Hanauma Bay now and in the 1960s Last week I was in Honolulu participating in the 13th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS). It was, for me, a time for reminiscing. I was a student at University of Hawaii in the… Read More »Thoughts about corals, coral reefs, and coral reef conferences
Environmental scientists have come to use the term ‘tipping point’ as shorthand for the time, or set of conditions, at which a rapid phase shift in an ecological system commences. Nearly always, they talk about phase shifts from a preferred… Read More »Tipping Points – There Are Good Ones Too
A few years ago, in another life, I was listening to an M.Sc. student provide a progress report to her advisory committee. She was tackling the problem of whether there were two, or just one genetically distinct population of sea-run… Read More »On Knowing Your Ecosystem – A Coral Reef is Much More than A Coral and Some Fish