Summer 2003

  • REEF Celebrates Earth Day
  • Welcome New Board and Staff
  • MPA News - Islands in the Sea of Cortez Purchased for Conservation
  • REEF's Florida Keys Zone Monitoring Program Report
  • REEF Submits Data to SRCFA
  • 2004 Field Survey Schedule Announced
  • Ocean Watch
  • GAFC 2003
  • Pacific Northwest Critter Watchers
  • REEF 10 Year Anniversary - A Decade of Counting
  • Team Building in Key Largo
  • REEF Field Station Feature - Pacific Northwest Scuba (supplemental material)
  • Member Article - Bari Reef's

Aquarium and REEF Team Up To Educate About Reefs

 'What we do to our planet and our oceans is going to have a significant and long-term effect on what happens to us.' Laddie Akins executive director, REEF

The SouthCarolina Aquarium celebrated Earth Day early Tuesday by unveiling a series of programs focusing on a part of the Earth people seldom see - the reefs below the ocean surface.

Reefs will be the subject of Gardens of the Ocean, a series of programs at the aquarium through the end of summer.

Spring 2003

  • It's Cool to Dive Cool
  • Doing Scanforms Right
  • REEF Database Tops 50,000!
  • MPA News - Channel Islands Marine Reserve
  • Grouper Moon Project 2003
  • Marine Conservation Internship
  • Fourth Fish and Benthic Monitoring Workshop Held in Puerto Rico
  • Georgia's Underwater Secret: Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary
  • A Decade of Counting
  • REEF Field Station Feature - REEF Field Station of the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Monterey Bay Aquarium and REEF Team Up For Marine Life Seminar

Have you ever wondered what mysterious fish and creatures live in and around the  Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary?  What interesting behaviors and habits these fish and invertebrates display?  Where to find different species of fish and how to identify them?

Cozumel REEF volunteers set 2003 training and monitoring schedule

Local dive operators and volunteers in partnership with Cozumel Reefs National  Park staff are taking a lead role in helping to better understand the status and changes on marine park reefs. Over the last three years, numerous volunteers have undergone REEF training in fish identification and survey methods and are conducting monthly survey dives at key sites within the Marine Park.  The project has been largely supported by volunteer and REEF contributions, a PADI Project AWARE grant, and logistical support of Parque Nacional Arrecifes de Cozumel.

Riding for REEF

Who is Hanging Around the Spiegel Grove?

One of REEF's volunteer surveyors swimming over the prop. Photo by Laddie Akins, REEF.

REEF fish database tops 50,000 surveys!

Key Largo, FL. On November 4, 2002, the Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) surpassed a long awaited milestone. On that date, the 50,000th volunteer fish survey was entered into the REEF database! REEF's Field Operations Coordinator, Leslie Whaylen reports "When I was hired by REEF in 1999, approximately 20,000 surveys were housed in REEF's database. Each year, the numbers of surveyors and surveys have increased exponentially". Historically, most surveys were conducted during the Great Annual Fish Count and REEF Field Surveys.

REEF will Continue the Grouper Moon Project

Fish Counting Crossed Many Boundaries

REEF celebrated the Great Annual Fish Count 10th year with great success! The 2002 GAFC included over 90 seminars, 300 scheduled dive events, and over 1500 surveys throughout REEF's survey regions.  Due to the increased international interest over the past few years, this year we changed the name of the Great American Fish Count to the Great Annual Fish Count (GAFC). Events took place throughout the US, British Columbia, Ontario, Cozumel, Gulf of California, Jamaica, Belize, Honduras, Bermuda, Bonaire, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, and the Cayman Islands.

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