 years, or less. Several species of sharks are on the verge of extinction due to the demand for shark fins. Turles, rays, tuna, cod, seabass, whales, manatees, billfish, grouper, red fish, there isn’t a species of marine life that is doing well.

This video contains images from the symposium and audio from from a couple of exhbitors.

Coral Reef Symposium – July 7, 2008: Day 1

The BlueGreen Network will be on www.BlogTalkRadio.com from Noon to 1 PM. The show is originating from the Educational Center of the Symposium and will feature interviews with Gary Levine and Andy Hooten, among others.

Malcolm McCulloch of the Australian National University, Australia, opened the Plenary Session with a presentation entitled ‘Lessons from the Past.’

Professor Malcolm McCulloch grew-up in Western Australia where he received undergraduate training in the physical sciences. In 1980 he was awarded a PhD from the Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology and then returned to Australia to take-up a Research Fellowship at The Australian National University in the Research School of Earth Sciences.

At ANU he was responsible for establishing a new range of geochemical methods to better understand how the Earth’s continental crust and mantle has grown and evolved. For the past decade his research interests have increasingly focussed on the modern part of the geologic record, using isotopic and trace element methods to determine how climate and anthropogenic processes have influenced both past and present environments, with particular emphasis on coral reefs.

Using geochemical proxies preserved in the long-lived (300 to 400 year old) coral skeletons from the Great Barrier Reef he has been able to show how European settlement and associated land-use practices has led to a five to ten fold increase in sediment and nutrient fluxes entering the reef relative to ‘natural’ levels. This has provided important quantitative evidence to support enhanced National-State protective measures. Using a similar geochemical isotope-based approach his group has also been able to show that the effects of rapidly increasing levels of anthropogenic CO2 are now becoming evident in living corals, reinforcing the concerns about the impact of ocean acidity on coral reef systems. He has also undertaken research on fossil coral reefs, in particular those from the Last Interglacial, where he has demonstrated the realities of an ~4 meter higher sea-levels associated with warmer sea surface temperatures, providing a benchmark for likely future increases. He an Associate Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef studies and has received a number of awards including Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science (2004), the American Geophysical Union (2002) and most recently the Geochemical Society (2008).

Liquid Lounge now part of the BlueGreen Network

As producer and host of Liquid Lounge, an environmentlly-oriented segment heard on WTPS AM1080 in Miami, I am constantly reminded of the problems of the waterside. Since the segment is part of Eddy Edwards’ Caribbean Riddims, the waterside I am paying close attention to is the Caribbean and South Florida. Out of the ‘blue’ came the idea of establishing the BlueGreen Network to promote the positive use of artificial reefs in near-shore, shallow-water projects.  The emphasis, I believed, should be on putting ART in ARTificial reefs and providing fish habitat, as well as a recreational dive site.

On May 11th, 2007, Miami Beach City Commissioner Michael Gongora became the first candidate to be endorsed by the BlueGreen Network, an organization focused on near-shore, shallow-water artificial reef development.

If you have one foot in the water and one foot in the sand, you should be part of the BGN.